Son-blog has a Golden Retriever called Maggie. He has trained her exceptionally well and is always looking for ways to improve her behaviour.
Last weekend he mentioned that a friend had told him of Dog Psychologists who help with deep seated issues.
I am skeptical though...Maggie isn't allowed on the couch.
Earlier in the week I was at the Kayak club. I ran into a member I'd been emailing for a month without a reply. The following conversation took place,
"Ruairdh, I've not had a reply to my emails, mate!"
"What emails?"
(I explained)
"Must be my email system playing up." Off went Ruairdh.
I turned to the lady who does the admin in our club.
"You'd think he could sort his emails out given that he works in IT!"
"He doesn't work in IT"
"Doesn't he? What does he do?"
"He's a joiner."
"How on earth did I get the idea that he was in IT then?"
"Maybe you heard him saying he'd fixed someone's windows?"
Last week I was at the golf course. Our forward looking club committee have installed a compressed air machine to clean muddy trolley wheels and mud clad golf shoes. This was pretty handy on the day in question since it was pretty bloomin muddy.
I stood there aiming the "gun" at my shoes (and on to the ground) on the left of the machine and a suspicious looking octogenarian wandered up out of nowhere and took the "gun" on the right side of the machine. He aimed it at his shoe which was in a direct line with my face...and let rip!!
Me, two minutes later...
Mrs Blog very kindly offered to drive us home in my car from a hostelry earlier in the week. She drives a cute little manual car and is only slightly familiar with the automatic that I use.
She turned on the engine.
Moved the selector to N.
"Why isn't it moving?" she said.
"Because it's in neutral" I replied.
"Oh, I thought was for "Now""!
Thanks again to Duolingo for their endless supply of Polish translations.
I promise this is real...
Translate into Polish "Why did you buy that fat penguin?"
You have to assume the following,
Following on from my discovery that people learning Polish on Duolingo will need the phrase "When I was cleaning your room I found a knife" I began to wonder if Poland might be a slightly lawless country.
That view was reinforced when Duolingo asked me to translate into Polish...
"Stay here and don't take anything!"
(Stick with this - it gets better!)
