A woman visiting a maternity ward asks one of the babies, “And how old are you?” The baby says, “I’m two days old.” The woman says, “You can already talk?” The baby says, “Well, I wasn’t born yesterday.”

Hi @catsnbirds, pretty confused when you guys talk about sub-zero temperatures. I thought the US used Fahrenheit.  But you don’t say sub-32 temperatures. I suppose you use it loosely to mean below freezing. Or are you just translating for us Brits?

If you claim it is minus 40 then I won’t be confused as that is where the the two scales are…[Read more]

What? Nigella on the Bake Off?

Please no.

Ashamed to say @briann that I have been a bit distracted from all that by the news that Nigella Lawson has been recruited onto the Bake Off team.  As if the show’s innuendo quotient wasn’t already off the scale. I am having a moment, not to say a soggy bottom.

I’m surprised they played at all. A ferocious storm moved through half the US. We  caught it here with some record-setting snow, and we were just on the upper fringes of it.
But hey, it’s American football. More than just a pastime for them!

My god, did you watch this game? Played in a blizzard. Was white such a good colour for the Patriots to wear? Maybe it was, their defence was able to hide. Not that anyone could see very far anyway.

Very Hemingway.

Is this what kick-starts you @briann?  Not  a whisper or a fling for over three weeks until Jason appears.

I guess @hunnybunny has a different trigger point. Quite a few actually.

Well I’m glad you haven’t been blown off your ladder.  Can you just confirm something? Did we ever find out why your wife gave up helping you clean windows? No-one ha…[Read more]