The Beach.
Karen writes:"As requested by Big Sis and Humph this was the best of the 3 Felixstowe photos that I got. The other 2 had an awful lot of rubbish on the photo."
Whether it is a herd of camels wandering by, parties or semi organised beach games and activities there is always something to watch or join in with, so why not come and join us?
Listen to PM
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Just as I was saying that Eddie was a little tardy, here's the new Beach. Tha'll learn me. So, coffee anyone?
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'Morning Fearless. Yes, a very strong one for me, please.
A bad night, a very bad night ....
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Yes please, FF - half a gallon should do the trick ...
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Lovely photo, Karen! Thanks!
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It IS a lovely photo, but I'm sorry.....that's not OUR beach. We need a cloudless blue sky and miles of soft sand ;o)
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I come bearing peace and loveliness. Fabbio has set up his massage table in the diaphanous tulle tent, within the range of the scent of the pine trees and the lavender, and the sound of the waves gently lapping the shore.
The Young Macallan is here to fetch and carry refreshments - at the moment he's preparing chilled melon and pineapple.
All we have to do is lie down, and keep breathing.
Aaaahhhhhh........
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I forgot that I had this sign - might come in handy for this beach...
Honiara, approximately 1969
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In the top left corner, is that a seagull or a UFO,
(no not one of DIY's Unidentified Fried Objects)
[you know one of those things that if you go hacking around to try and find on US gov computers, you get extradited to the USA?]
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But Gillianian (5), it has about as many clouds and as much blue sky as last week's picture. That is a lovely photo, Karen. Thanks from me as well.
H.
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Thanks Gillianian, just what I need, especially the scent of lavender.
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UtT - well that brought me back down to earth! (Nice blog, btw!)
Humph (9) Ah, but there were fairy lights in that pic, and a bar, and the promise of alcohol ;o)
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None of the pics Eddie has put up is of our beach. There are some lovely beaches among the pics but they're not ours. I know exactly what this beach looks like -- I can see it clearly. The best pictures are on the radio (Blog) after all...
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Aperitif - how right you are ;o)
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... but that's the whole point of the Beach - To each her/his own!
Embroider and enjoy.
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My team's biscuit supply has just been topped up - so if you fancy a custard cream, jam'n'custard dodger or a choccy digestive, they're behind the NC bar (as usual).
I'll also stock up on the Pimm's and Chardonnay...
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Looking for something to ponder whilst eating your swede (see last Beach, post 201)?
How about the link below at 3.54 to 3.56 minutes in?
In the background is Skipping Girl, that WAS in the Conservatory in Chiswick Park, forever, until, soon after the Beatles visit, it disappeared.
It has that Canova exquisite look, it's owned by the people of Chiswick and should be there, in the Conservatory, toady, with Ishmael, the other statue, from there, that seems to have gone walkabout (ho, ho).
Where are they, people?
Chiswick wants 'em back
(At http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXOsi6gPvDs">
Sorry, no link, 'cos hte filter is rejecting my HTML)
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Remember the OAP signs thread? I just spotted this on another forum...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KR6RyHJK-Bs
Then, here in the UK, if a road gets in the way of a runway, we either divert it or tunnel underneath. Too much effort for some countries...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lAGPU0FGUx4
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Anyone fancy a rissole? I think I just spotted one.
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Sid 18, Did you see my letter in The Indy today?
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No, D McN, I didn't ... I'll look online. Will that work?
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I think Fred's quote was over-wordy - the one I know is 'That rook's a crow, them crows is rooks'.
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Hey, Anna C!
Isn't it the Beach wot got the Michelin star?
Two now, I should think, after my 201 post on the previous Beach.
The prog. just has Michelin Man, the person who checks out London restaurants on behalf of us all.
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Sid (21) Eh? What did I say?
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Sid 20, Obviously.
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FF 23, Another Fred.
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Thought you'd like the joke!
Him indoors used to complain about not everyone wanting to here about Gillianian getting massaged. Now he's changed.
All he worries about now is dog mess on the Beach
Believe me, he isn't pmL, one, two or pmB.
So I aplogise to the pmL/B nexus for the joke.
If you want to ask him quesies about things I say for him, I'll play Evita.
Tomorrow in Coventry Cathedral frogs sing. Enjoy.
Here's the plea for poor hubby at home (written some time ago).
From Poshmissusmac.
