Category: General

Liars in church…

A Preacher finished the service one morning by saying, ‘Next
Sunday, I am going to preach on the subject of liars.

As a preparation for my sermon, I would like you all to read
Mark Chapter 17.’

On the following Sunday, the Preacher rose to begin.
Looking out at the congregation he said, ‘Last week I asked
you all to read Mark Chapter 17.

If you have read the chapter, please raise your hand.’

Nearly every hand in the congregation went up. Smiling,
the preacher said, ‘You are the very people I want to talk
to today…….
…. Mark has only 16 chapters.”

Driving with Grandma!

A friend, who worked away from home all week, always made a morning available when he would take his 7-year old granddaughter for a drive in the car for some bonding time — just him and his granddaughter.

One particular Sunday however, he had a bad cold and just wanted to stay in bed. Luckily, his wife came to the rescue and said that she would take their granddaughter out in the car.

When they returned, the little girl anxiously ran upstairs to see how her Grandad was.

‘Well, did you enjoy your ride with Nanny?’

‘It was great, Grandad’ the girl replied, ‘and do you know what? We didn’t see a single tosser, blind bastard, dick-head or wanker anywhere today!’

Almost brings a tear to your eye, doesn’t it?

Skipping work…

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One of the benefits of working from home, is I can up and go when I like, so last week, I decided to do a Val and disappear out for two afternoons with my camera.

Tomato Lake is about 20 minutes drive from home, and is a wonderful spot, in a kind of funny location.  Down the road is Belmont Forum shopping centre, and a few kilometres further are the domestic and international airports.  Yet the wildlife seems plentiful and extremely varied.

Lake Monger is a little further from home and in a suburb with large and expensive houses.  It was all very peaceful, and like many others I took a cool drink, some sarnies for lunch, found a bench to sit on and enjoyed the sunshine for a few hours.

Main intention for this was to practice the slideshow, and see if I’d followed Boadicea’s excellent instructions correctly…here goes!

Fearless Jack Russel attacks Croc

Some of you may remember my post on the baby elephant being grabbed by a crocodile and being saved by the herd running to its rescue.

Today I read the remarkable tale of a croc threatening a lion cub, three lionesses noticed the intruder, rescued the cub and made mincemeat of the errant croc. The whole episode was captured on camera, full story and lots more pics here.

Our news has just  reported that a fearless Jack Russel chased and caught a croc up on the Vaal River… Continue reading “Fearless Jack Russel attacks Croc”