The Beach
Even though Eddie is elsewhere today and can't supervise you, you are still very welcome to take a trip to the beach . Watch out though you don't stub your toe or slip on any seaweed....
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Wonderful! A lovely new beach and I'm first to arrive. Where is everyone?
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I've only just unstuck my nose from the old beach.
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I'm behind the naughty dune, Lady Sue, thinking naughty thoughts.
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Thank goodness! A lovely new beach. Just time for an early lunch and then I'm off to Scotland for a week.
Have fun while I'm away and don't forget- it takes two to tango...
mxx
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Sid, you might be gone some time.
Meanwhile I can't find where I left my towel and my itsy bitsy (Yes Preston, it is!) teeny weenie yellow polka dot bikini needs to be left out to dry.
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No towel, Lady Sue? Here, borrow mine.
Oh bu&&er!
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*blushes*
Er, thanks Preston. Very gallant of you.
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I'll .. . just going. ..erm . . back shortly!
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Cold showers, all of you! And no sprout ghost in sight to encourage you.
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Don't stub your toes? We'll have to keep our wits about us when we return from our midnight swims with rocks like those on the shoreline ....
Nice to see you, Sequin!
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I am here to tell you. That sea water looks cold. And I should know. Ms Baltic and all. I recalled recently I lived in Scarborough for more than a year and cannot remember going into the briney once to swim. I was young but I am amazed at my behaviour. I loved later visits to clean areas of seawater and only came back to the beach for vittles
Now I am old - I will walk along the shingle and gaze "Wycliffe" like out to sea deep in thoughts of naughty seaside dewllers luring unwary seafaring folk onto the rocks with lanterns and sighing all the while. MSC Napoli - whither though? I fancy a new motor bike - allegedly.
There was a book and a CD in the library - enticing me to loss my stress. I mused a while on offer but decided I work better when I am not in a Zen trance.
Subject: or slip on any seaweed - dot dot dot dot
Anagram: Dodo poet annoys odd stiletto wader
I will "rise above it all for a while" without the help of meditation. Huuummmm....lol
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Peeps! Where has all the sand gone?
Mind you with all the rock we could build a pretty good castle, folly, stately home or even another Henge!
Anyhoo, I have left a large platter of cold sausage geralds at NC's for lunchtime nibbles. I haven't put any mustard in them but there is some freshly made in the pot.
Right, back to RL....
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Have you read the message in these sticks of rock. They could make up a rather rude sentence or two......
This one says Kiss the
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And this one says "care with Teeth" ??
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Hi froggers, thanks for the geralds SG. That sea certainly looks a bit chilly. Alright for the youngsters though. I have a photo of my kids emerging from the sea in Bognor. I'm wearing a parka, the kids are blue.
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14 SM
This one says 'I'd rather be a bag of candy floss.' Mmmmm.
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The Beach is gaining on sea!
The rocks come in on the highest tides, thrown onto the dunes. Kelps attach to them and bring them ashore like underwater sails. The kelp dies and rots and so fertilises tha marram grasses. They bind the rocks and sand. The marram rots in turn, providing just enough for softer grasses to flourish. As the land self-creates out of the sea, the grass lands, sheltered by the newest dunes, blossom into a sea of wild flowers, pinks, blues and reds.
Where I come from, they call it the Machair.
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Oh err, this one says "Hello Sailor", must be for Stewart M!
Thanks for the lesson in geography ExpecingtheEnd.
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What about Exit Signs then. They're on the way out aren't they?
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You know what what makes my blood boil? Our local crematorium!
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So I rang up British Telecom, I said "I want to report a nuisance caller." He said "Not you again!"
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Undertaking is a Dying trade.
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I went to the doctor. I said to him "I'm frightened of lapels." He said, "You've got cholera."
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I bought some Armageddon cheese today, and it said on the packet 'Best Before End"
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So I met the bloke who invented crosswords today. I can't remember his name, it's P something T something R.
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So I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said "Analogue." I said "No, just a watch."
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Just what I needed - a Friday afternoon giggle! You lot are daft.
Apparently one in five people are Chinese...
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13 Sprouty, just saw yours. I'm all for building something silly "strictly as a decoration, having none of the usual purposes of housing or sheltering associated with a conventional structure".
What about a replica Egyptian pyramid, a faux ruined abbey or a Chinese temple? Something with a sense of fun or light-heartedness? I've got it! A tribute to the Mercian Treasure - something Anglo Saxon. Perfect for a Friday. Only you'll have to do it, I've just done my nails.
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Lady_Sue, nails...me too, got a hot date tonight!
;-)
Anyhoo
Calendars… they’re a bit dated, aren’t they?
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@LadySue "1 in 5 people are Chinese"
Reminds me of a presentation called "Shift Happens" (make sure you don't misspell it!) which is doing the rounds - including on YouTube...
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Time for a Glass Box, perhaps?
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What about Beachhenge?
English Heritage may send a flat pack of old timbers they've dug up at Holme.
And DMcN may know of a church that doesn't need its columns any more to keep the roof on.
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BS 33, But not from me. I'm not wasting ny precious time working my fingers to the bone only to have them rejected. Let them use the five of mine they are hiding.
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Ete 34, LS could make one out of potatoes.
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Ete 34, Here 'tis, help yourself.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/80/240814458_3cd01d8bc3.jpg?v=0
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Wheeeeee! Home early ... time for a quick swim before SO gets home. Anyone coming?
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BS 33, Nice Glass Box tonight, eh?
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39
Yesterday's was so good, it couldn't be followed.
By Tanguy out of Braque. Brill.
Who dunnit?
PS is there an internet search procedure, where if I submit a photo of a painting, it'll tell me about it? Or, more difficult, a building or a lfower or a bird or a tree?
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Ete 40, Do you mean for a Glass Box? If not, they do have special threads sometimes for Autumn, Advent, etc. (See list on right, below, under Categories.) There is also a list of galleries on the right near the top. I have never used it, but assume others have. I send mine to pm@bbc.co.uk and put pm blog glass box in the Re window.
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EtE 40, I think I misunderstood. Don't know. I just use Google images and hope.
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'ang a trout! Who is that climbing out of the bedroom window of No. 10?
I always said she should get out more and meet Peeps!
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Next door's cat is giving me filthy looks and shouting at me because I won't feed her.
