The Beach.
The PM Blog Beach is whatever you want it to be - a place to hang out with other bloggers, and be completely off topic.
Over time it has developed its own identity, complete with camels, sand dunes, and a permanently stocked bar, but fundamentally it is a place to relax and have fun.
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Ah, a fresh beach :-) I'll set up the coffee and tea on the bar...
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Hi Fred, Hi froggers,
A quick wave before we set off to the Land of the Leeks for a long weekend.
Hope you all have a great time - I'll think of the Beach while in Wales. It's a working weekend, so I'm looking forward to Tuesday to relax a bit with you all here.
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Coffee! Large one please FF. Budget meeting today in RL and I am under prepared........
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Here you go, UtT :-)
It's far too early for any alcohol, unfortunately, as I'd love to pop a champagne cork to celebrate the following news:
http://tinyurl.com/4mszu2
As regular froggers will know, this is a subject close to my heart...
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Oh [blushes] that Beach intro is, I think, my very own. I shall bask in the reflected sunlight as we drive off today!
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Big Sister (2):
I thought for a moment that you were off to Poland, what with all their plumbers allegedly being over here...
I've just repotted the tomato plants and dug up some misplaced ferns. (Not Fifi's misplaced mobile fern though.)
I'm just listening to Today talking about Scotland's greatest poet; William Topaz McGonagall. I think he should have written a poem to The Beach...
Oh most beautiful Beach of the programme PM,
Where the Froggers congregate even though you can't see them,
With camels and surf and castles of sand,
As a refuge from woes and seriousness it was planned,
With a bar in memory of a presenter most grand,
And imag'nery sun to get most safely tanned,
Renewed by our host, most every Friday,
Visitor, relax and enjoy, and please keep it tidy.
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Ffred, that's great news. I do hope it becomes available asap. xx
SSC - brilliant! I was thinking exactly the same thing, but it would have taken me all day, and my result wouldn't have been worth the effort!
I'm off to make furry cat masks - help yourselves to sausage sandwiches ;o)
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Well good morning everyone,
It's actually not too bad in this neck of the woods. Now I was chatting to Humph and Fifi last night and we thought it about time we added another track to the Froggers album? Humph has some fabulous lyrics I gather - and hopefully we can publish them here and see if Fifi can come up with a tune?
Crissants left on the NCB :-)
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For anyone wondering -- Crissants are well done Croissants !
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I can see the blinking harbour lights from 'ere.
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Well, Gladys, close the blinking curtains, then!
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I just know I'm going to regret asking this . . but, here goes. . .
Gillianian (7) - Why are you off to make furry cat masks ?
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SSC. Good facsimile of the great man. Maybe Eric will read it on air.
FF. I have the same interest so its good news about ustekinumab. What a name!
Any Croissants left?
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Paramedicsteve
Myfirst attempt at posting might have been a bit long.
So here is my shortened version.
As a Serving NHS Paramedic of 36 Years, I had noticed a massive increase in the number of 11 to 13 year olds I was treating in my Ambulance who were unconscious due to Alcohol, after a 12 year old was abandoned by his so called friends, I set uo the Don't Walk Away and Leave a Friend to DIE campaign this is a free to good home package backed by The Home Office and Dept of Health to access it type into any search engine Alcohol, Young People and you will be able to find the campaign.
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jonnie 9,
And pissants are small ants.
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The flaky crumbs from those crissants get everywhere! Anyone got a napkin?
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Ha ha -- I thought you'd made that up David! - but I see you are right.
UTT - alas no napkins - just take a skinny dip - I promise not to look.
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Skinny dip? Hardly! The scales definitely grunted this morning under the weight of 197lbs of lard!
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Who'd like a quick game of Mornington Croissant? I think Eddie's got a copy of the rules in his Walnut whatnot.
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He keeps walnuts in his whatnot???
