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Love the further new intro.
Does this mean it will rotate like the straplines?
Should we all be crafting our 80 words or so?
Fresh tea and coffee on the bar. Plus homemade flapjack, two kinds, one plain and one with cinnamon and nuts.
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Quiet here this morning. Please don't make me eat all the flapjack myself.
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Hello, Anne! Yum, yum, yum (chomp) cinnamon and nuts! Inspired.
Love the new intro, too. This is fun!
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Anne (1) Who are you calling nuts??? (Us, I hope!)
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Apparantly I am currently signed in as an unnamed user...
I am not a user,
I am a free radical,
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Dear Anne P,
I am having trouble with my flapjacks.
They are tending to come out a bit too hard.
The recipe I'm using is
4oz marg
3oz sugar
3oz golden syrup
8 oz rolled outs
30 mins 180c fan assisted
Where am I going wrong?
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Afternoon Froggers & Peeps......I see HMS Pinafore is now moored just off shore and jolly Jack Tar is looking for that lost UXB ordnance!
I will be in the Purple Hammock Bomb Shelter, sipping freshly squueeeeeezed and chilled O juice.
If anyone wants to join me then knock three times on the door in the side of the hammock and then utter the secret phrase.
'The Speedos with the tassles and swags are a splendid swimming garment'.
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BTW, I just lurve the new paving slabs dotted around NC's..............oh.....oops, they're MGL's flapjacks aren't they!
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Speaking of Speedos, this joke from a well known comedian:
'I went to a shop to buy a pair of Speedo swimming trunks. So the man gives me a pair and I go and try them on and they’re very, y’know, brief. Very embarrassing. And I say to the man, this pair of swimming trunks are a bit too revealing for me. They’re not what I expected. And he says, 'Well what did you want?’ and I said, 'a pair of Speedo swimming trunks’ and he said, 'Oooh, I thought you said a pair of paedo swimming trunks.’
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Bottle glass
Glass bottle
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Doctor doctor, I think I'm going invisible
...Next
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Can you guess where I am?
I'm at the bar. Who'd like a drink?
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A topical tip....
Old telephone directories make ideal personal address books.
Simply cross out the names and address of people you don't know.
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Hey! I'm an unnamed user, too!
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DI Wyman, on a holiday to Russia, was stopped and searched on landing at the airport. The Security Officer went though his belongings and found his Speedos.
SO: I'm afraid you can't wear these in Russia.
DIY: Why on earth not?
SO: Chernobyl fallout.
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TIH, was the SO related to Ivan Knockabollockov?
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IH was found by a doctor using a pen on a telephone directory crossing all the numbers against the name Wong.
Dr: What are you doing that for?
IH: Just making sure I don't ring the Wong number
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Did you know:-
that minor skin grafts can be performed on pigs by covering any cuts and grazes with thin strips of bacon.
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Was Ivan Knockabollockov
related to Ivanna Tinkle?
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Careful with those top tips DIY, A certan comic once too a mc fast food outlet to court over its alledged mis use of
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opps I'll start again and I'm sober
Careful with those top tips DIY, A certain comic once too a Mc fast food outlet to court over its alledged misuse of top tips.
My favorite is "contact lens weares save money, Simply cut small circles out of cling film."
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Did you know:-
To thicken up runny low-fat yoghurt try stirring in a spoonful of lard.
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Stewart M......'A certain comic once too a Mc fast food'
don't wish to be picky but is there not something stil mising?
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MGL, no but he was a very very distant cousin to those two 'camp' comedians Ben Doon and Phil McAvity...
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DIY real life is getting to me!! Roll on 5.30!
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DIY - I was in a meeting just the other day with a chap called Ben Down! Honest guv! xx
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The Scottish flavour reminds me of the girl who asked the Scotsman "Is anything worn underneath the kilt?"
"No it's all in perfect working order" he said
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hi all!!
(how come this beach is *one less* than the last one?)!!!
n-n
xx
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n-n........the_beach_57, it's Eddie's new numbering scheme!
Possibly the same one Gordy Broon used when he was C of Exchequer?