"YOU DON'T LIVE HERE!!!"
Quick, someone, a ball of wool if you please!
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@..catch!
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.....@...... missed it!
Got another there Sprouty?
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Gottit!
I'll see your ball of wool and raise you some kitty krunchees. And a very long stalk of grass with a fluffy end.
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EtE: machair. Western Isles? You don't need to answer, since addresses seem to be as much a no-go area as a firing range is. Thinking of the machair reminds me of Benbecula and S Uist. And a very happy time.
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..roight then, see your ball of wool, some kitty krunchees and a very long stalk of grass with a fluffy end and raise you one Rock Dove feather on a long piece of string tied to a short garden cane!
That reminds me..wot is pink and fluffy? Pink fluff
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Pink fluff holding it's breath
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France[i]s O..did you do a Benpeculiar tour? I did and a Saxa Vord one for my sins!
Happy days!
Oh how I long to hear the sound of a radar head 'grunting' in a storm force 10!
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Caught it this time thank you!
And I'll see your ball of wool, some kitty krunchees and a very long stalk of grass with a fluffy end, one Rock Dove feather on a long piece of string tied to a short garden cane and raise you a red pen balanced off the edge of a table just within paw's reach.
*boink!*
....There it goes.
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mutters..Why does FiFi have all the fun
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Okay, then, what is red and fluffy? Pink fluff that forgot to use any sunscreen.
H.
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Oh, very good Humph! Think it might be a Cransley night....?
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I hereby invite all frogging peeps to http://jonnie.camstreams.com/!
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Hey Ho Feefs, that was a bit weird. Like a dream or a nightMair or something. I could get the link but couldn't actually get 'into' it. Need more destructions.
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I just tried it again and booted straight in, Sue!
Perhaps try giggling the hotel name?
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OK Feefs, will do same. In the meantime I could do with a decent goldsmith as I've just uncovered a vast horde of Mercian treasure.
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Just a quick thanx to Sequin for dragging one of my old baech pics out from the archive... Reminds me of warmer days on this cold and wet evening.
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baech??? Has someone been messing with my keyboard?
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Right! I'll see your ball of wool, some kitty krunchees and a very long stalk of grass with a fluffy end, one Rock Dove feather on a long piece of string tied to a short garden cane and a red pen balanced off the edge of a table just within paw's reach.
Boink or not.
And I'll raise you a...
neglected piece of bread, butter and marm1te.
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Funnily enough, Lady Sue, I have a good friend who specialises in 'found' treasure. Honest Harry is his name. If you can arrange to have it shipped over here he's glad to give you a price.
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Sprouty - Google Eath, I thought it was just Earth but I suppose someone has to sponsor it;-)
Frances - see you at the Hotel.
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*deep breath.....*
I'll see your ball of wool, some kitty krunchees and a very long stalk of grass with a fluffy end, one Rock Dove feather on a long piece of string tied to a short garden cane,a red pen balanced off the edge of a table just within paw's reach, a neglected piece of bread, butter and marm1te ... and a light towelling after the rain.
Cats seem to love that!
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Wrathy, I'm in the snug.
But while I wait,
[Nervous trembling]
I'll see your ball of wool, some kitty krunchees and a very long stalk of grass with a fluffy end, one Rock Dove feather on a long piece of string tied to a short garden cane,a red pen balanced off the edge of a table just within paw's reach, a neglected piece of bread, butter and marm1te ... and a light towelling after the rain.
If I can have an ambulance waiting,
I'll cautiously raise you:
One biker's jacket, one pair of biker's gauntlets, a packet of sticking plasters, some CTP and slavon [anags] and a new pair of jeans
( TOWEL a wet cat???? Strike me pink, girl, go near a wet cat?
The one time I did that with mine was lacerating.
She was a Scottish cat, though, and you know what they say: touch not the cat but a glove....)
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Saturday morning sunshine on one of Septic's lovely beaches - thanks Septic!
[Where did this odd collection of bits and pieces come from? What a mess... ]
*sighs, ... twitches nose*
That's better! Morning Fellow Froggers! Here's a breakfast banquet for you, coffee is on and I'm just off for a swim. Now, where is my itsy bitsy...
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Careful now. I'm only allowed so many prison passes a month and my visiting time is pretty much spoken for already...
;o)
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Morning Peeps, cracking banquet Lady_Sue!
I would love to spend the day having a spot of R & R but I have an extension telephone to fit, one that works with my hearing aids and then still a bit of DiY make good after the recent storm of the Sprout ramparts by the builders.
What, oh, yes half past two
:-)
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But, b4 I go.
I'll see your ball of wool, some kitty krunchees and a very long stalk of grass with a fluffy end, one Rock Dove feather on a long piece of string tied to a short garden cane,a red pen balanced off the edge of a table just within paw's reach, a neglected piece of bread, butter and marm1te, a light towelling after the rain, nne biker's jacket, one pair of biker's gauntlets, a packet of sticking plasters, some CTP and slavon [anags] and a new pair of jeans
And I'll raise you,
One plastering towel and a pair of yellow Speedos with green tassles!
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Sprouty! I just tidied up.
Men...
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Lady Sue - that wasn't your news on iPM this morning, was it? About having the Aussie free-loaders to stay, & celebrating when they left? (I was dozing for some of it, so may have got the wrong end of the stick, but i did just wonder...)
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Yes indeed it was Annasee and I was rather chuffed to be read out.
I had thought I'd become adept at dealing with free-loaders but those two were incredibly thick-skinned.
It was spooky that Roger the Lodger (our stray hound who comes and goes) returned the morning after they departed - co-inciding with my birthday. I was doubly delighted. It didn't make riveting news but Eddie does ask for a sentence about our lives and I try to oblige from time to time.
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Just to let you all know that, yes, I referred the two posts. Whether or not the are removed is neither here nor there. I have also emailed Eddie and Jo Carr at PM to let them know that I don't appreciate the constant attempts by certain posters (you know who you are) to refer to where I live. I will leave if it doesn't stop.
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The blog poster at 75, the word folly is in constant use in the english language.
What you need to remember is that you are using your full name here and if you look back through your previous posts to the PM Blog you will see that that you have:-
1. Told us all which town you live in, including the Roman name,
2. Which newspaper you read and contribute to.
3. Which pub in St...you sometimes go to.
4. Which church / big church you belong to.
I could go on but what is the point?