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Paramedicsteve (14) - Nothing at all wrong with the length of your first posting. You first posted at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2008/05/alcohol_thursdays_report.shtml#comments
where it rightly belongs. I admire your work.
This Beach place is for idiots like us to drone on about anything and nothing and generally entertain ourselves. Want a coffee?
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Morning peeps, back to work in RL, getting ready to invade Diss at the weekend!
jonnie, just love thy crissants!
Big Sis, Land of the Leeks....are you going round to Deepthoughts Mum's house to help with the plumbing?
Gillianianianian.....LOL..'furry cat masks' are there so many non-furry cats in your area that you have to define the style of mask?
Gladys, sort yer curtains ol' gal cos you have left the landing light on again and air traffic control are not amused.
Elevenses now being served at NC's.....
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DIY - elevenses, yes please. Full of aches and feeling smugly virtuous after an early morning stint on the allotment.
Horse, don't know about whatnots, but a walnut whip wouldn't go amiss - ah those were the days.
Ffred and others - great news.
SSCat - brilliant!
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I have to say that masks for furry cats sounds like they are all going to a fancy dress party.
I wonder what masks they will be...
Gordon the goofer
George Double Ya
Her Maj
Filleep
Hope they all have a nice time,
And on the subject of cats...
Why don't they make mouse flavoured cat food?
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Who'd like a chocolate?
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I know it's nearly lunchtime, but I will have a coffee if there's any going, and I;ve brought down some giant chewy chocolate chip cookies to share.
FFred and others - excellent news. I really hope it helps.
And Anne (23) I love walnut whips. Perhaps we could hunt some down for the weekend?
Right. Off for a brisk swim - I ate several cookies on my way over the dunes. If you follow the trail of cookie crumbs back, you'll be able to see where I've come from!
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Located a box of Walnut Whips - currently on the NC Bar. BUT - only one each!!
Is it just me or is Dwain Chambers 404ing the blog?
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Horse, it's not just you - is 404 a new kind of performance non-enhancing thingy ?
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Yes TIH - Dwain seems to be 'ducking and diving'
;¬)
You can stil get walnut whips in M**ks & Sp***s you know!
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Still
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And if you try going back to Wednesday and navigating forward you get lovely purple flowers and no 'next' button. A whole section of the blog now in limbo? Perhaps that's why maintenance is due.
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Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm...........walnut whip........god, how that rolls back the years!
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Now here's a thought...
If all the cars in the country were painted pink...
Would we be a pink carnation?
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Whatever that chap Chambers took must have been powerful stuff. He's corrupted half the blog!
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mgl, you really really need to get out a bit more!
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Eddie, the ... erm.... poem in SSC's post #6 ought to be a Beach intro!
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Are walnut whips performance enhancing?
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S (35) watch this space! I'm off for a paddle before our 1430 editorial...
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Oh1 - a paddle. I first read it as a paddie, Eddie. Thought you were going to have a strop about the blog misbehaving.......
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Sort of nearly early tea time, ish - so have decided to order friday flapjack platters (FFP's): I've got them in by the hundred weight, it just seemed, you know, easier that way...
So, over *here* are plain honey ones, and over *there* are ones with currents but no cherries; at the back *thereish* are mixed fruit and nut, and waaaaaaay over *there* are the chocolate covered ones....hang on....here comes another lot...
<gosh>
hmmmmm.
well, tuck in!!!!
n-n
xx
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In my last relationship I got pretty badly burnt...she was a pyromaniac.
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Oh, n-n has not been decimalised, long live imperial measures!
So I will nip over to the chocolate ones, they are about a couple of chains away, grab a stone of them and a quart of tea then will make my way couple of furlongs up the Beach to that area of nice clean sand that is about a virgate in size, should be plenty of room there for me to have a nibble and a nap!
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Joe (40) - In my short teaching career, I once asked a boy why he hadn't been at school the previous day.
"Please Sir, my Dad got burnt yesterday."
"I hope it wasn't too serious", I said.
