Incipient note: People have complained about my toilet humour before. Now at least they’ve got a point. Last Thursday we came back from a one-week holiday. We touched down in Gatwick and, being the good female that I am, I was bursting for a pee. I mean, I had to strap myself into a seat [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Just flush it down the drain!
Posted in Humor, Humour, Rants, tagged cistern, dual flush system, environment, flushing mechanism, save money, start/stop mechanism, toilet, water saving on January 24, 2012 | 12 Comments »
I’ve lost a stone!
Posted in Humor, Humour, Rants, tagged Europe, imperial system, measures, metric system, metrication, system of measurement on January 10, 2012 | 22 Comments »
If my son was going to say that to me it would be something that he would feel kind of sad about. He loves collecting stones. In fact, he loves collecting a lot of things. If, on the other hand, I heard this sentence from anyone else around here it would probably be followed by cheers, [...]
Let your children off the leash!
Posted in Humor, Humour, Parenting, Rants, tagged childrens safety, harness and rein, leash for kids, overprotective parents, parenting on January 3, 2012 | 30 Comments »
This is what I saw the other day on my way home from the supermarket. Yeah, look closer. And don’t let her atrocious boots distract you from the even more heinous lapse of having her child on a leash! The appalling bit is, here in the UK, I see this all the time! When I last visited [...]