Minimalist poet, minimalist lifestyle

An atheist was spending a quiet day fishing when suddenly his boat was attacked by the Loch Ness monster. In one easy flip, the beast tossed him and his boat high into the air. Then it opened its mouth to swallow both.

As the man sailed head over heels, he cried out, "Oh, my God! Help me!"

At once, the ferocious attack scene froze in place, and as the atheist hung in mid-air, a booming voice came down from the clouds, "I thought you didn't believe in Me!"

"Come on God, give me a break!!" the man pleaded. "Two minutes ago I didn't believe in the Loch Ness monster either!"

I've just been and put the bin out and noticed how mild it is outside this morning. In fact, so far the winter has been very mild; I don't recall there being any frost at all yet.

This unusually warm period is having an effect in my garden. In the spring and early summer I sowed a couple of packets of seeds, but not one seed germinated due to the large amounts of rain - however, quite a few seeds are germinating now...and they look as though they could be large enough already to survive the winter and flower quite early in the spring.