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MintTrav:
It"s nearly Halloween, and the shops have got their Halloween stuff in - which reminds me of this time last year.
I was working on a contract for a large farming company that grew lettuce, onions and suchlike for most of the supermarket chains. For Halloween they also grew pumpkins. Pumpkins are usually orange, but they also come in several other colours, the most popular being purple, which are often called blue for some reason.
Last year, one of the major supermarket chains decided it would make a big thing about blue pumpkins and their marketing department decided that they would promote them as a new word they invented - "Blumpkins", being a combination of blue and pumpkin.
When they emailed their plans through to my company, one of the guys decided to Google the word Blumpkin in case it was a swear word in another language or something deviant in ours. It is fair to say that it was lucky he did so.
I"m not going to post a link - you can Google it yourself if you wish. A blumpkin is a combination of two activities, neither of which you could give the necessary amount of attention to and concentrate on properly, in my view.
The promotion didn"t go ahead in the intended format, there wasn"t a national scandal and everyone at the supermarket chain kept their jobs (unlike the lettuce company, which is now closed - partly my doing, but that"s another story).
SirPercival:
OMG! :o
MintTrav:
No two ways about it - this is a brag post. I try hard not to post about my two daughters, cos they basically win at everything they do and people are not terribly interested in someone posting a string of boasts. I sometimes wonder if they are really my daughters, cos their achievements are way ahead of mine. I"m gonna do it this time, but I"ll try to restrain myself in future.
They have had a lot of their schooling in Australia. Rosie went right through at a very nice boarding school, finishing two years ago. At the same time, Rachel, who had two years left to do, got herself a music scholarship to Geelong Grammar, which is basically Australia"s equivalent of Eton, and switched to there. [Yeah, that"s right, they both finished Grade 8 music at about age 13, one sax & piano, the other clarinet & piano - what did I tell you?]. A lot of prominent people have been schooled at Geelong, including Prince Charles, Rupert Murdoch, the King of Malaysia, some Australian Prime Ministers and so on. Even if you do nothing and just pass through, it is an amazing formative experience and the contacts made are unsurpassed. But she didn"t just pass through. She is coming to the end of her time there (their academic year is opposite to ours - ie summer holidays are in December/January) and yesterday she won the Elisabeth Murdoch Award for Student of the Year out of one of the most talented groups in Australia. Just thought I"d tell you.
[For those who are not Australian, Elisabeth Murdoch (mother of Rupert) is a prominent philanthropist, whose achievements it is not worth bothering to start listing. Still going strong at 103.]
Rosie is doing okay too. She took a gap year and is currently stressing over upcoming first year exams in Medicine. Don"t think she needs to stress, though, cos last week she got 100% in something that counts for 10% of the year.
Okay, that"s it - I"ll go back to my usual level, posting about blumpkins and suchlike.
Waz1892:
Superb John!
Neve be shy about celebrating your kids achievements!
If people see it as boasting, I"d say that is more there issue rather than yours!
TheSnapper:
Their Mothers Brains?
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