Sunday and a much cooler day. A day that
feels like autumn is starting, particularly as there is the odd leaf falling
off some plants. So we have started to dismantle the covered canopy over the
patio at the back of the house, it was planned that we would have a big
barbeque and invite all our friends but then we got involved in sorting things
out, doing things that needed doing, doing things that might have needed doing,
putting all the things away from doing things that did or might have needed
doing. And we are now doing things that need to be done before the weather
breaks and it is wet; like it was in the summer. So the result of all this is
the party (barbeque) never happened, well has not yet, we will have a party at
some point, we are just not sure when….. I am told this is normal, as human
beings we have commitments that drive our daily day such as my diary or the dog
eating bones, the result is what gets left out is the parties and drinking cocoa
lying on the beach or tightrope walking over the car park of the out of town
supermarket to annoy the manager.
I hope to be back later to
give a final verdict on the Paralympics which have gone remarkably well for Great Britain as
tonight is the closing ceremony. The opening one was well cool although I
believe the closing one might have a lot of Coldplay in it, I quite like Coldplay’s
music but they are not always the chirpiest bunch in the world. I’m not sure what they then do with the
stadium and all the other buildings, although I think some are due to be
removed, I just hope they don’t waist them. I say that because a friend designed a
building for the millennium exhibition that could be dismantled and rebuilt
outside afterwards only it was just trashed and destroyed, which was a terrible
waste….
There is much talk of the
great Olympic/Paralympics legacy but we will see in a couple of months when it
is windy cold and raining.
Sorry it is a quiet day,
it is Sunday and next Sunday there will be no closing ceremony to discuss
later it will be me and the dog betting on two flies walking up a window pane.
Ooooo that reminds me, we
live in a classic 1970’s bungalow with huge UPVC windows; we have noticed that
the flies like to sit on the UPVC pooing and doing what flies do. So me and the
dog plan to invent a new substance called Fliesgone that you wipe on your UPVC
frame and the flies go AAAAAAAAAAuuuuuugggghhhhhh and run off (fly off).
See you later
LATER
LATER
I have returned to give my
assessment of the closing ceremony of the Paralympics which has just finished
as I write. It was rather good I was well impressed, even Coldplay looked like
they were thinking WOW but they were right in the middle of a lot of amazing
stuff. And they were fairly chirpy too. What was really special about the whole
thing was it had a STEAMPUNK theme, now how cool is that. As you know we have
always been keen on steam powered things in my diary, dads only real grumble
was there were no armadillos, which when you think the next Paralympics is in
South America would have been a clever link, it appears they used a piranha
fish instead. But what can you say except well done to someone, the only thing
I would have done is loose a couple of songs from the middle and it would have
been perfect. There is always a desire to tweak things just a bit longer than
needed.
Maybe steam punk will be
trendy now, now that would be a cool legacy although not the one planned I
guess. I bet anyone living near the closing ceremony got woken up by the
fireworks at the end there were a lot of them…
Towards the end the
Chicken did start to loose interest but he loves fairy cakes.
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I'm so jealous, everyone's been saying how cool it is today but it's still really warm here! I can't wait for the cool weather to hit!
ReplyDeleteI think you might get your wish tomorrow Miss Laura, the Paralympics have ended so dad has switched off the Weather Machine
DeleteI don't mind Yellow but can't think of another Coldplay song I would listen to.
ReplyDeleteLuckily you were in Luck as they did play it.... They can be a bit of a mixed bag but all in all I think they did OK and everyone was still happy at the end.
DeleteI know of nothing that readily makes flies go away. Its probably easier to have something near the window that flies reaLLy like, then near the fly-like-thing have a Die Soon (Dyson) Vacuum Cleaner which sucks in and destroys thee fies.
ReplyDeleteI had never heard of a fairy cake. Is it just me, or is The Chicken smiling in that last picture?
DeleteThe chicken is smiling at the cake, well up to the point I ate it (the cake not the chicken).
DeleteFairy cakes are rather good. I think you call them cup cakes