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n-n Last week we had two beaches side by side. One was number 57, the other 58. However, for some reason none of the usually approaches to get to 57 worked and to gain access you had to turn around three times whilst saying some magic words. Not easy if you were trying to access at home whilst sitting on the sofa, believe me! So 58 survived and 57 was ditched (or should that be beached, as in whale?). In order not to waste numbers when the final beach count is made, we are now using the number 57.
Either that or we will find that beach numbers count down, rather than up, and we only have another 56 to go after this one. Now there is a worrying thought.
H.
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Now, frogfriends, I'm getting in some nibbles. Humph is first in the queue and Vyle next, after which it's a wild scrum.
I've got: low fats crisps, high fat crisps, Bombay mix, cheezy wotsits, pork scratchings, tortilla chips, peanuts (raw, salty or dry-roast) and some crudites.
I'm off out for dips. Got salsa, sour cream n chives and curry sauce, cos I see someone lugging in a huge bag of chips.
Salt n sauce? Salt n vinegar? Salt n mayo? Just mayo?
So while I'm in a celebratory mood, what affordable goodies shall we add?
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Blimey. Until I get the full use of both my paws I ought to preview.
Not low fats crisps. Or even low fast crisps.
feh!
Mind you, the virtual (but not necessarily virtuous) nature of the Beach means I have also just prepared fresh tsatsiki and a Thai dipping sauce, so I'd better get some more nibbles in.
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Thanks for the offer, Frances (28) but I think that I ought to step aside from "the front of the queue". It is another late evening in the lab for me in RL and you know how it is with nibbles at parties. People, well, nibble them. Others should feel free to dig in when the party starts. I will see what is left when I finally arrive.
H.
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Am I an unnamed user too? That's worrying.
So is the petrol strike, just as we're about to go to Scotland next week!
In honour of my spectacularly bad timing, I will be leaving you now to do some frantic tidying up downstairs, before my jazz guitar playing guest arrives for some pre- music night rehearsing.
Apparently I show promise as a crooneuse...
Chilled lager in the fridge ... do dig in!
Fifi (or 'unnamed' as it might turn out)
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Ah, new Beach...
Excited to see the new intro, wonder whose it will be next week?
If there's chips on the offing can I place the following request: fresh ground black pepper, worcester sauce and balsamic vinegar all liberally shaken all over the chips, and then some ketchup for dipping.
As it seems to be a food night on the beach I'm firing up the barbecue. Menu:
- Sirloin steaks marinated in red wine, parsley and crushed whole cloves
- Pork loin chops brushed with clover honey and wholegrain mustard
- Minced lamb, redcurrant and pine nut burgers
- Spicy vegetable and soft cheese burgers coated in breadcrumbs.
Plates, buns, salad and a selection of sauces on the side. And some fantastic still cider I found in Wells-next-the-Sea a few weekends back; sweet, medium and dry.
;o) []
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Feefs, join the club.
Humph, I won'y offer you chitterlings, then.
You get first choice of treats on the Beach on Saturday, I think.
Very fruity and nutty muesli, freshly toasted wholemeal or white bread, any spread of your choice or - a naughty fry-up.
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Frances - is a naughty fry-up when you arrange the sausage, tomatoes etc in a suggestive way? Or is the little egg-sized frying pan for the fried egg a rude shape? Either way, I'm up for that!!
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Fifi (34),
Surely your naughty frying pan is two-egg sized?
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The "other" Humph
RIP
H.
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Raise your glasses please.
Humphrey Lyttelton.
A sad loss.
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Humph (36), SK(37)
To Humph L.
The master of the double entendre.
DeepT.
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Bless you Humph,
who would never be lost for words,
nick rees
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Irreplaceable I think - but I hope not.
And in his memory:
As is customary, Samantha spent some time down in the gramaphone library earlier, fetching the hit singles she's chosen. She's become quite friendly with the two elderly archivists, Jack and Arthur. They've recently gone part time, so Samantha's come to a working arrangement - she does the paperwork, Arthur gets her 45s out and Jack's off all afternoon.
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Yes, dear Humph. I feel so sad.
But I'll bet he's giving those angels a run for their money on his horn. Bless you, St. Humph.
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He had a wonderful life, and it was long and productive right to the end. I should be so lucky!
Let it RIP, Humph. I wonder who'll sit on his right hand now??
