Fun on a Friday

Hello everyone,

I`m late again...I very nearly didn`t bother with an entry tonight until I saw the picture Kerry took of Roman today.  I don`t know how she managed to get the camera quickly enough but the expression on his face is so funny I just had to share it with you.  He`s been in a wonderful smiley mood today and Kerry was getting him  ready to come to stay with us while she was at work.  Tell me what you think!

 

Captions on a postcard please....lol!

I`ve certainly had fun with Little Man today, we met Kerry in Marks and Spencer`s for coffee where Roman decided he`d try to grab my cappuchino...and he`s so quick that we have to hold everything at arms length or he`d get it...bless him.   Back at home I prepared lunch for all of us, Jim, Kerry and I had ham and cheese paninis and Roman had scrambled egg and mashed potatoes.  I don`t know how it happened but I ended up with mash all over me while the little fella just grinned at me.  "Nothing to do with me Nanna!"   Hmmmm..........

This evening when I was giving him his tea, fruit pot and custard, I ended up with custard allover my jumper and my face too...well how did I know that he would start laughing with a mouthful of the yellow stuff...lol!  Meal times aren`t the nice clean occasions that they were a few months ago.  I think Little Man has been taken over by Little Monster when nobody was looking, hence the above photo!  When I got him ready for bed tonight he wore his new sleepsuit that his Grandad bought for him this morning.  It`s a bit big being for a 1 yr old but it was the only size there and it was a real bargain in the sale.

After all the work that Jim has done with the plastering, I went and ruined some of it by falling down a few stairs and grabbing the wall to steady myself...of course the wall came away in my hand and at the moment Jim is once more repairing it!  Thankfully I don`t seem to have hurt myself at all.  I`ve spent most of my life falling up and downstairs  (yes, UP ...don`t ask!!!!) so I know how to fall without breaking my neck or any other bone that happens to get bashed around at the time...lol!  Talking of pain or lack of it,  I woke up this morning and found that my knee didn`t hurt at all...great says she, no nurses appointment.....So I totally forgot about the pain, the swelling etc.  UNTIL I was walking around the town with Jim when out of the blue it came back with interest...did I howl!!! I found myself hopping around in the middle of the high street and attracting some rather odd looks at the same time.  But the pain disappeared as soon as it had arrived leaving me concerned once more as to what on earth is causing it, even now hours later it is still coming and going.  I`ll leave it till Monday and see what`s going on then.  On Monday though, I have a check up at the dentist (groan!!!) so I have to wait until Tuesday by which time I hope it will have gone for good..I really hate doctors, and dentists for that matter!

Well I must fly now because I`ve not read even one journal and I have loads of alerts and I want to read and comment on all of them before 9pm.  So have a lovely, restful weekend and enjoy your evening.  Bye Bye for now.

 

 

 

Some Unusual Facts For You

 

Cannibalism, eating human flesh, is also called anthropophagy.

DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleicacid.

"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.

"Long in the tooth," meaning "old," was originally used to describe horses. As horses age, their gums recede, giving the impression that their teeth are growing. The longer the teeth look, the older the horse.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

Oddly, no term existed for "homosexuality" in ancient Greece - there were only a variety of expressions referring to specific homosexual roles. Experts find this baffling, as the old Greek culture regarded male/male love in the highest regard. According to several linguists, the word "homosexual" was not coined until 1869 by the Hungarian physician Karoly Maria Benkert.

Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the most definitions.

"Ough" can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.

"Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.

"Second string," meaning "replacement or backup," comes from the middle ages. An archer always carried a second string in case the one on his bow broke.

The "O" when used as a prefix in Irish surnames means "descendant of."

The "y" in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a "th" sound, not "y". The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England used the rune "thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y".

The ancient Romans built such an excellent system of roads that the saying arose "all roads lead to Rome," that is, no matter which road one starts a journey on, he will finally reach Rome if he keeps on traveling. The popular saying came to mean that all ways or methods of doing something end in the same result, no method being better than another.

The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself.

The phrase "raining cats and dogs" originated in 17th Century England. During heavy downpours of rain, many of these poor animals unfortunately drowned and their bodies would be seen floating in the rain torrents that raced through the streets. The situation gave the appearance that it had literally rained "cats and dogs" and led to the current expression.

The phrase "sleep tight" originated when mattresses were set upon ropes woven through the bed frame. To remedy sagging ropes, one would use a bed key to tighten the rope.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. Actually, that's a piece of folk etymology. The phrase refers to the use of rough and ready practical experience rather than formal procedures in getting something done. It's most likely that the saying comes from carpenters using the length of the first joint of the thumb, which is about an inch long, to measure things. So "rule" refers to a ruler in the sense of measurement, not of despotism or male chauvinism. Other parts of the body were used as a ruler, too. A foot was determined by a pace, the distance from the tip of the nose to the outstretched fingers is roughly a yard, and horse heights are still measured by hands—the width of the palm and closed thumb is about four inches.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

The ridges on the sides of coins are called reeding or milling.

The right side of a boat was called the starboard side due to the fact that the astronavigators used to stand out on the plank (which was on the right side) to get an unobstructed view of the stars. The left side was called the port side because that was the side that you put in on at the port.

The side of a hammer is a cheek.

The study of insects is called entomology.

The study of word origins is called etymology.

The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.

The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic Church. When deciding if someone should be sainted, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.

The term "dog days" has nothing to do with dogs. It dates back to Roman times, when it was believed that Sirius, the Dog Star, added its heat to that of the sun from July3 to August 11, creating exceptionally high temperatures. The Romans called the period dies caniculares, or "days of the dog."

The term "honeymoon" is derived from the Babylonians who declared mead, a honey-flavored wine, the official wedding drink, stipulating that the bride's parents be required to keep the groom supplied with the drink for the month following the wedding.

The word "honcho" comes from a Japanese word meaning "squad leader" and first came into usage in the English language during the American occupation of Japan following World War II.

The word "assassination" was invented by Shakespeare.

The word "coach" is derived from the village of Kocs, Hungary, where coaches were invented and first used.

The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

The word gargoyle comes down from the Old French: gargouille, meaning throat or gullet. This is also the origin of the word gargle. The word describes the sound produced as water passes the throat and mixes with air. In early architecture, gargoyles were decorative creatures on the drains of cathedrals.

The word quisling comes from the name of Major Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian who collaborated with the Germans during their occupation of Norway. The word now means "traitor."

Theodore Roosevelt was the onlyU.S. president to deliver an inaugural address without using the word "I". Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower tied for second place, using "I" only once in their inaugural addresses.

There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers. The most widely spoken language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. There are 885,000,000 people in China that speak that language.

Victor Hugo's Les Miserables contains one of the longest sentences in the French language - 823 words without a period