Jan 22 2025 - Low Drama

 

How would you explain "low drama" to someone?   Here's the context: New Zealand: An albatross couple shares egg duty in this captivating low-drama reality show 20 January 2025 - It's a reality show about a loving couple waiting to welcome their new arrival, watched by thousands of ardent fans. But the stars of Royal Cam, now in its 10th season, aren't socialites or hopefuls in love but northern royal albatrosses -- majestic New Zealand seabirds with 10-foot (3-meter) wingspans. (more) It is 24-hour livestream of a new albatross couple each season and the camera follows the birds until their chicks hatch.  Just like people reality shows that are low drama.  It must be the fifth type of reality show.  The others are data reality, unusual family reality, gaming reality, and culture fusion reality.   When we look at these types, we may be dismayed.  Remember what we watched as children?  Candid Camera - it started in 1948. So there we are with the albatross couple sharing egg duty - no need for humans in low drama reality shows.   I did an exploration through the database of images yesterday in search of Agave plants.  The most beautiful ones are at Longwood Gardens.  Not a mark or scratch.  Quite often they have initials carved in them - irresistible  to young people.

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Where To?

We have an obsession with vacations.  Would your life advice be which 10 places to visit before a person dies?  That's what the life advice question retrieves   - trips to take.   How should a person decide which place to visit?  For example, where would a person go to visit the most heritage sites in the world?  As of July 2017, there are 1,073 world heritage sites.  There are cultural, natural and 'mixed properties'.  The country with the most sites is Italy - with 53 entries.  China is second with 52, Spain third with 46.  One can get a lot of culture in with one visit.  One can find a website to help one choose. The website jauntaroo.com has a simple quiz to guide a person through the decision.  It has 6 categories.  These are:  Vibe, Activities, Geography, Weather and Budget per person.  Here's the site HERE.  It is quick and fun.  One retrieves a long list of cities with a few catchy sentences about each one.  I might take the advice to check out Niagara Falls.  No need to get in an airplane for this vacation, and the budget is under $100.   Heres what jokesforus has to say about vacations: Where do math teachers go on vacation? To Times Square. Where do crayons go on vacation? Color-ado!  Where do sharks go on holiday? Finland.  Where do sheep go on vacation? To the baaaaaahamas.  Gardens are pretty messy this time of year.  When we visited Longwood Gardens in February, this plant caught my attention with its curious winter foliage. It is Agave-leaved Eryngium, with the common name is Sea Holly.

Spike Again

Spike Milligan wrote a number of silly poems. His most famous poem, On the Ning Nang Nong, was voted the UK's favourite comic poem in 1998 in a nationwide poll, ahead of other nonsense poets including Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. This nonsense verse, set to music, became a favourite Australia-wide, performed week after week by the ABC children's programme Playschool. Milligan included it on his album No One's Gonna Change Our World in 1969 to aid the World Wildlife Fund. In December 2007 it was reported that, according to OFSTED, it is amongst the ten most commonly taught poems in primary schools in the UK. On the Ning Nang Nong  On the Ning Nang Nong Where the Cows go Bong! and the monkeys all say BOO! There's a Nong Nang Ning Where the trees go Ping! And the tea pots jibber jabber joo. On the Nong Ning Nang All the mice go Clang And you just can't catch 'em when they do! So its Ning Nang Nong Cows go Bong! Nong Nang Ning Trees go ping Nong Ning Nang The mice go Clang What a noisy place to belong is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!! A Silly Poem Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee, What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B?  The ABC 'Twas midnight in the schoolroom And every desk was shut When suddenly from the alphabet Was heard a loud "Tut-Tut!" Said A to B, "I don't like C; His manners are a lack. For all I ever see of C Is a semi-circular back!" "I disagree," said D to B, "I've never found C so. From where I stand he seems to be An uncompleted O." C was vexed, "I'm much perplexed, You criticise my shape. I'm made like that, to help spell Cat And Cow and Cool and Cape." "He's right" said E; said F, "Whoopee!" Said G, "'Ip, 'Ip, 'ooray!" "You're dropping me," roared H to G. "Don't do it please I pray." "Out of my way," LL said to K. "I'll make poor I look ILL." To stop this stunt J stood in front, And presto! ILL was JILL. "U know," said V, "that W Is twice the age of me. For as a Roman V is five I'm half as young as he." X and Y yawned sleepily, "Look at the time!" they said. "Let's all get off to beddy byes." They did, then "Z-z-z."  Spike Milligan So to celebrate this great comic verse, we include our own version of Spike as seen at the Royal Botanical Gardens last week.