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In honour of the occasion, I have brought one snack to the recipe of another:
They look like canapés but they're really chips n dips!
Any further contributions?
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Welcome to Saturday - thought I'd be first for a change :-)
Main PC blew it's graphics card - so most of the day sorting that one out -
What's this morbid obsession with speedo's? I thought they were really out of fashion these days?
Just had a nice meal with Chris and his studio Director - now at Thames Studios. He, - Chris - sends his love to Eddie - and Stewart, BigSis, and Fifi. I gather the Cbeebies crew all still watch the camstreams comments on the big plasma - however (allegedly) - on a different tac, the canteen crowd at Teddington are a little on the miserable side and the Chinese channel are very posessive about guarding their canteen area!
Takes allsorts!
Anyone joining me here after breakfasts for some leftovers?
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Jonnie it's good to hear from you!
Now then.. tomorrow morning I am off to Bourne for what can only be described as Tart Practice.
(My pal Jan and I have a gig in mid-May as The Jam Tarts ... what were YOU thinking??? ... so I will have to miss brekkie, sorry, so we can rehearse in the morning.)
Now then... did anyone else catch Gogol Bordello on TV t'other night? WWOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW!!!!
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Ugh, up with insomnia and so just to say: dear Humph L, I'll miss you so much.
But the seemingly dead still contact us from beyond the grave, and so - welcome Snolin Cell at the piano. Samantha's in the library looking for the floppies for a tribute programme, but so far she's only found hard drives.
(Don't mean to upset anyone; but how on earth else to say goodbye to someone I've loved to listen to for such a long time?)
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Frances_O (46):
Indeed. The radio alarm woke me up this morning with a snatch of "Bad Penny Blues" and I correctly feared the worst. I've been in a misery all morning until I found this someone wrote in Another Place:
"For the funeral, could we have "Abide with me" to the tune of "The Lord's my shepherd"?"
I think he'd have liked that.
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Like SSC, I heard this morning when I turned on the TV and saw Humph playing. Here's to Humph L.
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Music, humour, naughtiness, style- he was great!
Keep stomping, Humph.....
mollyxx
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Humph with 'n L, bye and thanks for making a lotta Froggers and Peeps very happy over the years......you will be sadly missed.
DiY
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Thanks, Scat!
I hope someone does that at his memorial service
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Oh - fresh coffee just brewed, btw, and toast coming up, with comb honey - all I can manage after a yuckily sleepless night. Kettle's singing, if anyone wants to make tea.
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Elevenses anyone?
Just back from the bakers with a big bag full of still warm cheese straws and some sausage rolls...........
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DI 53,
I just finished delivering 500 Lib Dem leaflets (waste of time). I'll have some.
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SSC 47,
Sorry, I prefer Chris Barber. No sense of humor to speak of, but I prefer trombone.
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What can I say? You've said it all. On Newsnight they showed a wonderful clip of him playing the trumpet with Colin at the piano after a ISIHAC recording. He finished playing and broke into a wonderful smile. He'll be greatly missed.
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at the request of sons #2 & #3, I am 'doing' a blisteringly 'hot' beef and veggy curry for tea tonight. There will be enough leftover for late nibbles at NC's.
Just be warned though it has the same effect as colonic irrigation but with added discomfort so it is not for the faint hearted.
Also, you may want to get in several litres of ice cold lager! (other chilled beverages are also suitable)
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Re: Humphrey L and ISIHAC. These ripped directly from the Times website, they had me in fits;
“Samantha’s just started keeping bees and already has three dozen or so. She says she’s got an expert handler coming round to give a demonstration. He’ll carefully take out her 38 bees and soon have them flying round his head”
“Samantha has to nip off to the National Opera, where she’s been giving private tuition to the singers. Having seen what she did to the baritone, the director is keen to see what she might do for a tenor”
“Samantha has to nip off to a Welsh Conservative Association dinner for their most senior MP, whose name is said to be almost impossible to pronounce. She’s certainly found the longest standing Welsh member a bit of a mouthful”
“Samantha has to go now as she’s off to meet her Italian gentleman friend who’s taking her out for an ice-cream. She says she likes to spend the evening licking the nuts off a large Neapolitan”
“Samantha does a few chores for an elderly gentleman who lives nearby. She shows him how to use the washing machine and then prunes his fruit trees. Later he’ll hang out his pyjamas as he watches her beaver away up the ladder”
“After tasting the meat pies, Samantha said she liked Mr Dewhurst’s beef in ale; although she preferred his tongue in cider”
WR.
