Friday Funny Haha Friends

Another gorgeous Friday morning in England and time to highlight some laughs and giggles!

My roast-ee (like a roastie but funnier) today is Organic Mom With Cool Whip – a very funny lady from across the pond in USA. You have to go and see her post about being a playdate pimp, or as she calls it a ‘friend whore’.

I dare you to read it without laughing out loud in recognition!

I started Friday Funny Haha linkup last week, because frankly there’s just not enough laughs in the world! Well I’ve found some very funny folk in the blogosphere and I wanted to highlight them and help ease the end of the week along.

If you’re new to this – and most of you will be – please add a funny post to the McLinky down below. It could be your own post, or someone else’s (do ask them first!) and take the badge and pop it on your page to show that you’ve participated! You don’t have to have written the post in the last week, it could even be something from your archives that you think needs some airplay!

Right I’m up first.

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Having a Lava!

Driving my daughter then aged 8 to school along the beautiful Auckland waterfront. The dormant brooding humps of Rangitoto just off shore. We’re talking about moving to England to live. Miss Eight has a few concerns.

‘Are there hurricanes in England?’

‘No, not usually. It’s too cold for that’

‘What about earthquakes?’

‘Nahhhh’

‘And there’s no tall buildings?’

‘Oh I see, no not like the World Trade Center, no.’

She relaxed in her seat and looked out the window. Rangitoto last erupted 100 or so years ago. We had recently taken Miss Eight to see the exhibition at the Auckland Museum.

A bit of an error, on reflection, as the exhibition featured an extremely realistic portrayal of what would happen when Rangitoto erupted again. Miss Eight had been horrorfied to see that our home would be destroyed by lava. She sat at the window and peered out at the three volcanic cones we could see from our living room window (Auckland has over 20) and quietly fretted.

She looked out of the car window, over Kohi beach to Rangitoto and turned to ask me.

‘Are there any volcanos in England?’

‘Nooooooooo’ said I.

‘Oh. None? What about in Europe?’

‘No, Europe’s very very old not like New Zealand. There’s none at all’.

Of course that was in 2008, I’d never even heard of Eyjafjallajokull then!

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