The Beach.
Hello. Welcome to my beach.
It's a place to take all your inhibitions off and run into the sea and have a dip...
Go to the bar have a drink or just lay down and sun yourself...
because the sun always shines on the beach.
Be nice.
Say nice things.
Have a nice day.
Listen to PM
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First on the beach, only my footprints in the sand. I'll tread quietly so as not to wake those slumbering in the hammocks.
Breakfast on shortly after I return from my early morning dip.
Ooops! forgot the speedos, ah well, there's nobody about.............
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Morning, froggers all!
Yawn... I've only managed freshly-squeezed orange juice and coffee so far.
And a few warm croissants, honey and marmalade... anyone want to pup over to Nick's and do the cooked breakfasts?
It's a gorgeous morning in the Real Life place, so I'm going back there to enjoy.
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Oooh, simultaneous postings, mansaylo. You do the cooking.
I promise I won't look when you emerge from your dip.
;o)
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'pup' Frances - are we to have some new companions on this lovely beach?
Can I look after the borzoi please? I paid for the tail feathers of ours with 12d of my own money. His kennel club name was Brunovitch of Yadasar (we called him Setty for reasons best known to the three year old me) and his long silky coat was the colours of Lassie. He'd have loved having a huge beach like this to run on. Happy memories.
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Nice picture... not me this time.
Just woken up, it looks like a nice day here in RL , and a bank holiday to boot....
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Morning All! Nice Breakfast Mansaylo and Frances, thanks, just what I needed!
Would you like us to turn our backs while you come out of the water Mansaylo?
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mansaylo. That sight of no speedos certainly woke me up.
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As the water was a bit chilly this morning, those of you that looked away as I emerged from the briny didn't miss much.
Now I'm suitably attired I'll get the breakfast on, after which I shall retire to the naughty step for a little while.
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Oooh, just timed it right for some coffee. Thanks, Mansaylo!
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What ho!
RL has torn me away from the Beach for a few days, mainly due to the actions of a certain organised labour movement.
I see I'm just in time for second breakfast, excellent.
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Aha, so you are a Hobbit, Wonko!
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ooooh - I know who sent that! Someone's teacher's pet this week. ;-)
SO has just finished our cellar "conversion" (ie converted from a painted- brick concrete-floored tip into a lined, wooden-floored gracious-living spare room). Mpb spent the night there last night, with the cat on the bed, and was able to report he gets up several times in the night for a little snack. She could hear him crunching the dried food in the other cellar. Hence his size...
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I used to have a moggy, Foster we called him. After a couple of years he weighed in at 16Lbs. Vet suggested a new diet, special, expensive dried moggy dinner in small amounts. After one month on this diet, Foster had gained another pound.
Reason, next door had a moggy AND a cat-flap, and wondering why his cat was getting through a lot of cat food.
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FF - actually I'm more of a cave troll! ;o)
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Or so Mrs Wonko would have you believe, certainly first thing in the morning.
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Funny, I could have sworn that I sent a NEW photo for The Beach. Not as boring as the old one above. Oh well, no taste I guess.
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I've done it again haven't I? Wandering about last week's beach, wondering why it's so quiet...
;o)
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Mornin' all (just about!)
I've decided to drop in - both to take a break from a monotonous task at work and to take a break from a clogged up nose that's been plaguing me since 5am (hayfever). To keep you going, I've brought along a bottle of each colour of wine (red, rose and white), the obligatory Pimms, and a selection of cakes / muffins / flapjacks / biscuits / etc. (since last week's supply was exhausted by the trio of celebrations yesterday).
Oh, and a pack of sausages for the camels...
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Camels are herbivores....
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Septic (19) The Beach camels are a strange lot. They're partial to any food that's going, and never ever leave any alcohol where they might find it!
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I never leave alcohol......
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Septic: the camels have been omnivores for ages - as back as the early days of the blog when the PM Frog Song (Go to a well known video sharing site and watch?v=Gfbpx2Aa0Qo) was recorded, a line was included about one of the camels pinching a sausage...
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Is it Pimms O'Clock yet? Sun must be over the yard arm somewhere in the World...
Thanks for the muffins and flapjacks mittfh, very tasty.
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Hi Wonko, it's always Pimms O'Clock on the beach. Along with G & T O'Clock, Bacardi & Coke O'Clock etc.
My treat, what'll you have?
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Ahoy, hoy Mansaylo! Most kind, large Pimms and lemonade please, plenty of fruit...
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I'll have a G&T, easy on the T.
Can you get The Old Janx Spirit in this planet??
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David McN (16) either you go to the same place on holiday as me or you have a bad case of false deja vu. That photo was only sent in last week and taken the week before!
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PS WOnko may I join you in that Pimms? Getting towards the end of a busy day and need girding for even more work tomorrow......
