And more fizzy! 

A megapint or two!!!

Yipppiii!!!

Extremely pleasing weather for the occasion, and, as a seasonal must I do have rhubarb pie already on my desk together with “kids” coffee. That means strong bit of coffee with a lot of milk foam on top. So you start out as drinking milkfoam and then it hits you and then you are well awake within a second.

I am not a morning person. Far from it. I am not a day person either. Come to think of it, I am not a night person too. But forced into a common form. As in the common understanding of proper living. Never liked it. Always an outcast. But if you want education, well-paid common job or any job at all, simply a bread under your ham and good layer of real butter, then you need to blend in. I have managed rather well the blending in throughout the years. I think. Not everyone else thinks so. 

I have been called bitch, arrogant, wannabe, and above all, they call me stubborn. They are probably right considering they see from the side. But most people call me kind, hilarious, give-your-last-shirt-kinda person. It has been conflicting situations as we live in a country where the nerves are on edge always. Yes, in fact, conflicts are everywhere, but here they are specific. 

Specific in a funny way. Today some of the weird things we have had are risky biz to talk about. But its our history. For someone coming from abroad, from far away country you try to explain what to expect. So some 20 years ago I introduced, in some level of naive manner, our country and myself to my new employer, a German company. I told shortly main points to questions that I have had over the years from foreigners I met. So that included 5 main points.

1. we do have electricity

2. we have own language, own money, even a president quite our own and quite famous one in the world too

3. we have 4 tramlines 

4. we have 4 black persons in our country. We all know them by face and name. One of them is Raoul who works as a postman

5. we are not Russia, though we used to be part of this horror-land

Needless to say the boardmembers were in deep shock, silence fell over the hall where we run our meeting and presentations. Either bad in geography, politics or school in general. But after a pint of beer we got relaxed and from that day on we had excellent cooperation. Humour really unites. Though that was (and still is!) real life for us, just told in a funny way.

Sheik Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum was here again, pedalling in city on his bike, being extremely happy as nobody gave a rats ass about him being here. As we do. Before that visit he stated he had “unearthy” experience while walking around in the city – nobody paid any interest on him. Basically for us he is just a dark-skinned hansdome guy on bike. Or horse. Must be odd for people with such calibre. He is the richest guy on Earth. Someone counted. Someone counted it would take 2 years to count his cash. I dont know how many people is needed to count all the cash….. He participated on horseracing as its his job. His speciality is duration races, as Paris-Dakar, but on horses. I would not mind such job, going around world trotting about on horses. Rumour has it he is playing with the idea of moving here. That would be fun. He could just buy all of our country at one go, paying cash out of pocket, and become king. Hot king in cold northern country :). Until first snow that is. Then he is off on his private plane. We have seen such happen before :). Its all nice beer, BBQ, seaside, short skirts and long legs in summer, but when those disappear then there is just blinding white and cold. So cold you can rattle your teeth out. I have seen that too.

There is a joke going around about us and our pleasant ignorance (its not a joke for us though). When the covid hit, we too had the new rules installed i. e wearing masks, not touching, keeping distance with anyone at least 2 metres. Now, masks and no touching was easy. However, 2 metres requirement was and is extremely difficult for us to fulfill and partly never fulfilled because we are used to keeping 5 metres apart. We are highly individual here, obviously with some exceptions. 

Sorry now, have to run. 

May you have perfect Birthday, all the blessings, perfect weather, no worries! And a red balloon!

Once more, Iggy Pop here on 14th June – care to join?