Minus eight on the dashboard ! There's only one thing for it... how about a nice cup of tea... all new for 2009
As promised here it comes...
... I love my tea strong, not brick red but strong. And I also like tea, lots of it.
But I have been told that milk could well be the end of me, how, I know not but I believe most things people tell me so why should I argue when it comes to this?
Furthermore, no milk in weak tea tastes EXACTLY the same as some milk in strong tea.
And you know what? The no milk tea tastes a bit more like tea and a little less like sick.
And none of this takes as long anymore and the fridge doesn't beep at me when I leave it open because I don't even have to consider going over to it.
No milk in my tea is also leading to the subconscious suggestion that milk should disappear in other aspects of my life.
I once read a Buddhist book that said most of us die of phlegm and a lot of phlegm comes from dairy, so all-in-all a pretty massively good decision, what?
CLP.
2009.
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I like milk in my tea - and I like my tea strong so not so much milk!
I have weaned myself onto skimmed milk which is just white water anyway
super bp x
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Got to have milk in tea.... it's just wrong otherwise.....
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Semi-skimmed is the way to go for me - some taste but not too heavy on the palate or hips!
Tea is the best non-alcoholic drink ever invented - I couldn't manage without it, in fact I'm going off to make one right now!
Cheers CLP.
df
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Ditto to what Super bp said. White water all the way!
AliB
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Phlegm - what a lovely word that is.
I love tea. I have a dilemma at the mo cos at work we've just had our kitchen taken away so now there's nowhere to keep milk so I have to pay every time I want a cup of tea. Unless I bring in a little flask or something but atht's a bit too organised for me.
Anyway, a fridge that beeps if you leave the door open - not one for us luddites eh Diva?? :-)
T xxx
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Tea the best drink going.
As for Dairy keep away from it myself, anything that comes out of a cow or worse a goat ....
Smelly cheeses spread diseases.
PP
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...oh wot a coinkydinks...was just taking a big mouthful of tea as I opened your blog, Christophe! Yes milk, but honey instead of sugar as it is easier for your body to digest and you get much less of a sugar rush!
I thought most of us died from an accident in the home? Probably banging your head on the corner of the cupboard door you opened to get a tea bag when you stand back up from the fridge.
cafe au lait
love
hazel
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CLP - Only problem.... no milk means no teeth and weak bones!!!!!!!
Me advice abitta things in life doesn't do yer any 'arm, especially ter bones in yer arm and everywhere else for that matter of this matter of milk!!!!!
Aye too..... abet the Buddist 'ad no 'air.... yer see noot aving a well balanced diet causes yer 'air ter go!!!!!!!!!!
CLP Man - Trust me yer need milk in yer life, but only in moderation.... as yer littlen will do for strong teeth and bones..... trust me CLP!!!!!!!
GOURANGA with milk!!!!!!!!!!
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don't bother checking your emails when you get home Annie - gross!!!!
Big tea bag me - with semi if you don't mind and no sugar!!
Bees xxxx
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Oh tea. I have about 10 different types of tea in my kitchen, none of which I can stand any more! My parents have gone onto skimmed milk with their tea, they say it makes the tea taste more like tea as well.
Coffee all the way for me - and I used to hate coffee...
Bottoms up, and a happy new year all :)
xx
me
and the jumpybean
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sorry folks, can't join in with this one...
...tea is the devil's drink, I cannot bear it, even the smell makes me gag!!!
Now coffee....that's a different matter
bonnet de douche
KWx
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Hazel, I'm with you. Always have honey in my tea. Yum de yum!!
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LOL Tinsel. I love being a luddite, except that with blue LEDs on my toaster, I'm not so sure I am one now.
I think a fridge that beeped at me would scare the bejaysus outta me. Obviously, Nigella Lawson disconnected her beeping device - or else Mr Nigella would know when she nips down to raid the fridge in the middle of the night!
Tea. Not imbibed too often. Much prefer coffee. Or gin. When tea is taken, I like it the colour of creosote and Yorkshire strong - just like me nana taught me!
Is it home time yet?
Chezza The Luddite
x x x x
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Bingo not so...
I have all my own teeth and pretty strong bones. Never eaten dairy all my life except for a bit of butter on my toast. Food stuff's sometimes a myth.
However Beetroot and Bluberries I am very into at the moment not both togehter of course.
Infact due to a looming food compo I have perfected the perfect Blue Berry tart.
PP
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Gingembre, you just reminded me of my mate who calls sprouts 'devil's cabbages' ha ha
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Boiled eggs, toast, tea, milk !
I await with bated breath for your contribution to the great butter v margarine debate.
I don't believe its not a blog.
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Ah Christoff yous is definitely on the turn.
Me...I like me cuppa tea too. Oh yes. Milk AND sugar. But I'm an old biddy so that's ticketty boo.
And I can't BEAR them posh teas, camomile or nettle or deadly nightshade etc., ew yuk. No, it's Common As Muck tea for me thankyou very much. And it has to be brewed in a pot and in a proper cup. Not in a cardboard bucket with a tampon danglin' outa the thing, and the temperature of boilin' oil so you raise welts on the surface of your tongue when you try to drink it, and spend the followin' week talkin' like Roy Hattersley.
I'm off to put kettle on.
Clodagh.xx
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Gingembre
Can I grind your beans hun?
xxxx
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Jumpy, how lovely to see you!!
Cheryl I'm a luddite all the way. As you may have gathered from my inability to work Facebook!! xx
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Clodagh - Nyet (no).... ave noot stolen any of yer relatives thong catapults but a did once steal a whoopy cushion which ave still goot.... now opening up a whole new can of worms... or should it be baked beans!!!!!
JLFB007 - It's just an asumption that the Darling might wear thongs!!!
Don't yer remember the dee's of Alan Bas**rd on tv.... thongs everywhere if a politician is involved then!!!!!!
As for Wrightie and Stringfellow, ave 'eard Mark Ratcliffe mention Wrightie waz seen on 'olidee with Stringfellow last year.... both in thongs!!!!!
GOURANGA again!!!!!!!!!
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Mmmmm butter......
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Ginge, Have to agree with you on the coffee situation mate! Tea Bleurgh!
It has to be "good" coffee though. If instant Douwe Egberts or better! Preferably, fresh ground in a cafetiere, or espresso based!
sitting here tapping away with I-pod blaring out Rush - The Spirit of Radio. Top notch. one for our MW,a and Errol!
DD out
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Steady CtD, comments like that can get you blocked....LOL
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Clodagh - LOL xx
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MrsMary - have you seen the cartoon with flies all eating out of a pot that says "I can't believe it's not shIte" on it?
Brilliant!
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Bingo,
Alan Bas**rd, now there's a name I haven't heart for a while. Great program. Forgot the thong ref but makes perfect sense.....LOL
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Hiya Tinsel :) It's nice to have a moment to sit and read!
Coffee now. Fairtrade colombian is our preference, filter coffee generally. Which is what I'll be making to enjoy with my toasted crumpets and butter in a few minutes...
yumyumyum
Btw, when did yum-yums appear? They're absolutely yummy but I don't recall them being around before last year.
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Clodagh love - your egg-o-matic story had me and mr jumpy chuckling for quite a while last night :)
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Clodagh!!!! I'm drinking tea - stop it!!!!!!!
Bees xxx
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Now then the honey thing.
I cannot do honey. And I'd LOVE to substitute the sugar in me tea for honey but there's just something about it that makes me a bit queasy.
It's the bee-sick thingy.
I have a bit of an issue with the bees, see. Don't trust 'em. Although to be fair it's the wasps that give 'em a bad press, really. Bees are good guys but wasps. Oh no. Nasty little buggers, wasps.