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gossipmistress - would be glad to have your company, but I don't think we'd both fit in the glass.
;o)
Mansaylo - I have yet to find that Ole Janx Spirit anywhere outside The Old Pink Dog Bar, Handol City. Mind you I do know someone who - inspired by a certain television comedy programme starring Rik Mayal and Ade Edmundson - who made vodka margerine!
It wasn't good.
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Mansaylo: I don't know about The Old Janx Spirit, but if you knew where to acquire it, the bar would stock it - and its most famous cocktail - the PGGB.
(Well, it's a virtual beach - why not have cocktails that don't exist IRL?)
So while we're at it, I'll add a few three dimensional immersions of klein bottles and add them to the bar shelf.
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gm 27, OK, it just looks like the others. You certainly wouldn't mistake mine for them. Mine was taken two days ago.
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gm 27, We're going to Brittany.
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Ah, "Footprints". And, thanfully, in this picture, two sets...
At least four versions and three authors it seems. Take your pick:
http://www.wowzone.com/fprints.htm
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Anne P - he's yours. All puppies to Anne, please.
Oh, dear, I'm not doing too well today, am I, what with pups and blurry petunias?
I blame it on 5 hours' sleep, antihistamines (no, they didn't help) and a 2-hour journey across London yesterday.
Or perhaps I just need glasses.
Here's one to start with. Hmm, looks empty [holds glass out hopefully]
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Gossymrs, it's a lovely photo. May we enquire as to where in Cornwall it is?
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A quick paddle in the briny, after a talk about cardiac rehab and my elderly parent describing the post-surgery hallucination she was having while we were chatting in the day room.
How is everyone?
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Tired, dog tired (or should that be pup tired?), but compared to you probably as bouncy as a castle. I have a spare glass here. G&T?
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Odd things post surgery effects, Fifi - my father after heart surgery addressed his nurses in fluent Italian - a language he hadn't spoken for about fifty years when on relief work in Abyssinia (as it was then).
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Mmmmm....Pimms.....just the ticket before I tootle off to the Cricket Club. Thanks, chaps ;o)
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we are all fine fifi. I' m taking away for tea so what sort of take should I get you?
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stewart make no mistake, I could partake in a huge stake.*
Sorry I haven't been on the beach today, to paraphrase wonko, RL getting in the way again. Anyway various crates of scrumpy and beer on the bar - help yourselves.
*misspell intended
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BTW posting from my wii (other consoles available) on my new wireless connection, sorry for any typos.
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Ho di ho. I managed a hi de hi on last week's beach, and then never got back for the rest of it :-(
Everyone ok? Very sunny again here in RL today, which is nice. See FranO's petunia thread for what I've been doing since I got home at teatime.
Blood boiling nicely, due to not being able to shout at the requisite people. Email duly fired off to the suppliers now, although not to the deliverers as I am without their details. Who's to blame? Watch this space on Monday, I'll have steam coming from my ears by then.
Yes please - alcohol, any way, shape or form thanks!
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ValeryP here's a nicely chilled pint of scrumpy, and for your other hand a glass of cool lager and lime.
sorted :-)
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Could someone pass the gin please...
Just sent the teenage daughter out to her friends for the night. What a relief! Peace and quiet at last.
Sadly due to the TT races, the half term holiday is held late here - it's been this week - but the GCSE exams can't be held over.
So, not only has she had to go into school over half term to do exams, today is also a bank holiday here which means that after the exam finished all the shops were shut.
Stroppy teenage girl - will swap for fish tank. Fish not essential.
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Sorry septic i'm all full after that stake, but have this large GandT, hold the T ;-)
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Call that a large one? And, just a dash of tonic - for the anti-malarial properties.
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mittfh
Thank you so much for the liquid refreshment at the you- know -where....
I'm afraid my techie skills (lack of) prevented me from doing anything but seeing it and gloating that I'd managed to do even that.
(Cripes! What an awful sentance.....)
Right- Rounders anyone ?
Mollyxx
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Rounders, Molly? I'm much too full and comfy, in fact much (ahem) rounder than earlier this evening.
Val P, I'm so sorry about your misdelivery and look forward to your eventual successful revenge, or at least compensation.
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Gin, Scrumpy, Pimms...ANything please! Escaping the noisy neighbour's street party in RL. Can anyone do a rain dance so they all shut up and go inside?
Frances - it is Porthcurno, between Penzance and Sennen and famous for being the hub of the transatlantic cables first laid in the 1850's. Amazing museum there and up on the cliffs is the Minack theatre. Fantastic spot!
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Oooh, GMx, I've been to the Minack Theatre -what a wonderful evening we had, took our own picnic and all :-) Do we just follow around in each other's footsteps, I wonder? I went there in 2003 mind you...
