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Originally posted by Boogie:
Ouch!

Something bit/stung me!

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Join the club. I thought it was just the Fredericton bugs who had it in for me, but I have an entire mountain-range of horrid bites on my legs courtesy of your ghastly little English buggers.

You may recall I asked very politely last week that you might postpone your heatwave until after I'd gone back to Canada - fat chance! According to the forecast in the Telegraph it's been hovering around the 29° mark, which is too bleedin' hot.

Having said that, at least it didn't start until after E. & L.'s wedding, which got a breezy but v. pleasant day, and the whole thing went off very nicely.

We're now at D's mum's, and getting ready to head up to London tomorrow, where he's going to leave me to Stansted to go to Edinburgh and then up to Orkney, where I hope the temperatures will be a bit more civilised.

Ariel - I think I've found the right ambassadors for your new cheap hotel venture.

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• Truth, a translation of Florian Zeller's Verité, which was very clever, playing with the audience and concepts of truth and falsehood: one line from the lead "I want to know what kind of play I am in, a farce or a tragedy" emphasised that. I now want to see the partner piece, which will be translated as The Lie when we get it. The setting was definitely France, the characters were French, but pronounced in English (Paul, Alice, Michel and Laurence) and I suspect the attitudes to affairs was Parisian.
• Brass - a 2014 specially commissioned musical for the National Youth Music Theatre telling the story of the Leeds Pals regiment in WW1 alongside the Barnbow Lasses, munitions workers. The ending was predictable knowing the history of that period, making it an *interesting* subject for a musical, one later song and dance number at the front jarred slightly. But the whole thing was very professional, particularly considering the ages of the cast (16-23). This is where Sheridan Smith, Jude Law and Idris Elba got their training, so I will be looking out for some of those names in the future.

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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:

Today, after dropping my daughter at the station, I wandered off along the BFG Dream Jar trail for a couple of hours (and 22,000 steps).

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You probably passed outside my office. If I stand in the corner of the board room, I can see one of the dream jars.

This weekend has not been the best. A couple of weeks ago, I thought the mice were back after a croissant went missing. Then a hole had been nibbled in a bin liner. I set a mouse trap which then had disappeared by the morning.

Yesterday morning, I saw the creature responsible, after its gnawing at an empty milk bottle woke me up at 5am.

It wasn't a mouse.

Mice aren't 6-8 inches long.

Only this rat didn't have a tail, so I think the missing mousetrap must've caught the tail and been dragged off, before detatching the tail somewhere behind my skirting boards or in the garden.

I've ascertained that it likes carrot and have covered a bit of carrot in a caramel syrup (normally reserved for coffee) and armed a mousetrap with it. Have blocked off lots of the entrances with glass bottles to try to funnel it towards the trap.

Let's see how this goes.

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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
... shocking pink is one of the available options!

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Go for it, Wodders - you know you want to!

I tend to wear quite a lot of black*, but usually interspersed with brighter colours, especially turquoise, royal blue or bright red. My mobile is plain black, but as it tends to live in a specific pocket in whichever handbag I happen to be using, it doesn't really get lost.

* I once came back to my m-i-l's after a shopping trip, and told her I'd bought two shirts. "What colour was the other one?" was her reply.

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Domestic Goddess Piglet has been in action today - batch of French sticks done, and chicken stock made. This is just as well, as I may be turning into Trailer Park Trash Piglet; there's a "mini/mobile"** on the market well within our price bracket, which actually looks rather nice, if somewhat narrow ...

** They are "mobile homes" in a way, but they've been blocked in, and have all mod. cons - this particular one has 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a rather smart kitchen with all the necessary appliances. We're hoping to get a look at it next week once everyone's back after the Labour Day holiday.

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Originally posted by Piglet:
...I may be turning into Trailer Park Trash Piglet; there's a "mini/mobile"** on the market well within our price bracket, which actually looks rather nice, if somewhat narrow ...

** They are "mobile homes" in a way, but they've been blocked in, and have all mod. cons - this particular one has 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a rather smart kitchen with all the necessary appliances. We're hoping to get a look at it next week once everyone's back after the Labour Day holiday.

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
... a trifle bijou.

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Bijou! That's the word I was looking for!

We're going to have to go back to Newfoundland for a couple of days, probably late next week, to pack stuff up at the former Château Piglet ready for the movers - the closing date for the sale is 12th September, which is alarmingly imminent.

There may have to be some de-clutterment - it looks as if the next Château Piglet is going to be considerably smaller than the last one.

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
It's called "Pig Sty" but looks stylish if a trifle bijou.

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
It's called "Pig Sty" but looks stylish if a trifle bijou.

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Thatched, though. Dust and spiders.

Overcast here. We're out later to a friend's house where a crowd is invited and I've been asked to bring "a dish to share." Any ideas from shipmates are welcome as I'm feeling totally uninspired.

Nen - gastronomically challenged and not good at cooking either.

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Originally posted by Wesley J:
Just bring a big, empty dish? After all, a dish is just a dish.

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I very nearly did do that with a similar invitation recently where the request was to "bring a plate" as I wasn't clear whether they wanted a contribution to the food or were simply short of crockery.

However, "a dish to share" makes it pretty clear that food in the dish is required. I will shortly sally forth in the rain to see if the shops provide inspiration.

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Originally posted by Sarasa:
...I've settled for linen trousers, a nice blouse and a bright green jacket.

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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
...I was shouted at by the CEO. He did say, as he came to tell the team that he was unhappy that we were not attending, that he'd had an inappropriate go at me...

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Originally posted by Uncle Pete:
...Are the parents still laughing?

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Himself is at a meeting but Herself and the lady wot comes in and does have had a giggle at my expense - and I have had an unplanned extra shower.



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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
The inevitable has happened, as we all knew it would - you all probably knew it, too. [...]

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And me thinking: WW's now bought the shocking pink tablet case and keyboard he was talking about earlier! I am ever so slightly disappointed.

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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
...but what about the affront to my dignity?!?!

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This is the perfect incident to embarrass him with when he is older. Keep it filed for future reference.

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Originally posted by Wesley J:

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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
The inevitable has happened, as we all knew it would - you all probably knew it, too. [...]

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And me thinking: WW's now bought the shocking pink tablet case and keyboard he was talking about earlier! I am ever so slightly disappointed.

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Knowing some of the weird and wacky stuff some Friends wear you could almost go in your birthday suit!

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Originally posted by Wesley J:
Just bring a big, empty dish? After all, a dish is just a dish.

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I very nearly did do that with a similar invitation recently where the request was to "bring a plate" as I wasn't clear whether they wanted a contribution to the food or were simply short of crockery.

However, "a dish to share" makes it pretty clear that food in the dish is required. I will shortly sally forth in the rain to see if the shops provide inspiration.

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