Hi everyone Can you remember the first joke you ever heard? I think this one is probably mine. If an elephant climbs up a tree, how does it get down again? Sits on a leaf and waits until Autumn. That was definitely a "dad joke" as it was my late father who told it to me. I think I might have been about six at the time. Sixty years on, I can still remember laughing at it but also not really understanding why it was funny. But I could definitely see the elephant on the leaf up in the tree and that was the part of the experience which made me laugh. When I was about the same age, I also found an old First Aid book which had jokes in it and they weren't even Doctor, Doctor jokes, either. One of the very first ones I remember reading and understanding, if not finding absolutely hilarious, was a variation of this old favourite: Johnny: My sister's gone on holiday. Peter: Jamaica? Johnny: No, she wanted to go. Although I think I liked the rhythm of the way the joke was writ
Hi everyone. It’s a busy month, October. There’s so much going on, it’s difficult to know what to write about. We’ve already had National Poetry Day and we’re still just about in Chocolate Week (hoorah!) with Menopause Day, National Cat Day and, of course, Halloween still to come. Diwali, the Hindu festival of Lights begins on 31 October this year which is just a few days after British Summer Time ends. And if that wasn’t enough, Leicester City are playing Southampton which is a “six-pointer” if ever there was one! But I’ve decided to go with Wear It Pink Day which is on 18 October and aims to raise funds for the amazing work done by Breast Cancer Now , the UK’s largest breast cancer charity. Did you know that breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK with around 55,000 women and 400 men diagnosed with breast cancer every year? So it’s an extremely important cause and I thought I’d see if I could prompt you into making a donation by setting this fun quiz on the theme of ‘pi