Pianissimo
Friday, April 15, 2011
Xylophobe - a person who can't
stand tinkly piano music...
The Choir Of Antarctica by I Love Doodle (who has a fabulous website, and sells his prints on Etsy)
Much less common is the bagwuss, who runs and
hides at the first sound of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo and has a penchant for wearing pink stripy tops...
Bagwusses - sorry, bagpusses - by geese on Flickr a sea of pink and white stripy feline humbugs! These ones look considerably less jowly and rotund than the original, though...
Between the Other Penguin and me, we cover both bases. Whether it's Alicia Keys, ballroom music or The Whitlams, I do enjoy a piano (where he tends to prefer guitars and synthesisers, and I haven't yet encountered a bloke who enjoys The Whitlams). But busking bagpipers will send me bolting down the road with fingers in my ears quicker than nails down a blackboard...
Between the Other Penguin and me, we cover both bases. Whether it's Alicia Keys, ballroom music or The Whitlams, I do enjoy a piano (where he tends to prefer guitars and synthesisers, and I haven't yet encountered a bloke who enjoys The Whitlams). But busking bagpipers will send me bolting down the road with fingers in my ears quicker than nails down a blackboard...