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Raticus Blanc........sums him all up doesn't it?
LOL......Thanks for sharing that with us!
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They are playing an old ISIHAC on Radio 4 some time tomorrow.
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DM 60....
You can hear a classic edition of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue on BBC Radio 4 on Sunday 27 April at 1200 BST. There will also be a special programme in tribute to Humphrey Lyttleton on Wednesday 30 April at 0900 BST.........
DiY
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SSC @ 47, I love that. Are you able to give it an attribution, so that if I quote it I can give genius the credit that it's due?
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One Song to the Tune of Another.
We take a selection of songs and switch the words around between them - it might be help to think of the songs as Grand Prix racing cars and their drivers; all the drivers could easily get out and swap cars in any combination and it wouldn’t matter which car with which driver. You would still have the unrivalled spectacle of grown men dressed in romper suits driving mobile fag packets round in circles for two hours.
But what about Murray Walker? Surely this would not be complete without a constant stream of mistakes made by some incompetent banging on incomprehensibly in the background. At the piano is Colin Sell.
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And Again:
If you think about it, a milk bottle is almost exactly like a song. It is wide at the base but tapers to small diameter opening at the top which is sealed with a foil cap to prevent spillage. But that is not what makes it like a song. No, because the bottle contains milk which is exactly like the words, the milk (or words) may be poured from the bottle (or song) and the bottle can be returned to the milkman to be refilled with different milk (or words) - just like singing one song to the tune of another. But, what about garden birds? Yes there is the danger that as your milk milk sits on the doorstep the foil cap might have holes pecked in it allowing the ingress of contaminant making the milk unpalatable. Sadly things are liable to go sour due to an unwelcome little tit. At the piano is Colin Sell.
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Selkius (62):
I wish I could. I tried to track it back, but it lost its attribution before it got to me.
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Someone (Humph L ?) ensured that one song to the tune of another more-or-less fitted. As a failed musician (and therefore a scientist), "Abide with me" does not fit with "The Lord's my Shepheard". Try it. 2 1/2 lines of Abide before you get to the end of the first line of Lord's. Sadly, I have recent experience in this.
Which is not to say he would approve, just of looking down at Colin Sell trying his best... without a word.. {I enjoyed the "pick up song" when Colin had to pick up Rack IV}.
For some reason, the Weds programme on HL is by non other than former Chancellor of the E. Ken Clarke. That goes against HL's politics, for a start...
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Ah, Deepthought - but Ken is a jazz officianado, and had an excellent series on R4 recently talking about the development of jazz. I'm sure there'll be other tribute programmes, to reflect Humph's many talents.
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Deepthought @ 66, I am not quite convinced: the first s-t-t-o-a today pushed that almost beyond its limits, didn't it?
The church choir today rather enjoyed themselves deciding *which* tune for 'The Lord's My Shepherd' they ought to try; I think that would have amused Humph L.
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Well the last 1/2 hour of R4 has left my ribs aching.......bye.... Humph with 'n L
Diy
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ahhhhh peeps!!! Thank goodness you are all here!!! Each and Every One!!!
"OK now we're going to play a round called One Song To The Tune Of Another, but don't worry teams, despite the title this really couldn't be much simpler. Our first requirement for this is lots of songs, and we find these by popping along to the nearest record library. Now I should explain when I say 'record library', I don't mean a library that's 'a record' in that it's, say, the smallest or largest in the world. The smallest would be no good anyway, because presumably it has very little in it, and the largest library in the world is in Sao Paulo, so that's out under the 'nearest' rule. That is unless, of course, you happen to live in Sao Paulo, in which case it could be on your doorstep. Who knows, you might even work at the library and already play this game in the staff room during your break, in which case it could hardly be nearer. In passing, may I also congratulate you on your command of English language songs. Now I can guess what you're about to ask teams, as per usual you're thinking: "Where are we going to find a bilingual Brazilian librarian in Guildford at this time of night?" Well we don't have to, because anyone can play One Song to the Tune of Another - you really don't need to be a musical genius, and to prove the point all too graphically, we have Colin Sell at the piano..."