If you G00gle your name and using the clues you have left here the whole world world knows where you live.
Not only that, but if you use the web and use the UK's premier telephone subscriber directory enquiries it will show your phone numeber, address details in full and a map of how to get to your front door!
And that is why we don't put our full details on the Blog!
And to quote:-
I will leave if it doesn't stop.
Fair enough, but it would be shame to see you go. You provide soooo much entertainment and enjoyment to us all and you brighten the darkest days that you will probably be missed!
;-)
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David, you seem so worried that others on the blog might want to somehow identify you, or track you down, would it not be easier just to create a new blog name and keep yourself a bit anonymous?
For my part I have absolutely no desire to know where you or any of the other bloggers live, except where it is interesting for some reason eg. Little Red is in a most exotic location and provides us with snippets of life there from time to time. The idea that I have been somehow trying to expose where you live is just silly.
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quick!!
look - out there, by the reef!!
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78 n-n
What have you seen?
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Dear BBC,
I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about today's edition of 'The News Quiz'.
I have a cold, and laughed so much that it brought on a coughing fit so severe that I now feel as if I've been inhaling wire wool.
Yours,
Disgusted of the Beach.
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80 FO
You've actually been snorting my candy-floss. Please desist.
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Lady Sue - glad I was right. Fascinating when we can pick out whose "anonymous" news we're hearing - I usually get Jonnie's news, & I'm sure some people get mine, (when I bother to send it in, which I haven't lately).
Sprout Ghost - ;-)
Re the entertaining cats examples (I'm not copying out the list) can I raise you a cat-nip mouse? Ours still loves an ancient one containing cat-nip from NZ, which he fetches out of a bowl every night, & carries to the door of the sitting room, meowing loudly in a senile kind of way. The only other time he meows is immediately prior to throwing up a furball. Trouble is, we've just had new carpet laid in that room, so now every time he meows, we have to rush in to check the cause! Still, it's keeping our reflexes well-honed...
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No problem, lucien, I can de-snort it for you if you can let me have a hanky.
annasee, I can just picture this... :o)
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83 Fo
Thank you ... please hold open this plastic bag and sneeze.
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Aaaaaa
Aaaaaaaaaaaa
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
TISHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Ugh.
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Yum.
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Second helpings, lucien?
;o)
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Not sure ... shouldn't candy floss be pink?
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I think I listen to Any Answers for all the wrong reasons.
"Say 'hello' to Margaret" indeed! Joyce Grenfell is not dead.
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I think I listen to Any Answers because Down the Line is off-air.
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Re. 75: has someone left an iron on? I'm sure I can smell steam.
Whatever is that noise? Sounds like the continuous stamping of tiny feet...
annasee@82: well done you. It might have been the mention of Australians that pointed in my direction. I don't mind not being anonymous - not in the least bit paranoid.
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SG 76, So is the word s***, but I can't use it here. And it is not usually used with a capital S in the middle of a sentence. Yes, I have mentioned all of those things here, as well as coming from Cleveland, Ohio (actually Cleveland Heights and East Cleveland) and being born in New Castle, Pa., but nowhere do I mention an address, a street, a telephone number, or a postcode. If curtain twitchers are nosy enough to look up more, fine, but the blog rules don't permit them to post them here. Are people really that ignorant that they can't understand that, or do they just enjoy annoying me? Go ahead, look up my phone number, just don't put it here. And if you want to use the street word with a small letter to annoy me, go ahead. It just shows how puerile you can be.
I now ignore LS, but see she keeps on referring to me.
Off to St Albans Cathedral for a harvest dinner tonight.
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Stamp, stamp, stamp...
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92 DMcN
Lucky you're not on Streetview, they'd all be commenting on your sheds.
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FO 80, Somebody complained about a naughty word being used on TNQ on AA.
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l_d 94, I'm not os Streetview?! I must look into that. My sheds are known for miles. There was something I used to see them on. Multimap, Mapquest, Maperoonioni? I know some things became unavailable after 9/11.
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l_d 94, I even looked at my grandmother's old house in Princeton, Pa. Yes, PRINCETON, PA., for anybody nosey enough. Population, negligible.
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97 DMcN
You're bringing it upon yourself!
If you volunteer any more personal information on this blog then I'm going to work and and publish your entire family tree.
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*work out
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@98 I totally agree.
As a member of HM Constabulary, I am considering notifying the blogger concerned, because he:
1. Advertises his real name on a public site
2. Advertises his town
3. Advertises the fact that he is going out all evening
I reckon when he comes home to a burgled house, he will ring up my conpadres in Herts and request an investigation...
...and I am half-minded to charge him with contributory negligence or possibly criminal stupidity.
Chief Inspector Noodle
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DMcN
You're nikki-noodled!
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l_d 98, Good luck, I've been trying for years. I think N Irl is the end(ish) of the line, but McNickle/Nicholson (Viking) are the same. You could try my mother's half, Turner. (Oh no, more info for curtain twitchers.) Actually, a cousin's son in Pa. has been doing the McNickle side. Desgai must be easy/difficult to trace.
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Troll, troll, troll...
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102 DMcN
I'm first generation.
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lucien_desgai, 98 LOL, already on it! Watch the "book of faces"!
David, 97. What does "I'm not os Streetview?!" mean? Be a good chap and speak the local lingo, there's a good fellow.
BTW, I am passing your home town on Monday, how about a coffee? Say 11'ish at no. xx? I may well have time to help you to give the fence a coat of paint.
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Ah... Turner . That explains a lot...now we can understand why my sis in the state of Michigan, USA was having no luck...Thanks we had lost the thread a couple of generations back.
My, this is so much fun.
Onwards and Upwards.
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nn 100, I work for the council, promoting St Albans. If I worried about burglars, not that they find much, if they could get through the rubbish, my first concern would be that guy from Luton.
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l_d 101, You've been Tangoed.
First generation? Are you God?
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SG 105, It means I should be using my new glasses instead of the old ones. But I don't want to wear them out on you people.
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108 DMcN
I'm just someone else in Degai's.
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Correction!
I'm just someone else in Desgai's
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Ohh, another snippet!
