I recently watched an interesting TV program about basking sharks, off the coast of Scotland. They said that basking sharks are the worlds 2nd largest fish, I've been wondering ever since, what fish...
While browsing in a gift shop in Canada I noticed several old fashioned dinner forks attached to a piece of driftwood board, formed to make a rustic but neat looking row of coat hooks. The thing is, I...
Our family was so poor, when I was a kid, my Ma used to go to the butchers and buy a sheep's head to make broths and stews out of it, to keep us hungry kids from starving. Ma would always ask the...
tourist was waiting on a London street corner. An attractive English girl was passing by, when a sudden gust of wind blew her dress up above her waist'Monroe style'!. A bit airy, isn't it ? the...
A man walks into a flower shop and discovers something new : A bonsai palm in a pot.
He admires the plant and he says to the sales assistant "With fronds like these, who needs anemones?"...
but when I drove into the farmyard to deliver some letters, I saw Ron, dancing round his tractor, stark naked and singing I believe in miracles, as he hosed his tractor down. I handed Ron the letters...
Normally at this time of year, I usually see plenty of cuckoo spit (caused by frog hopper nymphs) on the plants and leaves. This year I think, I've only seen one blob, for that matter, I've not heard...
That old hit by the loving spoonful, way back in the 60s. There is a line in the lyrics that go's something like - "Till i'm wheezing like a bust stop". It's been bugging me for years, why would a bus...
A pheasant was stood in a field talking to a bull. You know I'd really like to fly to the top of that tall tree and look down from there but I just don't have the energy. The bull turns to the...
I often get them coming into the garden from the surrounding countryside, looking for crumbs beneath the hanging peanut feeders. So far I've only seen male birds. Do they tend to release only the...
I saw a speed camera flash as I went through a 40mph zone, I looked at my speedo and I was doing just under 40mph.
Why did it flash ?
A'm I likely to get a ticket ?...
One hot, sunny day I walked into a pub, in a small fishing village in New England. When my eyes became accustomed to the dim lights inside the bar, I noticed that there was a guy standing next to me...