He replied, "Well, they don't muck about up at that crematorium"
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Cooooeeeee Eddie Agneau pie...
Don't start me off on magazines. These days I only buy the odd one, I'm sick and tired of the spite and bitchiness that accompanies fashion mags these days.
The fashion industry has always been bitchy and ruthless but these days it seems to me they've slumped to a whole new level and frankly, it disgusts me and makes me rather elated I've left it all behind.
I was discussing just this with my lovely bessie mate only last week and she said I should create my own. It will contain only pictures with captions of lovely people, men, women, kids, hey even dogs, cats, ferrets, all shapes and sizes, every colour and age, but the only criteria is that they are real and interesting. I do believe we dress, consciously or otherwise, in a way which expresses our personalities and it's fascinating to observe. Hence my life-long interest in fashion. People on the street are far more interesting than fashion mags.
Eddie lemony puddin' - I'm not meaning stick-insects dressed in designer gear and carrying handbags the size of a sumo wrestler. I mean lovely people in our midst every day. I met a gorgeous one today in a wheelchair who made me laugh like I haven't done for ages; I can't tell you what about but it involved Jaysus and Midnight Mass. He was fab.
Also a woman with 6 kids round her who turned out to be her foster kids. She made me fill up, what a heroine. Thank God for people like these, who bloody cares about Paris Hilton's cellulite or Jordan's boobs. And the rest of yous for that matter. Go watch Gok and be thankful yous is glorious.
Ere listen to me. I'll be in the bath later on, starin' at the humungous spot right on the end of me nose and thinkin' I'm a minger.
LMP.xxxx
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Oooh! There's a walnut whip left on the bar. May I??
Is it too early in the day to introduce the subject of how you eat a wlanut whip? I think it's very similar to how you eat a creme egg. Personally, I bite off the top and then lick out all the insides first . .
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jonnie 17,
I heard of pissants when I was a kid in Pennsylvania.
Philosopher's Song
(Monty Python)
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable.
etc....
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Froggersfroat 36...
"Are walnut whips performance enhancing?"
Pass, I have never tried one when taking the V*agra!
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DiY (46).... purely in the interest of research I have just tried a walnut whip combined with one of the little blue jobbies, up behind the big sand dune, and they do seem bigger than when I wos a lad.... would be interested to hear if Perky(44) had same experience having tried the nordic vesion, the wlanut whip?
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David McN
"Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozie beggar who could drink you under the table...."
and what was the bit about Hume?
"David Hume could out-consume Schopenhauer or Hegel"....
the University of Wolleramoo or something
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or even the nordic version... fingers have swollen!
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UtT 48,
I have the whole thing on tape.....somewhere.
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Selkius & Eddie (35 & 37):
In the words of Sgt. Wilson, "Are you sure that's wise?"
Eddie, did you find a paddle? I'd hate to think you were creeking without one...
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Froggersfroat 49
LOL..just how many walnut whips and blue pills did you pop?
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DiY... have taken all of the blue ones... only have the red, green,orange and yellow ones left....the people @ Sm*rties think I will be ok... but I seem to have won the beach volleyball @ the 2112 Olympics!
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And, there is Oscar Pistorius.
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Froggersfroat.....
...so, the blue S@rties are actually Vi@gra, well thats going to surprise a few parents!
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Re jonnie (8) I posted this on the Frog about 9 months ago:
If we are looking for another song, one that we can use without worrying about copyright issues on the melody, how about this one? The tune is for the song “When a felon’s not engaged in his employment” from The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan.
