Writing and receiving letters via virtual post

Hello @Sophia1

I have the same difficulty with predictive text, it is one of those things that can be "loved and hated" at the same time.

Cheers

@HenryX

Yes Me too

re predictatext @Sophia1 @HenryX

and American English

somehow they get switched back on as default positions.

ooh the technology!

Hi

Hello @Appleblossom

The English US version really gets me. That is part of the reason that nearly all my drafts are written off forum in a word processing app., and all spell checking is done in English AUS or UK. However, that's a bit more awkward on a phone. Even the forum has only one spelling option of English USA, with no other options. Presumably the forum software was bought from USA supplier without other spelling or grammar options.

Best Wishes

@HenryX

Sorry, Duplicated Reply

@HenryX

Dear @Sophia1

Little Bee had never seen a Seal, what beautiful big eyes! Little Bee was so taken by those beautiful eyes that they flew out to the ocean, being such a light little Bee they could land on the water & float. Little Bee had brought what Little Bee thought was a giant flower, but the reality was it was a tiny clover flower, they place it on the waters surface & waited . . .

Hello @Exoplanet @Appleblossom @Adge @HenryX @Flax

Selkie fowlk glided through the ocean surface...leaving a trail of ripples...

She was further away from the coastline....feeling safer always on the alert for would be predators...

she heard a flapping of tiny wings close by.....observing a colourful tiny bee carrying a tiny clover flower.....twice the size of the bee...How very clever and agile....

Despite the size of flower in comparison to the size of the bee...the flower remained intact..was now floating on the surface of the ocean...the sun showcasing it's white flower.....the bee must have drank the nectar and then carried it across to her as a gesture of friendship.....

How could she return the gesture?

She swam through the water approaching the area where the little bee was hovering....

very gently without causing too much splashing she turned onto her back....an action well known as a sign of trust within the animal kingdom...

The little bee observed was confused .......

It was time for her to return to a lovely bunch of crocuses also discovered earlier...in preparation for the sun going down and time to catch some sleep......zzzzz

Selkie fowlk yawned.... swam over to an area where large rocks spread across the shoreline...she awkwardly scrambled up...wobbling along ...finally plonking herself down to soak in the last rays of sun for the day...

She was not aware of who was watching from behind one of the larger rocks...deliberately remaining perfectly still so as not to be seen or heard...

Who was it?????????????

Hello @Sophia1 and @Exoplanet @Appleblossom @Flax @Adge @Shaz51

and other visitors to this thread.

A short description of the

"Little Mermaid",

possibly of the Selkie fowlk

and other (relatively) modern adaptations of mythology, legend and fairy-tale.

All the links in the colour teale below, will take you to the relevent site and information.

• The first photo is of “The Little Mermaid (Danish: Den lille Havfrue) is a bronze statue by Edvard Eriksen, depicting a mermaid becoming human. The sculpture is displayed on a rock by the waterside at the Langelinie promenade in Copenhagen, Denmark.[a] It is 1.25 metres (4.1 ft) tall[2] and weighs 175 kilograms (385 lb).[3]

• "Based on the 1837 fairy tale of the same name by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, the small and unimposing statue is a Copenhagen icon and has been a major tourist attraction since its unveiling in 1913.

  The statue was commissioned in 1909 by Carl Jacobsen, son of the founder of Carlsberg, who had been fascinated by a ballet about the fairytale in Copenhagen's Royal Theatre and asked the ballerina, Ellen Price, to model for the statue. The sculptor Edvard Eriksen created the bronze statue, which was unveiled on August 23, 1913.[5] The statue's head was modelled after Price, but as the ballerina did not agree to model in the nude, the sculptor's wife, Eline Eriksen, posed for the body.[5]

• The third photo is of the “Assembly of the Little Mermaid statue (Copenhagen, Langeline, 1913).”

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I was going back through some of the pages and saw the photo, that @Flax had added, of the mermaid in Denmark. I remember seeing the statue in 1975, on a trip under-taken in that year.

The photo above shows the statue from a different angle, and with a different background. The notes above, with written material in Dark Blue, are from Wikipedia articles on

“The Little Mermaid (statue)”

and also include Wikipedia articles about other statues below.

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Other similar images and statues, some connected with the folk-tales, have been placed in other cities around the world.

"There are similarities between The Little Mermaid statue and the "Pania of the Reef " statue on the beachfront at Napier in New Zealand, and some similarities in the little mermaid and Pania tales.

