A Nation Recovers its Equilibrium

Wednesday 19th October

A day of domestic bliss here. Managed to persuade the hoover to suck efficiently by taking it to bits, removing enough fluff from its innards to stuff a settee and changing the bag. The brush function even works now, previously I had to strategically insert a six inch nail to the mechanism. Toilets cleaned and toilet ducked (no, it's not rhyming slang!), floors washed and the potato patch attacked with great vigour until I came to my senses and lost interest.

Whilst New Zealand is adopting the stance that they will thrash the garlic eaters easily, there is an undercurrent of fear that their nemesis might prevail.

The best quote from the radio comes from a chap who rang in with the simple question

"Why is it that every time the French turn up a ship sinks?"

I laughed out loud when I heard that! The Rena grounding is news in the UK I know, but for younger readers the reference is to the sinking of The Rainbow Warrior which, even after 26 years, still rankles here. It's not only the Welsh who have long memories - watch out for yourself Andy Haden, we have a hit squad looking for you as I write.

The other one I liked on the radio is an advert for a concreting company from Levin that uses the catch phrase "get laid" and promises to leave your concrete "as smooth as a Brazilian". Now I knew that the South Americans were good on coffee, but didn't realise that their bricklayers were that talented!


The Welsh, meanwhile, have sobered up and returned to normal mode; taking the piss out of all and sundry.

My thanks to Stuart for this gem;-

That nice Mr. Rolland

If you compare this with the original in my previous post you will see just how good this fakery is. It amazes me how rapidly these things get on the Net, and what a high quality they are. There must be an awful number of graphic designers wasting an awful amount of their employers' money out there!

John also sent me a cracker from YouTube entitled "Hitler finds out Sam Warburton got sent off". This was produced by someone who goes by the pseudonym ShaneWilliamsHitler (What do you mean - pseudonym? That's a very common name amongst us Welsh Fascists - JPR Goebbels (Herr) ).

Warning!!  The sound track is in German which is OK, but the subtitles use some very choice language indeed, so don't let the kids look!

For those of you who want a really good laugh go here.

Whilst watching that I also came across this one which is dedicated to our chums to the East. The same caveats apply, but it's also a rib tickler!

Right, off to the barbie for some chicken kebabs with curry mayonnaise (at least, that's what the recipe says!).

If the culinary gods spare me, I'll report some more antipodean lunacy as the Cup Final week develops.