Christmas deliveries.
19 Dec 2022 04:46 pmTo make you smile - or not, depending on the state of your deliveries!
The Great Suit Misunderstanding
20 Sep 2022 07:10 pmMy husband, ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
speakr2customrs, bought an extremely smart, navy blue, suit for our daughter's wedding;
As he has had nothing to wear it for since, he decided to wear it for the christening on Sunday.
When he got up he pottered around and then went up to put his suit on just as we were about to leave. As he came down I remember thinking that his suit looked a bit crumpled, I thought he would have had it hung up better. As I thought this he said he was a surprised to find it was a touch tighter than he remembered, whereas if anything he had lost a kilo or two in weight, he thought.
Neither of us really thought about the suit again, went to church, had lunch... and when we came home he went upstairs to take his suit off.
At this point I hear a loud expletive from upstairs, and wonder what has happened.
He had just realised, as he took the suit off, that it was not the new one, but the older one that the 'wedding suit' had been bought to replace! No wonder it didn't look as smart as I had expected. No wonder, either, that it had felt a bit tight; he bought the new one in part because is old one was so tight it would no longer fasten!
So the good news is that he has most certainly lost weight since the new one was bought in January 2020!
But the funniest part of all this? For some reason it had not occurred to either of us that the suit he was wearing on Sunday was the wrong colour - it was mid-grey! 😄😄😄
speakr2customrs, bought an extremely smart, navy blue, suit for our daughter's wedding; 
As he has had nothing to wear it for since, he decided to wear it for the christening on Sunday.
When he got up he pottered around and then went up to put his suit on just as we were about to leave. As he came down I remember thinking that his suit looked a bit crumpled, I thought he would have had it hung up better. As I thought this he said he was a surprised to find it was a touch tighter than he remembered, whereas if anything he had lost a kilo or two in weight, he thought.
Neither of us really thought about the suit again, went to church, had lunch... and when we came home he went upstairs to take his suit off.
At this point I hear a loud expletive from upstairs, and wonder what has happened.
He had just realised, as he took the suit off, that it was not the new one, but the older one that the 'wedding suit' had been bought to replace! No wonder it didn't look as smart as I had expected. No wonder, either, that it had felt a bit tight; he bought the new one in part because is old one was so tight it would no longer fasten!
So the good news is that he has most certainly lost weight since the new one was bought in January 2020!
But the funniest part of all this? For some reason it had not occurred to either of us that the suit he was wearing on Sunday was the wrong colour - it was mid-grey! 😄😄😄
Silly thing.
28 Jun 2022 09:34 pmSeen on a local FB page "I unfortunately need to replace the sceptic tank".
I was too polite to comment there - but sat and sniggered for a couple of minutes.
I'm guessing it is a bit like a think tank, but harder to convince.
I was too polite to comment there - but sat and sniggered for a couple of minutes.
I'm guessing it is a bit like a think tank, but harder to convince.
I have three things to share with you - One is inspirational, another makes me just want to beat someone's head against a wall, and the third is a gloriously silly WTF moment!
Thing 1. The first thing is an article posted by the BBC World Service. It just wonderful, inspiring, fascinating - and also has some of the most wonderful photographs I've seen. I could just look at THIS for ages.
Also - I have just got to include something like that into a story somewhere.
........
Thing 2. This is about a very, very, ignorant man who actually managed to make it to being Mayor of Swindon. There have been reports in a number of the newspapers, and on the BBC, about him being asked to apologise for something he said in a 'semi-public' place - i.e. a training meeting for councillors.
What he said was shocking in itself - what was worse was that he really didn't seem to understand why he was asked to apologise.
( Read more... )
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And Thing 3; Today I got an e-mail from Amazon about something that was part of an order I made a couple of days ago, explaining that
Unfortunately, due to delivery restrictions on such items, we won’t be able to send you this item and have cancelled it from your order. This is because this item contains flammable, pressurised, corrosive, environmentally hazardous or otherwise harmful substances classified as dangerous goods under the European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Air.