And only the other morning I had another nasty altercation with one that ambushed me while I was mindin' me own business feedin' me tits in me own back garden, about 4 stone it was, wearin' a German helmet and flailin' a large machete and a klaxon. Luckily, in an uncharacteristic show of speed and dexterity I was able to deflect it with me baguette and hold it in a half-nelson while I handcuffed it to the fence and dialled 999.
As I speak I have the colander on me head and me flak-jacket over me frock as I await retribution by 20 of its mates.
Clodagh.xx
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jumpy - yumyums been around a while. are you indulding in the lemony variety of yumyum?? Yum Yum indeed!
Red Kenc0 in the Diva household. But only in the a.m of the day or else no zzzzzzs at night.
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I'm going now but as usual CTD has upset me calling me a luddite.
The fact is CTD I can't put these ugly energy saving bulbs in my chandeliars and use the dimmer switch for that special mood feeling.
Bingo Mark Radcliffe is of course always joking about Steve W's holidays.
Where was it last time a caravan in Skegness.
I should Coco
PP
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I always tell my colonial cousins that tea made the British Empire great!!! Well it's good for a laugh anyway.... Keeps them quiet for a bit....LOL
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I cant stand milk or tea? Does that mean I'm extra healthy?
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Hmmm.
Don't recall calling you a luddite PP. Not at all. That's me and Tins.
Tom - don't be silly. You're a student!
x x x
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tomgriff22...LOL But if you're standing in the tea or milk may be that's the problem....LOL
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Prof Plum - Yer can get special energy saving bulbs for chandeliers but for the perfect mood feel..... what yer need is play the guitar softly..... and candles.... candles using no electricity at all!!!!!!!
No aren't candles nice.... wish I could go back in time!!!!!!!
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At risk of being caught siding with the Diva and sparking the whole clique deb8 again! Luddite was originally mentioned in regard to reading books electronically and not aimed at anyone in particular!
DD out
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Bingo
We get thru loads of candles in Diva Towers - creates a mood, and saves on the storage heaters too!
Diva x x x
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Hmph mood lighting. Some idiot installed a thousand spotlights in each of the teeny tiny rooms in this house, so we don't actually need central heating even in minus degrees in winter.
The room we use the most - and therefore have the lights on the most often - is the room with the thermostat in. Really well thought out!
Rant over, sorry - I'll shut up now :)
As for yumyums, the plain ones covered in icing are just the ticket when it comes to an afternoon snack craving type thing!
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Sounds great Bingo but recently sold my guitar on Ebay...
CTD only joking..
candles though love them and an open fire .
PP
Oh I'm a luddite and I don't care
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Oh Chris, what a dillema. I love tea and I love milk but I`ve an alergy to cows milk so I drink goats milk and sweetened soya milk. Green tea with a sqweeze of lemon is an option and supposed to be vv good for you.
Chris, are you still taking the prune juice? I have been since the benefits of it where broadcast, oh and a kiwi a day. Found some delish oranges from the local green grocer, so much nicer than supermarket ones.
mj x
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Candles -
Reminds me of a joke about nuns ...
I'm going home now before I totally disgrace myself.
T xxxxxxx
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I think you may be of my strand in people, Mr CLP...
I am black tea and drink it by the bucket full. Tis delicious and one of life's gifts - after water that is...
Starting drinking tea without milk after a very dodgey experience in India in my yuff and can't take tea with milk anymore.
I've heard tell that milk is for youngsters, they need it to grow (although cow milk is very phlemgy) and as we get older we really don't need it. However, I adore cheese and I refuse to give that up, even if it does kill me.
LOL - everyone. Hope 2009 is dealing well with you...
I had a bit of a car struggle t'other morning.
I often reach into my little mini (old style new ones aren't minis) and start her up so she's getting warm while I scrape the windows (no eco destroying spray cans for me!).
Well, did said on Monday - only it appears I left the car in gear on Sunday. As the car bunny-hopped to the wall I had two voices in my head: one yelling, stop, stop at the car and the other one said, let go of the key, Jen... Eventually I heard the second voice but not before car hit wall.
Oops, thought I - better reverse a bit and see the damage. As I was only reversing a tad I thought it wouldn't matter if I didn't shut the door...
So, I stuck the door on another wall. So now I have a broken front head lamp and can only get out the car door by shoulder barging the door!
I wouldn't mind but I must drive in this state every morning. Heaven help us all,
jx
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Oh Jen I'm sorry for your car disaster but I am chuckling away at your brilliant description of it!!!!
Ah if only someone would start me up and get me warm ...
Really AM going now (maybe via the Shed!!)
T xxx
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Oh Jen!!!! Sorry love but that really made me laugh - it really is the sort of scrape I'd get myself into :)
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Also makes me think of my last smear ...
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jumpingbean - two words re your spotlights...
...dimmer switch
turn them down - and ding dong, instant mood lighting.
KWx
Ch - dunno about the beans but you can froth my milk anyday ;)
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.......df sidles in with hands held above head........
I admit to being guilty it m'lud - it was me who first mentioned the 'l' word and I am a self-confessed lud...... sorry, can't say it any more.
But I still buy CDs and only rarely download odd tracks when I know I won't want the whole album (as I still call 'em). And I like a mobile phone that makes and receives calls and texts - I have a 'pooter for the rest of it!
Guilty as charged methinks.
df
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I almost went on a Buddhist retreat to iron out all the stress in my life. But it clashed with a footie match at Wemberly! Though I did have a jolly good shout at the match!
I heard on the radio from a doctor that high coco choclit is good for you.
mj x
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Jenn, hope you didn't get hurt in the car mishap....
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I had some chocolate flavoured wine over the hols...... not bad!!!
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Tins - you are on fire today hun!
Jen - my first two cars were Minis - an 850 called Elwood and then a 1000 City. Loved them both!
The first one split in two about a week after I sold it.
The second one I managed to prang into an off-duty Met policeman whilst reaching under the passenger side shelf to turn the cassette up to Guns N Roses Paradise City whilst turning right onto a main road. Whooops.
The new ones are growning on me, but not a patch on the originals.
Pull that there choke out to the max!
Chezza x x x x
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Don't you hang your handbag on it Cheryl? [The choke knob I mean - nothing else!] My dear old great-aunt always did!
df
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Ginge
I almost choked on that! I'll go get me whisk!
MJ - I've read several books on Bhuddism and to be honest, of all the religions I am aware of, it is the one that seems to make the most sense.
You don't see angry Bhuddists. That's good enough for me.
x x x
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derbyfi
with the words "choke" and "knob" i'm amazed that your post didn't get moderated.
sitting here chortling to self like norty schoolgirl at back of the class now!
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Chezza..... Yer do in Tibet!!!!!
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Hmmmmm. Good point Bingo. But to be fair, they have a reason to be angry in Tibet.
In the absence of Old Russ .....
China - Get outta Tibet! Leave the Tibet people alone!
There, said it!
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CtD - I did wonder if it would escape censure - but couldn't think what else to call it!
There's something to be said for the old manual ones - the automatic ones have caused me endless problems and breakdown service calls over the years.
df
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Cheryl, my first car was a Morris 850 Mini, 1962, old english white. When I was 12 I sent off for a brochure for the new Bond 3 wheeler car. One evening a man called at the door asking if I wanted a test drive! My parents where in fits of laughter. Now why didn`t I send off for a Ferrari Brochure!
mj x
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Jen- bless you.. bet you didnt know whether to laugh or cry! Having had one of each (ie a new and an old one) the original mini if definately the best... chugging along til it got warm ie about 40 miles down the road..not putting the choke in too early..brilliant! On the look out for one as an investment to maybe do up and show at some point.. i know, i know sad! Hope the damage is not too bad and the door is straightenable..
