The Beach
The PM Blog Beach is whatever you want it to be - a place to hang out with other bloggers, and be completely off topic. Over time it has developed its own identity, complete with camels, sand dunes, and a permanently stocked bar, but fundamentally it is a place to relax and have fun.
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Good morning everyone! Lovely new beach with designer camels strolling across the hills in the distance.
Anyone for a healthy breakfast? Tropical fruit, museli, fresh yoghurt and juices on the bar. Just off for a swim.
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Designer camels, Lady Sue? That is very worrying - the ordinary ones have enough airs and graces to launch a million balloons, so watch out with the ones wearing Armani and carrying Gucci handbags!
I'll join you in a swim, if I may?
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Morning all and good day to the armani camels.
Not been around lately - kids off school and all that. Absolutely shattered this morning. Just time for my post-mid-morning-nap-nap. If anyone needs me I'll be in the Lay-Z-Boy hammock(other relaxation devices are available).
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Feefs......left a message on the 'old' Beach!
Re...Frogging vist on Wednesday..it will before 11 am as I have to be back in Norwich by mid afternoon!
BTW....Raspberry Jam Filled Doughnuts all round......It's my birthday today.
DiY :-)
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Happy B-day DIY, ta for the Doughnuts :-)
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Copied from the last beach:
I'm a little confused - but that's becoming increasingly common. According to one source it is the birthday of the sprout king - but I note that people have been congratulating him since Saturday. Is that just to extend the celebrations? Anyway - Happy Birthday DIY - sorry if I'm late.
If I'm not late (and that too is becoming increasingly common) there will be a Super Sprout Surprise cake at the Nick Clark bar at midday. (The surprise is - no, you'll have to wait and see ...)
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Happy Birthday DIY - Sid, perhaps your confusion is augmented by the late appearance of this beach, it certainly confused me. Now where was I? Ah yes, greeting the lovely (if slightly faded) Gloria Monday before heading back into the Great Fire of London and its aftermath.
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I think DIY may be of the age when any extra birthday is a cause of major cleebrations! Ducks to avoid abuse. My good lady starts her birthday celebrations this Saturday but is not officially (age censored)till the end of next week.
How many candles in the speedos?
I think I know the answer ;-)
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Stewart, that is very rude! ;o) Anyway, having recently had a very big milestone birthday, I am still celebrating. Unfortunately, there wasn't much of a bash on the Beach, so I'll leave another crate of champers, with DiY's name on it, but with a view to prolonging my own celebrations.
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I've just discovered a bottle of what claims to be sprout wine...haven't the foggiest what it tastes like but no doubt birthday boy will be quaffing vast quantities of the stuff.
Between showing off his latest collection of speedos...
(Aside: blog categories have now been fixed! Now all we need to do is persuade the mods to implement a maximum response time SLA...)
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http://www.oneandother.co.uk/ This 'plinth' thing is strangely hypnotic, relaxing and peaceful, so just the thing for the beach...
http://www.oneandother.co.uk/
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Oh, dear!
Won't a tide of two PM and one AM Glass Box (tonight's and tomorrownight's and tomorrow morning's respectively) wash this Beach away, into the oubliette of 'Other Posts'?
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Never mind!
On the Beach in all that rain yesterday and collected a quart of mussels.
Took them home for a bread and butter tea.
About a 90 per cent 'good egg' rate!
I was lucky because the old mussel beds are well gleaned by others. Yesterday's strong winds and tide had torn the ones I found loose from their moorings and washed them onto the sandy foreshore.
They were delicious. Lots left for brave shell fish eaters, just for the gathering!
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Bob Dylan talks of where 'the shoreline meets the sea' which made me think, until this weekend, that the shoreline was the strip of shore between high tide and whereever the sea was, at that point in time.
Apparently though, it means 'The edge of the sea' so that it is the line, the very edge of the sea, that moves a little with every wave and commutes constantly between the high tide line and the low water contour.
Or am I talking flotsam and jetson?
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ThinkerRetired - I think you're probably talking barnacles.
