Coronavirus Lockdown Spanish Edition - Day 38 - A good day

Today was a good day. Made some progress around the apartment, worked on my new project, laughed at my 1 year-old nephew's blueberry-covered face in Sweden while my 4 year-old niece tried teach their dog tricks (or rather the dog was teaching her), listened to some good music. Not bad for a Monday! Thankfully it's a holiday Monday! 😎

Saturday's announcement that the government is studying the possibility of letting children out to play for a little bit each day in a week has started up the meme machines again. 

"Child for rent"

"Who do you want to go out with? Daddy or Mommy" "Do you understand me now?"

That second one reminds me I haven't shared my favorite canine memes yet! Coming soon! (or past, I still have a few catch-up posts pending)

Another thing that popped up today which brought a huge smile on my face and got my feet moving, was a quarantine edition of an old song I love, by Spanish Celtic Rock band Celtas Cortos.  The song is supposed to be a letter written on April 20th 1990, so today would be its 30th anniversary. The band have recorded a new video from their homes, joined in by staff in essential services (including first responders, health professionals, cleaning services, supermarkets, transporters, teachers, researchers and farmers), other musicians and actors in Spain, as part of a fundraising effort for Médecins Sans Frontières. It's a blast!

As for that new project? I'm launching a new blog! (yes another one, whoops!..) Have been working on the layout, inaugural post and my own story all weekend... Will share more once it's ready, hopefully any day now!

#stayhome #quedateencasa #restecheztoi

Coronavirus Lockdown Spanish Edition - Day 16 - potty laughs

The Spanish government has officially locked us down even further by reducing the number of businesses / industry that can still be open, sending more people home on furlough with the aims to get more people off the streets because the numbers are still going up and many hospitals (particularly in Madrid) aren't able to cope... 😢

Time to look back a few weeks to when this all started and lots of laughs were being passed around on social media, many of which about the great Toilet Paper Crisis of 2020!💩 

Here, have some smiles... 😆 (sadly I cannot link to sources, these have been circulating widely on Facebook & WhatsApp)

Googlympics

Did anyone notice the changing "Doodles" each day during the Olympics over at Google.com? Two weeks of Olympic Sports in Doodles! And some of them were actually games you got to play with your arrows and space bar... old school fun! :p

I thought they were quite fun and saved all the images (had to be a bit creative to get the interactive ones) and here they are! Just click on the first one and then the arrows to go on to the next to get them in a larger view than here below.

Join me in a few laughs...

... at my own expense! ;o)

We all need a few laughs from time to time, so I thought I'd provide a few for my blogging friends. I don't know anyone (including myself) who hasn't laughed while watching this:

Trust me: NOT easy staying up in that thing! And the more time goes by the more tired you are and the harder it gets! But it's so much FUN!!! I was laughing my a$$ off, and breathing heavily, when I got out of there! Oh, and the chuckling you hear in the background of the video? My dad making fun of me!

Escalation in security threats around the world.

My dad received this from an American friend in Panama (who in turn got it from a friend in India... ain't e-mail grand?)... he called it an "interesting examination of stereotype ethnic and historical images", and I just had to share it!

Warning: DO NOT under any circumstances read this while consuming liquids. There is a high risk of aforementioned liquids spouting out through your nostrils! Consider yourselves warned. ;o)