Although the amount of these substances in these products is usually quite limited, these products need to be transported in a certain way to ensure that they are handled with care and are therefore assigned to a specialist carrier. Unfortunately this means that we can’t dispatch this to any destination outside of mainland UK.
We’re sorry for any inconvenience caused and hope to see you again soon.
What do you think I might have been ordering? It sounds dangerous, doesn't it?
Actually it was a bottle of Avon Skin so Soft in a non-pressurised pump action bottle. I only added it to the Amazon order as there wasn't anything else I wanted from Avon at the moment.
That seems pretty silly in itself - but the rest of the order arrived in the post this morning - including this... Which is a high pressurised container of a rather more likely substance to be any or all of the above!
Thing 1. The first thing is an article posted by the BBC World Service. It just wonderful, inspiring, fascinating - and also has some of the most wonderful photographs I've seen. I could just look at THIS for ages.
Also - I have just got to include something like that into a story somewhere.
........
Thing 2. This is about a very, very, ignorant man who actually managed to make it to being Mayor of Swindon. There have been reports in a number of the newspapers, and on the BBC, about him being asked to apologise for something he said in a 'semi-public' place - i.e. a training meeting for councillors.
What he said was shocking in itself - what was worse was that he really didn't seem to understand why he was asked to apologise.
( Read more... ).........
And Thing 3; Today I got an e-mail from Amazon about something that was part of an order I made a couple of days ago, explaining that
Unfortunately, due to delivery restrictions on such items, we won’t be able to send you this item and have cancelled it from your order. This is because this item contains flammable, pressurised, corrosive, environmentally hazardous or otherwise harmful substances classified as dangerous goods under the European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Air.
Although the amount of these substances in these products is usually quite limited, these products need to be transported in a certain way to ensure that they are handled with care and are therefore assigned to a specialist carrier. Unfortunately this means that we can’t dispatch this to any destination outside of mainland UK.
We’re sorry for any inconvenience caused and hope to see you again soon.
What do you think I might have been ordering? It sounds dangerous, doesn't it?
Actually it was a bottle of Avon Skin so Soft in a non-pressurised pump action bottle. I only added it to the Amazon order as there wasn't anything else I wanted from Avon at the moment.
That seems pretty silly in itself - but the rest of the order arrived in the post this morning - including this... Which is a high pressurised container of a rather more likely substance to be any or all of the above!
Silly things
26 Feb 2014 09:13 pmI actually have taken some pics for my series of 'Manx Parish Churches' - I'll sort them for tomorrow or the day after, probably.
But firstly I took this picture on Sunday - the sign belongs to the nursery group who use the building - it seems a bit ambitious to me!
But firstly I took this picture on Sunday - the sign belongs to the nursery group who use the building - it seems a bit ambitious to me!
Ragnarök Commentfic....
22 Feb 2014 09:59 pmAs some of you might know, the guys from Jorvik declared that 'the ragnar will be röking on Saturday' when it will be Ragnarök (otherwise known as the Twilight of the Gods).
In honour of the end of the world as we know it![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
brutti_ma_buoni suggested If you feel like noodling at a Apocalyptic ficlet, drabble, poem, quick sketch or fanmix or something, shall we? Any fandom welcome, or none.
One of the prompts was
Prompt: any fandom, any character/pairing, the song of the twilight of the gods
I should be getting on with my B2ME story - but I was easily distracted...
( Tolkien, Manwë, the song of the twilight of the gods. )
In honour of the end of the world as we know it
brutti_ma_buoni suggested If you feel like noodling at a Apocalyptic ficlet, drabble, poem, quick sketch or fanmix or something, shall we? Any fandom welcome, or none.One of the prompts was
Prompt: any fandom, any character/pairing, the song of the twilight of the gods
I should be getting on with my B2ME story - but I was easily distracted...
( Tolkien, Manwë, the song of the twilight of the gods. )Procrastinating.
16 Feb 2014 06:33 pmI am procrastinating. I have a story to write for Back to Middle Earth Month, and it is all in my head - the characters, the story line, the beginning, the end. But actually getting all those pictures and scenes converted into words that sit nicely on the screen... I am procrastinating.