When the PM programme isn’t being broadcast
[Being broadcast]
When you find it hard to use Listen Again
['sen again]
There’s an interactive place to go to, at last
[go to, at last]
It is bbc co uk blogs PM
[blogs PM]
There’s the Furrowed Brow where you set the agenda
[the agenda]
Or the Glass Box where you comment on the show
[on the show]
There’s the Beach for fun, but don’t be an offender
[an offender]
With other topics posted as you go
[Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]
To discuss items with those who like the show,
Don’t you know,
That the PM blog is just the place to go
Place to go
I think that it needs a second verse and I doubt, with current work commitments, that I would have time to work on it this side of September. That is an invitation to the rest of you if you want to do something. My original song for the Frog (New Jerusalem) is now so out of date that it does not deserve to be revived.
H.
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testing frog, testing frog (just wondering if it remembers me!!)
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Ah ha, it does. Goodo. Well, hello everyone.
I've brought some assorted bottles of wine and some nibbles for everyone. Dig in do!
Izz x
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Hmm - I just got booted off camstreams. Sorry FF.
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Hi Izzy!
Mollyxx
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I think it's great Humph!
I'll have a go at digging up the music over the weekend!
TIH -- sorry about that?
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Evening all. Sounds to much like Dixon. Who wants a nightcap? Lots of blue ones spare DIY.
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TIH-
Well, at least you got there. I never manage to negotiate the way. Must be doing something wrong. ;-(
Mollyxx
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Hi Izzy - thanks for the wine.
Please be careful where you dig - whether it's for Izzy's nibbles or jonnie's music. I agree it was careless of Sid to bury everything under his sand sculptures, but it would be a pity to destroy them after all his efforts with the JCB.
Maybe we could dig a tunnel underneath them, though.....?
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I think its jonnie(dot)camstreams(dot)com
Unless this gets modded. My browsers throwing up a message that I need to update my flash thingy though. (don't worry I'll put the speedos on first)
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Stewarts right - though it has http colon two forward slashes in front of it.
Night all xx
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Sid, while vaguely listening to Gardeners' Question time the other day, I heard one of the panel say that sprouts should be well trodden in, nice and firm, or words to that effect.
Sacrilege!
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morning frogging peeps and assembled gentry!
coffee, tea and toast with a thick cut orange marmalade available at NC's. wot shall we do today. i did bring a big pile of sticks to throw about but I think Big Sis has taken Monty to Wales!
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drat it, I have just remembered that I am the 'duty dog' today so will be at the beck and call of all sorts of end users. if only i had a a PFY!
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DIY - we could use your sticks for a bonfire later if there are enough of them?
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UtT 48,
In case somebody else didn't put it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_WRFJwGsbY
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Anne P, wot a magic idea and as the 'Beach' pile of sticks is limitless there will be enough for Monty to play with when Big Sis brings him back from Wales.
So we can toast our marshmallows and toes as much as we want when the sun goes down this eve!
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DIW 72,
As long as you eat the marshmallows and not the toes.
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CG will find this interesting; I can get the 14th of May and the 16th, but not the 15th.
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DMCN - Try this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2008/05/yellow_1.shtml
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Well, chaps, I've been 'philosophising' round this here bonfire and toasting my marshmallows all evening!!!
<sings>
"I drink therefore I am"
Right, time to crack open another philoshophy!!!
n-n
xx
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Er - Department of Media, Culture and... News? Naturism? Nasturtiums?
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That was a response to 75, of course.
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Private Eye has (what you refer to as)
Department of Culture, Meedja 'n' Sport
or somesuch.
Heavy day in RL, so will leap into that empty purple hammock, to be warmed by the bonfire should the clouds roll in. Good book by my side, should I need to remain awake, and "Feymann: Electromagnetism" should I need a cure for insomnia.
Madingly the attempts to comment on iPM were hit by wall 502, to the extent I had to put the rant on the Sat PM thread instead.
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Morning, froggers, coffee, tea and croissants at Nick's Bar and sunshine in Real Life! Good start to the day.
Deeps, Eddie's explained about the return of 502 on the iPM thread...
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Fances - My 75 was a response to 74. Sunshine here too. Haven't seen rain in weeks!