I married macthered1 on Jan 1st. 2008. Clearly, by the time he was banned from the blog my influence on his manners had not been complete.
I think now he is ready to come back to the fold.
He talks approvingly of "comment(s) by White Rat'' of how amusing Big Sister is and says clearly (in an English accent) that Eddie Mair should not be impersonated by anyone.
But there doesn't appear to be an Appeals Procedure. The Moderators refuse to enter into any sort of dialogue and the Communities Team merely reiterate their decision. The ban appears to apply for all time on all BBC blogs.
Is there no test for 'time off for good behaviour', no limit to sentence in time or scope, no way that a defence can be heard? This can't be a question of resources, since BBC Complaints have been in extensive correspondence with Communities Team about the case.
It does seem to me that almost all of his offences are committed regularly by other blog members, apparently without the severe penalty that has been applied to him.
I am no Christine Hamilton (I am posher) nor Mary Archer (I am more beautiful), and I think my husband was clearly in the wrong. However, he has served a month's ban (to every BBC blog including the sports blog, where he used regularly to blather on harmlessly about someone called Lee McConnell). He now knows that the Moderators and the Communities team really mean their warnings, even when other bloggers appear to take them less than seriously. As far as I can make out, he has apologised to everyone concerned mille fois.
He is very forlorn about this, like the 100th sheep. Shouldn't we let him back into the fold? Or must he live out the rest of his life without the sun that the Beach offers, the deep thought lines that composing for the Furrowed Brow occasions, and the clear view on the world that contributing to the Glass Box affords?
I guarantee that my inflence on him has been such that he will now obey the rules absolutely. I shall make doubly sure that he does, and he knows the effects on the Moderators and Communities Team should he fall from (probationary or early release) grace, and he is very well aware of the sanctions l shall apply were he even to consider such a foolhardy step!
I would like to emphasise that his considering other blogs has made him realise, in a different way, how valuable the PM blog is. A part of its rarety is that it is wholly real, not a collection of quotes from the professionals attached to the medium - as some other media blogs appear largely to be.
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Posh 22, Bibendum to you.
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Sid 21, So what were the ones I saw?
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posh 26, Could you repeat that? I was listening to Eddie. That Colin Slee used to be our sub-Dean in St Albans. Wore shorts under his cassock in hot weather, he did. Probably still does at Southwark Cathedral. (Makes no sense if you aren't listening to PM. A bit like pmL's posts.)
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22 and 26.
Forgiven.
Can't speak for pmL2 and pmB, though.
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Rows, D McN. Or possibly crooks.
(Apologies to Fred for confusion by the way. This all stems from D's query about the status of two black birds in the light of the well known folk proverb (?) that one rook is a crow and a group of crows are rooks.)
Let's crack a crate of Shiraz ...
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Sid 31, Nevermore.
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Humph and Big Sis - Pleased to have been of service!
I've been deprived of the PM blog all day - I have been trapped in an HR update training day. I wonder whether I can claim false imprisonment as I was trapped up a corner and unable to escape through the door...
Any coffee on the go?
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You're at it again.
Forgiven, anyway!
Joking missuses like you, I've met before (other people's).
One I knew, spent a YEAR persuading her husband his exhaust gases STANK to high heaven.
Who could he ask?
Eventually, he phoned NHS Direct who were convinced he was potz.
He asked for a divorce, but like you, she decided she couldn't let a good joke go.
No doubt pmL2 and pmB will forgive you too.
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what???!!!
is it me?
Karen, thanks for the felixstowe shot.
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RxKaren - have a mug of this CaféDirect Machu Picchu ... it'll counteract a day's HR stuff in no time!
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Thanks Sid! Much better.
It was such a fluffy day. The faffing around required in the modern working environment. The number of times I got told off for suggesting that the answer to a case study was to sack the employee/manager/HR person...
Key learning point: Apparently we cannot hold "The Apprentice" up as a model of how to recruit and performance manage our teams. I'll have to rethink my entire schedule for Monday now.
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FFred-(1)
"Eddie was a little Tardy"- yes! I know what it means- but it makes me giggle, that word! One of my favourite words ever..
Is that Felixtowe then?I think it looks lovely- calming and pristine.I must have a jaunt there in the Autumn.
Mollyxx
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Eddie was a little Tardis.
No. Perhaps not ;o)
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A small complaint- ''Anon" indeed?
I think not!
Is that all I am?
I shall say no more....
