Happy Monday - living dangerously

"If women are so good at multi-tasking, how come they can't have a headache and sex at the same time?” - Billy Connolly

"If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers." - Doug Larson

Q - How many BT telephonists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A - One hundred. One to change the bulb (eventually), nine to transfer you from one to the other and ninety to say “Please continue to hold, your call is important to us”.

 If a man speaks in a forest and there is no woman around to hear him. Is he still wrong?

Thoughtful Sunday - Some Thoughts on Grief

"A rough path is sometimes worth the treading if, in so doing, we can tread down the brambles in the path of others."
E M Blaiklock "The Bible and I"

"Our tragedy is not that we suffer but that we waste
suffering."
Unknown - Quoted by Mary Craig in "Blessings"

"I suppose what really settled (the matter) in my mind emotionally and spiritually was when I finally stopped asking 'Why?' and started asking 'For what purpose?'."
Michael Graves "Family Magazine"

"Life is eternal and love is immortal and death is only an horizon, and an horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight."
Bishop of Brent

They've scored !

"Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter along at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated." Isaac Asimov

This used to be wonderfully illustrated in our house when we lived in Walton in Liverpool. Liverpool FC could score a goal at Anfield, and after hearing on the radio that a goal had been scored one could step outside and there was still a moment's pause before the roar was heard from the ground some three miles away. It took a millisecond for the radio wave and around fifteen seconds for the sound itself.

Free Range Eggs and Hatchlings...

The colour purple

"I think it pisses God off when you walk by the colour purple in a field and don't notice it." 

from The Colour Purple by Alice Walker. (Thanks to Spirits of Lena for this great quotation.)