My goodness, we have had miserable, miserable weather over this past week. It’s been cold, grey, windy and wet. On Friday we had gale force winds, heavy showers and plummeting temperatures and frankly, we are getting a bit fed up, I can tell you. It’s the end of May for goodness sake! To be fair, yesterday we actually saw some sunshine and the forecast for today is similarly supposed to be half-decent. From there, though, it’s a steady downhill slide as far into the coming days as the long-term weather forecast goes. Hmm. Several weeks of warm sunny skies, a light breeze with plenty of opportunities for the occasional picnic in the park is more what I had in mind. Continue reading “26 May 2013”
26 May 2013 – Amusements
A man whose wife was pregnant couldn’t bear to be in the delivery room at the time of the birth.
So he thought he’d ring up later to see if it had come yet.
He rang up and the nurse said, “It’s a girl but there’s another one on the way.”
He rang again later and the nurse said, “It’s another girl but there’s another one coming.”
He rang once more and the nurse said, ” It’s a boy but there’s another one coming.”
He couldn’t stand it anymore so he went to the pub and got somewhat inebriated.
An hour later he was really nervous. He was dialling the hospital, hands shaking, and accidently dialled the sports line. He asked, “How many did we get mate?”
The person on the other end said, “198 all out…. and the last one was a duck.”
(I appreciate that may not make any sense to our non-British readers – it’s a cricket score. The team batting scored 198 runs before they were all out and the last batter was out “for a duck”, i.e., having scored no runs). Continue reading “26 May 2013 – Amusements”