Another random ponder....

How is it that humankind has managed to produce the 'lego city' series, and yet cannot manage to provide the world with safe, clean energy & food for all??

Clearly, our best minds are being somewhat distracted!

(And, while we're at the 'random' pondering - how did it actually come to pass that so bloody much of the 'lego city' series has come to live with us?? I swear, next year it's all gonna be about goats and chickens for families in East Timor, Rewanda and the like... YES! Sanctimonious WILL be my new middle name ... )

Brilliant Things About Germany no.224

The "Seasonal Fridge Extension".

Aka "The Balcony".

Aka "The Window Sill". Or (if you have one) - "The Garden".

Whatever it is called, storing your fresh 6 kilo Turkey, chilling the bubbly, beer and cream torte - (and other Christmas treats) never seems to be a problem.

"Deck the halls with -NO! NO! Olli !!!!!!"

Last week was the Caspi-Man's 4th birthweekend. (Yes, LONG birthWEEKEND. Why have just a birthDAY when international timezones, and local superstitious customs, mean the festivities can last soooo much longer?)

THE CASPI-MAN IS NOW FOUR and had no less than 3 parties to celebrate it.

I should note here (for the official record) that only one of these parties was his actual 'birthday party'. (Saturday). The second was instigated by the in-laws (Sunday), and the third (Monday) was necessitated by the Kindergarten. (Needless to say I was expected to cater for them all...)

So, with the Caspi-Man's birthday well and truly celebrated - we were free this weekend to prepare in earnest for the upcoming Christmas Season.

"How about we go get a Christmas tree this afternoon?" said the Ger-Man over breakfast yesterday morning.

"Endlich!!! [Finally!!!!]" exclaimed the Caspi-Man in a manner that implied we'd been purposely depriving him of some essential life element, "Unseren Weihnachtsbaum!!!!! [Our Christmas Tree!!!!]"

And, so yesterday, we found our Christmas Tree.

And this afternoon, it was decorated.

And tonight, someone thinks it's Christmas. (And that someone is definitely NOT either Herr & Frau Grumpypants downstairs!)

a high of "0 degrees" today...

and they predicted snow on ALL the weather reports.

What we got, though, was 0 degree rain...

How is that possible?????

The Ger-Man said -

that this picture of Olli, that the Caspi-Man and I had photoshopped to adorn this year's Christmas Cards, could be viewed as "undignified"...

To which, I said:

Sorry, firends and family. But sometimes these things have to be done...

Bad rhymes...

Sleet, Sleet - go away,

And don't bother coming back another day!

(But, Snow - you're welcome to come stay... at least for the next three weeks or so.)

I reckon

someone at the Kindergarten is gonna stage an intervention soon...

'cause (thanks to my English lessons) - there are now about 20 young German kiddies fluent with Rolf Harris's Six White Boomers. (Well, fluent with the chorus. And they like to sing it very loudly.)

I'm such a cultural ambassador! ;-)