If last week was the ‘science’ edition, this week is the ‘seen and heard’ edition…
1. Overheard in the loos at work, a conversation between 2 colleagues discussing their upcoming holiday plans:
Woman 1: I’m off to Benidorm with the girls for a long weekend
Woman 2: That’ll be nice, when are you going?
Woman 1: Next Tuesday to Saturday.
I really want her weekends…
2. A bet was taking place between 3 other colleagues, one, a German, was declaring that Frankfurt was the largest airport in Europe, another, who’s French, was stoutly defending Charles De Gaulle, and the third, who’s Scottish, decided to back the Frankfurt argument. The French contingent bet the German contingent £10 that Charles De Gaulle was biggest. And who was right? Err, none of them, the largest is actually Heathrow, although Charles De Gaulle comes second, with Frankfurt languishing down in third.
3. The sun came out this week, and with no snow in sight for a change, everyone in the West of Scotland stripped down to their t-shirts and started munching ice-cream – we’ll not go into the fact that it was a whole 10C…
4. How do you pack your lunch for work? Or for your kids? I bet you don’t go to this much trouble, but I wish I had someone that would do this for my lunch, I’ll never be able to look at my boring Lock and Lock lunchbox in the same way again… Check out more of David Laferriere’s work here
5. I discovered this week that nearly 200 years ago they came up with the first tinned food. I also discovered that it took them 10 years to come up with a dedicated device to actually open the things. Genius…
Linking up to our genial host:
Wow, now I wonder how they got the tinned food opened before the can opener was invented?!! Fun post, Katy! xxxx
Was 'The Office' based on your office? ;)My husband always laugh at the Brits who come here in winter time and strip down to their shorts and T-shirts when it's sunny but actually fairly chilly. That's when he does his 'ooh let's have a cup of tea' impression. Tsk!
10 degrees? ya beauty, gies the factor 50!
My dad still laughs at visiting Shetland when the sun was shining – lots of pale white flesh on show to the most of it…….and I'm sure they all had their factor 50 on….after all Sarah would know! Juliex
After 1890 years, they still can't make a tine opener that works!
I learn so much from your random facts…
You mock, but that just may have been summer!
I love your sewing, but have to say I am hooked on your random posts too. Brilliant!
I am really hoping that these last couple of days havn't been our summer!
I love your random posts! I had suncream on last week (factor 25) but it was a balmy 15C…with a wind that could cut you in half!
I do enjoy your random posts. I started reading the airport one and thought oh I'd have said Heathrow (she says smuggly) and as for the last bit of randomness – good job tin food doesn't go off quickly isn't it 😉
OK, I am off to colour-in the lunch bags!
Ha, ha, I wonder how many people lost fingers opening tins with sharp knives before the tin opener was invented? You are truly random, well done!
Excellent randoms this week! I love the growly lunch, I'm off to see more, thanks for the link…
Ive never been to Heathrow but I understand its about 30 times the size of our airport here ….I can just see me getting eternally lost somewhere that big and never making it to my plane.
And I guess they didn’t have to worry about the tinned food going off while they came up with the idea for a can opener..so its all good.
I love your random posts. That lunch bag is brilliant – not showing the kids though, don't want to set the bar too high ;o)
LOL 🙂 This definitely had me laughing. That can opening situation is a riot!
Best sandwich container ever.
The national news filmed in our province this week as we've had the coldest spring on record in 114 years. They went to an ice cream kiosk in downtown Regina and interviewed a man who was complaining that it was too cold for his ice cream to melt… 🙂
Another stellar random.
I'm with you on wanting her weekends. From memory, when I was 18 Frankfurt was the biggest, but since then the other two have expanded. Now, if they were going with which of the three you want to avoid like the plague, the French team would've won 🙂
I eat ice cream in winter and can never understand why it disappears from everywhere then. This is a UK thing I think. And yes, the sun has been gorgeous. One of the guys at work yesterday said we should make the most of it yesterday as it was supposed to become freezing again from today/tomorrow. When I asked if that was freezing for an Englishman, he confirmed that yes he meant 10degC 🙂
Yes, I left off my coat yesterday as I came home from class, thinking, wow it's really warm – checked the temp in the car – 10 degrees. Also had first ice cream of the year this week. Flavour? Scottish tablet – yum.
Your 'Random' posts are the highlight of my week, ask me what I miss most about Britain now I'm living in the US – British humour and a true understanding of irony and sarcasm – you are my weekly fix to get me by! 🙂
Ha! The icecream made me laugh – i got sunburnt basting a quilt yesterday – despite the temperature drop to a frigid 25C!
Laughing at the Scots getting their arms out in 10*! We down here would be freezing in that temperature. It's getting down that cool at night now. Finally, we're in mid autumn! I want those long weekends your colleague gets too.