So this is an e mail conversation...
...that I had with my good friend and colleague Hells Bells of Hull early this morning, whilst running my pencil over the almost final final edit of my book that has to go off to the printers in the next four weeks or so.
From Hells after a night at the theatre with my agent:
Good morning my lovely.
Your agent is officially barking. But then so am I. And so are you. I think that's probably why it all rubs along so nicely.
In other news, Media Guardian have helpfully de-coded your golf dream for you.
Brace yourself...
"To dream that you are decapitated, indicates that you are not thinking clearly and are refusing to see the truth. You need to confront the situation or the person despite the pain and discomfort you might feel in doing so. The dream also suggests that you have the tendency to act before you think."
From me in reply:
Morning chick chick. We are indeed all mad - not a single one of us sane. How can we be ? Life is not conducive to such a state of being. None of us asked to be born yet after finding ourselves here and realising what a blast it is, many of us end up begging not to have to leave. And then on other days we might wonder what all the fuss is about in the first place and why we can't do a wee !
As it goes, you and The Agent are undoubtedly amongst the maddest but that's probably because you value life as much if not more than a lot of other folks. Those who don't wonder don't win; and you two for all your frailties, paranoia, energy and brilliance are two people I wouldn't swap for anyone else any day of the week for one second of my life.
Oops I can feel my head about to fall off again.
X.
Apparently this made the poor girl well up...and all on a wet Wednesday morning as well.
CLP
2009
X.
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CLP!
I have welled up on many occassion due to the lovely words of an email, oft typed off the cuff, without prior planning. Which is why the words read on the screen mean so much.
You know what I mean!
Deevski
xxxxx
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Morning peeps!
Deevs, I'm the same but being soppy as I am it doesn't take a lot to make me well up anyway!
CLP, good to see you back and on form, can't wait for the biog to be published!
Another thing Deevs, have you finished Dear Fatty?
Laters
Tiggs xxx
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ugh, just finished my breakfast sausage butty, went to lick ketchup off my fingers only to rememeber that I still had alcohol hand wash on from docs visit..............
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Morning Chris,
There is nothing like a bit of welling up on a wet Wednesday ;) Sometimes it's nice to know that you are loved and appreciated.
I'd like to steal a quote from my favourite TV programme Grey's Anatomy.....
"Did you say it?, I love you.. I don't ever wanna live without you. You changed my life. Did you say it? Make a plan. Set a goal. Work toward it. But every now and then, drink it in, cause this is it, it might all be gone tomorrow."
We should all make it our goal today to tell someone that we love them, perhaps someone that we wouldn't normally say it to. Go on say it!
AliB
xx
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'I love you Ali', will that do?
Tiggs xxx
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Arh thanks Tiggs, I love you too xx
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Hurrah Now then Christoff. As I always say, That's MY head just fell off again.
See. The brightest, most creative inspirational and intelligent people I know are totally, utterly and marvellously bonkers.
And I agree. As the DDF Eric used to say. The chap who never made any mistakes never made anything.
Continue to slay your dragons, my friend. It's your fearlessness that holds my admiration, you big daft eejit.
Fear, you see, is the ultimate enemy of creativity.
Clodagh.xx
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I love you too AliB! And you Tiggs!
Still reading Dear Fatty - I only tend to read at bedtime so books can take ages!! I've got 3 on the go at the mo - read whichever one to suit my mood.
Deevs
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I think email and text has actually brought the art of writing back to the forefront. I know that people say it is a very inpersonal way of communicating but when you see an email like that, there is no longer an argument for the inpersonal side. It is back to the old days of letter writing just electronically.
I too have received emails like that and it is wonderful to hear lovely words that you dont always get to hear when you just rub along without a hitch. There is nothing like a bit of appreciation from those around you, especially when you have such a good team like yours Christos.
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And just so'd you don't feel left out ..... love you too Mr Evans xx
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as my cat has just decided he needs my attention, I shall proclaim to all of blogland, i love you Rufus!!!
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I am terribly bad at telling people I love them - other then Mr bp who I tell every day - I am also bad at telling people how much they mean to me.
Luckily for me I have some very understanding friends and family!
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..And speakin' a dragons, am off now to launch a surprise attack on Sainsbury's with Renee and Joan. Renee needs some suet and gravy browning, a good rummage through the cabbages and to check the sliced loaves for asylum-seekers, and Joan is fully psyched-up and heavily armed with a receipt which proves beyond all legal doubt that she was overcharged for the 3 for 2 Toilet Duck.
Where's me stun-gun.
Clodagh.xx
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Deevs
I have 3 on the go too, 2 chick lit (Cecilia Ahern and Belinda Jones) and one thriller (Tess Gerritsen), Mr Tiggs can't understand how I can keep up with 3 at once! Depends on my mood which one I grab but mostly not thriller while he is working in Londinium and therefore not in the bed with me!
Tiggs xxx
love you too Deevs and CLP (which goes without saying!!!)
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Morning all!
It is so lovely when you get an unexpected message from someone that triggers that 'welling up' thing. I have had many in recent months.
I think that we find it easier to focus on negatives and criticism so when we're told something so nice and heartfelt it often comes as a surprise. It's important to remember that people see as differently to how we see ourselves sometimes.
I have learned so much about me to be honest that I see myself totally different now. But I am still me, just with a healthier outlook. Mostly!
Back to the important business of baking bread now....busy, busy, busy!
Love
Deb x
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sbp, I'm a bit like that too. I think I tell my best friend that I love her more than I tell my Mum & Dad, although I always say it to them just as I am about to get on a plane!!
Clodagh, You live on the edge my Dear xx oh to swap shoes with you for just one day - have fun with Renee and Joan.
AliB
xx
P.S. Love you too Deev xx
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I'm reading Dear Fatty, Sex In Elizabethan England and Necropolis - The Tale Of London's Dead Through The Ages.
And you lot thought I was oh so shallow ......
Ha!
Deevs
xxx
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Also - I am so cynical that when i get a happy message I wonder what they are after!
three books on the go at the mo - jamican inn in the car, by an means downstairs and some strange book I dont remember the name off upstairs
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I love telling people I love that I love them.
Me
x
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Morning Debs
Have you got socks in the Docs today?!!
Tiggs xxx
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Morning all. Precipitation abounds here in the midlands - big time.
Don't care - smiling anyway.
I love you all - Ali, Tiggs Deev Bagpuss Groovy Clodagh Debs plus all who follow - and I'll chuck in some big kisses and hugs too.
Beezer xx
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Kisses right back atcha Beez xxxx
Tiggs xxx
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Hells Bells
whats the story with you and the agent - purley platonic, friendly mates etc or romance, tender thoughts, gentle touching, romatic times and possibly . . . wedding bells . . . ????
Do tell all . . .
DtM
x
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'Ere Deev....who are you calling Fatty? :-)
Seeing as we are having a bit of a love fest....love you all loads!
Me x
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Tiggs, I remembered the socks today lol! Doc Martins + bare feet = ouch!
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good job Debs, I know what you mean about 'ouch'!!
love Tiggs xxx
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Oooh steady on Deb - I wore DMs every day at the landfill for about 18 months - tootsies never been the same since!
Good to see you back on form hunnybear!!
x x x x
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As Debs says - as we are having a love fest - I'd like to say that I love all of my "blog" family. You are so supportive of each other through the good and bad times; and we are all brought together by the man himself - who we miss so much when he's away - We love you Mr Christoph Lambie Pie xxxx
AliB
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Love my DM's.
Think that maybe the DM's are too heavy for my feet though as I trip up the stairs alot.
Hate the blue outfit.
Especially as been here since December and still don't have one that fits properly! And today I have a right boob called 'Omary'.....want a t-shirt with my name on it!
Ok, that turned out into a proper strop..hehe!
Oh it's good to be back.
Deb x
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Debs
Do you still feel like Smurfette then?
Tiggs xxx
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Good but soggy morning to all you lovely blog peeps!!
CLP - As mine and t'other relationship was conducted by email and text for the first 3 months - I understand the weeling up moments only too well.......Love 'em!!!
