Some pics from a cheese contest that took place at the village yesterday :) The cows responsible for the cheese were invited and had their own contests on the side, with a little podium for cows constructed out of hay bales. When Licorice the cow won a prize, the little girl that was leading her climbed on the makeshift podium proudly but hesitantly (“is that thing stable....?”)—meanwhile Licorice was rushing her, like let me climb up there! I won! It was so cute.
There were buffets where you could blind-taste dozens of different cheeses, a separate contest for cheese pastries, and a mini-street market outside where among other things local farmers were selling their cheeses in little cardboard cones like French fries.
The librarian’s husband told me he had been selected as jury member for one of the cheese pastry competitions and had to taste 24 different pastries over the course of the morning. He got to take the 3rd prize winning pastry home and then gave me a big slice of it (“for your dinner”) as he did not intend to eat cheese again in any configuration for at least a week.
^ I loved that strange little fellow. It’s a toy cheese press!
It's a sprint weekend. It's a Friday quali. Sooooo, you know what this means right? It means you give Charles a very good quali. And hopefully help in him achieving a podium this weekend.
So far, he’s gotten 3/3 podium during sprint weekend. Do not. And I mean it. DO NOT ruin his streak of only getting podiums this season during sprint weekends. Well, this is warning for you and the red team whose name I shall not say for they get jinxed pretty easily (idk why and how they do that but they’re very easy to jinx)
Anyways love you Red Quali Pants. I have never said a bad thing about you. Ever. And I plan not to in the near future. But if you don’t give me a Lestappen podium, it might change.
Sincerely yours.
P.S. you look very pretty on him. You are the man, red quali pants! ❤️🔥
SCREAMING this is the best hoodie ive ever owned its so soft and the colour is gorgeous (the pics dont do it justice), hoodie season cant come soon enough
With Sapnap adopting two new cats, I’m now curious, do you have any pets? If you don’t have pets, what kind of pet would you want? And if you do, what animal would you get if you had to add another pet to the household?
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All you had to do was ask anon
I have two puppers, Ellie (the small one) and Hazel (the chunky potato). They’re both rescue puppers so we’re not too sure about their ages or specific breeds, but we think that Hazel is about three and a half and Ellie is around one.
Had the saddest fucking dream ever about Ryo Bakura getting invited out to dinner with his dad and he’s really happy and he’s having a great time walking around town and catching up with his dad at first, his dad asks him what he wants to eat and they settle on getting sushi, it’s all great and they haven’t had a meal together in ages! It’ll be so nice! But they keep running into people his dad knows and his dad keeps getting sidetracked to talk to them or even straight up going completely out of the way to do something for these people. Ryo’s fine at first and even a little glad that his dad seems to be pretty well liked by a lot of people, but one diversion turns into another, then three, then five, and it’s getting later and later, and his dad is paying less and less attention to him in favor of whatever acquaintance he’s with… it was specifically 11:34 PM when Ryo finally gave up and started going home. He still hadn’t had dinner.
I saw some comments of Italians saying that in the beginning of last season, when ferrari had their first issues, charles still sound positive and hopeful in the post race interviews. And now in the interview after the first race he already sounds apathetic and defeated like seb and alonso were before. Like he already realized this isn't going to work.
I don't know about that. Obviously it's a big shock (derogatory) and disappointment to unexpectedly DNF in the very first race of the season (especially if it was preventable) so he's hardly going to be all smiles in the immediate aftermath. I believe the drivers are expected to head straight to the media pen after a DNF, which means he basically didn't have a chance to speak to anyone from the team before heading to the media, save for Andrea, who knows about as much as Charles does. His first DNF in 2022 came in Barcelona, at a time where they had a much more competitive car from day 1 and it looked like they could still turn things around pretty easily (Max was ahead by 6 points after that race and that's after RB swapped the cars; had Checo won the race, Charles would've still had the lead in the standings.)
Whereas in this race Ferrari already knew they were on the back foot relative to Red Bull, and that podium was much-needed for the team. So obviously the frustration and disappointment is going to show. However, he looked pretty happy in the pics from his visit to the factory today, so I think the motivation is still there. I remember seeing quotes going around of Charles admitting he's feeling better in the car than he did during testing, so that's already a tentative positive. They supposedly have all this straight line speed banked, so it'll be interesting to see how they'll do on a track where tyre degradation is less of an issue, plus the rumoured wing upgrades...
There's been a lot of defeatism going around, both from the fans but perhaps more surprisingly from the teams themselves, after just one race that probably wasn't all that representative. Remember, some people really, truly believed the season was already decided after Australia last year. Does it look like more of an uphill climb this year compared to last season? Yes, no doubt. But to publicly throw in the towel, like Mercedes is doing, after one race? All this talk of this being the longest-ever season of F1 and people are just shrugging and writing it off. Sure, it looks predictable from where we're standing today, but it's still F1 and there's always a possibility of crazy unexpected shit happening. 🤷🏻♀️
good podium good press conference like oh 4433 you will always be famous… sidenote lewis looked so good and it feels incredible to see him on the podium more and more, i’ve missed him
i feel like lewis was still just a littleeee visibly disappointed he couldn’t chase down p2 (understandable, he almost had it for a while!!) but by the time the press conference came around he looked happy and giggly and was goofing around with the others and ur so correct ITS SO NICE TO SEEE 🥰🩵🩵🩵 also the way max has like super senses and knew right away he was taking a pic and immediately looked up w/ a big wide smile (i am delusional) … i need lewis to post that selfie NOWW 😭
i keep seeing tiktok comments of people going “pleasantly surprised by max and lewis’ interactions! they actually seem comfortable!” and i stare into the camera with the most exasperated but also smug expression. us 4433 elitists have been reaping these rewards 😌☝️