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A sunny morning here too - it bucketed down yesterday - personally, I blame Anne P - though I'm sure her allotment was grateful ;o)
I'm hungry again after that ridiculously early breakfast (thanks, Frances O!)
It's time for elevenses - millionaire shortbread, anyone?
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[And a lovely day in progress here too!!! Am getting ready for a birthday party...!!]
right, lunch on the beach - fish, bread and fruit?!
n-n
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Gillianian (82) my allotment would have been VERY grateful had it seen any rain - sadly all that made it this far north was a miserable mizzle. Looks like it's out with the wateringcans and hope the water butts have enough to last. Forecast seem to suggest it will be at least another week before there's any rain here.
What is millionaire's shortbread ? Can I try some please.
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Goodness me Anne - it shows what a difference a few miles make ;o)
Millionaire's shortbread has a layer of caramel spread over the top, and is then covered with a thin layer of chocolate. Yum!!
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Gatzooks!
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Aperitif (86),
I thought the word was "Gazooks"
Anne P(84),
I'd never heard of millionaire's shortbread before, either. However, this leads onto other types of shortbread that have yet to be defined;
I suggest estate-agent shortbread; shortbread topped with hundreds-and-thousands on the top. Looks flash, but nothing to it.
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Holy Smoke!!!!
What do you mean, they smothered the shortbread????!!!
(are we entering comic territory?!)
(and, will we find the way out?!)
(Who dropped all those tiny little chocolate bits, theres loads of them, almost too many to count... I mean, there must be hundreds and thousands of them!!)
(And - is this the cliff hanger ending....?!)
da da DAAAAAAAAA!!!!
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WHo else has seen the PM trailer?
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Me! Twice.
The pictures are better on the radio.
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Oh, forgot to say coffee's ready.
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Morning all! After a hectic w/e withy parents visiting, I can finally get back here to the beach. I bring danish pastries for all and sundry...
TIH (59) I got booted off to, so it wasn't just you...
Appy (86) I always thought it was "gadzooks" myself....
Now, I think I'll just pour myself a cup of java juice to get me chivvied up for the day in RL...
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Oh what a beautiful morning,
Oh what a beautiful day,
I've got a horrible feeling,
The in-laws are coming to stay/
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Frances O - How very dare they! I shall never listen to Gardeners' Question Time again.
On a related topic - we have a squirrel who scampers along our rows of runner bean seedlings pulling them up - in order to get at the remains of the beans. Anybody got a squirrel gun?
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Sid, my daughter's got squirrels in her loft ;o(
She's having an ultra-sonic gizmo fitted at the weekend. I'll let you know if that scares them off.
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I think it's Gadzooks = God's Hooks as
'Zounds was God's Wounds
but I could easily be wrong.
Why don't we have colourful language like that any more?
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Anne P - that's what I was taught, too. And strewth is ''God's truth''.
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Thanks Frances -- I made a fresh pot.
Put some more cream on - you are looking distinctly red :-)
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Gadzooks.
Fine.
*wanders off*
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jonnie! You peeked!
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I thought Gadzooks was God's zooks meaning God's eyes?
Oh well, anyway... ... Bacon butties anyone? I've been living on crisps and packet soup all weekend so I need to ease gently back into eating 'proper' food again!
Humungous pot of decaff tea, as well. Hold out yer mugs.
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Ohhhh, Feefs, I was thinking of bacon butty for lunch... ended up with egg n tomato... so thanks!
yummmmmm
and I'm on the decaf tea, too.
Spooooooooooooky
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TIH 75,
The 15th reappeared.
I can't find him/her, but CG would find it unbelieveable that I had a modded post reinstated. OK, on a thread nobody uses any more, but still....
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Gill 95,
I hope she doesn't have wiring in the loft. Chomp, chomp.
We have bats in our belfry.
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TIH 7,
I found CG on the Dwain Chambers thread. All by him/herself.
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TIH, Add 68 to that.
