Friday 31 May 2013


Did you know.......



... that today May 31 is American Poetry Day? This day celebrates the birthday of Walt Whitman (born in 1819) It also honors all poets and poetry lovers.

Monday 27 May 2013

May 27th

Did you know...

... that today is the Three Little Pigs' Birthday? Walt
Disney's "Three Little Pigs" cartoon movie premiered in 1933.
It won the 1933 Academy Award for best animated film and was
the most successful cartoon that had ever been released up to
that time!

To my American friends, for you, Memorial Day 2013


Thursday 23 May 2013

Thursday 16 May 2013

To all my Pennsylvanian friends or those that may live in Pennsylvania! From Jeff Foxworthy, an American comedian - not from Pennsylvania!!


If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you may live in Pennsylvania. 

If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't even work there, you may live in Pennsylvania. 

If you've worn shorts and a jacket at the same time, you may live in Pennsylvania. 

If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you may live in Pennsylvania. 

If "vacation" means going anywhere south of Harrisburg for the weekend, you may live in Pennsylvania. 

If you measure distance in hours, you may live in Pennsylvania. 

If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you may live in Pennsylvania. 

If you have switched from 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same day and back again, you may live in Pennsylvania. 

If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you may live in Pennsylvania. 

If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both doors unlocked, you may live in Pennsylvania. 

If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you may live in Pennsylvania. 

If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, you may live in Pennsylvania. 

If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph -you're going 80 and everybody is passing you, you may live in Pennsylvania. 

If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, you may live in Pennsylvania. 

If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction, you may live in Pennsylvania. 

If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you may live in Pennsylvania.

If you find 10 degrees "a little chilly", you may live in Pennsylvania. 

Monday 13 May 2013

Telling porkies.......


Did you know five million sausages are eaten by Britons per day? 

Sunday 12 May 2013

For my Sunday Supplement.......

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MOM"S DAY


THAT IS OF COURSE ONLY IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE THE AUDACITY TO CELEBRATE IT WITH THE UK ON THE MIDDLE SUNDAY OF LENT!!

Today is Fibromyalgia Awareness Day.

Fibromyalgia does not discriminate.
It has no boundaries and it can effect anybody, any age or any gender. 
Fibromyalgia is widespread musculoskeletal pain and fatigue.
There is currently no cure.



Fibromyalgia awareness day is what it says - awareness is needed. Awareness is needed now.
If not now.... when?
People you know have it now. Tomorrow it could be you, your friend, spouse, child or loved one.

Please click the links above and then do me a favour ~ Tell someone what you've just learned, No , really!!