Good morning to you all and I hope it’s a pleasurably pleasant morning wherever you are. It’s been mixed this week – cloudy and cool with smatterings of rain interspersed with occasional glimpses of the sun. Well, Wimbledon and the Glastonbury Festival have started so what do you expect? Continue reading “30 June 2013”
30 June 2013 – Amusements
One day a bachelor, who was a poor tipper, walked into his favorite restaurant and ordered lunch. A new waitress served his meal and received a three cent tip. When he came in the next day, she thanked him for his ‘generosity’ and she said she could tell the character of a diner by the way he tipped. “Yeah? What can you tell about me?” he asked.
“You put three pennies in a neat row,” said the waitress, “and that shows you are a very tidy person. The first penny tells me you are frugal and the second tells me that you are a bachelor.”
“That’s true,” he agreed. “But what does the third penny tell you?”
“The third penny tells me your father was a bachelor too.” Continue reading “30 June 2013 – Amusements”
23 June 2013
We had a lovely day on Wednesday – there was some sunshine. Saturday, also, we had a bit of sunshine along with a brisk, fresh westerly breeze. The rest of the week it’s been cloudy and dull for the most part. What makes this spell of less than wonderful weather doubly depressing is that Friday, as I’m sure you know, was the Summer Solstice and the days are now getting shorter. It’s all downhill from here! I sure hope this Daylight Savings thing that’s going on will pay us back with interest in the autumn because we haven’t seen our share of sunshine this summer so far and we’ve been woefully lacking any decent temperatures. Continue reading “23 June 2013”
23 June 2013 – Amusements
Becky had prepared a pasta dish for a dinner party she was giving. In her haste, however, she forgot to refrigerate the spaghetti sauce, and it sat on the counter all day. She was worried about spoilage, but it was too late to cook up another batch so she called the local Poison Control Center and voiced her concern. They advised to just boil the sauce again and it should be fine.
That night the phone rang during dinner, and one of the guests volunteered to answer it. Becky’s face dropped as the guest called out through the silenced crowd, “It’s the Poison Control Center. They want to know how the spaghetti sauce turned out.” Continue reading “23 June 2013 – Amusements”
16 June 2013
So much to get through and so little time. Where oh where to begin?
I guess I should start with Wednesday’s visit up to the big city for lunch with Wendy and John Greene who were in town for a couple of days on a whirlwind visit. For those few of you who are not immediate blood relatives, Wendy is my first cousin, the daughter of my mother’s younger brother, and we had not seen one another for about thirty years, we worked out. Unfortunately, Ms Playchute was unable to attend due to several thousand other commitments so it was just me and it was a lovely day out. (Just reading that back, it looks like it was lovely because Penelope was not with me – absolutely not true!)
16 June 2013 – Amusements
A mother said to her grown-up daughter, “Honey, I don’t want you to think I have diabetes because I eat too much fried food which makes me fat. I have diabetes because it runs in our family.”
The daughter shook her head in despair, “No, Mom,” she replied, “you have diabetes because no one runs in our family.” Continue reading “16 June 2013 – Amusements”
9 June 2013 – Amusements
“Look at this mess!” roared an angry customer at a local cafe, pointing to his squashed doughnut.
“It’s just as you ordered it, sir,” the waitress replied meekly. “You told me to bring you coffee and a doughnut, and step on it.” Continue reading “9 June 2013 – Amusements”
9 June 2013
I have to admit, this has been a pretty decent week – the weather has actually been quite pleasant, for the most part, with lots of sunshine. It’s still been “fresh” but a distinct improvement on what we’ve enjoyed recently. If we could just get the temperatures up a bit and perhaps cut back a bit on the wind, it might be just about perfect.
We’ve also had a marvellous week because we’ve had some most excellent house guests – Chip and Leca Boynton and their youngest son Mark have been with us for a few days at the start of their short European vacation. As I mentioned before, we’ve taken advantage of their kind and generous hospitality at Boynton Hall when passing through Boston on a number of occasions. So, we were delighted to be able to attempt to return the favours.
2 June 2013
Good morning on what seems, surprisingly, like it could turn out to be quite a nice day. The tail end of last week brought some more seasonably “normal” weather following our Spring of interminable cold and rain which was a huge relief to everyone (I guess). It seems that this has been the coldest Spring in more than fifty years and don’t we know it – the bluebells finally made an appearance over the last week or so, about three weeks later than normal.
2 June 2013 – Amusements
This came from Steph.
Three expatriates are drinking in a NY City bar.
“As good as this is,” said the Scotsman, “I still prefer the pubs back home. In Glasgow, there’s a wee place called McTavish’s. The landlord goes out of his way for the locals. When you buy four drinks, he’ll buy the fifth.”
“Well, Angus,” said the Englishman, “at my local pub in London, the Red Lion, the barman will buy you your third drink after you buy the first two.”
“Ahhh, dat’s nothin’,” said the Irishman, “back home in my favorite pub, the moment you set foot in the place, they’ll buy you a drink, then another, all the drinks you like, actually. Then, when you’ve had enough drinks, they’ll take you upstairs and see dat you gets laid, all on the house!”
The Englishman and Scotsman were suspicious of the claims.
The Irishman swore every word was true.
“Did this actually happen to you?” they asked.
“No not meself, personally, no,” admitted the Irishman, “but it did happen to me sister quite a few times.” Continue reading “2 June 2013 – Amusements”