Thursday 20 March 2008

Vernal Smurfing Equinox

Today is the first day of Spring!

Google has little plots of flowers making up the two 'o's. And, it is really rather cold. I wonder if all the birds who have been out tweeting around are thinking they arrived too soon.

Paul O'Grady had a Druid on his show this afternoon (it is so nice to be off work and able to be so productive!), who explained that Druids just, like, want to love nature and think good thoughts and hold hands standing in a circle and then go off to the pub. He said that Churchill was a Druid. I cannot find proof of this.

According to him, the vernal equinox occurred at 5.18am. I wonder if this is 5.18am GMT only, or if it goes wave-like around the world following time zones. I wonder if the vernal equinox knows about Daylight Savings Time. Oh dear! Here is a spring-ey picture from Montpellier (I thought last blog's quantity of photos was getting slightly excessive).
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As well, there was a brief news item on the radio about a Smurf Convention or something similar. Although, your author is unable to document this story, I am rather in awe at the number of Smurf fans online. The history of the Smurfs is actually pretty interesting (this is the 50th anniversary year!), and an article in Der Spiegel is an informative analysis of the socio-cultural shifts since the cartoon and cartoon were first created. It apparently no longer is quite the Socialist ideal it once may have been.
In the upcoming Smurf movie (the first of a trilogy, dear God), 'they' have planned to have more female Smurfs.
Hey, I wonder where my old stuffed Smurf toys are... I kind of miss them. Laa-la-la-la-la-laaa, la-la-la-la-laaa!

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