It may be pelting it down up 'ere, but I don't care, we've been allocated a house in Plymouth (ok, we can't move in until October, but we've got a house!!!). Of course this means I've had to retract my notice for now, so I can carry on here for a bit!!
ebx
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fab news Eb!
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Deb
You name your norks?!?!?!
Go you!!!!!!!
Me, smiling
xxxx
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Deev
Doesn't everybody?
Me, (trying not to laugh too loud. In case they all know here where I was for two months) ;-)
x x x
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Hahahahaha!!
And at Donington at the weekend I bought THE BEST ever black vest top. I believe Beez referred to it over the weekend. Get this, across the front chesticle area is sez, in white writing: "Weapons Of Mass Distraction"
Hilarious!!!! That's outfit for next blog meet sorted then!!
Norty Deevs
x x x x x
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Deev, that's brill xxx
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are you attending the Brizzle meet Ali?
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Ah but Deev...
...stick a picture of some calculators on that t-shirt and you would have 'Weapons of Maths Destruction'
;-)
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Hi Chris, great blog today - how lovely it would be to receive an email from you! And, Chris, you may want to check out the previous blog and read Ian Wallace's interpretation of your dream.
Clodagh: also at the end of the previous blog, Ian Wallace has sent a reply to you!
Baggy: re: telling people you love them. Isn't it incredible that we can tell our partner - a complete stranger who comes into our life - that we love them - but we can't say it to our own family?! I was exactly the same, but when I reached about 30 I decided that I really must tell my mum and dad how much I loved them. They were so embarrassed the first time - they had never told any of their children that they loved them. But, it got easier and easier and I am so grateful that when they died, we all knew how much we loved each other. But ... I know, it's not easy to say!
I may as well join in with the love fest too ..... I love you all!
C xx
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Morning CLP and bloggeroonies
Lovely words Christophe. Me, I well up on numerous occasions, be it words, films, inc wildlife where animals get hurt, I know its nature, but I still get upset! Then there's tears of happiness, weddings etc. I'm just a soppy old s*d!!
Clodagh - I can relate to your post #119 regarding privacy, I have a recurring dream about wanting to go to the loo and only finding ones that are VERY public with either glass walls or no door! I think this is all about protecting my privacy and maybe this is the reason I want to remain anonymous on here. I also have nothing to hide but a little bit of me wants to hold back, Who knows, I may change my views in the future and come and meet some of you. I hope so!
I know I don't tell enough people I love them, I think that stems from early childhood, I knew I was loved but I don't recall my parents being over affectionate and that obviously rubbed off.
Ebb - v pleased for you.
Debs - back to your old self....marvellous!
I LOVE YOU ALLxxx
Pen xx
pee ess Beez - It's me with hard floors, but not the clickety laminate stuff, only the best for me......oh yes!!!! An absolute boon when you have kiddies running in and out, no nagging about taking shoes off and so easy to clean!!! But I do appreciate carpets have their comfort!
pee pee ess - Dry here, just about, but it ain't gonna last!!
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Hey there's a "love in" going on... haven't been to one of them since 1969. Pleeeese... can we wear flowers in our hair sit in a circle and listen to Scott Mckenzie. Peace sign to you all (sticking fingers up the Churchill way) LOVE YOU ALL.
First line of autobiography....All i could see were a pair of legs and a basket.
Last line.. I did it my way.
Clodagh..I also dream of flying but I find it scary as i am clinging on to things to stop me floating too far. ( I could read a lot into that).
Deevs.. I also read Dear Fatty i love the terminology of the "lady garden" cracks me up!
Lolo ooops mean Loli
x
x
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Hey clp and all bloggers and blogettes
On the dream theme and madness thought I'd just post the first few lines of Kipling's 'If'....
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
A classic poem for young and old....
love to all out there,
dreamer
xxx
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dreamer - I love that poem and do try to live by it - maybe I might get a nice copy and stick it by my desk at my new job
thinking about my new role - not sure I will be able to stick johnny depp and david tennant in my new office and all my photos - does it make me look unprofessional? your thoughts please
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Pen, I have that toilet dream too!
AliB
xx
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nice bit of poetry there dreamer, nothing like a bit of Kipling!
Tiggs xxx
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You abandonded me...love dont live here anymore!
Only joking,love is all around,I feel it in my fingers,I feel it in my toes,or is that carpet shampoo??
Just finished downstairs carpets,all windows wide open, despite extreme monsson conditions and out come the muck spreaders!!!
Oh the joys of living in the country.
Mind you,I do like to be beside the seaside, I do like to be beside the sea.
Feeling very musical this morning,despite the pong!
Better get ready for work.
I'll be loving you always.
MTF.xxxx..all of you.x
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Kipling......mmmm.....cakes.....x
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Knew it,well done Debs,I so wanted to how exceedingly well he does too.
MTF.xxx
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Afternoon all dudes!
Baggy, the first thing I did when I started here was put my Russell Beand pix on my wall. I also have a Lucien Freud print, various ticket stubs to keep me smiling by remembering the good times, a calendar which I customise every month (July = Take That), pix of sootycat, pix of me and Mr Deev in our Rocky Horror finery and a pic of Hectors House (are you too young to remembererer Hector and Lady Zsa Zsa?) On my desk I have a pic of sootycat in a silver sparkly frame, and a pic of Mr Deev, and a Bhudda, and a witch.
My justification is that it's my space and I spend so many hours here I want my environment to reflect me. Which it does.
Will you be on view to the public / clients in your new position?
Deevs
x x x x x
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Super bp - added to deevs post, I am of the belief that if you are surrounded by things you love, your work will relect that!
Pen xx
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Hi all,
Lovely blog CLP - nice theme for the day.
Thanks Ian for revealing the meanings of the dreams - found it very interesting. Look forward to having the flying dream more often than the being out naked or in pyjamas or the loo one! Then I might be a bit more sorted!
Lovely poem Dreamer - makes you stop and think.
Beezer- you got it right, I'm the same as Pen and have wood floors, so much easier.Only got carpet on stairs and landing - part of it was that I couldn't afford to put carpets down though and the wood block was already there downstairs.
Loli - I'm in the middle of reading Dear Fatty like Deev.With you on lady garden reference, especially the bit about having to help her Mum with the slithers of glass after her door cars smashed - brilliant!!
Love you all too!!!
Darce xx
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Arfernoon blogpeeps!
How nice it is to hear so much luvin' going on! I tell Booboo how much I love her every day but probably only tell my Mum about once a week... what's that all about?
Still very soggy here in Warks but no matter...
"Life is like a rainbow. You need both the sun and the rain to make its colors appear."
Luv
Lyndyloo
the much loved Booboo & the bump
-x-x-x-
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thanks guys (and for the piccy deev - will return the favour and send one of the current place when its a bit quiter!)
on my desk i have pencil pictures of JD and DT, a JD calendar, framed piccy of mr bp - abacus that was bought by a friend, and stand up piccies of me and him and the cats and me and ewan - just feel that might be too much?
On my pod walls I have work notes and finace calendar and my first aid certificates, oh and I have a dual screen set up - so its quite busy really here!
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oh - and Emo news - not saying anything about Errol but hes already wanting to get on with my girls and hes three months old! Oh errrr!
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If anyone would like some posters of dentures,crowns or rotten teeth to brighten up their workplace,feel free to relieve me of mine.
LOL.
TF.xx
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But in my Fairymobile, I do have a travel companion.
He is Stuart Little. I found him run over nrea Bristol airport,in fact he had a tyre track right down his middle.
I brought him home and washed him in the machine and he now accomapanies me through thick and thin.
He is very well travelled and has been around the world several times with me . (mileage wise)
Anyone else got that special little travel buddy that you just cant leave at home when you go away,c'mon now spill!
MTF.xxx
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MTF - I've got a Snowbell by my bed from Stuart Little. He watches over me!
Deev
xxx
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I want one!
MTF.xx
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I don't but when I used to travel the UK on business trips a certain agrophobic giraffe (he looks permantly scared) used to sneak into my suitcase to keep me company curtosy of Mr bp!
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Morning, afternoon everyone from an overcast but warm upstate NY. Interview went well yesterday. Lots of positive comments but we'll see if they come to anything. It's going to be a tense couple of days as I wait for this and the other company to make a decision.... In the meantime the Ashes start again tomorrow yip-pee, hope you are all having a good day....