RIght off now..but just one comment on the tea situation..we drink gallons of it at work but mine has to be very milky and just threatened with the tea bag (in fact i am not allowed my own tea bag - i have to share!) so there`s no hope in the health stakes for me - and dont suppose the biccy with each cup helps either...??!!
right..back to THAT auction site..anyone want to buy a car,mirror,shoes,lighthouse?!
mSc xx
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Lighthouse??? Model or real? I know a man who'd like the latter.......
df
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
Grayshus me...wot meanings we can give to things...reading a book on a computer putting the bookbinders et al out of a job...I cannot BEAR to be reading stuff on a computer at home...spent all day doing it (and even some work) after all...is all I can do to stop my head a-spinning and my eyes a-crossing by the time I get in...
books all the way
love
hazel
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ps Plum...and I like to make people stare!!! Is that where you were going with that one? Wasn't it Poly Styrene? Happy new year btw x
pps good news on the Sett front too...if we do have to go, it doesn't look as though it'll be until about June...so BIG thank you to all who care about the whereabouts of the Badger and me!
...and finally...the bloke who won't eat eggs as he can't have anything that comes out of a hens btm, but he does like a nice rump steak...I think Clodagh knows him...
YUMYUMS??? Jumpy! They've bin abart for YEARS matey! Still as good as when the pod went pop...
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Its a pic unfortunately..well a ceramic on a frame if that makes sense?! and i would love the latter too... just dont like the sea..minor problem!
mScx
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Hello Chris,
minus 8 - Gosh! Not a cup of tea you need- it's a duvet!
In my line of what I do (can't really call it work) I drink a lot of tea- an occupational hazard. :) Every now and again, I throw a double six and say - that's it! No more tea! I try those fruit teas instead - they are truely awful but we pretend to ourselves that they taste ok, and sometimes even manage as many as 3-days without proper tea. My guess is, you'll be back on the hard stuff with 4* milk - (that unleaded milk, is for wussies) by the weekend. You know what they say about friends and Phlegm? ....
It is the mucus that binds us... :)
TVWx
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Watch that mood lightin' you lot.
Back in the days when Men Were Men and women all had small feet, we thought we were dead posh because Aunty Lily had a caravan in the South Lakes. Off we all trundled in the Austin A40, fetlock-deep in tins a beans and pre-packed bacon and wearin' the safety knickers in anticipation of the toilet block, 300 yards and a filthy-tempered ram away.
Our mood-lighting came from the gas-lamps supplied by the gas canister that was actually nearly the size of the caravan, and it was the DDF Eric's job to get said lamps and the heater going. Trouble was, Renee was as able in this arena as she still is in any other that requires any safety expertise, and therefore, Eric being foolhardy enough to put her in charge of Turning The Knob, one swipe of the Swan Vesta and Boom! No eyebrows, singed nasal hair and a receding hairline for a month thereafter.
The van was nice and warm after that, though, even if it did smell of scorched pork.
Clodagh.xx
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CtD.... Re #56......LMAO!!!!!
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Prof Plum, CLP and ALL - Look all a can say iz if yer end up with brittle bone disease and teeth lookin' like Albert Steptoe.... a did warn yer aboout lack of milk!!!!!!!
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Scoob, three words re minis...
Doubleyou
Dee
Forty
Mine was called Maureen after Maureen Lipman as the reg was BT...
...and Martin...you could order one now...now that you're not twelve..?
Roll up roll up...that's my lighthouse for sale that is. Bishop Rock. They didn't like us renaming it to Badgers Rest as there has never been a badger within about 50miles of it being out to sea 'n all so it's gotta go...one careful owner.
and about twelve careless ones
love
hazel
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ta mSc - I'll pass then.
He said he'd like one - or ideally a castle with a drawbridge - for those 'special' days when me and one of the girls both have PMT and are doing our finest grizzly bear impressions!
Clodagh - Don't get me started on caravans - I really hate the things - static or mobile! One bad childhood holiday and way too many delays on the roads have scarred me for life! Doesn't Ken Bruce take much the same position on them?
And I must confess that I have absolutely no ides what yum yums are - thought she was a character in the Mikado!
df
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ooops - sorry.........also meant to say hurrah for Hazel and the badger. You stay in the sett as long as you can m'girl!
df
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Hazel - Guess I never used to have a craving for them! I'm sure I never used to see them in the shops though, not in the supermarkets anyway. Perhaps a certain doughnut maker has brought all things donutty back into fashion...
Gingembre - OH OH OH I just looked back and saw the BOOT!!!!! VERY nice :D ! We have the lights on as low as we can stand because it affects the central heating so much, so there is much tripping over of things in the resulting ambient mood-lighting. If we want to see actual floor-space I have to put Ben's playmat away.
I am going to write to the Easter Bunny for a new bigger house, as my letter to Santa obviously didn't make it in time - or else I was a Very Naughty Girl last year...
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Mmmm - yum yums, delicious
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Thank you fi! We're gonna!
Although speaking of which, I gotta go there now...is hometime after all...
thank heavens for lovely legal aid
love
hazel
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From Wiki***ia
The Yum Yums is the name of three bands:
* The Yum Yums (Northern Soul), a Northern Soul band of the 1960s
* The Yum Yums (Pop-Punk), a Norwegian Pop-Punk band
* The YumYums (Surf-rock), an English Surf-Rock band currently active in the South West of the United Kingdom
Also seems to be a range of 1980's soft toys
and various restaurants - so still no wiser!!!
df
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As far as I am aware, yumyums are rectangular doughnuts covered in icing. Although I can never decide whether they are more like croissant dough, or puffpastry, or doughnut dough.... Not seen them with flavoured fillings! Mini yumyums are VERY moreish, can happily eat several of them (and then get told off and to have more insulin) with a couple of cups of coffee.
Didn't know that it was the name of multiple bands!
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I'm a tea fan too....very strong though, just the smell of milky tea makes me feel sick.
Don't like coffee, when we go to Starbucks I feel like a fraud sitting there with me sparkling water. Get confused ordering Mr Debbie's coffee cocktail......vente, skinny, toffee nut latte etc...what the?
Anyways. Clodagh the thought of our Bakery Support Manager in a thong put a grin on my face, in fact won't be able to look him in the face.
Mr Debbie thought it amusing the other day when I got excited when my firm's advert came on the tv. All ten seconds of it...note to self...get a life!
Debbie x
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Ta jumpy - sound nice but sickly.
df
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Hello all, have been lurking away over the festivites, hope everyone had a super time and that 2009 brings everything you all wish for and more.
As for the great tea debate, I am definitely a coffee girl, the milkier the better! On the rare occasions I do partake of a cuppa tea it's Earl Grey, again with plenty of milk.
Oh and yum yums really do live up to the name... mmmmm
R x
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Very interesting. I too love a stronger cup of tea as oppose to milky, mushroom soup tea - the thought makes me feel ill!!
I might have to give that a go! Though I'd think it'd be a drier taste - anyway lets see.
Dont like the thought of the phlegm bit but then that might be a blessing compared to to some other ways of reaching the inevitable!!
Nothing like a nice cup of tea.................and a milk chocolate hobnob!
Liz xxx
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Plain choc digestives would be my dunking biscuit of choice! x
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Remember that TV ad from the 70s I think... It went something like: I like a nice cup of tea in the morning......
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Good point Liz, how do you 'die by phlegm'?
Tea and toast ahhh, I don't really like biscuits much.
x x x
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Hazel
There's a pub in Weybridge called The Badgers Rest. Stayed there a few times before daddy moved to Spain.
Will always think of you now whenever Badgers Rest pops up.
Chezza xxx
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http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/
for the fellow tea drinkers out there
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Dunking of biscuits. Another thing in life that is just plain wrong. IMHO!
