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Aaargh, splat....
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The doorbell just went while I was dozing on the couch. So I leapt to my feet, only for my knee to completely give way, feeding me a faceful of carpet. Back onto my feet, leg's still not working so I'm wobblng from side to side, I bounce successively off wall and table, not helped by my arm being asleep because I've been lying on it and making fending things off much more difficult.
I finally make it to the door, yank it open and no one is there. Yeah, the doorbell went off, in my blasted dream.... -
In the red corner, DavidG and the Ouchers.
In the blue corner, Father Timothy Lipscomb, who says: "I think if people want to come out from their churches and go carol singing, it is polite and and human to welcome them at the front door."
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The worst thing for me about dreams is that mine have quite a lot of intertextuality. So for instance if I wheeled from my flat to a certain shop in one dream, I'd need to remember the route in another dream a week later. Things are made all the more confusing by the fact that the geography of London, while always consistent in my dreams, wildly differs from the layout in reality.
It's the consistency that's confusing. So if I have a dream which refers to a conversation I had in a dream a week earlier, and that itself was a conversation I'd had about something that happened in a dream a week before that: I'll often wake up wondering whether the original event really happened or if it was just a dream.
My subconscious is a far better continuity editor than most TV shows have.This is a reply to this message.
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My biggy lately is dreaming I have woken up and then actually waking a short time later to find the time of day is not the same as in my dream so I'm decidely off balance to I am able to confirm which of the two realities is real if that makes sense.
With you on the arms and legs being asleep I walk in circles even more when this happens as only one side of me is actually awake. LOLThis is a reply to this message.
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>> My subconscious is a far better continuity editor than most TV shows have. <<
I wouldn't say my dreams have any kind of continuity, in fact the ones I remember tend to be more like action-adventure movie scenarios than reality.This is a reply to this message.
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>> With you on the arms and legs being asleep I walk in circles even more when this happens as only one side of me is actually awake. LOL <<
I definitely wasn't fully awake until after that second collision!This is a reply to this message.
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I hope your leg gets better soon, David.
As for the vicar thinking people should welcome carol singers - not all carol singers originate from his church.
Most of the carol singers who have come to my door in recent years have all been youngsters who are hardly able to sing, let alone know the words to the carols. And they expect to be paid for managling the carols they can't even sing all the way through.This is a reply to this message.
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>> I hope your leg gets better soon, David. <<
I'm not certain there was anything wrong with it, it just didn't work...
The only disconcerting thing is that I normally claim my right knee (which it was) is the only major joint I don't have issues with.This is a reply to this message.
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I dreamt that I was one of the finalists on X-Factor!
In my dream I was able bodied....
I sang so well to the nation and everyone was cheering....
Then I woke up..... "Oh biscuits!!"
(you can replace biscuits with a suitable swear word of your choice.)
I blame it on the meds!This is a reply to this message.
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ARGH SPLATT ...
Sage and onion stuffing . Dry packet, sage and onion stuffing .
Farmer shooting rats in farmyard, large backfire and echo, I open packet of stuffing, jump ( bleeping startle reflex) stuffing goes everywhere. I step forward, slip on said stuffing ( bits got caught in the trad of my trainers) OW! OW! OW!
Moral of the tale ? dont be a lazy git and use packet stuffing . Use sage, onions and breadcrumbs.( and wait while stan`s finished shooting rats)This is a reply to this message.
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The Jehovah's Witnesses sometimes call here on Sunday Mornings - clearly the block has "Desperate souls live here" and an arrow above it.
I have staggered, bleary-eyed, to the doors on many occasions, to hear that Great News can be had by ...
replaces intercom.This is a reply to this message.
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Or boil said rats instead cos roasting tends to singe their fur and ruin the taste even if the stuffing is farmhouse fresh RoboMam.
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DavidG i thought you could not stand ?
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Watdallas, I'm not sure this thread does anything to demonstrate David *can* stand...
My favourite thing about living in my current flat is that no one can get through the main door of the building unless someone who lives here lets them in. The man from NPower has been left standing on the doorstep while we all ignore him many, many times...
I've given up answering the buzzer unless I'm expecting someone. If anyone calls round on impulse they know well enough to alert me on my mobile first....
I haven't fallen over in ages. The weather is foul. I give it a week.
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DavidG i thought you could not stand ?
watt, you've got it the wrong way round, You can't stand DavidGThis is a reply to this message.
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>> DavidG i thought you could not stand ? <<
You thought wrong. I can do most things, but not for more than a minute or two at a time without support. Outside of the house that means I use crutches, inside I usually don't bother unless I'm having additional problems.This is a reply to this message.
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>> I'm not sure this thread does anything to demonstrate David *can* stand... <<
Pride cometh before a fall....This is a reply to this message.
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In which case, you and I must be very, very proud...
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@ Wilma`s wry comment .
Sociable, before I start yelling your Sunday name ,just one thing BEHAVE !! ( Love you really though )This is a reply to this message.
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In reply to Yvette, earlier in the thread:
Most of the carol singers who have come to my door in recent years have all been youngsters who are hardly able to sing, let alone know the words to the carols. And they expect to be paid for managling the carols they can't even sing all the way through.
I chortled when I read in the letters column of my Saturday paper (alas, no online link to the letter itself, but the column is a very well-known one) that the way to get rid of mangling carol singers is to tell them that the vicar's here and will be happy to go around with them.
I like that approach. So I offer it to you in the spirit of Bah Humbug or of Goodwill to all Human Beings, as you will. (Sorry for thread divert.)
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