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Wheredja gettit?
MTF.xx
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Ian Wallace, thankyou bless you!! Top man.
And thanks Chrissie, would've missed it.
Now listen up chaps. What was the show where at the end, the glamorous big bird (I think she was called Janet) used to stand at the top of the steps, usually in a Jane Russell-style frock with the puddins boilin' right over, spread the arms out and declare,
"I LOVE YOU ALL"... ?
Cause that's ME. Hurrah am in the frock as we speak with next door's parrot on me head.
I LOVE YOUS ALL. Ha.
Any road. Have just returned from Sainsbury's. And not content with dealin' with Renee and Joan givin' the Taliban a run for their money, committin' unspeakable acts against the Warburton's thick sliced and fightin' over the last lettuce, have had to face a large wasp in the kitchen upon our return. I say face it; the downdraught from its rotor blades blew me hair all over me face and nearly pinned me to the fridge door. Luckily Renee's Bits & Bobs drawer was open next to me so I was able to grab the chain-saw and fend it off with a 6-er to the boundary before Renee got it in a headlock and knocked it out with the rollin' pin.
Now all we need is to dispose of the body. Anybody know if Wigan Council will take it in a rolled-up carpet fastened up with hairy string. (Also courtesy of the B&B drawer). It's not still buzzin'. I've checked.
Wasp week. I'll ruddy say it is.
Clodagh.xx
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yep have the toilet dream too! My weirdest though and I have never heard of anyone else having it is.... in a recurring nightmare i am running away but to run faster i have to run in reverse, backwards looking over my shoulder..whats that all about!!
Loli
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Good luck Bondy...hope you are feeling the love from us all today.x
Baggy,thats lovely.x
Deevs will interrogate more later, me and Stuart are off to hit the highway.
Keep up the loving.
MTF.xxx
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By the way Chezza.
It's all very well tellin' everybody you love 'em.
You wouldn't want ME tellin' you I love you after a shed-full a vodka. Ask the GD.
She's never forgotten it. And won't allow me to.
Clodagh.xx
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I feel a bit left out as I don't have anything about my desk. Well apart from a few stress balls that I throw at my collegue every now and again, when his being naughty. I do have a Patrick Dempsey screen save, which I blow a kiss to each night and say Goodbye McDreamy ...LOL!
In my car however, I have a little bear, called Alton Katanga Towers (why I hear you ask) because when I did Yoof Work, we took the kids to Alton Towers (other theme parks are available and just as pricey!!) and they won him by throwing something at something at the place where the Katanga ride was - so now hopefully it all makes sense as to why his called that!!
I need to get out more!
AliB
xx
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Clodagh,daughters always take offence to that show of passion towards them.
Mates now that is a different thing entirely.
When are we invited down to your shed full of vodka.
MTF..Really must fly now.xxx
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Clodagh - I think that was the Morecambe and Wise Show - 'Goodnight, and I love you all!'
Beany
x
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Thanks MTF
Weird dream Loli, I've had the can't run fast dream but never the running backwards as you've described....
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im my car I have a bright blue elephant as mr bp won him at a fair and I said thats the colour I want my next car - so he found the car to match :-)
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Sorry to hear about your head falling off Chris. What you need is a crash helmet - made of cork preferably. That way it will keep you cool in Summer and warm in Winter! And by the way it's going to be good weather tomorrow for 4 days just enough to beat the Aussie again!
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I have a picture of a certain palm tree taken on the ground looking up into it, i glance at it and smile.
A picture of a group of people that are my nearest and dearest.
And a picture of SLASH lying on bed with a bottle of JD well i say i have it on my desk but it has been put on my colleagues desk as i thought I would look a bit sad... a woman of a certian age who should know better!
Loli
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What a fabbie team you have. x
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Corkie..... hope you're right about the cricket and the weather, as long as we're in a winning position. It's supposed to be in the upper 80s here today, mid 70s tomorrow.......
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Can't stop as mad busy, but Clodagh, I'll send Finlay round to deal with it - he's not fussy, and it will eat them alive or dead!
Back later
JG x
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Hi Bond- I hope you get the job honey! I wouldn't pin your hopes on too much Ashes action though if today is anything to go by Edgbaston will be under 2 feet of water if this keeps up!
-x-x-x-
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Clodagh/Beany - It was indeed Morcambe and Wise and the ladies name I think was Janet Webb, she would come on at the end of each show. Very funny!!
Loli - Also have dreams about running and getting nowhere!!
Hi James, still got everything crossed. Something WILL turn up!
Pen xx
pee ess - I have a little beany cat and dog in my car, don't know why, littlest granddaughter always plays with them when with me.
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Thanks Lyndy and Penny. I appreciate it.
Lyndy, rain?????? nooooooooooo
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Strangely enough, or maybe not - my name is from my little green beany character that I was given as a little girl. He fitted snugly in my hand and I went to sleep with him every night. He was small enough to be taken everywhere and so duly was. Unfortunately, I have mislaid him now but suspect that I will come across him again at some point in the future when sorting out things. I miss him now though.
Beany
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PLEASE stop raining - enough!!! - am paddling to and from office.
James - Edgbaston being worked on as I type - soaking up the water - forecast not too bad for tomorrow though but at the rate its chucking it down here groundsmen will be on all night!!
Only stuff on or near my desk is work!!!! mobile phone and Hetty the hoover.
I get that see through loo dream too. Weird.
Beezer xx
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Talking of weather, heard on the raydeo 'smornin that the met office are playing down their forecast last April for a scorching summer, saying the media hyped it up. Errr, wot's that all about, talk about passing the buck. Anyhoo they say that August will now be wet as well. With all their so called technology why do they get it sooooo wrong!!! Not worth listening to IMHO best take each day as it comes!!
Pen xx
pee ess - intermittent rain here today!!
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Hi Beez, well the ground staff better get out there with their brollies..... cover the ground people!!!!!!!
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Ah tanks Penny and Beany, it was indeed. I didn't think it was till you said Janet Webb; hahaha I can see her now. Am in a right mad jealous rage now, I wanta frock like hers. Mind you if I got that gig I'd be descendin' said stairs less Stately as a Galleon than like Norman Wisdom.
That's a funny thing too.. does anybody else watch these award shows through the fingers as various lovelies descend the shiny stairs? I can't bear it. I remember watching Rebecca Adlington come down that ramp at the Sportsman of the Year whatsit in the Jimmy Choos. With one eye shut.
As for Finlay, JG, not for nothing is the expression used, "A face like a bulldog chewin' a wasp"...
Clodagh.xx
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Afternoon lovelies. No time to chat, except to ask if I can join in the love-fest?
I say I love you to my lovely daughter every day, and to my lovely man.
And I love you lot too!!
T xxxx
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Hi sparkle, hope you are well......
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Afternoon all,
I would like to say I love you all.
on my desk is a picture of my boys, buy my screen saver is all the pictures of the family
My desktop picture is of my boys as well.
My eldest who is six has a scruffy cat who he takes everywhere with him and had him since he was 2 and was bought in Menorca. it has been on every holiday since then and looks all scrawny and slightly pathetic as half the stuffing has gone due to countless encounters in the washing machine.
We now have got one for our youngest which is quite new and currently clean, I hope he takes after his brother and takes him everywhere and in years to come is as scruffy as my eldests.
and breathe.
sorry for long post.
cant you feel the love in the room, hit me baby one more time.
Nick.
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forgot to say I dont say I love you enough to my family and people who are important to me, but I feel that my actions speak louder than words.
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Hi Chris, Great blogg.Nice to be told that your loved,
ususally makes me well up.love to all.x
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Afternoon each
Will someone please turn on the sun...? this water lark has been coming down since the middle of the night and its getting boring now..
Lovely blog CLP.. made me think (thats what that low buzzing noise is that you could all hear!).
I dont say I Love You often enough to anyone. In fact, and this is prob NOT the place to confess this(!) but i have never told the GM..nor him me. Now we both know we love each other to bits but have just never said the words. On my part its only cos im a stubborn cow and wont say it first..and i suspect he is the same..both flaming Virgos!Wee been together 2 and a half years and its never really bothered me to be honest cos i know how he feels..it is shown in other ways, and he KNOwS I love him loads, but this has made me think and i am going to tell him the minute he walks through the door tonight.
