In Memoriam

In Memoriam Carolus Dux Burgundiae
5 January 1477 - 5 January 2006

Happy New Year, now back to the Trenches

Happy new year, all three and a half readers of this blog! Yesterday I too celebrated the passing of one year and the, er, birth of a new one. May it last longer than its predecessor. I didn't uncork the champagne at home, though, and neither did my parents; and therefore it was only this morning that we discovered there was a sizeable crater in front of their house, and mud splattered on the windows and outer wall. Not just our house, too: there's mud on three or four in our street and most of the pavement was filthy, too.
It turns out a bunch of mad youths were firing off avalanche-rockets, whatever those may be, from half-buried positions in the ground. These apparently have enough strength to blast a crater and spatter blood, gore and mud all over the place. To the left of our house is a parking lot for the locals, and there's some more houses elevated on top of it, with a few concrete flower pots of 1m² to give it all a nice Soviet atmosphere. The young ones apparently thought it would be fun to fire the rocks from there as well, and what remains of one of those is not very pretty, and hardly able to contain flowers.
As is to be expected, it's other people who're doing the cleaning up now.



And not me either, obviously, as I'm writing this blog.