Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Day 11: What was the last thing you Googled, and what did you find out?

Please excuse the trickyness of this challenge - I've eaten all chalk and therefore need to mix up the days a wee bit... and have just got some MB power happening.. so to Day 11 before Day 10, on Day 29!?


The other afternoon, after confirming with the GP that "Yes, it is indeed a ganglion upon your wrist", I popped into mama Pamela Anne's (with an 'E') for a grand old pot of tea on the lazy Susan - Now in the interrim, I do not know of any lazy Susan's by nature.... My Aunt Susan works herself to oblivion, and I know of a fellow kindergarten teacher who contently seems married to her profession, and... I cannot think of any other Susan's....



So, returning to the pot of tea on the lazy Susan - I was gifted a beautiful pair of Blue Babushka earrings! Smiling from ear to ear.... and.. this evening I googled 'Babushka Shop Melbourne', to give her the address for her upcoming holiday, and...... discovered that there is indeed a 'Babushka' shop in Prague.... and they say you learn something new every day (although who are 'they' in the grand picture of it all?)... What I do know is I shall be placing my feet on Prague soil before October of this year.... and no doubt starving myself for a few days in order to make a few purchases from the 'Babushka' shop.....


A Sesame Street Clip that I do remember...


BABUSHKA: From Russian бабушка (bábuška, “grandmother, granny”), diminutive of баба (bába, “old woman”). Also known as Russian Nesting Dolls, and Matryoshkas, Babushka's make up a set of a wooden figures which separate, top from bottom, to reveal a smaller figure of the same sort inside, which has, in turn, another figure inside of it, and so on. The number of nested figures is traditionally at least five, but can be much more, up to several dozen with sufficiently fine craftsmanship. Modern dolls often yield an odd number of figures but this is not an absolute rule; the original Zvyozdochkin set, for instance, had an even number. The form is approximately cylindrical, with a rounded top for the head, tapering toward the bottom, with little or no protruding features; the dolls have no hands (except those that are painted).

Italian Phrase of the day: "Amo il mio mama"- I love my mama..

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