(Actually, on reflection, perhaps I sahould disassociate m'self!!! Pretty awful!)
Blue Mountain and hot croissants anyone-breakfast in the sun today.
Mollyxx
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[ s-t-r-e-t-c-h ]
Note to self: do not plan long train journeys to start morning after excellent acoustic session in pub. Takes too long to come down off the adrenaline 'high' the night before travel.
Where did I put me tickets, now?
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Fifi-
An session in the bub sounds quite enough.Never mind the excellent acoustics.
Bon voyage!
Mollyxx
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bub?
I'm off for the day now- swim, hairworks and dinner out. Not bad, eh?
Byeeeeeeee!
Mollyxx
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morning peeps...just nipped in from here in RL for a coffee, cheers Molly.
Oh well back to the books 'spose.
Oh..BTW, if you havn't put your sprouts on ready for Christmas Lunch, it's not too late. Just remember to boil them a little longer before reducing them to a simmer.
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Not too late? Oh dear, some people are beyond hope ...
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Harwich for the Continent...Felixstowe for the incont..........
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have a nice day Molly, sounds like a good one!! And have a good trip fifi on a train!!
DIW, oh blast, that's what I meant to do. Howsabout if i bung them in the microwave first for, say an hour or two, and then boil 'em up as you suggest?? Then I can leave them on a (high) simmer until maybe, oooo, late christmas eve?
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Molly (38) - Felixstowe is lovely and very accessible but Southwold and Aldeburgh are nicer when the Londoners leave at the end of summer. I have a soft spot for Southwold but that's mostly due to the brewery. Aldeburgh does give a nice view of Sizewell B if that's your thing and I think that's the place with the really good fish and chips.
Most of the beaches here are shingle anyway so sand is in short supply. I quite like Shingle Street but it does have a mysterious past and there's not a lot there. Very quiet and peaceful though. Someone I know went to Dunwich and was quite disappointed that there wasn't more to see. I guess they should have cottoned on to the fact that it is the sunken village...
I'm sure DIY can give a view on the highlight(s) of Norfolk in the name of balance ;o)
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peeps...back in Norfolk now.....WhAT A RUSH, all because I said I would take the SO and off spring out for dinner this eve!
Anyhoo...back to more pertinent matters..
n-n (47) yer pushing yer luck son!
Personally I would forget the microwave in favour for the Presti@e pressure cooker. Bung 'em in that at a max head o steam for a day and you might get away with it. But be careful, as Sid will verify, sprouts pressurised to 45 lbs to a £ inch are quite dangerous.
RxKaren (48).....oi..missus
It's supposed to be a secret, we dunt wunt none of 'em forinners coming up 'ere.
..dunt you lisen ta her she know nuffin.....its orrible, the roads are terrible and petrol (wot ever that be) is 234P a Gill.
As it says on all the road signs as you come into Narfulk....Welcome to Nelsons County....and they be quoite roight too, see'n as there are still some places that dun't hev.
mains electrickery
mains gaz
mains whater
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mains sewarge..
and i ain't just a joshin!
so give us none o yer squit, and ...
...we would thank you to leave us alone so we can move into the 20th century at our own pace.
PS... Try Wales.......much nicer...and you can come home to a real fire!
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..RxKaren ...is that OK?
( whispers personally I love Felixstowe (and not just cos me rich uncle lives there) but for the wonderful pebbles on the beach. I have jars of them!
Southwold and Aldeburgh are fantastic places, both with v v good bookshops (wot oi service), v v good eateries and in the case of Southwold, a cracking brewery.
But if it is sand youse after, head Norf to Sea Palling, Bacton or Wacton! But dunt tel heffery one)
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Wells next the sea is nice. That has sand. And then there is Walsingham where the Anglicans are more Catholic than the Catholics. And there is the home for old organs near there also (DIY Will remind me of its name.).
I seem to remember nice Fish and Chips in Aldburgh.
Tea is a mixed grill. Only normal meats though i.e Lamb and Rump Steak. I have some Shiraz to wash it down with. May have to get the bottle in a glass glass out.
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Ho hum....Weakest Link had a news/weather presenters special. "Our" Martha came 2nd (behind Dermot).
Meanwhile, it's the Welsh Civil War on Last Choir Standing - a Male voice choir (Only Men Aloud) vs a high school (Ysgol Glanaethwy).
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morning peeps...OJ and cereals at NC's for brekkies
Stewart M (51) Thursford!
