I only have a few seconds to post this, so I just wanted to say to my one (and only?) loyal reader that I am sorry for not posting during this past month. I will post properly soon and hopefully be as good a friend as Jen. :)
(please don't scold me anymore)
Miss you!
Monday, May 17, 2010
Friday, April 09, 2010
Aix-en-Provence Le Quatre
Well, I think I finally solved how to get my computer to post pictures again! It only took, oh, six hours. Yay for technology!
You can see my new and improved post on Aix HERE (complete with photos). Now, if I only I could get my slideshow to show the rest of my pictures from Aix!!! (I'm not sure if I'm willing to dedicate another 6hrs of work to this . . . )
Bon fin semaine!
You can see my new and improved post on Aix HERE (complete with photos). Now, if I only I could get my slideshow to show the rest of my pictures from Aix!!! (I'm not sure if I'm willing to dedicate another 6hrs of work to this . . . )
Bon fin semaine!
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Bank notes
There's nothing like the feeling of a brand new crisp dollar bill (or pound note!) coming out of the cash machine into my keen hands! Even if it is just a £10 note, I still enjoy that feeling of new money and knowing that I am probably the first person who has ever handled that bill before. Recently, I was given a brand new bill from my local cash machine which was a £10 note from the Bank of Ireland (in the UK, each individual bank creates it's own notes). This particular bill caught my eye because of what was on the back of it: an image of Old Bushmills Distillery (see picture below for a similar £5 version that I found online). In Northern Ireland, they celebrate their whiskey . . . which kind of perpetuates the stereotype of a country that drinks too much! I guess this is what they are the most proud of? Bushmill's Whiskey . . . perhaps I should try some!
I then decided to look up what Canada had on the back of it's bank notes. The answer? Birds!
Us Canadians must be really proud of the loon (that's Great Northern Divers in the UK) as they not only appear on our $20 bill, but also on our $1 coin. It's too bad we couldn't come up with a better name than "loony" for our coin though. However, it is still much better than "twoony" (I have no idea what the official spelling is supposed to be?), our two dollar coin. I wonder if the powers that be decided to create something called the twoony so that all other coins would feel superior????
I then decided to look up what Canada had on the back of it's bank notes. The answer? Birds!
Us Canadians must be really proud of the loon (that's Great Northern Divers in the UK) as they not only appear on our $20 bill, but also on our $1 coin. It's too bad we couldn't come up with a better name than "loony" for our coin though. However, it is still much better than "twoony" (I have no idea what the official spelling is supposed to be?), our two dollar coin. I wonder if the powers that be decided to create something called the twoony so that all other coins would feel superior????
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