What's in 3Words

gardener.best.bodyguard

Frodo knows best! 

surrealistic.enriching.weasel

There is a square in the Atlantic ocean with the address, surrealistic.enriching.weasel

Naturally, such an address demands the exploration and excavation of what a surrealistic enriching weasel actually is! 

So first, I thought I’d consider the location. It turns out that there is no such thing as a sea weasel. Perhaps juxtaposing the weasel with the sea is a surrealistic response… perhaps I’ve pushed the boat out too far. 

Next, I was thinking of what an enriching weasel could be. It seems quite obvious that surrealism could enrich understanding and offer a counter point to perspectives already prevalent. However, an enriching weasel is odd. 

Then I stumbled across the Wikipedia page for weasels, it turns out weasels are mostly considered to be bad omens. In Greek culture, there is a story of a bride…

This bride prayed and cried to the gods for freedom from her impending marriage. The gods were angry, she was marrying a good man who did not deserve her disobedience, and not at all happy with her proposal. In response, they turned the bride into a weasel! The bride was wretched in her animal state and she wanted vengeance on the gods. Her eyes latched on the item nearest her weasel feet - her wedding dress - and she ravaged it. So, there lies the tale for all brides to be. Be wary of the weasel for it could mean the end of your wedding dress! 

It’s a pretty surreal story, do you think?

once.upon.dream

My favourite fairytale came to life through the perspective of the scariest Disney villain, Maleficent. 

Now, I am always keen to read the villain’s story. After all, we are not born villainous, villainy is the product of circumstance (debatable but go with it). Maleficent, the new film, transforms the fairytale land to a visual feast of stunning forests resting on the border of a torrid castle and its equally appalling inhabitants. I remember Maleficent living in a mountain but I guess, a mountain can also be a wonderland of magnificent creatures (who actually meet me in height! (i am quite quite petite)) and trolls and gross creatures are actually crows who can do the job placed on their shoulders. 

The new film has a beautiful cast but it really is a visual demonstration of how every story has two sides. Two sides of a coin etc. Maleficent is transformed into a girl whose heart is broken by her lover’s lust and greed. Yet, she shelters her lover’s child, offering the innocent the boon of her company and her care which her fairy godmothers are unable to provide. Aurora actually has a story in this film. In the animated original, Aurora dances in the forest with an owl, and ends up dancing and singing a song with the stranger of Prince Phillip. And they fall in love. 

When I was younger, I loved that scene. It’s cliché and ridiculous and very foolish on both parts but it was lovely. The song in particular, sung by young Aurora, and currently Lana del Ray. It felt resonant of my dreams and fantasies of falling madly in love. It goes like this:

I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream
I know you, that look in your eyes is so familiar a gleam
And I know it’s true that visions are seldom all they seem
But if I know you, I know what you’ll do
You’ll love me at once, the way you did once upon a dream

But if I know you, I know what you’ll do
You’ll love me at once
The way you did once upon a dream

I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream
I know you, that gleam in your eyes is so familiar a gleam
And I know it’s true that visions are seldom all they seem
But if I know you, I know what you’ll do
You’ll love me at once, the way you did once upon a dream

double.toil.trouble

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn and cauldron bubble. 

chanted the witches of Macbeth. 

Those famous two lines, which I keep mistakenly remembering as bubble, bubble - courtesy of Disney and the Olsen twins apparently ^^, spelt the beginning of Macbeth’s doom. 

I have heard variations of the first line in so many different TV shows, especially The Worst Witch. Mildred Hubble! - to those of you who remember! 

So, the question remains where do these three words lie? 

The answer is in Perth, Australia. Perhaps there are witches brewing stews of trouble in the desert…