Why?

Here’s a few great questions to make you ponder:-

• Why do people order double cheeseburgers , large fries and a diet coke?
• Why do we leave cars worth thousands on our drives and fill our garages with junk?
• Why does the sun lighten our hair but darken our skin?
• Why don’t you ever see the headline, “Psychic Wins Lottery?”
• Why is abbreviated such a long word?
• Why is dyslexia so hard to spell?
• Why is the slowest time of the day on our roads called the rush hour?

A Funny Sort of Day

It’s been a funny sort of day. I looked out this morning and the sky was full of contrasty, brooding clouds, so, I thought, time to get my camera out and head west.  On the way to west Cornwall the clouds thickened and suddenly I was driving through 2 inches of snow/hail – needed to get my welly boots out.  On arriving in the Cott Valley the sun began to shine so I needed to get the sunscreen out.   When I got home I decided it was time to get the motorbike out, guess what? It started raining.

It really has been a funny sort of day – I’ve not known what to get out!

Priceless

Could resist sharing this – it’s priceless. If you’ve ever worked in the creative/design/print industry you won’t know whether to smile or cry. See – http://www.boredpanda.com/sharp-suits-worst-client-comment-posters

Thought Bubbles

Aren’t you glad secret thoughts are secret, hidden desires are hidden and thought bubbles don’t exist!

Hedgehog Poo

I was watching wild life expert, Ray Mears on TV the other night as he examined hedgehog scat explaining that you could tell it was from a carnivore as it had a tapered, pointy end! Wow. It made me wonder as to why? It also got me looking at my vegetarian friends in a whole different way!

Quails, Snails and Manna

There’s a great joke about the head of an Abbey who goes down into the deepest cellars to check the translation of his monks against the most ancient manuscripts. After several days there is a howling and wailing which lasts for ages. Eventually the Abbot stumbles into the library and says, “God said celebrate, not celibate.”

It made me wonder if maybe the original writer of Exodus 16:11-16 had been French and what God supplied in the desert was actually snails, not quails!

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I Laughed Till it Hurt

I don’t normally mock the afflicted, nor do I normally laugh out loud, but last night I couldn’t help it. In honour of a dental check-up my wife decided to give her teeth a good flossing, during which the floss somehow jammed between two back teeth. I was summoned after numerous failed attempts to dislodge it and was presented with a mouth wide open with around 4 inches of floss protruding. Four inches just isn’t enough to get your fingers around. So I had to go downstairs and return with a pair of pliers. I tell you, it’s hard to be a knight in shining armour armed just with pliers. Especially if you are laughing so much your shoulders are shaking and your vision is blurred by tears.

Oddly, my wife didn’t really appreciate my valiant attempts and didn’t seem to see the funny side of the situation. Instead of thanking me she merely grunted that she, “was surprised I didn’t video it and put it on You Tube.” Aaaaargh, why didn’t I think of that?

 

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