On the other hand..at the end of any get together/phone call with my adorable 4yr old nephew we always finish with `loves ya`..always have and hopefully always will.
Anyhoos..on a lighter note..Loves Ya All! Thanks for being my friends and a great bunch of people..
..right..off to vac and change the bed now.. the fun never stops on a day off!
mSc x
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Cute Nick aaaaaaa.
Scoobs don't do it - stay stubborn cos I bet all you will get back is either "ditto" or "you too" and not the full works!
Now where have I heard that before...........
Beezer xx
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Hee hee Beez... he is pretty good with words so i will prob get something lovely back but its principle! Said i wasnt going to and anyone who knows me well will know i never go back on my word..but i think i will make an exception this once! Maybe i need to mellow a bit! Watch this space!.
mSc x
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Beez,
Dont be like that. It will stop Mr mSc in his tracks and I am sure will be much appreciated.
Mind you, everytime I tell Mrs T I love her she wonders what I have done that I feel so guilty about!!
Seriously though Scoobs. Feeling it is one thing being told it is a whole different feeling.
Love to all
Thunder
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mSc
Go for it girl....I used to be a stubborn one, and now realise that the only person it holds back is yourself! Also a major factor in stubborness is 'fear', yes that old chestnut again, so grab the moment, seize it and enjoy it. Who knows where it may lead, but as the good man CLP says above, we have only a moment in time here on this planet, so give out the love...!
dreamer
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Thunder I think I have been married too long - my first reaction would be what brought that on. Actually to be honest that would be my second - the first would be to faint with shock!!!
Gwon then Scoobs - be young and foolish. See - I'm old - I can change my mind!!!! and I loved it when my nieces said love you auntie beez - they don't now -don't even get called auntie - just my first name! Hey ho.
Beezer xx
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Hi everyone: very interesting with the "I love you" situation! I said it first to MrS, probably about 6 months after we started dating. Of course, he did not say he loved me too, which left me a gibbering wreck! He did say it, like two days later, but I was still very hurt.
I now realise that due to the fact I was so young then (18) I didn't have a clue what love really is. It has taken me years and years to work it out. I love him more now than ever before - I used to think that was utter rubbish - but it is true. I know that this is his one and only life, and he's shared it with me. I hope he thinks it was worth it!
Love shows itself in so many different ways and whatever works for you, is ok. But being the person I am, I just have to actually say the words!!
C x
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Thanks Thunder..but Beez meant it tongue in cheek i know! And i HAVE been on the receiving end of that so know where she`s coming from!
But bless Mrs T.. i know a few woman like that..the next thing out their mouths is always.."why, what`ve you done?!". You guys cant always win can you bless your hearts!
Right..has ANYONE got any sun? and if so please send some to Gods own county (thats Yorkshire Nick BTW..apropos the confusion the other week!) and stop this bloody rain!
mSc x
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Aw Chrissie that brought a tear to my eye - that's lovely.
I am far too cynical for my own good!!
Would love to know how everyone got proposed to. It's got to beat my "spose we ought to get married then" (can't remember first one - dim and distant memory.
Beezer xxx
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mSc,
No sun here in Liverpool, we shall agree to disagree on gods own county.
we had a really bad rainstorm at lunch time and so much so that Liverpool city centre was very quiet as the wise ones decided to stay indoors in their warm, dry offices.
Nick.
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Chrissie - wise words and i`m sure he doesnt regret a second of the time.
And Dreamur..thanks too..
I was proposed to (by the exhusband) with a `will you marry me?and if you say yes we`re off to EuroDisney`.. well I couldnt turn down Mickey Mouse could i?!
and who knows if there`s going to be a next time.. i hope so is all i can say!
mSc x
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mSc, I am sure there will be a next time and you will know straight away that he is the one.
Nick.
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Afternoon everyone
CLP - lovin your words as usual
All bloggeroonies - lovin you all. Can't quite put into words how you gawjus peeps make me smile, laugh and sometimes cry every time I pop in.
Proposals....considering we lasted nearly 21 years, himself never actually popped the question. Somehow it was just given that we would and a date was set.
As for the much beloved, he asked soon after we 'got it together' and neither one of us is even d.i.v.o.r.c.ed yet!
My family have always, but always been very demonstrative (sp) folk and the 'I love you' phrase has always been a big part of our lives (long may it continue). When we part, when we end a conversation, anytime really. The GD and I always put LUXX at the end of texts and every night we tell each other. Much beloved is the same. It means so much to know for sure somehow.
BIG LOVE to all.
Steffi xxx
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There appears to be more than a few of us who have been married more than once, is that 'cause we were all too young first time round?
Pen xx
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i asked mr bp to marry me after two weeks, he however waited 5 and a half years before asking me - it was so long we were even a feature on CLP's show when I went by my first name of elmlea before we had to pick tags and I became baggy!
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Pen
With me 'it seemed like a good idea at the time'. I was 27, and having left home at 16 thought it was about time to settle down with some structure!!! What was that all about then?
Steffi xx
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Possibly Pen..but my divorce was due to the ex getting his secretary pregnant..cliche?my life? hell yeah!
No regrets tho..either about getting married or getting divorced..life is about experiences..
mSc x
PS- if i`m still here in 5 tell me to shove off..got loads to do!
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Sorry Scoobs but that was a beez tea and screen moment! No laughing matter at the time tho'!!
Pen xx
btw - shove off!!
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Beez and Scooby: thanks. Nothing like a bit of love to make the world go round.
Beez: I really can't say what MrS said when he proposed - I can still see his gorgeous blue eyes looking right into mine, when I said we were too young! I changed my mind within 24 hours, mind you!
However, I can tell you that on our wedding day, as my lovely dad gave me away, to spend the rest of my life with this man .... MrS turned to me and said "you look smashing"!!
As Bingo would say - 100% true!!
C xx
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Mr Deev proposed to me after a motorbike accident, in the car park of Louth General Hospital. He'd shattered his wrist and had his entire left arm set in plaster.
The best bit was when we went to buy my engagement ring. The jeweller took one look at his plastered arm, turned to me and said "needed some persuading then did he love?"
Hahahahahahaha!
And there's nothing so lovely and wonderful and butterfly-inducing as that first time someone special tells you they love you. That stays with you forever. And that first kiss .....
Laters.
Deevski
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Deev - Tea Screen (with the jeweller).
I agree too - tummy turning over first hug/kiss - swoooooon.
Beez xx
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Im not here..honestly!
And Pen..yes, it is a tea/screen moment i know.. and you thought it only happened in films!
Loving the proposal stories.. and Deevs..brilliant!
mSc x
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Like it, Deevs.
I think we've been down this route on an earlier blog, so won't repeat mine!!
Pen xx
It started with a kiss
in the backrow of a classroom
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and the first time you see them. now THAT is an image to behold!
;-)
Deevs
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When much beloved walks into the room my heart still skips! Ohhh I've gone all schmoosy, looking at him now across the office. Could mean trouble when we get home - hope GD is still out!!
Off in 5!
Steffi xx
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Ah you know it's a funny aul thing this 'ere "I love you" conundrum isn't it.
Coming from a family of men who'd rather saw off their own arm with a rusty bread knife than be caught sayin' I Love You, who show their affection by booby-trappin' you with a water-bomb or ring you up during a wildlife documentary featurin' walruses to tell you you're on, who put hamsters in your glove-box and send yous up the corner shop to buy a tin of Ox-Tail Tongue; I'm afraid I'm not that good at it either.
Ergo, one day when the GD was quite small, and had been upset one weekend whilst on a visit to her daddy, and hearing the tale as told by Dawn French in the subsequent Dear Fatty, about when her father summoned her, as she was en route to a party in purple hot-pants, to tell her she was truly beautiful and how much he loved her, I decided to tell him the tale and how important it was to say I Love You.
