I thought that this may be of some use.
Since more and more Seniors are texting and tweeting there appears to be a need for a STC (Senior Texting Code). If you qualify for Senior Discounts this is the code for you. Please pass this on to your children and grandchildren so they can understand your texts. Continue reading “Following on from some post or other (can’t remember which one)”
Not one swear word, I promise. No bad language at all.
Most of you won’t understand the underlying politics, or recognise the players in this drama, but you must have heard of Libya and The Middle East.
Rebel forces and the threat of a Canberra Spring
You may find it funny, or you may find it hard work and give up on it. 😀
Some of you may remember these guy’s take on the London riots, this made me smile this morning.
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“Commanders-in-Chief in the field submitted periodical lists of officers and soldiers who were “mentioned in dispatches”. Award of a Mention ranked below MC or MM and could be for gallantry in action or for a wide range of services on and off the battlefield.”
Perhaps one should be awarded on a monthly basis to a worthy member on this site. I should like to nominate myself as the very first recipient. 🙂
A few days ago, our respected and treasured third moderator raised a reasonable objection to certain crass acronyms which have, of late, become prevalent in posts and comments within The Chariot. As the site’s undisputed coward, I swiftly sidestepped the issue and tossed it upstairs to our leader, who rather uncharacteristically sat on the fence, pleading ethnic corruption.
I fear that I may have detected some disappointment emanating from the South African branch office.
However, as so often happens, the matter has serendipitously arisen elsewhere, and Annabel Crabb (the ABC’s chief online political commentator) has leapt into print to explain. One doesn’t have to read the full article on The Drum or know who Craig Thomson is – although he is currently a reviled political cause célèbre in Australia – to gain an understanding of the contemporary language pool in which Boadicea and I now swim.
Here is an extract from Annabel’s article –
… But I love FFS, for its pithy and very Australian blend of implied obscenity with genuine, palms-to-the-skies, you’ve-got-to-be-kidding exasperation.
Jumped the shark? Look it up, FFS! 😀
An Adelaide Woman.
A young Adelaide woman was so depressed that she decided to end her life by throwing herself into the sea, but just before she could throw herself from the wharf, a handsome young man stopped her. Continue reading “A variation of an old joke”
It was interesting to read the Janus and Sipu takes on working women. It so happens that they are both different to my own experience and beliefs. No less valid but just different.
Janus wrote – ‘Further education for women was extremely elitist’. Not in Jockland it wasn’t. My maternal grandfather was the son of a tenant farmer. On his return from Gallipoli, having served there with the Fife & Forfar Yeomanry, he quarreled irrevocably with his parents because they had nominated his younger brother as the reserved worker rather than him.
Continue reading “Working Women Revisited”
Alfie is the latest addition to our household.
Mrs M had always said that she would get a dog when she retired. She has and she did. She and I come from different backgrounds. She had dogs as a child and I did not. Continue reading “What’s It All About?”
Although this did raise a smile this morning!
My daily read also has a column of South African Facebook and social network comments, showing little sympathy for the plight of the British government, here’s a sample… Continue reading “No laughing matter”
Arachnophobia afflicts two members of our household, while I’m rather fond of the eight legged scuttlers, even when they are fairly large. So when I saw this:
on the landing I knew I had to do something. Continue reading “Saving lives”
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