Mistletoe's Musings

Small competition in today's post friends. Virtual cookies to the winners.



1. Which play features the quote in my subject line? Who wrote it? Who said it? Clue: I have played the role.

2. I feel like Mother Shipton. Virtual cookie to anyone who knows who she was. There I was yesterday remarking on the snow still being on the edges of the fields and what that means. This was half an hour ago:
( PICTURES AND A MEME OF SORTS THROUGH HERE )

Well Colly strikes again. A bustling start and then a bit of a grind to get 113 against the West Indies. It's been quite entertaining watching this game. Harmy had an amazing 12 minute over with no balls, Gayle hitting him onto the road for 6  and then being caught by Anderson.

Meanwhile, Eduardo made his return for Arsenal against Cardiff City in the Cup and naturally he scored twice. Good for him. I still haven't watched the horrific injury he sustained this time last year against Birmingham but it's lovely to see him back. He was in my fantasy team at the time and I'm almost tempted to put him back in.

The quiz is proving awkward in one or two places this month. I'm almost done but two are sticking: a South American plant genus named after an 18th century Swedish botanist is proving elusive as is a film star with a biography called 'Goddess' and an alleged father called Gifford who was a dairy farmer. Can't find that either. Hmmm.

 Pouring with rain, windy; the only thing we haven't had is the promised thunder and lightning although my headache says otherwise.

Another injury for the lads; Carlos Edwards had his leg broken in a heavy challenge on Saturday so is out after just coming back for another 6 weeks. It never rains but it pours. Hee hee. The fantasy team is another crocked group at the moment, 5 injuries or suspensions. Not good timing at all.

Won the quiz last night on a tie-breaker of the year the first jigsaw was sold. My trivia knowledge is ridiculous!

New icon, hope it shows up thanks to setje  over at Boreanazists.net. 

Is Bones not on this week? Have they done a Prison Break and stopped for Christmas? Mummy in the Maze is on Sky this week anyway so I'll cope.

Hey ho. I've been reading what various people have to say about shipping in the Buffyverse (see germaine_pet ) and all I can add is chacun a son gout.

As for other things, the chief reason for today's icon of choice is (you've guessed it) Tuesday evening's frolics. Also no new Bones this week. How do Americans follow series when they keep stopping them for other series or sports? (shrugs)

Anyhoo, when I left for the quiz, Sunderland were winning at Birmingham and apparently playing them off the park. Sadly the lad Brum bought from Brentford after they had knocked us out of the Cup thanks to his goals, came on and scored in the 90th minute. DJ Campbell. Bastard.

But,,, that's not all. At the quiz we had a Peter-ism of grandiloquent (grandiose?) proportions. Round 6 of 8 Siblings. Going on reasonably well apart from Rajeev Ghandi's sister's name when we get to q. 10: 'Which woman married two English monarchs who were brothers?' Now I count myself pretty knowledgeable on English History and Pat teaches the damn thing but neither of us could come up with brothers who had married the same woman beyond Arthur and Henry marrying Katherine of Aragon and one of them didn't become king. Not surprising when we hear the answer Peter had: Catherine Parr. Now she did marry 4 times but Peter thought one of her husbands was Henry VII. 'That's Henry VIII's father!' we called. Anyway - he got rather brusque after that and the evening was ruined. We won.

Happy Valentine's if you're into that sort of thing. Meanwhile back with a bang at the quiz with an on the rails victory thanks to straight down the entertainment round in one hearing. Bite that you twozzers on the other team. They only got 6 out of 10 on it. Course Pat starred with recognising the theme tune to The Railway Children and I chipped in with Ennio Morricone while Sue knew George Macrae. It was good. The Jackpot question is up to £100 and someone nearly won it but put Disneyworld instead of Disneyland. Tough.

Changed my layout. I hope the blackness doesn't oppress.

Can you believe it? Everybody is fit and we're actually going to the quiz! I wonder if the Snowball has been won? While in quiz mode I have two to go on the Quizmail. One is a Ukrainian sheep that gives black wool and the other is a soy milk with Omega 3. Nothing if not varied. We finally cracked the horrible Brit pop pics which were obscure, old or old and obscure unless you're a certain age.

There are 9 people off ill at school which meant I had an art lesson today. It was painless. Trevor basked in his glory though not many had seen it.

Last day of holidays and I have frittered it away finishing the quiz. I say finished but there are the usual niggly ones plus 5 pictures of American heavyweight boxers I shall have to defer to older heads on. I have four I'm fairly sure of though. The niggles concern whether Easter Island or Tristan Da Cunha is the most remote inhabited island - google gives both and what a wireless mouse is called. The final one concerns a form of sweetening that gets its name from the Portuguese for badly made. No idea. 

The other thing? Happy birthday Lost Akasha. LJ won't let me put your name in any other way so there it is. I only found your work recently and I am so glad I did. Only 10 days between our birthdays! How geeky is that comment I feel like Zach. Hope 2007 is healthy and happy for you and your loved ones. Mwah.

eta It took me 4 goes to get this to be right,