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Retrieved from the last beach:
203. At 4:10pm on 06 Jul 2009, Fifi wrote:
On the twittery place, the following exchange with a certain sultry-voiced ukulele-playing BBC employee:
She:
Fifi & Mittfh - I think I might have forgotten to reply saying how lovely the PM song was!
Me: [aka Fifi]
Gosh thank you! No wonder PM won the 'interactive programme of the year' Sony that year, eh? We sing it at all our gatherings
Me:
Perhaps the BBC Ukulele Orchestra would like to record/perform it with some of us...? ;oD
She:
Haha we'll have to see if we can fit you into our hectic performance schedule. Now that we're an internet hit 'n all.
Mittfh:
How about a 2009 version - get the Froggers who've joined us in the past couple of years onboard as well? :)
So... how about it froggers? Anybody game for any of this? Oh, and the link to the uke story is here (if I'm allowed to post it)
http://bit.ly/NuWOE
Is this a great idea, or one that's even more bonkers than the original one about froggers recording a song in pieces all over the world and then stitching it together??
-oOo-
Even dafter idea: if anyone can obtain (or even draw!) images that represent lyrics from the song, if you send 'em my way, I'll incorporate them into the next version of the video :)
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Peeps, peeps and peeps!
Thanks for the Happy Bathday wishes, much appreciated as I sit in this sad room of the Grantham Inns of Premiers by myself, alone, with no family or Froggers to keep me company!
But don't worry.
I shall don my No U-turn Iron Lady Speedos and head down town to the 'Thatcher Pole Dancing Club' and show them my best moves!
BTW, chilled scrumpy, Stilton and Melton hand raised Pork Pies are available at NC's.
P.S. BTW, that Stewart M is going to get a roight royal slapping.
DiY :-)
55 and not a day older!
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mittfh @ 16
I watched the video - couldn't help feeling sorry for the bloke trying to get out of the lift.
DI_Wyman - 55 is a jolly good age, if I remember correctly.
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Sid..184 is not bad, yer doin' well!
Re bloke trying to exit lift...ME TOO...I suspect someone stitched him up..."Simon - Just nip down to B34 and get me a pair of sky hooks"..sort of thing!
*jumping up and down and waving arms about*
mittfh 16 - can I play this time?
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Happy Birthday DiY! Belated birthday greetings to Big Sis too.
Oh goodie! Champagne... let's get those corks popping!
[Thinks: "I can use them to go hang from my straw hat".]
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ThinkerRetired (14): are you sure it wasn't Leonard Cohen? In 'That's no way to say goodbye'?
Mind, it could just as easily be Dylan . . .
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Lady_Sue (20) - or you could use fishing line to tie them together (in the same way as two cherries are tied together by their stalks) and hook them over your ears to make ear-rings? If you were feeling especially blingy, you could spray them silver or gold (other colours are available) ' ' '
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21.
LLP, I am sure it was L. Cohen I was thinking of. Now!! Thanks!!!
15.
And so it was certainly barnacles, as you say!!!
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Evenin' all.
DIY isn't old maggie a bit long in the tooth for that sort of lark?
Look - I got you a present!
Lady_Sue - I'll have some of that champers over here if you don't mind.
ThinkerRetired - Barnacles indeed (no offence)
LLP - or you could spray them white and keep them for xmas decorations?
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Hello, Lady Pen - long time no see, or have I just not been paying attention?
Large bowl of pumpkin pasta on the bar, help yourselves.
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You've been paying attention, Anne P (25) - I've had a very busy year :-)
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Evening all...
Once the hangover went, I decided to make the most of a sunny Bank Holiday Monday (yes, a Bank Holiday... we get two more than the UK). Our annual flower festival is on this week, so here are some links to three pictures of some pretty flowers.
Number 1
Number 2
Number 3
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evening all. Happy Birthday DIY. And when was yours then Big Sis? You kept that quiet! Delicious pan of pasta with tomato and red (yes i mean red) aubergine sauce going spare. I'll leave it simmering.
hectic weekend here followed by hectic monday. in fact looks like a pretty hectic week in store. shall be taking my refuge here on the beach. have to make it a beach-style white russian tonight as i am nil (alcohol) by mouth this week due to "on call" commitments for work.
i'll just be over here having a snooze in the purple hammock. wake me up if there are party games to be had.
