Humour – things change

Humour/Video

Partido de Tenis

Saturday, Oct 29, 2022 MikeBLeave a comment

Partido de Tenis

This creases me up!

Humour/Misc

Shired

Wednesday, Jan 13, 2021Wednesday, Jan 13, 2021 MikeBLeave a comment

In this rare game of Scrabble I eventually came out a narrow winner. On seeing the WhatsApped (!) board my daughter questioned the word “shired” (played by me). I thought it meant something to do with horses but was I confusing it with “sired” or possibly thinking of Shire horses and creating a verb from an adjective? I eventually tracked down the following on en.wiktionary.org

thus validating my play of the word. That was lucky – but I’ll take the win, thank you!

Humour

Cheer yourself up

Saturday, Oct 17, 2020Saturday, Oct 17, 2020 MikeBLeave a comment

I laughed a lot over the past couple of days watching these gems. Click on the links to watch.

Abigail’s Party

It’s 43 years old but still brilliantly funny

Motherland

The mothers go away for the weekend

Taskmaster

Comedians play silly games. I’m a big fan of Greg Davies.

Humour/Misc

Embarrassing

Saturday, Aug 1, 2020 MikeBLeave a comment

About me/Humour/Misc

Saturday’s interactions

Sunday, Sep 17, 2017Sunday, Sep 17, 2017 MikeBLeave a comment

I accepted a religious pamphlet from a street missionary and put it in the first available bin. Maybe I should have returned it to the missionary further down the street who tried to give me another one.
The ATM outside a bank shortchanged me by £20. I only spotted this because the machine was taking ages to print the receipt and was also still attempting to eject one of the notes . This wouldn’t have happened if I had been prepared to queue at the machines inside the bank. (Queue? See later!)
The man in the small newsagents refused my i newspaper subscription voucher – it takes too long to get payment back, he said.
On only my second visit to Wilco I abandoned my budget notebook on seeing the 10-deep checkout queues. There should be a bin near the checkouts so that customers unprepared to wait in the queue can abandon their goods rather than leaving them on a random shelf, as I did.
At home, my bank’s Internet banking site has an option to report problems with ATM transactions, which was helpful and suggests it’s a fairly common event.
A very fine evening interacting with old friends on our first visit to the excellent Mute Swan pub in Hampton Court. Good food, lots of space between tables, and for a Saturday night not too noisy. I shouldn’t have finished with a strong, black coffee, but that’s another story.