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.
Listen to PM
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morning peeps, today is a very special day!
A Very Bappy Hirthday to Aperitif.
Have a good one.
Tea and toast anyone?
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Happy Birthday Ap. Yes..tea AND toast please.
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Happy Birthday, Appy. Home made marmalade and/or elderberry jelly on the bar to go with the toast.
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Appy's birthday it is,
Appy's birthday it is,
Have a fab day we all say,
And some Bubbly with fizz!
DIY (1):
Tea please, but I don't want anyone toasted.
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Hoppy Biffday, Appy! Any special plans?
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Many happies, Appy xx
Happy Birthday Rachel G, too ;o)
Hope you have lots of treats lined up.
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Hippo Birdy 2 Ewe x 2
Tea AND toast please - statistics really aren't my thing this early on a Friday morning :o(
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Happy Birthday Appy!
Hope you have a lovely day and the sun's shining like it is here!
Just off on hols to a different beach for a couple of weeks so be good(!!) and see you all in 2 weeks! GMx
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Have a great time GM xx
Don't forget to send a postcard ;o)
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Happy Birthday Appy!
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Appy birthday, Rachel.... there, that's covered both I think?
Tea and toast yes please DIY... and how about a strapline made entirely out of chocolate to go with it?
;o)
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Birthday balloons and lots of cake to Appy and Rachel!
I've got some tea, DIY, but if there's any toast left, I'd love some, please.
I know it's nearly elevenses already, but I've had a busy morning and need a hobbit-like second breakfast!
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Oh, I didn't realise it was your birthday too, Rachel! A Hippo Bathdfay to you too :-)
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Happy Birthday both!
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The Intermittent House (not here yet), Yay-ess!
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Righteo, I've brought along a few flagons of cider - they're currently cooling in the sea. And they are air-tight, so if you think their contents taste briney, it's your own imagination!
If someone could supply the bubbly, then we can introduce Appy to a celebratory glass (or two)(or three) of Asp Nibble...
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mittfh 16, Sorry, my homemade apple wine is still fermenting. Personally, when it comes to cider, I prefer Addlestone's.
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Did someone call?
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Appers, many happy returns! And Rachel too.
I've persuaded the octopodes to find an old empty chest among the wrecks off the headland and fill it with sea-trove -- sundry gauds and baubles and trinkets to rummage and choose among, and I'm sure you won't mind re-stringing the ones whose threading has rotted over time?
No opals, I fear, because the water cracks them, but plenty of other stones. Treat them as costume jewelry and nobody will believe that they're real, so there won't be a problem with insurance.... :-) It's all just for having fun with, really.
have a wonderful day the both of yez.
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Many Happy Returns to both Rachel and Appy. Have a great day!
And Bon Voyage to GM too. We'll be expecting a postcard at least, if not regular blog postings from an internet cafe - if you can find one on your beach!
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... happy birthday dear Appy and Rachel, happy birthday to you!!
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Plumber-Joe - I was actually hoping for a doctor ... anyway, I've got this problem with my waterworks ...
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Appy birthda Appy and Rachel.
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Happy Birthday Lassies!
Flying visit only!
ed
P.S. Just to note that typos abound, even in the American Electoral Fiesta, where one candidate threatened to "kick" the other's ---.
;o)
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Appy and Rachel-
IT"S YOUR B'DAY!!!!!
Have lots of fun.....
Mollyxx
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Happy Birthday, even though others beat me to it.
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Hip Hop Birthday Bop to Rachel and Appy.
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Happy birthdays to you both!!
What a lovely start to a birthday beach!!
Is there cake, perchance????
n-n
xx
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Any HAmmock free? I need a lie down
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P-J 18, Are you Polish?
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I'm on my way out to help the committee from hell lay out and price things for a Nearly New Sale tomorrow.
Please, can Pimms O'clock be brought forward? I feel in need of a stiffener....
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Happy Birthdays to the Beach's Birthday Belles.
H.
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Thank goodness that Friday is here
I am in need of something to cheer
I work in a bank
my shares have all sank
now, someone please open the beer
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Have brought fizz, lets get Asp-ing!
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clink....clink....fiz...fiz...cheers everyone!
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How strange - I sent a comment which hasn't gone into the moderators, it has just totally disappeared!
Must be something to do with Eddie becoming a number.
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Plumber-Joe, can you help?
I know the Beach isn't the place for RL problems but......
I need to connect a lead water pipe (the feed to a Victorian / Edwardian cistern) into a modern cistern. How do I 'sweat' the 1/2 lead pipe onto the 13 mm copper feed.
(desperate of Norfolk)
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Lady Sue at 36, that's nothing -- when I looked just now, all the comments on a whole thread had vanished without a trace!
And if you click on U-number up at the top, you get all Eddie's posts to the Blog. Scary, eh?
maybe he's not a man, he's a free number
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desperate of norfolk - that sounds like a two-pipe problem....
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n-n LOL
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Hi, it's me.
The other David.
I am leaving.
I feel my mission is done (he said standing on the deck of an aircraft carrier looking like a right twonk), those of us amongst you that need to be chasterized have been chasterizickled.
The free people of the Blog can now walky proudly, holding their heads up highly knowing that the many trolls will no longerly be found on this Beach.
Now yawll have fun with Miss Paylin!
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n-n....I'm desperate!
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anyhoo...Mrs DiY not cooking this eve so Chinese TA anyone?
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I am back from the committee from hell, setting out the jumble sale from hell. It was a hoot!!!
The final straw will be if, by some miracle, we make a decent profit ... then The Harpies will have nothing AT ALL to grumble about, the poor darlings.
[evil titter]
Where's my GandT? And my dinner? I'm starving!
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So will be wanting a Chinese then?
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mode=Ruth Archer
Oooooh, noooooooo!
/mode
TIH, on the Sats thread you are now U10783173 !!
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Thanks to Feefs.....I have just lerned wot "oxymoron" means!
It is not a thick bullock!
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SP, Ruth Archer has a lot to answer for!
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Chinese is grand DI_W !!!!!
How did you manage to get an extra large portion of *these*????!?!?
In the meanwhilst, here is my second pipe:
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NOW, then; now, then; Now, Then.
Right. Crumbs. I'm totally stoned.
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Whereas I, Mister Noodle sir (50), after an evening's jumble-humping, jumble-sorting and cat-sitting, am just plain knackered.
If I had the energy I'd run a nice hot bath. As it is, I couldn't even stroll one. Perhaps if I look longingly at this empty wine glass, someone will fill it with something red and scrummy....