And I procrastinate, in part, by reading things I know and love, or things that have been recommended, but sometimes by rooting around in The Pit of Voles, reading the summaries.
There are some summaries that appeal - and about 1/2 of these turn out to be stories that I actually enjoy - like finding a truffle. But I can spend hours reading summaries and deciding not to read the stories - see, procrastinating.
Now and again there are summaries that simply make me smile.
And so, after spending much of two days off work at the beginning of the week procrastinating in that fashion, there are three or four summaries that I would really like to share. If you are interested( Read more... )
I'm pretty sure that none of those were written by anyone I know. If so, I'm sorry for smiling - but perhaps you might like to look at that summary again.
There was also a story with an interesting premise, of which I read a few chapters, but I gave up because I got the giggles every time the writer called the ruling house of Rohan 'The House of Erol'...
As for the B2ME story - well there are now 308 words written... But there are about another 3 weeks to go, and I always find the first few paragraphs to be the worst, so it actually will be finished in time, I reckon!
And I procrastinate, in part, by reading things I know and love, or things that have been recommended, but sometimes by rooting around in The Pit of Voles, reading the summaries.
There are some summaries that appeal - and about 1/2 of these turn out to be stories that I actually enjoy - like finding a truffle. But I can spend hours reading summaries and deciding not to read the stories - see, procrastinating.
Now and again there are summaries that simply make me smile.
And so, after spending much of two days off work at the beginning of the week procrastinating in that fashion, there are three or four summaries that I would really like to share. If you are interested
( Read more... )I'm pretty sure that none of those were written by anyone I know. If so, I'm sorry for smiling - but perhaps you might like to look at that summary again.
There was also a story with an interesting premise, of which I read a few chapters, but I gave up because I got the giggles every time the writer called the ruling house of Rohan 'The House of Erol'...
As for the B2ME story - well there are now 308 words written... But there are about another 3 weeks to go, and I always find the first few paragraphs to be the worst, so it actually will be finished in time, I reckon!
I was looking for something on google and followed a link to a church's on-line version of its regular magazine.
The front page made me laugh out loud - which I am sure was not the intention.
Does anyone else, apart from S2c and I, find Oakwood Methodist Church's June 2010 magazine front page hilariously funny due to the juxtaposition of the photo of a church event and the Biblical text?
ETA - as only some people can access the page I have, thanks to the Winter Witch, copied it( under this cut... )
The front page made me laugh out loud - which I am sure was not the intention.
Does anyone else, apart from S2c and I, find Oakwood Methodist Church's June 2010 magazine front page hilariously funny due to the juxtaposition of the photo of a church event and the Biblical text?
ETA - as only some people can access the page I have, thanks to the Winter Witch, copied it
( under this cut... )Now THAT would be some relic!
23 Dec 2013 10:36 pmThere is a programme on TV sometime over this week that asks what happened to Jesus' foreskin? Was it preserved? Is it preserved somewhere as a relic?
Well I've just heard of something that would certainly out-do that as a relic...
I visited my Mum today and she told me of a conversation yesterday with a friend.
Her friend's daughter is studying childcare and is on a placement in a nursery at the moment. They had their traditional Nativity last week and Chloe had the following conversation with a very small girl of about 3 or 4.
VSG; "What happened to the shell?"
Chloe; "Shell? Um - what shell?"
VSG; "Jesus's shell."
Chloe; "???"
VSG; "From his egg."
Chloe; "???"
VSG; "You know... we just sung a song about it. Mary laid him in the manger. So what happened to the shell?"
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I guess it could be another all-penguin AU?
Well I've just heard of something that would certainly out-do that as a relic...
I visited my Mum today and she told me of a conversation yesterday with a friend.
Her friend's daughter is studying childcare and is on a placement in a nursery at the moment. They had their traditional Nativity last week and Chloe had the following conversation with a very small girl of about 3 or 4.
VSG; "What happened to the shell?"
Chloe; "Shell? Um - what shell?"
VSG; "Jesus's shell."
