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English is so weird

Limericks by sound, and by spelling - There once was an old man from York who took a fat pig for a walk, when asked "why this was, he said...
1,009150Feb 2019May 20206 hrs ago

Changing my description, sigh

I've described myself as "a few extra pounds" from the start but I could always have stood to lose a stone (that's 14 pounds, or 6 kgs, for the rest o...
1,719650Mar 2019Aug 201911 hrs ago

Don't let the old man in. Not today.

And if he pushes in anyway, don't let him make himself at home! How old would you be, if you didn't know the day you were born? Some people...
2,464750Jun 2019Jul 2019Apr 24

Taken for granted

A friend of mine has been having a right whinge about her daughter-in-law using her as an on-tap babysitter without so much as a by-your-leave. Her DI...
1,145291Jun 2019Jun 20195 hrs ago

Beauty - or, those who cannot do, teach.

So this morning I tried a little, a very little, shea butter on my hair. It no longer looks like an exploded haystack but is a sleek and shining curta...
1,638520Apr 2019Jun 201929 mins ago

if you were born a boy or a girl, what are you now ...

There's some weird stuff happening in UK schools and the Daily Mail has got very overexcited about it. I know it's a long blog. You can skip to the la...
1,585340May 2019Jun 20195 hrs ago

Thanks ...

I saw this today and blinked and read it again and hello? Although this isn't a blog likely to generate the kind of chat I like, I thought maybe you t...
942120May 2019Jun 201921 hrs ago

Talking to ourselves

Me: I can’t have told you, I had some really good news about (insert topic here) DD: yes you did Me: Oh. You didn’t say anything. DD: I didn’t re...
674170Jun 2019Jun 201912 hrs ago

Reviews ... and why we read them ...

There's the puff review - this is the best product / hotel / restaurant / book I ever came across while using this fake email address, FIVE STARS...
793-0May 2019May 20199 hrs ago

Another brick in the wall

Imagine .... going to school in a class with a maximum of 20 pupils, no streaming, and the same teacher for 5 years. There are teacher a...
794241May 2019May 2019Apr 25

old dog vestibular disease

Wednesday she was fine - she's old, a little wobblier in the mornings than in years of yore, but lively, greedy, healthy. Yesterday morning very w...
1,214220May 2019May 20195 hrs ago

There goes the neighbourhood

so how many of yeah wanna be all right abought everything with your opinion *** Video evidence at hand and you are just too blind or ignorant to see...
1,014310May 2019May 201916 hrs ago

Wot's thet?

Big 7 Travel has ranked the 50 sexiest accents in the world - I feel I could make some safe money taking bets if you lot weren't able to look up the a...
2,312790May 2019May 2019Apr 25

a kind of magic

Big brand new rented car parked in narrow road. Add Spanish drivers, who are not always wonderful. Mix and stir, and you get a scrape across 2 door pa...
898231Apr 2019Apr 2019Apr 25

When world leaders, past, present, or wannabe, take on a challenge

The challenge is to turn the colour yellow to red. Wonder if anyone will recognize any of my attempts at caricature (I shall be adding one per com...
794150Apr 2019Apr 2019Apr 20

When Solitaire's the only game in town

More and more people in their 30s and 40s are choosing to be alone, to have a social network but no partner and no lasting ties. Most people on their...
1,145221Apr 2019Apr 2019Apr 25

Why hug?

That's fairly recent, the whole hugging thing, when I was younger (and mammoths roamed the earth, I know, I know) you offered your hand and the strang...
1,881850Mar 2019Apr 201920 hrs ago

April Fool!

April Fools day has become extraordinary for one unexpected reason - it is now the only day of the year that people query news items on the interne...
890180Apr 2019Apr 2019Apr 19

How many dogs does it take to change a lightbulb?

Border Collie – just one, and then I’ll replace any wiring that isn’t up to code German Shepherd – I’ll change it as soon as I’ve escorted everyone...
51420Mar 2019Apr 2019Apr 24

Some guy called Obama

I looked wistfully back at March 2016 and guess what, there were 3 - only THREE - political blogs on this international singles website. One abo...
2,636992Mar 2019Mar 201914 hrs ago

Perfect gifts – edited from week-to-go to Got one! last comments

There was a joke suggestion on FB re the perfect Christmas gift for writers so naturally I re-posted it on the spot but it got me thinking. Perfect g...
2,385921Dec 2018Mar 201914 hrs ago

Avoiding the troll blog

but for those who took my comments personally, Art, Bekard - to be 60 or 70 or 80 does not make one automatically senile and I apologise, it never occ...
953201Feb 2019Mar 20198 hrs ago

Perceptions, people.

