it is undoubtedly the case that many of you, being in a new month within a new year, look you see, are visiting this site so that you may inspect and review the calendar. something of an unexpected trend, commencing i believe in 2017, is that of you, the people, seeing my blog as a means of escaping the trappings of having a calendar of your own. well, why would you go to such expense when one is available here, for free in relative terms?
here we go, then, with the grand unveiling of the calendars i presently have in place for 2019. yes, just the two for now. my expectation is to have one, two, maybe three more in the not too distant future. by february and march, one can pick up a calendar for the year that has relevance to some 75% of the year for mere pennies.
speaking of pennies, this first one, presently beautifying the wall of my elevated shed, was at a standard price south of £1. how far south of £1? the tune of 21p comes to mind. whereas i do not have the receipt to hand, i am pretty sure it was all of 79p. and that was full price for it.
no, i have never really been a "car" person as such, seeing vehicles of this nature as either a means to an end or just simply somewhere that one can play some vibes as they go about their business. but how could i resist the honest wording of this calendar?
by calling this "retro cars", the producer of this calendar has revealed that they are under no illusions. they do not seek to distort the definition of certain words, flat refusing to label any of the cars featured as "classic" or "vintage". true, yes, it says that some of them are "treasured", but that's an individualistic thing, and not some broad proclamation about the value of these vehicles in the wider eyes of the members of the public.
what do we have first up? and a rundown on the dates for january, since we are here? why, it is the 1989 audi quattro, presented in the greater glory of Commodore 64 mode for ease of reference.
in fairness, an earlier, south of 1983 variation of the audi quattro did indeed achieve "vintage" or if you like "classic" status by being featured in that Ashes To Ashes tv show; the one that was a bit like Life On Mars but not quite so good. although Frankie Goes To Hollywood did feature on the soundtrack.
the one other calendar i presently have on the go in the house? it's down in the kitchen, and as last year it is one of them Winnie The Pooh ones. provenance is, but of course, Poundland, who agreed to sell it for me for a rather well balanced, neither north nor south figure of £1. which is one pound british sterling, for those of you reading that quite like such matters to be presented in the way that currency traders and foreign exchange types might look at it.
speaking of a look, before we look at the calendar itself, a glance at the most disturbing disclaimer on the back, or if you prefer the reverse, of the calendar. who knew that not even the humble calendar would be free of the fear of our litigation and liability loving modern world?
as it all seemed rather intriguing, i thought it best to have a gander at this Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971. the implication of this warning is that any given government of our land could theoretically change the name or number associated with a date, at will and "at short notice".
my understanding of it all is that it allows government, with the consent of the Queen or otherwise ostensible Head of State, to call or declare a public holiday as and when it is believed to be in the pursuit of the common good and the greater need. but, also, yes, technically (technically) the government could (could) use this great power to fanny about with us all via the calendar.
just for example, it might be that we get a completely bonkers prime minister; one even more unsuitable or incapable of rational work that the ones we have had. which is saying something. should for some reason they have a scary majority of elected officials who fear them, and further for no reason which becomes obvious they had a hold over the Head of State, they could effectively change every single day of the year to January 26, if for some reason they really, really liked Australia.
that's January 2019 according to the Winnie The Pooh calendar, then, as usual presented via the eyes of Commodore 64 mode. for the pleasure of people looking at it, the image for the month is of Winnie (the Pooh, not Mandela) with "a collection of thing". this collection appears to be mostly leaves and feathers. perhaps that is what bears like.
returning briefly to that whole "banking and financial dealings" act nonsense, there are of course many scary things which could come about in the hypothetical scenario i have presented. the mind boggles at the ruin and chaos which would ensue if a (reasonably) freely elected government decided that i wish it could be christmas everyday by Wizzard was the best way forward for the country. landfill sites would be filled with irrelevant, discarded traditional calendars, and indeed all the leftover bits from loads and loads of christmas crackers.
does history hold any examples of governments meddling with calendars, showcasing their apparent inherent ability not to meddle with things? surely, yes. our friends in France are quite the masters of calendar tampering. i suspect, through my rudimentary knowledge of the world, that this was always done in good faith, with a succession of leaders and political control systems seeking ways to make France, and by default the French, "a little bit less rubbish" in both the eyes of and in comparison to the rest of the world. none of them worked as far as i am aware, with the punchline there being the surprise that the oxymoron sounding concept of a really good French idea somehow failed.
indeed, there you have it, the most splendid front of the Winnie The Pooh calendar. for those of you with an interest in what the front of a calendar looks like, as opposed to the "business end" held within. takes all sorts for the world to work in the way it does, i suppose.
perhaps this is just me, but all the same i am struck by the notion of this look at the calendar for the month has been more informative, in terms of giving information, than has perhaps been the case with the, what, last 24 (or so) such updates. it would, further, strike me as being rather unlikely that all future editions / episodes will be of a similar nature to this, but one never knows.
anyhow, let me let you get on with planning your month ahead with these two looks at the calendar, if that is indeed why you are here to look at all of this.
être excellent l'un pour l'autre!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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