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So we have a thread for 'Funny things children say' - thought we should have one for the elderly! :1b

 

My dear old mum comes out with some real 'gems' (she is 91)........so here is today's offering

 

Mum: I was wondering love, about your computer

Me: Yes mum, what about it?

Mum: Well I didn't know, can you get the weather on yours, or is that just some computers?

Me: Hmmmm - yes mum it's on the internet

Mum: Oh right so you can get it?

Me: Yes mum what do you want to know

Mum: Oh nothing I was wondering that's all.......

 

Made me smile - so I thought I would share :1b

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.......and have you?! xD

 

No!!!

 

I don't do facebook at the best of times - although I do have an account (and quite a few 'friends pending')

..........................and to be honest I'm not sure about the etiquette of commenting on a spouses death (the cousins) on facebook.

 

I have sent said cousin an email. :1b

 

xxx

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Mum: My printer is bust again. Can you get me another one just the same, I just bought inks.

Me: I'm not sure they make that one any more

Mum: well how silly to go on making inks for it then!

 

 

Sigh

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My mum asked me if I had one of those posh Blueberry phones...no mum but my Blackberry is a great little phone!

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I don't go out with my mom anymore but when I did I used to tell the shop assistants it was 'care in the community' as I gently dragged her away :)

She used to come out with some pearls :)

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I have a suspicion that my mum has been twiddling with the timer on the boiler. She has been complaining that the heating is going off before she goes to bed but then it is on and hot in the middle of the night. She said that it was okay though as she has taken her electric heater upstairs to put on in the bedroom to keep it warm until she goes to sleep. My sister was due to go over and I said I would mention it to her so she could check what the problem was.

 

Mum: No problem at all, the little heater works fine.

Me: Yes, but it's more expensive to use than the central heating.

Mum: What do you mean?

Me: The electric heater costs more because it uses a lot of electricity.

Mum (outraged): How will they know I'm using it? Can they see in my bedroom?

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Oh dear....... I might be turning into my mum! :blink:

 

Half-term for me, and Mr S has decided to take a few days too.........so we've been off to the garden centre (oh yes we know how to live xD no end of excitement in this house xD )

 

So........driving back I noticed this row of bare Poplar trees and said............"wow look at those nests in those trees they are really unusual"........to which came the reply.......

 

"They are very unusual that's Mistletoe" xD

 

Well how was I meant to know :ph34r:xD :lol: xD

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I have to own up to making silly comments myself too. Not long ago I bought a new mascara, on the advert it has a yellow brush. I opened it and said 'oh, mine isnt yellow'.

 

How long did it take you to see the flaw?? :ph34r: :ph34r:

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Well I didn't know mistletoe grew on poplar, though it was just on apple, pear etc trees.

 

 

Often see it in our local forest, can't remember on which trees though- but not fruit trees. [not saying it doesn't grow on fruit trees :1b :1b ]

 

xxx

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Here's a quote following a brief 'google

 

The main host plants are apple, hawthorn, lime and poplar trees, although mistletoe is occasionally seen on maple, sycamore, willow, crab apples, false acacia, ash, oak, plum, rowan and even cotoneaster.

 

That's from a 'how to grow it' guide in the Telegraph

 

So there we go, learn something new every day!

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off to see my mum this week and she often comes out with classic sayings or gets words wrong which has us all in fits - last time we visited with my daughter , mum passed wind rather loudly and said' that's better, get out and walk , I've carried you for long enough !!!

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