Fifty for Fifi

In the early days of our courtship we were a long distance couple. Before I took the step of moving to Australia, time spent together was spent chatting via any number of methods or videocalls when we could.

One particular favourite way to spend time together was in a game called The Blockheads. It was essentially a 2D (Wikipedia says 2.5D) version of Minecraft. We’d voice chat while doing different activities with our toons in the world, from hunting to mining to building to exploring.

Like most modern games, some things are discovered via research rather than just worked out in the game. In exploring the crafting system, we’d discovered a seemingly useless thing called a carrot on a stick, created by combining a carrot, some string and a stick. Google let us know its use, which was for the riding of donkeys. This made sense to us, except we’d never seen a donkey in the small part of the game world that we’d explored.

Thus it was that we set off for adventure. Blockheads is set on a circular world, and if you walk around it far enough, you’ll pass through four poles and multiple biomes. We headed right and kept going to see what we could find, including a donkey.

Find a donkey we did. Fi equipped her carrot on a stick and tapped on the donkey. Nothing happened. She tried again a number of times… and the donkey died. We double checked our research and just could not work out what had gone wrong.

Confused, we explored further. It was shortly later that we found a larger donkey. Fi equipped the carrot on a stick once again, tapped on it… and mounted the adult donkey we’d found.

Couples have set pieces, stories from their history they trot out together at social gatherings. The day Fi killed a baby donkey on one of our dates in a videogame is one of ours.

Today’s song is the first Kiwi song in the mix, and one of my favourites. It’s the first song I can remember really speaking to me. Like many of the songs I love it has strong electronic elements and a a beautifully catchy musical hook. Astonishingly for a song from New Zealand it reached higher on the Australian charts reaching number one over the Tasman compared to position five in Mi-Sex’s home country.