* looks longingly at empty wine glass *
.... blimey, it worked!!!! :o)))))
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neat trick!!
Here, look, I can do *exactly* the opposite!!
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Appy burfday, Appy!
I tried to work out how get a url to a burpday cake but it's getting too close to bedtime (I know; what a dull life I lead) to wrestle with the net.
[Heh, heh! Now they all think I'm all nestled up with a good book I can nip out and do naughty things. Whee! There go the speedos! And aha! Nicked the purple hammock!]
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Oooh, and while I'm still here, being good, as ever, a hippity happity birthday to Rachel, too.
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Oh, and, hello, chatterisgirl; I'm not sure if you're new, but if you are, there are free drinks at Nick's bar. If you're not, it's your round.
Right! Back to my novel... (hums innocently)
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Anyone seen my Speedos? Oh, how on earth did they get up there what on earth is that noise? LOL it's Francis asleep in the Purple hammock.
Anyhoo the smell of a Saturday morning fry up will probably bring here round. I'll just start the sausages off. Anyone got some bacon going spare and some mushrooms would be nice.
While we wait there is coffee brewing at NC's.
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Passing by on my way to feed and fuss Lucy the next-door catlet. May I just grab a sausage to munch on my way? You know how I love a good sausage...
Leave Frances alone, DIY. Poor thing was awake in the middle of the night, so she needs her ugly sleep bless 'er. ;o)
Noodle, here's an aspirin ready for that hangover you richly deserve!
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Ah, bless, there is nothing like Feefs munching on a sausage first thing in the morning!
Right off I go to that big orange diy shop to get some more tile glue.
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I'm back. Porridge cooking. Sun's out. 2pm the jumble sale madness starts...
Think I'll just take my lovely creamy porridge and retire to the sparkly hammock for a little while, seeing as how Frances has baggzed the purple one.
Will somebody please wake me around 12, when I need to grab something more to eat and then head for the village hall? Ta!
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If anyone wants to know what I was doing in the summer, there is a brief article about it [Unsuitable/Broken URL/PDF removed by Moderator]It is on the second page with a picture of an aircraft flying lower than the tree canopy. I was part of the team based at the airport, rather than in the rain-forest. :o(
BH
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DiW..(37)...Still desperate?...still in Norfolk? Try G**glin' Lead loc...
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Feefs, wakey wakey!
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Some of us are trying to sleep round here ...
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Sorry Sid, didn't see you there me old Sprout connoisseur frogger!
Anyhoo, as I am in full DIY / Builder mode with son #2 today I have bunged a pile of bacon rolls on the bar.
(bring yer own brown sauce)
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"so I was saying to U12408934, have you seen what V09384055 is wearing? and she was, like, "Oh, I know what you mean!!" and I was like "who does she think she is - W09837569?"
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Thanks DIY.... just made it!
Am now back from the jumble sale, where there has been an outbreak of amity among the committee from hell. Most disturbing!
Very poor turnout (good! I hate jumble sales and hope we never do another one) and raised only 100 quid, with maybe another 10 or 20 to be made from eBay or local classifieds. It's not much to show for a whole day's work, all of it walking about or standing...
However some of the older peeps enjoyed the cream tea and the natter, and by making a reciprocal arrangement with a nearby village (we take their bricabrac leftovers, they take our clothing leftovers, both make money from them) we've improved relationships with people who might have considered us a rival rather than an ally.
Ooooh my feet are tired. . . . . back to the sparkly hammock I go, for a couple of hours, before we're at a party. I can't keep up this pace, not 2 weekends on the canter!
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Fifi - 100% agreed there! At my last school we scrapped jumble sales, and replaced them with the social bits that people really wanted. That saved weeks of the school hall filling up with people's smelly cast-offs, and a day of volunteers sorting and pricing, and assorted ragamuffins elbowing their way in to buy.
Anyway - here's a voucher for the beach chiropodist - have a foot massage on me!
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just finished a bit more of the putting up bathroom tiles DIY jobbies!
now totally cream crackered, going to have a sit down and order an Indian TA care of Mrs DiY's credit card.
I'm have lamb vindaloo, son # 2 is having chicken madras, who else wants wot?
better be quick though!
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oh and an order of Sprout bahjis (sp) for Sid!
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Who fancies Pizza. I've done the dough ans there is plenty of cured meats to add. Onions "&" Mushrooms sliced. Only got two cheeses. So can only do a Duo Fromaggi.
Sorry, no anchovies.
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Mmm, pizza sounds good Stewart, roll one over here please!
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D I Wy - I'm starting to get a bit worried about your diet. Have you not been watching Jamie Oliver, or the fearsome Gillian McKeith? Too many takeaways really aren't good for you, you know...
How about a nice plate of grated carrot and a wholemeal roll, hmmm? You know you'll feel the benefit!
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Back from party, and nibbling on slices of cold pizza and warmish bhajis... what ARE they made with? Something green and [oh excuse me] sproutish?
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Coffe brewing, There's a few carrot slices on this wholemeal pizza base.
I'm also doing croissants.
DIY you can stay in bed for a while longer. Ive let the cats in
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Stewart M, oakley doakley.
annasee, grated carrot and a wholemeal roll you avin' a larf or wot?
(pulls covers back over head and wonders if there is any takeaway left overs?)
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Bhajis are made with chickpea flour and onion, Feefs. You can get chickpea flour (can't remember the Indian name) from a few places, including some Tescos.
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Gram flour, it's just come to me.
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Big Sis, tah, I'll take 1/2 a dozen please
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Diy, I didn't think you would stay in bed this long!
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I didn't!
Son # 2 and is SO stayed over last night so that he could be up bright and early to help me with sticking a few more tiles up. They surfaced at about 10:30!
Tom (son #2) promptly went into cooking mode and set about turning our bog standard Roast Chicken Sunday lunch into a gastronomic challenge!
Chook roasted on a bed of onion, garlic, rosemary and sage.
Roast spuds, roasted parsnip and roasted carrots with peas, purple sprouting and cauliflower.
(I will be so glad when free range Sprouts are back in season!)
This followed by an Apple crumble (shop bought, but still tasty) with ice cream.
Mind you on the plus side I have found a load of left over Indian TA in the fridge, so that will be supper sorted!
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Big Sister...re Gram flour..Apart from its capacity to make enhanced fried items, it is also used as a facial exfoliate!
Next time oi won't just eat the Bhajis!
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Hello - what's this? Cold sprout bahjis? Delicious.
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I have made an October 19 Resolution to visit ONLY the Beach at weekends. The pictures on 'Resolutions' are just too irritatingly reminiscent of RL for me.
