We all play down getting hurt - usually until its so bad we can't hide it any more.

These choices come up again and again - social occasions, job opportunities, life choices - may be I should call it indecision

The tune for this piece arrived in the middle of the night - I don't have a problem sleeping but when I wake up I can worry about the most insignificant things for hours..

Monday in mid-February in the UK is not all that amazing: grey skies, rain everywhere, but Shrove Tuesday just around the corner - pancake day !

That breaks the week up nicely 

Some good things come along often entirely by chance and very rarely- don't seek out an explanation just enjoy it

The 14th February is St Valentines day.According to legend, St. Valentine signed a letter “from your Valentine” to his jailer’s daughter, whom he had befriended and healed from blindness. Another common legend states that he defied the emperor’s orders and secretly married couples to spare the husbands from being conscripted to serve in war.He has become associated with romantic love..

Todays piece is a re-mix of "not again" - and refers to that wonderful mix of emotions that falling in love brings about - longing, belonging, euphoria and despair - almost changing minute by minute .

One for Friday the 13th - the wiki bit...

Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day in Western superstition. It occurs when the 13th day of the month in the Gregorian calendar falls on a Friday, which happens at least once every year but can occur up to three times in the same year. For a month to have a Friday the 13th, the first day of the month must be a Sunday.

The Origins

Unluckiness of 13

One source mentioned for the unlucky reputation of the number 13 is a Norse myth about twelve gods having a dinner party in Valhalla. The trickster god Loki, who was not invited, arrived as the thirteenth guest, and arranged for Höðr, the god of darkness, to shoot Balder, the god of joy and gladness, with a mistletoe-tipped arrow. Balder died, triggering much suffering in the world, which caused the number 13 to be considered unlucky.[1][2]

Christian associations

The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci

The superstition seems to relate to various things, like the story of Jesus's Last Supper and crucifixion in which there were thirteen individuals present in the Upper Room on the thirteenth of Nisan Maundy Thursday, the night before his death on Good Friday.[a][b][5]

That excruciating moment when you are literally high and dry - I've been there more times than I care to remember - and it still sends a shiver of horror down my spine,

Where the dots are - add your own word. 

In talking to a colleague about how her Christmas went she came out with - At least no-one died !!.

A very dark and negative positive - in a very strange way it was quite funny.

Apologies for the very dark sense of humour.

The Epstein saga will rumble on for quite a while I'm sure. Donald Tusk( the Polish Primeminister) has an interesting take on the affair.

( From the Daily Mail )

American intelligence experts believe Epstein was inducted into the world of espionage via business deals with Robert Maxwell, the disgraced media magnate who - like Epstein - died in murky circumstances; in Maxwell's case his body was found floating in the Atlantic in 1991, having apparently fallen overboard from his yacht. 

Maxwell's daughter, Ghislaine, is serving a 20-year sentence for child sex trafficking and other offences linked to her association with Epstein, who she is said to have met shortly after her father's death. 

Security sources say Robert Maxwell was a Russian asset from the 1970s, when he worked to extradite Soviet Jews to Israel, with the involvement of Israeli intelligence service Mossad.

In return, they say, Maxwell laundered Russian money into the West - with the help of Epstein.

They think the financier was introduced to Maxwell and the KGB by an oil tycoon also in the pay of Russian intelligence. Probes into Robert Maxwell's business dealings have uncovered links not only to the KGB and Mossad - but also MI6. 

US security officials also believe Epstein had long-standing ties with Russian organised crime, who could have been blackmailing him. That could explain the ease with which Epstein appeared to be able to fly in 'girls' from Russia. 

A source said: 'You have Andrew, Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and all the rest placed in compromising positions on an island bristling with technology. It's the world's largest honey trap operation. 

'The Americans have been on this for years, but our lot have seemed more queasy about it, presumably because of the Royal link.' All the high-profile figures named in the files deny any wrongdoing.