English is a crazy language...
Taken from Dyslexia.com

There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple; English muffins were not invented in England or French fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
Quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
In what language do people recite at a play, and play at a recital?
Ship by truck, and send cargo by ship?
Have noses that run and feet that smell?
Park on driveways and drive on parkways?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?
When a house burns up, it burns down.
You fill in a form by filling it out, and an alarm clock goes off by going on.
When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it.

My head is pounding... and it's not due to drink...HONEST!
I have caught a summer cold (Actually being a typical bloke I should be saying that I am dying of flu). It must be a mix of the change of weather and my hay fever. This weather change has been dramatic. I had my heating on last night when only a few nights before I had my Air Con on!

Did anyone see the Kids Buckingham Palace show? I caught the end with the Superfrickingfrolickhocusextrahalitosis song. And the queen came out at the end. I saw Prince Philip chatting to Ronnie Corbett, who was looking like an Oompa Lumpa. I was kinda expecting him to be saying "Didn't we fight you lot in Ghana?"
(Talking of Ghana- they play Brazil today. Fingers crossed for a Brazil win)

And then the Queen made her speech. Both my OH and I were willing her to say "Thank you. I do like a warm hand on my entrance", but she never did.
And now I have just read the BBC news. Over 80 people complained about the opening of the show, when Huw Edwards said, in a news Bulletin, that there had been dramatic events at Buckingham Palace! OK I can understand that some people might get anxious, especially after the Underground Bombings, but you would have thought they would have relaxed a little when the reporter interviewed Ronnie Corbett dressed as Buttons 1 minute later! Sheesh!