On the plus side, my SO and I have just finished the radio times crossword AND the wordfinder ... so we have 4 chances to win a DAB radio and 1 chance to win a silver plated deck of cards (or something).
Woooooooooo!
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Just been to our local park for a bit of fresh air. It appears that next weekend they are running a "Dads and kids" day entitled Vicious Veg, where you build a machine to throw vegetables, and compete to see whose goes the furthest. The vegetable example given was a sprout!
SID - WHERE ARE YOU? SOMEONE'S GOING TO WASTE THE ENTIRE UK SPROUT STOCK NEXT WEEKEND AND THERE WON'T BE ANY LEFT FOR CHRISTMAS!
Get to Cheshire quick, and stop this madness!!
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Oh dear ... I'm booked at a conference in London next Saturday - and Sunday may be too late! What shall we do??
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DIY, So not much tiling help then, but a gastronomic delight for lunch. I think I could cope with that. Anyway why do today what you can put off till tomorrow.
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FFred
On another thread
Thank you for making me jolly!
Mollyxx
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Tomorrow my petsitting pentathlon starts in all seriousness ... 4 cats and 1 dog, in 3 different houses.
Note to self: don't wear smart black clothing this week unless going to a meeting!
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morning peeps!
Feefs I have prepared you a hearty breakfast in preperation of your petsitting pentathlon!
Deep fried Sprouts will give you all the energy you will need.
The rest of us will have to make do with coffee and toast.
DiY:-)
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That coffee smells good, DI!
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And a special good morning to 10783173.
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A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a (n Intermittent) Horse!
If it wasn't rude to dogs to say so, I'd be tempted to say that moderation is immoderately barking ....
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You're more than welcome, Molly :-) Glad you managed to find the link useful...
Now, time to fill up the coffee mug before braving the word day in RL...
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9501908 (90), thanks for the compliment!
i got a gut feeling that this could all get really silly.
wot do you think 8328820?
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DiY: How did you find that out? That's what I think .....
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Ah yes, 9048252, I've worked it out now .....
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I'd love to know how those numbers were assigned as 10769070 has been on this Blog as long as I have .....
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* munch! munch! * Ta, DIY, yum!
Well here I am at cat #1 (Lucy)'s house, using my own wifi through the adjoining wall. Lucy is fussing up against me on the sofa, hoping probably that I'll forget she's supposed to be outside all day...
Lunchtime, over the way to cats #2 (Tinks) and #3 (Sonny) who have to be fed in separate parts of the house so one doesn't nick the other's food.
Thence to cat #4 (Charlie) and the dog (Max) who will claim my attention till tea-time, when I have to get round the whole lot of 'em on my way home.
And then at 11pm the dog needs letting out one last time.
Guess my liver will be getting a rest this week, eh? ;o)
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Sid - (85) I can see it's a quandary for you. How to attend the conference and salvage what's left of the UK sprout stock on the same weekend.
How about if I pop round to the park after the sprout war, pick up what I can find of any unexploded ordnance, put it in a box labelled "Sid The Sprout King, London. Urgent Supplies- Please Rush" and get it couriered down to you. Would that help?
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Ah ha! I see I am queen of the strap today! Shows how much notice I take of these things ....
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Annasee - I think that may be the best we can manage. I shall be eternally grateful.
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Sid, I didn't realise you live in London? Would that be in Sproutingham Palace?
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Big Sister - I don't live in London - I'm going there for a conference. But everyone will know where I am.
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annasee (99) re salvage what's left of the UK sprout stock.
Please don't.
That is wot Sid and me are placing our bets on! We have futures in the Sprout Market, a shortage is wot we actually want.
We are holding our stocks knowing that a pre Christmas shortage will drive the price through the roof.....you can kep yer gold and oil.....Sprouts is the place to be!
(wot you mean 'Sprout' fixation)
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But D I Wy - what I'm sending to Sid may well be the LAST of the sprout stock. After this weekend's Stockport Sprout Wars, I mean. They will be more valuable than gold, I agree. I'll make sure they're wrapped in really strong protective packaging. In fact, in the light of what you've just said, I might not use the normal courier service. Perhaps better upgrade to a really high-security firm? Someone like, oooh, I don't know - Gr**p 4? Surely the sprouts would be safe with them.
PS - Would a couple of police outriders be a good idea too? Please advise.
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10783124....Crikey! If you are really sending the LAST of the Sprout stock to Sid, what on earth are all these little green globes in me freezer?
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I represent a pan-European biotechnology consortium which has been working for some years on Brassica Oleracea. In a few weeks time we will bring to the market a genetically modified sprout.
This sprout has been developed to contain high amounts of Vitamin A (beta carotene). The sprout is also resistant to herbicides, tolerates crop spray insecticides and degrades much more slowly than the non-GM product..
Serendipitously the GM sprout has absolutely no flavour whatever thus improving its palatability. The absence of flavour of course means that there is no smell when the vegetable is being cooked.
There will be plentiful supplies for the coming season and prices are expected to be about 50% of what they were last year.
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DrFrankFurter, can I buy into this?
I have just found that all these little green globes in me freezer? are in fact PEAS!
oive gorn and harvested the wrong veg!
'ang-a-trout....beta carotene...thats the stuff wot is in CARROTS.
DrFF, you fiend, you are palming off Carrots painted green as Sprouts. Your dastardly plot has been uncovered.
Dr Watson, the Bat Mobile if you please....
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Mr Wyman - beta carotene can be found in yellow, orange, and green leafy fruits and vegetables. As a rule of thumb, the greater the intensity of the orange colour of the fruit or vegetable, the more beta carotene it contains.
Although our GM product has a significantly higer level of the terpene it has not materially changed the colour.
Our sprout does however glow in the dark.
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Sir.
I refer to your previous statement of the 11:35 inst, to contain high amounts of Vitamin A (beta carotene), this leads me to think that you have genetically modified the carrot to impersonate the illustrious Sprout .
Such deeds are most unbecoming of a man of letters and I shall be referring you of course to the GM Council.
Yours DiY
Norfolk 2008
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So what's the phosphorous content of your GM sprouts, or is the luminescence derived from other means (e.g. trace quantities of uranium)?
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mittfh, methinks you are confusing uranium with uranus!
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Mt mittfh - Early experimentation involved the gene for the green fluorescent protein from jellyfish. This was rapidly discounted because it only glows under ultraviolet light. The luciferase gene from fireflies generates its own light, but it requires energy to do so. For this reason the development team had to employ some form of 'regulation'.
