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It's a Bank Holiday - what sort of weather do you expect???

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Originally posted by Jack the Lass:
In other news, I have manflu and may not last till morning.

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Originally posted by Jack the Lass:
...The world has gone mad...

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Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
... Surely the answer is "We don't know", as we've not been told of Anne's marital status?

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Originally posted by Jack the Lass:
... I have manflu ...

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Are you sure???

I understand from pictures posted on FB by my sister's mob that the weather in Orkney yesterday was really rather good; although the default weather setting up there is "windy", they sometimes get nothing at all while the dustbins of the south of England are dancing a merry jig.

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Piglet: I suppose if you've been in business since 1345 you're entitled to a bit of pretension.

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Now I'm imagining a Fawlty Toweresque scene: "What, the soup is too cold?? You realise that this restaurant has been in business since 1345?"

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amber.: I appear to have two lightbulbs and a packet of chicken.

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Just try not to use all of those in a meal

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Originally posted by Nicodemia:
Help! Just lost half a tooth

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Originally posted by Nicodemia:
...I think crispy crunchy delights are out for the present.

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Oh, I think Deep-fried cat should still be okay.



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Originally posted by Nicodemia:
Help! Just lost half a tooth (molar, since you ask) and the dentist is closed until Monday!

Fortunately it doesn't hurt. At the moment. I think crispy crunchy delights are out for the present.

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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
... They all seem to think that the local foreigner is completely mad ...

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Surely not.

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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
I think Deep-fried cat should still be okay.

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A Vegetarian Has Spoken.

D's been away for a couple of days and gets back this evening; I'm thinking we should take advantage of an offer which expires tonight at our new favourite eaterie - three generous glasses of wine (you can pick any three from a selection of three white and three red) for $20 with the purchase of a main course. Seems like an appropriate welcome back, don't you think?

I think it's rather clever, especially for people like me who might want white with a fishy first course and red with a meaty main.

Will report back.

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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Every year at the end of the academic year for schools, so end of March, I buy the local lads a football. I gave them this year's one last week and had a lovely rant at them this morning that I'd spent all this money getting them a football and all they do is kick it! I also managed to keep a straight face throughout, kind of essential when dealing with 12-15 year olds.

They all seem to think that the local foreigner is completely mad but they don't like to say so because kids don't say that sort of thing to venerable adults here.

To be fair it is wonderful to live as an old man in a culture where age is venerated, unlike downtown Merseyside where I used to live and work and have my being.

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Would you like to swap? We've got a group of kids round here at the moment perfectly capable of finding their own football who enjoy kicking it at my windows.

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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
... providing I don't have to go out in the midday sun ...

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Oh but you do!

In other news, we did go to JAG last night, and the wine deal was v. nice (I had two glasses of Pinot Grigio and one of Malbec).

So was the food - D. had a salad with feta, cranberries and all sorts of other nice things, and I had a v. nice pasta and sausage thing.

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Originally posted by Piglet:
In other news, we did go to JAG last night, and the wine deal was v. nice (I had two glasses of Pinot Grigio and one of Malbec).

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• The clock radio with illuminated display so that you can see which small hour of the morning you are awake at
• Scheduled pills
• Occasional pills
• Bottle of water for washing down pills
• Second bottle because you always wake thirsty
• Small box containing hearing aid
• Other small box with ear plugs
• Ointment for rubbing on bits that are sore
• Ointment for bits that are merely dry and flaking
• Bedside light for trying to discover where fumbled pill/waterbottle/earplug/jar of goop has rolled to.

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Originally posted by Ariel:
... O to be young again. I doubt I could cope with three glasses of wine these days.

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I'm not all that young either! In fairness, D. had a couple of slurps (we'd planned that I'd have two glasses and he'd have one, but the deal didn't work that way). I took a couple of paracetamol and a glass of water before I went to bed, just in case.

I think I'm probably with Firenze re the contents of one's bedside-table; it wouldn't occur to me to put flowers there, as I'd be bound to knock them over.

Ours contains a giant alarm clock (whose alarm doesn't work) as I'm as blind as a bat without my contact lenses, a little one (whose alarm does work), a knitted Piglet and a couple of teddy-bears. The lamp is on D's side, as he reads in bed and I don't.

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Originally posted by Piglet:
This looks as if it's going to be an "eating" week*. We had a very nice brunch today with a couple of old friends who we hadn't seen for ages, then accepted an invitation to another friend's for supper on Tuesday, and the students at the college where D. teaches are having their end-of-term bash at a rather nice restaurant on Wednesday.

Perhaps the rest of the week ought to be "clearing-out-the-freezer" days, or maybe "beans-on-toast" days.

* Yes, Wodders, I know ...

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Sipech: the bluebells are out!!!!

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Originally posted by Piglet:
Very fair point, ST. I'm a considerably larger piglet now than I was when we moved here 13 years ago; they really like their food here.

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I'm a rather larger WW as well - when I retired here 19 years ago I was almost sylph-like but today we were in town so as Himself had to visit a Dr, which was conveniently close to an ice cream parlour I waited for him there

But I did eschew lunch after a three scoop sundae!

And now I have just cooked my own supper of pasta in a Gorgonzola and Mascarpone sauce. I hope to schedule the coronary for a few years time.



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Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
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Originally posted by Sipech:
It's quite April-ish in term of weather ...

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It's blowing a hoolie here; we had to make a detour on the way to w*rk as the road leading to my office building was closed because some siding had come off a building.

Love your bluebells!

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Originally posted by Sipech:
Most importantly, though, the bluebells are out!!!!

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Originally posted by Piglet:
WW, I think after that length of time you can be forgiven for having worked for the Inland Revenue.

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I didn't know that the statute of limitations applied to Inland Revenue employees.


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