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Last summer doughnuts were widely available at British resorts at 5 for £1.
Early indications, on the East Coast and in Wales, suggest prices of 4 for £1 already, and that well before the summer season and before the full impact of rising sugar, grain and fuel costs.
This can only be a source of great worry to us all here at the Beach (avian division).
At these prices some of us who have lived happily for many years as doughnut beggars and thieves may be forced back to the depressing life of shore line patrol scavengers or even, perish the thought, as sea fishers. (We have been warned that life at city refuse dumps has become so crowded its strictly wing tip to wing tip there already).
We therefore ask that Beachers still buy their usual quantities this year. After all 20 is still only a fiver. THEN, and only then, think about the waist line and please give generously. Ground level, cafe table or airborne gifts are all equally acceptable and as my old mother used to say, 'A little bit of sand in your nuts never hurt anybody'.
Yours sincerely,
A. C. Gull.
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Dear Mr A c Gull, 1...........2.............3..........and hup we go......well caught!
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Ratty... I have tears of mirth running down my cheeks. Oh, what a miss dear Humph L is going to be!
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I enjoyed hearing Humph with Willie Rushton. I thought the singing in the style of Chas n Dave was particularly good. Miss them both. (No, not Chas n Dave - Humph n Willie!)
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Me, too, I enjoyed the Humph tribute, and hearing Willie Rushton again.
The Lord's my shep
Herd, I-I-I'll not want
He makes me do-ow-own
Dow-ow-own to lie
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Sorry. One too many ows in line 4.
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Quick wave to regulars before I drift off into the shallow end of the swimming pool ...... glug glug glug.
See you soon!
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Missed the classic episode. It'll have to be on my listen again list. Mr Littleton will be sadly missed.
ANyhow there is some Bread and Butter pudding on the bar.
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Morning all froggers. I see someone's been throwing doughnuts around the beach. And not just *any* doughnuts either. The bag proclaims that they came from Krispy Kreme, no less, so I hope our avian friends appreciated them.
Now, I've made coffee and tea for the hot beverage crowd, and there are carafes of different juices on the bar for the cold drinks mob. I'm off in a pedalo to the pastry stall on the next island over, so who wants what?
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Get me a few Viennese Fingers Fred!
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Ta, Ffred - I'll have a maple and pecan Danish, please ;o)
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Gillianian, TIH, your goodies are on the bar. I've also got a platter of assorted danish and french pastries for anyone to nibble on...
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I'll have a nibble Fearless :-)
Mind your fingers everyone, especially the Austrians among us -- that Horse is on the rampage again...
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Is he getting a bit lippy?
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Ah, but what *shade* of lippy?
:p
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Deep (66);
HL and Clarke may not have seen eye-to-eye on their respective political leanings. Thankfully friendships between man and man are not dependent on ones political viewpoint.
HL was one of our foremost jazzmen. Clarke is a serious aficianado of jazz, having been asked to present an entire series about the genre on BBC radio a while back. Apparently it goes with the Hush Puppies?
It IS possible to find a common meeting place with people whom one would not otherwise associate with, for whatever reason. The ability to transcend otherwise serious differences for the sake of that which unites us is surely a mark of civilised society?
I did not share a political view with HL, but my love for ISIHAC was unstinted and I thought the man a genius.
WR.
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I'm sure Horsey has a lip tattoo, since he's a pure thoroughbred. ;o)
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My lips are sealed!
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Horsey - your lips are sealed? You want to get your money back from that tattooist, mate. You were robbed! Unless it's some sort of extreme diet, of course. Are you living on liquidised oats for a few weeks to try & shed the pounds?
WR - "It IS possible to find a common meeting place with people whom one would not otherwise associate with, for whatever reason."
You are so right, my friend. That would be this blog, surely?
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Annasee (89) - ennemm mm nrrhh hmm mmrrrn nnnehhh!
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Frances O 84,
Fra Lippo Lippi?
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Sorry Horsey, I didn't quite get that. Something about an enema?
