Yes, Friends, think carefully! Have YOU been either up or down stairs (or both!!!) at some point in your day today?
Many of us have, seemingly, to read today's papers, that's for sure! Just take today's Onion News as your proof, randomly !!!!
[Why did you say it then, Colin! - Ed]
But those headline, "staring" me and my wife Lois today (again, no pun intended!!!!) certainly give us something welcome to laugh at, here in partially-attractive Liphook, Hampshire, that's for sure!
And the reason for our merriment today?
And this evening, Lois even has the energy to cook a dish she's never made before, an iconic South African dish, the so-called 'bobotie' - yum yum!!!
my wife Lois and me - a recent picture
Well, Lois, who's Oxfordshire born-and-bred is inclined to say "Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs!" when she's surprised or dumbfounded by something she sees or hears, and she always thought it was a purely Oxfordshire expression. Not true, apparently, according to the Oxford English Dictionary's Susie Dent in next week's "Radio Times" magazine - just turn to the puzzle pages, at the back of the magazine, IF YOU DARE!!!
"Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs!", to coin a phrase!
So! It's not an Oxfordshire turn of phrase after all, and I make a mental note to remind Lois next time she says it, to pronounce it in an appropriate (but amusing!) regional accent, as a 'nod' to the phrase's historic roots (!).
And in what's yet another strange coincidence today, Lois and I are pretty tired out this afternoon, going upstairs to bed for 'statutory nap-time', after literally going up and down stairs all morning ourselves today, getting ready for the upcoming visit of our daughter Sarah and family arriving from Perth, Australia at the end of the month, that's for sure!!!!
flashback to July 2025: our lovely little 'Australian family' - our daughter
Sarah, husband Francis and their 12-year-old twins Lily and Jessica
To make it worse, this morning, I even had to actually get off the sofa (!) and start mowing the lawn, also somehow finding time to pop out to the town's railway station to buy some tickets for our planned day trip to London with Sarah and family - what madness, isn't it!!!
Busy, busy, busy!!!
(left) "Well, I'll go to the top of our stairs!", to coin a phrase (!) - the folding
beds we're using to supplement sleeping arrangements during Sarah and family's visit,
and (right) I have to get off my backside as Lois puts it (!) - only joking!!! -
and mow not just our front lawn, but the tricky "side bit" by the road, which is mad!
(left) Liphook's tiny railway station, and (right) me brandishing tickets for our
planned day-trip to London to (literally!) "see the sights", would you believe!!!!
What madness, isn't it (again) !!!!
[That's enough madness! - Ed]
And I expect you're thinking, "Golly, Lois and Colin, you'll surely be too exhausted this evening to do the puzzles in the back of next week's Radio Times!", but it you're thinking that, you'd be dead wrong, and what a fool you'll think you are when you read that we scored a stonking 8 out of 10 on presenter Clive Myrie's challenging "Mastermind" questions.
Why not see how many of these 'doozies' YOU can do haha!!!!
despite her exhaustion, my wife Lois somehow finds the time to
cook us a dish she's never made before - the iconic South African 'bobotie'
And feeling pleasantly refuelled, there's a 'springbok' in our step (South African, geddit!!!), as we 'step' to - where else? The foot of our stairs, of course! And then, we climb upstairs and get into bed again, which 'at the end of the day' is where we normally tend to finish up (!).
Will this do?
[Oh just go to sleep! - Ed]
22:00 We go to sleep - zzzzzzzz!!!!!!!
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