Mike Rutter’s Weblog…….

Ok – since I get such big summer holidays I thought why not?

Mike Rutter for President

Matt wrote a story today on the computer. You won’t get a better insight into the mind of a 4 year old than this! I love the ending. I’m sure he knew what he meant……..

Matt’s Story

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This made me laugh.

I keep getting these at work at the moment, hence these last 2 posts. This made me chuckle……. obviously not true though………:)

“A Gasoline Substitute”
A man was driving down the road and ran out of gas. Just at that moment,
a bee flew in his window.

The bee said, “What seems to be the problem”?

“I’m out of gas.”

The bee told the man to wait right there and flew away.

Minutes later, the man watched as an entire swarm of bees flew to his car
and into his gas tank.

After a few minutes, the bees flew out.

“Try it now,” said one bee.

The man turned the ignition key and the car started right up.
“Wow!” the man exclaimed. “What did you put in my gas tank”? 

 

The bee answered,….   “ BP “

We went swimming today after church. Don’t do it often but we should because the kids love it. Beth has no fear…she just bobs about in the water grinning. Joel spends all of his time trying to drown me and Matt equally has no fear. He wandered off into the ‘serious swimming pool’ and just plopped himself in. Fortunately I saw him as he went in and went to rescue him as bemused adults looked on. He just grinned at me and told me it was too deep.
The real fun was when we first went in to the pool though. we had just stepped in and I turned round to see Matt with his trunks round his ankles and happily weeing into the pool. For a brief moment I was so tempted to deny any responsibility for him……….

Joel also dressed up as Jack Sparrow for his World Book Day event. He won the prize for the best fancy dress. I think he probably looks more convincing as a pirate and judging by your comments I would think you probably agree!

On Thursday it is World Book Day. We are doing it today at my school. It’s great fun – all the kids and teachers dress up as a book character. I decided not to drive to school wearing mine, not after my recent experience

I had a fun experience last week. I decided to top up the car’s oil as I hadn’t done it for a while (maybe ever) and it has been playing up a bit recently. This I did and then set off for work. About 5 mns away from work the engine suddenly revved like there was no tomorrow and clouds of smoke poured out of the exhaust. The cars that previously had been in my rear view mirror had now disappeared into a vast smog. Oh dear. I pulled over to the kerb and pretended I was looking for something on the floor of the car so that any parents that happened to be negotiating the fog didn’t realise it was Mr Rutter causing the hazard…..
Anyway – I ended up calling the AA. After about an hour of sitting in the car Mr AA arrived. I told him what had happened and he chuckled pointing out that when I fill up the car with oil that doesn’t mean empty the whole container of oil in. Well nobody told me……..it just kept going in so I thought why not? Apparantly I had filled it so high that the oil was getting into the fuel mixture and burning. The real danger with this is that you have no control over the combustion as you do when it is your normal fuel being burnt. He said that what often happens is that the engine keeps racing even after you turn the ignition off and eventually goes bang (his highly descriptive words). He said I was very lucky that this didn’t happen (incidently if it does happen he told me that the only thing you can do is stall the car). He ended up draining about 5 litres of oil from the car by the roadside – and then he took great pleasure in teaching me how to put oil in the car correctly whilst speaking very slowly and using simple terms.
Anyway 2 and a half hours after the incident I was on my way again. An experience to learn from I think