Thursday, September 01, 2005

Do exactly as I say

So Robert takes his two young children, Ella (8) and Michael (5), to the beach. A good time was being had by all when Michael says: "Daddy, I want to go to the toilet."
Robert says: "That's no problem Michael, go into the sea and do it."
Michael looks puzzled, because this is the first time that he has been given such an instruction.
"OK daddy." Michael walks down to the water's edge, pauses, and standing in two inches of water, pulls his willy out and lets fly.

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It's the 1st September and it seems like only yesterday that we were looking forward to summer. But we can't complain, it's 31c in the shade today and the next few days are also looking very good. The pool gets up to 28c most afternoons, the perfect temperature, so we spend a little more time than usual sitting and swimming. Good eh?

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Back to Michael again. There he is messing about in the pool when he shrieks because he has been bitten on his tummy. The only thing that we can see that could have been involved was a waterboatman swimming nearby. I was certain that waterboatmen are harmless, so I Googled it and my supposition was confirmed. But there at the bottom of the article it said waterboatmen are easily confused with backswimmers. I had never heard of a backswimmer so I Googled it and there it was. They can give a painful bite. Isn't Google a wonderful tool?

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