Thank you for scrumpy and lager and lime combo TWIC, it went down a treat, and now I feel much, erm, better.
I'll feel even better, FO, when I manage to speak to a body at the end of a phone! This email stuff is all very well, but who knows if they'll have read my screeds of invective or looked at my attached photos.....
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Septic - stroppy teenage girl will grow out of it, eventually, promise! Had lunch with mine today (20 now) and she was pretty civilized, finally :-) In fact she was a joy to be with.
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What do do this morning, what to do..?
Think I'll rest in this hammock for a few minutes, while I decide which of my long list of chores to tackle first, before the epic journey to the hospital again.
...What to do firszzz... zzz... zzz...
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Thank you, gossymrs! Porthcurno sounds wonderful.
Val P, speak to a human being?????? What do you think this is, the C20th?
But at least you've got evidence, and proof that you've contacted them. Whether they choose to receive your message - well, now, that's another story.
Frogs' legs crossed.
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Fifi, after 2 nights of insomnia, I'm inclined to agree that zzzzzzzzz is agood idea, but there's stuff to do in that odd place called Real Life.
Hope the hospital visit is not too distressing.
{{{frugs}}}
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Hospital has been going well, thanks Frances. Just a bit wearing that the whole afternoon and most of the evening is needed, to get to/from visiting times that clash with my normal eating times!
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I just got four gallons of elderflower wine going to go along with the gallon of mead, gallon of raspberry, and gallon of redcurrant. The 'crop' of elderflowers was rubbish last year, but they are all over the place this year.
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Think I might raid the chip shop on the way home tonight, just so I get something hot to eat for a change.
Any orders? Bearing in mind I won't get back till around 9pm, and will still have garden-watering and phone call-answering to do after that...
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If you come round to mine there'll probably be some chicken korma with special rice and fresh pickle left, Feefs; should go OK with the chips.
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Or maybe that should be fresh chutney. Made today, anyway. Tomato, mint from garden, onion, spices, lemon juice.
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Wahay! It's the first first aiding duty of the year where I've not been rained on!!
I was, however, stuck in a surreal situation all day - vintage rally in a small village. My colleague kept saying "This isn't Dibley is it? I can't remember where we are." She followed this up with an exclamation of surprise that old cars weren't all black and white "like they are in the photos." It was a very long day.
We did win a Barbie Easter egg if anyone wants a piece.
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Well I'm back again, and the chips were lovely thanks.
I'm now going to do some more chores and make a list of things to do in the morning... because the patient may well be coming home tomorrow, a day sooner than I was expecting!
*frantically tries to hide the gin bottles*
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Well Fifi, good luck with getting your mother home. At least she shouldn't be like my mother in a similar situation a couple of months ago (quadruple bypass) when she went INTO hospital by ambulance (a horrible 60 mile journey over winding hills) and 8 days after the op (which included 5 days of intensive care) was then sent OUT of hospital in a taxi and took the train home!
How tough is that? That's NZ for you. They reckon once you're fixed, you're fixed, and get on with it, obviously!
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Good luck, Feefs, hope it goes well for both of you. I'm glad she's better than she was.
No more long journeys - that's got to be another plus.
(Annasee - they're a hardy lot, those Kiwis!)
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Woken by two blackbirds having a vociferous feud. Yelling, even dive-bombing each other. One took refuge in the garden.
Now here's a question for any bird-lovers: the one hiding here looked, well, brown. Female? I wondered. If so, why indulge in a shouting match? Blackbirds don't mate for life.
So could it have been a squabble about whose turn it was to feed the chicks...?
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Good early afternoon everyone!
What a great beach photo - love it. Who took it? Gossipmistress? Where is it?
Had a sojourn at 4.15am to collect somewhat swaying son from village nearby after BBQ and late night revels and the mists and pink/red skies in the distance more than made up for the 'rude awakening'.
It being Sunday and as am slightly out of kilter due to above, is Pimms O'Clock moved to lunchtime?
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Frances: that's strange behaviour. Sure it was a female blackbird and not a song thrush, mistle thrush or ring ouzel? They are the same size and similar colouring.
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In short, no, Lady Sue. It sounded like a blackbird fight. But I'm no birder. And I don't know whether those other birds make many appearances in this urban jungle.
Or perhaps it was a cross-dressing male blackbird?
The photo is by Gossipmistress and her no 50 will give you all the details. Doesn't it look gorgeous?
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Fifi 58 (and others) Anybody here ever made sauteed potatoes, using a bit of parsley, from leftover chips cut into small cubes? Very nice. We have a bag full of them in the freezer. Waste not, whatnot.
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David, I'll see your Mead and Raise you an IPA. (just started the brew) It should be ready for Mrs Stewart M's Birthday BBQ in a few weeks.