Anyhoo.....Mr .22 rimfire needs to be taken out and given a bit of a workout.
Anyone up for a spot of Rabbit Stew for supper?
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SG 105, 106, I don't drink coffee. I am in line to inherit all the Turner paintings.
I hope your sister says Mish-i-gan and not Mitch-i-gan.
You lost the thread longer ago than that.
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SG 113, As I said elsewhere:
The fence I am painting...if the weather clears up. Scrool a bit.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2008/10/autumn_12.shtml
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But I caught the 'scrool' too late.
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David, I thought you were going out.
Is this beach called 'Omaha'?
Oh well, fiddle de dee... back to the sunbathing. It's PMs O'Clock! Anyone for a cocktail?
[nikki, I simply can't resist a man in uniform... ]
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Speaking of googles street view my practice is on it
t and my car may be on it twice when they publish streetview for Brugge. We passed the goggle car once and possibly twice when on my jollies. I am also sad enough to know where my car (old car) is on goggle earth.
And rabbit stew sounds fine ghost. With some black pudding also?
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@112 I love rabbit pie / rabbit stew, Spout!
I got some tatties to go with it
@116 And, Lady Sue: Pimms a-hoy!
Uniform?
Hmm
praps I'd better get dressed
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David as I am in a Yoda mood
You being wrong post number . Being what number mean you posting?
SG 113, As I said elsewhere:
The fence I am painting...if the weather clears up. Scrool a bit
posting 113 not Sprout being.
*Yoda mode off*, cracking good fun is it not?
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n_n, re Rabbities. I 'sell' them for £2 each. They are cleaned and feezer ready.
How many do you want?
Can deliver, unless you have a post code in Herts!
Sprouty
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Do you post like the Kipper producers of \Northumberland. Then again unsmoked rabbit probably does not travel well.
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Steart_M, no they will be delivered by my fair hand!
Next week I am toiling away in Chard, Zomerzet so I can do Rabbit 'n Scrumpy 'nd deliveries all at the same thyme!
Be thar any Froggers in the Chard /Tauntoning area wot loike to meet a fellow Flogger?
nod once for yes, twice for no and thrice for "maybe if it is dark and the Ferrets be busy my beauty"!
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re last post and Steart_M..please insert a w when he ain't looking!
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nikki, *blushing* do put some clothes on and have some Pimms.
Sprouty, please don't shoot the wildlife. Fortunately, not too many rabbits on the beach.
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W inserted. Ouch! BEing West Yorks I is not in range. Must let youngest have a play on cbeebies website now so will be back later. possibly
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Wow, magic sunset!
Oh..it's Lady_Sue blushing, well I never.
Red blushes at night is a shepherds delight.
Red sky of the morn is shepherds wife has found out!
:-)
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Round here we say, Red sky at night, Shepherd's cottage is on fire.
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Sprouty, you are both terribly naughty and most endearing. ;-)
Stewart M: be circumspect. Worried that, before we all know it, you'll be claiming we are trying to post your address. Actually, no I'm not worried about you in the least. You aren't paranoid.
I'm wondering whether or not I might have a case for libel against YKW for accusing me of trying to post his address, which I don't happen to know nor do I have any interest in finding out. The constant accusations are wearing me down. I nearly missed doing my nails earlier.
Who would be culpable? The Beeb or him? Who could I sue?
Sue by name, sue by nature...
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Yeah, I could tell anyone who bothered to ask - "Don't mess with an Aussie sheila, 'cos they're hard as nails". Aussie blokes always have that slightly guilty, hunted look about them, & have to drink their tinnies really quickly before the wife catches them... But d'you think anyone here would listen? Maybe I'll just sit & watch the cage fight from the sidelines.
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As the descendant of (at least) four generations of Aussie women, I gently suggest that they should not be messed with.
Oh, btw, Sue, I did my nails earlier today. Quite pleased with the result. Long enough to be elegant, short enough to be practical.
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Not long in after brilliant ceilidh-band gig at someone's 50th birthday in Peeborough. New sound man (my SO) was a triumph, and the band were not only paid without complaint, and thanked afterwards, but each presented with a bottle of bubbly to take home!
And the stand-in bass player is a site manager for a housebuilding firm, who might have some work for SO in his professional wotsit.
Cool evening's work, really.
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131 Fifi
I'm having an insomnia moment ... any chance of a glass of bubbly to help send me off?
I'm so glad your cilit-bang dig went well.
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Morning All!
A bit fresh in RL so I have made a very large pot of Porridge to keep the chill out. Also a large platter of bacon geralds for those that would prefer. The tea and coffe will be ready in about five minutes.
SO has just bravely announced that she is going to start painting the lounge! Should be interesting as I haven't finished the plastering yet! I will keep you posted, there may also be a French Windows photo album up on the book of faces by the end of the day.
:-)
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morning. coffee pot about to brew. \Child wants to continue cbebies stuff she started last night. So I'll be breakfasting and doodle donting
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Morning everyone. Sprouty, what is a 'bacon gerald'? Think I'll grab some tea and climb back into my hammock. Suspect I'm coming down with something...
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Sue bacon geralds are worth having. Made with freshly baked then sliced (erm geralds) surrounding bacon cooked to your prefered perfection be it crispy, streaky, back etc etc
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Buns?
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Yes please.
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SG 119, That made less sense than some of my stuff.
Just in case, troll, troll, troll.
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David, you are probably too young to remember Yoda.
:-p
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SG 140, I was never a Star Wars fan.
Yoda, yoda, yoda. Yoga, yoga, yoga. Yada, yada, yada. Troll, troll, troll.
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SG 140, Our former son-in-law called himself Yoda the Hut on his computer. I had to remind him that it was Jaba the Hut. Not to be confused with McNs three sheds.
T, t, t.
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Just turned Radio 4 on and accidentally got Desert Island Discs. I really am amazed at the rubbish some people listen to. Turned it off.
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Only accidentally because I though CAS was on...
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What's that stamping sound? Very like tiny feet. Can be heard over a sort of whining background noise.
Lucien, 'nice'* buns?
Hmmmm, you've put me in a baking mode so I'll knock up some scones for us all to have with jam and cream for tea.
(*Sprouty, how do you do italics?)
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ooooh me head!!!
Its very bright isn't it?!
