Answer 80 - Strumwise

Driving in Ireland has been tricky.

For one thing, the Tom Tom (GPS, Sat Nav, box that tells us where to go) changes its mind frequently, and for another thing, Dave has taken to requesting that we stop saying, 'turn left up here' or 'turn right in about 1/2 a mile.'

Since he was a kid, left and right have been interchangeable.  Just in general.  So one of us'll say, 'turn right!' and he'll turn left.. and we'll all have a good laugh, unless we're suddenly put onto a major superhighway (none of which exist in the whole of Ireland, in this case, but England's another story) - and we end up miles out of our way, and then I'm generally not laughing.


So which direction is the right direction when you're directionally challenged?

Now, he's requested that we used the words 'strumwards' and 'chordwise.'  Because he's a guitar player who strums with his right hand and chords with his left.

You see the logic in the system.

The challenge is for us to remember the new words.  We're still ending up going the wrong direction at times, but it's good for a laugh, and possibly good for our brains to have to think in this ridiculous way.

Last night was a great show. I walked into the Bronte club (the old haunted church) - and there were figurines of Patrick Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, and a fairly angry looking man in an ascot, whom I thought maybe was Heathcliff, in his later years.  I was shocked a little bit when I saw them, all standing there looking at me.. knowing there was a ghost on the premises.

Then Andy, the promoter, took us out on the windy churchyard, in the dark, with a tiny flashlight to show us the grave of Squire Hawkins, the bad man who now haunts the place, and, indeed, a  cross had been burned into his gravestone, by lightening, as the story goes.

We didn't take pictures of it.

Don't want him following us to England.  Could be a skirmish.