Thirty something flat-sharing guy seeks gal for marriage

You are sharing with room-mates? Where are you planning to put a wife and two kids? How do you plan to support her if she has to stay home with a baby or handicapped child or threatened miscarriage.

Most people I know have their own room or flat at 25. Your girlfriend's sister met an estate agent who had a house and car and takes her out to dinner. Your girlfriend is embarrassed to admit her date was coffee with a guy with no job prospects or plans and just when she felt romantic your room-mate turned up.

Here's an idea. Hold some regular get togethers. Start a club or join a club and aim to be the president. Tennis, speakers groups (Toastmasters International). Learn to play bridge and have bridge games for four or eight.

Go to an evening class where you meet members of the opposite sex. Dancing.

Hold some dinner parties with suitable marriage-minded girls and guys. Each of the guys should tell a girl that his male friend wants to get married. The first couple to get married invite all the other singles to be bridesmaids and ushers.

AutoGRAMMAR

AutoGRAMMAR will be useful to most of us. I admit it's helpful to recognise those who cannot use a dictionary nor spellchecker. But most of those who don't bother to use spellchecker won't use AutoGrammar either, so the dim-witted, lazy and grammar accident-prone will still be identified.
 I like the reader's comment about 'get' (meaning fetch) a drink, and 'have' (meaning obtain) a  drink. I had never previously noticed that 'error'.

Could Marilyn Monroe Have Become First Lady?

If Kennedy had married Monroe he would have been the most popular President in the USA, and worldwide. But maybe Marilyn would have been a distraction causing jealousy.
Why is a film star becoming first ladyt so far fetched an idea? Princess Grace of Monaco had been a film star, filmed in the nude. President Reagan was a film star.

Feeding foxes, cats and rats

Problem
1 You like foxes.
2 You hate rats.

Answer
1 Leave out food for foxes.
2 Don't leave out food for rats.

We have foxes. Georgia Weston, secretary of Harrow Writers, and presenter-trainer on Harrow Community Radio, points out that if you leave food in the garden all night for foxes or cats, and hedgehogs, you may also be feeding rats.

Foxes eat rats but rats breed faster than foxes. Foxes produce 7-10 a year, whilst rats can produce hundreds. That is why you conceal food for chickens in a raised container or something they need to tread on to keep away rats.

You can tell when foxes have urinated, says Georgia, because the smell is so strong.
Foxes are more inclined to walk or wander into your house if you have attracted them and taught them not to be afraid. They can be bringing in lice and ticks and fleas. You can treat dogs, but not wild animals. Yuk.

We were so pleased with our fox pictures. But we are not feeding the foxes.

A fox in our back garden UK

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I think I swallowed a gold filling. Does anybody have a metal detector?

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  Angela Lansbury Yes being the world's only expert on this subject, I can write a short book. Chapter One. At home: Utensils, rubber gloves, pail, magnifying glass, sieve, rolling pin .. Chapter Two; In a railway carriage ... Do you think I could use this as subject for a humorous speech. Somebody wrote a book called How To Shit In The Woods which I bought in the USA at a national park bookshop. The shop assistant said it was their best selling book. I could be on TV with this one.

Alive - after motorway accident

Flashbacks of my car being hit in the slow lane of the motorway, my car veering across two lanes of the motorway, hitting the crash barrier, spinning and stopping. 

A man trying to help by opening the door to get me out. Realising all the doors were jammed shut and I was stuck in the fast lane of the motorway. 

Very lucky to be alive. A lorry driver ran over to help. I kept shouting, 'Stop the traffic! Before it hits us!' 

He ran back and parked his articulated container lorry diagonally, blocking all three lanes. I was so happy. He was brilliant. I'm alive. Can't believe it. So happy.

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