Where's me shades?
cripes. Is that the time already!!
re Italics: its quite technical M'lady, and involes less than and more than signs craddling the letter i
Or, less technically, standing very slightly to one side of the screen and blowing very gently
xx
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#145
Lady_Sue,
Perhaps this will help.
Someome else on the blog, I think it was Ed, deserves the credit. I'm just passing it on.
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Ome day I will learn to spell...
>8-D
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Thanks Scotch-git - I don't hold out any hope but here goes...
I'm blowing very gently back to nikki.
Ohhhhhhh! It worked! Blinding.
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Lucien (132) : I seriously misread the 2nd half of your posting and am typing this from the naughty step, where I shall be firmly located for the rest of the day. Swigging champagne and sniggering - because what I read was even funnier than wot u rote!
Anyone with smoked salmon is welcome to join me. I already have lemon juice and cracked black pepper for sprinkling.
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150 Fifi
I've no idea what you're talking about.
(in every sense)
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All this HTML stuff.
Does that mean I can ask about PS/2 to USB adaptors?
Could SG do a 'Hell Desk' (as it has been called) do a one liner for me?
Or someone clever from L'pool (where it was called the No Help Desk (I didn't think so, honestly))tell me?
Pleease.
I need one (for old mouse toap top).
They sell for a quid or a tenner.
The tenner sellers say you need electronic stuff in between the PS/2 bit and the USB bit, otherwise the wrong sort of signal gets through from the mouses.
The cheapo people say you just need a purely physical adaptor, like a mains adaptor is.
The up market people say even if a simple adaptor works, it'll break soon.
Who's telling it like it is?
PLEASE!
(If that last bit don't work, please blame me. I never was good at nesting (but telling me about adaptors (however spelt) would even so be very gratefully received))
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Watching Columbo and ESP stuff. (Checked j b rhine whom Eysenck senior plugged)
My trouble is, I beleive others have got it, but not me.
Bet you knew I was going to post this.
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fifi your mind is filthier than mine. Re read and saw what you meant.
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ExpectingtheEnd @152
PS2-USB converters need no power. I have one infront of me now.... 2inches long. PS2 at one end and USB at the other. You just need to make sure that you get the right gender of connector.
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Fifi, budge up on that naughty step. I just read Lucien's 132 and sniggered too....
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155
I thank you!
No need for elaborate electronic gizmo between female PS/2 and male USB, then?
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EtE 153, I always liked Anthony Zerbe.
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Fifi - I'm so glad I'm not alone... I did an absolute double-take when I read lucien's post this morning. Had to re-read it three times and look very carefully at the spelling. I'll pop to the naughty step with some smoked salmon after tea.
Speaking of which, here are the promised scones.
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Fifi - me too!
Just revising for big event on thursday.... need a diversion - anyone for a late afternoon swim?
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157--
Just search for 'ps2 usb' on a well known auction website and you'll see how simple and cheap they are.
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I also thought the same. What a dirty minded lot we are!
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Me, too, re the mis-read. Thank goodness I'm not alone [giggles].
Sounds uncomfortable, though.
Young Macallan! We need about five deck-chairs over here, the step's far too crowded.
Butter for the scones, anyone, or are we waiting for the smoked salmon?
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Perhaps it is finally time to designate the whole Beach a naughty step, and consign only the innocents to the old naughty step. We filthophiles seem to be the majority these days - hurrah!
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Yum - buttered scones for tea! Just what I need after a swim... Brrrrr!
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If we just heat the scones up so the butter melts a bit... There!
Feefs, you may be right. What we seems to have is a Naughty Beach, so we need, I suppose, a Good Step.
There is a Bad Step on the Isle of Skye; some images are here:
http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=%22bad%20step%22%20skye&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
and although I've done some hill walking in the (red) Cuillins, the sight of it scares me to bits.
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Lady sue, yep buns works. I always admire a nice set of buns.
Now tea is caramelised pork fillet. It's big enough to share. Slicing about 6.00
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Hang on (which you would have to do on that step Frances), I think of tea as a cup of tea, a few cucumber sandwiches, cake and/or scones with jam and cream (or butter) - 'caramelised pork fillet' is pushing it a bit, isn't it? Or could this become part of the 'lunch/dinner/tea' debate over what is what depending on where you live or grew up?
I'd like to second the idea of designating the beach a 'naughty beach' and having a 'good step'.
That's enough tea. Pimms anyone? Or champagne?
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I'm quite comfy now on the 'naughty beach' (plumps up sand. Mmm, just right). I could just do with sandwiches and scones. Might come back for caramelised pork later.
Champagne? Oh, if you force me...
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we still need a naughty step even if we designate the whole beach naughty. There is just too much chance of misreading stuff.
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A meta-naughty step, then, Stewart? I've just created it!
http://tinyurl.com/6rzy8m
See you there, fellow filthy froggers!
;oD
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Fifi, my spam and virus program (Zone labs) blocks tiny url's as being spysites. But I went to it via the itouch and found it. Yep the place to be. I suppose near a beach
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Stewart I was having a lovely chat with Fifi on that thinggy she put up and checked here, clicked on yours and it started me off anew, all over again. Don't know whether I'm Arthur or Martha at this stage.
Too much clicking isn't good for a girl.
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That's interesting, Stewart - didn't know that! I use Tiny on the twittering place to save letters. There do seem to be others though - wonder if they have the same reputation?
For those wondering what Stewart and I are blithering about, it's a chatroom connected with one of the PM founder-froggers, where many of us meet away from the strictures of the BBC website. It's instant, has fewer ground rules, and has to be self-regulating.
I'll be there for the next half hour, then I really must away to bed in RL as I've an early start tomorrow!
;o)
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All today's naughtiness reminds me of a abbreviated sign which I used to pass every day for the City Lit college in Covent Garden. I'll leave the rest to Fifi's imagination.
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* blush *
tee heee!
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The matchsticks are starting to split... time I was giving up and heading up the wooden hill.
I'll just leave some soup in a casserole in the warming oven in case anyone wakes up in the night in need of something comforting and warming. Remember to use the oven gloves hanging on the oven door handle.
Night all! xx
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OK - as the naughty step is getting full, there's the naughty castle just offshore where the really bad people will be locked away.....
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Morning all.
Septic, that looks a rather sweet place to be locked away on.
