I remember that old joke, it’s obsolete now thanks to decimalisation.
“What’s a woman with one leg worth?”
“Half a knicker”
Some of our younger oldies may not remember the LSD money, half a knicker was ten shillings which went on to be 50 pence today.
Twins! Oh my God, Betty and Hetty Boop, lord spare us all.
I thought they smashed the mould when they cast you Sweetie.;-)
Out with the old and in with the new, I bought meself a new navy blue trench coat today, I’m sick of wearing jackets both heavy in Winter and light in Summer, this coat is three quarter length, warm but not heavy.
Overcoats seem to have gone out completely now, all the men seem to wear jackets, except for politicians, they always wear those dark long overcoats like the one Trump parades around in, Hearsemens coats me mother used to call them. Anyway at my age fashion is the last thing on my mind, but I like to be dressed neat and tidy when going somewhere special, and we have a wedding coming up shortly, God I hate attending weddings, give me a good wake anyday.
As I opened the downstairs window of my little two storey house to get some fresh air I wondered would the air be fresher if I was upstairs and opened the window there? What I mean is, is the air fresher say on the roof of a building than it is lower down?
I know, I know, I’ve little to be bothering me, thank God for that.
Longer coats are becoming trendy Jem, so you are ahead of the fashion.
I can’t wear long coats mainly because I drive, and too lazy to take my coat off.
It is my Wedding Anniversary on Saturday - 34yrs!!!
I think the air is fresher downstairs where I live, they have wood burning stoves in my area, it makes me cough!!!
Jem-opening an upstairs window will make no difference,mate.
To YOU,charging in magnificent fashion up the staircase,it may seem to be a fair height difference - but to your WINDOWS,the upstairs one is only a couple of feet above the downstairs one. BUT…and this,no doubt,will be ha-ha’d by the all-knowing blowhards…opening an upstairs window CAN actually boost wifi reception! Yuss…honestly. [not many people know that]…and NEVER have your router near a window. You’d be amazed how many people think doing so must strengthen the signal…it doesn’t-it just means a lot of the router’s output just ‘goes out the window’,literally. Right-gotta go…more pills to pop…ciao…
He’s probably taking a break Sweetie, if he wasn’t well he’d let us know, all dem poems take a lot out of him you know, he don’t run them off a sausage conveyor belt like me, there’s permanence in his rhymes.
ARE YA ALL RIGHT ME OULD COBBER???
Thanks Pug, so it makes no difference the higher I am in the house the air is no fresher when I open a window.
Didn’t know that about the wifi going out the window, it makes sense when you think about it, there’s a lot of out there out there, in fact there’s more out there than there is in here, isn’t there?
How did I forget Friday is wine day Sweetie?
Actually I’m still a bit muddled in the days since Christmas, I forgot to go to the post office for me pension today, I thought it was Wednesday for some reason or other. Anyway we’re more than halfway through this miserable month, January and February are the two worst months of the year in my book.
You enjoy your couple of glasses, I’ll be having a drop of port myself later on, too cold to go out for a pint tonight, cheers!.
Wifi is a radio signal-and ergo,it takes the path of least resistance. So if you place your router against a solid wall [as opposed to those thin chipboard jokes in modern houses] it causes the signal to ‘bounce’ back through your house,mate.
Wifi signals follow the ‘inverse square’ law…meaning that if you double the distance,you receive QUARTER the signal strength. So ensuring your full signal is ‘bounced’ iNTO your home is a good idea. It’s a truth,that a wifi signal has the same wavelength as Standard Cosmic Background Radiation-so a wifi signal is no more-and no less- dangerous than starlight.
It’s also a very little-known truth,that just one 20 minute call on a mobile 'phone,equates to a YEAR of exposure to a wifi router + laptop. So,as you can see…not too much to fear. However-if you want to find out if your microwave oven is safe-place your mobile inside,shut the door…then ring it. If it picks up the call,your microwave oven is leaking radiation each time you turn it on. If it weren’t,the mobile would remain silent,unable to get a signal. Ok,sounds silly…but it’s all true.
We actually repeated andthen duplicated these tests at the uni,so the students could discover for themselves a few ‘home truths’.
Dissolved? Nay Sweetie, Jelly dissolves in hot water, which reminds me to tell the wife not to forget my lemon jelly trifle for dessert this evening, yum yum.
As I said these two depressing months are not good for anyone’s moral, what with politicians who haven’t a clue how to do their jobs and no getting away from the dreaded “Brexit” word whether it involves you or not, it’s enough to make you want to shoot yerself.
But the months will soon pass and Spring will burst out all over, joy and mirth shall fill the land, sheep a lambing, cows a leaping merrily across the dew topped meadows, Gumbuds will appear on bushes and hedgerows throughout the countryside, Spitty’s office will be ready for that glorious opening, RJ will post his new compositions, Pug shall sooth us all with twangy sounds, the sick shall be healed and the lame shall walk again, praise the Lord.
