Random questions....random answers gratefully received

Sitting being a couch potato having just persuaded grumpy pants next to me that watching Pam Am (new US drama on 1960s air travel) on the telly would be a good idea and that's it got some really good preview write ups - quite scary how these little white lies sort of slip through my lips.

What I should be doing just now having just finished amending my menu lists (running record of what we have served every day and although it gets done a week ahead, I add whatever cakes I've made that day as well as any menu changes caused by us running out of something too quickly), amending my  menu for the cafe window (do this each day, again, just in case something changes), amending the kitchen prep sheet (to keep us right, ie, what we have to cook/prep/sort that day/for the next day and lastly amend the blog's menu page - still with me? Ok, so I've done that and what I should now be doing is some accounts stuff but I'm not. 

This post is entitled, random questions. Three have come to light in my head...

1) where the bloody hell is Burkina Faso?  He who knows everything (and I'm not being mean here, he just does; it's one of the reasons I married him) told me that it's somewhere in Africa.  I'm so bloody ignorant/badly educated.  Well, someone from Burkina Faso has clicked on/read this blog - how exciting is that?  And how bad is it given that I don't even know where it is....wikipedia, here I come.

2) Second random question - can someone help me learn a bit more about a random Norwegian kid's song about Napoleon?  There are regular readers of the blog in Norway (my stats tell me where the readers are from) so if any of them were brave enough to help me with this one, it would make my day.  When I was at school in Oslo when I was around 10, during our Norsk lessons, we used to sing a song about Napoleon going up into the Alps and drinking milk.  So excuse the bad spelling ahead, it went something like, "Napoleon mason har over alpena dro, Napoleon mason har over alpena dro, Napoleon mason har ya, Napoleon mason har ya, Napoleon mason har over alpena dro". It then goes on to talk about, "og alle hadde flaske med melke sqverteri" -  that last word looks more like Italian than Norsk - ah well.  So, I'd love to find the actual words online and also find out if it's still sung there (in school).

3) Third random question, and this is one that came up around the dishwasher today.  Acorns. What are they for?  It all came about because Brooke and Laura were commenting on the shape of one of the butternut squashes that had been delivered.  Sometimes these lovely things are a bit phallic but this one was a perfect fat acorn shape - beautiful. It brought back another memory from childhood.  This time from Germany.  We lived in Germany (as bratty RAF kids) for 3 years and I have a blurry memory of a local farmer paying kids to collect bags of acorns for cash.  I've not checked this memory out with my siblings but I don't think my mind has made this up.  Back to the dishwasher conversation, we then thought, what are acorns for (apart from being very pretty)?  And, why would that farmer want bags of them?  Brooke's answer.... for the squirrels.  Hmmmm. Don't know about that one.  So, if anyone knows the answer to this one (without using wikipedia), let us know?  Please.

Final question.  Does anyone know of a good pub quiz in Dundee?  I want to go to one.  I'm rubbish at them (apart from some music questions and late 1980s English football league questions) but I LOVE doing them.

Answers on a postcard or via the comments section on the blog (hardly any comments received these days since my huge non-blogging period a few months back but I know you're all secretly reading it cos I see the stats!!!).

Night.

PS. Got bored with Pan Am.  Concentration span of a newt these days.