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DIY, Yep that's the place! Great fun!
I'm about to play the Tooth Fairy game. Anyone want to join in?
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'as Sid will verify, sprouts pressurised to 45 lbs to a sq inch are quite dangerous.'
I will indeed verify. There can be few sprout handlers who have not heard of (and indeed learnt from) the spectacular results of my foolhardy attempt to pressure cook no fewer than three cookersful of sprouts at once, at pressures up to 50 lbs psi (if not more). It all happened one spring evening (never to early to get your Christmas sprouts on, I say) when ...
... oops, sorry - I think I just sent myself to sleep. Where did I get to? Give me a large glass of something and I'll carry on ...
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Stewart - I'll join in. Unless it's that game where I have to get on my hands and knees and ... well, you know ...
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Sid, It did involve hands and Knees, And then I had to play the "pop to the shops game".
Kids now asleep after not settling. School tomorrow. Sorry teachers you get mine back tomorrow!
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my goodness, Sid, if my timing is right, that story has been going for five hours, so far, without interruption!!!
So, here, take a large glass, and sit yourself down!! As we've only got up to the Great Sprout Conspiracy of June 13th, I think we can all agree we are looking forward to another (long) afternoon of Sprout Based Narrative Events!!
Meanwhilst. A toast!! Please raise your tinnies, glasses, mugs, or cups to "Sid!" runner-up, best kept village 1984, official Sprout Steward, first class.
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(sniggers!!!!)
n-n
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... and it turned out that the so-called Sprout Champion from the next village had been cheating all along. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I persuaded our secretary to convene an extraordinary meeting, to be held within the requisite fifteen days. And you'll never guess who turned up! Just as the meeting was about to close due to its being inquorate, ...
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Sprout Angels, how can we help you?
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Did anyone see 'Fiona's story' last night?
I have to say that I thought it very good, even if there were aspects which struck me as improbable (though I'm no expert, to be sure! - just I felt my credulity being stretched somewhat). But, like any good drama, it left me wondering how the family would deal with things once the children were old enough to expect answers to their questions.
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Sid (60) - Was it a man with a canoe?
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TIH - strangely enough, it was a man without a canoe - which is of course what first aroused my suspicions.
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ahh, the old man with a canoe but without a canoe trick. How dastardly is that?
I trust you gave him very short shrift.
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Blimey, make way for me! I need a lie down.
Please don't wake me
Oh don't shake me
Leave me where I am
I just spent the last hour thinking Eddie Mair was talking about Holst when he was talking about Gustave
I should get an encyclopedia. Is there one on line I could use?
Off to L*dls for Swede. Not the Gustave kind.
Then the sleep of forgetfulness. Y'know, when you've made a twit of yourself? You don't? There. it works.
The only twits around are those who haven't slept since they twitted themselves.
Wanna check my Ficker site?
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A large glass of 'whatever he fancies' for David McN to soothe his battered feelings.
And I'll join you, if I may, with a large Dark and Stormy.
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RxKaren (48)
Just googled Shingle Street. Amazing lot of information on it's past there. Ripe for a documentary, I'd think.
Thanks for all the bits on Norfolk-DiY and Stewart too- is definitely on our list of places to see.
Sorry, Diy- you'll just have to learn to share....
Mollyxx
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ps Or is it Suffolk?
Mxx
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... Anyway. At this point the third pressure cooker started whistling and screeching like a banshee. I couldn't do anything, as I was holding the second cooker in one hand and the lid of the first in the other. The smell of half-cooked sprouts (they'd only been on for three months, remember) suddenly became too much for me and ... hold on a sec, am I saying all this out loud?
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Sid - This may be totally unconnected with your story, but a chap has just paddled up in front of the NC bar with bags of sprouts tethered to his canoe. He says they're a GM crop and he's giving them away free.
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Tee hee Sid and Horsey...
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Mr Horse - are you sure they're Brussels? I got my fingers burnt once, chap sold me seven hundredweight of sprouts that turned out to be bean sprouts. I mean, I ask you. Can you imagine Christmas dinner with bean sprouts??
Anyway - time for elevenses. Sorry if it's a bit late ...
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BS 67, No battered feelings here, I'm on a batter free diet. I will have a glass of my homemade raspberry wine, however.
