Fun Facts

My little brother has been visiting us in London this festive season - so naturally the husband and I have taken to showing him around the big bad city. One evening we ventured out to a pub along the Thames and (to be honest) I wasn't really paying too much attention until I heard husband mention the phrase "yeah... cars were melting an' everything.." Of course my ears perked up when I heard melting cars because who doesn't want to hear about that shizz?

Me: What? Cars are melting? what??
Husband: yeah. for real.
Me: I don't believe you. What are you even talking about?
Husband: You see that building over there? That curved one?
Me: Yes...
Husband: Well.. they had to put a dark screen over the one side - because basically the entire building is shaped like a gigantic magnifying glass. It was totally melting all the cars parked in the street below. Fryin' people like ants an all!
Me: Wow, that is the most epic knowledge I have ever heard.

So today, I have decided to dedicate this edition of "FUN FACT FRIDAY" to the random knowledge that I have learnt from the husband this week.

 
Above: the building in the aforementioned "car melting" catastrophe. If you look carefully, you can see the dark screen they have put over the windows on the one side.
Below:  My very scientific diagram demonstrating the problem.

Another epic fun fact I have learnt from the husband (random fountain of knowledge) this week, is that in the UK -

I have NO idea how this conversation came up at all - but The Warr just rattled off this most bizarre fact and finished off with a

"GOOGLE IT! - PUT THAT IN YOUR FUN FACTS!"

So, I did google it.
And here it is, in my latest edition of FUN FACT FRIDAY!

Who woulda thunk?!


Tonight we are planning on having a proper RELAX  - the brother flies back to SA this evening and it has been go go go go go with all the seasonal festivities/tour-guiding/Christmassing/New Year-ring. As such, husband and I are planning on a spectacularly chilled out night tonight - to gear up for a good weekend of productivity and getting all things on track for 2014! I suspect the evening will involve some kind of (indulgent) food which I don't have to prepare, a movie which starts well before 8pm and getting to bed at an hour that would make teenagers turn up their noses in disgust. In other breaking news - today I have done THREE loads of washing - which actually makes me feel like a real DOMESTIC GODDESS. In fact, I should probably fashion myself some sort of cape for these occasions. Perhaps I will add that to the weekend list.

What are you up to?