Mr Mist’s Blog

Here’s a little something that we brought back from Rome with us, obviously reflective of the strong culture and history of the area -

This cow is pretty cool, it feels weird and is squeezy.

It’s like a large cow stress toy.

We’re back from Rome! Also, our luggage has managed to make it back from Rome just now, too. It did not make it back with us yesterday. We almost did not make it because our first flight out was delayed a lot. We had to run across Frankfurt airport to get the next plane. I guess our cases were not running quickly enough. Some photos to follow, once they’ve all been sorted out.

The Chinese Olympic Games opened today with an amazing opening cermony that was an incredible spectacle. It defies belief as to how the London show will be able to come up with anything anywhere near as impressive. Some useless mish-mash showing how “multi-cultural” the UK is will just pale into insignificance compared to such a lavish display of Chinese cultural passion. It was very easy to forget the bad press happening around China and simply stare in awe at the opening ceremony. Most impressive.

Hello, I’ll be back online again around the 8th August. Enjoy yourselves on the internent until then!

An amusing article comes from BBC news where a judge in New Zealand has made a girl a ward of court so that her name can be changed from Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii, which she understandably hates. Some of the other names in the article which have been blocked - and not blocked - are also quite amusing. It is quite bonkers what some parents come up with these days.

It’s not often I would link to a Daily Mail story, but I noticed this one on serialdeviant.org(y) where a man was branded a peado for taking photos of his own children on a slide ride. All I can say is oh-my-freaking-god. What are we actually coming to? I’d love to be able to say that I’m shocked by it, but, really, I’m not. I almost expect it. I’m surprised it hasn’t happened already. I suspect in fact that it has, but the Mail wasn’t around at the time to report on it. God this sort of stuff annoys me.