Author: Greg

20 July 2025

At last! A drop of rain! After another week of pretty scorcio temperatures, we finally had a bit of rain on Friday night/Saturday morning. Some moderately hard rain but mainly just a dismal drizzle. We’ll need to get significantly more if we are to avoid the hosepipe bans which have already been instituted in other parts of the country. It does seem somewhat peculiar to be wishing for rain!

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20 July 2025 – Amusements

A variation on one we’ve had before but with a different punchline.

One day, two guys decide to take a drive to a local grocery store to get some lunch. On the way to the store they ran into an intersection with a stoplight. The light showed red. The man driving went right through the red light. The passenger looked at the driver and screamed, “What the heck are you doing? You’re going to get us killed!”

Then the driver responded, “Don’t worry, my mother always drives like this.”

So later on, the two guys came to another stoplight and that, too, was red. The driver sped right through the light. Again the passenger looked at the driver and said, “I thought I told you, you’re gonna get us killed! Would you please stop this nonsense!”

The driver looked at the passenger and responded, “All right! I get it, but I told you my mother drives like this all the time!”

Again, the two guys ran into another light. This time it was green. The driver slammed on his breaks and stopped the car totally. “What the heck are you doing?”

The passenger screamed. “This is the third time you almost got us killed. Why did you stop at a green light?”

“Well, my mother might be coming the other way,” the driver said.

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13 July 2025 – Amusements

At a monastery high in the mountains, the monks have a rigid vow of silence. Only at Christmas, and only by one monk, and only with one sentence, is the vow allowed to be broken.

One Christmas, Brother Thomas is allowed to speak and he says, “I like the mashed potatoes we have with the Christmas turkey!” and he sits down. Silence ensues for 365 days.

The next Christmas, Brother Michael gets his turn, and he says “I think the mashed potatoes are lumpy and I hate them!”

Once again, silence for 366 days (it’s leap year). The following Christmas, Brother Paul rises and says, “I am fed up with this constant bickering!”

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6 July 2025

Welcome back! I wasn’t sure I would have time to get this week’s edition out on time so, what you have here is a very brief summary of our campervan trip to Wales. We had a great few days but actually ended up coming home a day early. On Friday evening we looked at the weather forecast for Saturday to see a forecast of unrelenting rain in the morning. Not much fun packing up a tent in the pouring rain so we decided to set out for home on Friday afternoon instead.

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22 June 2025 – Amusements

NEW HOME WANTED !!!!!
I bought Lexi, an eight-week old German Shepherd puppy, as a surprise for my husband. It turns out, however, that he is allergic to dog hair so I am now urgently looking to find him a new home.

His name is Alan, he’s 61 years old, great at DIY, drives a nice car and plans wonderful holidays.

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