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Thanks for the links Septic - lovely photos, and it led me to your collection. I hadn't realised how like Scotland the Isle of Man is especially the likes of the cottages at Niarbyl. Great!
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Anne - glad you like them, and all the others in my gallery. Some parts of the island are like Scotland, other bits resemble the south west of England and we even have flat plains like East Anglia. All of Britain in one small package!
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evening all!
Has anyone seen Gillian on her three wheeled trike passing through???!!!
n-n
xx
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DiY I await the suitable chastisement.
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Don't you just love the Great British Public? Watching the video feed from Trafalgar Square, and the plinth is currently occupied by a pigeon impersonator with a sign proclaiming "Please feed the pigeon". Inevitably someone's already heckled "Turn around then, show us your arse!"
Somehow, given the timing of her stint up there, I doubt she'll be visited by (m)any real pigeons...
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DIY: Anyone's welcome to contribute to Frog Song 2009 - especially those that have joined us since the original was recorded about two years ago. One idea I've suggested might be nice is if we can add an additional verse covering some of the things that have happened since the original - I'm thinking transparent cubes, macs, etc.
Ironically the original lyric "And did our comments ever get displayed?" still holds true - but this year due to moderation rather than the infamous 502 error!
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Morning Peeps and thanks to all of you that have posted Birthday wishes on the Book of Faces thingy, the DiY e-mail account was full of message alerts this morning!
Sadly I can't log onto my Facey account from here so this is a broadcast message to you all....THANKS
Thanks also to TWIC for the t-shirt!
It seems I also have a plentifull supply of Sprouts, Speedos and Cider!
Thanks to Gillianianian for the e-card. I have never been a crime sean suspect before!
Anyhoo, life goes on so here is the tea, coffee, perfect toast and preserves.
DiY :-)
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ooops...many will mutter that poor spelling is also a crime!
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Some will say it's a criem!
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Oh dear, only one more Glass box before the Beach gets swept into other posts. Never mind, we'll find the Beach like dedicated sun worshippers.
Did you see the oyster catchers, red in long beak and long leg?
They must be slumming it here, it' only mussels (and BARNICLES that look like warts on their shells).
Did you see those three squabbling in the rain? Probably getting matters straight between them whilst the humans were out of the way.
The rain made me realise how clear was the demarcation agreement between seagulls and humans.
In sunny summer daytime we take the beaches, they the promenade. Since for them shell fish are off the menu then, what with us gleaning the mussels, they agree to doughnuts, chips and bits of batter. Until the rain comes. Then it's us in the cafes and them back down at nature's fish and sand bar.
The gulls don't mind. Gather all the edible shell fish you like. The joy is in collecting your own, like wild mushrooms. It's that pleasure that gives them their delicious flavour.
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ANyone ready for a G&T. i am having a technology failure and need alcoholic sustinance. Big Laptop on a go slow. I thunk Its a re install jobby. So small laptop being used. And That won't start. Not even a Bios screen. Arrgh!
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Stewart M... (slap)..
Me, please with extra G.....tah
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Slightly happier as my laptop is still under warranty.
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Morning Peeps!
Don't you just love the smell of cool damp air after a shower of rain?
Anyhoo, scrambled eggs*, toast, coffee and tea is ready.
*other varieties of cooked eggs may be available.
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Thanks DIY - just what I need ...
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Tea and toast would be lovely, thanks DIY.
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* waves sadly to the departing white pedalo, now just a dot on the horizon *
Bye, DIY! Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Anyone need a long narrow red carpet?
Ho hum, I shall now take up residence in the Summer Branch Office, seeing as how a frogger has now officially launched it. See you all in a bit!
;o)
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Oh, plugger*.
Now I'm nicely set up in the SBO, someone has switched off the sunshine and apparently ordered rain clouds.
(pitter pat)
Here we go again....
* Fifi Rhyming Slang
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Well my pedalo has managed to get me back to Norwich after being refuelled at the East Midlands Branch of Froggers in the Summer Branch Office. A fantastic structure that blends in quite well with the surrounding countryside. And no, I dont think the fountains and peacocks are over the top.