So. The next weekend, off she went, the young GD, back to daddy's. I always felt a little sad; but I knew she was happy and therefore so was I. Anyway, Sunday evening arrives, GD crashes back into my peace and quiet. I noticed she seemed a little perplexed, but left it till bedtime to ask.
"Is everything ok, sweetie?" I asked as I tucked her in.
"Yeah, fine," says she. "Mind you, mum. (screws her little face up), I don't know what's up with me dad. He keeps tellin' me he LOVES me. Ew."
Hahahahaha!!
But you know what. He still does to this day. And I'm SO glad of that, it's really touching and I'm sure it's made all the difference to the GD's confidence and self-esteem.
And gives 'er summat to aim at with the water=pistol when 'e says it.
Hurrah!!
Clodagh.xx
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I don't say this for sympathy - cause most of the time I am happy with my lot.... But I've never been in love, never been told by a man that they love me and so of course have never been married. But I live in hope ;)
Off now for my microwave meal for one...only joking off for a healthy tuna salad with a jacket spud. Then off to see some friends for a cuppa and a chat.
Love you all and thanks for being there today.
AliB
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It's the 'citement when you know your gonna see them, and yes I've been there when they haven't bloody turned up!!! Didn't get a second chance with me, oh no!! despite the begging! hehehe
Not current Mr P you understand!
Pen xx
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Ali - you is a gawgus lovely person and if that's what you want I'm sure it will happen. But value your freedom too. I would love to be off tonight to see friends for a chat and a cuppa and I was in seventh heaven last week when Mr B got out of the way for a few days and I was on my own. Bliss !
Beezer xx
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Ahh....the first sight/kiss.....
I was already besotted with t'other when we finally met, as I said earlier we'd been texting/emailing for a couple of months (he was posted abroad). He flew over, got the train up to mine and I met him at the station.......we'd met for one drunken night 18 months before........I knew it was him, and all cliches (sp?) aside it felt like I'd known him forever.
Proposal however.......not really had a sincere one, just a several phases that included 'when we get married'!!
But we say I Love you every day!
ebx
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Lovely blogging today from all of you. Sympathies about the wasp Clodagh - Peter Kay reckons it's the only time his Nan has pulled the emergency cord in her warden-controlled flat, when she had a wasp in the kitchen.
I too have the "can't run quickly" dream and the "can't find a private loo" dream. But I also get the one quite often when you have to make a really important phone call in a hurry and it's about a twenty-five digit number and you get alomost to the end then press the wrong button and have to start all over again.
xx
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Obamarama - yes, I also have the phone number thing dream, it's exactly as you describe. Spooky!!
Pen xx
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Beezer - you've absolutely nailed it on the head.
Deevs
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didn't so much drive home as aqua plane
just treated mr bp and myself to chips from chip shop - coz i love him. Coming home and having my home hug is one of the best parts of the day
Ali - most of the time its meaningless and unless it comes from someone that you know means it then its pointless, from a hard and cyncial bagpuss who has written off men for life at 21!
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Sorry, couldn't blog from work, mad busy at the moment! Being off last week hasn't helped either!
I must admit Mr JG and I aren't that good at telling each other either, and he hates soppiness, cos he's from Wigan! lol. But we have a sort of understanding without having to say it all the time, which means that on the rare occasion we do, it means so much more.
The one thing I am bad at is telling my Mum and sister, but again, they don't either, we're just not a very huggy, kissy, "love you" type family, but would drop everything for each other, and are always there for each other!
I can never remember my dreams, unless they are garlic induced, like the other night - glad to hear Ian Wallace on the show, and glad Chris picked up on the blog post.
JG x
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JG
A tad harsh on the male population of Wigan there, non ...?
Reet, I'm orf aht to have dinner with my birthday twin and a girly girly catch up. Much needed!!
No vino tinto tonight as I shall have the keys to the mega micra at my disposal.
May email CLP tomorrow about my recurring dream - aerplane based, had it for as long as I can remember about 4 times a year.
Adios amigos!!
Truly Madly Deeply Deevs
x x x
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Ere Chezza.
Trust us. You can't be hard ENOUGH wit Wigan chaps.
Bless 'em all. They all eat lightbulbs, keep ferrets and think foreplay is half an hour a beggin'.
God love 'em all. We do. All us Wigan women who 'ave small feet, on account of we can get right into t' kitchen sink. And we rule 'em all with an iron bucket. Oh yes.
Clodagh.xx
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Ali. Get yourself up 'ere to Wigan. I'll get you sorted Sunshine.
I wouldn't feed 'im, mind; you'll never get shut.
Clodagh.xx
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Oh yes. That dream psychologist is top, isn't he.
By the crin. I'd best not get started, 'e'll 'ave enough material to write a whole thesis.
And by the way Christoff. Socrates. 'E was the chap who answered a question with another question, hence Socratic Questioning, as used by psychotherapists. Ergo, the reason said Socrates never made it back from the pub was because 'e couldn't say no to another round.
Anything else I can help you with today?
Clodagh Rubbish, DPhil.xx
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Deev, Clodagh's so reet! Mr JG's a chip off the old Wigan block!
Dammit, I'm typin' Wigan speek!
JG x
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Clodagh, that's how I made the mistake, fed him once, couldn't get rid of him, so ended up getting married!
Still don't get this pie butty thing though....Yuck!
JG x
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JG Hahahaha bless 'im, cherish 'im, Sunshine. Does 'e like a babby's yed an' pea-wet too?
Actually listen up. Am now doing what I, and am quite sure others, find a tad irritating now, in other words, going with all the cliches of String-Vest-And-Cloth-Cap Northern Man; the truth is, whereas it's fantastic to have a strong sense of identity and important to be able to have a titter about it, (look at the Irish, who celebrate their ineptitude at every opportunity), everybody, male, female, budgie, whatever, is different and has many and various qualities. That's what makes life and people so fascinating.
Well, apart from wasps that is. Nasty little swines all of 'em, them wasps.
Clodagh.xx
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Clodagh, he certainly does!
And I agree, in part, about what you're saying! And i still find it hard to understand his conversations with his Mum and some of his colleagues! But I had the same problem when I lived in the West Midlands and in Cardiff!!
We shouldn't let these old dialects die out, and people shouldn't mock them, and we shouldn't all sound like BBC announcers!
And, BTW, Mr JG doesn't own a cloth hat, has never worn clogs, and would run a mile if he saw a ferret! But he's a northern lad, who doesn't like sentimentality! And that's why I love him!!
He just tells it as he sees it, bit stubborn, like his Dad was, but that's how he is, take it or leave as far as he's concerned! And with a really strong sense of identity, which is something I admire and wish I had!
Anyway, off me soapbox now!
JG x
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Oh, and by the way, as a semi veggie, it's horrible, and why would anyone want squashed pea juice... urrghh!!
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I think I'll pass on the pea juice.....agggggggg
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As Hazel would say, JG, I tutley agree. Yes indeed, the hubby sounds like if yous chop 'is head off 'e'd 'ave WIGAN writ large right through like a stick a Blackpool rock.
Oo there goes the head droppin' off theme again.
The DDF Eric was the same. Born and bred in Wigan, called a spade a shovel. And although he was a little chap, he had a huge character and was loved by everyone who knew him. Well most of 'em...eg., a lot of the southern chaps in the erstwhile-it has to be said- incredibly snobbish world that was the Rugby Football Union of some years back, before the sport turned professional. Eric could hold his own with all the toffs squawkin' over the whisky down at H.Q., Twickers; and yet he was greatly liked for his brand of self-effacing humour. Like the time a particularly posh Army-Major type, president of one of the posher clubs, came up to an away game. Said Toff (lovely man, actually, but ever so posh) brought his elegant wife with him, who rocked up in a long fur coat, with large sunglasses and a stylish white turban with a sparkly pin at the front.
Many whiskies and mucho laffo later, said couple were leaving and saying their fond (if cross-eyed) goodbyes to Eric, who warmly took Mrs. Toff's hand and said, "Lovely to see you, June. And I do hope your head soon gets better."
Happy Days.
Clodagh.xx
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LOL Clodagh, Mr JG still asks me to explain Union to him! And I ask him to explain league!