As the luciferase gene required energy it was necessary to ensure that it wasn't expressed everywhere, because it might result in stunted plants. Thus a light-sensitive repressor and a leaf-specific promoter were incorporated to ensure that the sprouts light up only when the plant is in the dark.
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DrFrankFurter.
Sir, ...the sprouts light up only when the plant is in the dark...
Undermines the work currently being undertaken at LHC.
They are attempting to discover what happens at the moment of the 'Big Bang'. Or as Sprout comsumers know it, as the 3/4 hour effect.
I challenge you to prove your theory!
Yours DiY
Norfolk 2008
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I've never been to Stocksprout before. Is it nice there?
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Fifi - Well the town council's motto is "Cleaner greener, safer, stronger".
I just never realised before that they were referring to sprouts!
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Mr Wyman - No theory left to prove, old boy. The plants are out of trial and into commercial production.
One added advantage of 'glow in the dark' sprouts is that they can be harvested during the night, shipped fresh to commercial outlets and appear on the shelves the same day.
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Fifi, does that make 115 a part of your long weekend, comrade?
((:-))
pmLeader - on the Beach to be Modded.
(The last Beach, still, at 6, and the one before that at 246)
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So....life as we know it for the Brassica oleracea (Gemmifera Group) is to be overtaken by a GM version.
These are indeed dark times.
I call upon all civilised folk to stand up and be counted in the war against this abominadible creation. We cannot, as a nation, be seen as cowering to the perversions of a few desperate mad scientists.
Never before in the fight to provide the vegetables deemed necessary at Christmas will so many have to give up so much for so few.
So we cry God for Harry, England and St George as we march as one to defeat this shadow of a true vegetable.
(Gets dragged of screaming and kicking)
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wot????
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As 9048252 I am not a new user so why mod me as such?
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Where's my comment?All new members are pre-moderated initially, which means that there will be a short delay between when you post your comment and when it appears while one of our moderators checks it.
yer 'avin a larf....
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Mr Wyman - Don't fret. It has all gone bonkers here.
pmLeader (118) - There is a difference bewteen:
'visit ONLY the Beach at weekends'
and
'visit the Beach ONLY at weekends'?
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DIY (120-122) - probably a side effect of the mods trying to reverse the carnage of the weekend, when several people (including Eddie) had their User IDs removed due to unsubstantiated alleged impersonation of others.
I see Eddie's comment @ 2 is now signed as Eddie, as opposed to U1566343.
So let's see - am I still post-modded, or have I reverted to being pre-modded?
Watch the space immediately below this to find out!
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(Waits 20 seconds, refreshes the page to double-check...)
Yup, I'm still fine - they're still letting me post random rubbish without feeling the need to verify the integrity of my posts beforehand...
So, Glow-in-the-dark sprouts - whatever next? I suppose it's one idea to help combat global warming - instead of having a nightlight plugged into a socket consuming 2-10W of electricity, plop a row of sprouts down your hallway...
Meanwhile, just popped up on my RSS feed: Good News! The current owners of a certain mobile phone ringtone site have vowed to shut down the brand - as well as the hideously annoying thing it's most famous for.
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mittfh...re plop a row of sprouts down your hallway.......digested or undigested?
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Ahhh, Das Boot ist U13521663, nien?
Come in U13521663, your time is up!
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mittfh....forget the ring tone frog....I'm more worried about this seein' as my son is in Oz at the moment!
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and another thing! 4:10pm to 4:17pm is NOT twenty seconds. It is, 'ang on got to take me shoes and socks off,.......420!
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Well I see that in my absence the world of blog has finally gone completely bonkers.
I have decided to post a 24 hour guard on my allotment to protect my sprouts from speculators in futures, pasts, shorts, longjohns and GM derivatives.
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Dr H (123) I am indebted to you. PML's no doubt well intentioned posting had me completely mystefied. ;o)
So... what happens if I am possessed by blogging demons? Or a desperate civil servant nicks my laptop, hoping to pass it off at work as the one he left on the 6.15 to Gerrards Cross? (a bit tricky, given the tartan paint job, but you never know)
Will the mods be trained in spotting inauthentic blog 'voices'? Will one's tone and vocabulary be analysed in order to determine that it really IS Fifi, and not 'Fif's little pal Horrice who wears scary horn-rimmed glasses and looks nothing like the nice baddie on Heroes'??
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Dr H (123) I am indebted to you. PML's no doubt well intentioned posting had me completely mystefied. ;o)
So... what happens if I am possessed by blogging demons? Or a desperate civil servant nicks my laptop, hoping to pass it off at work as the one he left on the 6.15 to Gerrards Cross? (a bit tricky, given the tartan paint job, but you never know)
Will the mods be trained in spotting inauthentic blog 'voices'? Will one's tone and vocabulary be analysed in order to determine that it really IS Fifi, and not 'Fif's little pal Horrice who wears scary horn-rimmed glasses and looks nothing like the nice baddie on Heroes'??
* oo-er... it won't post this comment! Try again...
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Fifi, you're repeating yourself!
And, are those chocolate heroes you're referring to? - Make mine a Wisp.
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Fifi (131) - Dr H is someone else entirely.
At least I don't think he's me.
Or maybe I'm him.
Oh dear . . . nurse! NURSE!
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Big Sis, I had a chocolate friend once...
...tah dah....
Will-o-the-Wisp!!
(OK, ok, i'm going)
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DIY (128): I wonder how the 'tadpole' count compares to Wales, the other bit of the world with lots of lush green hills and significantly higher proportion of females around that walk on all fours and wear white woolly coats than the females that walk on two legs and generally don't wear white woolly coats...
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Oh, and on the sprout scene, I meant freshly harvested sprouts, as opposed to sprouts that have spent 48hrs roaming around in someone's alimentary canal...
-oOo-
Meanwhile, back on the beach...
I've erected a screen to separate the beach itself from the field of GM veg next door (so we don't get blinded by the light), and obtained certificates verifying that the produce currently stocked at the NC bar was grown at least 5 miles away from the nearest biotechnologist!
Unsurprisingly, the house red is currently Le Frogger, and a range of "Turning Leaf" branded wines are on order.
I've also teleported a few bags of horse chestnut seeds from the dismal autumn of RL to the perpetual summer of this beach - specificially Dune 5.
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I received this in an email:
"Following the exhaustive correspondence at around half eleven this morning (see posts above), a period of extensive testing has resulted in an upgraded version, and we can now annouce that the vitamin formerly known as 'beta-carotene' has now gone live...."
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I suppose it's too late to change my blog name to beta-carotene?
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what about gamma and delta Carotene.
