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It’s Been a Cold Week!

04 Dec 2016 21 Comments

by Ritu in Humour, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Cold, Frost, Humour, Windscreen, Winter

We’ve had some really frosty weather here this week, you know, temperatures hitting below freezing.

Pretty icy ferns inside my car!!

I have had to scrape ice off the windscreen at least twice!

Now I am firmly a ‘spray with de-icer and scrape’ kinda girl, but my sis in law usually splashes lukewarm water over hers and is good to go. Her father is a car salesman with his won garage, and he swears by it.

So, on the second day, I thought ‘why not try it, and filled a bottle with warn water, and got ready to pour and leave with speed.

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And this happened. The frost lay on the ground ‘deep and crisp and even’, it was -3.5 degrees celsius, and my windscreen was a sheet of ice!

Why?

Because no one told me I needed to actually stick the wipers on while pouring!

Spent another 10 minutes dislodging ice instead of frost off the windscreen instead!

Women drivers eh!!!

Anomaly #writephoto

03 Nov 2016 41 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Fiction, Humour, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #WritePhoto, Blog, Blog Posts, Blogger, Blogging, Challenge, Fiction, Humour, Leprachaun, Sue Vincent

Sue’s photo prompt this week…

anomaly

And my take…

“Now dat,” Dermot said, indicating to the streak of rainbow, suspended in front of them “Dat is de work of a master.”

“A master what?” Paddy asked “A master of stupidity?”

The Local Leprachaun Society had been meeting here at this pub for many years, whenever one of them had created a new rainbow. Every nuance of the phenomenon was discussed, minute details picked apart.

Dermot sighed. “He’ll be here soon enough.”

Sure enough, the door swung open and Seamus sauntered in. He sat down and was promptly thwacked around the head by Paddy.

“What was dat fer?” he scowled, rubbing the back of his balding pate.

“Feast yer eyes on dat beauty, and you’ll see fer yerself!” Paddy pointed to the rainbow.

Seamus trained his eye on the colours, and realisation dawned on him.

“De curve, man! Where’s de curve?” Paddy was in full flow “Ye know de rainbow needs an arc! It helps us hide de crock of gold from de hunters! Optical illusions, dat’s what we are about, and you go and create de world’s first feckin’ vertical one! Might as well place a flashin’ sign above it, saying “Nick Me!” ya eejat!”

And another thwack was felt on the back of his head…

Appointments

04 Apr 2016 37 Comments

by Ritu in Humour, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Appointments, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Doctors, Humour

If you are in the UK, you will totally identify with the little cartoon below. It appears that when you are unwell, it is almost impossible to get an appointment straight away. Usually, the next available pre-bookable one will be three weeks from now… no good if you are literally ‘dying’ right now! The other option in many surgeries is to ring in the morning for an appointment. That is not always convenient either, or there is such a glut of people calling for the same reason, that when you do get through, they are already fully booked!

Image from Google

The other thing you can do is go to a walk-in centre, where you are usually guaranteed to be seen though you may have to wait 3-4 hours in a room with other coughing, sniffling beings, and you might even leave iller than you were before you arrived, due to cross contamination!

I was in this situation today, having suffered from a few ailments recently, I thought I had better go and visit my dear GP, during the holidays, to save having any time off from school. Dreading the phone call, I came off it, inspired to write a little ditty!

Appointments for Current Ailments

A time that I was dreading
Had come, and I was made
To make that darned phonecall
To the doctors, be afraid!

So I dialled the number and waited
Normally greeted by engaged tone
Imagine my shocked face when
Someone actually answered the phone!

Usually, you need to plan
The time when you are ill
To get seen when sickness strikes
The chances oft, are nil

Some ‘umming’ and ‘aahing’ followed
And then to my surprise
An appointment was confirmed
Tomorrow, pm at 5!

Ritu 2016

Cray Cray! – Kids Logic Part 48

30 Mar 2016 23 Comments

by Ritu in Kids Logic Series Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogging, Children, Cray Cray, Humour, Kids Logic

Well, you know, if you read my blog, that I am a Nursery teacher, and that I have a rather interesting set of children in my afternoon session. Special needs, English as an additional language, behaviour… all sorts goes on in the afternoon over here!

Well, Lil Princess came into my classroom one afternoon, as she was coming home with me, rather than being picked up by her grandparents. She had heard about the kids from me, but not actually met them.

She sat, watching in bewilderment, as kids launched themselves at each other, and just did whatever they pleased, rather than listen to the adults in the room.

This was her comment to Hubby Dearest that evening…

“Everyone listens to mum… Except her afternoon class! Oh My God, those kids are cray cray!”

From the mouths of babes, eh!

The BIG UK Vs. USA Debate – Malteasers Vs. Whoppers!

26 Mar 2016 77 Comments

by Ritu in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Chocolate, Competition, Humour, Malteasers, UK VS USA, Whoppers

My post for Hugh’s challenge this week, featuring Malteasers, started a little debate between myself and PJ of Priceless Joy blog fame.

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Well, debate may be a bit of a strong way to describe, but I am a firm Malteaser fan. I may go so far as to say they are my most favourite chocolate treat EVER!

So it was interesting to hear that the US had their own version, called Whoppers. PJ was sceptical that the US one would taste better than the UK one, and being a bit biased, I was inclined to agree… I have tasted American chocolate several times, and I’m sorry but I much prefer my UK chocolate thank you very much!

So when my family and I went for a day out to Lakeside Shopping centre yesterday, it wasn’t my intention to do this, but we passed a candy store which holds all manner of imported US candy. I asked out of curiosity whether they stocked these Whoppers. Alas they didn’t… but there was another store of a similar ilk that was possibly a stockist.

Right! This was great! I was so excited! I could feel a comparison post coming on, if only I could get hold of these Whoppers… and YES! They did!

My favourite!

The imposters!

So armed with my boxes of chocolates, purely for research purposes, I’ll have you know, I came home and the ~~eating~~ reviewing and ~~eating~~ photographing commenced!

Sorry, but I love my Malteasers packaging too much… so that was one point to them straight away!

Now to look at the product itself…

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Note the glossy finish of the Malteaser, compared to the misshapen sphere that is the Whopper… Hmmm… another point to the Malteaser for appearance!

And then the biggie, the taste test!

A Whopper, has that different aftertaste, chocolate wise and the ‘malt’ or honeycomb inside was rather hard and dense to bite into.

A Malteaster, the chocolate was beautifylly milky, and the honeycombe centre, light, yet crisp.

Point 3 awarded to Malteasers!

I got the family to do a blind taste test too, and they were all unanimous in choosing Malteasers as the best taste!

An amendment here, Lil Princess liked the look of Malteasers but thought the Whoppers tasted better! Sheesh! I’m going to sent her to live in the US, traitor!!!

Sorry USA, but I think we won this one hands down!

And if you would like to read about more of my Malteaser adventures, click here! Malteasers apparently help with mindfulness!