Should I be worried that everything seems to be going well...

[sally_maria]

First, an apology to nakeisha for missing your birthday yesterday. I'm glad to read you had a good day - many happy returns. :-)

As I've said in the title, everything seems to be going well at the moment. I'm still doing half days at work this week and I already had holiday booked for next, but the week after I think I will try a couple of full-time days. Yes, I'm more tired than I would have been before for only working part-time but I'm by no means worn-out. And I remember my early days in retail and how much worse I felt then, when I was younger and not recovering from an operation.

Otherwise, things that make me happy today will mean very little to most people but Golden Foxee \0/  \0/ And the Ya-goldbies are pretty cute as well. :-)

Anyway, I'll go back to making sense to non-Fluff friends. :-) Thanks to parrot_knight, I realised there were actually videos of Flanders and Swann on YouTube. :-) And also a wonderful Lego animation to "The Gas Man Cometh".

Finally, it comes to something when you have to visit German websites to realise there's online video of something that happens down the road. Still, this is why our town gets a special mention in the Darwin Awards.

and the Cheese Rolling

Comments

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

Flanders & Swann

Excellent! ;-) Thank you.


Cheese rolling: No way! I don't like steep slopes at the best of time, but running down one, you've got to be joking!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

There aren't usually many broken bones ... ;-)

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

It's not the broken bones that I'm particularly concerned about. It's the idea of going down a slope at speed...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I confess that when I was younger, it quite appealed to me. I now have more sense!

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

I thought you were "Never Skiing A..."?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Yes. There may be a disparity here.

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

Ah, so we'll have to rename you to "I thought about skiing in my youth but didn't A...". It doesn't quite trip off the tongue so well does it?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Well no, I never thought about skiing, I just didn't mind the idea of tumbling down a hill after a cheese.

(See if you can get something euphonious out of that ;-) )

[sally_maria]

I can remember visiting the top of the hill in question when I was child and deciding there and then that I didn't like cheese that much. :-) It's even steeper than it looks in the video.

The idea is cool, I'm a big fan of tradition (can tradition be cool?) but I'm happy to leave it to other

nutters

eccentrics.

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

"Suicidally cheese chasing, but not thinking about skiing A..."?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

*nods*

Yes, that'll do ...

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

I somehow think it'll get abbreviated to "Cheese chasing A...". Now that does trip off the tongue. :-)

[sally_maria]

That thought had already crossed my mind. :-) CCA it is.

[elayna88.livejournal.com]

Um... why are people flinging themselves down a hill and getting muddy? This is... a sport?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

A traditional English pastime, anyway ;-)

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

For certain values of English. ;-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

You mean the value "eccentric"? Or the value "nutter"? ;-)

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

No, I mean the value of "Gloucestershire" or "near whichever hill it is near Cheltenham". I'm eccentric and I don't (and will not) fling myself down hillsides.

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

Cheese rolling: a roll of cheese is rolled down the slope and people chase it. The winner is the one who catches the cheese and survives; they get to keep it. /serious

[sally_maria]

Not exactly a sport - more a local tradition. Once a year, people race a cheese down a very steep hill - see Wikipedia.

John would no doubt want to take part, and Rodney would produce a long tirade about the stupidity of the general public and pointless traditions. :-)

[elayna88.livejournal.com]

But Ronon would get that cheese in record time. *g*

[nakeisha.livejournal.com]

No apologies are necessary. I did have a lovely day, thank you very much.

I'm glad to hear things are going well and I hope they continue to do so.

[sally_maria]

Thank you. :-)