I think one of the other caratinoids is Alpha-tocopherol.
Eat your Kale and Tomato Ketchup
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I thought caratinoids were holding up Greek temples.
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All these green-coloured sprouts that glow in the dark -- it's abdominable!
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Righteo, I'm off to a hammock at the opposite end of the beach to the luminescent veg. Any veg I spot in the morning will be thrown to the far end of the dunes - hopefully as near to the field as I can get them...
If I need illumination, I'll just plant one of those solar powered garden lights that everywhere sells all over the summer...
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Late night epiphany chez Fifi... SO's a linguist, I'm a communicator.
... ... ... you missed it here first!
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Melty cheese and onion roll, anyone? I know it's late!!
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Early morning redbush tea whilst cat-and-dog sitting. First 2 cats already fed. When tea's finished, pack up 'pooter and go feed the cat that lives next door.
Early morning grillup, anyone? ;o)
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morning froggers, peeps and frogging peeps.
thanks to the hard work by mittfh the Beach is now a GM Sprout free zone. So I will let out the Organic ones so they can enjoy the sunshine.
We can watch them frollicking about as we breakfast on coffee and crossaunts at NC's.
Off to see Dr De-ath again this morning, I just can't get this 'chest' of mine to shift!
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I know I am naughty, 'cos I am still be modded as a new user!
Anyone else having the same problem?
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Feefs, thanks. Can you do the tomatoes so they go really 'squishy'?
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There you go, DIY, squishy as can be. Home grown in my pal's garden too, so they're really tasty too.
I fancy a game of Swingsprout now...
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Ok
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THWACK
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Fifi, Surprised DIY missed this one. Is your SO a cunning linguist?
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Anne P 130
I know what you mean- it's not easy re-adjusting to the sanity of this bunch is it!
Whoops! item on Hardy on W Hour- must go......
Mxx
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Happy Trafalgar Day!
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Back from Dr De-eath, seems me chestickles needs a 'stronger' auntybiotic, so oi is being upgraded!
tut tut..Stewart M!
Mind you, we used to have a motto in our RAF Sub Aqua club...."No M**f to tough. We dive at five!"
(off to the naughty step for me)
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wot?.....All new members are pre-moderated initially, which means that there will be a short delay between when you post your comment and when it appears while one of our moderators checks it.....yer avin a larf!
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153. At 10:26am on 21 Oct 2008, Molly wrote:
Anne P 130
I know what you mean- it's not easy re-adjusting to the sanity of this bunch is it!
Whoops! item on Hardy on W Hour- must go......
Mxx
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154. At 10:35am on 21 Oct 2008, Tom_Harrop wrote:
Happy Trafalgar Day!
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155. At 10:39am on 21 Oct 2008, DI_Wyman
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156. At 10:40am on 21 Oct 2008, DI_Wyman
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'snot fair!
oim not playing anymore!
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DiY: What HAVE you done to offend the mods?
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Big Sis - it must be his sprouts, they are pretty offensive after all. Btw, I put some sprouts in with my roasted veg last night (purely in the interests of health, you understand?) and they were quite tasty - didn't have that bitter taste.
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DI_W 149, Jump up and down on them.
(Sheesh, these people who can't cook!)
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DIW
Do you think that....er, how do I put this...er...politely?
Well, it's not always ..er ..Ënglish', is it.
It's just that I went through a stage of franglaise, you might say.
Always modded!!!
Mollyxx
ps HHope chesty better soon x
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*looks around*
Ah - so it was hiding here all the time. I see.....
*walks around kicking at the sand and whistling hoping no one will notice*
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Well THAT's odd... (thanks Bronco!) ... I clicked on the top beach under the category: Beach.
And got whisked away to last week?
Must've forgotten you have to keep hitting Refresh/F5 these days, even when you follow what look like updated links.
How embarrassing!
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You were right all along Feefs, it does feel like last week!
Last week I was on holiday, this week I still am but this time Dr De-ath has signed me off sick so that I can claim my holiday days back.
Lucky me!
Anyhoo, wotz fur T?
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Well, if you're buying, DIY ... oh, go on then, a bottle of Shiraz.
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There you go then Sid, one bottle of Sprout Shiraz!
Enjoy..!
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Damn. I knew I should be more specific. Or pacific, as George Osbourne would say (apparently).
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you'll never guess where I been... (tee hee).... know that yacht that's been moored off the reef?....I been over there on the dingy dinghy and I pursuaded the jolly skipper not to give us anything at all for no money!!!! And I didnt even have to ask him, neither!!!!! But just in case, I taped meself not saying it, and then photocopied it and hid it in this here secret compartment in a briefcase....
...that'll learn 'em!!! Coming over here, onto our beach, with their lar-di-dah-dee caviarre and crumpets....
...But I did snuck a case of champagne off, right under their noses too (sniggers) and lashed it to the dingey dinky, and rowed it back to shore....
So, drinks all round!!!
Anyone for a tipple?!!!
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* holds out large glass *
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I've got an even bigger one over here.
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I am neither soliciting a serving of champagne, nor have I received one.
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N-n
Hope you've not been set-up, n-n!
Did you ask for any caviar or did they offer it to you?
Who cares! Any champers left......
Mollyxx
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Stew - put that away
you may not have received one (171), but I havent stopped pouring them out!!! Have a bottle to make up for lost time!!
any left, you ask, Mollster?!! There's oodles and oodles of it.... here, pass your glass over...!!!!
n-n
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These yachts are useful.
I Enjoyed eddies final yacht comment after the trailer just before the bongs.
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Champagne?
What champagne?
I can't see any bottles...
I can't see any glasses...
I can't feel any liquid in my mouth...
I can't taste the liquid on my tongue...
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morning peeps.
i'm sorry if me coughing kept you all awake last night!
anyhoo, who fancies Scrambled eggs on toast for breakfast?
I'll just pop the kettle on for tea and feed the cats and will be right with you!
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Wednesday is recycling bin collection day, can someone pop all those empty champers bottles into the grey bin?
DiY:-)
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DIY (177): What bottles?
I thought we'd established there were none - so they must be figments of your imagination... ;)
There may have been a few bottles of sparkling wine lying around, but definitely not champers - OK? ;)
IRL I'm having muesli for brekkie, but in this alternate universe, I wouldn't mind a full english...
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mittfh....full english...on a Wednesday!!
how, very dare you!
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Morning folks!
Ham, cheese and bacon croissant and coffee at my desk this morning. I had to get up before breakfast to be in the office early. I haven't quite recovered from the shock of discovering there's a six o'clock in the morning too. ;o)
Sorry I haven't been around for a while - dreadfully busy at work at the moment. It may yet ease, but I doubt it. :o(
Any coffee?
