Hotter than Cyprus? Yes!

Yesterday Aberdeen in Scotland recorded 23 C which was two degrees hotter than Cyprus.  Crazy!

Today is yet another gorgeous day here with the temperature at present only recording 12.7 at 1pm but feeling so much warmer.  The gardens are just busting out with signs of spring, and around every corner whilst walking one finds another pretty example of the change of seasons.

My emails today included one from my dear friend Merle, in Oregon USA.  She included a joke that has probably done the rounds many, many times but I found to be chuckleworthy (is that a word?).  I'd like to share:

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official
language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
 
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some
room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as
"Euro-English".
 
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will
make the sivil servants jump with joy.  The hard "c" will be dropped in favour
of "k".  This should klear up konfusion , and keyboards kan have one less
letter.
 
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome
"ph" will be replaced with "f".  This will make words like fotograf
20% shorter.
 
In the 3rd year, publik  akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the
stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
 
Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent
to akurate speling . 
 
Also, al wil  agre that the horibl  mes of the silent "e" in the languag
is disgrasful and it should go away. 
 
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th " with
"z" and "w" with "v".
 
During ze  fifz yer , ze  unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords
kontaining "ou " and after ziz  fifz yer , ve  vil  hav a reil  sensibl
riten styl .
 
Zer  vil be no mor  trubl or difikultis and evrivun  vil find it ezi  tu
understand ech oza .  Ze  drem of a united urop  vil  finali  kum tru .
 
Und efter  ze  fifz yer , ve  vil al be speking German like zey  vunted in ze
forst plas .