“Some dad’s“, when left alone with their kids, serve up the most wonderful and “inventive” stuff:

We Brightys tend to go for plain “Quality”..

Absolutely 1st class!

By now, you’ve probably all seen the effect of Mentos on Diet Coke.

If not, here’s a peek:

Obviously, people were bound to try putting Mentos into other beverages.. Carlsberg beer for example!

Following this post, Tom showed his compassion.. With this:

Oh: so true..

Nearly forgot this gem!

Picture this: you are at your parent’s place, cum great-grand-mother, enjoying a pleasent meal of Raclette.

And then, as it happens:

Mum: So, Sarah: do you have a boy-friend yet?
Sarah: No: I’m a lesbian…

Total silence followed as I saw the devious little b***h counting to 10 before bursting out laughing.

Thanks Sarah!

Spent a great evening with 4 generations of Brighty’s last night.

Well, actually: they wern’t all Brighty’s; at least one Buser managed to slip in without anyone noticing. But as she happens to be 91, we’ll close an eye…

Yes, it was great…until Mum insisted on taking out the family album and showing my kids what a total geek I was at their age. Much fun was had by all, Rambo included (who instantly became Oma’s Love-Slave after she fed him a potato).

Especially when, once the album was stored away, totally fallacious rumours about my childhood were slung across the room.

No: I didn’t have my feet on the handles of Johanna’s bike when I crashed in front of our school. I put them between the spokes of the front wheel. Don’t ask me why: it just felt like the right thing to do at the time.

No: the porn tape you found in the family’s VCR wasn’t mine. A friend on mine borrowed it from his dad as we had received a school assignment to write about the affect of pornographic images on pubescent youth.

No: when you found me in the local supermarket with a caddy fully of ice-cream, shrimps, snails, and other delicacies after leaving me at home while you went off skiing before turning back because of the weather: it wasn’t for me! Just a week before, I had decided to join Oxfam and was collecting stuff to send to poor starving African orphans.

So, Sarah and Vic: your Dad is still a hero, ok?