Yes, Friends, are YOU perhaps older than you'd like, and, at the same time, 'gagging' for more stimulation in your free time? Well, look no further than your copy of today's local Onion News for East Hampshire!!!!
Although currently "resting" between jobs ourselves, since we both retired 20 years ago, you can't say we don't know our limits!!!!
[When are you two noggins NOT resting, Colin! - Ed].
Nevertheless the Onion story makes us even more determined to seek some younger company today, to lower our mental age a bit, and "get down with the kids" in a way that only we know how!
Lois and me, showing our lighter side (!)
(above) Lois and me beginning our regular Sunday morning "catch-up" call
with Perth, Australia, and (below) the twins in their new uniforms, and their new "big school"
It's been a big week in those two 12-year-olds' lives, that's for sure. And they're already studying things that Lois and I were never taught at our old schools back in the 1950's! Things like 'civics' (?) and 'food science and technology', for example, although Lois suspects that 'food science and technology' is just a fancy label for 'cooking', would you believe!
What madness!!!!
students at our twin granddaughters' new school studying
"food science and technology", whatever that is, when it's at home!!!
This term's sport will be cricket, they tell us - and it's still uncomfortably hot in Perth, apparently, and "everybody's just longing for March", when things will start to cool off a bit.
What a crazy planet we live on !!!!
14:00 And later on today, Lois and I have the strange experience of not sitting in an audience composed entirely of "old codgers", which makes a refreshing change! Our grandson Isaac is playing not one but two roles in the local "performing arts" group's production of "Legally Blonde the Musical" in a theatre in nearby Haslemere, just over the county line in Surrey.
flashback to September: Lois and I wait outside Haslemere Hall
to pick up our grandson Isaac after his first rehearsal of "Legally Blonde"
The story is all about a seemingly 'ditsy' blonde manicurist, Elle, whose boy-friend dumps her to go to Boston and study law at the prestigious Harvard Law School. Elle gets her revenge on him by applying to go there herself, and, unexpectedly perhaps, she finds herself getting accepted. Something like that, anyway!
(top left) us, for once sitting in an audience not entirely made up of "old codgers" (!),
watching our grandson Isaac (below), seen here in two scenes of the musical
Isaac has a part as a fellow Harvard Law School new entrant, Aaron Schultz, where he gets to sing a song - see picture above, bottom right! How cool is that!!!!
Knowing that our Isaac is also playing the new UPS guy, Lois and I, sitting in the audience this afternoon, are a bit nervous about this scene coming up. And that's because in the film version, Elle tries to get the "hunky" new UPS guy to look at her legs by executing a clumsy "bend-and-snap" manoeuvre when he approaches her with a package, and he ends up with a broken nose.
A "bend-and-snap" manoeuvre is when a woman pretends to drop something on the floor, and bends down to pick it up, so he gets a good look at her legs. Then the guy tries to help her, and she straightens herself up right in front of the him, so that, ideally, so they finish up face to face.
In the film, however, the manicurist "muffs" the manoeuvre: the UPS guy gets too close, and the manicurist breaks his nose. Yikes! Poor Isaac - we hope he's ready for that scene !!!!
And for this afternoon's performance, Lois has brought along a bunch of band-aids in her handbag, in case they're needed, but fortunately the production's back-stage staff have thought ahead and provided Isaac with a free one, so when Isaac appears in his next scene, he's suitable "all bandaged up", which is a relief! And by the time the show's closing number comes up, the bandage has clearly been taken off, so it must have been just a surface wound, so no worries there!
Lois and me, before the performance begins - Lois has
a bunch of band-aids in her handbag, fortunately not needed !!!!
[It's only a story, remember, Colin! - Ed]
Well, Lois and I both had a jolly good laugh afterwards, while secretly pleased that Isaac's face hasn't been "damaged for life", at any rate, which is nice (!).
But there's a more serious question here too, isn't there.
Isaac was obviously assigned the part of the "hunky" new UPS guy for a reason - he must be being perceived as being at least a bit "hunky" himself. Have you thought of that?! And it's a slightly weird experience this afternoon for Lois and me to hear the manicurists in the show referring to "our Isaac" as "walking porn" (!). What madness, isn't it !!!
But where did Isaac inherit his "hunkiness" from? For myself, I'm pretty clear that it must be me, but Lois isn't so sure! Your views welcome, however - postcards only !!!!!
flashback to the 1960's: me as a sixth-former "oozing hunk", (left) as I
get ready to go to school in the morning, and (right) sitting in front of the "telly"
in the afternoon, after school, in a rocking-chair, waiting for programmes to begin
I wonder.....!
And I hereby promise to tabulate all feedback received and to give you a "digest" in a later blog-post, so watch this space!!!
Will this do?
[Oh just to to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzz!!!!!
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