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Well, I was trying to tie it in with the 'Austrian' reference, hence horse - Austria - Lippizaner [sp?],
and then I thought - the only Austrian story I can think of at the moment is too horrific for jokes (for me, anyway; there will be jokes, of course) and I sort of let it go...
but I think an occasional gee-gee, wearing a fetching shade of lippy and an enigmatic smile, might attract not just Fra Lippo Lippi but other Italian painters.
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Various
Yes, I know, opposites in political views can get along famously - I almost proposed to someone of my almost exact political opposite. And it was not politics that stopped me. But was just commenting that a leftish-leaning "toff" (Humph) was having his memorial programme hosted by a right-ish leaning "prol" (Ken Clarke), perhaps I should have explained that a little more in the previous post.
Anyway, difficult day in RL, so feeling silly.
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Whoops!
Silly's just stormed off in a huff.
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Even-ning!!!
Ahhh, ha!!! (did you guess?)
(It is I, in disguise!!!) - (good, innit?!!!)
I feel a song (or two) coming on:
"Night-time sharpens,
heightens each sensation
Darkness stirs and
wakes imagination
Silently the senses
abandon thier defences..."
"..thunderbolt and lightning-
very very frightening-
me!-Galileo,Galileo,
Galileo Galileo
Galileo figaro-Magnifico-"
"I never made promises lightly
And there have been some that I've broken
But I swear in the days still left
We'll walk in fields of gold"
dmmmm de daaaa di dum
diddle di dum
dee doo
bop a loo bop...
n-n
xx
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Hmm, DeepJohn (95), Does that mean you're feeling grumpy now?
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... and what did become of Podgy Chess?
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Sid (98) - He's now working as a DJ in Ibiza under the name of Could-Lose-a-Few-Pounds Scrabble.
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Aperitif (97),
You well know that there is a restraining order concerning Grumpy.
I'm not allowed to feel Grumpy at any time.
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Welcome to beach 101 ...
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So what's your greatest fear, or pet hate, Sid?
I 'm afraid of thunderstorms - particularly when I'm outdoors. Thank goodness it's nothing but blue skies here ;o)
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Gillianian - How's your boiler?
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Sid (101),
I thought you were referring to a taught course in the American college sence, such as "English 101". What does "Beach studies" entail...
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Intermittent Horse - boiling nicely at the moment, thank you ;o)
It needs a new fan, and some leak-sealant, which is a bit of a desperate measure as we have an invisible leak! The best news is that I only have to pay one call-out charge, even though the invoice for the last call-out (11 days ago) had already been prepared.
Anyway, who needs central heating when we're glad of the on-shore breeze and a tepid shower?!
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Gillianian 102,
I hate people who have pet hates.
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I'm not very fond of the (other person's) pet that bit me recently. But hate is a bit strong.
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hi folks!
101 Sid - i was going to say "immoderation" but praps I'd better write 'moderation' seeing as I'm here...!!
n-n
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Gillianian (102),
I spent much of today at mother's trying to fix a leak in her hot water system with "gunge". Drained the entire system, even got the gunge to stick, but not yet sure it's leak tight (as opposed to not leaking as badly as it did). May take a day or so before I'm sure. As someone who professionally has to find leaks, this was back-to-basics. I will be around that area on Thursday, so will find out then...
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Hello. Anyone need a double scotch!
Picked up sis this morning - with kids - to visit Mum. Mum is nearly 80 and didn't know that the two neices where also arriving! - all great fun :-( -- I'm told! - My sisters idea of a joke!
On Monday a guest booked in who's satyed with us once before. I obviously trusted him - so didn't ask for cash in advance. Gave him a double room as business is slow - and guess what! - he asked for two nights - enjoyed a hearty breakfast - made use of all the facilities - and walked out, leaving the key in the room and didn't pay a penny!
Police aren't interested telling us that it's not a criminal offence as we shouldn't take anyone in without paying in advance! - they say it is probably him being abesent minded.
I'm wondering how Asda and Tesco's would accept that!
Off to bed - but unfortunately it leaves me wondering who you can trust these days?
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Morning all, apologies for recent absence RL rather hectic. We hope that today an agreement will be reached with the Arts Council whereby they will agree not to reclaim their grant until the theatre is liquidated. Since we don't intent to be liquidated, this should clear the way to build a rescue package and re-open the theatre. Of course it's now much harder to persuade anyone to lend us the money, but what the heck. Fingers crossed all round.
