Thursday, 23 August 2012

How I got in the closet

View_From_Here sent me this funny video. Funnily enough, it's French!



Thank you, View.

Wednesday, 22 August 2012

Why our healthcare costs are so high

Here's another funny treat from our Mrsgunka:

Those of us who spend much time in a doctor's office should appreciate this! Doesn't it seem more and more that physicians are running their practices like an assembly line?

Here's what happened to Kevin:

Kevin walked into a doctor's office and the receptionist asked him what he had. Kevin said: 'Shingles.' So she wrote down his name, address, medical insurance number and told him to have a seat.

Fifteen minutes later a nurse's aide came out and asked Kevin what he had... Kevin said, 'Shingles.' So she wrote down his height, weight, a complete medical history and told Kevin to wait in the examining room.

A half hour later a nurse came in and asked Kevin what he had. Kevin said, 'Shingles..' So the nurse gave Kevin a blood test, a blood pressure test, an electrocardiogram, and told Kevin to take off all his clothes and wait for the doctor.

An hour later the doctor came in and found Kevin sitting patiently in the nude and asked Kevin what he had.

Kevin said, 'Shingles.' The doctor asked, 'Where?'


Kevin said, 'Outside on the truck. Where do you want me to unload 'em??'

Thank you, MrsG.

Tuesday, 21 August 2012

Oops! Nearly forgot to post something!

We worked a bit in the morning, then a bit more in the afternoon and then we hit the beach! It's very hot and after even 10 minutes trying to do anything, we lose the will to live...

Anyway, this morning we went to the builders merchants and bought some paving slabs to finish off the bottom of the stairs. There was a bit of a steep drop, which is gentler now.

The garden is almost done. We're just waiting for the parasol base, will cut the grass, clear all the debris and we're done!

The next job is hanging wallpaper (we bought some wallpaper really cheap at a vide grenier) in the entrance hall. The deadline is the arrival of our son and his girlfriend from Australia on September 3rd. Once again, we need your good vibes for them to sort out some issues... bloody (lovely, much loved) children!

It never ends, eh?



Monday, 20 August 2012

Joy!

View_From_here sent me this video and I must say it moved me a lot. Watching the children's reactions was particularly enjoyable. Thank you, View.

Enjoy:



[Some people on youtube criticized this performance because it was filmed to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Sabadell Bank. I understand people being upset about banks these days, but the music is still beautiful and the reactions of the spectators to the unexpected public performance were genuine and quite touching.]