On sports and other stuff that make people cry

I’m not too big on sports. Some of my countrymen would say that just makes me a poor South African. Especially the fact that I don’t particularly enjoy rugby (but considering that we are probably the only country in the world who fired our coach after the national team won the World Cup can you blame me?)

I watch the odd game of cricket (and by watch I mean I don’t mind it playing on the television while I’m busy with other stuff in the house) and at one point I even knew the names of the players in the national squad. However, at the moment the only player in all of international and local cricket I can identify by sight is Hashim Amla. Must be the beard.

And then there’s soccer. I’ve never been able to get excited about Bafana Bafana. I was not particularly upset when they dropped out of the FIFA World Cup in 2010 and, knowing they only made it into the tournament that year because we were the host nation, I wasn’t at all surprised when they did not qualify this year either.

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Song Title Challenge #55: Listen to the Math by Tokyo Police Club

It’s time for this week’s Song Title Challenge.

Write a short piece of fiction, around 300 words, using the song title as your story title but don’t listen to the song. You can pick your own genre or use the one suggested to me. Remember to link back to this post so I can find yours.

If you would like to suggest a song title for a future post, you can do so from the challenge page. You can also leave a suggestion on the Facebook page.

This week’s song is Listen to the Math by Tokyo Police Club and was suggested by mikiren at Jump Into the Fog. No genre was supplied. As always comments and critiques are welcome.

Listen to the Math

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It’s a puppet-pocalypse!

I’ve been very lazy with blogging the past couple of weeks. You can probably tell, right? I think it’s because last year this time I was relaxing at the seaside. The feeling lingers.

This year, the wife and I are staying at home for the winter holidays. One, we’ve already been on vacation this year. Two, we don’t have any money to go on vacation. And three, we each have a massive amount of studying to do, which won’t happen if we’re on vacation.

This week, though, we’ve been quite busy. We got roped in to help a local church with a vacation club they’re running for the town’s kids, so we’ve been dusting off our puppetry skills (and rediscovering muscles and joint we had forgotten about).

As this meant getting all our puppets out from the various cupboard where they are usually stored I reckoned it’s the perfect opportunity to photograph them all so I can show you. Previously I’d shown you the puppets we have made on order for other people. Today? Here’s a line-up of our puppets made for personal use:

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Bookshop

As the majority of my devoted readers (as opposed to those who merely follow) are, like me, also rabid bibliophiles, I thought you’d enjoy this latest post by my fellow South African, 23thorns, titled, Bookshop.

Song Title Challenge #54: Not Guilty Anymore by Aaron Keyes

It’s time for this week’s Song Title Challenge.

If you would like to suggest a song title for a future post, you can do so from the challenge page. You can also leave a suggestion on the Facebook page.

This week’s song is Not Guilty Anymore by Aaron Keyes and was suggested by Chelsea at I’m Trading My Sorrows. She didn’t supply a genre, so I just went with it. Let me know what you think.