Time for a swim in the sparkling, warm tropical sea before the day starts. I'll just pop the coffee on before I set off.
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*peeps out from behind one of the larger rocks*
Morning all, I'm back from a lovely week by another beach in (sometimes) sunny Bournemouth. Lots to catch up on so I'll just leave some fresh tea and coffee on the bar before heading back to RL.
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We don't get 'really naughty' people on this Beach, Septic, do we?
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Septic (178) - Blimey! That castle has an enormous moat. Let's hope it doesn't belong to an MP as the cleaning bill will be massive.
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What ho, all. I've found a large collection of pedalos in the boathouse. Anyone fancy a race around the island?
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FF (183) - I'll have a go!
Any chance of strapping 3 or 4 of them together? If we can manage to get up a bit of speed we could try waterskiing!
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I would like to nominate for the naughty step the person from here (I won't mention the name they used because it probably wasn't them) who decided that it would be funny to make a nuisance call to my home, ask for me, say they were the unmentioned person, then hang up. Redial gave no number.
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185 DMcN
If your home phone is anything like my home phone then it was probably one of those 'cheap energy' scammers calling from overseas.
On the subject of ... does anyone know who is behind those calls?
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182 LOL.
Oh goody! Waterskis! I'll just get my itsy bitsy...
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l_d 186, I'm not going to say the name the person used, but it was one familiar to everyone here.
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PrestonFirmlie @184: Your money is safe - We have no MPs here...
The tower was built by Sir William Hillary (who helped to found the Royal National Lifeboat Institution) in 1832 as a refuge for shipwrecked sailors until help could arrive.
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188 DMcN
I meant does anyone know who is behind the dodgy energy sales calls?
They usually open with the line "I'm calling from the verification department, can you confirm that your current energy supplier is...".
They'll never reveal who they are working for but my guess is that there must be a 'legit' UK energy supplier somewhere at the end of the chain.
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l_d 190, I know what you meant. It's like the calls from 'banks' wanting you to verify your account numbers. I usually make one up and hang up. I tell the enery suppliers that we burn coal, which we do.
I got a call once asking if I was Mr McNickle and I said that he was hang-gliding in Uzbeckistan and was going on from there to an undertakers convention in Chicago, and that I was feeding his Venus fly-traps while he was gone. (Honest, I really did.) Unperturbed, they asked if I had his phone number.
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l_d 190, I like the calls from people calling themselves Brenda McIlhenny or something similar who sound like they have never seen a person named McIlhenny.
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191 DMcN
I just use a whistle for the scam calls. Cantankerous ... yes, but very cathartic.
I'm just interested to know if anyone has ever followed one of these calls through and found out which energy company they are representing.
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Every one a Mazeratti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw
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We have recently had a week of blank calls. Phone rings and when you answer no one there. All international.
Also a bank that has the name of a yorkshire town and ends in X, that was sold to make a big bank has been ringing me. They, I presume, want to offer me a mortgage. A product I do not have with them and don't want from them. I was abrupt with them last week at kids Bedtime so they rang back at a different time of day later in week (and we were not in). We use TPS but cos a) its international and b) I am a customer of that bank they get round the nuisance calls by saying they are exempt.
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195 SM - If you inform your bank that you do not wish to receive marketing calls from them then they're not allowed to make them to you, even if you are an existing customer. See the second paragraph of the TPS homepage.
http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/
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If there's a live voice, say 'Hang on a minute, I'm really interested, but I need to close the front door! Hang on!'
Then go and do the washing up or blog in here.
When you get back to the phone they've gone and you've got a black mark against your number and they won't phone you again.
Hope you do get a voice, 'cos silence means the multi call system has got someone else to answer and your calling nuisance is annoying someone lese.
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l_d 193, Don't you getting them knocking on your door as well? We do. It's like when someone wants to know if I am the property owner. I say no, because my wife owns the house.
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l_d, EtE, Maybe I should play the Upshares Downshares music on the kazoo for them.
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198 DMcN
My flat has a side entrance so I don't tend to get sales callers, a serendipitous quid pro quo for all the misdelivered post.
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Correction: a [space] serendipitous
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l_d 200, Your flat what?
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Afternoon Peeps!
Lack of Frogging over the past 24 hours caused by major hic up at local telephone exchange, no ADSL and it was very late by the time we got a connection back again.
Anyhoo...300 miles later and I am now in one of the Inns of Premier in Taunton ready to do battle in Zomerset this week. I am like a pig in clover all this Scrumpy!
David, did you see me waving as I passed J21 on the M25 carpark?
Sprouty the Troll
:-)
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SG 203, No, we use 21a.
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D_M. noted!
;-)
Sprouty the Troll
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In what weather forecast area is The Beach?
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Finisterre?
Doesn't exist, but you'd go to the ends of the earth to find it.
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PF..the weather on The Beach (and you should know this!) is always perfick.
If you are a sun lover or hark after drizzle or even snow The Beach always has a Froggers perfect weather!
France[i]s O.....LOL....brill!
Sprouty the Troll
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The beach dropped out of the 'topical posts' column.
No longer.
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Morning all.
Tea, coffee, a selection chilled fruit juices and warmed crossaunts are ready at NC's.
I have woken up with a sore throat and blocked up nose and would love to have a day lounging in the Sparkly hammock but RL forbids!
:-(
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This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the House Rules.
SG as the mods seem to have removed the remedies supplied by gossipmistress, I have placed some lemon and honey on the bar and echinacea drops beside it. Can't think why they removed the previous ones unless it was for a surfeit of asterisks.
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Sproutghost, Mrs M always recommends Whiskly, Lemon and Honey for sore throats etc, (heavy on the Whisky). West Midlands equivalent of the Jewish mother's chicken soup.
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Sprouty, sorry to hear you are suffering. Me too. Last few days I've been on the verge of flu but not quite fully flung. Anne and Mansaylo: might I participate in the rememdies?
Oh, hang on, that's RL! This is the beach!
Cracking day! Time for a swim - did those chaps flag up who won the pedalo race?
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213 Mansaylo
There is NO equivalent of a Jewish mother's chicken soup, and certainly not from the west midlands.
SG: I can have my mum prepare you a bowl of said soup, for the exchange of a couple of rabbits.
