Aw, they look very tasty, Lily. Well done!

Oh yum.

Lovely, Lily, you can come over anytime and bake some for me. 

I am both giggling and crying right now... but I'll say it's a 'good news' thing. 

I was watching the advent calendar show on TV, and they're celebrating 25 years of those shows by after the episode showing a music video from one of the years... 

The one today was from when I was 3 years old. I don't remember the show at all... but I remembered the song and video! 

When I was a little girl I had 3 Christmas VHS tapes... Rudolph, Frosty and one was a collection of different music videos and short clips... this music video was one of them. 

I haven't watched that tape since I was 10, if not younger... but I know the words! I even remembered the entire video, how they danced with shoes on their hands and wound yarn around one of the guys hands... 

I would watch those tapes so many times, especially when I was sad or mum lost it and I was alone... even if I was a very careful little girl and tried not to break her rules I'd try to sneak them out before November 15th when I was allowed to start watch them. 

I have replaced Frosty and Rudolph on DVD's (though I got a bit sad when I realized they had made new Danish voices for Rudolph since then). 

My mind is starting to remember some of the other videos on the tape with the music videos and little cartoons... awh. 

... I feel a bit old right now. 

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I have turned into a magical being today. I was Groke.

Groke /Marran / Morko / Hufsa was a character featured in children´s book-series of an illustrator Tove Jansson. She was a lonely mysterious ogre who wanted to experience friendship and warmth, so she was quite attracted to fire and flames. But the moment she moved closer to the actual blazing hearth, it froze immediately and left her standing on pure ice. Even grass and trees wilted out when she approached them, leaving her in a berren wasteland. Therefore, no one actually wanted to associate with her.




Today, I posted some things on the forum and suddenly the conversations died for hours and all life was literally sucked out from all threads. Which is a very Groke-like ability, if you think about it.



Some people would be disappointed, but I´m sure I can use this devilish ability to suck life out of forums in some ingenuos way in the future. It sure can come in handy one day! Wow!

ukaunz wrote:

I feel that way sometimes too
Which conversations were the ones you killed? I hadn't noticed...

Every single one?

(It was just a joke, of course. I guess, people have other business that short before Christmas, both at work and in private, than chatting here. But I can´t help it and I feel "the Groke effect" sometimes.)
 

ukaunz wrote:

Oh, I get that feeling IRL though. I'm not so good at keeping conversations going.

But yes, it does seem a little quiet in here...

I think it would be better during Christmas when the preparations are over and all gifts bought and hidden safely.
 

True. I should read more Jansson. I couldn't get my kids interested in Moomins, and my library doesn't have very many of those books anyway. But I did read a good novel of hers called The Summer Book. It was beautiful.

I LOVE Moomins. I grew up watching the cartoon series. I have memories  of waking up early on Sundays to watch it! But I got terrified by that character. I didn't get to finish the episode where it appeared first time and all I got was the tale of how stuff withered around it. Brrr. But it's a beautiful tale!

I have searched for somewhere to watch the show again. I can only find the one with dolls though.

Gave myself a bit of a scare over the weekend.
I had lost interest. In Sherlock. How can that be?? Well, been distracted by the Potter fandom (courtesy of friend), but that alone could not explain why I had suddenly lost any kind of interest in Sherlock.
But now it's back, and I couldn't be happier.