I has Learnt to link!Look out!(Rolls up sleeves and dives into LJ headfirst.)

Some of my feelings about Christmas.
Xmas time is here,by golly,disapproval would be folly;
Deck the halls with hunks of holly,fill the cup and don't say "when":
Kill the turkeys,ducks and chickens,mix the punch,drag out the Dickens,
Even tho' the prospect sickens,Brother,here we go again.
Words by Tom Lehrer.

Rather than doing my cleaning job at a dentist in the late evening,I go early morning;get up 2.15 a.m.,back after 4a.m.This a.m. I was actually stopped by the police,who only wanted to know if I was alright,no probs.This is a small town,but I'm always on the alert just in case.Most of the people I pass,and there are very few of those,are young men, ( Read more... )

Early this morning,in my capacity as a care assistant,I was in an old lady's kitchen cooking up a slice of buttered bread."My word",thought I,"those birds out there are noisy."A move to the window revealed a heron looking for breakfast in the old lady's small pond.(Are they big!)As I fumbled for the doorkey to shoo the bird away,it grabbed a ( Read more... )

Day 3 Second Test Adelaide: Aus 312-5,Hoggard with 4 wickets.If England can bowl Oz out very cheaply,put on lots of runs in the second innings,maybe there's a win for England...are those flying pigs I see up there?

Day 2 Eng 551-6 dec.Aus 28-1.Hope Flintoff has left enough time to bowl them out twice;a draw won't do.

Australia won the first Ashes Test by 277 runs.Wonder why Ricky Ponting didn't enforce the follow-on...could it be because his bowlers were not up to the task?England put up some resistance in the second innings,but will need to do a great deal better.On to Adelaide.

...Brisbane,first Ashes Test,day one...Aus won the toss,elected to bat first.Finished on 346 for 3.Outlook poor,unless England can take 7 wickets for no runs tomorrow.What are the chances of that!

Thought for the week in diary;Happiness is no laughing matter.Archbishop Richard Whately.

The first book with 5 words in its title is Brewer's Dictionary Of Phrase And Fable.Paragraph 1 on page 32 reads as follows ( Read more... )