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February 13th, 2009
08:44 pm - Cakes, Cooking and Cameraderie
This morning I got up and made 48 fairy cakes. Then another 48. Then made a bird feeder.
As it is Friday the Thirteenth (a fact which I'd forgotten until fate reminded me) there were a few minor disasters (an unwanted phonecall, an overheating of the bird-feed mix and I tore my coat badly as I bashed into a doorframe. But other than that it was good because
lycoris came over with her LEET ICING SKILLZ. And we had fun and I teased her a little by showing her the video I made
( which she has permitted me to put up on youtube for easy sharing) and she looked at my scribblings and some photies of me as a small(er) child and we chatted and talked books and it was fun! :) Hopefully she will come again some time and we can play on the wii or something.
So now there's nothing to worry about but tomorrow's activities. *sits back comfortably*
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09:38 pm - The Book Quiz versus The Laureate
It's no secret that there lives in our household a certain distasted for the current Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion who never really appears to write particularly interesting verse for any of the occasions he's pulled out to write for. (And earned some contempt from my mother by stating that he drinks lempsip for inspiration.)
Anyway, AT LAST, there comes proof that he is a COMPLETE TWIT.
I was watching The Book Quiz latest episode on iplayer and for one of the rounds players are given a quotation and asked to named the author and occasionally the title. Andrew Motion and Jan Ravens' quote was thus:
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "
( Well of course the answer is obvious )
I am somewhat appalled (if the poet laureate fails at ALL BUT ONE of the poetry questions- and the one he got right was because he wrote a biography on the poet- WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO?)
I bet Ian McMillan, Pam Ayers, Richard Stillgoe, Stewart Henderson and Roger McGough would all have got it.
I am also somewhat vindicated: I always thought he was a twit!
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