I’d like to apologise . . .

06/04/2024


We’re all far right now

30/03/2024

Truth in jest:


Calvin & Hobbes on adulting

01/01/2024


Differences between men and women

30/12/2023

Amanda Gore points out a few basic differences between men and women:


Need a laugh?

18/11/2023

Jerry Coyne was feeling low yesterday, posted a joke and invited readers to add their own jokes in the comments.

His joke was:

A Jewish man lives into a Catholic neighborhood. Every Friday the Catholics are driven crazy because, while they’re morosely eating fish, the Jew is outside barbecuing steaks. So the Catholics work on the Jew to convert him to Catholicism. Finally, after many threats and much pleading, the Catholics succeed. They take the Jew to a priest who sprinkles holy water on the Jew and says, “Born a Jew, Raised a Jew, Now a Catholic.” The Catholics are ecstatic. No more delicious but maddening smells every Friday evening.

But the next Friday evening, the scent of barbecue wafts through the neighborhood. The Catholics all rush to the Jew’s house to remind him of his new diet. They see him standing over the cooking steak. He is sprinkling water on the meat and saying, “Born a cow, Raised a cow, Now a fish.”

If you click on this link you’ll find the jokes readers left.


Mitchell & Webb gift shop

04/11/2023


Mitchell & Webb – waiter

21/10/2023


Mitchell & Webb Evil Vicar

14/10/2023


Mitchell & Webb shop

07/10/2023


Olive and Mabel golf

03/10/2023


Mitchell & Webb dinner party

30/09/2023

The Magic Coffee Table

24/06/2023


A distinctly unpleasant vegetable

06/06/2023

Sam Kekovich calls out a distinctly unpleasant vegetable:


Michael McIntyre on the NZ accent

22/04/2023


Olive and Mabel looking for love

25/02/2023


Plant-based meat the natural way

27/12/2022


All I want for Christmas . . .

23/12/2022

Dear Santa,

First, we know what it’s like to have to work when most of the country is sleeping or on holiday, so we’ll be sure to leave out fresh hay for the reindeer and some home-grown goodies for you.

We also know that economically things are looking grim so we’ve cut our list back to basics.

Enough sun – but not too much; enough rain, but not too much.

Markets that recognise the quality of our produce, the high standards of our practices and prices that recognise all of that.

Policies that follow the science not emotion and fashion.

A government that won’t sabotage pastoral farming when the world needs our food; rural communities need our business and involvement, and the country needs our export income.

Yours productively

Farmers

 

Dear Santa,

You gave me the best present ever in 2020 but it’s already tattered and tarnished, and the star dust has fallen off it.

A lot of the people who used to be happy watching me play with it are getting grumpy and some are even saying unkind things about me.

I’d really like a shiny new model for myself and I hope you won’t think I’m being greedy, but could I ask for new ones for my team that actually work?

Yours kindly

Jacinda

 

Dear Santa,

You gave me an early Christmas gift last year and it’s been fun learning how to make it work and seeing what I can do with it.

The training wheels are well and truly off now and even some of the media have come to accept that I’ve mastered it.

I’m certainly not bored with it, but I do think I’m ready for the full-power upgrade, even if I have to wait until late next year for you to deliver it.

Yours in leadership,

Chris


Saturday’s smiles

19/11/2022

 


Saturday’s smiles

29/10/2022

It’s so dry that:

The trees are whistling for the dogs.

The council closed two lanes of the town swimming pool.

When a country town finally got a brief shower it caused quite a commotion.  One of the town’s residents was disturbed by the noise and went outside to see what was happening.  Water falling from the sky was such a shock that the man fainted.  They had to throw two buckets of dust in his face to revive him.

Church leaders have got together to do their part to conserve water.  Until further notice, Baptist churches will baptise  by sprinkling, Methodists will baptise with wet-wipes,  Anglicans will issue rain checks, and Catholics will pray for wine to turn back into water.

Cows are only producing evaporated milk.


Enjoying nature

22/10/2022