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A woman came home, screeching her car into the driveway, and ran into the house. She slammed the door and shouted at the top of her lungs, ‘Honey, pack your bags. I won the lottery!’
The husband said, ‘Oh my God! What should I pack, beach stuff or mountain stuff?’ ‘Doesn’t matter,’ she said. ‘Just get out.’

The third one escapes me.

Score one for the little man. (Or, if you insist, ‘person.’)

Someone in the USA has foreclosed a debt on the Bank of America. Sheriff’s Deputies descended on a branch in Collier County, Florida and started to remove desks, chairs and other stuff – including the cash in the tellers’ drawers. The action was the result of a court judgement against the bank who had claimed that the individual was in arrears of payment of a non-existent mortgage – the property in question had been bought for cash.

I wonder could we start a trend?

Story here.

Sorry but this tickled me too.  This is definitely the last one… until I find something better   😉

Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right, and the other is a husband.

You know how, as you get older, you accumulate memories of seconds, hours, days, weeks, months or even decades when you would probably have preferred not to have been there, on mature reflection? They seemed like fun at the time but they might not have been such a good idea when you think back on it?

At 9.05 am on Friday 3rd June 1977, I was toying with a particularly tedious Note on Title and looking forward to 5pm and the weekend when a Partner stuck his head round the door and said:-

‘Could you use six tickets for Wembley tomorrow?’ Continue reading “What I did on 4th June 1977”

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An easy one – so there are twice as many recognisable faces than usual!

They have all played Sherlock Holmes – Congratulations Araminta!

My apologies, but I haven’t had time to write biographies for this lot!

Mission Completed – thanks everyone! 😀

We’re just back from a visit to the new extension of the coastal path round the Cap d’Antibes.  It was opened today, all 500 metres of it, and opens up some more of the grounds of the Villa Eilenroc.  The camera came with us but unfortunately it forgot to bring any of its memory cards with it!

The Eilenroc has beautiful gardens, originally created by a Scot, James Wyllie. In the 1930s the villa was owned by an American millionaire, Victor Beaumont, who furnished it with antiques.   His wife attracted a large number of  famous guests and European royalty to her house parties.  The new stretch of footpath now allows visitors to use the bathing areas that were  originally created for Mrs Beaumont’s guests with a little bar area where the servants would bring food and drink down from the house.  The little bay is now known as  Billionaires  Bay (la Baie des Milliardaires).  After the war Mrs Beaumont reclaimed her property, but of  course the great days of European royalty and extravagant house parties were over and in the 1960s she left the house and grounds to the town of Antibes.  Its is now used for “distinguished guests” and special events.

We visited the olive grove and the rose garden as well.  I love the rose garden but the roses were all looking a bit battered today.  We have had several torrential downpours in the past few days, but the scent of the roses was still around.  It’s always a  pleasure to visit, even though  Roman Abramovitch is still adding more security fences and all sorts of electronic devices to his property next door.  How many nights is he actually going to spend there?

http://www.antibes.co.uk/eilen.roc/

A Polish immigrant went to the DMV to apply for a driver’s license. First, of course, he had to take an eye sight test The optician showed him a card with the letters

‘C Z W I X N O S T A C Z.’ ‘Can you read this?’ the optician asked. ‘Read it?’ the Polish guy replied, ‘I know the guy.’