Thanks to Fifi for the red carpet greeting and the warm hospitality and though I loved the bikini I think it is a touch too glam for your SO. I suggest he skips the cross dressing bit and just goes back to worrying ferrets.
It was magic to be introduced to Lucy, you are so lucky in having such a charming young lady living next door and I was particularly amused to see the way she lay down on her back so that your SO could give her tummy a tickle.
DiY :-p
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I was thinking ... 'Scientists Create Sperm In Lab' ... I know a more fun way of doing that! And then I thought: cream cakes and tea for everyone!
(I have time for such thoughts now as I've finished my essay.)
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Sid, ohhh young man!
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Hi froggers all. After spending 2 days swimming around trying to find the new beach, I've finally got here. Large G & T please, plenty G, splash of T. Time for me post prandial nap. Is there a hammock free??
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Mansaylo (50)
Well done, you made it! Let me help you into this lovely fluffy hammock between the purple and the sparkly one. It's lined with chenille in your favourite colour and has a thermal holder for your G&T glass. It's also not far from the Shiraz tap Valery installed for my Christmas 2 years ago, so budge up a bit before you nod off so I can join you!
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Mansaylo, At NC's, 1 ltr of G and 10cc of T with your name on it.
Enjoy.
DiY :-D
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Yep the Sperm scientists dont seem to have got there yet. They can make sperm like things from embryo stem cells. But Erm.. Embryo's are made with..... now then let me think.........
Any cream buns left sid?
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I've slept the clock round. Thanks for your ministrations Fifi and DIY. Just for that I'll have the brekkie on in a minute, all the usual, eggs to order. Finest Ethiopian coffee and Assam tea for all.
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Morning Peeps.
Poached eggs on toast with a mug of Assam for me please.
Just off to take Rosie to the vet, nothing serious just a 6 month service!
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Assam and toast please, Mansaylo - hope the fluffy hammock was comfy (tho' with G&T the way DIY pours them I doubt you'd remember).
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Well, cream buns went down well yesterday (none left, I'm afraid, Stewart). Today I'm working on cinnamon and hazelnut meringues, almond and orange florentines, carrot, apple and pecan muffins, and if you prefer savoury, Jerusalem artichoke and Swiss chard tart and salmon and asparagus bruschetta.
How does that sound? Ready from about midday ...
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They're here to get the acne cleared up.
(Other explanations involving yellow matter for their second coming are available)
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*stands up and holding out a large dinner plate*
Sid, when the midday gun goes off can I have cinnamon and hazelnut meringues please?
We are back from yon vitinary, slight embarresment as I went to the wrong one first!
Our cat, Stella is registered at one practice, Rosie is registered at a totally different one ten miles away!
I turned up at vet #1 at 08:30, ten minutes before the appointment only have a very bemused receptionist saying we don't have an appointment for Stella booked.
Me..."This is not Stella, it is Rosie"
Receptionist.."We don't have a Rosie Jones on our records"
Me..."Doh"!
Frantic call to son #3, "Ring your vet and say I will be a few minutes late"
Receptionist at vet #1 " Don't worry Mr Jones we will call them for you"
Ten miles and twenty minitues later at vet #2 I crash into the reception.
Without batting an eyelid and not looking up the receptionist says:-
"You must be Rosie then?"
LOL..10 minutes later I have £62.27 less in the bank account as Rosie is 'discovered' to have a slight viral infection that meant a shot of Amoxypen La Per Mi as well as six pouches of RCW Feline Sensitivity Chicken Sachet, oh and six pip of Frontline Combo - Cat flea control because we have run out.
I am sure they have put a note on Rosie's details, 'Beware of the owners father'!
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The Glass Box contains 6, 6, 9, 12, 20, 22, 25 per cent of Acetone. Phosgene, Hydrogen Cyanide, FluorIne, Nitrogen, Hydrochloric acid gas, Nitrosyl Chloride respect.
No wonder Eddie has vapourised.
If anyone can find any part of him (a voice print or a picture may do) to regenerate him, Capt. Jack may be prepared to help.