Whenever we go to my sis-in-laws I always refuse tea: the tea bag is quite literally blinked in the direction of the cup and it looks like hot milk - revolting! She's very proud that she cane make a single teabag last a couple of days.
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
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What about a Papapapapa penguin......?
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Does anyone make proper tea with tea leaves and a tea pot?
My mum used to when I was a child, remember her warming the pot, tea leaves in (don't forget one for the pot).
And did you know that you can actually buy instant tea now?
Debbie x
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debbie
My Nanna still makes real tea - and I do like it a lot
Instant tea is just wrong
No biccies for me - just lovely apples
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Careful 007, we'll all be talking about chuffs again!
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SB, Mr Debbie's mum does too. There's something nice about seeing her put the tray down, all laid out with a great, fat tea cosy sat in the middle.
Instant tea is disgusting. My mum has bought it before. If itt were the first time you tried tea you would be put off for life.
x x x
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Just noticed, nearly 100 posts and almost every one commenting on Chris' blog.
Do you think that he has touched on something here?
What's green tea like by the way, never tried it but it's supposed to be very good for you.
x x x
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Poor Chris - his phones are broken and he's wondering if anyone is out there............we are CLP!
df
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My father has just come in from work shouting that the man Chris had talking about dirty cars didnt know what he as talking about... the reason cars are so much more dirty this year is that for the first time councils have added 'Malassi' to the salt (which is somthing sheep have in salt licks) this is alot stickier so it doesnt get washed off the roads and so when it hits your car it stays there and doesnt wash off as easy...
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SuperBP. What a fascinating website!! I like this article:
http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/news/?id=236
Green tea's alright, best if served fresh though. Plenty of hot water top-ups to stop it getting too strong!
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Debbie - if green tea is like chinese tea then I like it and drink gallons of it at our local restaurant where the food is great but the wine isn't too hot but is pricey - their tea is a much cheaper and nicer bet!
df
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Derbyfi - that's exactly the tea I was thinking about :)
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God i love a cup of tea or 5!
Gingembre- when will it arrive?!
loving that Norwich is the talk of the week at the mo!
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Blimey Gingembre with the TFI boot and CTD saying she will grind your beans you are having a fab week! xxx
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Proper strong cuppa with skimmed milk and one organic granulated sug ta very much!
C x
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Evening each
Usually drink coffee myself - percolated Whittards Amaretto or Vanilla is lovely. But my tea drinking is green tea, jasmine tea, camomile tea or peppermint. And nooooo, you don't put milk in Earl Gray Rosie!!!!! Yukky.
Cheryl: The e - the second photie was just groooossss!!!!
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Sorry Annie.... I'm not very good with tea!!!
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Ok, I'm persuaded. Going to give this green tea a try if I can remember next time in ELH.
Hmm, not sure what these photos are but certainly intrigued.
Debbie x
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It's very quiet here tonight... has everyone been scared off by my milk in Earl Grey faux pas?
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Soz Deb - if I've not deleted, I'll send to yo tomorrow, altho you will probly wish I hadn't!
Green tea is like pond water.
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Chezza you read my mind.
Green tea. eee-ak. Last time I tasted anything like that was when I fell over a loose paving slab and bushack. Straight into me ornamental fish pond.
Sober as a judge by the way. Grazed all me shoulder, got algae in me hair and down me decolletage and a right gobful of.. well, green tea.
Clodagh.xx
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And the fish weren't best pleased either.
Still they'll have forgot by now.
Clodagh.xx
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Yuk green tea revolting!
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Over here in the colonies a lot of people drink iced-tea.......
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ice tea good
green tea BAD
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How about green iced tea??????
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Green iced tea? Nip out to your fishpond with a mug and an ice-pick. Hey presto.
I should leave out the fish, mind. The fins get stuck between yer teeth.
Clodagh.xx
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Am just watchin' Rick Stein. (I'll never get this case study done at this rate).. and if ever a dog had the Rex Factor it was Chalkie.
RIP Chalkie.
Clodagh.xx
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Ok Cheryl, looking forward to the email. Sort of.
Never tried iced tea either by the way, never liked the sound of it. I like most herbal teas though.
I was about to say that a slice of a particular orange fruit loaf is lovely with a cup of tea when something occured to me.
Am I banging on too much about this new job? It's such a positive thing for me right now and I moan here so much that I want to comment on the good stuff going on here. I know, I know...I'm too sensitive.
Anyways. Just got out of the bath and can't believe the time...book that I'm reading is so good kind of got lost in it.
Off to bed very soon.
Debbie x
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Haven't caught up on the blogs but my favourite drink in the world has to be tea. After saying that I've caught a nasty cough so my favourite drink at the mo is fresh stem ginger and lime home-made tea (thanks Max)... works wonders!
Luv
Lyndyloo
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Ooooo Lyndy....that does sound good......
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ps. in ordinary tea I take milk but in coffee I don't.... and chocolate needs to be made with hot milk... go figure???
Luv
Lyndyloo
(now going to bed as she has to be up to travel back to BCN airport in the morrow...)
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Ooh, no, not ginger tea! Reminds me of morning sickness. With my first pregnancy, someone told me to drink ginger tea to ease the nausea. Drank it, vomited, felt much better!
Re today's show, I always thought my first child would be a boy (which I wanted), so prepared only boys' names, then panicked in the last few days and tried to prepare myself for the possibility it might be a girl...it was a boy!
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The only biscuit to dunk in tea has to be a gingernut, and bourbons for coffee.
Ta ta Lin x
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Girlracer, what about hobnobs?
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morning all, hope you're well?
girlracer *ouch*
- the thought of dunking gingernuts in hot tea just brings tears to my eyes!!!!!
Back to work this morning after a couple days off, it feels extra dark and cold???
have a great day everyone, and NO Debs you aren't going on about your new job too much, in fact it's great reading your happy positive posts after the dip you had.....you go girl
bonnet de douche
KWx
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Morning... back to Blighty........... see you all soon..... (wonder if Booboo has missed me?)
Luv
Lyndyloo
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LOL Gingembre! You guard them there gingernuts hun!!!
Lyndy - safe flight.
Debbie - noooooooooooooo. you carry on! and I love that fruit tea loaf to which you refer spread with butter and orange marmalade. yum!!!!!
btw Deb - I get rather 'cited too when certain bakery tv ads come on ...... i imagine you dressed as a Smurf dealing with Jonathan W's emails!!!
Laters.
Chezza x x x
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morning all
Had a thunk overnight, has anyone heard from Shorty lately? Was one of my FB friends but seems to have disappeared, if you're lurking, just say hi!
on the hot drink subject, only one I can tolerate is instant hot choc, something about milk in hot water turns my tummy :o(
Laters all
Tiggs xx
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on the subject of Tea - i prefer a certain pyramid t-bag advertised by monkeys - this is the best tea IMHO and I'm so glad they are going fairtrade
I also have instant hot choc in my drawer at work as I limit myself to two cups of tea a day and so hot choc makes up the difference if I need warming up - we do have a cafe on site that does costa (other coffee is available) coffee but the proce keeps going up and its not all that nice anyway.
On the subject of other teas - I will drink assam and thats about it - hot fruit stuff is so wrong as it tea that smells of perfume - and iced tea sounds so manky I do not want to go there.
super bp x
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Yawn............is it really that time already? Oh dear, better get working. Too much to do and no enthusiasm.
At least it's above 0 degrees today for once!
Gingembre - you take good care of your assets m'dear and welcome back Lindy.
Will try to log in again this afters - have a good day all.
df
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Morning All,
Catching upon the blog as the year has started with meeting madness,a major cost reducing excersise has been implemented here at GE.
Such is the current climate,don,t know why I,m always invited to them though,my average spend is only £220,000 a month ha ha, not a huge amount relatively to this site.
