A Halloween Joke

I realise this is late – have just opened one of my mail accounts and this is what I found – Enjoy

Halloween

A man is walking home alone late one foggy Halloween night, when behind him he hears:

BUMP…

BUMP…

BUMP…

BUMP…

Walking faster, he looks back and through the fog he makes out the image of an upright casket banging its way down the middle of the street toward him.

BUMP…

BUMP…

BUMP…

BUMP…

Terrified, the man begins to run toward his home, the casket bouncing quickly behind him.

FASTER..

And

FASTER..

BUMP…

BUMP…

BUMP

He runs up to his door, fumbles with his keys, opens the door, rushes in, slams and locks the door behind him.

However, the casket crashes through his door, with the lid of the casket clapping.

Clappity-BUMP…

Clappity-BUMP….

Clappity-BUMP…

The terrified man keeps running.

Rushing upstairs to the bathroom, he locks himself in.

His heart is pounding; his head is reeling; his breath is coming in sobbing gasps.

With a loud CRASH the casket breaks down the door.

The man screams and reaches for something, anything, but all he can find is a bottle of cough syrup!

Desperate, he throws the cough syrup at the casket…

And,

(Hopefully you’re ready for this!!!)

The coffin stops 🙂

Even tho’ I’m not a Halloween celebrator I laughed at this one

Todays Flowers – Nov 09 – 1

Hebe
sometimes called Veronica
Down the bottom of our garden near to the Philadelphus
there are some Hebe plants
I was trying to grow them as a hedge by placing several plants side by side
but even with the best of pruning
one end always grows larger than the other
and also flowers earlier than the other
Its an easy plant to grow
Has fabulous glossy leaves
and
comes in a variety of heights and colours
This one partcular one is Hebe Inspiration
Has fairly small blooms and doesn’t grow taller than one metre
As you can see the flowers don’t always open at the same time
Theres always more coming on
which means
there’s colour on the shrub for quite along time
If you look carefully you will see
it’s not only people who like the flowers either lol
clicking to enlarge photos
will give a clearer view
To see more of Todays Flowers from around the world

Scenic Sunday

The Golden Gumboot
Banyan Park
Tully
140 Kilometres south of Cains
Far North Queensland
to read the boards
please click on the photos for a larger view
Built to recgonise the fact that Tully is reputed to be the wettest place in Australia
(although the residents of nearby Babinda would query that lol)
the Golden Gumboot is a marvellous tourist attraction
We had a great time
climbing to the top and loooking out
over the town and nearby hills
And it didn’t rain!!
The boards tell you about the area
and the benefits of living in such a high rainfall area
The height of the Gumboot
represents the amount of rainfall that fell in 1950
a record
7.9 metres – 25.91 feet
There was a small doco/film/movie
made whilst the gumboot was being built
it shows the plight of a small town caught in an economic downturn
(sugar imports v local sugar production)
and findidng a way to attract tourists to their town
To see where Tully actually is in Queensland
Some links you might like

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