The Kiss

I've been a bit busy lately, but I thought this might just give you a smile

A tough looking group of bikers were out riding when they saw a woman about to Jump off a bridge,........ so they stopped and parked their Harleys.         Their leader, a big burly man, gets off his bike and says, "What are you doing?" "I'm going to commit suicide," she  says. While he didn't want to appear insensitive, he didn't want to miss an opportunity either, so he asked her...  "Well, before you jump, why don't you give me a kiss?" So she does...And it was a long, deep, lingering, spine-tingling kiss. After she's finished, the biker leader says, "Wow! That was the best kiss I've ever had! That's a real talent you are wasting. You could be famous.  Why in the world would you want to commit suicide? "My parents don't like me dressing up like a girl........". The authorities think she may have been pushed.

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Dementia test

 THIS IS CLASSIC
Our Yearly Dementia Test

It's that time of year for us to take our annual senior citizen test..
Exercise of the brain is as important as exercise of the muscles.. As we grow older, it's important to keep mentally alert.. If you don't use it, you lose it! Below is a very private way to gauge how your memory  compares to the last test.. Some may think it is too easy but the ones with memory problems may have difficulty..  Take the test presented here to determine if you're losing it or not.. The spaces below are so you don't see the answers until you've made your answer..   OK, relax, clear your mind and begin..


1.. What do you put in a toaster?
























Answer: 'bread..' If you said 'toast' give up now and do something else.... 
Try not to hurt yourself.. 


 If you said, bread, go to Question 2..



2..   Say 'silk' five times.. Now spell 'silk..' What do cows drink?




























Answer: Cows drink water.. If you said 'milk,' don't attempt the next question.. Your brain is over-stressed and may even overheat.. Content yourself with reading a more appropriate literature such as Auto World.. However, if you said 'water', proceed to question 3.. 









3.. If a red house is made from red bricks and a blue house is made from blue bricks and a pink house is made from pink bricks and a black house is made from black bricks, what is a green house made from?





















Answer: Greenhouses are made from glass..  If you said 'green bricks,' why are you still reading these??? 
If you said 'glass,' go on to Question 4..









4..   It's twenty years ago, and a plane is flying at 20,000 feet over Germany (If you will recall, Germany at the time was politically divided into West Germany and East Germany ).. Anyway, during the flight, two engines fail.. The pilot, realizing that the last remaining engine is also failing, decides on a crash landing procedure.. Unfortunately the engine fails before he can do so and the plane fatally crashes smack in the middle of 'no man's land' between East Germany and West Germany ...... Where would you bury the survivors?  East Germany, West Germany ,  or no man's land'?




























Answer: You don't bury survivors.. 
If you said ANYTHING else, you're a dunce and you must stop.. If you said, 'You don't bury survivors', proceed to the next question.... 






5.. Without using a  calculator - You are driving a bus from London to Milford Haven in Wales ..   In London , 17 people get on the bus..
In Reading , 6 people get off the bus and 9 people get on..
In   Swindon, 2 people get off and 4 get on..
In Cardiff , 11 people get off and 16 people get on..
In Swansea , 3 people get off and 5 people get on..
In Carmathen, 6 people get off and 3 get on..
You then arrive at Milford Haven   ......


Without scrolling back to review, how old is the bus driver?



























Answer: Oh, for crying out loud! 
Don't you remember your own age?   It was YOU driving the bus!! 






If you pass this along to your friends, pray they do better than you..







PS:  Just to make you feel better,  95% of people fail most of the questions!!


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Reminiscing

The weather is getting a bit warmer at last, but nothing near as warm as it should be for almost mid-May., I'm not wearing much less than I was a couple of months ago.
Maybe I'm really just feeling the downside of getting old, as I never seem to be really warm.,  and am not looking forward to next winter, especially since I heard on the news this morning that energy costs are reckoned to rise by 15% next year. !!! I, and many more   like me just  managed to get by this winter.
Which got   me to reminiscing, Way  back when I was a child in the 40's we had no central heating, I don't think anyone did. There was a coal fire in the living room and we were lucky enough to have a back to back boiler, which meant as long as there was a fire on , we had heating in the kitchen. I absolutely love a coal fire, apart form the heat, the flames leaping and dancing, changing shape and colour fascinated me, looking deep into the red hot heart, you could see all sorts of creatures which wouldn't look out of place in a Harry Potter film.
 I loved when there was a hiss when [as my dad told me] the coal had fractured and released some gas, which sometimes flared with an intense blue flame, The lovely flare up when the coals collapsed, giving off that little bit extra heat. I could never get close enough and was forever being told off and being warned I would end up with tartan legs. I haven't, honestly.
There was something magical in sitting with just a low light and a lovely fire.
The bedrooms were totally unheated, and I really can remember frost on the inside of the windows, and huge icicles hanging from the eaves, but I think that may have been the extremely cold winter of 1947.
Winters in those days meant going to bed with a hot water bottle [or two], chilblains, and lovely coal fires, do I wish we could go back to those days? I don't know, maybe we have become soft and spoiled, but, we are having to pay for it, through the nose.

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To-day

It rained to-day from first thing in the morning and is still raining at 9 pm, well not exactly raining, but just a fine misty drizzle, what we would call a mizzle in Scotland I call it graveyard weather.

Well I took Tango and Ruby out for their walk around 9.30 in the morning, got back at 11, and 5 minutes later the postman came with my new printer, YESSSSS. , I would have liked to unpack it and set it up, but I'd decided that to-day I was going to paint, something I haven't done at home for some time. I have several paintings in various stage of finish, and I am gong to make a start on them, finish them off, take them to my dance club and flog them for about a fiver each,  I have promised a friend's wife one for loaning him out to me with his trailer totake a load of wood and garden rubbish to the tip.
After lunch I carried on painting till about 4.30 and then decided I'd unpack the printer before I take the dogs out again, I had a phone call from my daughter, which lasted for an hour, well we had to catch up on her new job, so, the printer is still in it's box.  while I remember, my tree, it has sprouted leaves like you wouldn't believe, so here it is...

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Drama on cliff

There was a nit of drama in the cliffs where I walk the dogs, I heard the fire engines wailing as I went on my walk, and then another, when I got to the bottom of the Chewton Bunny I saw the engines and various other response vehicles,

Apparently a woman 's dog went up on to the cliffs on the left and she went to rescue it, after all the heavy rain there are a lot of areas of sludgy soft mud quite deep in places and pretty dangerous. She got stuck and was lucky that someone heard her shout, it could have been a different story had no one been around.

Hardly a week goes by in the summer when the rescue response is called out. I don't think they put enough warning notices out, especially not saying just how dangerous the cliffs are, Besides the slurry ponds, they are inclined to shift and cause landslides. 

Well that's all for now folks, keep safe, and if You ever come down this way, keep off Barton Cliffs.

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