Speaking of food, as people are wont to do on this h'yar thread, I recently bought a roti roast chicken from a well-known supermarket chain and, shock, horror, the wishbone was broken!! I have a large collection of wishbones (you never know when you might want to make a wish) and was really disappointed not to be able to add to it. (Too many to's there?) Do you think if I complained they might send me a coupon for a discount on the next one? Other than that, it was delicious.
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Time to retreat to the beach and escape the thunderstorm which began the very moment I switched on the TV to listen to PM via Freeserve - so aeriel pulled out and back to the tranny instead. I'll put the kettle on - tea anyone?
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David: That was yesterday (when you were feeling low).
Glad you enjoyed your chicken, sorry about the wishbone. No doubt the chicken made a wish while it was being broken .....
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Wasn't just the wishbone that was broken - just got a 502 here on the beach!
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Oh we haven't broken this blog too, have we?!
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Is it better now?
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Dave (74) Care to share your raspberry wine? It looks and smells as delicious as the raspberry beer I had yesterday, though I must admit your wine is a better colour ;o)
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Its easier to carve a chicken if you remove the wishbone (before cooking?)
I have one spare from our weekend chicken.
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Not much of a wish bone!
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Well that didn't work!
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Stewart-
What a sweet little ********* tree!
Mollyxx
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Happy Birthday in advance to Anne P, who will apparently be celebrating in, err, (checks computer clock), about 23 minutes time!
I've draped some suitably cheesy banners around the NC bar and brought along the obligatory sausage rolls, cheese & pineapple chunks on cocktail sticks, cocktail sausages and a couple of bottles of champagne. I'm sure someone will follow with the cake.
*Rummages around behind the bar*
Aha! A party hat, a bag of party poppers, and plenty of silly string!
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Happy Birthday, Anne (in 5 minutes time)
Big Sis xx
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Oooh, a party! Happy Birthday Anne!!
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Busy morning ahead, so I'll leave the birthday cake in the shade along with the crisps and twiglets, which are next to all the lovely stuff mittfh brought last night. Off limits till tea time, but goody bags will be provided for those who can't make it then. Catch you later!
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Thanks, Anne - though why you should be providing the cake, I don't know.
Enjoy the celebrations!
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Happy Birthday, Anne. I hope you get the present you want more than anything else.....! xx
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Gill 80, It smells remarkably like raspberries and had the color of dark rose wine.
Stewart 81, As I didn't cook the chicken.... A wishbone: Y. A broken wishbone: v l. Or: >- and > -.
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oooh: bunting!!!
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Happy birthday Anne -- see you later for cake :-)
David (74) I suppose you could've said "and was really disappointed to be unable to add to it", but that would've rearranged your sentence rather than reduced your 'to' count. So scratch that. Sorry to hear about your wishbone -- that's devastating.
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Here's some paper streamers for the bar :-)
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Happy Birthday Anne P!
Hope you have a lovely day (and the rain holds off!)
GMx
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Oh dear, my chains have turned into blobs :-(
Now, where did I leave that crate of Black Stump I'd brought to the beach for later?
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Oh daer Fearless (95), you've just brought back an unpleasnt memory... I went on a date once, many years ago, with a guy who started to tell me a story involving "blobs"... it took a little while for me to realise that he was talking about condoms. I thought "What a horrid name?!" and "Why are you telling me this?!" and had already decided that I wouldn't be seeing him again when he sealed the decision by urinating in a bus stop...
*shudder*
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Clearly I was too traumatised to type properly -- That last should have begun:
"Oh dear Fearless (96), you've just brought back an unpleasant memory..."
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Sorry Appy :-( I don't want to be the cause of unhappy remembrances. Here, have a party hat for later:
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Oh dear, that didn't work. Let's try something else....
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Ap - You do lead an exciting life!
I don't suppose you ever found Noel Edmond's Mr Blobby all that amusing then?
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Aperitif 93, I'm over it. I still have the rest of my collection.
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For a bit of excitement on the beach, go to youtrube millennium force.
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TIH 21, I have a Mr Blobby with a baby one on his knee in front of me on the desk.
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TIH 21, It is beside a Dalek.
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TIH 101, Or even TIH 101.
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Thank you Fearless (99/100), I shall don it right away. OK, where's Anne to blow out the candles on her cake?
Stud (101), You're right, although that had little to do with his name...
David (102), Where do you keep it? On second thoughts...
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Anne P_
Happy Birthday from me!:-)
F Fred (100)
That's pathetic-you must admit!!
