Congrats to the new parents. When do we get our cigars?
If you react like this when you didn’t want a pet/s, I’d hate to be around when you got one (or more!) that you actually wanted!!!!!
Do you think you’ll beat 18 [?] [?] [?]

Muppet, we used to write that in autograph books when we were kids (when dinasaurs ruled the earth -in the days when we had to amuse ourselves with things that weren’t computerised) but we wrote it:
11 was a race horse.
22 was 1 2.
11 1 a race.
22 1 1 2.

~a bit like the 22 that should have been “20 too” in the riddle about the twins.

Pinky, Do you and Arty live on a farm? Or are you like that guy in America who had a tiger and a crocodile living with him in his apartment? You must do well with your property investments just to be able to afford to buy and feed all your pets …. not to mention pay for all the tattoos. [] Or is that why you buy properties … to house all…[Read more]

LuckyPhil, Have you considered that there might be a connection between the use of emoticons and getting a tattoo[?]

Singing worked with my two, and now also with my granddaughter …. it doesn’t take them long to realise that the only way to get away from my awful voice is to go to sleep !!!! LOL []

What about “Race”? Then when you go to visit it you could say you were going to join/rejoin the rat Race! LOL []

Better still, when the visit is over you can honestly say you are leaving the rat Race behind!! []

Your cat must be very tolerant, or in need of counselling! []

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I went and got another tattoo yesterday.[}]
I get them in places where I can still put my business shirt on to cover them.[]

I’m not going to comment about the tattooing.
My mind just boggles about a business shirt that covers the tatt on your calf!!!!!!

So I presume you don’t need to use a sock by the time you have that…[Read more]

The fact that kids will make sense of a situation for themselves if it isn’t explained to them, was made clear to me when I was doing the weekly shopping with my son, then about four. I was on family leave so we were a family of four with just my husband’s income. We had incurred an unexpected expense that week so I had to keep to a strict…[Read more]