On the tea/coffee debate got to be coffee first thing 2 sugars and milky another coffee at 10 ish , from then onwards tea all the way, strong 2 sugars and just a smidgeon of milk.
Laters spuds.
PS Christopher old bean, who the Dickens (other authors available) was the hero of yours that you met at the party , do tell, doing me nut in.
JTT
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Greetings Ter ALL At Ere.......
Bingo Star ere...........
Firstly can a just mention terdee iz/ waz a special date as it would ave been Elvis's birthdee.... just gotta mention that every year as 'e in my opinion waz the greatest ever singer/ celebrity!!!!!!!!
Later a will bang on me very sad but true story about an incident a waz involved in on the roads a few years ago... brought it back after listening ter an article on the Jezza Vine show yesterdee!!!!!!!
Finally...... A recently phoned the DVLA 'otline ter declare me car off the road. A 'Statutory Off Road Notice' aka SORN declaration.
While on the phone I waz entered inter a prize draw ter win a new car. Guess what.... a won the car, nyaa a won - now whatta the chances of that!!!!!@!!!@!!
The only problem, in me excitment, a then forgot ter get me prized possesion taxed and now the police ave removed it for being untaxed on a public road and ave 'ad me new car crushed!!!!!!! NYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOURANGA..... to you... aka U2, sorry mean 2U!!!!!!!
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Well, that was fun ...... I only drive a wee Micra and thanks to the fog I couldn't see the end of my bonnet!
Still, here now and in one piece. Or peace maybe .....?
super_bagpuss - I'm with you on the hot choc in drawer for when warming up is needed. Also like the monkey brand of tea, and Assam. But drink tea very rarely.
Got a bit carried away over Christmas with the seasonal specials at that big coffee chain Star ....... their gingernut latte was divine, as was the hazlenut mocha. Hmmmm.
Right, best do something, seeing as I'm here!
Chezza xxx
Fun is the one thing that money can't buy
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Thanks for references and comments around mini/wall meetings - and no Jen was hurt in the making of this fiasco!
Hope one and all feeling decidedly warmer today than recently.
Got me thinking - just how cold and for how long must it have been for the Thames to freeze over and them to have a market on said frozen Thames with braziers and everything. Mad as a box of one legged frogs...
jx
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Guten Morgan
On the great milk debate, reminds me of school when free milk was delivered to every classroom. I can still remeber that smell in Summer when it was sort of on the turn. Mine was always given away to some tubby lad in class.
Hazel Happy New Year to U2.
Bingo, this is for you and I am not a relation!.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8yGSGuhAapI
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Morning folks,
PP - your greeting has put me in mind of my brothers little lad Morgan (also my nephew), and a little story relating to him and his genius.
My brother had sat Morgan in the middle of the room with some magazines for him to tear up, (mindless destruction is one of his 5 a day). He was about 1 year old at this point. So there he was, ripping, tearing, screwing up and throwing the paper all over the place, turning the living room into something from a crazy wedding horror video, but he turned to my bro - shouting 'DA DA DA DA DA DA DA' (you get the drift) holding onto 1 piece of paper and waving it at him.
Bro went over, took paper from him to find he had torn out just one word from a car magazine headline. And that word was....
MORGAN.
Absolutely true story, and we still have that piece of paper today.
MW, a!
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Morning each
Had my green tea with lemon this morning. Very healthy and not at all like pond water!! Then toast with lashings of butter.
How old would Elvis have been Bingo?
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Good grief it's Thursday already! Was peaceful and quiet Chez Badger last eve...just by way of a change...long may it last! He he, Badgers Rest!
Anyhoo, ich, meh and bleurgh...I well remember the milk in the school room...was always a bit warm...and always completely disgusting...they gave us Jammie Dodgers to have with it, which I think definitely have the M@rm1te factor - love 'em or hate 'em...to my mind they are gopping and I'd rather eat crunchy feet...and Rosieposie, I too do milk in Earl Grey...and the end of a spoon of sugar as honey tends to make it a bit syrupy...
Also many t's to Lyndyloo who has already told me about the ginger and lime tea...works a treat for the coffin it does...
The Rick Stein thing was superb last night. Just the right amount of fawning and swearing to create a perfect balance, wasn't that Ed 'The Bass' GAWJUS!!! Indeed RIP Chalkie...I sobbed my heart out!
off to buy a Japanese mandoline
love
hazel
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Annie - 104
Mariella - gifted indeed!
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Hiya troops:
Isn't it amazing the conversation you can have about tea?! I only drink two cups a day - Tetley!
Superbp: re the pyramid tea bags - I took part in the original market research for them - about 50 people were at the sales pitch and every single one wanted the pyramid bags! (and I was paid a tenner!)
Tiggs: I think I am right in saying that Shorty left the blog a good bit before Christmas. Unfortunately it was during one of the "spats" that was occurring then, and he took his leave. But as you say, if you are lurking Shorty, please come back!
Hope you all have a good day.
C xx
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Morning all,
I prefer tea without milk or sugar and often have chinese or green tea around.
At present am enjoying camomile with vanilla and honey as chest still coughy... if you know what I mean.
It's a raw cold day here in dorset but the sun is trying to brighten things up.
Marmite fingers - yum
I caught two programmes of the hairy bikers in Nambia last night and they were extremely good.
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Morning
I was just about to mention why Shorty left the blog, you beat me to it Chrissie.
Thanks Gingembre and Cheryl.
Cheryl haven't had an email from one of the 'W's. One of them did visit the site just before I joined the company, supposed to be very nice. They are based oop north you see, Bolton in fact.
There's new orange fruit loaf soon, marketed as 2 slices = 1 of your 5 a day. You heard it hear first hehe.
PP no free milk now at school, thinks it's 1.25 per week. LM has water, said that he doesn't like school milk.
JenEwan, I'm sure that I read somewhere that bookies have stopped taking bets on the Thames freezing over at the moment.
Off out in the blooming cold again soon. Boo.
Debbie x
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Debs.
But 32 of your 5-a-day sugar and Lurpak, hohohoho excellent.
Now then. Help needed on behalf of the Great Eejit One, the Togmeister.
What was the name of that little comedian chap who usedta march around the stage, bashing himself on the head with a tin tray.
It's on the tip of me tongue. I can see 'im now...
And who heard him play Hylda Baker and Arthur Mullard doin' You're The One That I Want? Excellent. Bless 'im.
"If you're filled with infection
You're to shy to convey,
Medicate in my direction..."
Small things, huh.
Clodagh.xx
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Hazel: Elvis would be 104??????
Phoenix - that's the camomile tea I drink too. Can't stand the normal camomile, too much like sawdust. I have at least 3 cups of it during the evening to help me sleep. Doesn't make a blind bit of difference!
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ref: 94
"Molassi"? or Molasses! either way, fantastic idea to grit roads with animal feed! brilliant. lol
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Clodagh - Norman Wisdom, Charlie Drake?
Can't think of any others.
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Ah Clodagh was it Norman Wisdom or maybe Charlie Drake both similar in falling about and hitting themselves with objects almost as hilarious as Morcambe and Wise if you have a low comedy threashold.
Debbie Hope I didn't scare Shorty off as I seem to be the only controversial person in these parts.
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Annie and prof.
No, it wasn't either of them, nor was it Freddie Frinton. This chap wasn't as prominent as them. Mind you I'm not surprised, he probably ended up with brain damage.
D'Oh. I'll have to gargle him.
Clodagh.xx
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i'd like to bash roy chubby brown over the head with a tin try!
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Clodagh
I'm not obsessing about gargling russell brand! cheers for that thought x x x
Chezza xx
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Oh good lord, I come back this morning with every good intention and then you start the smut again!!
Debbie, I love having an insider on the bread front, please keep the info coming!!
