Tuesday June 23rd 2026 "Cancel that holiday, Friends - the weather's just too nice where you are haha!!!!"

Yes, friends, better cancel that expensive  holiday, Friends, and get your money back - the weather's probably nicer where you are, so save your hard-earned cash and stay at home haha!!!!!

Frankie say, "Relax, don't do it haha !!!!

a typical family preparing to go on holiday to somewhere or other!

Yet, despite the current heat, people are continuing to go on visits here or there, which is mad! Did you see the headlines in today's Onion News, which will give you an idea!!!

Yes, people are still going on visits, which is totally crazy. It's just getting too hot to do anything, that's what me and my wife Lois say, here in semi-tropical Liphook, Hampshire, no question about that!

my wife Lois and me - a recent picture

And the weather forecasts look crazy at the moment - have you noticed? Shome mishtake, shurely haha!!!

Phew, wotta scorcha !!!!!

And "Only travel if it's strictly necessary!", that's our advice - and remember, you read it here first haha!!!

Lois and I get a visit today, it's true, from our dear elder daughter Alison (50) and her middle offspring Rosalind (17) which is nice, but they have a jolly good reason to be out and about - a trip with a family pet to the vets, also calling on us to pick up Rosalind's birthday present from us. 

It's going to be an iconic birthday for our granddaughter Rosalind, because she'll be turning 18 later this week, but the family will be celebrating the occasion over in Copenhagen, where they all spent 7 years, from 2012 to 2019. And they're planning a slap-up birthday meal for Rosalind at her favourite restaurant, Sticks'n'Sushi at the northern Copenhagen suburb of Lyngby, which will be nice!

(left) Lois, with our daughter Alison and granddaughter Rosalind, who visit us

today, ahead of their upcoming visit to their old stamping-ground, Copenhagen

and (right) the iconic Sticks'n'Sushi restaurant, venue for Rosalind's 18th birthday party

They'll also be seeing lots of old friends from their time in Copenhagen, including their Irish friend Bobby, who works at the English Bookshop, the iconic Books & Co in Hellerup, which was another of the family's favourite haunts. As well as doing her job in the bookshop, Bobby also somehow finds time to look after the horses owned by Denmark's Australian-born queen and horse-lover, Queen Mary, which is totally mad!

(left) Copenhagen's English Bookshop, Books & Company, and (right)

flashback to 2017: Lois with our daughter Alison at the bookshop 

on one of our many visits to the city to see her and her family

Denmark's horse-crazy Australian-born queen, Queen Mary - Alison's friend

at the English Bookshop looks after the Queen's horses, which is mad!

What a crazy world we live in !!!!

One exception to that rule, however, one 'island of sanity' (!), is Yours Truly and Lois, who are determinedly not going anywhere today in all this heat!!!! We tend to get up early and do our little so-called 'jobs' before it gets hot, and then hunker down till evening, "skulking" in bed in the afternoon, and then watching something on the telly before going back to bed again, which makes sense to us! 

Call US crazy if you like haha!!!

Here's us in the garden this morning, with Lois doing all the actual work, and me just "poncing about" and trying to look busy (!) in my usual way!!!!

us in the garden earlier today - with Lois doing some much-needed "maintenance"

and me just "poncing about" and trying to look busy (!)

What madness, isn't it !!!!!

20:00 There's nothing much "on the box" tonight, apart from football and repeats of documentaries we've already seen, so we settle down on the sofa to binge-watch further episodes of Canadian sitcom "Schitt's Creek", a series which we somehow failed to notice when it was first aired a few years back, weirdly!

[Again, for heaven's sake, Colin! - Ed]

In the series, a wealthy couple Johnny and Moira are forced to leave their billionaire mansion, after being cheated of all their money by some crooked accountant or other. 

Luckily Johnny, had bought a small rural town some years ago, 'as a joke' present for his son, so the family, now unexpectedly down on their luck, can at least seek low-cost refuge in the town that they own anyway (!), and they manage to book two poky rooms on a long-term rental, at the local sleazy, run-down motel, in run-down, backwoods town, Schitt's Creek.

In this key scene tonight, ex-billionaire Johnny finds he has to give a funeral eulogy for a total stranger, local man Carl, the brother of the local dodgy car-dealer Bob. Johnny and Moira never knew Carl, but they had an early brush with Bob, having mistakenly broken into his cabin, and Bob had been able to hear the couple having sex, while he listened from an adjoining room.

Town mayor Roland, with wife Jocelyn, breaks the sad news, about Bob's brother Carl:

The locals badly want Johnny and Moira to be present at the funeral. Johnny, however, excuses himself from the pall-bearing, citing a fictitious back-problem, but is nevertheless pressed into delivering the eulogy for Bob's brother Carl, at the local church.

Not having ever known Carl, Johnny has obviously had trouble coming up with his speech at the funeral, but he delivers what can only be called a textbook "generic" eulogy, which is nice.

You can tell already, I'm sure that Johnny's remarks are turning into a classic, generic eulogy, and his opening remarks are worth remembering, if ever YOU are invited to speak about some dead person that YOU have never met!

Kudos, Johnny!!!

Fantastic stuff, isn't it !!!!!

Will this do?

[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]

22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzz!!!!!!!