I worked from a young age in my parents' various businesses, though it was mostly clerical work and nothing nearly as demanding as your CapNSam's experience. I did spend some time working in a busy boarding

Crikey, for a minute there I thought I was going blind😁

To err is human, to forgive divine 😁

I don't hold it against him. We're all born into chaos and we navigate it as best we can.

Thank goodness someone understands me:)

Alas he is long gone but he was the most eccentric and learned of men who took nothing seriously and spoke mainly in aphorisms, jokes and quotes, mostly from Wilde, Shakespeare, Longfellow and the bible.

That is much much worse than mine!:)

I'll have you know that's a 1940s classic!

Do you get this one? Teacher: Johnny, give me a sentence with the word centimetre Johnny: My aunt was arriving on the train and I was centimetre

Corny they may be but I haven't heard either before and they did make me smile. Here's one of my father's as I have no jokes of my own. Teacher: Johnny, give me a sentence with the word gladiator Johnny:

Could be any number of reasons. Kale continually produces new leaves at the top while the oldest leaves at the bottom gradually yellow and die. So if the plant looks otherwise healthy just remove the lower

18 USD for a sandwich is expensive indeed. On 1st July the government here reduced the VAT rate on restaurant food from 13.5% to 9%, so a sandwich would cost you around 10-12 euro or 12 USD. I reckon that's

You're right there! Everyone thinks that they have the answer with their jesus, allah or primordial soup, but the truth is none of us knows anything at all.

Sorry to hear about your cucumbers and squash but the way our food is being messed with, anything you can grow yourself is worth the trouble. Enjoy your tomatoes, broccili, basil and kale.

I suspect we're living in some sort of simulation, perhaps one of many. I find it difficult to believe in a benign creator. I mean what kind of being would design a world in which people are born disabled,

Welcome to our happy Hive.

No, but pixilation was! Pixilated is an adjective that generally describes a person or behavior that is amusingly eccentric, whimsical, or somewhat insane and confused. It was commonly used to describe

In principle, I am against regulations. I believe one should have the right to do what one wishes so long as it does not interfere with the right of another to do the same.

I'm sorry to hear that. In the good old days in 1970s and 80s Dublin when painters and poets could sell their work on the streets, I always made an effort to support them. All you get on the streets these

I trained for an hour on Friday, walked for an hour with the dogs yesterday and am just heading off to the gym again now.