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For those who may have missed the Homer Simpson Emoticon (rotate clockwise)
( _8(I)
Apparently all the rage...
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We're on to Plan B: patient is coming home tomorrow, not today.
Sadly, the nurse who was going to ring me, so I wouldn't leave here at 11.30 when visiting doesn't start till 2.30... didn't.
I turned up bearing an empty holdall to bring home all my mum's stuff -and spent most of the day bored while she took a much needed nap or between visiting hours.
And tomorrow, I have it to do all over again... only this time I'll RING FIRST just to make sure it's not Plan C!
Is there any IPA left? I have a Leffe bruin in the fridge which I treated myself to on the way home but I'm not sure it's chilled enough yet.
;o)
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Wide selection of Belgian beer available. Two crates brought back from my recent jaunt. Try some of my bush! 12%.
IPA will be three weeks.
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Oh, Stewart! *looks flustered* I'm not sure whether you should be on the naughty step after that offer, or I should.
*reads it again, very care-ful-ly*
... or maybe both of us, with the curtains drawn?
;oD
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Hmm. First time I've seen Fifi blush.
Good news: it's fun on the naughty step!
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Hmmm. I think it was on BH this morning that I heard a trail by Eddie for his Speaker's Week. I'm pretty sure that he said that it was on Eddie Mair's PM. That unnecessary and inappropriate personalisation has made it pretty certain that I won't be listening. Shame.
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Take it with the tongue in cheek as it should have been. I missed the trailer but there was a bit in the blog that had that line.
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I think I missed the tongue in cheek bit. I think I'll miss Speaker's Week as well.
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(stage whisper from the naughty step)
Heard this on another channel tonight and was strangely moved:
As I stand on the mountaintop, as the great bird approaches.
She is small in my sight, but grows larger on approach until I am blessed with the full sight of her graceful wings, proud countenance and good company.
All too quickly, she grows small again on the horizon and disappears from view.
And I call out, "Look, there. She's gone."
But there are other mountaintops beyond me.
And at the precise moment when I note the great bird's departure form my view, I know there are new eyes taking up the sight of her.
And fresh voices calling out, "Here she comes!"
x
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Morning, all! Coffee, tea, muesli and croissants at Nick's; I'll leave the cooking to Wonko or mansaylo, if they're here soon.
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Oh, and - Sid, you promised not to tell.
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Hi FO, full English on the go. Hash browns, bacon, sausage, black pud, etc. All keeping warm in the hostess trolley.
You'll have to get your own eggs as I have a busy day in the office. I'll try and pop back from time to time. In between fag breaks!!
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OK, no probbies, I've got plenty of eggs here, plus [thud] frying pan, [clunk] [clank] saucepans.
Don't get drenched in your fag breaks.
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Morning all
Cossackgirl (_8(I) - love the Homer Simpson.
Mansaylo - full english is just what I need, thanks.
V busy in RL today, I'll pop by when I get a chance.
Happy Monday!
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Morning all.
Just had a look at that headline BBC news story about men being at a higher risk of cancer than women. Amazed to find it might have snapped a paparazzi pic of Paddy and Eddie recording the trail at Speaker's Corner last week. Have a look! (Sorry can't do proper links but this was the page)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8097639.stm
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Annasee, which is which. .Great set of man boobs
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Morning Froggers and Peeps!
Scrambled eggs on toast for me please. Mrs DiY has eyes like a hawk and has still got me on this viscous diet!
Mind you I have gone from 16st 1lb when we got back from Oz down to 15st 2lb at the Saturday morning weigh in! At this rate I will soon need a pair of braces to hold up the Speedos.
re... (_8(I) Brill!
Thanks to annasee for the cheerful link!
DiY :-p
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This is going to be a troublesome day - it has started badly and is looking like being horribly consistent!
Please try to leave the hammock free so I can plop into it at odd moments during the day ... or if not, be prepared to budge up a bit, and kick me out again when the patient (as she undoubtedly will) bellows for my attention.........
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Fifi - Please don't plop into the hammock.
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88/89 might be a health risk ;-)
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I've just been treating a cat called Eddie. He's a nice old gent with slightly thinning hair and a mankey toe. He's very chatty....
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Annassee - hahaha!
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GM - thought you'd like it. Eddie the cat sounds lovely. Someone should give him a radio show if he's that chatty!
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Is there a hammock free? I need to de-stress for half an hour. A quiet snooze in the sun should do the trick.
Wake me at G&T O'Clock.
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The clinking of glasses woke me up. I've overslept! Never mind, I'll have a fortifying G & T. Anyone care to join me?
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Seein' as it is nearly three o'clock, how about a nice cup of tea and a sit down?
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Seein' as it's just gone three o'clock, how about another G&T and a lie down?