Chloe; "???"
VSG; "From his egg."
Chloe; "???"
VSG; "You know... we just sung a song about it. Mary laid him in the manger. So what happened to the shell?"
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I guess it could be another all-penguin AU?
So that's what he was up to...
30 Nov 2013 01:25 pmFriends from the Buffy fandom might be amused by this explanation, from the Washington Post, of why some Americans eat sweeties/candy with their main course on Thanksgiving...
For many, the Thanksgiving meal must include sweet potatoes with marshmallows. The happy marriage of the tuber with caramelized, gooey goodness owes itself to two developments of the 1800s. In the late part of the century, in the decades when the national Thanksgiving holiday took hold, Northerners discovered sweet potatoes — long eaten in the South — and incorporated them into the special meal.
Meanwhile, marshmallows had been recently invented by those culinary trendsetters, the French, who beat the roots of the marshmallow plant with egg whites and sugar to make a chewy treat. Handmade and something of a luxury at first, marshmallows became more affordable after entrepreneurs substituted more widely available gelatin for marshmallow root and, in an era that was developing mass production techniques more generally, figured out how to manufacture an affordable product on a grand scale. In 1917, the Angelus Marshmallows Company distributed a recipe booklet that taught Americans how they might use marshmallows. With that, the classic pairing had arrived.
:~)
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For many, the Thanksgiving meal must include sweet potatoes with marshmallows. The happy marriage of the tuber with caramelized, gooey goodness owes itself to two developments of the 1800s. In the late part of the century, in the decades when the national Thanksgiving holiday took hold, Northerners discovered sweet potatoes — long eaten in the South — and incorporated them into the special meal.
Meanwhile, marshmallows had been recently invented by those culinary trendsetters, the French, who beat the roots of the marshmallow plant with egg whites and sugar to make a chewy treat. Handmade and something of a luxury at first, marshmallows became more affordable after entrepreneurs substituted more widely available gelatin for marshmallow root and, in an era that was developing mass production techniques more generally, figured out how to manufacture an affordable product on a grand scale. In 1917, the Angelus Marshmallows Company distributed a recipe booklet that taught Americans how they might use marshmallows. With that, the classic pairing had arrived.
:~)
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Anyone else see this picture of David Tennant as Richard 2nd and think it looks as if his style icon is Thranduil'? (Possibly on a bad hair day?)
(Picture courtesy of the Independent.)
(Picture courtesy of the Independent.)
View From The Top
7 Jul 2013 06:36 pmWe are having some very nice weather at the moment. When my sister organised a church outing, yesterday, for afternoon tea in the cafe at the top of our only mountain, it might have been expected to be the only cloudy day in the week - but no! The sun shone!
My sister and I, and Dawn, our new minister, decided to travel from Douglas to the station at Laxey, where you get onto the Snaefell Mountain Railway 'trams', on the even older Manx Electric Railway, so more or less making a day of it.
So there are a lot of photos under the cut of the views from the top, one or two people, the Snaefell Mountain Railway - and a couple of odd notices I came across as we waited to change trams...
( A Grand Day Out.... )
Today was a special service in church, and I have photos, but I'll share them in a day or two.
Oh - and an enormous hurrah! of joy and relief for Andy Murray.
My sister and I, and Dawn, our new minister, decided to travel from Douglas to the station at Laxey, where you get onto the Snaefell Mountain Railway 'trams', on the even older Manx Electric Railway, so more or less making a day of it.
So there are a lot of photos under the cut of the views from the top, one or two people, the Snaefell Mountain Railway - and a couple of odd notices I came across as we waited to change trams...
( A Grand Day Out.... )Today was a special service in church, and I have photos, but I'll share them in a day or two.
Oh - and an enormous hurrah! of joy and relief for Andy Murray.
Mordor for shopping...
18 Jun 2013 12:47 pmFriends who are members of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
photo_scavenger will have seen this picture already - but I am sharing because it amuses me - and I thought the reason might amuse some of you, too.
This is a recyclable shopping bag from M&S.