;o) []
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Wonko, Caffè Americano, Cappuccino or Espresso?
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Is it time to wheel out Bertrand Russell again? Here he is in 'On Denoting' (1905):
"I have heard of a touchy owner of a yacht to whom a guest, on first seeing it, remarked, `I thought your yacht was larger than it is'; and the owner replied, `No, my yacht is not larger than it is'."
I'll have an Americano, please.
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DIY: All three please, in a funnel... ;o)
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Coming right up.
Americano for Sid and a Wonko blend for.......well, Wonko!
Do you think Feefs has over slept?
Do you think all her pussies have been seen to this morning?
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Thank you for your concern, Mister Wyman. Pussies and hound of the Baskervilles all suitably seen-to.
I am just getting a little work done at home before taking the laptop over to the dog's place at lunchtime and working there till the teatime shift.
This morning ALL the animals (even the normally standoffish ones) wanted fussing and cuddling. I think they're missing their regular folks.
Mug of Chinese green tea for Fifi, I think, to keep me going.
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Hi Feefs. Just off out to do that weatherboard .... ;o)
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wot in THIS weather?
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What is correct weatherboard weather, then?
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n-n 173
a haiku for you-
nikki-noodle has
oodles and oodles of pink
champagne for us all.
(coat?......)
Mollyxx
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When the sun doth shine past the hour of nine and the mists of Duluxior have left the valley of the Great Orange DIY temple in the far kingdom of Bee And Que.
(sheesh [to coin a phrase], peeps who can't decorate)
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There was a young man
From Peru, whose limericks
Looked like haiku. "I
Cut them in half", he
Said with a laugh, "because I
Get paid more for two!"
[Not my own work, I have to confess]
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Chicken soup anyone? Those engaged in manual and outdoor activities today will find it both warming and invigorating.
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Fifi - can I have some soup now, and then go out in the garden and pretend to rake up some leaves?
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Course you can Sid. Especially if it'll hamper your scrabbling abilities!
To my friends who enjoy a glass of wine...and those who don't.
As Ben Franklin said: In wine there is wisdom,
in beer there is freedom,
in water there is bacteria.
In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated
that if we drink 1 litre of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. coli) - bacteria found in feces.. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop.
However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine and beer (or tequila, rum, whiskey or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.
Remember:
Water = Poop,
Wine = Health.
Therefore, it's better to drink wine and talk stupid,
than to drink water and be full of poo.
There is no need to thank me for this valuable information: I'm doing it as a public service.
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Fifi (188): Today's weather is perfect. Anything, in fact, except for rain.
Thanks for the offer of the soup - I've just had lunch, so will let the others tuck in.
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It is lovely, isn't it Big Sister!
Now... get out there and back to work, wumman!
;oP
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Hmm - I wonder if this will work?
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Hmm - They must have missed that one!
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Professor Loon!!!!
Welcome back! I wonder what else they have missed - we seem to be able to get away with most things on the beach!!!
I ought to have lunch but I cant really be fiddled with all that. The soup sounds good though!!
Maybe I'll see if there are any mince pies in the NC Bar!!
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Fifi (194)
Very nice, thank you.
You aren't turning into Ed I,are you?
Where is he these days?
Eddddd!!!
I'm really peed off!
All ready to strip a chair, rubber gloves (new) neatly fitted, wire wool at the ready....can I get the top off the bottle?
NO!
Child proof!! Bah! Humbug!
"Press down and uncrew"
I've practically been upside down on the bottle if you know what I mean>
Any advice?
Back to'' you know who ''I fear.
Mollyxx
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Molly, do be careful! That stuff's nasty. I've got a lovely little device that helps me with tops like that (not that this helps YOU much!)
If the top is metal, would it help to run it under hot water?
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Big Sis
No.Horrible, horrible plastic.
I've just put my glasses on-wise, you see!
I am now going to shove a knife inside the top. It clicks and clicks- driving me mad. Honestlly, I've been wrestling with it for 40 mins.
Bah!
mollyxx
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Molly 200, You should always read the instructions carefully. That is 'press down and unscrew' not 'press down and uncrew'. Try again.
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Molly - Try this:
Place bottle on a non slip surface and hold with one hand
Place the PALM of your other hand on the bottle top and press down
Continuing to press down, slowly turn your palm in an anti-clockwise direction.
If that doesn't work, I'll send JimmyGiro round to have a try.
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Molly, Seriously now, drill a hole in the lid, pour the contents into an old Lambrusco (or other screw top bottle) and put on the screw top. Keep away from children....and old people....and pickpockets!
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molly (200)..
..wot you need is an expert.
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.....go and buy a new chair!
DiY:-) (always there when u need him)
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204: Just don't send him this way! I've had enough of unpicking his arguments for one night, and don't fancy meeting him here. That is, unless he is capable of light-hearted off-topic conversation - but given his characteristic short fuse, it probably wouldn't take much to extract another rant against "feminism".
However, if anyone else has stumbled here as a refuge and escape from yesterday's Glass Box, I'd like to give you a warm welcome. Help yourself to food and drink from the bar, but don't take the sausages too near the camels...unless you deliberately want to donate them to the camels that is!
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One hour till the Late Shift of Fifi's petsitting pentathlon ... which from tomorrow morning should be only a quadrathlon ... and then I can at last have a little glass of something to celebrate the arrival of the next project I have to work on!
* does little dance *
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Gosh! It's a bit steamy in the Glass Box.
Time for a nice cup of tea and a biscuit before bed..(We know how to' live' in East Sussex!)
Thanks for the handy hints-pivoting on my palm was not easy, the drill slipped and lascerated my foot and the chair is now in pieces in the dustbin.
Actually, I think DIY is right- tomorrow is another day- off to the Chair Doctor to do the job for me.
Mollyxx
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fifi - well done to you, gal. I'm sure that all your little furry friends are appreciating you hugely!
Molly - are you sure it isn't one like I was using last week where not only do you have to press down and turn but also squeeze in at the sides at the same time? (Mine was Teak Oil - hardly enormously dangerous)
Whooh, nastly stuff going on in the GB, what is it with that guy? I almost let myself get dragged in last night, then I remembered "Don't feed the trolls" ;-)
Where IS Ed I? On the Campaign Trail?
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Molly,
thanks for you wonderful haiku (189), I hope the Chair Doctor will sort it for you... tricky things, childproof tops. I know one way is to put the top gently in a vice, but failing that, a heavy drawer will do, if you lean against it.
