Look Galen!

jingle

You're one classy dame Galen

What a storm in a washing basket I've missed when I't been sitting on trains most of the day!

nina No, I didn't mean that I meant how do you all manage to find the time? I don't get on here nearly as much as some so certainly couldn't add any more

It's all blown over now Anno there was a cold front developing but happily the Gale(n) overrode the low pressure and blew away the storm clouds.

My GC just love my stick (blue) and crutches (red) and play with them endlessly - they have been goalposts, struts for dens and (inevitably - sigh) guns.

I worked my whole life with people with disabilities and very few are offended my well-meant jokes - in fact most of the jokes came directly from them, mostly unrepeatable.

I well remember a man with dwarfism in his 70s, and the multi-disciplinary team were tying themselves in knots about how to refer to his "problem" in a meeting. In the end I asked him how he would like his dwarfism to be described in the necessary forms as it was getting ridiculous. His reply was, "I was born f****ing dwarf, and I will die a f***ing dwarf. For goodness sake stop tiptoeing around. I am proud of who I am." He also had a very racy sense of humour and a good line in self-deprecatory jokes.

A very good friend of mine and fellow tribunal member has no arms. When being frisked at one of our courts by over zealous security guards he remarked ' it's ok! I'm 'armless!'

Please where is the picture, I want to know if it is funny/not funny so I can see what it is all about. I don't walk very well any longer and am resisting getting anything more 'walking aid' than a sturdy shopping trolley. I really envy those older than I am who seem to walk perfectly well. When I think of all the keep-fit classes I went to as well! Sorry it is a bit off the subject.

Sara do you see how the "good idea for a wet day" is printed in blue? That means it is a link and you can click on it.

And then you can come back and tell me off.

Galen you are a star!!

Galen, that is a brilliant idea about the red and green lights, I may find some to attach to DH. Having been in the Navy, he has a real problem with 'left' and 'right' and tried to teach me port and starboard. If I'm driving and he is navigating we have often gone the wrong way, whereupon he will shout 'other left'!

rosequartz I have not got a clue about port and starboard. Left and right are fine to me. I have a friend who gets mixed up with left and right so port and starboard would finish her off.

The old man finished his dinner and found there was no PORT LEFT

She needed my shoes that used to use for sailing they had a green triangle on the right one and a red one on the left. They're made in Ireland!

Galen You will know whether it is true that port and starboard are named that because the boat/ship was moored with the left side against the port, and the right side open to the starlight? (Think driving car along on the left of the road, and parking facing that way.)

that's a good help. Phoenix. DH always says same amount of letters in port as left, and fewer letters in red than green. By the time I have sorted that out in my head we have usually gone the wrong way.

Any red port left in the bottle?

Thanks Jingle, why would I want to tell you off, I think its the sort of thing I might do myself. after all, necessity is the mother of invention. (Or any port in a storm)

Very true.

Don't confuse me, elegran, bottle has more letters .....

Any ruby port wine left?

Is that better?

Lovely, thank you. But it has all gone!

Makes you feel right green, it does, leaning over the rail to starboard.