But cos he wanted to be different to his Dad, who was Man Utd and Wigan Warriors (not that they was called that then)! Well he supported St Helens, cos he reckoned as he'd been born in Whiston, that he should! Caused all sorts of ructions it did!
But he still does to this day!
Used to work with the President of Fylde RUFC, it was probably him and his missus you met, sounds like them!
JG x
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Ey Bondy yous cheeky so and so.
This from a chap who likes maple syrup on 'is bacon butty. Ha.
Anyway, Sunshine, any news on the job front?
Clodagh.xx
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Oh Lordy, JG. You'll know the lovely Bill Beaumont then?
Clodagh.xx
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Hiya Bondy, sorry about the pea juice!
How's it going, any news?
JG x
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Evening all,
Loving all the love !! Just love Mr MC so much more coz he just caught a whoppin moth , so i can come out from behind the sofa now.
Dreams, oooh, i have the loo one, and a phone one where I cant get a dialling tone . Also, am driving my car and i need to reverse, and when i do I cant apply the brakes . One screwed up cookie hey ??
MC xx
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Hi MC
No, you're probably completely normal like the rest of us! lol
Hope your garden isn't as flooded as mine, I've lost three rose bushes and what was a well established shrub due to the flooding in mine! I might think about planting rice, as it's so underwater!
JG x
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Howya MC. Yup. Mad as a hatter.
Moths. That reminds me of what Mad Maggie told me over lunch yesterday.
Chap goes to the doctor.
"Doctor, doctor, can you help me out. I keep thinkin' I'm a moth."
"Hmm." Says the doc. "Well now, it's not me you need to see, it's a psychiatrist."
"Ah, well, doc," says he, "As it happens, I was on me way there when I saw your light was on."
Aye Thangyou.
Clodagh.xx
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All this talk of Wigan !! Went on a date with Wigan guy and guess where I went ? League match ! Joy of joys!! What the????
First and last date!!!! Did have a nice car though!
Beez xxx
Back in a mo - d/w to be loaded with a zillion teacups courtesy of decorators - got to keep em topped up - tea bags like me!!!!
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Good one Clodagh!!!
Beez xxx
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Oooh, I don't like moths either, and Finlay won't touch them! What's that about, I mean, they won't hurt him! Like I say, stupid dog!
Beez, I've never been to a live league match, and probably never will, cos I decided that I should support Wigan, cos that's where I live, but was soon put in me place, and have shut up about ever since (but have got an old Warriors shirt to bring out every Good Friday)! lol
JG x
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I'm alive (a live wire).
Happy Wednesday guys. I thought I'd drop you a quick line to deny all the rumours of my premature demise and confirm that all is indeed well in Rudgwick.
The truth is things have been a little busy of late.
I gave you the comings and goings from London - both times - and pretty much bored you to tears with Road Trip details, but it has all been a rollercoaster ride since then.
Mrs MfR has been thrown in at the deep end in her new job, but luckily, she is the best swimmer in the company. Funny really, they let her go a couple of years ago, have struggled since, begged her to come back, and now she is bailing them out at twice the price. I call it Karma.
My world has been about trying to keep hold of my driving licence.
I picked up the new 'express' version of the twin turbo the other week and discovered that if you pop it into 'sport', click the 'dynamic' mode, and fiddle with the flappy paddles it turns into an F1 car. Fantastic, if you are on a track, bad news when you are flying up and down the A281 with Mr Plod lurking around every corner.
If you are vaguely interested, the Road Trip plans are going well - only six weeks to go. We have made one or two changes, nothing drastic, just North Rim over South Rim, and the detour to Rachel is on, and have both concluded that 10 days of no mobiles, no hotels or TV, and, hopefully, no rain, is our idea of nirvana.
By the way, it is chucking it down right here, right now.
Happy days.
Will love you and leave you now. I have been dipping in and out over the past couple of weeks, and am glad that everyone is OK and that Chris is back. We are dining at The M on Friday, so my eternal pledge to buy a drink for whoever says hello, stands.
Peace + love
MfR
PS Soda pop and Ritalin
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Excellent Clodagh!
JG x
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Hi ,
JG, the garden is not flooded, but it's certainly soggy. Way too much rain today.
Clodagh, LOL , you and your stories.
Got me fake tan coming along nicely . One leg in American tan, the other Ecru.
Its all this spraying down wind in the garden , you just cant judge it .
Beez, you are treating those decorators way too good, sounds like they have moved in .
MC x
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evening each - hope you've all had a good day.
I am the moth and spider catcher in this house! The strapping 22yr old, I call son, tries to avoid it at all costs or if he HAS to trap said insect arms himself with enough gear - gloves, flippin big stick, etc you would think he was stalking a tiger!
On the dreams front, not had the phone. loo or running ones - but do dream nearly every night and most mornings can recall lots of detail.
Apart from the " I'm at Ryan Giggs funeral and everyone but me is in fancy dress" one that I have mentioned before, another vivid one was me insisting that all the teachers (who/where??) had to walk home with a dalmation dog - none of which had spots!!
Go figure ...
Crumpy xx
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Hi Matt
Have been wondering the same thing with mine, I'm doing an average of 15mph and 23.5 mpg, in a car that I can't out the riif down cos of the weather, and everytome I put my foot down I'm looking for cameras! And then yesterday, had so many yellow lights from the traction control, just to get away from some stupid lights in a 30 zone!
But it's fun when you can press the S button and use the paddle shift, however rare the occasions may be! Mine sounds good too!
Hope the road trip is working out, and sorry, but won't be joining you at the M, can't afford the petrol LOL
Hi Crumpy, hope you've had a good day!
JG x
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put the roof down!
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MFR,
Good to hear from you , and that all is going well. Hope your roadtrip turns out as good as it sounds. Have driven many miles in the USA , wishing you a safe trip.
If i knew where the M was , i'd certainly say hi.
All the best
MC x
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Hi JG - yep good thanks, although it seems I can't blog on work pc!
so evenings only for me from now on.
Has all the holiday shopping been done yet?
C xx
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No Crumpy, not even started it!
I was poorly last week, with what seems to have been swine flu, still getting over it!
We have guests this weekend, so trying to get straight for them. Although it is only family, so it's not to bad!
So shopping is the week after, but with the forecast, I just don't really know what to get to take with us! Have a feeling we'll be coming home early!
JG x
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Evening all, just dipping in briefly to say hi. Have been busy doing chores tonight, food shopping done, humongous pile of recycling gone and wome washing done! Phew! More jobs to do tomorrow, my flatmate is moving out to move in with her boyfriend so I need to start advertising for a new flatmate, not fun...
MfR, do you think you could find room in your RV for little old me?? I wouldn't take up much room...
Dream guy was very interesting tonight. Me, I hardly ever remember my dreams, but when I do they are generally very bizarre!
Rx
PS in contribution to the general discussion about wigan I would just like to add that Wigan North Western station is the coldest place in the UK in my opinion, especially when waiting for the next train to Liverpool...
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Blinkin blimey gone for two secs and you all come alive.
JG - we will have to work out a swop shop - mine does moths - but having been stung on nose by wasp - aint too keen!! Still too curious for own good tho' Yay - does spiders too - good lad - I hate spiders!!!
Matt good to see you - not boring at all - keep us us to date with the trip and keep your licence. My sat nav beeps when nearing a speed trap and limited road works. Bit of problem tho' needs updating roadworks gone on M6 says I should be doing 50 - nah !!! Not any more ta!!!!! Yay
Been chucking it down here since middle of night - all day - non stop - rice paddy garden - (good idea JG)!! One of these days will call at the M and bag that drink! Knowing me - will arrive when you are in US!!!!
MC you is bonkers!!! Stay ecru all over - more alluring!!!
And Crumpy - mega bonkers . Would love to lock you in a room with Clodagh (tena provided) What a poo not being able to blog from work. saying that - I can't fb but do occasionally zap in to house to fire up laptop!!Cos I can!!!!
Rosie - it's flippin cold everywhere at mo - let alone Wigan! I've (whispering here) put my heating back on!!!
Beezer xx
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Right, I'm off to bed too, have no idea where Mr JG is, was supposed to be home at 8pm, and then on call, but presumably he's stuck out somewhere! Hopefully not kidnapped by Renee and Joan!