Mollyxx
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TIH (101) I never realised he was meant to be amusing. Mr. Blobby, I mean. Or do I mean Mr. Edmonds? Whatever . . . Happy birthday AnneP. I hope the day brought you what you wanted.
H. x
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Molly (108) I don't think I can be held accountable for the fact that it's almost impossible to do a blog party hat with the text tools available here ;-)
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Anne - Happy Birthday - I did FB you but don't think it appeared there?
How's my chutney coming on then ;-)
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Oh and things are quietening down here - so I'll start trying to catch up on what I've missed over several - thankfully- busy spells of business.
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How sad. I just heard on the Today programme of the death of the French inventor of the ubiquitous beach sandal - Monsieur Phillipe Filop.
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Aperitif 107, In a sweetie/candy jar. Aren't you glad you asked? I'd send a photo, but it wouldn't be used. I also have a Cadbury's Roses jar filled with potshards/sherds.
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Sid 13, Did he have anything to do with the sandal scandal? Saboteur, or something...
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DMcN (115) - Nah! You're thinking of E. Clare and the shoe pastry affair.
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You can get a tan
Standing in the English rain
This place should be called the Bleach.
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Why when we see a police car do we start driving so badly, write to a pedant, start mispelling every darned thing, talk to a grammar stickler and start saying 'sort of', sort of, and the day before going to the quacks or the dentists, feel pain everywhere*** or tooth ache?
***I think I'm a hypochondriac. It's not easy being one. The hypo clinics and Hypos Anon are packed.
Never mind, going there, keeps us fit.
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The great thing about being a kleptomaniac is you can always take something for it ...
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TIH 166, Cabbagetage?
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David, are you psychic?
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Has anyone seen my etchings?
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DMcN (120) - It will take me to (166) to work that one out!
Ap (122) - When did you last have them?
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No Appy (122) but I'll help you look for them :-)
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Or better still, Appy, you can come and look at mine ...
Sorry, couldn't resist ...
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Thought this was rather amusing...
http://newsbiscuit.com/article/web-forum-closed-after-sensible-discussion-takes-place-361
....beware folks! ;-)
PS. I can't do the fancy hyperlink thingies that others seem to do!
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littleFluffyFi,
Oh, but you canAnd welcome back from me as well!
xx
ed
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So I can
Hurray! What a star you are Ed ;-)
Thank you...
xx
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Ed I - I only knew half of that. Thank you.
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BS 121, No, I'm the leader.
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TIH 132, Chou is French for cabbage. A sabot is a wooden shoe/clog. Hence, sabotage, a clog/spanner in the works. Cabbagetage.
I'm sure he was chased by Slipper of the Yard. A real heel. He spoke with a brogue after his tongue was fixed by an Irish trainer. Poor soul.
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The link at 127.
Oh, goodness, forgive!
You know what it's like. you're having a really bad day, you keep getting two eights in the same line in your sudoku and then a fellow frogger*** blogs in a remark that seems designed to freak*** you out.
*** The usual disclaimers.
You know the Water Rats? They have ranks. Rats of the first water and so on.
Don't you think there should be froggers of the first water, and so on. Officially, I mean.
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peeps, tis me and i am in sore need of a hammock...purple, red, with / without spots or ensuite I'm not bovvered!
this week (well from Tuesday) working in Hackney 'as dun me 'ead in and i am in need of a spell of R and R on the Beach.
(mind you Hackney will have a cracking new bookshop opening on the 13th, tell them I sent you!)
So bring on the hand maidens bearing fresh fruit, bring on the hand maidens bearing Scrumpy and bring on the hand maidens bearing Chinese take away food!
Then soothe my heated brow with ice from Mount Trodos and then quietly quote passages from 'Biggles Flies Undone' 'till I fall asleep!
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Ah....hem....cough......can I get littleFluffyFi to plump up me pillows please?
(dons best visiting Speedos)
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David_McNickle....beg to differ, oi fought Chou was 1/2 of a cheese eating surrender monkey sneeze?
(Isn't that reet Willie)
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DI_W 135, Goes in tight.
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That is the most 'dogey date' story I have heard for a while (97)!
DMcN whereas Cabotage, erm, hang on....
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DIY, Plump Plump
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nn 137, The travels of John Cabot.
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Found them! (The etchings) About to show them off on the new beach!
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Oooh, Appy Etchings! I'll rush over to the new beach right away....
*****whooooooosh*****
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