Of course, having a child handy who can open the blasted thing is even better!!!
Let's have another biscuit, and I'll join you in a cuppa before Book at Bedtime...
n-n
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I once knew a nice lady with rheumatism who could only get at the tablets for her rheumatism in their child-proof bottle when her two--year-old grandson was visiting her. He would open the bottle for her by standing on it while holding a chair, and twisting until the cap came loose.
(No, really, it's true!)
Gosh, you know, us underwater types are very glad to be aquarian when there are flames all over the place.
Fifi -- have a drink! You have clearly earned at least one more than you have already been offered.
mittfh, words fail me when I look at your patient explaining...
Everyone else, you can stop that cheering, I am going back underwater no
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12 years ago at Uni I had a tendancy to get on the wrong side of flamewars on the university's internal newsgroups.
Since then I've realised that mudslinging rarely gets you far - so I've decided to attempt to be as rational and objective as possible. Every point of view I put across is hedged with mays and mights - even though some have problems with the deliberate ambiguity.
However, the person on the wrong side of the current debate has started to raise his game with a link to a lengthy statistical analysis on his own blog to attempt to justify his viewpoint. Some trolls can be driven into an inescapable corner, or carefully manipulated into a position whereby their arguments generate lots of unintentional mirth. Unfortunately, You Know Who isn't so easily manipulated.
Having said that, he has invoked Godwin's Law, and has even accused the moderators of being fascist bigots. If I was a mod, even if he posted something that didn't break the house rules, I'd take a long walk or have a lunch break before accepting the post.
-oOo-
Anyway, serious stuff over, who's for another glass of whatever wine we've got going? Cheers!
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mittfh, ahoy, ahoy! Pull up a bollard!
I will take a glass of wine with you if I may, for you, sir, are a scholar and a gentleman.
Last time I looked there was still a glass or two left of a nice little domestic burgundy with no breeding, and I think you'll be amused by its legs...
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* holds out glass *
Late shift completed, and en route I checked next door and the lights are on ... so I really AM down to just 3 cats and 1 dog tomorrow. Whew.
All the furry fiends are my adoring slaves now. Next door think it's quite amusing that their cat Lucy cold-shoulders them when they come home from hols now... and look past them for me!
* shakes glass gently, as a reminder *
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I trust that plonker JG doesn't frequent the beach
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It's very dark - and I got carried away in a glassbox!
I'll pop back in at 10:00 with a nice cafietere and scrambled eggs with black truffles sprinkled - well perhaps shredded on top
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morning froggers!
I'm just going to sit here admiring the view and wait for the coffee and scrambled eggs.
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Mmm, Jonnie, I'm up for it! Can you arrange it for Samantha to deliver the goods to DiY? ;o)
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Big Sis and Stewart - I'm afraid that Samantha is having the morning off for a bit of a rest. As you may know she is a qualified croupier and often works at an exclusive Soho club where gamblers pay top money to pay roulette all day and poker all night.
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jonnie.....come on. chop chop, look sprightly!
We is waiting for the coffee and scrambled eggs!
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BB (221)...LOL...are you familiar with the 'Naughty Step'?
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DIY - There is a plaque on the naughty step with my original name on it.
Anyway, (221) is a direct quote from ISIHAC. If Humph could get away with it, then so should I.
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C'mon Jonnie, with those scrambled eggs - it's nearly time for elevenses!
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Val, I fear we might have to make it brunch. On the positive side, the portions will be larger ;o)
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BB, so there is. I didn't spot it under that old towel!
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Oh, sorry....it's a horse blanket!
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Are you sure it isn't one of Fabio's towels, DiY?
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Who else is heading to thenaughty step today? Oops!
Better find Samantha's 36 Bees
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I see Samantha has wandered over to smokers' corner. I hear she likes fine cigars. She particularly enjoys a hand-rubbed Cuban....
Okay, budge up on the Naughty Step!
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Samantha has to nip out again to see an elderly Lord who regularly complains to Radio 4 about their parliamentary coverage. She says she thinks he's even going to start getting a little hard on Today In Parliament
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Hey Hey! - I've managed to have a direct quote from a pre-watershed and classic Radio4 comedy programme referred to the moderators!
Got to be worth 10 points, that!
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I think somone's playing silly burghers, having been referred for name-calling elsewhere...
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FF - Perhaps. Do you think I should complain about my own (221)?
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Samantha has just popped back from NC's where she found the producer was filming a documentary. He was pleased to see Samantha as he needed a body double, and explained that although he wasn't sure he could use her arms or hands, he'd certainly be happy to find her legs a part...
(budge up you lot)
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...Samantha tells me it's time to let her whippet out...
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Cripes! Someone doesn't like us talking about Samantha here. Still, I see she's popped out for an Ice cream. She says there's nothing that she likes better than to lick the nuts off a Neapolitan...
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FF - When she has finished her ice cream Samantha has to take her German Shepherd to the park to give him a stroke while he licks her face and pants.
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Boys, boys! I'm black affronted - as my gran was wont to say.
I daresay we shouldn't say that these days? Mods?
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Ach Val - If it is OK for Radio4 at lunchtime and teatime its got to be OK here.
As usual, Samantha has been down in the gramaphone library researching the teams' records, aided and abetted by the two kindly old archivists, Curly Smith and Chalky White. Samantha was saying she's been helping them rearrange their work rostas recently. Chalky was getting a bit worried that Samantha might reduce his overtime shift, but cheered up when instead he saw her shorten Curly's.
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I hear the mods have applied for double time for having to work on this blog. Something about people "winding them up" and "taking the mickey" apparently. Several are on beta blockers already.
They're only doing their job, you know...They didn't realise what was involved when they heard about "The P M Blog"
Really, the Headmaster will be called in here soon to give you all a talking to at this rate.
And you'll all have to stay after school and write out lines on the Naughty Step.
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Left a bit, right a bit, down a bit - whoah!
Righteo, that's a 30' extension to the Naughty Step installed, which should be enough for the majority of Samantha's fanclub...
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A large crate of champagne for the Beach, nicely chilled.
Save one bottle for Eddie and the team. Make that two. Or three.
*Pop pop pop*
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Talking of fine wines:
Samantha says she has to nip off now as she's been invited to stay with her new gentleman friend in his Bordeaux chateau. He's asked her to help taste some of his vintage clarets and she's looking forward to trying a robust '86 and a rather tempting '72, before joining him in the cellar to enjoy a full-bodied '69.
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sorry miss (243), we got bored waiting for our coffee and scrambled eggs miss.
oh, and miss the rubber jonnie let me borrow to correct me english puncturation homework has broke miss.
