Category: that’s a bit mad

Don’t be silly

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See, the issue is that aside from the December holiday/festive season marking the end of the year like up North, here in SA, it’s also the summer holiday. So all of those fun times that you would normally have in summer in the UK (both days if you’re lucky), and all of those fun times that you would have over the festive period, are distilled down into one big party month.

Chaos will ensue.

And it’s begun already. I had things on on Saturday – great party, by the way – a couple of days off, and then straight into events and commitments on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

It sounds like a Craig David song.

Actually, maybe Sunday too – my mind won’t allow me to think that far ahead just yet.

Oh wait, yes. Just remembered that we are doing stuff on Sunday, but hopefully it’ll be fairly chilled.

Now… the question… given the plans for the rest of the week, and given that there is school and extra murals and all sorts to manage as well, do I commit to watching Man Utd v Everton tonight? Because that would be a midnight finish, and I’m fairly sure that my body will not appreciate the 6am wake up call tomorrow if I stay up for the final whistle.

But… football.

Don’t be silly, right?

Right?

Rabbits

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I don’t know why the weapons were taken away from rabbits at the end of the Middle Ages.
I don’t even know why they were given weapons to begin with.

But that is a great image of a flying kick.

For reference:

The British Library describes manuscripts from the 14th century showing rabbits hunting and fighting hounds, a reversal of their typical predator-prey relationship.
The imagery plays on the idea of the “world turned upside down” and represents “bunny vengeance,” amusing medieval artists who understood the real-life danger rabbits faced.

Ah. Medieval satire in picture form.

Hilarious stuff.

Capital tour

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I have absolutely no desire to visit America. The United States thereof, that is.

I didn’t have much desire to visit there before Captain Cheeto came along – maybe Monument Valley, and Washington State, but the rest of it: nah – and I have a good deal less now.

Yeah, I’m sure that I’m missing out with my simplistic anti-American views, but I’m not ruling out travel altogether. It’s just that there are a good number of countries that rank above the US in my list of places I want to visit.

I’d like to do a capital city tour of Europe for example.
Although, maybe I should actually head to the USA for that. Because look at all these places:

Deeply, deeply unoriginal, but I suppose that we need to blame the European settlers for that, rather than the Americans that they became.

And we’re not even going to be able to get to:

Andorra la Vella (Andorra)
Baku (Azerbaijan)
Bratislava (Slovakia)
Bucharest (Romania)
Budapest (Hungary)
Chisinau (Moldova)
Helsinki (Finland)
Kyiv (Ukraine)
Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
Monaco (Monaco)
Nicosia (Cyprus)
Podgorica (Montenegro)
Reykjavik (Iceland)
Riga (Latvia)
San Marino (San Marino)
Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Skopje (North Macedonia)
Sofia (Bulgaria)
Tallinn (Estonia)
Tbilisi (Georgia)
Tirana (Albania)
Vaduz (Liechtenstein)
Valletta (Malta)
Vatican City (Vatican City)
Vilnius (Lithuania) or
Zagreb (Croatia)

if we do this the American way.

So let’s not.

Incidentally, I am reliably informed that there is no Port Louis in the USA either.

I’ll just have to manage with the one here.

Bum bum

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Warning: Juvenile post ahead!
(As if you hadn’t guessed from the title.)

But seriously, Little Miss 6000 recently did her Grade 7 vocal exam. And the natural progression is now to Grade 8, although there’s a consensus that there’s not going to be too much hard work towards that in the remainder of this year.

Just a look.

And so the books were brought home last week. And… well… I was honestly expecting something a little more grown-up and challenging than this:

The rest of the piece (and this bit too, I suppose) is in German.

And I’m sure that it’s going to sound beautiful. But if you can read music, then you’ll note (no pun intended) just how bars 29 and 30 are going to sound, and you’ll understand that I’m going to struggle to keep a straight face.