Meanwhile enough of that - do have some of these mini doughnuts (jam or iced) and some builders strength tea, or Java if you prefer.
Jonnie 110 - aren't some people dreadful. But I'd rather have a trusting person like you anyday than have everyone cynical and untrusting.
Frugs to all
A.
xxx
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Doughnuts!!! Jammy ones please. Yummy. And Java too. I've just remembered why the beach is such a good place to visit mid-morning.
Jonnie - that sounds rough. It may comfort you to know though, that most people are trusting like you. There's nothing quite like that sinking feeling when you know your trust has been abused. I hope he has a sudden crisis of conscience and sends you a big fat cheque in the post ;)
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Rather a 'bitter-sweet' feeling listening to 'Humph' this morning.
O.K- I know it's silly to shed a tear for someone you don't actually know. But I couldn't help it.
Gosh- he will be missed. I hope 'they' decide to put Clue to bed now.
Think I'll jjust listen to Bad Penny Blues one more time...
Mollyxx
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Yep, jammy for me as well!
In RL, in a fit of unnatural generosity, I treated everybody in the office to a pastry this morning. I told they young chap doing the 'bun-run' that he MUST bring me back a Viennese Finger. I had to describe what it was. When he came back he told me that the guy in the bakery told him that no-one had asked for one of those by name in 10 years. I don't half feel old!
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Ooh I'll have an iced doughnut please, and a nice cup of builders tea (minus the sugar!).
Continued best wishes in your mission Anne - it sounds like positive progress, really hope you find a financial backer soon.
Jonnie, hope you feeling better today - it is so sad how the few dishonest ones out there make you cynical and lose faith, in the words of JBJ, keep the faith!. Most of us are honest.
Horse, a Vienesse Finger - gosh haven't had one of them in years either.
right back to it RL is calling
Fi xx
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Horsey (114) But did you get one, or are they obsolete?
My mother is causing confusion at the butcher's, asking for ''bellydraft''.
Anne - Fingers crossed ;o) Thanks for the doughnut - I'm going to try eating mine without licking my lips.
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Gillianian (116) - Pssttt! - don't tell anyone - I got two!
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Gillianian (116), terms for bits of animal seem to vary a lot from one part of the country to another, and of course for those brought up just buying it pre-packed at the supermarket no need to learn what it's called at all.
My English mother wasn't half confused in the late 1940's on arriving in Scotland newly married to my Scottish father. So many of the joints went by different names.
But the worst one I heard was another English lass who bought bridies and served them up with custard thinking they were apple turnovers. (For the uninitiated they are meat pasties in puff pasty.)
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TIH (117) You got two fingers? Was it something you said?!?
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Not sure If I want fingering by the viennese. I had better head off to the naughty corner.
Thinking double entendres we need to start persuadeing the powers that be that a certain presenter with a dry sense of humour and has a popular blog could be a substitute for the late and great Humphrey Littleton.
Now Jonnie regards none payment. I had a old dear cancel a cheque after buying some specs. She lost her cheque book and muggins here was the last cheque wrote. She can't understand I am not allowed to represent the orignal cheque and has yet to bring her cheque book into the practice. She has been in three times since the episode. There is a limit to my patience but its worth sending the errant guest a bill.
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Speaking of fingers, that reminds me of a time when Humph L was telling us all about how Samantha had got a bit part in The Bill as a minor criminal. He said she was really looking forward to getting fingered by the fuzz....
Okay, okay, I'm off to the naughty step!
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Fearless, could you make a bit of room for me?
Samantha nipped out to the gramaphone archive earlier, and as the eager assistants down there suspected she might be a country music lover, they got out every Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson record available: well in my experience she's always been a big fan of Willie's and now she's got to work her way through a complete box set of Johnny's.
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It's been a disappointing day in Real Life April for me, too, but if there are any doughnuts left, one of those might perk me up - ahhhh, sugar. I fancy a yum-yum, which is a twisty doughnut stick thing also known I believe, as a kruller [sp?]
jonnie, if you've got any pix of Mr Nasty, you could bung him up on yootoob, or something, and either warn other people off or shame him. Well, you never know...
