Plus everything else, the misinformation, the childish bullying, calls to lower the age of criminal responsibility and start charging immigrants. The usual fare.

Apparently certain fruit regulations went from 1600g to 80g, a 95% drop for which Deregulation Minister Federico Sturzenegger was vociferously praised 📄

Anyway, we ate and drank and played “Take the hobbits to Isengard” (trying to pin Merry and Pippin as close to Orthanc as possible) and “Beat the shit out of Sauron” (piñata shaped like the Great Eye). 1000/10 recommend

Also realised on rereading LOTR this year that “tweens” is the hobbit term for “the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three.” Sound.

Can we agree that coming of age at 33 makes way more sense than 18 or 21?