Wednesday, 20 June 2012

Patience...

Grammy97 sent me this lovely joke:

A woman in a supermarket is following a grandfather and his badly behaved 3 year-old grandson. It's obvious to her that he has his hands full with the child screaming for sweets in the candy aisle, cookies in the cookie aisle; and for fruit, cereal and soda in the other aisles.


Meanwhile, Grandad is working his way around, saying in a controlled voice, "Easy, William, we won't be long, easy, boy."

Another outburst, and she hears the granddad calmly say, "It's okay, William, just a couple more minutes and we'll be out of here. Hang in there, boy."

At the checkout, the little terror is throwing items out of the cart, and Grandad says again in a calm and controlled voice, "William, William, relax buddy, don't get upset. We'll be home in five minutes; stay cool, William."

Very impressed, the woman goes outside where the grandfather is loading his groceries and the boy into the car.

She said to the elderly gentleman, "It's none of my business, but you were amazing in there. I don't know how you did it. That whole time, you kept your composure, and no matter how loud and disruptive he got, you just calmly kept saying that things would be okay.”

Grandad smiled, and the woman said, “William is very lucky to have you as his grandpa."

"Thanks," said the grandfather, "but I'm William....... the little shit's name is Kevin."

Thank you, Grammy97.

Tuesday, 19 June 2012

On being serious...

Not serious in 1954...

Another year, another birthday...

After I turned 30, I had my first baby and thought: "This is it, time to grow up and get serious."

It didn't happen. Then I turned 40.

Nope.

50 came soon enough and it still didn't happen.

Now I'm one year shy of my 60th and I'm beginning to suspect that I'll never be a real grown-up or get serious.

Just older...

Monday, 18 June 2012

Miracle

Mrsgunka has an endless supply of lovely short jokes (lucky us!).

A religious farmer lost his Bible out in the field.

A few days later he went to answer a noise at his door. Standing there was a cow, with his Bible in its mouth!

The farmer raised his eyes to heaven and thanked the Lord for this miracle.

"Not really," said the cow. "Your name was written inside."

Thank you, Mrsgunka.

*****

This is a good cartoon to accompany this joke:





Sunday, 17 June 2012

La Vezere

It's a glorious day here (for a change) and we went for a walk by the river after lunch. It's nice and cool, with the lovely relaxing noise of the water going through the rocks. Here's the Vezere, where they do the kayaking competitions during the summer:











And here is a little bit with sound:



Saturday, 16 June 2012

Short and sweet

Today's laugh comes courtesy of our Mrsgunka.


Two blondes were sipping their Starbucks when a truck went past loaded up with rolls of sod.


"I'm going to do that when I win the lottery," announced the first blonde.


"Do what?" asked her friend.


"Send my lawn out to be mowed."


Thank you, Mrsgunka.