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SG 210, That's what you get for travelling to close to St Albans.
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Or even two close.
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Lady Sue (214) It ended up in a tie :-)
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Those Mods have stolen Sproutghost's remedies! All I left was Lemsip & Echinacea - do they really count as rude or offensive? I was trying not to leave a full commercial product name........
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Afternoon Peeps!
I am close to Oh Deeing on cold remedies but feel quite good!
Did you know Chard is the official bithplace of powered flight? I didn't, but they have a rather remarkable bronze replica of said aerial craft. Will take a picture of it with Mr K0dak's patent Box Brownie and send it in to Ed to ignore!
I hate the deep end of our local swimming pool,
I always feel I'm out of my depth!
Oh hang on the phone is ringing.....
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SG 220, I prefer DaVivci's man-powered airplane (for GB pedants, aeroeplane), much more eco-friendly.
http://www.learning-to-fly.com/images/Da-Vinci-Airplane.jpg
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D McN 221, Who is DaVivci? Try Da Vinci. Or even da Vinci.
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Ooohhhh, Fearless, are you and Preston tied up then?
Kinky.
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you 222, Pedant, I'm referring you for that.
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Sue - Let's just say that we adjacent but not pressed on firmly.
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you 224, Oh yeah? I'm going right to the top and emailing PM!
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You, you, and you, Much better spaced like that.
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Lady_Sue 223, nothing wrong with a spot of bondage between consenting adults!
Oh how we had such a jolly time when Fearlees Fred Preston Firmlie.
;-)
I'll be on the Naught Step supping Scrumpy if anyone needs me
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David McNickle: a frogger at war with himself.
"Don't do it, David. He's not wurffitt!"
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Feefs 229.
LOL..I am on David's side he doesn't deserve the hassle from 222.
Which is rather uncanny as 222 was the ATC Sqdn I belonged to as a fresh faced "Space Cadet"!
Oh, happy days! Give a 13 year old a LE .303 rifle, ten rounds of ammunition, a flight in DH Chipmunk, Vickers Varsity or a Fat Albert and there would be grins from ear to ear.
Kids these days.....jeez!
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Golly gosh... just stepped back onto the beach for a swifty at the bar (champers, as if you need ask) and suddenly in Omaha.
Preston@225: don't get too close!
Feefs, you are so right.
Sprouty: naughty step? You've an entire island unto yourself. Oh, hang on:
"No sprout is an island..."
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229 Fifi
The f***y of war!
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OK, hic in celebration that son #1 is off to Portugull (sp) as a finialist in the Daily Telegraph golf thingy I am celebrating with Pork Pies, Sausage Geralds, assortated nibbles and fermented juice of the apple..
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;o)
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waves madly
Hi Lady_Sue.
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thud (again)
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Fifi - Did I just see a giant sprout fall onto your head? I hope you're ok!
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Morning Froggers,
tea, coffee, various juices and toast with a selection of preserves is ready.
And you all have a fun day.
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237 SG
We can't have a fun day before the end of fatter day.
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(sorry, I have a lisp)
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Morning! How are your nasal passages today SG?
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Morning all ... I need a caffeine top up ... thanks SG.
Sorry to hear that, Luthien.
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What ho!
Sorry not to have been around for a few days, RL does tend to get in the way of quality Beach time.
Right, I've brought some sausages, bacon, eggs and hash browns - who's up for some brunch? There's bread and a selection of sauces if you to turn any of the above into geralds.
;o) []
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SG 230, I'll bet 222 has never even been to Amboise.
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Wonko, poor Gerald. That's quite put me off sausage.
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Well, as no-one else seemed to want them I'm going to have the sausages, bacon, eggs and hash browns for lunch. Mmmmm, artery clogging...
;o) []
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So today I went down the local supermarket, I said "I want to make a complaint, this vinegar's got lumps in it", he said "Those are pickled onions".
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So I put them back, and bought some Armageddon cheese, and it said on the packet 'Best Before End...'
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So I went next door to the pet shop. I said, "Can I buy a goldfish?" The guy said, "Do you want an aquarium?" I said, "I don't care what star sign it is."
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Now did you know if a stick insect laid it's eggs in a jar of Bovril it will give birth to a litter of twiglets...
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Mr Noodle! It's bad enough having me steal jokes, without you making copies of them.
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I was at sea the other day and loads of meat floated past. It was a bit choppy.
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I was having dinner with my boss and his wife and she said to me, "How many potatoes would you like Preston?". I said "Ooh, I'll just have one please". She said "It's OK, you don't have to be polite". "Alright" I said "I'll just have one then, you stupid cow"
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haha!!
now you show up, just when I'm stealing your jokes....
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So during the recent Party Conference season, I knocked on the door at this Bed & Breakfast and a lady stuck her head out of the window and said: 'What do you want', I said, 'I want to stay here'. She said, 'Well stay there' and shut the window.
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Two Aerials meet on a roof - fall in love - get married.
The ceremony was rubbish but the reception was brilliant.
Oh dear, now you've got me doing it. Just like that.
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I'm against hunting. In fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.
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Two fish in a tank, one says to the other - you drive I'll man the guns.
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What do you call a woman who stops a load of cows from freezing to death?
Thora Hird
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So I met this bloke with a didgeridoo and he was playing Dancing Queen on it. I thought, that's aboriginal.
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I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn't find any.
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Ireland is always short of those.
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The mother in law came round unexpectedly the other day, that's the last time I buy cheap chloroform!
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or..
Two parrots are sitting on a perch . One says: “Can you smell fish?”
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My m-i-l is dead. Sniff, sniff...
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maybe..
It was the happiest day of my life. I slowly walked down the aisle, gently kissed my husband; and then quickly shut the lid.
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how about..
Rang the gym. They asked me how flexible I was. I told them I couldn't make Tuesdays or Thursdays.
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Lady_Sue, you can take the blindfold off now!
dold not gedding mud bedder, so goin' do dry a hod curry donighd.
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Eddie missed today's top news story. A translation agency is offering to translate from 'Glaswegian' into English.
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.2532300.0.glaswegian_patter_is_lost_in_translation.php
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Your jokes really cheered me up chaps! Am a bit nervous for big day tomorrow.... job interview - wish me luck!x
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Oh GM - VERY good luck! xx
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knock 'em dead, GM! :-)
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Morning Peeps,
Good luck for today GM.