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There's a giant bowl of delicious (if I do say so myself) chickpea curry on the bar along with another bowl of fluffy rice.
Now, I think I'll just sit myself in the purple hammock and enjoy this pleasantly full feeling.
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Oddsbodikins!
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God's big needles, Selkius! Are you OK?
Now then all... to serious matters. We've got a new lawnmower and SO has done the first (rather shaggy) cut of the season. Once we've done the 2nd, shorter cut... how should I be populating the gazebo?
Plants? Tables? Music? Original watercolours by local artists?
All suggestions gratefully received.
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Fifi - I'll get Mrs Sid to do you a tapestry ...
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Lawks a mussy, here it is mid-morning already and no-one in sight.
Can I tempt anyone to some chocolate brownies and fresh tea or coffee?
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those brownies went down a treat, AnneP!!!
Now, what shall we do for lunch?! I am feeling adventurous............
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nn - adventurous eh? What about eating:
- prawn cocktail whilst abseiling?
- spaghetti carbonara whilst paragliding?
or if you really want to thrill us all:
- bungee jump and eat your tomato soup at the same time!
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thanks, horse!!
fortunately, having just missed your post, I successfully risked a cockaleeky with crampons....
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Good on you, Mr Noodle! I haven't resorted to crampons since I tackled that duck at lunch last Sunday - The North Face of the Eider!
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And .... Intermittent Horse you have just won the pun of the day award!
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Hope that duck didn't give you stomach crampons, gee-gee. Eider loved to join you for a taste...
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n-n - eating noodles while nurdling?
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Frances - If you had arrived on time you could have joined me. Guess you just weren't quack enough!
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Anne P - I can only get worse!
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TIH 120, Horsefeathers.
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TIH 120, You'se supposed to reply Duck Soup.
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Blimey! I had to look back to see what you were all on about -- I thought I HAD said "gadzooks!" Never post even a silly one word post in a hurry eh?
Again, blimey!
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Odd's fish!
Charles II's favourite sweary-word, apparently.
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DMcN (122) - Nah! It would have been Monkey Business!
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Who's for A Night at the Opera then?
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fifi (109) Fridge with chilled Chardonnay or if you prefer red Tarrango. Plus a few chilled beers. Radio, Mobile phone and charger. Oh and a couple of chairs. (lounger type)
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Stewart 127,
Can you be Tarrangoed?
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david, Regularly, and its far more pleasant that that "fizzy oranged flavoured drink"oed.
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Annasee (126) A Night at the Opera, it is!
Otis B. Driftwood: "And now, on with the opera. Let joy be unconfined. Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor."
Otis B. Driftwood: "Don't you know what duplicates are?"
Fiorello: "Sure, those five kids up in Canada."
Mrs. Claypool: "Are you sure you have everything, Otis?"
Otis B. Driftwood: "Well, I haven't had any complaints yet."
Otis B. Driftwood: "Let's go in my room and talk the situation over."
Mrs. Claypool: "What situation?"
Otis B. Driftwood: "Well, er... what situations have you got?"
Mrs. Claypool: "I most certainly will not go to your room."
Otis B. Driftwood: "OK, then I'll stay here. "
Mrs. Claypool: "All right, all right, all right! I'll come, but get out."
Otis B. Driftwood: "Shall we say, uh, ten minutes?"
Mrs. Claypool: "Yes, ten minutes, anything. But go!"
Otis B. Driftwood: "Because if you're not there in ten minutes, I'll be back here in eleven. With squeaky shoes on!"
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good eve frogging fellows and felloweses.
just 'done' a huge chicken fried rice as was expecting guests for dinner only to discover a message on the answer phone...'sorry, having to cancel, will call you tomorrow'.......*sigh*
.......will leave it at NC's with some dark Soy sauce etc, will freeze the rest.
not all doom and gloom though, just got the washing in, and the 'tit nest box' must be full off chicks, as everytime we walk past there are lots of twittering sounds and the parents become rather agitated!
if i get a chance i will photo their departure and mail Tedward Mare
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Fearless F 92, as a 'sundry' I forgot to thank you for the Danish, most enjoyable and accomodating but she had to go home after elevenses, something about bacon packing?