I really like the sentiment expressed.
And yet, to me, it is my Mordor bag - because every time I look at it I think of Boromir - even though it would be a misquote - and my brain goes 'One Cannot simply walk into Marks and Spencer...'
photo_scavenger will have seen this picture already - but I am sharing because it amuses me - and I thought the reason might amuse some of you, too.This is a recyclable shopping bag from M&S.
I really like the sentiment expressed.
And yet, to me, it is my Mordor bag - because every time I look at it I think of Boromir - even though it would be a misquote - and my brain goes 'One Cannot simply walk into Marks and Spencer...'
Silly Thing
18 Mar 2013 10:46 pmI spent some time today clearing out my work in-box. And I found this, that someone sent me 2 or 3 years ago. It might well be familiar to some of you, but it made me smile when I read it again so I thought I'd share.
Words of Wisdom from a Middle Aged Lady
1. I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.
4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.
5. How in the world are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
6. The RAC Route Planner really needs to start their directions on # 5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighbourhood.
7. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
8. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.
9. Bad decisions make good stories.
10. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.
11. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection...again.
12. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page report that I swear I did not make any changes to.
13. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
14. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
15. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
16. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear or understand a word they said?
17. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters!
18. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Jeans? Jeans never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.
19. Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
20. The first cricketer's 'box' was used in the 1870s and the first helmet was used in the 1970s. That means it only took 100 years for men to realize that their brain is also important.
Words of Wisdom from a Middle Aged Lady
1. I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.
4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.
5. How in the world are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
6. The RAC Route Planner really needs to start their directions on # 5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighbourhood.
7. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
8. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.
9. Bad decisions make good stories.
10. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.
11. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection...again.
12. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page report that I swear I did not make any changes to.
13. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
14. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
15. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
16. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear or understand a word they said?
17. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters!
18. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Jeans? Jeans never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.
19. Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
20. The first cricketer's 'box' was used in the 1870s and the first helmet was used in the 1970s. That means it only took 100 years for men to realize that their brain is also important.
Answers to the 15 Characters Meme
1 Mar 2013 05:01 pmFirstly here is the list of characters that I wrote for myself before we started -
1. Arwen
2.Alexia Tarabotti
3. Spike
4. Giles
5. Willow
6. Thorin
7. Lessa
8. Legolas
9. Eomer
10. Dawn
11.Galadriel
12.Eowyn
13.Lord Akeldama
14 Elladan&Elrohir
15. Anya
1,6,8,9,11,12 &14 are from Tolkien, 2 & 13 are from the Parasol Protectorate books, 3,4,5,10 & 15 are from the Buffyverse, and 7 is from Anne McCffrey's Dragonriders of Pern books.
The answers to everyone's questions are here
( below the cut )
I had so much fun doing these - thank you all for the questions. Actually it was so much fun I might do it again sometime.
OK - S2C pointed out to me about 8.30pm that the cut isn't opening - this is one of those LJ vagaries I fear as the coding is right. However it seems to be opening OK now, at 11.45pm. I've seen this on other journals a couple of times, too. However, if it isn't working for you, click on the title of the post to see it.
1. Arwen
2.Alexia Tarabotti
3. Spike
4. Giles
5. Willow
6. Thorin
7. Lessa
8. Legolas
9. Eomer
10. Dawn
11.Galadriel
12.Eowyn
13.Lord Akeldama
14 Elladan&Elrohir
15. Anya
1,6,8,9,11,12 &14 are from Tolkien, 2 & 13 are from the Parasol Protectorate books, 3,4,5,10 & 15 are from the Buffyverse, and 7 is from Anne McCffrey's Dragonriders of Pern books.
The answers to everyone's questions are here
( below the cut )I had so much fun doing these - thank you all for the questions. Actually it was so much fun I might do it again sometime.
OK - S2C pointed out to me about 8.30pm that the cut isn't opening - this is one of those LJ vagaries I fear as the coding is right. However it seems to be opening OK now, at 11.45pm. I've seen this on other journals a couple of times, too. However, if it isn't working for you, click on the title of the post to see it.
