Snort funny!

Ben made up his first "knock knock" joke the other day.

Ben: Knock Knock
Me: Who's there?
Ben: Pig
Me: Pig who?
Ben (points at me): There!

As ever I thought of the witty riposte too late - Cheeky little swine!

Okay, he's not quite grasped the concept of knock knock jokes, but it was so out of the blue that it was quite funny so laughed quite a bit. He now tells it at every opportunity and howls with laughter to encourage his audience to laugh too!

Flock

Whilst driving around Norwich on Sunday I pointed our a large white French Poodle to Ben, my 2 year old.

His response was (quite sincerely) "I want a sheep!"

I tweet!

Yeah baby! Last week I decided to start tweeting.

I've resisted for a while because I'm stilll fond of full length blogging, even though it means I sit here for long periods of time pondering what to blog (and then realising how boring my life is when no subject crops up!) but I've always been evangelical about the power of this interweb-thing, so I do need to play at being a tweeter in order for work purposes.

I don't think tweeting will take away from this blog because tweets are more sput of the moment (like the fire at Zizzi's pizza restaurant in Norwich today) whereas this blog is often a reflection of the day or days gone by.

So, my most recent tweets will appear on this blog (at ths side) and you can follow me @originalmajato. I kept it the same as this blgo because it's nice and easy to remember and because there are many pretend majato's but there can only ever be 1 originalMaJaTo.

There's a shark in the park!!!

In the absence of anything worth blogging about I figured I'd stick this in. My boys love it (and I do too!)

don't you hate it...

...when your tapping away on the keyboard when suddenly most of what you have typed disappears, possibly because your hand came within a few millimeters of the mousepad on your laptop?

Not too bad when you are writing in Word, Powerpoint etc, but when it's a rant on your blog it doesn't seem to allow you to "undo"

I can't be arsed to retype the rant, which was a pop at Ebay (shock, horror)

Uncle Harry

Just wanted to post a quick link to some articles relating to the recent passing away of my Uncle Harry in case any members of my family are reading.

http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/tributes_to_norfolk_lifeboat_hero_killed_in_tragedy_1_662078

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/localnews/Tributes-after-longserving-lifeboatman-dies.6565712.jp

http://www.rnli.org.uk/wcm/site/pages/access/media/printableVersion.aspx?article=612791&transform=425588

Yay for October

I was tempted to explain to Luke that October has its origins with the latin number 8 (octó), which can also be found in words such as Octopus and Octagon.

He kinda likes languages so I would've mentioned some foreign numbers that are similar, such as:-
Ocho - Spanish
Acht - German /Dutch
Otto - Italian
Oito - Portuguese
Agt - Afrikaan
οκτώ - Greek

However, to do so I would need to explain why October is the 10th month, not the eighth. I'll leave that one for now.