Day: 1 October 2006

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1 October 2006 – Amusements

Donald MacDonald from the Isle of Skye went to study at an English university and was living in the hall of residence with all the other students there. After he had been there a month, his mother came to visit him.

“And how do you find the English students, Donald?” she asked.

“Mother,” he replied, “they’re such terrible, noisy people. The one on that side keeps banging his head on the wall and won’t stop. The one on the other side screams and screams all night.”

“Oh Donald! How do you manage to put up with these awful noisy English neighbours?”

“Mother, I do nothing. I just ignore them. I just stay here quietly, playing my bagpipes.” Continue reading “1 October 2006 – Amusements”

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1 October 2006

Good morning on a reasonably fine looking morning from this perspective (sitting in my study glancing out the windows) which is in somewhat marked contrast to the afternoon we had yesterday when Ms Playchute suggested a bike ride. At the time, the weather looked fairly reasonable – there was a fair amount of blue sky and sunshine. However, as we prepared to embark, a sharp shower arrived from nowhere and that should have been sufficient warning to the pair of us that this was not a good idea. In fact, we actually delayed our departure until the shower had passed and the skies looked moderately pleasant again. Continue reading “1 October 2006”