Tea and coffee now ready but as i can't find the toaster we will have to make do with bacon geralds and crossaunts.
Cold seems to be easing this morning, probably just a coincidence but my money is on last nights curry. However the 'other' end is suffering a bit.
;-)
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Good luck GM!
Sprouty, the blindfold worked well but good to take it off. Thanks for breakfast but I'm steering well clear of geralds. I'll have some tropical fruit, museli and yoghurt, "bikini food", when I get back from an early morning swim.
Glorious day for it, must be about 28 degrees, lots of sunshine, no clouds, a light breeze coming in from the west...
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Good luck GossipMrs. All appendages crossed ;-)
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Good luck, GM!
Thanks for the weather, Lady Sue, couldn't be more different from RL which is grey, drizzly murk.
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Good luck GM! I hope you'll tell us how it went.
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FFred (271) I am not sure that that is one of the qualities that they look for in a Vet! ;o) Good luck, GM.
H.
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Humph (277) I'm sure GM got the gist of what I meant ;-)
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GM - Hope the interview goes well.
And please listen very carefully to the interviewers. We had a bit of an incident here last week when we asked an applicant to fill in a questionnaire. He went outside and punched the doorman.
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H 277, Do they vet vets?
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You are welcome Anne. The beauty of the beach is we get to choose the weather and, as we also have grey skies and drizzle in RL here today, my favourite will be for warm and sunny.
However, I acknowledge it will not always be up to me and look forward to far wittier fellow froggers displaying their creative climatology. Perhaps we could stage a contest with the RL weather at 17.57?
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Hope all went well, Gossymrs.
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Well, Gossipmistress - I've brought some bubbly in any case, but I hope it's for celebrations, not commiserations!
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Phew!
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Look, there's a Billy goat gruff on the beach!
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Phew! Yes please to the bubbly Gillianian! I'm celebrating hopefully not having made a complete idiot or embarrassment of myself (and not killing any doormen!). Many thanks to all for the good wishes, very kind. Anyone for some of this bubbly?
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Bubbly? Yes please!! And well done, gossipmistress.
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Another bottle, in case we run out (as if...)
Fingers crossed...
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And another case, should we need more bottle.
When will you know?
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Tee, hee.
I don't think many froggers need much more bottle, though, do you?
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I have absolutely no idea what this "Beach" thread (?is "thread" the right word?) is supposed to be about. I've been wandering around this blog for about twenty minutes now trying to figure out where to post my comment about the weather forecast. Eventually found what seems like an appropriate place, after several tries elsewhere. What I'm looking for now is a place to make a comment about how difficult it is to make any sense of this blog. Is it really as disorganised as it seems to be, or is it just me? If it's just me, then could someone explain where I'm going wrong. Only, when you do that, please make sure the explanation is easy for me to find. Anyway, I'll just leave this here and hope someone finds it. A bit like a message in a botle I guess.
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The Beach is an off-topic place for mainly fun and amusing stuff, idontcare.
Try the PM Glass Box. It's a place to comment about today's programme, but can be a bit more wide-reaching.
And stick around here, if you like; you're welcome to join us.
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Oh, and, yes, there are quite a few 'weather forecast' threads.
So the PM Glass Box is probably safest........
Would you like a virtual drink and a snack? You must be tired.
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Hey! I've just found some Space Hoppers behind the bar. Anyone for a race around the dunes? Last one back has to do the camel milking tomorrow morning....
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In fact, gossipmistress, space hoppers are upside-down camel udders.
How did the interview go?
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GM(294) Oh yes.....I'm a happy hopper!
*crash* @bang@ #wallop#
How do I steer this thing?!
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Look out! Gillianian, you are a common danger - it's a Space Hopper not a dodgem.
Please don't let Sprouty get his hands on one - it'll be jet-propelled.
*bump* #bounce# %boing~boing~boing...%
[I'm just going to hide under the bar with the champagne.]
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There's a cracking pair of legs sticking out from under the bar...to whom do they belong?!!
Meanwhile, hello to 'idontcareanymore' - this is the offtopic thread. There are more other threads below, both in the Topical posts on this blog, and in the Categories!!!
And, well done to GM!!! I'll propose another toast!!
just as soon as Gillianian manages to propel her way back towards the bar
n-n
xx
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Any of the chapmagne left. And bags I don't milk the camels. Still recovering from last attempt
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Gillianian! Come back! Lucky those Space Hoppers float, she's halfway round the headland!
Lady Sue - is that position not a bit uncomfortable?
Stewart - how did you get up there with that Champagne? We'll have to get a camel to stand on to get you down.....
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Stewart, there's lots under here, if you'd care to come down, but it's a bit difficult to find since Gillianian knocked the lights out.
It's OK gossipmistress, *hic* I seem to be a tad anaesthetised *hic*. Can't imagine why [bumps head].
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Welcome, 'idontcare', to the silliest thread on the BBC blog! You have stumbled into a very special place which I hope you'll enjoy dipping into whenever you feel in need of a 5-minute holiday from real life.
It's a virtual beach, with all the usual cliches ... dunes, palm trees, pedalos, hammocks and loungers. It also has the Nick Clarke Memorial Waterfront Bar, a BBQ and a pizza oven. There's a naughty step (mainly inhabited by Stewart M and me!) and sprouts are permanently on the menu.
The resident camels are mostly friendly (but prone to nicking the lovely food we all bring) and in the run-up to December are often joined by the reindeer from the other side of the island.
So, pull up a lounger, pour yourself a hefty measure of your favourite tipple and let's toast your arrival at the most brilliant bit of the BBC blog, reinvented every Friday (so watch out for a new one tomorrow morning!), of which you are now officilly a part.
Cheers! ;o)
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idontcare - do you like sprouts?
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I can't really explain the sprouts thing, idontcare... they just izz.
;o)
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I've often provided music for religious services, being a practising atheist. And tonight I will take part in a quiz raising money for a political party with whose views on Europe I heartily disagree.
Are there no depths to which I will not stoop?
Apparently not. Bring it on! ;o)
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Fifi 305, I basically go to church for the music.
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Come along now, nothing to see here ... new beach open further up, let's see you moving along now, please ... shake a leg, time to go ...
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