Cinnamon and raisin is my fave, just in case you were wondering :-) Do you get to take loads home? I'd be in heaven - I LOVE bread!!
Hard dough Jamaican bread is also fandabidoze!!! It's really dense and quite sweet, and goes all chewy when toasted Oh I'm starving now!!
T xxx
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Awwwwww. I'm off to Sainsbugs in a mo - might just have to get some fruit bread now ......
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Ha Chezza. If I Can Help Somebody As I Go Along..hurrah.
As for the tin tray, there's a few out there I'd liketa bash with a concrete re-inforced one. Like him on the Safe-Style Windows advert for instance.
Aaargh I'm gettin' cabin-fever bein' around Renee and her hundreds a TV channels, roll on work.
Anyway the tin tray thing. Makes a hell of a noise, doesn't hurt but gives you a nasty shock, try it. My brother-outlaw used to administer the tin tray treatment to any poor soul who fell asleep on the rugby coach. Strictly forbidden, fallin' asleep during a 6 hour trip back from Inverness.
Mind you, he's a psychopath. Same brother-outlaw once arranged for a collection for the driver, passing the cap round as usual. On a Jumbo Jet to Boston, Masachussettes. Took it right in the cockpit, the eejit.
Clodagh.xx
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Clodagh # 139
His name was Tremont Blackman, he used to whack his self on the head whilst sing Mule Train. Yee Haa.
JTT
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Annie - re 133 - he'd be seventy something I think. Wasn't he only 40-odd when he died - but looking older?
PP - loved the clip and roared with laughter.
Now yearning for fruit malt bread but we've none in so will have to stick with wholemeal. Not brought through on a tin tray though!
Nearly lunchtime...........hurrah.
df
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Hurrah I KNEW yous wouldn't let me down!
JTT yous is a STAR.
Good old Tremont. I wonder where he went.
For brain surgery no doubt. With 'is mule.
Oops. Best go, Renee's got the enamel tray depicting Grange-Over-Sands and a menacin' look on 'er face. I'm off.
Clodagh.xx
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Elvis would have been 74 Today, Annie don,t be a Silly Billy x
JTT
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Clodagh another sort of tin tray story.
Derbyfi good and you may also like this.
http://www.freewebs.com/garydobbs/happinessisawarmgun.htm
Right back to work.
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Sorry B-AG, I was doing the 'think of a number...the first one that pops into your head...' thing...but the thought of Elvis being 104 also made me smile.
I think the Queen Mother was 104 though wasn't she...even with her teeth that looked like peanuts!
Anyhoo, cannot believe how busy I am, with WORK for col! (That would be crying out lot btw not someone called col...which would be Col anyway, but not short for Colonel which would need a .)
and we're halfway through Thirsty Thursday...all tea aside, get the corkscrew out!
love
hazel
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JTT x
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Queen mother + Peanut teeth = cheese and pickle baguette all over keyboard.
Cheers Hazel!!
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Pleasure treasure!
Anyhoo, ou est tout le monde? Ils ont aller pour le dejeuner je pense.
as am I
love
hazel
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Haw haw Azeul.
Je suis ici avec un grand plateau metal sur me tete.
Sacre bleu.
Clodeugh. xx
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Je suis sans mon desk, manging a la fromage et pickle. C'est beau!
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Aussi.
Peanuts for teeth.
Beeargh ee-ack ack ack I'll never eat a peanut again.
Reminds me of that tall tale the nightmare, squirrel-chasin cousin Baz told me.
He and his long-suffering missus went to a party, during which the host, dishing out the champagne and nibbles, kept on repeating, help yourself, folks... but leave those nuts alone. They're Granddad's.
Bless him. 93 year-old Granddad, no teeth, mad as a ferret.
Now Baz, not noted for his good behaviour, out of pure boldness, kept pinching and eating the aforementioned nuts. Eventually, all had gone. Suddenly, the lady of the house noticed, blanched a little and shrieked, "What's happened to Granddad's bowl of nuts?"
Naturally nobody fessed up, but somebody piped up, "Well, go and get him some more, there's plenty on the table."
"No, no," says she. "That's not it. He doesn't like peanuts. He just likes to suck the salt off."
Clodagh.xx
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Annie G - Ello.... errr Elvis would be as old as 'e feels!!!!!!!!!
Aye whatta coincidence to a notice terdee it is the exact 50th anniversary of the start of Motown Records... bit of a coincidence what with the Elvis.... and it's Bassey and Bowies birthdee's too.... that's Shirley noot Bertie!!!!!!
Mind you Bertie is Bassett noot Bassey any way - know what am sayin'!!!!!
My goodness am gettin' good.... ave just checked before sending me blog commentation that me Shirley Bassey and Bertie Bassett are spelt correctly and they are.... always knew I 'ad abitta talent deep inside!!!!!
Not that am being egotiscal there!!!!!
Ave a spelt egotistical correctly????
Poka!
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EEEEWWWWWW!! Clodagh!
That's put me off my lunch now.............
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Hi Bingo - did you get a dictionary for Christmas then? LOL
df
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Clodagh, true regarding 5 a day, stick a ton of butter on top of it.
Tinsel, there's a staff bread shop in the despatch area. 3 loaves for a £1, crumpets and single loaves 35p and 70p for fruit loaves. Hence I've just delivered my MiL's weekly quota to her.
They were selling stacks of their 'crusty' range yesterday 10p a loaf and Mr Debbie text me earlier saying how nice it is.
Reckon I should be on commission here?
PP can't remember the posts the day Shorty left the blog. I'm sure that you didn't scare her off though. You aren't at all scary ;-)
Debbie x
PS: ta Cheryl btw, got to go shopping now then soak some pulses (?)
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Derby Fi - "I only got a ukrainian one!!!!"
A say.... "Ya tol'ka ookra-eena adeen!!!!"
Poka snova!!!!
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Deb - good luck with the pulses: go for a soup/stew mix and a bag of dried butter beans but DO NOT USE THEM ALL AT ONCE - or else you'll be eating pulses til the next Millenium!
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70p for fruit loaves??????
Blinky Blimey! I just paid 1.11 for an orange tea loaf from your company Deb, in Sainsbugs.
I reckon they saw me coming!
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DebC - They sound like excellent perks to me. I love bread, especially Malt Loaf. Could eat a whole one in a sitting with lashings of butter on it.
AliB
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That's a bargain...here at our ELH it's 1.23!
Over Christmas, having to pay proper prices for their bread was painful I must admit.
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AliB I haven't tried the malt loaf yet. In the staff kitchen they leave stacks of different bread from the factory. You can help yourself to it for toast etc.
They do the same downstairs in the staff canteen.
I've decided to work my way through the different one's to see which I like best.
Jeez I'm going to be so fat(ter)!
x x x
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"Got some gas??" A said "Oo vas yest ta ataplyeneeye??"
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Debbie: I think it's great that you are able to get bread products at a discount price - just a wee perk!
Also, Debbie #164: for some reason I thought Shorty was male! I wonder what made me think that, but I just did!
C xx
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Yep Chrissie.
Makes up for the fact I have to wear a blue uniform, doc martin boots and a hairnet for work. And not a scrap of jewellery either.
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Debbie C - Good news over the bread but be careful... brown is best!!!!!
Unless yer makin' abitta bread sauce then you'll need the white - know what am sayin'!!!!!!!
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Blimey Bingo don't get me thinking about bread sauce, having enough trouble working out a beef stew!
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Oh I love a beef stew, usually cook mine for about 8 hours in my slow cooker. Delicious, just melts in the mouth.
It makes enough for one portion to eat then and three to freeze for a cold winters evening (of which there have been many recently).