Rosie, I agree, not a nice place to spend any decent length of time, but I think Salford Quays wins the windiest place vote in the NW, blows straight down the ship canal to our office! grrr!!
JG x
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Beezer it's July!!! It's summertime!!!
In my book the heating doesn't come on until at least October...
Rx
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Beez - not the h@£~ting!! We are still sleeping with bedroom windows open!
It's chuffin summer and I will have the windows open.
It rained all day in Telford, but Adam and Hannah (son & GF) went to Conwy and rang to say dry, sun trying to come out, and were sat on the harbour eating fish and chips! just not fair.
C x
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Evening each
Popping in and right back out again. Hope everyone is well.
Can't find the Dream book Chris, sorry! Yet again, it's been loaned to someone who hasn't given it back. Story of my life.
Had all 3 gorgeous grandsons at local Heritage Centre today and am totally knackered. Bed is calling.
See you all for FNWC hopefully.
xxxxx
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Chris,
I don't reckon my take on your dream was a million miles away from that of the dream 'expert'.
This either shows that I just got lucky with my off the cuff comments or that being a dream 'expert' is just money for old rope.
Just off to get a website set up and some business cards printed.
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Sorry guys - windows doors patio - all wide open - all day - decorators remember? but I iz freezin and heating is on!!!!!!!
Annie - hi and g'bye - this flippin retirement seems keeping you occupied !!! Better phone to see what you are up to methinks!!!!
Beez xxx
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Barney - agree !!! Read your comment!
Beez x
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I have the bedroom window open at night all year round, even at -5 or lower!
JG x
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Final thought before I hit the scratcher.
Have to take me car into Manchester tomorrow for its tappits canged and tyres kicked so shan't be around till later; meanwhile, can I ask if anyone has the following dream.
I'm ascending a tall building, on some sort of platform, maybe a glass elevator, anyway, am reaching higher and higher, the thought being, if I jump now I may just survive; if I go higher, I'll get a better view, will be much more pleasureable but will kill meself if I jump.
I never reach the top; but I never jump either. Sometimes wake euphoric, sometimes anxious.
'Course, I haven't checked to see if it's Renee blowin' up the airbed with me fast asleep in it. And am not sure if I'm in the nip whilst all this is goin' on. Could be that.
Night, chaps.
Clodagh.xx
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Wish I Hadn't read that! If I have a heights nightmare now, I know who to blame!
JG x
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Anyway, no sign of him, so I'm off to sleep! Night all!
JG x
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Clodagh,
I think this might be a drink related dream, especially as you use the phrase 'in the nip' to mean naked, when it also refers to a small measure of alcohol.
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Clodagh - whenever my dreams involve heights - day and night join together!!!! Can't be doing !! Frighten the life out of me!! London escalators mega included!!! and always make sure wake myself up totally if I dream high stuff so I don't go back and carry on!!!!
Over to you Barney!!!!
Beez xx
Night nite JG xx
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Beez
This is the classic 60's child fear of 'getting high' and losing control. You feel that you should 'turn on, tune in and drop out' yet in reality you want to keep your feet on the ground.
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Doing an Annie, popping in and out!
Beez - turn that heating off and put on your coat! It's against all principles here to put heating on before October!
JG - Also have to have bedroom windows open all year round, wake with muzzy head otherwise!
Nite all
Pen xx
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Barney in the 60's too true - didn't go there - had more fun keeping sober/un-stoned and watching all around me falling about! Feet never left ground since the day I was born!!! Just the odd skip!!!
Think Christoph needs to talk to you too!!!!
Beez xx
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Well that's me off to bed and get some sleep, to sleep, perchance to dream.
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Nighty nite. dog snoring Mr B snoring me should be snoring! (apparently I wheeze - ooops - cigs got to go)
Wheezey Beezer xxx
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btw Pen - check out 161 - like a freeze box here!!!
However like you and JG my bedrom window open all year round - regardless of temp outside!
Beez xxx
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JG, How are you? I just had a call from one of the references I gave to the company I interviewed with yesterday and they got a call from them today. I had to pop out, and the HR manager called (0f course) and left me a message saying that she would be calling me tomorrow to discuss the position, and apologized for being out of the office all day........ hmmmmmmmmm I am losing circulation in my extremities I am crossing them soooo hard.....LOL
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hi clodaghrubbish, the company I interviewed with yesterday was checking references today and told me they would calling me tomorrow.
Just for the record, I am always telling folks here not to mix their sweet and savories........LOL Just can't do it myself......
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Best of luck Bondy. I would so love to go to the States for a couple of years to work. Fancy a swap?
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awww, hope it's good news Bondy!
Have just been woken up by the loudest thunder ever! Poor Mr JG still out at work somewhere!
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LOL obamarama. Thanks for the good wishes JG and obamarama. We'll see what tomorrow (really today) brings....
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morning all, hope you're well?
nice email chris, you seem to have the knack of saying the right thing.
Lovely sunny start to Norwich this morning, not sure it'll last though. Hope it's nice for tomorrow, good friends of mine getting wed.
Another weird dream last night, I was taking pics at said wedding but everytime I took one it deleted one from earlier!!??
I seem to have loads of these frustrating ones, eg. can't find white hart lane having signed for spurs.
Anyhoo, hope you all have a good day. There's a new milkshake shop in the city so gonna take the kids for a treat later.
bonnet de douche
KWx
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Morning all
Should be stupid busy again today but I'm kinda getting fed up of this - my nose never lifts from the grindstone and then i get given more urgent work to do and deadlines keep getting moved after i have worked hard and its just not fair!
Besides I'm leaving in a month and then its someone elese problem
Super bp x (probably working stupid hard becuase I am actually a professional - ho hum)
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PS - can't talk about my dreams from last night as this is a family blog - other then the one where I was making cheesey mash with some kids and we were playing on the motorway and it was fine??
Answers on a postcard please
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Morning all, from a very dark and stormy Manchester!
We have thunder and lightning, and it was raining so hard I couldn't get out of my car for 10 minutes!
JG x
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Morning Lovlies,
Just wanted to say thanks to those who said kind words about my singledom yesterday - much appreciated xx
Nice and sunny in Kent, so far - let's hope it lasts.
I'm looking forward to the dream man again tonight as I am one of those who can't remember my dreams, but know that I dream a lot. Sometimes I remember them the next night just as I am dropping off! Weird.
Have a nice day now....back later
AliB
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Good luck Bondy, things are all still crossed
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Good morning gang!
I feel fantastic today! Just woke up full of the joys, took myself off to the swimming pool in town (after making packedl unches), did 30 lengths and here I am all fired up and raring to go go go!!
Back laters.
Deevs
x x x x
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ALiB - "looking forward to the dream man tonight" ...
aren't we all love!?!?!
x x x x
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LOL Deev, I didn't think of it like that, perhaps that's where I am going wrong!!
AliB
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Morning all
Woke up to a lovely sunny day - washing on line and I am now looking at a very big black cloud heading my way !!! Humph!
Busy day ahead - back inabit.
Beezer xx
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Morning all
Gingembre - I hope you make it to the lane before the start of the season. We need you in the middle of the back four!!
Bondy - good luck. How you get the news you want.
Clodagh - you make my day
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thunderclap
believe me, another ginger pele won't go down well...
...remember Gary Doc??????
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Morning All,
Bondy - Have fingers and toes crossed for you, sounds promising tho?!
Beez - I had my heating on for a bit last night, against all my principals, but my teeth were chattering!!!!
Now, it's Thursday, right??? i switched days at work this week and it's made me awful confused!!!!
This bleeding rain - stairods agains here, and we had such a promising start - even walked the mutt this morning without a coat on.......
Need to look like I'm working..
ebx
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bondy, how rude of me...
...best wishes and good luck for today
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Morning all
The sun has got its hat on, hip, hip, hip hooray. We are not without the menacing white/grey fluffy things tho', wish they would just disappear!!
James - WOO HOO!, everything still crossed for you, sounds promising! Oops, hope I didn't wake you!!
Pen xx
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Oh my word.......BLUE SKY!!!!!!
Sorry, just not seen it for so long!
ebx
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Good morning!