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I think celebrations are definitely called for :D
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FF, wot we celebrating, not that I need any partycular excuse!
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DIY, I have a secret to whisper to you. Lean closer....
[the troll's gone!]
... okay, you can move back now DIY. .....DIY???? ......DIY!!!!!!
;o)
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What on earth could you all be celebrating?!
Good to see such a happy atmosphere, long may it stay that way.
My favourite:
Samantha tell us she has to nip off now to see her gentleman beautician friend now, who has a leg-hair treatment for her. He lays ribbons of sticky wax paper on her thighs and then lets them dry. Then, Samantha says, she likes lie back and watch, as he rips the paper strips and wax off for her...
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Oh bold! and in bold
Meanwhile:
As is customary on these occassions, Samantha has spent several hours researching the teams' discs in the gramaphone library. She popped down there this morning to find the archivist had rushed back from his hiking holiday especially to open the place up for her. Still with his boots and napsack on, he was kindly tidying the place up. Samantha says there's nothing better than a neat rambler down in the basement.
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Ahem,
Samantha forgot to make her 10:00 am appearance with the tea but on hearing that a celebration was underway on the beach she fancied an afternoon nap and sharing her crumpet with marksettle and brokenBronko
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Oh and great news by the way ;-)
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thanks Feefs!
that's brightened my day no end!
in RL i am grouting tiles....and i hates grouting tiles
jonnie, do you want yer rubber back?
miss gave me 4/10 fur me english punktyation.
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Is there any champagne left? Can I propose a toast to the lovely Marc and everyone else who has helped defeat the troll?
Happy, happy, happy . . .
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I've heard that Samantha is going to a high society ball later with her female friends. She said she's looking forward to seeing all the big nobs hang out. Of course as it's so high class, the girls will all probably end up trying to speak with plums in their mouths....
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Incidentally, Samantha tells me she's off with a team of local paramedica this evening. They're so excited at the thought: they can't wait for her to arrive so they can get their ambulance and stretcher out for the night . . .
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Marcsettle (251) - thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you.........
Any champers left?
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What ho!
Loving the appearance of Samantha on the PM Blog once again. RIP Humph, the World is a colder place without you.
Samantha tells me she has to nip off now to see her new Gentleman friend. He's a keen angler apparently, and Samantha says she can't wait to have a go on his rod and tackle...
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Samantha tells me she has to nip out to the local golf course where she's caddying for a nice old gentleman. She's learnt all about the different types of club and she says if he gets stuck in an awkward lay she'll pull out his wood and nibblet.
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Next week, Samantha is off to visit her ornithologist friend. He has a large number of wild birds on his grounds. She says she enjoys nothing more than a quick rummage in the thicket, where she can see his woodcock, pullet, and swallow.
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Samantha has to nip off to the National Opera where she's been giving private tuition to the singers.
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Having seen what she did to the baritone, the director is keen to see what she might do for a tenor.
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Samantha tells me she's had to nip out to meet a nice chap who's training her in computer skills.
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Tonight she hopes he's going to show her the 3 1/2 inch floppy he's got in his Mac.
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I'm looking forward to a proper Glass Box tonight!
;o)
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IRL, someone made the fatal mistake of leaving a box of chocolate chip cookies within my reach...
...and now there are only a dozen left...
...anyone fancy the remainder before I scoff the lot?
Meanwhile, I'll be doing a spot of shopping en-route home from work - anyone got any requests for food/drink to bring here for this evening's visit?
Apart from a collection of ISIHAC CDs, that is...
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ff 265, Only five minutes to go.
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What a happy bunch! And, like Gillianian, I say 'Thank you Thank you Thank you' to the gods in the PM Olympus.
Right, anyone got a lamb we can sacrifice? ;o)
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Evening all!!! And I have brought another half dozen bottles of freshly chilled champers!!!! Cheers!!!
*pours, liberally*
Meanwhile, Samantha tells me she has to pop out now, as she usually does a few chores on a Weds afternoon for an elderly gentleman who lives nearby. She shows him how to use the washing machine and then goes out to prune his fruit trees. Later he'll be hanging out his pyjamas as he watches her beaver away up the ladder...
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n-n.....is ish ok to drinksh champersh by the pint?
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Big Sishh.....oi got loads of chook stir fry left over if that's any use?
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Re 224 What did I ever "get away with"?
*walks off muttering stuff about RL stuff getting in the way of important Frog stuff*
H.
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I haven't a clue; just got back from yet another night-time cross-country drive against ever brighter headlights. Do I need the purple hammock.
But I will be going back soon. I may be a long time.
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It's very quiet here on the Beach tonight isbn't it? This business of not having anything alcofrolic to drink till after I've completed the late shift (petsitting) is doing no good to the party atmosphere!
However I will have a small glass of champers please ... just a unit, please ... so my driving and petsitting abilities will not be compromised.
I promise to make up for it later.
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FifI (274),
I hear PM, but at present not able to respond until several hours later. How I hate modern head-lamps. I hit the curb this evening, because of such lamps. One hell of a shock.
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Deepthought - how nice to see you here ;o)
The purple hammock has been reserved for you, and the fairy lights have a dimmer switch, so feel free to adjust the brightness.
Let's both have a glass of bubbly.
*cheers!*
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Caught up with you at last Deepthought - let me toast you too!
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Hey Deepthought - great to see you back here.
I promise to serve a nice Cafietere at 11 tomorrow to satisfy DIY ;-) please feel welcome - as always to join us for a gossip
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I think Fifi caught up and consumed her unit and more.
Tried to contact her on one of those social networking sites but after a comment she fell asleep!
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Our straplines are getting better by the day! Full marks to Wonko for today's effort!
Meanwhile, I'm off to bed now. See you on Beach 84 tomorrow!
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Samantha was thrilled to be invited to watch the PM programme going out live this afternoon
She really enjoyed settling in next to Marc and watching him tinkering with Eddie's rather long cue
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Did I miss something? Did someone say that the Billy Goats Gruff have done the business?
Thank you thank you (you know the rest!)
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Fell asleep my farce*!
I was just resting my eyes I'll have you know.
;o)
* Fifi Rhyming Slang
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Wonderful weekend, this. I've eaten so much really good food, I might easily go POP!
And now the sun is shining.
Anyone for sandcastles??
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Gosh! I know it's a bit late but thank you for all the lovely birthday greetings here! I had a VERY busy work day on the day itself, so celebrated the next day -- Saturday -- instead.
Aren't froggers just the bestest?! :-)
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