If you try to steal my wine, you’d better watch Shiraz.
Personal Blogs
My toilet takes 1,6 gallons to flush, that’s 7 litres in the metric cistern.
I tried hard to shift Grandad from pounds and ounces to grams and kilograms. But I never got anywhere. He was just too set in his weights.
They laughed when I checked my ruler against a head of broccoli.
But I explained; I need to calibrate, see?
They laughed when I checked my ruler against a head of broccoli.
But I explained; I need to calibrate, see?
I bought some clogs three or four years ago, but they were uncomfortable on me. So I gave them away, wouldn’t you?
‘Hippopotamus’ has three Ps in it. Can you think of a word with 4?
I am a skilled negotiator.
You know how to strike a deal.
They are corrupt.
See
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotive_conjugation
Here’s an example that occurred to me.
- I will avoid waste.
- You will seek efficiency savings.
- They will make cuts.
I saw a sign that said, “Drink Canada Dry”. So I did.
I bought some fossil wood 100 million years old. It was Jurassic bark.
I wanted to brighten things up for the winter so I bought some pansies online. 20 plants ready to flower came beautifully packaged and with proper care they will be in bloom right through to April 2023. Here are some of them. Things need tidying a bit, so it's not a terrific photo, but you can see they are flourishing quite nicely.
I wondered where "pansy" came from so I did a bit of looking up and found it's from French pensée = thought, according to Wikipedia because it symbolised remembrance.
In the OED I found a nice quote from 1771
"On that fair bank a Pansy grew, That borrowed from indulgent skies A velvet shade and purple hue."
J. Langhorne Violet & Pansy in Fables of Flora 32
When I say
I’d go to the ends of the earth for you
I really mean with you
Nobody knew of
Our dance in the polling station
where they held the secret ballet
A website for people who want to brag about their holiday.
How many glottal stops are there in “bottle tops”?
Narwhal dentist. That’s an easy job.
Narwhals 1 - Humans ?
Had a Beef Wellington the other night. Bitterly disappointed. It was as tough as old boots.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Solzhenitsyn, based on his experiences in a Soviet forced labour camp in the 1950s.
The most chilling quote so far
“Prisoners are not allowed clocks”.
A rainbow in the sky.
A friend captured this view from the top of Cat Bells at 09:27 this morning.
Disaster’s bound to strike
Sooner or
A pelican goes into a bar and says, Can I pay for last night? The barman looks at him and says, You’ve got a massive bill.
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