Trivial things that make you happy - Part 3 - The Happyning

My little nephew's musical tastes in comparison to a regular child tastes.

As my brother told me a story about his little young fella, not yet five and a half.

He is a fan of Heavy Metal the more fast heavy beat, the less words the better - in particular - Rammstein's - Deutschland. This happened by accident by the way. (It was on my brother's gym playlist)

It is a very particular taste. The likes of Iron Man by Black Sabbath is boring apparently. Has to be a deep voice and fast heavy beat. All the stuff he really likes is similar. Classical music was tried but my nephew claims that only makes him want to go asleep.

That is not even the funny part. They had a playdate arranged with another fella who is older than my nephew.

But my nephew was disappointed when his friend did not like the heavy metal. The friend called it 'big people music'. The friend wanted to listen to Paw Patrol and play with Paw Patrol. My nephew was rolling his eyes at this, thinks Paw Patrol is for babies. And watching his friend play paw patrol on his own - said 'Daddy he is just playing with paw patrol!!'

So my brother had to intervene and set up a board game for the two of them.

All I can think of is what the nephew will be like in 10 years.

In a recent exercise he had to do for school . One of the questions were

'What is your favourite song?'

My brother said the young lad wanted to put down Rammstein - Deutschland. But managed to 'talk him down' to Cheryl Crow.

As my brother knew Rammstein's - Deutschland would raise some eyebrows.

I have been laughing about that for most of the day

Cleaned out and defrosted the freezer. Got rid of a load of unidentifiable stuff. Every time I swear I'll be super organised in future. Yeah, right!

The news clip ( itn ) of the 1st Jamaican alpine skier. "I'm mixing it with the best in the world, of which I'm not one , and all the want to do is a reasonable time and not get killed. ". Got to love his realism.

I can only assume this will be Cool Runnings 2 in a few years

I ordered two new pillows weeks ago the 30th of December that I’d forgotten about… I’d received an email shortly afterwards saying they are out of stock and would I like to be refunded or wait for them to be delivered the first week in February …doorbell rings at 4.30 this evening and it’s a courier with the new pillows…. Road testing now and they are beyond comfy… seriously needed, not especially cheap but comfort is worth paying for…

Clearing stuff for the charity shop and I found something I thought I’d lost…that won’t be going there…

The book was the last gift from my grandfather before he died , a football mad guy to his football mad grandson, a nice note inside the cover and the bookmark I was using was the ticket from the famous France vs Ireland (Henry handball)match that I’d attend years later, I thought I’d lost that…thought I’d lost both… but cleaning out stuff I happened across both..

my grandad was a league of Ireland referee for a time such was his love and devotion to the game…the football association wanted to nominate him to become FIFA listed, when he ran it by my grandmother she wasn’t too happy it was just about ok going from Dalymount to Dundalk but from the Showgrounds to Seville or The Brandywell to the Bernaubeau wasn’t on, apparently.. I suppose with 5 kids, him being the breadwinner and everything.. understandable, I don’t think he was too disappointed anyway as he hated flying.