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Mansaylo, sadly drinking G&T and working on the IT Helldesk is not advised!
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Cup of tea will suit me fine, thanks DIY. Here you are Mansaylo - have this large G&T.
Fifi, do hope things are a bit better now. I'll plump up the cushions in the purple hammock for you.
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Any chance I can have a glass of the amber ambrosia from the Glens a bit later?
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DIY. I'd have thought working on the Helldesk and a G&T were mutually inclusive.
Here, try and force one down.
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Well, the first was fine.
The second was pretty good toe
Nurmber three wash sprendid
tHE fOrTh weNt welsh wid the doenuts
Rumber foive......THUD
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DIY - glad to see you're a fan of Nicey and Wifey too!
Seems to be catching this 'day from a very hot place' trouble. I'll have a large G&T too please, large G, small T...
ice and a slice of lime please.
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"tHE fOrTh weNt welsh", eh, DI?
It came over all 'pedwaredd'*
*NB: please correct this if necessary
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Oh, all right, I used a Welsh word. It was a joke, OK? In quotation marks.
Sigh.
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Look North 8.00pm news headlines just told me that max temp tomorrow is 19 degrees farenheit. Brrrrrrr
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Morning froggers, newts and camels.
Breakfast on the go, aspirin and Alka Seltzer on the bar for the hangovers. Hair of the dog for those that want it.
I'll just nip round the back of the bar for a quick Woodbine while the sausages are grilling.
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Morning Mansaylo, sausages you say? Marvellous, just what I need to get my strength up for what's likely to be another hectic day in RL.
Time for a vat of coffee.
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Hi Wonko, how'd you like the sausages? I would suggest in a sandwich with HP Sauce (other brown sauces are available).
Goood and strong Ethiopian Coffee on the bar.
Enjoy.
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What ho!
I regret to inform that I prefer the red kind of sauce. Not to worry, I have brought a supply.
Ta for the coffee.
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Morning, frogfriends!
Sunshine and the lightest of breezes in RL after yesterday's downpour. I can almost hear those plants growing.
No sausages for me, thanks, mansaylo. There's a suspicious-looking camel lurking nearby, trying to impersonate a sand dune. Can I have extra bacon instead?
Ohh, that coffee's just what I needed.
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Morning Frances!
Bacon? Nobody mentioned there was bacon! Ah, super crispy, just how I like it. I can feel those arteries furring as I... erm... type.
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Morning Froggers!
Sausage sandwich please Mansaylo with plenty of mustard. It will be my one treat this week!
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David, Thanks for the tip about sauteeing leftover chips. The are delish. Any more tips?
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Don't mention it. Always willing to help. Yes, PG Tips.
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morning all!
i'll get the eggs on for those of us on late breakfast today. and a fresh coffee vat.
and for those who've been up for a while here's some fresh baked cookies. well i say fresh baked but really i just got them out of the packet and put them on the side in the sun.
now what to do with my surprise mid-week day off...
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Morning one and all!
Mansaylo - I'll have a sausage sarnie too please, just the way you like it (PH sauce).
David - thanks for the tip about PG tips, are you feeling alright.
Little Red - nothing like a suprise day off, unfortunately I have a suprise mid-week day in :-(
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Wish I could have a surprise mid-week day off! I'll just have a coffee, thanks! Now, who has the keys to the fridge? I have a plate full of lemon and soy chicken kebabs for the barbeque later, and I don't want the camels to nick them......
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Mmmm, cookies... Little Red you're a mind reader, just what I needed.
Also looking forward to those kebabs at lunchtime.
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TWIC 117, Sorry, I don't reply to posts. Only my own.
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DMCN 120 Your sense of irony is astounding. Have you mixed up your medication again?
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DMCN120
As God said unto Moses:
"Just keep taking the Tablets"
Exodus somewhere.
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Man goes to the Doctor complaining of a variety of health problems. After examining him the physician gives him a prescription for some tablets with the instruction to "take one of these twice a day with a hot bath".
A few days later the man returns to the Doctor asking if he has some different pills. The Sawbone asks him what's wrong with the ones he was given?
"Oh, there's nothing wrong with the tablets," says the man, "I just can't drink two hot baths a day."
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Wonko - on the same theme . . . .
A blonde is overweight, so her doctor puts her on a diet.
"I want you to eat regularly for two days, then skip a day, and repeat the procedure for two weeks. The next time I see you, you'll have lost at least five pounds."
When the blonde returns, shes lost nearly 20 pounds.
"Why, thats amazing!" the doctor says. "Did you follow my instructions?"
The blonde nods. "I'll tell you, though, I thought I was going to drop dead that third day."
"From hunger, you mean?" said the doctor.
"No, from skipping," replied the blonde.
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M 122, I'll ask Leon Uris.
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This footballer bloke Kaka [sp?]
