Debts and Swing Geekery

Debt

First of all: this is not a nasty comment on anyone, and is not to imply that anyone is petty or has even *asked* for a sandwich! It only developed out of comedy value and because I wanted to create the picture below :)

Last night in the pub we were discussing the subject of owings. Various different things were owed to other people within the group. For example: I owe Seb Sikora a sandwich. Hello Seb. I'm aware I owe you a sandwich. However considering I regularly drive Seb and others various places, can a sandwich just equate to some retrospective petropennies? However it also seems that Seb owes Nikki £20. So maybe that means I actually owe Nikki a sandwich, and then Seb owes her approx £18?


Well. By the suggestion of various people I have made Seb a sandwich.

As you can see it contains super noodles, cilit bang, and condoms. But they're flavoured so that's ok. So Seb. Do you want a sandwich?


Here are some brilliant musings upon debt by David Mitchell. Personally I want to meet some of these people who like to wave away debt. So I can borrow lots of money off them.

Swing Geekery!

We who swing know that swing is a geek dance. Right? It seems to attract relatively clever people who want to have fun (rather than stroke each other like more Salsa-ish types.) But look at this glorious example of swing geekery.

Yep. It's a balboa HTML joke in t-shirt form modelled by Linda. She had a lindy one too, but people thought it was her name spelt wrong so she had to give it away.

I did just write a long diatribe on my theory as to why swing is more geeky, but it turned out not to be funny, so it has gone the way of common decency and community spirity in urban areas. It's dead. very dead.

So now look i have all this space to fill as the new blogger writing wotsit won't let me put photos next to each other! Stupid blogger. Why is that? grrrrr...

Ummm.... so. Filler....

The above two ladies are Linda in the geek-shirt, and Svetlana who has a difficult surname. Svetlana and Harry are BalboaNorth. Learning balboa is quite fun... Most importantly they have free tea and biscuits!!! This is very very important.






BIG GAP







Lots of love!!

Birthday!

Today I had three different types of cake for breakfast. BECAUSE IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!!! So there.

This week it has been my birthday. Yes. Well not quite a week:
Thursday- pretend birthday with mum, dad and youngest sister- see the cake in the previous post.
Friday- Lindy Hop Heaven where I got a birthday jam- Hurrah!
Saturday- little party at my house as (selectedly) pictured here (frog cake+thalidomide balloon, and various people). We made the frog cake red on the inside because real frogs are red on the inside, and no-one I invited was horrified. Or at least, no-one was too horrified to eat the cake.











Sunday...continuation of birthday cake and some swing,
Monday- today- my actual birthday.

Hurray. That's lots of birthday. Today is likely to be a lot less exciting but that's ok as lots of excitement has already happened. Karma gave me a couple of presents today in the form of some good books (Tom Holt's "The Better Mousetrap", and The Mighty Book of Boosh) being as new from the Oxfam bookshop. I also cashed some birthday cheques. Huzzah!!

Oxfam shops are brilliant. They mean I can go shopping and buy cheap things for me, and still feel like I'm being selfless and helping the world. Everyone wins. Hurrah! I highly recommend the world of the charity shop. Except for Mind in Headingley which smells like a 25 stone jogger has done a marathon, pooed himself, and then died under the table, 6 weeks ago.

Today I also opened my Gran's presents, which consisted of a book for 4 year olds about a witch called "No Room on the Broom", and a bird box. Going a bit do-lally? I shall continue to monitor this carefully. I don't know what to do with either item.

Other things.

I am extremely happy to see another series of That Mitchell and Webb Look. I love them both. but mostly David Mitchell. I enjoy ranty intelligent wit. We would host brilliant dinner parties. But would not feature on Come Dine With Me, because that show is *tripe*. I also don't mind his haircut, despite it's potential facism.

I am currently not at fencing because IT IS HOT and fencing is also hot, therefore to be fencing whilst it's hot is very unpleasant due to having to wear all protective clothing so as not to be skewered/horribly bruised. It's no Kendo, but it's also not curling. Curling would be more fun in this weather.
This means that I will finish my fencing lessons having no idea what is going on at all... hopefully Christina will teach me how to fence when it's not so hot.

Environmental Supplement:

I would like to encourage people to have a lil look at this site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/breathingplaces/
If you have free time here are some little practical things you can do to encourage biodiversity. Things like leaving a corner of wild garden are particularly helpful if you have wild flowers with accessible pollen for bees (i.e. things that do not have tight flowers they can't get into). I would love a hedgehog home but I don't think really that Burley is a great place for them.

Light releif bit:

If you haven't seen this before, by Dan and Dan, it is exellent in many ways. Love.

xxx