How to Celebrate International English Language Day on Spanish Language Day?😀💬😀💬🍻

Every April 23rd

I find it amusing that every April 23rd is English Language Day and Spanish Language Day.

The two most spoken languages on the planet seem to be competing with each other for the day.

Apparently English Language Day lands on April 23rd to celebrate the birth and death of William Shakespeare -

William Shakespeare
(23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616)

"International English Language Day brightens up our calendars every year. 

This special day, celebrated globally, is not just any day—it marks the birthday and death anniversary of William Shakespeare, one of English’s most iconic figures.
It’s a day to appreciate the vast reach of the English language, which connects people across the world."

Every April 23rd

I always say that I should learn Spanish, but as every year passes my 'Learn Spanish' CD just sits on top of my CD rack still hardly played at all, because something else always gets my attention, mainly books or TV shows and movies.

Even in lockdown I never found time to learn Spanish, as I wrote in this old post -

The Jobless Are Urged to Retrain ... in What ... Busking?

Today is also 'English Muffin Day' and my local supermarket had English muffins on sale for half price, so I bought some today to toast and spread Vegemite over them, because while I do have some English genes (my English relatives had English as a surname) I consider myself 100% Australian.

Every April 23rd

Every April 23rd

But I also have nearly as much German DNA as I do English, if not more, and ironically April 23rd is also 'German Beer Day':-)

Cheers ... or whatever the Spanish and German words are for cheers;-)

How to Celebrate the World's Smelliest Smell?👃

Every April 23rd

I'm one of the 40% who can smell this smell unfortunately, which is nothing to celebrate, I think.

Every May

Looks like next month will be a stinker ... or should I say smells?

Why Are Jigsaw Puzzles So Popular?🧩🤔💭

I bought a 'World Map' 300-piece jigsaw puzzle recently that was donated to the Op Shop I work at, and when I got home I just put it in my room and looked at the box and thought to myself, "am I ever really going to do that puzzle, and why would I really want to do it anyway?"

16: Upside Down Pineapple, Jigsaw Puzzles,
WD-40, Chinese Finger Trap

I guess I decided to buy the 'World Map' 300-piece jigsaw puzzle because I had recently watched a REMORANDOM video about jigsaw puzzles (as well as upside-down pineapples, Chinese finger traps and WD40) and heard that the first jigsaw puzzle was a map.

Plus, the only jigsaw puzzle I ever bought and put together that I can remember was a 24-peice world globe, which I wrote about in this old post -

Jake Kotze's piece,

 'Life is a movie'

24 World Pieces into One Peace?

The trouble with buying secondhand jigsaw puzzles is that you never know if all the pieces are in the box, as no one counts all the pieces in every donated puzzle box, because we just don't have the people to do so with the number of jigsaws donated.

What the Op Shop gave all of us volunteers a few months back:-)

And when I opened the box and saw all the pieces, I decided that I didn't have the will or patience to do the puzzle and I re-donated it back to the store.

Then this week I saw in an ALDI catalogue that there was a colourful moth/butterfly puzzle on sale, which made me think of the moth I saw on my back door a few weeks back -

Moth-er Day Falls on National Learn About Butterflies Day, which is Also Pi Day?🦋π👀💭

I'm thinking about doing 'The Butterfly of the Night' jigsaw and framing it to hang in my computer room.

Possibly replacing my Paulie Mann Owl print, which I will donate to the Op Shop.

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Mann, That Owl is Freaky, But is it What it Seems to Be?-)