I wonder why we don't see lads of every age loping around wearing replica t-shirts with his name on them?
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Morning all.
Gosh it's quiet, am I the only one here.
In that case breakfast is on the bar - continental style.
Cross aunts and pains of chocolate with lashings of columbian coffee...
Nice (_8(I)
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Mmm, yum, thanks, TWIC. I need that coffee (about 4 hours' sleep, par for the course these days for some reason).
I think chocolate discomforts would do perfectly for now, but I'll get the stuff ready for a full English/Scottish breakfast and/or Ulster Fry.
I wonder - is there such a thing as a full Welsh breakfast? I've never heard the phrase used....
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FO 126, Khaki Kaka t-shirts?
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Morning all,
Am I too late for some breakfast? Or coffee? It's turning out to be "one of those days" in RL. I may need some hammock time later.
;o) []
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Elevenses on the Bar - Bacon Butties and fresh coffee!
Just going for a little stroll around the headland, I'll send up a flare if I need rescuing.....
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Whats going on up at the headland? I just saw a distress flare go up and the lifeboat gun has gone off. At least I think that was what the big bang was.
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Oooooo.... 4 hunky chaps have turned up in a boat ......
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Well aren't YOU the locky one!
DiY :-)
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locky? what is this locky of which you speak?
If anyone needs me I'll be in the sparkly Hammock.
snore...
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locky is the resolt of a dizfonctionel keyborde.
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Well, GM, if 4 hunky chaps have turned up in a boat, do you still need rescuing, or shall we just leave you with them for a while??
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...mfh....MFH... ouch!...grmfle....
Who IS this in the sparkly hammock with me? Honestly, I retreat here for a quick half-hour nap while the invalid is having her afternoon lie-down - my only me-time in any day - and I'm having to share!
Still, nice and cuddly though....
...mfh...zzz...zzz....zzzzzzz......
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You can take your time Annasee....
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snore...
wah...hoosat...Oh sorry Fifi.
I'll try the purple hammock instead.
Snore...
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Roll up, roll up, roll up, penny-a-go come and have a peek at the action on the headland!
DiY :-D
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Wow..look at those tits! Aegithalos caudatus certainly are gregarious and noisy!
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Oh nice is this a private beach or can anyone join in?
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Well DiY, luckily I was being comforted back at the lifeboat station by 3 but I did see some Choughs around the headland
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CharlesDexterWard - no, it's not a private beach, please join us! Welcome! Pull up a sand dune, have a drink - it's well past Pimms O'Clock - tell us about yourself.
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evening all. fantastic news. tomorrow's another surprise mid week day off. i propose we celebrate with margaritas all round.
off for a bit of music - still hacking away at the bach - but back* soon
* there was almost a terrible pun there but i resisted...
Oh and Hello CharlesDexterWard! Welcome - have a margarita on me :o)
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Welcome CDW! Cheese nibble?
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Hi CDW, have you seen the Tits yet? If you haven't, don't worry I do believe there has been a Beaver sighting behind the Naughty step!
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diy, I think the taxidermist has been at that beaver. And quite recently. Should I join you on the naughty step
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Stewart and DiWy - have you two been overdosing on the innuendo pills again? Honestly, we can't leave you with the keys to the drugs cabinet for a minute, can we?
Can report Bill Bailey was on cracking form tonight. What a clever man he is. So wacky, so funny, and so energetic. You'd never guess he'd been doing the same show in Manchester for a week and a half already. And if I hadn't seen some of it on the telly already I'd swear he just thought it up on the spur of the moment.
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DIY - I saw those Tits flying all over the place earlier, might have been a seizure.
Budge up there Stewart
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Welcome, CDW (143) ... you have stumbled across the best Beach ever! The bar is free, there's always plenty of your favourite food, the company is nearly always wonderful, and anything is possible.
During a horrible day in real life (or RL, as we like to call it here) it can be a very effective 'holiday-in-your-head' to drop by for a few minutes and recharge your liver... er, I mean, batteries.
This round's on me, as I'm about to fall back into the sparkly hammock (the sparkles were sewn in by HelenSparkles, weren't they? it was a couple of years ago now and I'm not sure... or was it AnneP?) for a snooze after a hard evening's faffing about.
See you by the BBQ for breakfast? and then an early morning dip in the briny?
Good - that's a date then.
;o)
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Congrats to John McReynolds on the strapline - is this the final one??
Pint of coffee, please (or half a litre if we're a metric beach).
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Mornin' all. All the usual for brekkie, with the inclusion of some danish pastries. I shall have a dip in the briny this morning. This time I've remembered the Speedos.
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Thanks, Mansaylo. (For the pastries and the Speedos.)
