OK, so, what was wrong with that last post? Yes! Well done. Of course I can tell the difference between two saxophones and two trumpets. It's just the picture was very small on my computer.
I think his name is Lester Bowie, by the way. I think. But you know, sometimes I get things wrong.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Yes! A Picture on the Blog!
Not the right picture mind you. I was looking for a picture that was relevant. Or an elephant (then I could have done a little joke about it being irrelevant). But that proved a little complicated for my first try, so instead here is a musician playing two saxophones. This band is called the Art Ensemble of Chicago and they are superb. But even if you don't like their music, hey, he's playing two saxophones. At the same time!
Blog Five - remember to give it a title. Zizou's going to Norway. OR: Zizou has seen inside the human heart. Yes, literally.
I am learning bit by bit how to do this blog thing and get it right and looking nice. Give it a title, do it regularly, capitals at the beginning of a sentence, spell things right...
Next week, dear readers, Zizou is heading off to Norway. Normally the younger of the pair that make up us has to go to school, and we don't let her out to go frolicking about the world, but Norway is not very far away and she has never been there before so we thought it would count as educational. We're going to look at the beautiful Viking ships they have there and if I can work out how to do something so advanced I will attempt to post a picture of them. Also I think in Norway they have houses with lawns on the roof. Though that might be Iceland. Anyway if you have a lawn on your roof does that mean you could have sheep on your lawn on your roof to graze it? I'm just thinking that would be a good way to insulate your house since apparently a lot of heat gets lost through the roof (since heat rises) but not a lot of heat can escape through a layer of woolly sheep. Then we could save energy and avoid global warming and not have such huge gas bills.
Or would the sheep just fall off the edge?
I will let you know if I learn any more about this in Norway.
The other thing I did was I went to a hospital and I watched two operations. I had to put on a hat and mask and baggy special pyjamas, and I stood at the top of the operating table and I saw right into the patient's body, right inside his chest, and in fact right inside his heart. It is not the sort of thing you would think could be possible. The patient had a problem with a valve inside his heart, so the doctors stopped his heart from beating, and sent all his blood through a special machine to keep it going round his body even though the heart had been stopped. Then I watched while the surgeon (his name is Frank) cut out the diseased valve and sewed in a new one, with tiny very tidy little stitches. He had to make sure he used the right size valve (it was size 23, you might like to know - about as fat as a slice through a small sausage). Then he sewed up the heart, and started it beating again. It went from being all floppy and empty to being fat and strong and pumping again. Then they sewed up his chest, and that was that. He has to rest for a while, but basically he had been mended. Like fixing a puncture on a bicycle tyre.
This was one of the most interesting things I have ever seen in my life. It was so interesting that I leaned in too close and one of the guys had to tell me to stand a bit further back.
No, of course I didn't take photos of it.
The surgeon said would I like to go and watch a heart transplant one day and I said that I would.
Next week, dear readers, Zizou is heading off to Norway. Normally the younger of the pair that make up us has to go to school, and we don't let her out to go frolicking about the world, but Norway is not very far away and she has never been there before so we thought it would count as educational. We're going to look at the beautiful Viking ships they have there and if I can work out how to do something so advanced I will attempt to post a picture of them. Also I think in Norway they have houses with lawns on the roof. Though that might be Iceland. Anyway if you have a lawn on your roof does that mean you could have sheep on your lawn on your roof to graze it? I'm just thinking that would be a good way to insulate your house since apparently a lot of heat gets lost through the roof (since heat rises) but not a lot of heat can escape through a layer of woolly sheep. Then we could save energy and avoid global warming and not have such huge gas bills.
Or would the sheep just fall off the edge?
I will let you know if I learn any more about this in Norway.
The other thing I did was I went to a hospital and I watched two operations. I had to put on a hat and mask and baggy special pyjamas, and I stood at the top of the operating table and I saw right into the patient's body, right inside his chest, and in fact right inside his heart. It is not the sort of thing you would think could be possible. The patient had a problem with a valve inside his heart, so the doctors stopped his heart from beating, and sent all his blood through a special machine to keep it going round his body even though the heart had been stopped. Then I watched while the surgeon (his name is Frank) cut out the diseased valve and sewed in a new one, with tiny very tidy little stitches. He had to make sure he used the right size valve (it was size 23, you might like to know - about as fat as a slice through a small sausage). Then he sewed up the heart, and started it beating again. It went from being all floppy and empty to being fat and strong and pumping again. Then they sewed up his chest, and that was that. He has to rest for a while, but basically he had been mended. Like fixing a puncture on a bicycle tyre.
This was one of the most interesting things I have ever seen in my life. It was so interesting that I leaned in too close and one of the guys had to tell me to stand a bit further back.
No, of course I didn't take photos of it.
The surgeon said would I like to go and watch a heart transplant one day and I said that I would.
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