D-d e-mailed me the other night to ask me for a recipe. It was for 'the cheese & bacon loaf the vegetarians liked'.
( There is a story behind that description - click here for story and recipe... )
The next chapter of The Valinor Trail is written - it is just waiting for S2C to have time to go over it with a fine-toothed comb before I post it.
( There is a story behind that description - click here for story and recipe... )The next chapter of The Valinor Trail is written - it is just waiting for S2C to have time to go over it with a fine-toothed comb before I post it.
Geek Moment of Joy!
6 Jan 2013 10:58 pmI have one of those programmes about Alaskan airlines on TV - sort of as background as I do something else - and I heard them talk about being in Gimli, Manitoba.
I thought I must have misheard - but no - both S2C and I looked it up and Yay! There really is a place called Gimli in Manitoba.
I thought I must have misheard - but no - both S2C and I looked it up and Yay! There really is a place called Gimli in Manitoba.
Well - second hand roses, anyway! On Monday my mother and sister sent D-d a bouquet of roses to congratulate her on her bar results - and today D-d was going off-island for a week. So she passed the roses on to me.
Aren't they beautiful?
And now for something completely different...
If those who voted in my poll are anything to go by, the Bad Sex award for 2012 is most likely to go to.... Back to Blood, by Tom Wolfe!
Aren't they beautiful?
And now for something completely different...
If those who voted in my poll are anything to go by, the Bad Sex award for 2012 is most likely to go to.... Back to Blood, by Tom Wolfe!
Actually my icon should say less sane than an emu on acid to be anywhere near accurate for this post...
About 30 minutes ago I commented to S2C that doubtless certain elements of American society would be blaming the effects of Hurricane/Storm/Meteorological Description of Choice Sandy on President Obama.
But wait... it's even better than that! I have found this article in the Independent.
I quote the opening paragraph;
Who's to blame for Hurricane Sandy? Why, Obama and Romney, of course! So says the TV evangelist John McTernan, who calls the storm God's response to the fact that "both candidates are pro-homosexual and behind the homosexual agenda". It's difficult to know what's weirder: his understanding of meteorology, or his grasp of the Romney-Ryan social platform.
Both candidates are to blame! Really - you couldn't make it up, could you?
About 30 minutes ago I commented to S2C that doubtless certain elements of American society would be blaming the effects of Hurricane/Storm/Meteorological Description of Choice Sandy on President Obama.
But wait... it's even better than that! I have found this article in the Independent.
I quote the opening paragraph;
Who's to blame for Hurricane Sandy? Why, Obama and Romney, of course! So says the TV evangelist John McTernan, who calls the storm God's response to the fact that "both candidates are pro-homosexual and behind the homosexual agenda". It's difficult to know what's weirder: his understanding of meteorology, or his grasp of the Romney-Ryan social platform.
Both candidates are to blame! Really - you couldn't make it up, could you?
At the beginning of 2011 there was something of a scandal on the small island - a GP was summarily removed from a practice by his partners with no notice, and no explanation except to reassure everyone that it had nothing to do with his medical skills.
There were rumours of theft, or sexual shenanigans, he was interviewed by the police; and then it went quiet and he disappeared off the radar.
However, this morning, on the local news we found out what had been going on back then, from reports of his hearing in front of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal of the General Medical Council.
Here is a link to the story.
Read down to his apology in the next to last paragraph - clearly his laptop drove him to it... it tempted him... he couldn't resist...
S2C is now worried in case his ever exerts such influence over him one night, as he does sometimes take it to work to write in his breaks.
There were rumours of theft, or sexual shenanigans, he was interviewed by the police; and then it went quiet and he disappeared off the radar.
However, this morning, on the local news we found out what had been going on back then, from reports of his hearing in front of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal of the General Medical Council.
Here is a link to the story.
Read down to his apology in the next to last paragraph - clearly his laptop drove him to it... it tempted him... he couldn't resist...
S2C is now worried in case his ever exerts such influence over him one night, as he does sometimes take it to work to write in his breaks.