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Thanks Mansaylo - make mine a bucket of tea please before I return to forcing a reluctant and ageing laptop to print out hundreds of scans of eighteenth century letters. I really must find out why one scanner produced files ten times larger than another. Kills the memory and requires me to shut down everything else, so closing off the path to the beach.
Fifi (152) 'twas not I made the sparkly one, but I did make the purple hammock I think. And of course I claim full rights over the young Macallan.
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Morning, mansaylo, Sid, Anne!
Groan - fifth night of insomnia - and I don't know why. Not fretting over worries, not in much discomfort in any way, really.
Could it be the weather?
Pint of coffee for me, too.
Thought - iPM could find out the answer to the great tea/coffee debate by popping in here every morning. Eddie, Jen, here are a couple of cuppas for you as well. Mmmm, that quadlatte looks good and strong... tempting...
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Hi FrancesO. I sympathise with your insomnia. I sleep well during the night but wake early in the morning, sometimes around 4:30 and just can't get back to sleep. I have to get up as my thrashing around keeps Mrs Mansaylo awake.
As a consequence I'm usually completely knackered come 10:00 in the evening. Even a pre or post prandial snooze in the hammock doesn't help.
Oh hum, more coffee I think.
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CDW, welcome to the Beach :-)
Right, RL today will be manic, as It's my last day in the office for a week and a half, so I won't be here much. Still, will bring a crate of vino collapso pronto for this evening :-)
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FF, you could always use a courier to send the Vino to the beach. It will have to be tested before dispensing among the froggers. I volunteer to be chief tester.
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Sid, Agree re strapline, better than that one that Stewart M bloke had a couple of weeks ago.
Half a litre is more than a pint. The diruretic effect will be greater
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Just noticed the strapline. That's brilliant! I wonder what the bribe was? And would an even bigger bribe get yet another final strapline? And if so, how long could the escalation continue? Eddie will be getting a moat and duck house at this rate...
I sympathise with the early morning awakening. I'm the same. Usually about 4- 5 a m, regardless of bed time. But I do find the Today programme sends me back to sleep after 6 a m, if I can stay in bed till then. Somehow, I feel all is right with the world if J Humphries is ripping some poor soul to shreds - I can relax again.
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Oddly enough, if I can get through the Shipping Forecast I feel I'm, well, home and dry - the farming programme is always interesting, and the Today programme stimulating enough to bring up some bizarre sleepiness, and if I can't sleep - well, I start the day informed and educated, and often entertained.
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Good morning, hope i find you all well. I see the sun is up so it must be time for a G+T,the marks on the beach are mine am sorry but could resist a early morning ride along the sand (but i did pick up behind us great for the roses and all that)!
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Last night round the Beach fire just above the high tide line, we swapped ghost stories.
Eerie and fun.
Then a sombre voice from someone standing back in shadow said there was a real danger. Here and now. To us all.
She said
' Have you seen them wheeling overhead during the day?
'Black sinister scimitars shapes against the sky.
'We've know for ages they are waiting to take over, As soon as we make it a fully touch screen world. Then rook beaks rule, OK?
'Now we know they get our 4X4s to crack their walnuts. Charming, you think. But even Hitchcock and Du Maurier saw only a part of the dark side.
'Now, in secluded lanes where the odd single car goes too fast, they are shepherding pheasants into the road to restock their Ladas. And they are veering across windscreens to......'
She broke off. The fire flared and her features were suddenly illuminated from below. She looked ghastly, her hair matted from the salt and the sea, her eyes haunted by fear of the caw of the crow.
'.....to try....to try... to.. to augment their road kill menus with dishes too horrendous to describe.' she finally manged to say.
'Careful, as you lie in those hammock or fall asleep in the dues.
'This carrion carry on is no joke.
'Be warned.
'Put notices up.
'Get catapults and air guns.'
We laughed nervously. Said to her that Poe was beyond the pale. But she was gone.
We didn't sleep much last night. The early morning cries of the seagulls, like raucous ghosts, seemed to be a portent. In the air. On the wind. The days of the crow nations had dawned it seemed.
Then we got the fire re-stared and cooked bangers on sticks in the sunshine.
We laughed off our nervousness and tiredness.
We tried not to remember the night's tale, either, as the rooks hovered, flopped and hopped towards us. After tidbits, weren't they. Weren't they?
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MAA. See my post at 122
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122
Moses should read The Tablet?
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FFred - I hate that 'having to finish off everything before you go'. Makes you feel going away isn't worth all the hassle! Exotic holiday or work based travel?
I've just been unintentionally rude to a really nice person - I've apologised - I feel like doing so again but I think I'm just digging a big hole........
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1 room out of 3 already painted, and on to painting room #2.
Room #3 just this minute cleared/dust sheeted. And patient is having a lie down. So, I get to sit down and grab some Beach Time!