Unfortunately, as time has gone on I'ver had to become less trusting than I'd like to be, and still get angry when people I care about get ripped off.
I suppose it's bad karma to hope that what goes round comes round?
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What ho froggers!
Uueggghhh! RL has been a real "challenge" (as those of a management spherical objects speak would put it - or a *^%$%%*^ pain in the !"£$**~## as real people would say). I'm calling a one day Beach Strike for next week some time. I shall refuse to do anything other than be on the Beach, drink drinks with little umbrellas in and lounge in a hammock with one of my legs dangling over the side.
Still, could be worse... Mmmm, doughnuts! Just remember folks the sage words of Homer J Simpson: "This donut [he's American] has purple in the middle, purple is a fruit." Hence I can justify this doughnut as counting towards my five fruit and veg a day!
Samantha tells me she has to nip out now to see her new gentleman friend. He's a keen ornithologist and has been taking her out bird watching. They've already uncovered a couple of tits and Samantha says she's hoping to see a woodcock later.
Fare thee well Humph, the World is a slightly colder place without you...
;o) []
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What a day! Someone pour me a large drink of something - I really don't mind what. A foot massage would be good too. Followed by an everything else massage and another drink. This warm sun is welcome, isn't it? I'd almost forgotten what it was like ... ahhhh, that's better ...
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I hear Samantha's been having trouble with her knees. She went to the doctor and he says there's definitely something wrong with them - but knees apart she's great.
Budge up on the naughty step.
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Well, after a day lost in the PM ether, I'm nipping in for a quick whistle-wetter before bed.
Isn't it comfy to hear the wind and/or rain when you're all tucked up and warm?
One of the joys of the shipping forecast, but I hope to be fast asleep before then tonight.
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Hmm Almost Elevenses, and the beach appears deserted. Oh no, my mistake, there's llots of bowls of trifle, jelly, stewed apple & custard lying around. It's desserted...
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Fearless - Have you no shame? That is dreadful punning!
btw - I wouldn't go down to the south end of the beach. It looks like a lot of soldiers escaping the various middle east conflicts have set up a camp there. Yep, the whole area is desertered.
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Is that a punnet of strawberries Ffred?
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Wonder what the collective for a lots of puns is?
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Anne P - I think that it is a quip of puns.
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A quiff of buns - a new kind of hairstyle
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A quaff of tuns - a heavy night of drinking...
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Oh but Horse! The South is my favuorite part!! :-(
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A quad of runs - reaching the cricket boudary.
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Ap (135) - Ah, the memories!
South of the border, down Mexico way
That's where I fell in love, where the stars above came out to play.
And now as I wander my thoughts ever stray
South of the border, down Mexico way.
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A quad of nuns - they hunt in packs... ;o) []
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I'm afraid of nuns.
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You think you have problems, Appy (139)? One of my co-workers five year old son wants to be a nun when he grows up! They think that he got the idea from the film "The Sound of Music". Those auditions on the Beeb a couple of months ago did not help.
H.
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He is clearly posessed, Humph: Keep away to avoid danger of suffocation! (Wise words from plastic wrapping.)
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Yipeeeeeeeeeee..........an internet connection!
Lo, though I was banished to the no internet wilderness I am risen!
'Tis Diy, working in Woodstock and staying in Oxford......don't want to worry anyone but some muppet has parked his Mini car on top of an office block that over looks the 'Lenny Henry' B&B I am staying in!
Driving must be quite a new concept round here......every morning and evening they all come out and park up on 'THE RING ROAD'. A strange custom but what the heck, diff' strokes for diff' folks!
Anyhoo, to celebrate Thursday I will be serving your favourite tipples at NC's clad in my new pair of Jewel encrusted Speedos.
BTW, good news, Jolly Jack Tar has at last found the UXB............crickey what a bang that was.
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Aperitif 139.....yeah, me too.
With their 'Dark' habits and the beads and a chantin'. Wouldn't want to meet one on a dark stormy night!
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In the spirit of Humph with an L........
Currently I am watching News 24 and a lady cleaning a keyboard, next she will be 'doing' the mouse. Perhaps she would like to give my joystick a good waxing?
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DIY (142), There's no way I'm drinking anything out of your Speedoes, jewel-encrusted or not!
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