A class of five year old schoolchildren return to the classroom after playing in the playground during their little lunch break.

The teacher says to the first child 'hello Mary, what have you been doing this playtime?'.
Mary replies, 'I have been playing in the sand box'.
'Very good' says the teacher. 'If you can spell 'sand' on the blackboard, I will ( Read more... )

Boy,  what a blast from the past. Just under 5 years since the first post of the Glasshouse Mountains.

10 Jan 05 was the day.

Still I get to speak to you more often now by phone. I hope 2010 will be a year of growth and looking forward to doing a lot more this year especially where you are concerned.

Centreshot

Struth, 22 weeks without an entry. I will explain why. The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday mornings. Perhaps it's the quiet solitude that comes with living alone or maybe it's the unbounded joy of not having to be at work. Either way, the first few hours of a Saturday  morning are most enjoyable.

A few months ago I was pottering around, ( Read more... )

On New Year's Eve are you ready to get insane ? Ready to sink 43 beers or wine cask of Lambrusco, come on to your sister in law and pass out in a garden bed ? Me too.With this most joyous time of rest and recreation again upon us, itseems only fitting to ponder the history of New Year's Eve and to remember that, as with so many things in life, it  ( Read more... )

When I was 13, I hoped that one day I would have a girlfriend. When I was 15, I got a girlfriend, but there was no passion, so I decided I needed a passionate girl with a zest for life.

In High School I dated a passionate girl, but she was too emotional. Everything was an emergency ; she was a drama queen, cried all of the time and threatened ( Read more... )

Valavere reminded me-

All this hype about Joe Ratzinger in Sydney last week. His presence is lost to me because of my bad choices and the rejection of Jesus. I think American comedian George Carlin sums it up quite well when he says :- 'Religion has actually convinced people that there is an invisible man living in the sky - who watches everything ( Read more... )

I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger - then it hit me

Police were called to a day care centre where a 3 year old was resisting a rest

To write with a broken pen is pointless

A thief who stole a calendar got 12 months

When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U.C.L.A.

The professor discovered that his theory on earthquakes was on shaky ground

A ( Read more... )

 The Actor Robin Williams recently made a speech where he said, 'I see a lot of people yelling for peace, but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So here is my plan.'

1. The U.S. will apologise to the World for the 'interference' in their affairs, past and present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein ( Read more... )

Number 10 - Life is sexually transmitted.

Number 9 - Good health is merely the slowest possible rate that one can die.

Number 8 - Men have two emotions, hungry and horny, if he hasn't got an erection, make him a sandwich.

Number 7 - Give a person a fish and you will feed him for a day. Teach him to use the internet & he won't bother you for weeks.

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 A Queensland farmer got into his ute and drove to a neighbouring farm and knocked on the farmhouse door. A young boy about nine opened the door.

"Is your Dad home?" the farmer asked.

"Sorry mate, he isn't" the boy replied."He went into town"

"Well" said the farmer, "Is your Mum here?"

"No sir, she's not here either, she went into town with Dad"

"How ( Read more... )