What is the best 45th birthday present for a Wendy? A four day weekend in Siena with spottydog as
- tour organiser.
- tour guide.
- conversational sparring partner.
- first-aid specialist, she’ll have the plasters for when I fall-over, which she reliably informs me that I will, because I’ll be looking up at the architecture rather than at street-level obstacles.
- personal shopper, because she has this uncanny skill for inducing me to part with cash like no other person I have ever met.
- extended memory.
Excitedness levels have already reached amber. Spotty dog has cunningly avoided booking through the recently defunct XL, travelling at ridiculous hours of the day, waiting at transport interchanges for silly, silly, times and other such icky nonsense.
Its my birthday.
It’s Eyan & Phil’s birthday.
It’s international Jennifer day
I’m 44 (and British)
The wikipedia entry for 44 points out that despite not being a prime number it is one of an elite 12% of numbers that can be described as a ‘Happy Number’.
44 trivia:
- Its the international dialing number for the UK and that’s where I am today, in Reading, in the UK, and that’s where I come from and I’m a citizen not an alien.
- A bus, big caravan, production company in Germany. I like buses.
- 44 was a leap year starting on Wednesday. During this year Emporer Claudius returned from a campaign in, yes you’ve guessed it, Britain!
- Psalm 44 is powerfully emotive, excerts of the language within the psalm: ‘crushing people’, ‘trampling our foes’, ’scorn and derision’, ‘reproach and revile me’, ‘crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals’. It is a bid to the christian God for support in torrid times. Probably a bit more torrid than my current repatriation expereince* but in that sort of direction on the scale that ranges from comatosed to extreme torridity.
* I did phone someone up yesterday to tell them I was frustrated, so that is pretty torrid on the Wendy torridity scales. I used the word frustrated 4 times, then had a cup of tea to calm down. I feel a bit bad now about that impulsive outburst of saying I’m frustrated.
Wendy at # 42, has moved to number 43. Dr. Wendy is still, virtually, in the house.
It’s like moving from BBC 2 to BBC 1. Having survived the answer to the ultimate question I move onto a new channel… ..there’ll be some happy slapping in a local English pub tonight. It’s Election night and people are coming out to support the breakaway party, the wendy house party… oh yes… happy…….and…….slappy… hats, boots, beer, election results with a bit of Adulty Hooding thrown in for good measure. The results will probably be completely UNPUBLISHABLE. At least not publishable before a couple of recounts and close examination of the chads (a popular US post-election passtime).
I am Wendy House and I approve this message. Party!
Books and t-shirt both received a thorough face-hugging sniff…
W
In less than 2 weeks I’ll be 42
According to Douglas Adams the second most impressive computer in the Universe, ‘Deep thought’ spent 7.5 million years to discover that 42 is the ultimate answer to life the universe and everything.
I get to experience 42 directly, no lawyers, no phone-menu, no queuing, no bureaucratic machinery, no gloves, no Windows, no 7.5 million years waiting. How sexy is that? 42 uncovered, unprotected, outside and in the ‘raw’ and nearly-now! I’m getting way too excited just thinking about it. Time for a cup of tea.
W