Don’t even think of responding until you have read the bottom line. It was created by someone with Asperger Syndrome and is, in its own way,...
818271Dec 2018Mar 201919 hrs ago

Become famous - upset people. It's so today.

There’s a post on FB doing the rounds – the average Brit pensioner gets £79 a week, the average asylum seeker gets £350 a week, a free car,...
843291Jan 2019Mar 2019Apr 24

Young kids nowadays

can identify any number of corporate logos cannot identify leaves from trees in their own garden Of course their future progress will depend m...
1,816731Jan 2019Mar 2019Apr 24

You've slept with HOW many people?

Hundreds. HUNDREDS. Oh, I know you wouldn’t dream of having sex with a stranger without a condom. But what happens when they aren’t a stranger, an...
2,004340Nov 2015Mar 20192 hrs ago

Graduating from CS school

CS really is like a school - all the way from kindergarten to graduation. Okay, an odd one. We have no idea how long we will be here, that first day -...
3,3131070Feb 2016Mar 2019Apr 26

Haggle for love?

So - I finally got my salary offer for relocating - let's call it 15% on existing salary. Thanks, I said, but no thanks. Manager instantly said okay,...
2,345910Oct 2016Mar 20199 hrs ago

CS soap opera

Catching up on CS after a couple of days is like a soap opera - what have I missed? Marriages births deaths boasts cries for exciting advice? You'...
2,092300Oct 2015Mar 2019Apr 25

How long is too long?

When we get involved with someone we graft them onto ourselves. Ripping that graft away is not only painful, it leaves scars. I hate pain!and I don’t...
1,890380Jul 2015Mar 20192 hrs ago

You've changed

Every serious relationship you were ever in, changed you. Men change for women and yes, women really do change for men. Did you keep the changes o...
1,424580Dec 2018Mar 201948 mins ago

Reasons not to get married

Here's a couple, not young (knocking 60) in a really good relationship. One was very happily married, then widowed, and believes marriage is important...
1,787540Sep 2015Mar 20197 hrs ago

Normal people

Do normal people exist? First you have to define normal. Take yourself. Are you normal? YAY! Find someone like yourself. YAY! If they re...
1,663160Sep 2015Mar 20193 hrs ago

In the future ..

In the future children will be raised believing it is their duty to seek a happy life, with just one proviso*. They will be taught from the beginning...
1,634571Mar 2019Mar 2019Apr 25

Voy a mi bola

Move along please folks unless you can help me with some Spanish colloquialisms because I suspect my leg is being gently pulled ... not going to say w...
907250Mar 2019Mar 2019Apr 19

Perfect match - but which one?

Let's call him A (for Adventure ) he's around 50, a good technician, will never have a problem finding a job, right now he's up for technical m...
1,9411010Feb 2019Feb 2019Apr 25

Quantum weird other-worldly music - the theremin

I'd never heard of these before, not by name, and was bug-eyed watching one played in a classical concert. It isn't touched but played by the energy o...
556100Feb 2019Feb 2019Apr 25

The rock and the hard place - a modern microstory about business

The company I worked for, after beating off many attempts at hostile takeovers in the past, was shocked when several of our opposition, including our...
554140Feb 2019Feb 2019Apr 17

Really REALLY honest profile comments

You want honest profiles? I found some spotted on websites, pruned out the crudest, sharing twenty of those that made me blink. These were all from p...
702170Oct 2018Feb 2019Apr 18

Replacing priests with OMG

Catholic priests have been taking a lot of flak in our lifetimes. Never married, no children, how DARE they tell us what to think or how to react, eh?...
1,256331Feb 2019Feb 2019Apr 23

All the things NOT in your profile

You are not your age, nor the size of clothes you wear, You are not a weight, or the color of your hair. You are not your name, or the dimples in yo...
1,815810Jan 2019Feb 201916 hrs ago

Anyone having good weather?

My daughter is walking her dog in 6 inches of snow. My friend there in Natal is resisting being washed out of her house by torrential rain. I know the...
1,857990Feb 2019Feb 201915 mins ago

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