Camel Trophy Jeep

 I took this picture last year, during a fayre in the local park (a sort of autumn festival, but I digress). There were lots of army vehicles on display. I know nothing about Camel Trophy, but I find jeeps and army vehicles kind of cool. I mean jeeps look cool, but from the few trips I had in them, they are utterly uncomfortable. So it's kind of fitting to label one a camel: they both go in difficult terrains, they both are tough, they both are uncomfy. Well, I can only assume camels are not comfortable, I must confess I have never traveled on one. Tell me if you experienced either this particular Land Rover or a camel.

Le Journal du Sahara

Voici un calembour vraiment atroce que j'ai entendu hier à la radio et qui m'a vraiment donné une migraine tellement il était mauvais: "Question: comment s'appelle le journal publié dans le désert du Sahara? Réponse: L'Hebbdromadaire." Avouez que dans vos plus horribles cauchemars, vous n'aviez pas pu imaginer ça.

Cadeaux de Tenerife

Il y a quelques mois, un couple de nos voisins, deux personnes âgées, sont allés en vacances à Tenerife en Espagne. Ils ont eu la gentillesse de nous rapporter des cadeaux: ces deux serviettes, avec des images exotiques dessus, un chameau (dromadaire?) entre deux palmiers et des perroquets (perruches?). Je me demande si ça n'a pas l'air un peu quétaine, mais c'est quand même touchant qu'ils aient pensé à nous.

Exotic camel

It has been two months today that the family went to the London Zoo, to visit it with a childhood friend of my wife (the oldest friend she has) and her son. I haven't shared that many pictures of our time there and I thought I would share one now. I don't know what sort of camel it is, whether it is from Africa or Asia or what have you, but I thought it was a very impressive, not sure why. Maybe because I find camels very exotic. Looking at this one, I was no longer in a zoo but in a far away desert. It helped that it was a boiling hot day like we have been having the last few weeks. But maybe I would have had that feeling any other day.

The Tea Explorer

I was recently blogging about the exotic nature of tea. Well, it seems that David's Tea was thinking the same thing, because the recently launched their feel good collection which has among them a package called the tea explorer. That would fit exactly my state of mind. I know you cannot judge a tea by its box, but the camel and the Middle Eastern colours just make me want to try them and make my mind travel to faraway places. In the dreary, gloomy weeks and months ahead, I could do with a healthy dose of feel good drinking and a bit of exoticism. With some of their new tea mugs, because they look so darn cool and we have plenty of room in their cupboards for them. How I wish they had shops here!

Un casse-tête exotique aux multiples facettes

Je télécharge une nouvelle photo prise au York Castle Museum. Le musée avait un bon nombre de jouets datant de toutes les époques et ce casse-tête m'a fasciné. Bon, ce n'est pas un casse-tête très élaboré: des blocs forment une image. Ou en fait des images: des éléphants d'Asie au travail, une caravane de chameaux (oi de dromadaires) et sans doute autre chose sur les autres faces des cubes. L'amateur de casse-têtes dans la famille, c'est PJ, enfin c'était l'amateur quand nous étions enfants. Moi, j'aimais les casse-têtes complétés, quand on pouvait voir l'image. Et celles-ci sont assez cool. On n'en faisait déjà plus dans mon enfance, des choses de ce genre.

Ah oui, et il y a un vieux toutou panda dans le coin. Objet assez intéressant également.