and so another month, look you see, so another update on my calendars for all of you who prefer to use mine than simply invest in your own. whilst some may accuse you of being cheap in doing so, i say you are right, there is seldom any folly in being financially prudent.
it is now April, or if you will april, then. having boxed myself into this business of giving some partial, or possibly accurate "facts" about each month, best i continue to deliver.
such is the way of many things that it feels obvious to state, but yes, april, indeed the calendar, were all northern hemisphere (as in north of the equator) inventions, and are so centred on it. oddly, no one is entirely, as in 100%, sure of the origins of "april". best guesses are that it relates to some long forgotten or now seldom used tongue which had a word what sounded like "april" and meant "birth", or "open", or possibly "renew". basically, calling it "spring" without just saying "spring".
other possible origins are that certain words in Greek which reference Easter sound a bit like they could be spoken in english as "april", or from some Roman era Latin word for a goddess of love or mothership or so. well, anyway, it is what it is, and what it is is april.
there you go, the calendar for the month that is this month, so long as you are reading in April 2019. i have observed - noted, even - that a number of monthly calendar posts get popular after the month. go figure.
indeed, that is the Winnie The Pooh one off of the kitchen, with the titular character looking all Easterish, i suppose.
yes, the title of this post references one of the most famous works of art to be connected to april, the literary work what is The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey "Randy" Chaucer. this line is from the General Prologue To The Canterbury Tales, which is a most strange title as it is not like there are any other prologues in the work to confuse it with. no, absolutely no idea why the differentiation was required, go find some wanky sixth former to ask about it.
does anything irk me about The Canterbury Tales? yes. effectively and essentially it is page after depraved page of utter filth, celebrating all sorts of sexual ambitions and proclivities but with particular emphasis on nun shagging. nothing wrong with this at all, but how come when "Randy" Chaucer does it we are all expected to fawn over it as high art, but when the modern Chaucer equivalents - independent Dutch and other such Scandinavian territories filmmakers - do the same it is labelled obscene?
ah, yes, the "retro car" one i have in my shed. this month it is the turn of the 1986 variation of the Ford Sierra. little comment is needed from me, the fact that it was designed by someone with a Frenchie name and was named after Spanish mountains yet still became the UK's 10th most sold car of all time speaks volumes of our occasional lack of imagination. at some point in its existence, every single Ford Sierra driven in the UK had played in it a tape of No Jacket Required off of Phil Collins what was bought at a motorway service station.
something i introduced last month was "memorable dates" for the month. we have Easter, in terms of Good Friday (not the Bob Hoskins variant) and Easter Monday, but i am not going to give those dates. here instead are some things of interest
8 - it's a very happy birthday to Izzy Stradlin out of Guns N Roses, English cricket legend Alec Stewart and occasional pop star Julian Lennon.
14 - 36th anniversary of the USA release of Flashdance, a film that revolutionised, or if you like completely changed, the way we look at welding and general steel work.
15 - 36th anniversary of the USA release of Lone Wolf McQuade, staring Chuck Norris in a film that did very, very little to revolutionise, or if you like completely change, the way we look at welding and general steel work.
20 - on this day in 1968 British MP Enoch "Chalky" Powell invents racism, opting to debut it in a Parliamentary sitting. it does not go down all that well, but also not as badly as perhaps in retrospect it should have.
23 - the 43rd anniversary of the release of Black And Blue by The Rolling Stones. at the time this was celebrated for marking the debut of divorce enthusiast Ronnie Wood in the band. in better informed modern times, it is celebrated because it is the Rolling Stones album what has the biggest visible image of Bill Wyman on the cover.
30 - 216th anniversary of the USA buying Louisiana off of France. forgive them the waste of money, this was all before anyone clocked how the French scare easily, and as such you can take anything you want off of them if you just turn up and say "boo". preferably with a Bavarian accent.
right, that's me all done with this. have a good month.
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