The things people say - 2

Listening to the Liverpool vs Manchester United match today the commentator exclaimed that Manchester\s defence were, "All at sixes and sevensies!'

Thursday night saw me being taken to an open evening at a college where, asking about one of the 'A' levels on offer were told, "Forty percent of the final mark is based upon coursework and the other seventy is taken from the exam results." Fortunately the course wasn't mathematics!

Earlier still in the week whilst asking after the health of one of the old folk in the patch I was candidly informed that the Gynae had told her that things were quite bad 'down below'. In fact, as she rightly told me, "You wouldn't want to see the inside of my womb!"

Mind you, talking to a diocesan officer this week my telephone battery chose to turn the telephone off such that I ended up telling the bloke that I loved him! Good job the feeling is mutual :-)

I just love the way people (me included) say the most awful and awfully funny things and still shudder at some of the candour adopted by people as they get older. That said the first place has to be the child who, a couple of days after Shrove Tuesday, informed me that his Mum had given him his dad's pancake because he'd given Auntie Pauline one! The look on some of the assembled faces was magic - and we just went down the road of 'Two pancakes, wow - you were lucky!" and carried on without flinching.

The dog-collars lot is rich and varied indeed.

Happy Saturday - commiserations to Wales fans!