The best place for such a re-materialisation is here, on the Beach (which itself seems to be morphing from something Cliff Richard might sing about to something Nevil Shute might write about) where cool gales fan.
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ThinkerRetired do you know our 'PM Frogger' Humph?
He does all sorts of strange things with gas / air / water / earth samples at the UEA?
DiY :-)
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Were you or he awake when I was?
It was years ago,now. There was worry about the effects on grass and so sheep in Scotland and Cumbria because of nuclear fall out (from Chernobyl, we were told).
A World Service prog in the wee small hours (a BBC definitive statement, Panorama-type, official voice type prog) said, in effect, no worries, because (quote) 'The air is as clear as a Chernobyl spring'.
How are samples from the North East shaping up these days?
What about the Beaches there? Is ours safe?
I know two heads are better than one but only on two bodies.
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ThinkerRetired that is why Welsh Lamb glows in the dark!
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Sid - may I have any leftovers to take with me to the Cricket Club please? I'm on tea duty, and I think the visitors from the MCC would appreciate a nice tart ;o)
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Gillianianian!
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I'm about to warm the water for tonight's free range organic hand reared haggis. Any veg requests to go with that? (anything but neeps!)
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*holds out another large dinner plate*
May I have some boiled swede (topped with a knob of butter), some peas and some grilled tomatoes please?
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Oh and some Sweet corn if there is any going begging!
a famished DiY :-)
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Oooh, haggis, yum! Champit tatties, please, and another of DI's knobs, with black pepper.
What if not neeps to go with it? Apart from sprouts, of course. Um... needs to be un-bland. Do you think red cabbage would work?
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France(i)s O, go with the Red cabbage and see if you can work some Beetroot into the equation as well!
DiY..
*just back from swimming and now really famished but only to find the Melton hand raised pork pie I brought home is off limits!. Salmon fillets and salad for dinner....plugger!*
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I'll take the pie off your hands. Though salmon also sounds tempting.
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Stew, you keeps your mits off of my Melton big one!
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DIY-
Soooooo remiss of me. Been round the other side for a few days. Heard lots of popping and scoffing and wondered why the sparkly hammock was so saggy.
Anyway, will you forgive me?
Happy Birthday DIY!!!
Mollyxx
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I won't let you have any IPA then. Its ready. I sampled it the other day.
Next brew project could be a Dark Stout One
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Morning Froggers, Peeps, Frogging Peeps and Peeps-a-Frogging!
Thanks Molly!
Untill Mansaylo whips out his full English here are some crossaunts and coffee to be getting on with. The kettle is on so when I get back from having a swim I will make a pot of tea.
Stewart M we can discuss the IPA / Pork Pie exchange rate later!
DiY
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Full English on the go. I'll pop it all in the hostess trolly to keep warm for the late risers. Just by way of a change, there's some cheese slices and cold meats for those who prefer the continental. See DIY waving from the sea. Is he waving or drowning??
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Mansaylo- 'late risers'- what do you mean! Cheeky monkey! I'll have you know I've been up since...well...at least 7.23am...early enough for anyone on a Friday!
I think I'll take a dip and see if DIY needs a hand out of the water. The least I can do since I missed his you- know what.
Anyone seen a large towel? looks like it's needed.....
mxx
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Well I have never been 'rescued' like that before!
Minding my own business having a quiet a skinny dip and the next thing BAM "Dontcha worry DiY I have got you" and there is Molly with her own patented rescue method!
I need strong cup of tea and bacon sarnie!
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Morning all and a universal happy Friday.
DIY - I'll take some of those narky grannie's-daughters and Mansaylo - Hmmm some cheese and cold meats would acompany them gratifyingly.
Last day at work for me. I've an entire week off. Heading to Argate (at the bottom of our garden) for some well earned R and R. I'll bring you all a stick of rock back.
In the erstwhille I think I'll have a quick dip. Anyone seen my water wings? ;-)
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Water's a bit cool this morning, I don't think a large towel would be required!!
I'll just shoo the camels away from the sausages.
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Right! now Sequin's posted a new Beach, I'll just take all the food, drink, and furniture over to it. See you all there later!
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Nope, not here either.
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