Did You Ever Stop and Wonder ….
Thursday, May 6th, 2010
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If you are getting stuck on what text to practice your writing, try these …
- Why do toasters always have a setting so high that it could burn the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?
- Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?
- Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don’t point to their bum when they ask where the bathroom is?
- If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?
- If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
- Why do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?
- Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog’s face he gets mad at you, but when you take him on a car ride he sticks his head out the window?
- Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?
Apparently the car is covered with over 6,000 pens.I found this picture at 
Fridays show started with the Red Arrows. Again an excellent range of displays was planned for the day. However, the weather was not so kind disrupting the displays throughout the day. Again for the second day in a row we experienced a torrential downpour, which may have been even harder than the previous day.I only got two photos on Friday using my phone camera, which was taken minutes before the storm.
Unlike the Copperplate style, the Spencerian minuscule letters are more cursive in their construction. Looking closely at the word ‘Suffolk’ it would have been written as follows:The capital ‘S’ was written first! This letter is written at some speed i.e. not carefully drawn. When I have observed Brian writing Spencerian he would practice the capital letterform a little in the air just above the paper (a bit like a golfer practising a putt). The letters ‘uf’ follow – all in one continuous movement without lifting the pen off the paper. Pressure was applied on the down-stroke of the ‘f’ to get the shade (thick part). The second ‘f’ was written on it’s own. Finally ‘olk’ would have been produced in one continuous movement without a pen lift.
It was a little disappointing when I looked inside the envelope – there were two blank sheets of 
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