Saturday, 25 August 2012

Spell check

We're incredibly tired after working on the garden for the past four weeks in intense heat. Now we finally had some rain and it has cooled down, so we moved indoors and decided to redecorate our entrance hall...

Today's post is another little gift from Mrsgunka. Thank you, MrsG, it's very funny!


Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pee sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

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?