oldbloke's mutterings

Jack is now officially (hossy measure) 1 metre tall.

In other Jack news, he helped me wash the car. When he gave the trigger a little extra squeeze and the hose suddenly went to full jet, he panicked, and turned to me for help. Turned to me. Holding a hose on full jet. Ah well.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7430939.stm

Tsk!

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Was once sat in the living room watching telly, as you do, saw something out of the corner of my eye. Ants, hundreds of them, coming up the wall. From the cellar through a crack in the skirting.
With wings.
Nothing to do but vacuum them up!

And then another time, it was getting round to ant season, I was down in the cellar and saw where there were a lot, for some stupid reason thought it'd be a good idea to spray them with butane from a lighter refill tube and then chuck a match at it. Don't try this at home, kids.

Proper ant powder from one of those plastic just-puff-it-out-into-the-nest bottles goes WHOOOOF if you do it round the back of your CH boiler, too.