Archive for category Humour
Mini Me I have mentioned previously about God Sakes love for all things miniature and his unfortunate inclination to eat said tiny toys. Well Granny also had a predilection for the pint sized. To him, every itty-bitty item was somebody’s baby and, like his brothers before him, his favourite were prehistoric monsters. Plastic dinosaurs (or [...]
fiction, God Sakes, Granny, iDad, Lego, Mini Me, No.1, One Little Girl, short story, WeetBix, Zombie
Tuesday 22nd November – Evening – Botany / Banksmeadow Area The incessant yet gentle precipitation had left me feeling mildly depressed. My Monday morning jog had been washed out and the Tuesday morning raincheck was, well, rainchecked again. On top of that the exercise bike was broken, which tends to happen when you plug the [...]
Christmas, ducks, jogging, rabbits, short story
Go on, give him a little cuddle. You know you want to
Crocodile
What is Generation Y? The simple definition of the generations is as follows: 1901 – 1924: The Greatest Generation aka The Veterans. These guys were born during the Great War, grew up through the Great Depression and fought in World War 2. They were fed on food stamps, handouts and the grapes of wrath. If [...]
Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Y, Monty Python
St Andrew’s Growing up with No.1, God Sakes and Granny was as entertaining as it was educational and iDad’s influence over his children was profound. As a fledgling golfer I was forever talking to my boys about the three or four good shots I made out of the one hundred and thirty it took me [...]
Cake, Cookie Monster, Gobbellin, God Sakes, Granny, iDad, No.1, Postman Pat, So-See
Mum sent me this so it has to be true – right? Here are some facts about the 1500s: They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery…….if you had to do this [...]
bacon, bath, bread, bride, corpse, dead ringer, Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water, peas porridge, raining cats and dogs, slippery when wet, tomatoe, whiskey
With thanks to El Presidenté of the BGC. You have to hand it to the British, when it comes to golf…and “rules” German aircraft from Norway would fly on missions to northern England; because of the icy weather conditions, the barrels of their guns had a small dab of wax to protect them. As they [...]
BGC, Golf, sport, War
Actually, iDad has been published a few times in Bare Essentials Magazine now, but I missed the last couple of issues due to personal reasons. When I asked the editor, Inga Yandell, if her readers missed me she said: “Men around the world were left to their own devices with the absence of iDad the [...]
Bare Essentials, iDad, short story
Gen Y – an iDad Perspective
Posted by Matt Green in Commentary, Humour, iDad, Latest Posts, Short Stories on October 4, 2011
What is Generation Y? The simple definition of the generations is as follows: 1901 – 1924: The Greatest Generation aka The Veterans. These guys were born during the Great War, grew up through the Great Depression and fought in World War 2. They were fed on food stamps, handouts and the grapes of wrath. If [...]
Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Y, Monty Python
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