Dance 2 day 25

So our town hall organized a New Year's fireworks show everyone could watch from their windows:

I had forgotten about it and at first thought it was another one of those clandestine fireworks/terrorist attack and was pleasantly surprised once I found the source. 

So thank you the people that organized it.  Because of you I will have a beautiful memory starting the new year off watching a wonderful firework show from the comfort of my home in my pyjamas just with my husband and kids instead of the memories of 2021 starting off with Brexit, virus mutation, and Trump.   

dance 2 day 24

So it was a nice day which lately means it wasn't raining.  I needed to get out so I took a walk to Montmartre.  Before I left I remembered to pack my coffee in a thermos and empty my bladder as drinking or peeing in an establishment was not currently an option.  When I got off the metro I walked past the closed movie theaters and restaurants and made my way up to the basilique.  Along the way I refused portraits from the few remaining artiste but accepted a vin chaud from a local vendor.  

At the basilique I sat with my vin chaud and admired the view of Paris in eerie tourist free tranquility whilst eavesdropping on the three French guys eating their "covid lunch" (takeaway) besides me. 

The view invoked recent events and the converstation moved from the Louvre fire to covid to the vaccination to Macron to fascisim to Marie Le Pen.

I didn't linger.  The vin chaud would have it's effect on my bladder soon. 

That evening my phone was full of messages about trump supporters in the capital. 

What a way to start the year. 

dance 2 day 23

 So 2500 people attended a 36 hr nye rave in Lieuron France.

 I was in bed by 10pm.

dance 2 day 22

 So the UK has entered it's 3rd lockdown.

dance 2 day 21

So Dave Barry's year in review 2020.  

“Kanye West announces that he is running for president, representing the Birthday Party” particularly made me LOL although to be honest given the year I can’t tell if he made this up. 

For example this part:

“This occurs when the president announces via tweet that his lawyers will hold a news conference at “Four Seasons, Philadelphia.” Everyone assumes he means the Four Seasons Hotel, but in fact — and here we have definitive proof that there is a God, and He or She has an excellent sense of humor — the event takes place in the parking lot of a company called Four Seasons Total Landscaping, which is located across the street from a cremation center and down the block from Fantasy Island Adult Books and Novelties.”

Is true.  

dance 2 day 20

So with Christmas break over I checked France covid news. 

In one week 352 people have been vaccinated.  In 15 departments the curfew tonight will start at 6pm instead of 9pm.

Happy 2021.

Dance 2 day 17-19