More Swiss News

As mentioned in the last post, Mr and Mrs Blog were visiting Swiss-Sister Blog last week.

Swiss-nephew-Ben Blog (age 5) wanted to play Thunderbirds. No problem, I am a dab hand at that game having been a similar age when the original series came out. Ben decided he was going to be Thunderbird 2 (my favourite). Here is a picture of what I got to be...

Yep, Tracy Island!

Mrs Blog takes a photo

Just returned from a few days with Swiss-Sis-Blog and family.

Mrs Blog (pictured below) was heartily impressed with the scenery.

She loved the mountains, snow, forests, ancient sights and could not stop photographing them on her "smart" phone. She complained about the glare on the screen so I was not expecting too much in terms of quality. However I was unprepared for the the first fifteen photos looking like this,

It seems she had turned the lens to "selfie" mode!

Anonymous help

Yesterday was Mr Blog's birthday. Having had a few in the past he celebrated with a beer and a couple of glasses of wine. (Alright they were blooming large glasses)

Today in the spam folder there was an email offering to help with my drink problem.! Target marketing or a message from on high??

Hello Russia/Привет Россия

Viewing figures for this blog have shot up lately, driven in part by an increase in Russian followers. In fact for the first time ever Russia tops the month's league table.

To mark this occasion Mr Blog has found a few customs which are prevalent in Russia and which should be shared with the rest of the world...

A woman with empty water buckets coming towards you is considered a bad omen.

A group of two or more people should not walk on different sides of a tree. They should all keep to one side or the other.

Bread should only be cut with a knife, not with your hands. Otherwise, it is said, that your life will be broken. The opposite is held true by some people.

Two or more people should never use one towel at the same time to dry their hands or bodies, or it is said to bring conflict.

A stranger should not look at a newborn baby before it is a certain age (between two months and one year). If one looks at the baby it is considered bad luck to compliment it. Instead, one could say, “Oh, what an ugly child!”.

It’s good luck to trip on your left foot.

More incomprehensible conversation

Having been befuddled by Mrs Blog's directions to the car park last week the same thing has happened again.

Yesterday Mrs Blog asked, "You know Karen, the one you don't know?"

What possible answer is there to that?

Directions you can't possibly follow!

A couple of days ago Mrs Blog insisted that we drive to nearby Penicuik to go shopping. On the outskirts she gave me the following instruction...

"Park in the car park that isn't the Aldi car park."

I said nothing and by some miracle seem to have ended up parking the correct car park! I was left wondering what would happen if Mrs Blog was booking our holiday...

"We'd like a holiday for two in the country that isn't Germany" perhaps?