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holiday humour with a hint of piracy
With the last public holiday before Christmas comes the opportunity to celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day a little early, and hopefully this will get you into the swing of things for September 19th. Read more…
holiday humour, with a Facilities Manager’s blues
This week’s holiday humour comes in the form of a song. Bob Dylan’s Stuck Inside of Mobile (with the Memphis blues again) comes from the 1966 album Blonde on Blonde and has long been a favourite. I used to play it in the car a lot on long trips; the lines “and here I sit so patiently, waiting to find out what price, you to pay to get out of, going through all these things twice” had a lot of meaning after those boring all day meetings and I would sometimes make up topical verses to sing along to. Read more…
Hillary, Rodney and Neville; an eternal triangle? more holiday humour from the #MondayMusings column
RADIO SCRIPT
(Dialogue: All with clipped tones, very stiff upper lip British middle class. An overacted Brief Encounter style)
(Background: Faint sounds of an office with occasional telephones ringing and bursts of typewriter noise)
(A door opens) Read more…
spoof posts and humour on public holiday Mondays
When I started writing the Monday Musing as a spoof or humorous post on public holiday Mondays I was myself following in others footsteps, for such writing is a long tradition and I often write such posts in the style of others; Read more…
holiday humour for Easter in the dime novel style
The silence stretched between them and her patience was near to snapping; why could he not just say something? It had been almost three hours now since she had unleashed a torrent of venom in his direction and it had taken most of that time before she began to accept that she had been wrong to react in the way that she had. Hell, he was just a man and she had known enough of them to know what to expect when you criticised them; sulking and silence. Read more…
holiday humour as strange things happen in the elevator
The Cucumber they called it, mostly because of its green sheen, although he abhorred such nicknames and would only refer to it by its street address. The new building, for the moment the tallest in the city, had been visible on and off for some time as he drove into the city. He thought the design was a travesty, but a the job of running it was a job and he had accepted, although he had some concerns about why the vacancy had come up so soon after the original appointee, a well-respected industry figure, had apparently stepped down just days before the opening. Why no-one knew for the lady in question wasn’t responding to calls or emails. Under the circumstances he pondered on the wisdom of starting a new job on Friday the 13th, but one of the best jobs he had ever had begun on the 1st of April so he thought it was worth the chance. Read more…
Monday Musings on Wednesday!
No, it isn’t the wrong type of rain or anything directly to do with the weather. Sorry to break a habit, but things have gotten away from me this weekend and the planned story for tomorrow is not quite done. It has been a hectic weekend and the medics want to do rude things to me first things tomorrow so Plan B has been adopted. Read more…
the rioja revelation; a seasonal tale
Les Floggit left the sales conference platform on a personal high and to seemingly rapturous applause. They would all repair to the bar now no doubt to enjoy the remaining hours of their two day, three night break in Malaga far from the cold of pre-Christmas Britain. A five o’clock check in tomorrow would see them all hung-over no doubt, but for now the moment of triumph was his as he headed for his hotel room. Read more…
espionage. or is there another motive? holiday fun from Monday Musings
He was not in his usual car, instead driving a nondescript small MPV of uncertain age; too many people would recognise his usual wheels. The rain began again in earnest as he turned of the motorway. He flicked the windscreen wipers on to full speed as he climbed up the ramp to the roundabout and took the A road . Ahead of him the high hills were lost in the curtain of rain as he sought out a lay-by and pulled off the road, carefully checking the vehicles that passed him before he moved on again. Read more…
Holiday Humour as TCB has a Western Encounter
ThatConsultantBloke hadn’t done the Florida theme parks for some years so a day around one of the old favourites with the Berkshire Belle seemed like a good idea and they had been on a few rides and had a good lunch when, with feet tiring, they found themselves by the Wild West Show. It was not one of their favourites, but the queue was short and the chance to sit down for half an hour appealed so they went on in. Read more…
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