AliB
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I over-guessed the beef stew I made on Sunday. Consequently we had it Monday and Tuesday too! Then when I got in last night, Mr Diva had cooked dinner, so I haven't actually cooked a meal since Sunday!
Result!!
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Debbie C - Ahhh the old beef stew aka scouse!!!!!
Don't know 'ow ter cook stew but do occasionly bang on some oxtail soup if a ave guests round for dinner!!!!!
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Morning/Afternoon everyone, from rather a snowy and icy NY. We got another 5 inches of snow this morning on top of the ice left over from yesterday. Temps around 20 degrees fahrenheit...... Made it into work though..... but will probably not stay all day...... Took me 2 hours to get in rather than the usual hour and a half....... probably should have worked from home.... oh well....
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Ah, lookachoo, going all French for petite moi!
I've just had a turtley delishus baguette aussi, avec houmous et salade, et beaucoup de fromage.
For my meal ce soir, I'm treating myself to chicken and pommes frites a la Badger...or saute...not quite decided yet...but then having only just munched my lunch, I may not even be hungry by then. I will however, be purchasing a bouteille de vin on my way home...
AliB - have a big warm hug! Then put your fleecy jamsters on and have a nice cuppa tea...
...and Debbie, I'm up to my elbows in warm water...how do I do the one in my neck without drowning? Or do you mean lentils?
Clodagh, how on earth do you manage with the detectors at the airport?
love
hazel
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Ah, Bond, that's why the lady loves M1lk Tr@y!!!
I can hear you going to work from here...da da dada dadaaaaaaaaaa...
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Oops! I read that as James going to work from the Sett and thought 'Blimey - that'd take a bit more than 2 hours - and does the badger know about this?' - and then I read it again.........
No new blog yet but it will probably pop up just as I post this and then I'll get all confused!
df
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Hazel.......LOL. That's is really good.....
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Very good Hazel, I had a confused look on my face for a minute there....you know the one Cheryl. Pulses?
x x x
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Hazel
For the love of all things humane and dandy, do NOT saute the Badger!
Chezza x x x
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Ey Hazel don't talk to me about the airport metal detectors, I'm off again to NYC from Dublin via Aer Fungus next week, and may well be re-traumatised, flashbacks to last time when the GBF Damian packed the comedy handcuffs and a stethoscope in 'is hand-luggage.
Don't ask.
And don't be soakin' yer pulses without wearin' Debs' hairnet. Or should i say Bonnet de Douche.
Zut Alors ma petite grenouille.
Clodeugh.xx
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Deb
I must have mistook your confused.c0m look for your normal gawjus demeanour!
Red Lentils
Yellow Lentils
Split peas
Black beans
Aduki beans
Haricot beans
Pulses. They are The Future!
Lady Boss not in office tomorrow!!!!!!
Yay! Yow! Wowser-rooney!!!
Chezza x x x
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Clodagh, there's a big storm coming into the northeast this weekend. Hope you plan to get here before hand........
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Cheryl I think I prefer split peas to butter beans. Split peas it is then.
Think that I was confused, wait until I ask Mr Debbie to pick some up from ELH on his way home from work?
Peas? Split ones?
Clodagh, soaking yourself with one of those hairnets is one thing. You wouldn't want to wear one going through a metal detector though. They have a long metallic strip going right through the middle.
Oh I look so attractive Monday to Wednesday. Not! hehe
Debbie x x
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Bondy and Clodagh,
I got stranded at JFK last summer due to a massive thunder storm. Sat on the tarmac for 6 hours and then sent to a hotel miles away, got there at 2am in the morning only to be told that we had to catch a bus back to JFK at 6am!! Not a happy bunny at all and won't be flying with that airline again - which rhymes with Belta!
Hope you get their safely Clodagh and you Bondy, take care on them there roads.
AliB
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Deb - get a bag of mixed. Bit of everything then!
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And a note of caution.
Sneaky little swines them lentils.
I had a nasty incident whilst dining in one of Dublin's posh-knob restaurants with the GBF and his boyfriend and a herd of assorted eejits.
Said boyfriend is a bit of a foodie and a show-off to the point of Divadom, and ordered the oysters. Now I'll eat most things but I'd rather be tied up and tickled with a toilet brush than eat an oyster. So when he passed me the plate and invited me to avail of one of said lumps of snot, I politely said, "Oo no thankyou, sweetie; but I'll have a forkful of the lentils." Whereupon I dug me fork in and shovelled in a big mouthful.
I did notice Damian's eyes widen with delight; but too late I realised that the Lentils were actually a nice mix of peppercorns and rock salt.
Seldom have I felt so alive, and there's a fella knockin' about Dublin somewhere still bearin' shrapnel wounds from my coughin' fit; but me throat was as soft as a baby's bum for a fortnight after.
Clodagh.xx
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Mixed pulses, ok. Just going to phone Mr Debbie now. Gives me an excuse to find out when he's leaving work anyway.
Can I ask a very quick CBB question, is anyone else watching it really irritated by that Tina woman?
x x x
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LOL Clodagh! Brilliant
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And Bondy.
Tanks mate but actually I'm fibbing slightly, I'm not going till a week Monday so maybe I'll swerve the storm?
I've got the fluffy pants at the ready though. I've experienced the NY chuff-freeze before.
Clodagh.xx
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Clodagh - nowt wrong with a bit of Divadom! I thrive on it!!!!
Deb - loving CBB. But yes, she is REALLY REALLY annoying. The Shrek thing the other night had us in fits! Coolio also getting on my wick at the mo!
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Afternoon all,
What a blimming coincidence!! I come on here and find you all talking about pulses when I myself have just been cooking up a culinary storm for tea tonight involving the very same foodstuff! A bit of an experiment but it's looking good so far IMHO.
Clodagh: love the story!!! Would love to have been a fly on the wall!
x
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At the thing outta the Sugarbabes - what's with her eyebrows? Weirder and weirder .....
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Clodagh: you have been on great form recently, but I really did laugh out loud at your "seldom have I felt so alive"!! With your kind permission, I am going to steal that!
C xx
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Now Coolio annoying but I think he does it on purpose, doesn't take himself too seriously. That mad Tina, thinks she's some of of life guru. Makes me want to throw coasters at the tv.
The girl from Sugarbabes wore a tiny top and kept trying to tuck herself in, found that amusing.
Oops getting some CBB chat in before someone comes and tells us off hehe!
x x x
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Ah Chrissie bless you.
But I have a confession.
I myself nicked it from Danny Baker.
Now THAT'S what I call a man.
Sadly for me, but luckily for him, however, spoken for.
Clodagh.xx
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Coasters?! Blimey Deb - you're posh!
I noticed that too - really funny. And as for La Toya as the Court Jester - sheer genius!
Does Terry get to keep the luxury bedroom now?
I hope the glamous model bint goes on Friday - dullard supreme! Ulrika-ka-ka-kas lovely!
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still here peps
have been to the physio - have left with excercises - a taped shoulder and a special pillow.
Thanks for work health insurance
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Hope you're feeling better soon baggy_em and up to throwing javelins and playing darts quicker than you realise!
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LOL Cheryl, you've met me I am so not posh! I'm from Enfield aint I.
Model bint is a bit up herself isn't she, haven't warmed to her either. That Michelle is ok and I like Ben.
Hey SB, that's good hope that it all helps.
x x x
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Afternoon - sorry been otherwise occupied.
Just sat down to catch up on the blogs with a nice cuppa - Clodagh - now got to run back in to the house - tea covered screen again and the dog jumped out of his skin.
Back inabit
Beesmum xxx
ps Debs - not going to travel down south tom - not after all those pulses but don't forget the pearl barley - good for your water!
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works that is!
Bees
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Hmm what are you saying Bsmum, wind forecasted then you think?
