SEAN CONNERY RIDES AGAIN

Old Grumpy has a penchant to masquerade as Sean Connery. Sad really because the only thing that he actually has in common with the man is that they are both Scottish!

Once our nephew Brian asked him to take a ring into the jewellers to get re-sized. When Brian went in to collect it they couldn’t trace it, until he had an inspiration. “Try an alteration in the name of Sean Connery”. Sure enough, there it was! Mad, isn’t it?

A friend even bought him a Sean Connery mask that he would occasionally wear around the house and office to the great delight of everyone.

He is scheduled for surgery on 18th March and I am doing my best to dissuade him from wearing this wretched mask into the operating theatre because I think that it may distract the surgeons. The operation will take 4 to 8 hours and he will be in hospital for 2 to 3 weeks. Oh happy days but, as I once read the words of a jew to his wife after they were arrested in Nazi Germany, "until now we have lived in fear, now we live in hope".

We are so lucky that we have the love and support of a good family, dear freinds, a "one day at a time" philosophy and belief in a higher power we chose to call God.


MORE - ECONOMIC MODELS EXPLAINED WITH COWS - 2008 UPDATE

A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called 'Cowkimon' and market it worldwide.

A GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You decide to have lunch.

A RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 2 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.

A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you. You charge the owners for storing them.

A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity. You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.

TO BE CONTINUED…..