Bits and bobs

Granddaughter better today but now she has a cough, tummy pains have gone though.

Have spent the week with daughter on internet trying to buy presents, but today all the things that daughter wanted in Argos and had been out of stock were now back in stock.  Yipee!!!!  So we have a huge list of things reserved to go and get on Monday.  Goodbye money...

The squirrel was back in the garden today, this was the first time daughter had watched it.  She was in histerics as it went round the garden digging up the acorns and re-planting some and eating others.  She was especially enthralled when it came right up to the pot outside the house and dug up a nut from the pot that it had buried earlier emerging with mud on its nose.  It cleaned off the nut and eat it.

And then who should appear...yep, Maggie the magpie.  She followed the squirrel all over the garden with squirrel turning every now and then to chase her off up the garden chair and on to the fence. i don't think i have ever seen the squirrel in the garden eating without Maggie in attendence worried that there was some food going that she was missing out on. LOL!!!

 

                   A Bit of a Shaggy Horse Story

 

A man wants to buy a horse.  Unfortunately the stables he goes to only has one horse for sale and apparently this horse is special.  The owner explains to the man that this horse only responds to two voice commands:  “Praise the Lord!” to make it go and “Hallelujah!” to make it stop.

Well, the man finally buys the horse.  When he gets it home, he decides to go for a ride so he saddles the horse up, mounts and then tries to go.  The horse refuses to budge.  Then he remembers that it only responds to voice commands, so he shouts,  “Praise the Lord!”

The horse sets off at high speed and starts to head towards a high precipice.  The man riding him is frantically trying to remember the command to stop the horse.  Finally he remembers and shouts out  “Hallelujah!”

The horse screeches to a halt just on the edge of the precipice.  The man then takes off his hat, wipes his brow and says:  “Phew, Praise the Lord!”