Author: trispw

SOPPY SUNDAY

Something a little different today. Munguin said the Dorangutans could come in later today, because we have Reuben and Cindy in Namibia to open up for us.

Reuben is a peoples, and Cindy, his sister, is a baboon. Here is their story…

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2. I came in early anyway. Just to be safe. After all, Cindy is getting on and a bit sleepy and Reuben, nice as he is, is only a peoples. And they are not reliable.

3. Someone might like to compliment me on my garden. At least as nice as Munguin’s.

4. It’s a hard job keeping this coat clean, but as you can see, I have my personal hairdresser.

5. Somebody has a girlfriend! I really wish I could get my robin to do that.

6. One of Tatu’s cats was obviously going to do some gardening, but fell asleep instead!

7. I can understand that cat needing 40 winks… It happens to the best of us.

8. It’s crocus time.

9. And what can I get you?

10. Rose in Tatu’s garden.

11. Octuplets?

12. We just popped in to see Cindy. News got around that she was here.

13. Hello. Are there any jobs going in security here?

14. Arum Lilies. Stunning.

15. Friday night in Scotland.

16. Our mummy is a useful umbrella.

17. St Circ, France.

18. This lamb is teaching me how to be a sheep dog.

19. I wonder if that lamb would like to teach me to be a sheep cat?

20. I’m on locking up duties, now that that Baboon has gone back to Namibia.

With thanks to Andi and Tatu.

YAWN!

Bland Shire has teamed up with Dull in Scotland and Boring in Oregon to form the League of Extraordinary Communities.

Bland.

In 2012, the town of Boring in Oregon, US, voted to cement a relationship with the Perth and Kinross village of Dull in ‘a pair for the ages’.

Dull.

Bland was accepted into the alliance in 2013 and the League of Extraordinary Communities was formed.

Bland and Boring are both named after early residents of the area – William Bland and William Boring – and Dull is believed to have got its name from the Pictish word for field.

Boring.

“YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED”

And the signatories are…

But what authority does this have?

I don’t know how accurate their assumptions are, but I’m assuming the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court probably has a good idea what his limitations are. Possibly better than Republican Senators. But you never know.

But can 12 Senators actually do this, without authority from the President or at least the Secretary of State or passing some sort of Bill?

Is Trump behind it? I noticed his friends Cruz and Rubio in the signatories.

I’m mystified.

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RANDOM THOUGHTS

Donne-moi des fleurs

John Davidson, co-owner of flower company Tom Brown Wholesale, said the new post-Brexit border checks are expected to cost his business between £200,000 and £225,000 per year.

The Cold Chain Federation, an industry trade organisation, said the costs were bound to affect prices and would have to be passed on to “either the EU importer, the smaller UK retailer, or the UK consumer”.

Lord Howarth of Newport, who was both a Conservative minister under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and a Labour minister under Tony Blair, has told peers of a florist friend who claims the price for lisianthus, a cut flower with a long vase life, imported from Europe has almost trebled due to new sanitary and phytosanitary checks.

The florist foresees “only the rich being able to give flowers.”

This and a lot more can be found on this site. It reports 1781, downsides to Brexit, despite Mr Davis telling us there would be none. There are, however, 39 supposed upsides although I’m a bit dubious about some of them. One that struck me as an odd claim for advantages is that the French will be able to sell Britain its “piquette” (of which I’d never heard) which appears to be banned for consumption in the EU, including France, but can be used to make other products. I’m not entirely convinced that anyone would want to drink it.

So, you may not be able to buy your lady (or man) flowers, but you can buy them some very cheap, very weak wine.

Yeah, right guys.

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Ah, looking back to the good old days

What an unlovely man.

Yes, Alan. I reckon you were right.

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How does this person get away with ignoring court orders?

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Can you read this?

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We might lose so we won’t let you choose

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Always? No matter what? And first before what?

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JUST FOR A LAUGH

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Thanks to Andi.

Bonus:

Q. What’s the scariest word in nuclear physics (or any industrial /research facility)

A. OOPS

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And, this is a sort of cross over Soppy Sunday and Just for a Laugh, but I’m sure some of these will make you laugh.

(Both from Quokka)

SOPPY SUNDAY

Excuse me, please, I’m late for work.

2. Pretty sage in Srem.

3. Hello Andi. Is Bongo with you? Is he coming to play in the water?

4. You think I’m cute, don’t you? Well, you are right, I am.

5. This is the lovely Ziggy who had to have an operation on her eyes and is now back home and getting better on the lap of her favourite human, Matin. Kay sent me a photo last week and the improvement is fantastic.

6. Cherry blossom, Japan.

7. The service in this place is so slow, it drives me nuts… you get it? nuts? That’s squirrel humour.

8. Des coquelicots à Toulouse.

9. Nice place you got there, Rocky.

10. What? It’s hard work pollinating all day. We deserve a little snooze from time to time.

11. I no longer see that well; I can’t play as much as before; But I know when you are close to me…and I still love you as much as ever.

12. I say, my good man, are these the first class accommodations?

13. Two giant emperor moths getting to know each other in Srem!

14. Is this the cat school playground?

15. I’m a little Moorhen. What are you?

16. Hold very tight please. The next stop in the pig sties.

17. A little colour in the garden.

18. I’ll tell you the story of the Ugly Duckling before you go to sleep.

19. No comment.

20. Just keeping an eye on some of the visitors down there. They look a bit dodgy. I suspect they may be Tories, so screw everything pinchable to the floor.

Munguin’s thanks to Kay and Andi.