Quiz Time

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Da

From Facebook Archives

1 March 2018 at 19:03 

"Why are you wearing a short sleeved shirt Fester?"

Was the reply:-

a) "It was on the top of the heap and I couldn't be arsed to find a different one."

b) "I've only been wearing it a couple of days and didn't want to change it until I'm going somewhere where I need to wear a clean shirt."

c) Both of the above

Mr Mull  C

Woolerwoman  Obviously A

Mrs Banjoman  C

Paganess  C

Woolerwoman  Put us out of our misery!

Bentonbag  C

Mr Monkshood  Perfectly logical responses.

McChurch  Why are women so picky?

Woolerwoman  You see Ben, Dr Fester is much more far sighted than you give him credit for.

Defining Normality

“We have normality.  I repeat, we have normality.  Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.” Douglas Adams,

Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.

In early 2020 when, amongst other things, Ferretfingers broke his ankle, my blogs were intermittent and took a while to catch up with real time as I attempted to keep family and friends informed of his progress.

Then the unpleasantness came down upon us and I decided that people might like something amusing to read in their isolation, so started to mine the Facebook Archives.

With the result that nowadays they flash forward and back through time with the insouciance of

Dr Who.

From Facebook archives…

28 February 2020 at 15:01 ·

I've blogged

bentonbag.blogspot.com  Hospital log #6 "Do what!?"

EVENING WEDNESDAY 19 TH FEBRUARY In the fifties Miss Doozer next door would have been called a Pocket Venus. However as her hob...

Drummerman Normal service has been resumed...

Bentonbag You have a quaint understanding of the word 'normal'

Drummerman Oi speaks as oi finds...😏

Miss Doozer Perfectly normal for our road... 🙊

Bentonbag So that you may understand Drummerman:-

On Xmas Eve my vegan next door neighbour presented me with a large bowl of Sainsbury's pasta carbonara which she had bought and cooked "by accident".

The small dog at The Ponderosa across the road has never been seen to walk; 

it is always carried to and from the car.

Sadly Betty at No14 has passed away so no longer climbs out onto her bay and hops across onto the porch with a small step ladder and a bucket in order to clean the bedroom windows (to be fair she stopped doing it once she turned 80).

Drummerman  How different from the home life of our own dear Queen...

Small Annoyances

 

The wellbeing and sanity of the parents of a special needs child depends in part on the caring professions, providers and administrators doing their job with some level of competence.

When the boys went to school they travelled in taxis, or minibuses, organised by Schools Transport.  At first we were instructed not to contact the taxi driver if a child wasn’t going to school, but to phone Schools Transport who would deal with it.  The snag with this is that Schools Transport worked 9 to 5, or at best 8.30 to 5, and most children were picked up before this.  So eventually common sense prevailed and we were given the taxi driver’s number…

From Facebook archives…

27 February 2010 at 22:41 ·

Thunderthighs had sickness and diarrhoea this evening.  Fish, chips and bourbon biscuits all brought up into a bucket whilst he sat on loo.   So no school for him on Monday and I've made a nest for him on the bedroom floor because the last thing you want is someone with d&v in the top bunk

28 February 2010 at 12:16 ·

Tried to 'phone Thunderthighs’ taxi driver to tell him he won't be going to school tomorrow due to the 48-hours-off-after-vomiting rule - only to find Schools Transport had given me the wrong number - and that only after I'd written to them asking for one.  

Chocolate ashtrays the lot of them

Elucidating Entomologists

From Facebook archives…

26 February 2019 at 20:35

Watching Pointless prompted the following.

"Nabokov was a butterfly collector."

“Are lepidopterists as weird as coleopterists?”

"Chinless, but not as chinless as dipterists, and coleopterists are a mixed bunch:  we water-beetlers are ok but the rest can be a bit iffy."

So now you know about the various branches of entomology and what the practitioners are like.

I bet Google's about to see some action. 

Drummerman  A Coleopter flies over here quite often...

 

An Unhappy Anniversary

From Facebook Archives

25 February 2022 at 08:49

Yesterday evening was not a happy one.   

At bedtime Ferretfingers plonked himself next to me and wailed "I'm upset by the Ukrainian invasion."  

We had a lot of noise and stimming (humming, inchoate vocalisation and flapping) before he settled down to sleep.

I'm supposed to be monitoring his blood pressure.

Mrs Lasagne  It’s so frightening.  My granddaughter loves to watch the news.  We already have social anxiety and this is horrendous xxx love to Ferretfingers and all of you xxxx

Miss Doozer  I was in tears listening to the Today Programme, they were live with air raid sirens going off.  I switched it off, I couldn't listen.