I go on a long walk just about every afternoon. I’ve become addicted to it and wouldn’t miss it for quids! On Thursday I ‘won’ an ebay auction for a handheld colour TV - a Casio TV970. Yesterday, near the end of the walk I saw what could have been an important piece of paper or booklet in the grass by the side of the track. I pick it up. It turns out to be one of those large pieces of paper folded this way and that into a compact little bundle. It is the non-English version of the instructions for a Casio TV970.
Last year I picked up a couple of Zane Grey books, just for something to read. One of them featured a cowpoke with the nickname Kalispell. It was one of those names I’d never heard before but it was also one of those names that sort of got into the mind. Probably because each time it was read, there was also the accompanying thought: ‘that’s an odd name’. Anyway two or so weeks after I finished the book there was a story on the news of a light plane crash from which the survivors walked away through the brush and cold and so on. The TV news did a flyover of the hospital they were taken to … the Kalispell Regional Hospital.