Archive for the 'Just for fun' Category

Learning something new every day.

Posted by on February 22nd 2019 in Health, or lack thereof, Just for fun, New tricks for an old dog

I've always claimed, for comic effect, that my verbal outbursts of obscenities whenever I'm screwed over by the NHS (or by anyone else, for that matter) are signs of me having Tourette's.

Well, I stand corrected. It is Tourette's-related but there's a specific term for it... Coprolalia.

It's from the Greek and, in layman's terms, it means... "talking shit".

Previous posts and comments have been updated accordingly.

Fnarr fnarr

Posted by on January 20th 2019 in Health, or lack thereof, Just for fun

Rash

Posted by on January 18th 2019 in Health, or lack thereof, Just for fun

I developed a rash of red spots this afternoon. To be fair, it's not the sort of thing that's got the doctors perplexed, it should disappear quite soon:

Wait here

Posted by on January 16th 2019 in Health, or lack thereof, Just for fun

As waiting rooms go, this must be the most colourful I've ever seen. It's like sitting in a huge bag of Dolly Mixture:

Wintalympix2

Posted by on January 12th 2019 in Health, or lack thereof, Just for fun

Later, we will be commandeering this corridor for the Drip-Stand Curling Finals:

Wintalympix1

Posted by on January 10th 2019 in Health, or lack thereof, Just for fun

Go on, tell me, who wouldn't want to tackle this slalom course on a tea-trolley?