That’ll be just A in Milan, now, I guess

It is true that, mostly, people are nice. And when people are nice, it lifts you and gives you warm and good feelings inside.

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Following Alex Fear’s comment on this post, I thought it would be well to advise the settings I found afterwards.

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Whilst I was doing a crossword and asking for help from V because I am really bad at remembering film titles.

Me - The clue is: A World War 2 Film with three short words.

V - Tora, Tora, Tora.

Sam - Oh, I was going to say Saving Private Ryan

You may remember, if you read this blog regularly (that’ll be you, Dominic), at the end of April I had a small problem with my Belkin router. No, well you can read about it here.

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I found this the other day and it amused me, so I thought I would share it:

“If Peter Florence ran the British government, then the entire Whitehall bureaucracy would be pared down to about four blokes and a pencil sharpener. On the upside, Britain would enjoy an amazingly vibrant cultural life; on the downside, bad things would sometimes happen, like forgetting where we put the Royal Navy or losing the Isle of Wight”

Lifted from Toasting Napoleon.

I have a cheque to pay in to the bank. It’s drawn from a UK bank and in sterling (obviously). I want to pay it into my bank here, in Milan. The bank is through the Post Office as it’s the cheapest around (we don’t get free banking here, guys).

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J - “Sam, what’s in your head?”
Me - “I’m not sure we need to know that!”
Sam - “When I want, I can remember things that I’ve seen.”

Really. You had to be there.

J - Sailors aren’t gay by definition.

Sam - Most of them are, though.

It’s V’s Dad’s Birthday today. It’s also V’s ‘official birthday’. Just like the Queen! Actually born on the 18^th of this month, but V’s passport and, therefore, all Italian documents, show today.’ The passport came with the wrong date and I don’t think either of us noticed until we came to Italy and it was a bit late by then. The only thing is that we have to remember, when quoting the birth date, to quote today, when we’re here.

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‘My grandfather went to a couple of world wars’.