Why don’t kids ever listen?
Today, I was barely in work for 10 minutes when I get a phone call from Brian.
“Connor has pricked himself with a syringe that he found on the way to school.”
After willing my stomach back into it’s usual position with great difficulty I managed to hear the whole story.
Apparently, on the way to school, Connor […]
Lookee what I found
Not the clearest shot, I know, but any time I got closer, she bolted and I had to wait for her to come back. This is in the corner of our pergola and I have to assume she’s got eggs in there as the only time she leaves the nest is when she’s scared away. […]
Advertising gone too far?
A little while ago I had to take the train to and from work for a week while the old car was in the shop and I
noticed this banner on the inside of the rail line across from the platform on which I caught my train.
I was surprised by the ‘In-your-face’ photo of a man […]
Fund-raising is hard work!
Brian is once again president of the North Beach Cricket Club, as I’m sure I’ve mentioned before, and one of the duties of the committee members is to come up with ideas for fund-raising. This year, one of the wives came up with a pretty good idea.
Delivering the white pages.
Yep, I mean the phone book. […]
Spring has sprung…
And the grass is rise.
I wonder where the birdies is?
The birdies is on the wing
But that absurd…
Because the wing is on the bird!
As a child my uncle used to say this little poem to me every year and I thought it was so funny. Amazing what makes a child laugh. Maybe it’s because it was […]