Anyone need a good giggle on a Friday night?
These 2 blokes never fail to please 🙂
Andre Previn
The Breakfast Sketch
Mastermind
Singin’ in the rain
Eric & Ernie in bed
– with the fabulous ice cream line 🙂
It may not be a sketch, but you should always finish with…
Bring Me Sunshine
Firstly, a group of beavers is called a colony.
Secondly, if you have blue eyes, this is very similar to having fair skin when concerned with the sunshine! If you have fair skin you’re more likely to burn easily and should be careful to wear sun cream etc. If you have blue eyes, my optician told me today, then your eyes are more susceptible to damage from the sun, and you should make sure that you wear sunglasses when necessary.
You really do learn something new every day!
Boggis and Bunce and Bean
One fat, one short, one lean.
These horrible crooks
So different in looks
were none the less equally mean.
While working out what to read that could compete with The Hunger Games, I thought I may as well do another Roald Dahl! It’s only 82 pages so I did it in about 2 sittings over Sunday afternoon, but still a great story! Yes it encourages stealing and drinking…. but only in a sense of finding something to eat when your whole family is starving – the book tells us that it’s ok to thieve in that case!
A couple of years ago a film was made of this book. I don’t know if it’s just me but I really didn’t like it – the animation style made the film look like it was 20 years old! They also added a lot to the plot – although I suppose you have to for such a short book… here’s the trailer, if you’ve read the book, see what you think!
The final Hunger Games book! As a trilogy these books are phenomenal!
This book I’d say was the weakest of the three, but that does NOT make it bad! The speed of time jumps around a lot which gets a bit confusing. There’s a lot going on, but I just didn’t feel it flowed as well as the first couple, the plot was a little more juddered.
This doesn’t mean I still didn’t exclaim out loud at some bits, and yesterday afternoon as I finished it I think I read about 150 pages straight, it’s still one that’s hard to put down!
Again, don’t want to put any spoilers here so won’t discuss the whole outcome with the various elements – but do read it!!
The rule “If it’s yellow let it mellow, if it’s brown flush it down” is not appropriate for the workplace or any public place
It’s completely up to you if you use this in your own home
No one should ever have need to set their alarm clock for before 6am unless it’s for a holiday
The monotonous job of pairing up socks after laundry can be made more enjoyable by putting them all in a pile and pretending it’s a game of mahjong
I didn’t say enjoyable, just more enjoyable than it is if you don’t!
This April Fools Round-up has definitely become an annual event now – welcome to year 4!
They’re in no particular order, other than the order I found them in, so definitely check the whole list out!
And here’s a fantastic story that’s not an April fool as it’s in several papers and states it’s not!: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21991622
If I find any more through the day I’ll add them below so do check back later or tomorrow
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This book definitely fell into the category of can’t-put-it-down; I read the first half in 2 days, and 3 days later had finished it!
Following the first book we’ve moved on a little while, and deal with the fall out of the events. There are so many twists and turns, I don’t want to write anything for fear of giving away the plot, but just to say, in places this book actually made me gasp audibly – very highly recommended!
Last year I brought you my five favourite Easter songs, so I was wondering what to do this Good Friday. I thought I’d share with you some of my favourite songs by one of my favourite bands at the moment. Last year I was particularly struck by “Eastery” elements to a lot of their songs, and I guess you might pick that up below.
It seems I first heard Rend Collective Experiment when they did a video called Worship on an iPhone and until today I never realised that was the same band as that I’ve come to love in the last couple of years!
Their style is so different to anything else in the Christian music circles at the moment. They have the most interesting instruments (check out the stick thing in Build Your Kingdom Here). And the lyrics are superb. Sometimes we can get so struck by a melody, when really the words are the depth and real meaning of the piece.
As Sophie Fisher says in the wonderfully tacky film, Music and Lyrics: “A melody is like seeing someone for the first time. The physical attraction. But then, as you get to know the person, that’s the lyrics. Their story. Who they are underneath.”
So here we go, in no particular order, some lively, some very chilled out. Most are from their second album, but there’s one from the first!
Listen to all 5 and tell me you’re not a Rend convert!
Second Chance
Build Your Kingdom Here
You Bled
Desert Soul
The Cost
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