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Clodagh: well, I suppose everything is nicked from someone, along the way! It's brilliant, no matter where it came from!
Are you sure Danny is spoken for? He would adore your sense of humour and sense of adventure ...... and no doubt your other attributes!
C xx
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More like a gale Debs with that lot !!!
Bees xxx
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Ah, Pearl Barley - my dear departed Scottish grannie used that in all her stews. Haven't had it in years! Presumably it was cheap when she was young and money was very tight so it was used to pad things out?
I don't know I'm born really............choice of big supermarches almost on my doorstep and the funds to spend in there (for now at least).
df
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Pearl barley.
Not to be confused with Pearl Bailey.
Not to be confused with Pearl Harbour.
Like Coolio. Cannot be doing with lardmarf Tina or boredom boredom erm can't even remember their names they are so D-U-L-L. Dull as effkay.
In fact I have no idea why I'm watching it at all.
SBeep, all hail the special pillow. You take care now y'all else you'll end up like me. Not that I've ever had whiplash (not the car sort anyway, but that's not for here) but I still ended up like this. Or like that. Whichever...you take care...
I think I'm gonna have a TWINK night tonight
love
hazel
x
ps perhaps just a hot Badger then CtD?
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fi - grate minds eh...
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Chrissie you are a sweetheart.
But no, I'd say I'd put poor Danny in the hospital. With brain damage that is, not exhaustion.
So he's safe...
As the ex-hubby said to me recently. "I love you to bits you know, but you ARE a bit dangerous."
Hurrah.
Clodagh.xx
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Oh I don't know if it's pearl barley I seen in stews before or split peas now! How dim am I?
Please don't answer that.
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Debbie don't worry I thought a pulse was something you checked to see if you were still alive!
AliB
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Absolutely H - but I can't join in the CBB chat as I've never seen more than 2-3 mins at a time of any form of BB show.
No offence to those who like it - enjoy - but it isn't for me.
Trying to resist the TWINK/TNWC/whatever idea though - you bad girl for putting that into my head!
Hope it works for you sbp - gotta be worth a try!
Wot? Still no new blog? Roll on 5pm.
df
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Scary! I have some pearl barley soaking for making soup tonight!!!
Evening Christoff! So good to have you back on the radio and blog! I was once reminded that, technically, cow's milk is produced to feed baby cows - human milk is produced to feed human babies - therefore humans are not technically supposed to drink cows milk. And the thought of putting human milk into our tea and coffee just turns the stomach, doesn't it?? Yet we happily use cow's milk! What bizarre creatures we are!!!
Take it one step further, if one is a believer in God, and one believes He created the world, this leads us on to the realisation that, in the beginning, we didn't eat meat either, we were not created to do so, and that it was only when sin came into the world that all that changed. Hmmm - perhaps too deep a discussion for today!
On saying all that - mine is rooibos tea, weak and very milky!!!
Huggles
Susan
... missing in action haven tried to make a dent in the jungle that is our toddler's room!!
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I believe that. I do. - the bit about the milk and everything. My body tells me when I've had too much milkk, and I just don't take it. The same with bread and pastas.
I have a break and then i might go back to it.
Your body is really really good at telling you what it wants, that is why I eat loads of chocolate Chip muffins, salt and vinegar crisps and drink Jack daniels.
Cheers
DWNB
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I did mean to say to Superbp: you have been through the wars, but this will definitely help. You are a wee pet lamb!
I have to say I am really enjoying CBB - I usually hate it. I think Christian is a star - he is playing the game as it should be played ..... though we'll see what happens to him when the tables are turned! As for Tommy Sheridan, does he SERIOUSLY think we think his dance with that lassie last night would make us think there was something going on between them?! Dream on, Tam!
C xx
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Ali so did I until about 2pm today.
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Ach, Susan, bless yer wee heart...you're only s'posed to grow cress on a flannel...not your babe's carpet.
What do they teach kids these days???
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Chrissie - thanks (I think)
HLS - I do not each meat but i think we are meant to - just in small amounts and not so often. but the thought of puttuing dead flesh into my mouth turns my stomach - please don't turn me off milk and eggs!
super bp x
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Oh SB that's horrible! Never thought of my roast chicken as dead flesh.
Feel like some kind of zombie now.
No, really I do.
x x x
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CBB - I can imagine Ben having a gadzillion grilie friend requests on FB next time he logs on - fancy saying on camera that he meets most of his dates via FB !!
Muppet!
Terry Christian to win! All Hail King Terry!
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Just been for a look Cheryl, nice picture. But I am not going to become a fan on there. Best give the other girls a chance eh?
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LOL Deb! He's oh so young - you could probably teach him a thing or three .....
Hazel - maybe flambe Badger? Hot Hot Hot!
No new blog yet? Maybe Tash has started .......
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Do you know Cheryl that's exactly what I was thinking about Tash!
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Cheryl I am actually blushing! Oh dear what a thought. No I mustn't think about it....hehe!
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I didn't realise the babby was due quite now...but then my colleague has just given birth this morning...not quite in the office, but five weeks early!
(a boy, in an incubator, mother and son doing well, but she sends her apologies as she won't be able to make the board meeting tomorrow as the hotcot doesn't have wheels - thank you for asking)
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SBp- apologies honey!! But I love my meat I'm afraid ... and my eggs and dairy!!
And how did you know there was greenery growing on the carpet Hazel??
And, talking of zombies, has anyone else been watching Dead Set?? Worth it to see Davina McColl playing herself as a zombie!!!
Guess the techy stuff went haywire again with the blog??
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Susan
We decided not to watch Dead Set, then a few people Mr Diva works with have said it's really good and actually quite scary, so gonna have to look out for repeats on E4 in the coming weeks.
Love a good Zombie!
Chezza xxxx
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...syckick I am Susan...
Anyhoo...we forgot Pearly Gates...Bills sister...
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Is Bill Bailey any relation to Pearl Bailey?
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Watching out for repeats Cheryl?
This is the repeat, it was on only 3 months ago, to correspond with Halloween.
Not that I have anything against repeats - sat snuggled and happy, munching stuff that shouldn't be munched with my belovered last night and thoroughly enjoyed watching Top Gun for the godIdon'tknowhowmany-th time.
Bliss.
MW, a!
Fully expecting a new blog any second now...
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Awwwwwwww pants! But hey ho! Knowing Ch4 it'll be on again before Valentines Day!
Love a good munch, me!
Chezza x x x x
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Chezza - Don't mention Valentines Dee ter me... you'll only bring back bad memories of passionless passion!!!!!
BB Talk - You'll like Ulrika as she's a leo as is Coolio!!!!!!
A waz gonna do a BB blog prediction/ astro analisation!!!!
PS Only cap in there is Verne!!!!
PPS I think Verne and Michelle (cancerian) will make the top 3!!!!
Michelle looks so like a cancerian!!!!!
GOURANGA!!!!!!!
PPS Still waiting ter put me BIG road incident/ education blog on... waiting for a new blog!!!!
PPPS Yer know CLP keeps talkin' about dirty vehicles.
I'll bang on the blog soon Bingo Stars alternative messages written in dirt on the back of a truck!!!!!!
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Hello - is this working?
jx
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i thinks so - I'm still here
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Good ho...
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I'll be around for a bit.....
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Alibi, re #190 thanks.
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New blog
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Hi Chris,
Tea is fantastic stuff! I never have milk in any tea. When you have good tea you don't need to add milk! What's more due to the health giving benefits of enjoying quality loose leaf tea you get all of the goodness and no calories!
What's your favourite tea tipple? Mine at the moment is a good pot of Rare Golden Yunnan or Pu-Erh 1992; both are really comforting, warming and earthy.
Email me and I'll send you some for you to try!
Kate
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its still really cold and another deep freeze is on its way
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