A Trip to Madain Saleh in 1974. By car from Jeddah to Beirut via Petra in 1974 with an unscheduled stay in Haql on the return journey. Four go to Spain in a mini and other holidays in the 1960s.
26 August 2018
27 April 2018
It Could Always be Worse?
It Could Always be Worse!
A Big Quiet House
A Yiddish Folktale from Eastern Europe
There was once a man who wished his small, noisy house was larger and quieter. He went to the wise old woman of the town and explained his need. She said, "I can solve your problem. Just do as I say."
The man agreed.
"If you have a chicken, some sheep, a horse, and a cow," she said, "bring them into the house with you."
"That's a silly thing to do," thought the old man. But he did it anyway. Now his house was already small, and with all those animals in it, there was no room at all. He returned to the old woman and cried, "I need more room! The animals are so noisy I can't think!"
"Take all those animals out of your dwelling," she replied.
When he had put all the animals comfortably back in the barn, the man went into his house. To his amazement, it suddenly looked remarkably bigger! Without the animals inside, his house was now quiet too!
29 March 2018
Do you have a special keepsake you can’t bear to throw away?
I wrote about my trip through Austria in an earlier post:
https://sortoflife.blogspot.co.uk/p/holidays-in-1960s.html
15 February 2018
20 January 2018
Taxi Company
Thank you for your patients and support!
Hilarious, I think they mean patience, I did wonder who might be to blame, was it a phonetic error, taken over the phone, or was it written and the printer decided to print it anyway!
It is possible that they only have contracts with hospitals and/or medical centres!