Month: February 2012

Here on the South Coast we’ve been sitting with the patio doors open and no heating!

An Arab Sheik was admitted to St Vincent ’s Hospital for heart surgery, but prior to the surgery, the doctors needed to store his blood in case the need arises. As the gentleman had a rare type of blood, it couldn’t be found locally, so the call went out to all the states. Continue reading “Blood matters”

There’s an annual contest at the University of Arkansas calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term. This year’s term was: “Political Correctness.”  The winning student wrote:

Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

My mum and I have decided to take a flight home to Germany later on this year. In order to break the monotony of family-related visits we’ve decided to take a 5-day, 4-night holiday to England. Be warned. Be wary. In fact, be frightened.Does anyone have any ideas what we could do for that amount of time? I have lots of ideas, but only a couple are not completely impractical.

I realise that it looks as if I’ve really got it in for France today, though it is a country I love and where I have many friends.  But I learned just today that from the spring motorists will be required to carry not only the yellow safety vests and warning triangles but also a breathalyser – well this seems a bit much. The gendarmerie want to breathalyse you and you have to provide the implement.  You then have to make sure you have a fresh one ready for the next time.  There could of course be a market here for producing breathalysers which always read zero!