As I have often written in a post there are many places of interest to visit within 30 mins of home and on Saturday, Hazel and I went for a drive to the antiques centre in Doune.

With a special offer in the restaurant of lunch for two for £10, that was our first port of call, sustenance prior to the several hours that we would take in peering into the display cabinets.

Hazel has never been known to come away without some item, today it was also some thing that I liked,

She is lovely isn't she, a candle stick, but, candle sticks come in pairs, and there was only the one, markings on the base that we don't recognise and no imprint, but we have our challenge for the rest of the year, find the other one.

Returning to Glasgow I stopped on the motorway, I know, it's forbidden and a bit stupid, but it was my chance to get a picture of Stirling Castle from an unusual view.

but may not be new to all of you

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it.)
--------------------. If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
(Now that's more like it!)
------------------. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet
(O.M.G.!)
---------------- -. A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)
--------------------- -. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy)

(I'm still not over the pig.)
----------------- . The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
('Honey, I'm home. What the...?!')
---------------------. The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
(30 minutes..lucky pig! Can you imagine?)
---------------------. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)
---------------------. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)
------------------------. Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Something I always wanted to know.)
----------------- --. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
(Hmmmmmm...)
------------------- . Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)
--------------------- -. Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
(okay, so that would be a good thing)
------------------------. A cat's urine glows under a black light.
(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)
-----------------------. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
( I know some people like that.)
---------------------- -. Starfish have no brains
(I know some people like that too.)
--------------------- -.
Polar bears are left-handed.
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
(What about that pig??)

That's life.