I saw these new Mighty World toys at the weekend. They're intrigingly specific to modern culture. And I share a workspace with Jenny who does trends and culture and stuff and Seb who does skate and that. So this seemed like a slightly amusing coincidence.
I'm going to call them Chris and Minnie from now on.
I went to see Rocester again. Things had got no better. They've lost every game this season. The manager's quit, they have no replacement and if they'd lost on Saturday that would have been 50 consecutive league games without a win. They lost their last two games 5-0 and 6-0.
They are my new heroes. You have to be so committed and so brave to keep turning up when you haven't won a game for 50 games. They looked like they were going to hang on for a draw (which would have been a victory of sorts - their first points of the season) but conceeded a scrappy goal from a corner in the 85th minute. Very sad. But they'll play on.
I've not taken any pictures myself but Arthur has been slightly obsessed with these since our Italian trip. Every vending machine in town was selling Winnie The Pooh Animal Wear. (He's particularly fond of the ocean edition.) It's an ingenius attempt to capitalise on Winnie's popularity by dressing him up as other things - thereby extending the number of Pooh things you can sell.
On the way back from Italy we were speculating as to wear this could go next. Because Pooh could dress as anything really. Our favourites were:
19th Century Statesmen
Serial Killers and Axemen
Deadly Bacteria
The Nottingham Forest 1978 Squad
Other Famous Bears
Great Physicists (I'm very keen to see a Niels Bohr Pooh)
(And I know this is a dolphin not a fish, but I couldn't find a picture of a fish. You can dress him as Nemo you know.)
In Microserfs, Douglas Coupland talks about the idea of 'Male Shopping Calories' and suggests that Fry's is designed to burn them all up in one quick session.
Music thing burns all my 'Male Attention / Wishlist Calories' every time I look at it. It's a perfectly written, splendidly conceived conpendium of everything I've ever wanted to own. Even if I wasn't previously aware that they existed. Ebay Of The Day is particularly useful. And it's full of splendid features like Tiny Music Makers.
If any of my friends or family are reading this and they're ever stuck for birthday present ideas - get me anything from Music Thing.
I thankyou
Arthur starts back at school today. There was a real back to work/school feeling in the flat yesterday. We were tipping out suitcases and tidying away flip-flops - which left sand all over the floor. Anne said she'd deal with it today and 'vacuum away the summer'. She's a poet.
