Such a brilliant post - I love the comparisons you've drawn here. Wonderful writing.
I'm going to think of your 'gray quilted sky' when I go out for a walk later - when I last looked out of the window I thought 'ugh, it's dark and grey and flat out there', but having read the very first line of this post I'm feeling much more benevolent towards the sky. Thank you.
After the Christmas holidays, a colleague and I were sharing stories of how we experienced our families over the holidays. She was describing a lot of drama, shouting and so on... which I found quite entertaining. She asked me how mine had been, and she said 'was it loud?'.
If you knew me, it's a fair and correct assumption to make I responded and said 'Yes, and very dramatic too. But not in an Eastenders kind of way (a British soap that has been running since 1985), more like in Loony Tunes on crack kind of way.
I shared this story with my partner, and he said. "Yes, that's a good description. You're the Tazmanian Devil." 🤣
Character description of wiki:
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Taz is generally portrayed as a ferocious, albeit dim-witted, carnivore with a notoriously short temper and little patience. He got his name in the short Ducking the Devil, where he is described as a "vicious, evil-tempered brute with jaws like a steel trap". Though he can be very devious, he is also sweet at times. His enormous appetite seems to know no bounds, as he will eat anything in his path. He is best known for his speech consisting mostly of grunts, growls, and rasps (in his earlier appearances, he does speak English with primitive grammar) as well as his ability to spin like a vortex and bite through nearly anything.[5] Taz does have one weakness: he can be calmed by almost any music. While in this calm state, he can be easily dealt with. The only music known not to pacify Taz is the bagpipes, which he finds insufferable.[6]
Brilliant!!! Love WEC!!
Such a brilliant post - I love the comparisons you've drawn here. Wonderful writing.
I'm going to think of your 'gray quilted sky' when I go out for a walk later - when I last looked out of the window I thought 'ugh, it's dark and grey and flat out there', but having read the very first line of this post I'm feeling much more benevolent towards the sky. Thank you.
After the Christmas holidays, a colleague and I were sharing stories of how we experienced our families over the holidays. She was describing a lot of drama, shouting and so on... which I found quite entertaining. She asked me how mine had been, and she said 'was it loud?'.
If you knew me, it's a fair and correct assumption to make I responded and said 'Yes, and very dramatic too. But not in an Eastenders kind of way (a British soap that has been running since 1985), more like in Loony Tunes on crack kind of way.
I shared this story with my partner, and he said. "Yes, that's a good description. You're the Tazmanian Devil." 🤣
Character description of wiki:
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Taz is generally portrayed as a ferocious, albeit dim-witted, carnivore with a notoriously short temper and little patience. He got his name in the short Ducking the Devil, where he is described as a "vicious, evil-tempered brute with jaws like a steel trap". Though he can be very devious, he is also sweet at times. His enormous appetite seems to know no bounds, as he will eat anything in his path. He is best known for his speech consisting mostly of grunts, growls, and rasps (in his earlier appearances, he does speak English with primitive grammar) as well as his ability to spin like a vortex and bite through nearly anything.[5] Taz does have one weakness: he can be calmed by almost any music. While in this calm state, he can be easily dealt with. The only music known not to pacify Taz is the bagpipes, which he finds insufferable.[6]
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Quite!