How to be an Arctic Ninja

I'll admit up front, this blog has nothing to do with the Arctic, nor indeed, Ninjas - but I have just started Richard Hammond's new book "As You Do" and this is the title of the first chapter, and it just captured my imagination - what could an Arctic Ninja be? My imagination is running a little wild - I see green turtles with black headbands, running around in the snow and building igloos - coupled with that is an image of a big, fat, ginger puss cat (because I had a big, fat ginger puss cat once - called Ninja - ginger/Ninja - geddit!? Oh never mind....... ) So there it is When I've read the chapter (and if I remember) I'll report back as to what Arctic Ninjas really are .....

Till then - the answer to last blog's joke - A STICK - ta da!

The other half saw me logging into this tonight and asked if he could read it - I told a teeny, weeny, little white lie - I said I wasn't blogging about us/him, just events in general - so now he thinks it would be interesting to read - sigh - I guess I'll have to set about writing an alternative blog, just to show him! That'll teach me to lie! I actually found this Blogger thing through my daughter - amazingly she writes all her innermost thoughts and secrets in it - then advertises the address on Facebook! And she wonders how I know what she's up to at University - probably thinks Mum is too dumb to use the internet - ha ha - little does she know!

I've just noticed that the saving feature does not seem to be working; it's going to be very infuriating to get to the end of this and then find I can't save the blimming thing! I'm not the best techno geek in the world (being blonde and female!), but what I think I may do, is just copy and paste this elsewhere - ha ha - no getting past me today!

So, anyway, today being the first day of lent, I'm giving up bread। Someone asked whether that included 'wraps' - I said that would depend on the sell-by date। What I forgot to say to her was that I have a packet of wraps in the cupboard (I checked - it's June, so we're safe). I thought it was funny anyway. She just gave me an odd look. Mind you, I think she thought I was odd for giving something up for lent anyway - youth of today just have no idea about the bible do they? Apparently their lack of bible knowledge is making it much more difficult to teach them the classics at Uni. Can you imagine - turning up for English Literature classes, not having any idea of the content of one of the most famous books on earth - whatever next - starting a degree in quantum physics and not knowing what Pi is? (Actually, I have no idea whether you need a knowledge of Pi to study quantum physics, but it sounds good!)That's it for now - this non-saving facility is really beginning to bug me, so I'll sign off here - this blog may never yet see the light of day!
Ciao
(written on Ash Wednesday but for technological reasons, not posted til today!)