The Statue of Pania (also known as Pania of the Reef) is located on Marine Parade in Napier, New Zealand, and honours the life of Pania, a figure of Māori mythology."

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"The 1972 statue of a female diver (titled Girl in a Wetsuit by Elek Imredy) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada was commissioned when, unable to obtain permission to reproduce the Copenhagen statue, Vancouver authorities selected a modern version.[24]"

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Of course Selkie Fowlk had no need for artificial diving apparatus.

Best Wishes

@HenryX

The blazing dark eyes were so intense it's surprising they didn't burn a hole
in the back of Selkie's head. A lonely Kelpie - not a red brown dog, but a
glistening black sea stallion, had positioned itself behind the rocks, so
that they could see the Selkie better. They could befriend a Selkie, they
could ride along the beach & return to water - a Selkie would not drown,
he would not eat a friend!
Contrary to mythological reports, a Kelpie's diet consisted mainly of well
- Kelp. The Kelpie was day-dreaming about grazing in secret valleys of lush
Kelp that the Selkie had led them to, when they accidently dislodged a large
boulder which crashed into the sea with quite the splash.
Just as the Selkie turned to inspect said splash, the usually proud & sure footed
Kelpie, slipped & tumbled to the waters edge . . .

@Sophia1

Hello @HenryX

I read through your post last night but have not had the time to click on the whatever they are called..

I am a bit dissociated at the moment..

will reply later..

@Exoplanet

love your latest writing..

again..read last night..

need to read again and absorb when mind is clearer.

as you know I need to allow my mind to just flow so that I can give each contribution justice..

love to you all....

keep on...

💛🧡💚

Hello @Exoplanet @HenryX @Adge @Flax @Appleblossom

....Selkie Fowlk heard a mighty crash.....splash.....feeling a shower of water emptied on top of her ...

How did that happen?

I am not in the sea...I am basking on a rock....

was it the moving of the land where large cracks appear....?

(earthquake not sure how to write that in selkie fowlk...taking into account also that selkie fowlk do not think necessarily in english or attach english words to noises...sounds...sensations...thought I would throw that in to see if you are paying attention.....)

She looked around gingerly ...dreading what might be behind her when she heard more splashing from the ocean below the rock where she was basking...

A wet, black creature was treading?? pawing??? water....very very very fast....

Oh dear she thought...why do these animals go near water if they cannot just float???

Splash and she was in....

She was met by the most beautiful,,very dark eyes....(spanish eyes are smiling....no she is not in Spain)

She is in the Orkney Islands.....apparently so...scroll back several pages....it can be quite hard to keep up...

She observed the creature closely...tuning into her natural instinct senses....yes she felt that this one was only wanting to desperately get back onto land..

she nudged closer and with her nose under the chin of the creature with the most beautiful....very dark eyes...ever so gently pushed him back to the shoreline....

he collapsed on the sand in the shallows....breathing heavily....frightened...

she lay down beside him trying to transfer some of her wet selkie fowlk body heat...then lifted her webbed paw stretching across his body drawing him closer to her...

He did not struggle....his breathing gradually became less alarming as they lay side by side....one a selkie fowlk from the orkney islands..the other a very wet. black kelpie all the way from Australia...

How on earth did this happen?...

This is not the Selkie fowlk talking now....

This is the Voice that appears every now and again in the virtual writings attempting to explain the very confusing writings...

The Gumnut Bub that rode within the WWW an odd looking pudding with long straggly legs....was in Australia also...

where was Little Bee?...Little Bee had offered the clover flower to Selkie Fowlk....Had she flown across the hemispheres?...

Or is there a secret tunnel.....beneath the hemispheres or high above...where only the most imaginative can find their way and travel through time......?

Selkie Fowlk had now started to snooze....an odd snoring noise was emerging from the cute little nose....

The Black Kelpie had been awakened by the odd snoring noise and stretched his limbs...

Now what do wet animals do when they awaken and emerge from water????

They shake their bodies from top to bottom totally oblivious of whoever might be close by snoozing..

Selkie Fowlk awoke with alarming now where was this spray of water coming from.....what on earth is happening on this once serene coastline?

She sighed and wobbled down to the water edge where the tide was coming in and there were no sandbanks...

She quietly slipped into the water...submerging as she paddled out deeper into the ocean...as the sun was about to go down..

Meanwhile Kelpie....feeling better...rested...tired....was now looking for his new found friend to play with...He had his energy and his mojo back...

Where the heck had she got to now....?

More importantly how the heck did he get to where he was now?

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