Although, I think I'm supposed to be getting on with lunch making now. All meals here are about 2 hours earlier than I prefer to eat ... it's not that I mind, it's just that my body clock doesn't nudge me in to action soon enough!
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GM(168) not truly Exotic, but not work-based, thank goodness :-)
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Fifi 169, I choose room 2....no, wait a sec, I choose room 1...no, 3...er, I'll get back to you....2....
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MAA 167, Come back when you have more to say.
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Afternoon all - sorry I'm late feeling a bit poorly today and still have to work :(
MAA 165 - ? I know I'm not "with it" today but did I miss something Important? Where did you hide that camp fire? I was here V late last night and I didn't see anyone.
"Black sinister scimitars shapes against the sky"? What's that all about?
Nurse, my pills.
Nurse?
NURSE!!!
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TWIS, there are some 25mg Acepromazine Tablets next to your mid afternoon G + T!
DiY ;-)
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Thank you nurse.
'Ere hang abaht, you're not my nurse...
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DIY (174) : Was that a typo, or are you calling a fellow frogger 'scum'??
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Posted here because it might be a bit too contentious for the Moderation thread:
Annasee @ 72 (on that thread): Sounds similar to the BOFH's modus operandi:
BOFH: What was your username?
User: (Tells him)
BOFH: (Clickety-click)
BOFH: Your details have just been added to the FBI's 10 most wanted list. The SWAT squad are on their way. I suggest you start running...
Needless to say, when his latest boss gets too annoying or nosey, the boss will often either "accidentally" fall down a lift shaft, or their web history will suddenly "acquire" a list of pr0n sites they've apparently been visiting over the past month...
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Been busy since this morning - just when did the strapline disappear?
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*Wakes with a start and rubs eyes*
What strapline???
*drifts off to sleep again*
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mittfh 177, Re The Register and BOFH, any idea why the episodes are so few and far between?
I used to look forward to them as my Friday afternoon treat!
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161 - Stewart - the teacher in me won't let you get away with that ...
'A litre of water's a pint and three quarters" - so half a litre is less than a pint ... about seven eighths, I make it.
Perhaps we should start on that vino collapso and the champagne annasee's arranged ...
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Sid, if we are going to just be drinking small measures I think we should get stuck straight into the G + T's.
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Erm yes Sid you are correct. My brain was obviously not in operation.
Fancy a pint then?
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Line 'em up Stew!
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Paul wrote elsewhere "There's only one foreign word that's blocked by a filter, and that one is really obscene..."
... I wonder how many posts it would take to find it?!
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Greetings everyone.
I hope you realise that it is FREEZING on the emerald isle side of the beach (only 11 degrees C, don't ask me what that is in F) but I've heard that my froggy friends across the water are enjoying much finer weather.
Very good of annasee to arrange all that champagne (on my suggestion, I'll have you note *curtsies*). Definitely time for some and I've made you all a special Ozzie treat - vegemite sandwiches!
Dear DiY, when he's not rescuing babies from burning buildings, very kindly sent over a tube in RL. It's being carefully guarded but I'm quite happy to share some with you all on the beach.
Be warned - it's not for the faint hearted.
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pints of g"&"t champers or just scrumpy
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It's nippy enough here, Lady Sue. I had to run my fingers under the hottish tap when I got home to make them go pink again.
Gillianian, it's, that Eddie bloke, he's teasing us. Stewart posted that he'd had the last strapline, I asked what it had been, and lo! another one appeared, by one John McReynolds or something like that. For a while.
As frogs to wanton boys are we to PM; they tease us for their sport.
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The strapline's gone! Eddie's really messing with our heads now. That's just not funny.
Save some of that champagne for young Paul (somehow I just picture him being young, in that job). I'm sure he needs some after the afternoon he's had!
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aaah!!!! Champers!!!
And me in my best drinking speedos!!
It's not that cold, clearly
n-n
xx
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Frances I think the last strapline before the ones today was about 14th April. Done by trawling back through the posts.
Will the new page start tomorrow?
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Stewart - a pint would be great. Gin? No - let's start with champers - I could manage a pint of that!
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Sid, or 568 ml ;-)
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My nose is nipping and I keep sneezing. There are 3 theories:
Theory #1: It's the 3 repainted rooms. Which would be bad news as the painter is coming back tomorrow for some touching-up. (No jokes please!)
Theory #2: It's the flowers kindly sent to the patient from her church. Heavy on the pink lilies. Which would be bad news, because there's still one of them not opened yet.
Theory #3: Swine flu. Dunoon is only a 1/2 hour drive, and a 15 minute £40 return ferry ticket from here...
Quarantine dune for me, I think. Especially as I'm billeted in the upstairs spare bedroom, hemmed in by 2 of the 3 repainted rooms! (all doors securely shut)
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