1) If you are a blogger who likes to post photos: don't go and do something interesting without your camera. We went to the pay-to-view Christmas lights in a park in Albany - including a kids funfair (the girls rode the carousel three times).2) Before you go out at night in the winter to a kids' funfair - make sure they have picked up their gloves. Exile #4 ended up wearing E5N1's socks as mittens and Exile #2 had to donate one of hers to Exile #3 so that she could hold on the carousel horse.
3) Before you go out to make a snowman because the snow is melting check the temperature - if it's actually well below freezing the snow won't pack and someone will slip over on the ice. In this case it was E5N1 who is well used to falling over at this point and - cliché alert - doesn't have far to fall. Of course it also means that the snow is not melting (not today anyway).
4) Be careful driving in the snow. Here is an instructional video. You need the sound turned on (a knowledge of pop music is not necessary but may enhance your viewing pleasure):
5) Roller-skating on an icy driveway may be tricky. But at least the snow-banks limit the run-off danger. Here is another video. No sound this time, but something is wrong - can you tell what (and why)?
?sdrawkcab ti etirw ot evah I dluow ,did I fi tuB. wonk t'noD
ReplyDeleteMarcus beat me to it!
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Interesting theory - here it is played backwards - happier now?
ReplyDeleteP.S. Marcus I only narrowly resisted the Welsh joke.
ReplyDeleteP.P.S. I was particularly impressed by the punctuation.
Well the obvious riposte would be there are far too many vowels for that to be Welsh! Of course, that's not actually true. But there are 2 'k's and a 'v' - so it can't be Welsh. Though there are in fact 2 genuine Welsh words in there, you'll be delighted to know! And one (etirw) which, if it's not, ought to be.
ReplyDeleteI recently came across a grant giving body under the acronym CFAP. Only in Wales is this a pronounceable word. (And no, there is no 'F' in the resultant word, and yes, the word does have two syllables.)