I'm not a big one for introspection - but today I'm feeling decidedly maudlin. Not for myself, but because I'm now exactly the same age that my Dad was when he died. Comparing my happiness (and the...
On the day of the Poetry final the two finalists were a graduate from the University of New South Wales and a bumpkin from the outback. Their final task was to compose a poem lasting no more than 20...
From BBC Hampshire: Report of 2 cars involved in “crash for cash” in Bicester. Unfortunately for one driver they tried to do it to an unmarked police car. Drivers arrested in Langford Village....
(Genesis 8:1-5) (KJ version) And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the...
I am frequently impressed by online comments from Joe Public. Here is the latest which appeared on a BBC site after team selection had been announced for tonight's match. "Looking at the Man Utd team,...
I bought my dog a new ‘anti-ageing’ dog lead. He’s got a new leash of life. My doctor told me I have got Puzzle Disease. Apparently I’m riddled with it. I just made an apple and blackberry...
A man and woman are at a bar having a few beers. They start talking and soon realize they're both doctors. After an hour, the man says, "Hey, how about if we sleep together tonight? No strings...
Any suggestions don,t want to buy big plastic junk ... can,t be anything too big or fiddly silly bits as quite rightly my daughter says it will stay in my house ...help please . She has an older...
Can somebody explain to me how you can get through a canal lock without closing one set of paddles before exit (the upper set if locking down, the lower set if locking up). Opening both must surely be...
Just got home fron a two week residential course at a Cambridge Uni. It was lovely driving along the Seafront, Sea like a millpond, blue skies, gorgeous. Don't know what anyone else is doing but I am...
I was wondering if anyone could add on to this theory that I created a few minutes ago: What if life is created like a computer accept randomly like a extremely advanced computer that was created by...
At the park, walking the doggo
Stranger: Your dog is unusual looking
Me: Yeah, he's interbred...
Duck: (Waddles up) I'll tell you who else is into bread...
I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was, 'The man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds"...
A lady was picking through the frozen chickens at a branch of Morrisons but she couldn't find one big enough for her family. She asked a passing assistant, 'Do these chickens get any bigger?' The...