As Fi Bows to Peer Pressure

Proud to say that Liam Finn’s ‘Gather to the Chapel’ features on Season 5 Episode 15 of Grey’s Anatomy for the ‘in chapel’ scene.

Liam Finn is, of course, Neil Finn’s (of Split Enz and Crowded House fame) son and one of the complete legends who call NZ home. He was the frontman for Betchadupa (those were the days) and released his solo album in 2007. My lovely parents bought me the album, knowing how much I love random NZ music and it’s been one of my favs ever since. Major props to Liam for getting the song onto such a hit show’s soundtrack in what is going to be a killer episode - I’ll say no more about that.

Bear with me, this does have relevance - two and a half years ago, in Singapore airport, I wrote a rather random quiz instead of sending a massively long email about what I was doing. Unfortunately the quiz was never sent because my flight was called so you will never know whether I was looking forward to going to the Czech Republic or not.

I have decided that this is a much more fun (not “funner”, that’s not a word) method for my Christmas update so here is Fi’s Festive Christmas Quiz. There’s actual prizes (from London) for the person that gets the most right and the person who gets the most wrong so you’ve got until 11:59pm (GMT) on 31/12/06 to get those answers to me (post them as comments). Tralalalala and Merry Christmas to all!

1) I am spending Christmas in:

a) A quaint, little English village called Waresley

b)
Heathrow Airport because of the silly fog

c) A large, modern English city called London

d) A tree house . . . why not?

2) I have recently spent three days in:

a) Edinburgh

b) Bed

c) York

d) An airport

3) During my time in ________ (see above), I met far too many:

a) Crazy people

b) Kiwis and Aussies

c) People with funny accents

d) All of the above

4) I would thoroughly recommend visiting:

a) The Merchant Adventurers Guild Hall

b) The Fudge Shop

c) The Minster

d) The Richard III Museum

5) The term “Kiwi” to describe New Zealanders is believed by many on this side of the world to refer to:

a) The Bird

b) An Inner-Outer Mongolian sect of fish-loving people

c) The Fruit

d) The All Blacks

6) In the past few days, I have been:

a) To a carol service in a random little 600 year-old church in York

b) Carolling around the village

c) Walking Jessie (the dog) a lot

d) All of the above

7) If I could have one wish this Christmas, it would be:

a) To be home with family and friends

b) For Christians all over the world to be able to celebrate Christmas openly, wherever they may be

c) World peace (I am, after all, in the Miss Universe pageant in my spare time)

d) For there to be an end to absolute poverty

I miss:

a) Being surrounded by Dave, family and friends at Christmas

b) Street Cricket

c) New Zealand

d) Summer

9) I am:

a) House-sitting for family friends over the Christmas period

b) Going to North Wales for New Years

c) Confused by too many time zones

d) All of the above

10) I shall be spending Christmas day with:

a) A dog and a cat but otherwise all alone

b) Villagers who have welcomed me into their home despite not knowing me from a bar of soap

c) The Queen and the rest of the Royal Family

d) Celine Dion

11) This Christmas, I am particularly thankful for:

a)The hospitality of people who don’t really know me

b) The love of family and friends

c)Fog

d) Sleep

12) Christmas is about:

a) Presents

b) The birth of Jesus

c) Love

d) Eating turkey

And with that, I shall leave you all to have a very Merry Christmas and a wonderfully Happy New Year! Sending my love to all! I am very sorry I am so bad at keeping up with everyone, I hope to be better next year.

Love Fi

Another thing to “add” to Huggies’ futreat post! Lots to be glad about today :o)

18 months ago, Scott Adams, who does the Dilbert cartoons, permanently lost his voice through a rather weird condition called Spasmodic Dysphonia. No one has ever been recorded as recovering from it.

I like cartoons and I’m very fond of Dilbert so I was thrilled to discover today that Scott was feeling particularly joyful yesterday because his brain “remapped” and his voice returned.  As David Farrar said, “a day doesn’t get much better than that.”