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There are lots of rhymes about butter. There are tongue twisters:
Betty Botter bought some butter,
“But,” she said, “the butter’s bitter;
If I put it in my batter,
It will make my batter bitter;
But a bit of better butter,
That would make my batter better.”
So she bought a bit of butter,
Better than her bitter butter,
And she put it [...]
While my purple porridge cooked this morning, I decided to wash my kitchen floor. It needed a scrub.
I selected a general purpose E-cloth and a glass/polishing E-cloth, wet the general E-cloth and squeezed it out, and set to my task.
I wondered whether some blood had spilled on the floor, staining the marble. But when I [...]
When I have free time and, sometimes, even when I don’t, I take a role in a local community theatre production. I’ve acted all my life and find it a wonderfully creative outlet.
One of my roles was as “Mrs. Slocombe” in Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft’s Are you Being Served?, the British sitcom made into [...]
Alice had promised to bake a cake for the church ladies’ group bake sale, but she forgot to do it until the last minute. She hurried up and baked an angel food cake, but in her hurry, when she took it from the oven, the centre dropped flat.
“Oh, Dear,” she said,”there’s no time to bake [...]
An atheist was walking through the woods.
“What majestic trees!”
“What powerful rivers!”
“What beautiful animals!” he said to himself.
As he was walking alongside the river, he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him. He turned to look. He saw a 7-foot grizzly bear charge towards him.
He ran as fast as he could up the path. He [...]
Julian Beever is an English artist who is famous for his art on the pavements of England, France, Germany, USA, Australia, and Belgium. He gives an amazing 3-D illusion to his drawings.
This flat sidewalk chalk drawing by Julian Beever of “baby food” only has the right illusion from one side, both on the pavement and [...]
It was fall weaning time on the “Rocking P” Ranch,
The owner was Roderick Macleay.
Cows and calves were all milling within the corrals.
Rod’s cowboys had found them that day.
Shorty Merino was working for Rod,
An experienced cowhand, of course.
His nickname was due to his absence of height:
Could hide next a sway-backed short horse.
They were cutting out steer [...]
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