Greg's Occasional News & Views
Phew! This will have to be a quickie – not much to say and three thousand and forty-seven other things to get through today! Sorry.
We had a wonderfully delicious lunch last Sunday at the Orange Tree in Chadwick End with Nick, Lucy and Annabelle. I’m not quite sure why they invited us but it was a delight to be included.
Continue reading “15 January 2017”One friend complained to another, “All my husband and I do anymore is fight. I’ve been so upset, I’ve lost 20 pounds.”
“If it’s that bad, why don’t you just leave him?” asked the second friend.
“I’m seriously considering it, but I’d like to lose another 15 pounds first.” Continue reading “15 January 2017 – Amusements”
Happy New Year (again). Hope your celebrations were as enjoyable as ours and that your resolutions lasted longer than mine!
As most of you know, Penelope and I tend to celebrate New Year’s Eve when it gets to be midnight in Moscow or, at the very latest, Paris. We’re generally soundly snoring by the time midnight arrives in the UK. It’s been many, many years since we were out on the tiles on New Year’s Eve but this year we dragged ourselves out and partied like it was 1999!
Continue reading “8 January 2017”I have been working on my PhD in engineering for the past five years, but my kids don’t necessarily see that as work. As we were driving past Walmart one day, my son spotted a Now Hiring sign and suggested that I could get a job there.
Hoping to make a point, I asked, “Do you think they’re looking for an engineer?”
“Oh, sure,” he said. “They’ll hire anybody.” Continue reading “8 January 2017 – Amusements”
Good morning and a Happy New Year to you all. We had an absolutely marvellous Christmas and are looking forward to a splendidly splendid 2017. I fear, though, that we may be disappointed – Trump will soon be in the White House for the next four (or eight) years and the UK will be blighted for generations to come following the Brexit idiocy – hmmm, not much to look forward to! Continue reading “1 January 2017”
My wife has this red ‘Christmas’ lingerie with faux fur around the neck and cuffs and it comes with a little Santa hat.
“I hate this outfit,” I said when she walked into the room.
She replied, “Then why are you wearing it?” Continue reading “1 January 2017 – Amusements”
What a great week we’ve had. Well, I’ve a great week anyway! Our annual pre-Christmas outing up to town, a myriad of pre-Christmas drinks and other social occasions in the village, a birthday meal out with some very lovely people and now, here we are – Christmas! What could be better?
Continue reading “25 December 2016”I got my first full-time job, but I could have sworn I was making more money in college while working for my parents as their daughter. Continue reading “25 December 2016 – Amusements”
Good morning to you all. I hope it’s lovely, clear and sunny wherever you are and that your name has somehow found its way on to Santa’s Nice list.
I’ve just finished reading “The Last Days of Night” which I enjoyed. I’m not sure it quite deserves the 5* rating it currently has on Amazon, but it was a fun read. I picked it up largely because it sounded like the sort of book I would have enjoyed sharing with my father – a mixture of interesting history dressed up in fanciful fiction.
Continue reading “18 December 2016”When I stepped on the scale at my doctor’s office, I was surprised to see that I weighed 144 pounds.
“Why don’t you just take off that last four?” I joked to the nurse’s aide as she made a notation on my chart.
A few moments later, my doctor came in and flipped through the chart.
“I see you’ve lost weight,” he said. “You’re down to… 14 pounds???”
Continue reading “18 December 2016 – Amusements”