Award!, Vacations, Afghanistan, Charles II, and Ditties from Grade School
amie at Mithril Wisdom, who - like me - still plays with LEGO, tagged me with an award!
"Thank the person who gave you this award and link back to their blog.
Next, select 15 blogs/bloggers that you've recently discovered or follow regularly.
Nominate those 15 bloggers for the Versatile Blogger Award
Finally, tell the person who nominated you 7 things about yourself."
1. My cousin, Fabrice Nadjari, and his friend, recently filmed a documentary - and more - in the Wakhan Corridor, Afghanistan.
2. I've got a trip to England and Scotland and Wales coming up! So much to see and do.
3. I'm still keeping an eye on the Decorah eagles cam. Eagle chicks!
4. Recently, I spent a weekend up north. It looked like this:
5. I'm not normally into zombie stories (with the exception of Lord John and the Plague of Zombies) but I've been reading World War Z by Max Brooks, and I can't put it down. Finally, an apocalyptic story that acknowledges the rest of the planet and how interconnected every country in the world is.
6. On another weekend, I went to the Westmount Antiquarian Book Fair. Among five shilling books about bathrooms
and guidance on book care
there was a law passed by King Charles II.
I got to touch it. Actual paper from the 17th Century that Charles II had touched. If I had squeeed out loud, I think the hills would still be echoing.
7. All Things Boys had a post recently featuring a ditty she remembered from camp. I've got two that have been stuck in my head since grade school:
(cross your legs and arms, and sing)
I am slowly going crazy
1 2 3 4 5 6 switch!
(switch positions by crossing your legs and arms the other way, and sing)
crazy going slowly am I
6 5 4 3 2 1 switch
(switch positions again)
(keep singing, faster and faster each time)
The second one goes like this: 1 2 3 4 5 / Once I caught a fish alive / why did you let him go? / because he bit my finger so / which finger did he bite? / the little finger on the right
Funny how these things stick with you. What kids' songs do you remember?
I'm tagging all of you on the award!
Comments
I remember singing Miss Mary Black, All Dressed In Black when I was a kid. And doing the whole hand clap thing right along with it.
I'm squeeing along with you on the 17th century paper. Just imagining it gives me bubbles of excitement in my tummy.
Hmm, kids' songs? We used to sing some in girl scouts when I was young. Like this one about the cleaner Comet (sung to a patriotic-sounding tune):
Comet--it makes your teeth turn green. Comet--it tastes like gasoline. Comet--it makes you vomit! So go out and buy some, and try some, today. :o)
I'd love to see the Afghanistan dodo seeing my current WIP is set in Kabul!
Denise
Aww, I don't remember one about frogs, Sara! Can you find an online version?
Thanks so much for coming by, Shelley!
Oh, Carol! That must be wear The Simpsons' got the idea from - there's an old episode with Bart singing that about Lisa: "Lisa, her teeth are big and green! Lisa, she smells like gasoline..."
Wow, Denise, that's really interesting! The only thing I know about Afghanistan (besides current events) comes from reading the first of the Flashman books...
Aww, thanks DL!
I have some children tunes stuck in my head, but not the lyrics.
Congrats on the award.