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Re A night at the opera, in the style of the newsletter:
"figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro!!"
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I started making a cassoulet yesterday ... I'm hoping it'll be ready by this evening. Should go well with that Tarrango, if there's any left ...
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nn 133, We have two cats named Figaro in our neighborhood. I'd post a photo, but only 'certain people' are allowed to post photos of cats.
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Sid 134, Make cassoulet? We bring large tins and jars of it home from France.
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David - we don't go often enough to bring back enough jars and tins of the stuff - though we do bring tins of ducks' legs home ...
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Sid, wot happens to the rest of the duck?
I now have this vision of french ducks just bobbing about, unable to paddle anywhere!
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Did Eddie pop onto the Beach before sending today's newsletter?
He's talking about "dial-a-llama", which must surely be a Beach service.
Dial-a-llama, Arrange-an-alpaca...
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David, (135) - yep, that's right, & clearly you're not one of them! Tee hee.
SSC 139 -"Call- a- camel"? "Dial- a- dromedary?"
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Annasee (140),
You are forgetting the other Beach services: "Ring-a-Reindeer" and "Track-a-Turtle" for two.
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and not forgetting Post-a-Pussy
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Worry-a-Worm
Molest-a-Mole
Bar B Q-a-Bunny
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I rather think Appy and I would vote for a Dial-a-Depp service ;o)
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Sid 137, My wife makes cassoulet as well. We also bring back tins of confit.
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annasee 140, Your loss.
Hump-a hippo.
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David (146) - could you photoshop your cats into the glassbox & send them in like that? It might sneak past whoever is impeding your cats' rise to world fame & glory via this blog?
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annasee 147,
If I can figure out the technology, I will cut and paste my cat into the photo and send it. I can do both photos, but the other part defeats me, so far. Ain't got photoshop.
Eat-an-elephant
Diddle-a-dinosaur
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Gag-a-Giraffe.
Pickle-a-Possum.
Distemper-a-Duck.
Whack-a-Wombat.
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Tickle-a-Tapir
Lick-a-Lama
Snuggle-a-Snake
Suck-a-Slug.
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and finally......
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Snog-a-Sheep
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I think that's enough, Ed!
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DIW
Worry-a-weasel
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weasel, stoat and mink.....which is which?
I frequently see long thin brown / black things darting about when walking the quiet green lanes of Norfolk. In fact the bloke I work with actually watched one dragging a dead rabbit 'kit' down the middle of the road outside his house last year! And wasn't the least put off by him walking up and having a closer look!
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DI_Wyman - I really don't know, ducks.
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there's a lovely case of champers in the fridge - what a lovely surprise!!!
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Sid, oohhh, get you, you scally wag!
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Cat (139) Ha ha :-)
Sis (144) I like your thinking!
My favourite joke (as told to me by a certain special someone whose birthday would've been today):
Q. What's the difference between a duck?
A. One of its legs is both the same.
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DIW 153, Fast slugs.
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Goodness me, what a busy Beach today! In about 15 minutes I will be serving Fearless Fred's Fantastic Bird .. a chicken recipe of the utmost simplicity and flavour. How many extra portions should I have made?
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Only me here? Then I'll just have to scoff it all myself!
Result!!!
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* burp *
Oh, excuse me...!
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DIY, I think it is that weasels are bigger than stoats and native while mink are darker and absolutely vicious being accidentally introduced after failed attempts to make a fortune farming them in the fifties and sixties. But I could be wrong - I often am.
Here have a mug of builders tea to start the day.
Finally we've had a reasonable amount of rain so I'm a lot happier. Now I just have to go to the allotment to see if the gales blew the bean poles away.
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Testing!
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