How to retain servants

Getting a servant these days is like finding a unicorn in your backyard. Here are some tips to retain them.
1. Dispose of your old papers through them. The second hand market does give you some additional money, but it is more useful to them.
2. Utilize the examinations time to hand over the airline pens and conference goodies which you get to make the servant's children happy.
3. On a whim give them off - randomly at that
4. If you involve them to specially help you prepare difficult and one off food such as pickles, etc. share with them too.
5. Buy those brooms, buckets, soaps exactly as they ask for and when they ask for!!
6. Preferably do NOT peer over their shoulder when they are on work.
7. Do NOT compare them with another servant, or for that matter do not put down the neighbour's servant. Word gets around you know!
8. Do NOT give them food that you would not take. ( Many of us believe that the leftovers can be given to them irrespective of the state it is in)
9. Do NOT given your hand me downs that cannot be worn anyway. Buy them new ones instead.

Try them, who knows you may have a unicorn after all!!

The Cruciverbalist's Jeeves

It is a very fascinating way to spend the ealry morning coffee with the crossword. in the local. An insprining moment when you crack a difficult one. A sip and ha! another one bites the dust.

However things are not as easy enough. Either I am getting old or the crosswords are getting more difficult. Some of the clues are rank atrocious. The rationale known only to the setter. So I decided I must even the odds a bit. This is where I located three very good helpers. Absolutely marvelous.

http://www.amo.qc.ca/cgi-bin/pub/ODico/dico.out
A brilliant site for the unlucky ones at the crossword. Simply enter the pattern and lo you have the words. A bit of a killjoy for the puritan, but the joy of kicking the setter? Priceless.

http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/advanced.html
A terrific site thanks to Anu Garg. Simply the best for avoiding brain haemorrhage.

And finally
http://wordweb.info/
Quickly look up meaning with options to look up other online dictionary.

Next time be prepared to fight the setter!!