Shouldn't be in here today, have lots to do but in the office on my own and a bit lonely :-( So I guess it's ok to pop in and out :-)
Had a horrible start to the day with LM being a bit hard work. He wouldn't brush his teeth and I wouldn't back down so stalemate it was. Me sitting there with him until he gave in. Him flicking toothpaste around the bathroom. Given that it's his first full day at the new childminders too.....was a little be frazzled to be honest.
But, as I have learned to tell myself, there is no such thing as a bad day, or indeed a good day. All days have bits of both so I have the good bit to look forward to now.
Gingembre, just down the road from the hospital is a milkshake shop and it is brill. As for the ice creams.....well where do I start?!
I never used to have a sweet tooth until recently and currently I treat myself to some ice cream most nights. Working my way through the whole range of HD and B&J's! Favourite so far is Cherry and Cream.
Better go, this post is turning into a bit of an essay...sorry!
Me x
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Sorry Bondy...I meant to say good luck and everything crossed for you. Until it all goes blue anyway :-)
x x x
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Joy of working from home - grab the washing in when it starts to rain. Downside, I am soaked !!!
Beezer xx
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Bingo - where are you young man?
Don't think we've had any response to our pleas for your whereabouts!
Your posts are definitely missed...............big time!!
Hope all is ok xx
Pen xx
pee ess still sunny here - soz Beez!!
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Hi all fellow bloggers. What is it with this English weather....cricket delayed due to HEAVY rain at Edgebaston (I think that's Birmingham way, where I beleive it always rains?), here in Brighton, SUNNY, following a massive downpour yesterday evening.
Special Hi to the Deevsta and PPP xx
TBx
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seeing as we are all at it
weather update from berks - very heavy showers about an hour ago - now drying up!
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also - anyone seen rips????
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Bazza - Thanks for the special Hi, sending one right back to you!
Baggy - When I had five minutes t'other day I went back over the archives and noticed that there are a lot of regulars who have vanished without trace. S'pose it's quite normal tho'.
Pen xx
I'm definitely not at it!!! lol
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Pen - I was thinking that too
So if you are a regualr who is now lurking - please pop on and say hi and let us know how its going - we miss you
X
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Popping in to say hi as per bagpuss instruction, and I have been lurking, on of the month stuff to get through, got a bad back, to much bowling in wet weather I reckon.
I have been told by my bestest bud supplier Joanne to take 2 ibuprofen followed by 2 paracetamol 2 hours later.
Got a match tonight, 2 tomorrow 1 saturday and 2 0n sunday, so if any of you chickadees have a wonder cure please let me know, I will try em all.
JTT
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JT - if you are not asthmatic - ibrobfen gel (other brands are available) - nice to hear from you :-) Shame its not good news!
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Afternoon all
Half been lirking and half of the time my internet has not been working.
Thought it was my provider but turns out my wireless thingy was broken. OOOps as I had words with said provider.
Off to sunny!!!!!! North Wales at the weekend for a weeks hols. Any ideas of where a family can go to get out of the rain.
Thanks
Propa
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we went a couple of years ago is llanduno - and there is a place that is called a jewllery museuam but its moer a shop - however you can pain pottery there - and we did as it was raining!
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Thanks my daughter loves that sort of thing.
Propa
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Jovial - Have you had any treatment / sports massage? Often sorts out problems due to muscle tightness and avoids the use of drugs.
Beany
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I'm listening to last night's show whilst working from home.* Wasn't Ian the dream expert excellent? Really looking forward to hearing him again tonight.
* 'working from home' - a euphemism for snacking every half an hour, having a little snooze and generally larking about.
xx
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..........down came the rain!!!!!!!!!
Pen xx
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jovial
having had an operation/injury or 4 I can fully recommend that the ibroprofen gel works.
but
The best cure for the ache which I guess is a swelling or inflammation is to treat it with ice packs after use
If warmth is applied I am sure that any tears/swelling will only be aggravated.
I bought some frozen sweetcorn (other stuff available) and applied it after any form of exercise
Now this may sound extreme but if your local gym has an ice dip/bath it may not be the worst thing you could do - however the pain that may go through the meat and 2 veg might be too much to bear???
KWx
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Ha Pen - I've got the sun now !!
Jovial stop pill popping and cut down on the bowling !!!!! Good idea Baggy the gel better than taking pills.
Busy Beezer xxx
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can I point out it wasn't on the cob still but in a bag like peas!!!!!!!!
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Yeah
There is a yellow thing in the sky. Does anyone know what it is!!!
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Ps
Jovial agree with KW we always have an old bag of peas for that sort of thing. Very useful just remember not to eat them.
Prop
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Beany #209,
Had treatment from a chiropractor years ago, did the trick, nowhere near that bad though, pulled a muscle or tweaked it somehow.
I can get around ok, just hurts and cannot stay in one position whether sitting or standing.
Never had a massage though, sports or otherwise LoL.
JTT
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ginge - best use I can think of for sweetcorn - can't stand the stuff!!
Beez - are you gloating?!
Prop - guarantee it won't be there for long!!
Pen xx
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Just had a fit of the giggles imagining Jovial having an ice bath !!!!
Yes I'm gloating Pen !!! Probably not for long but :-)
Beezer xx
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I've had sports massage from the lovely man that runs my gym - this is from the after effects of whiplash (and not in a good sense) - last time he used his thumper on me and i came home feeling much better!
Hope that gets past the moderators, but its all true and 100% professional!
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And breathe .....
Shall I text Bingo? OK then ... will let you know.
Rips is alive and well - "spoke" on FB this morn.
Me? Going quietly insane, being pulled this way and that by two completely computer illiterate bosses.
Numptiness! Full of it!!!
Deevs
x x x x
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'smee here.
Weather report for south Norfamps - sunshine!!!
Steffi xx
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Deev will swap with you. Mine is too computer literate for my liking.
Propa
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Afternoon everyone,
Gingembre , thanks for clarification on the corn !!!
JTT, get a sports massage, they are good at sorting out knots etc.
Propa - hiya, we have a bit of Sun , but its not gonna last. Rain last night and this morning was horrendous. Am working near a river and its rising .......
MC x
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Thanks Ginge,
I will try that tonight when I get home, beezer not bowling aint an option, anyway old girl, I have to play tonight as I,m top of the league average and there is money involved.
I will try the gel as well , thanks.
JTT
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Oooh Propa - I've worked for one of those too - not sure which is the worst to be honest!
My current bosses think you can tell a pooter or Google what it is you're after and within seconds - hey presto!!
Have texted The Bingo One. Will let you know of any response forthwith!
Deevs
x x x x
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Hiya MC
Hubby and kids canoeing at the mo on a river, hope that one's not rising.
Had way too much of the wet stuff recently.
Propa
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Afternoon each
Weather report..North Yorkshire this morning,rain,thunder,lightening the works..South Yorkshire this pm..sunny but with very big drops of rain ocassionally coming down..but very warm. Totally bizarre but we do have a nice rainbow!
Good to see everyone inc a few of the lurkers back...JTT the gel is pretty good stuff..have had back issues for years and between chirpractic treatment and the gel i pretty much keep going. Oh, and you need someone to give you a massage for sure!
MfR-car and trip both sound fab! And glad Mrs MfR is settling..have a great trip if you`re not back before.
Ginge..we have an amazing milkshake place near one of my shops..they add anything you want..every kind of chocolate bar, fruit and even coco pops and weetabix etc.. fantastic place..and too close sometimes!
Rest of ya...helllooooo!
mSc x
PS - no doubt a new blog wll appear right about ...now....!
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mSc - think you just got in ....
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Afternoon,
On a Thursday I work in two different buildings and half an hour to get from one to 'tuther and guess what in that half hour it was persisting down with rain - got right soggy feet now. It was only a brief shower though as the sun is now shining - the words "April" and "Showers" spring to mind - funny that it's July though.
AliB
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The blog is late
we dont want to wait
any longer, you see
do you all agree?
no time to lose
Its time to choose
our ARF tune
sometime soon
Pen xx
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NEW BLOG
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New Blog Pen
Beez xxx
Just off to give Jovial a trashing for calling me an old girl!!!
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