Yes, Friends, those green Swedes, eh!!! Always 'thinking outside the fuse box', to think up greener and greener ways to source electricity, aren't they! And Onion News has more on this story - check it out!
Kudos, Sweden!
And surely a lesson in how to be 'greener than thou' [Swedish: grönare än du] if ever there was one! If implemented worldwide, this scheme could slash electricity costs for over 99.9% of the world's countries, so worth looking into for the UK, wouldn't you say, Sir Keir? After all, B&Q are selling longer and longer extension leads these days - it's not exactly rocket science is it !!!!
This one's a "snip", at only £20 !!!!
[That's enough whimsy! - Ed]
my wife Lois and me - a recent picture
You see, we're currently interested in all news coming out of Sweden at the moment, because our eldest daughter Alison and her family - husband Edward and their 3 teenage offspring Josie (19), Rosalind (17) and Isaac (15) are currently enjoying a new year's week holiday at a Swedish ski resort, and pictures are beginning to flood in, or should I say 'skate in' !!!! [No! - Ed]
Alison's family has been there since Sunday, and I have to say that most of the pictures we've seen so far have been of the inside of the hotel coffee lounge and the view through the windows (!) - kudos Alison, who, Lois and I know, is not exactly the world's biggest fan of skiing, to put it mildly!!!
Incidentally Lois and I have subjected to some exhaustive fact-checking that first picture above - the one of our granddaughter Rosalind, who appears to be actually outside the hotel, I can exclusively reveal that it definitely wasn't taken against a large snowy picture in the hotel lobby, for example. So it seems somebody has been outside the hotel long enough to take a photograph of the 'excursion', so fair play to Rosalind haha!!!
Lois and I can't talk - we're staying indoors today as well, even here in Liphook. But we're just following orders!
You see, Lois says that so-called 'elderly' and 'vulnerable' people have been advised to stay indoors today, by some government body or other, so we're just being good citizens haha!
(left) the view from our front windows this morning, and
(right) some weather 'facts and figures' - brrrr !!!!!
For once, however, Lois and I have got a lot of important work to do in the house, so the chilly weather's working in our favour, which is nice !
There are loads of Christmas left-overs to eat up, for starters (and for the other courses!!!!).
Plus we've got to somehow "get to grips" with our shiny new electric toothbrushes: and not just physically! Sadly, like all electric gadgets today, they have arrived with a huge one-page sheet of microscopic instructions, in, like, a billion languages - more probably! And also a tiny leaflet with some mysterious, meaningless little pictures and no writing at all - what madness !!!!
We're forcedin the end to try to find some guidance on YouTube, but for now, let's just say that our much-heralded move away from manual toothbrushing has been postponed indefinitely, or at least till the spring at the earliest, when we'll feel more like it, hopefully!
flashback to earlier this morning: we try to get to grips with how to use our shiny new
'his and hers' electric toothbrushes, but decide to postpone the move away
from manual toothbrushes till at least the spring, possibly till summer - but we'll see!
[Is that all you two 'noggins' have done today, Colin? - Ed]
Well, no, absolutely not !!! We've also been on a kind of nostalgia trip, watching ITV's coverage of the New Year's Day racing from Cheltenham, the town where we lived for almost exactly 50 years after our marriage in 1972, finally on Halloween 2022 shutting our door on our house there, which was less than a mile away from the town's iconic racecourse, so a place we often used to go for our daily walks back in the day.
Awwww!!!
(top) pictures from ITV's coverage of the New Year's Day racing at Cheltenham,
and (below) flashback to New Year's Day 2017: Lois and me going for an early morning
New Year's Day walk, as the racecourse was gearing up for the iconic annual meeting
Awwwww (again) !!!!! Happy days!!!!!
20:00 And at the end of another somewhat stressful day (!), Lois and I are glad to sink down on the couch and watch tonight's edition of the current festive daily series of our favourite TV quiz, Only Connect, presented by Victoria Coren-Mitchell, the quiz that tests lateral thinking.
For years, Lois and I have been itching to appear on the show, but we've failed to find a third person to make up a regular 3-person Only Connect team with us. Could we maybe apply as a 'duo' and have somebody random assigned to us to make us a threesome?
But fascinating stuff, isn't it!
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzz!!!!!!
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