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Talk about cutting it fin CLP. Never mind THE Queen. Will us lovely bloggers get "Queen" as the first song?

Much love

CtD xxxxxx

Chris: We've been waiting for you. Hope you curtsy when you meet the queen!

Right: Alabama 3 - you know it makes sense.

Anne xx

CtD: you beat me. Bugger.

CLP better late than never as they say! ;-)

Have a good weekend everyone..

Keith
xx

P.S Mary xx

ye play QUEEN please x

Quick.....!

X R

oh CtD...very quick and very witty with your follow on ARF...good luck!!!

Mary, lovely to hear you back again and feeling bit more like yourself. The sun definitely rises every day, and so should we all. If you have't seen the movie just another reminder to watch 'Field of Dreams', puts all our earth stuff into perspective.

dreamer
xxxx

Rubbish rubbish rubbish chris No Queen

Beesmum

But what about the girls....?????

We've been in town all the time.....

Well done Rusty!!!

dreamer
xxx

Oh well never mind Cheryl...

maybe next week ....eh?


X R

BOTTOMS!!!! No Alabama 3 then. But well done Rusty.j
Anne xxx

PS: where did that j come from?

Bloomin' blinkin' gutted.

And EJR will be sooooooooooo disappointed!

And stuck at work til half five on my own.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

CtD xxx

I've got my ice cold beer, olives, pitta and humous and some thai sweet chilli crisps....cheers and enjoy ARF all. Have great weekend.

dreamer
xxx

Hey - I asked for Born To Run the other week when I was off to see BRUCE at The Emirates.

Booooo Hooooo. It just gets worse ....

CtD...use last minutes to phone in for your ARF!!!! Keep dialling girl

xx

Good idea dreamer - go CtD so many of us wanted that!!!

Afore you go dreamer - just to warn you - these little tykes never grow up - doggy decided he was going to play andrex - other loo stuff available - puppy -

imagination should do the rest!

Beesmum xx

OMG! He's full on sometimes and others looks just as sweet as....looking forward to many years of missing socks, shoes, clothes in general, unwashed underwear:) and many other items that have mysteriously found their way into his bed!!! And that's while I feel like I'm watching his every move.....so far no toilet stuff gone for a walk....but no doubt he'll tune into this blog and decide that's a good idea!!!

'another glug of cold cold beer......pheewww!!!'

xxxx

Ok - I'm now officially addicted to this blog!! And what's with all this rock music tonight.....give us some fun CLP!!!!

Jumpingbean needs less rock and more roll.....maybe not rolling exactly as could be dangerous in her condition......

dreamer
xx

Ahhhh - that's better. Chilling out with Stevie now.
x

Oo-er! Have just got through to the request line and asked for 'you know what' for 'you know who'!!

Am shaking with excitement, but will have to wait and see if they call me back...

CtD and EJR and everyone, thanks for being such good company, Bingo may remember me as the other AnnieMac, but these days I'm the lurker and sometime blogger known as okAnnieOakley...

Love to everyone who needs or wants a hug.

Fingers crossed everyone, am off for a cuppa to calm down... with the phone in the other hand of course!!

Ann

Hello, just a quickie to say I am SO glad Mary that you are back. You sound like me - I've got one of those mattress toppers too - lovely and snuggly! Sometimes you just need to make a "nest "and keep yourself safe. But I'm glad you know that lots of people here care about you and are thinking of you. ((Mary))

I've just been in my garage. It's revolting in there, they could make another episode of raiders of the lost ark, the amount of cobwebs in there. Off to have a wash!

T xxx

Just skimmed through the blog really quickly, but got the jist.......

....Mary good to see you back, it would be such a shame for you to go. As you know it's a great source of comfort on here most of the time. Hope it wasn't any thing that I said that offended you by the way.

I wish you all the best,
Love
Debbie x x

Ah well CtD maybe you'll get your ARF? But at least you get the Durans played to take you back to wanting Duran babies.....

Still blogging...in between toilet clearing up - big and small.....had the boy outside (that's Alfie!) for about 15 mins and in between trying to get him to stop eating anything in sight...generally twigs, stones, leaves.....chasing him to get twigs, stones, leaves and anything else out his mouth gave up on toilet...2 mins later.......right in front of me!!! So just clearing up that and then right in front of me again mid clean.....toilet no 2....

thank goodness for cold beer and Delilah

dreamer
xx

Oh I forgot to ask, which song did CLP pick and play first? x x

Dreamer sympathy coming your way. I have three toilets to clean and three males use them. Say no more! (sorry guys hehe).

Debbie x x

Stupidly posted this on 307 so here it is again.

Mary! Thank Goodness. I hope it wasn't me that offended, if so I am very sorry. I feel nothing but empathy for our rubbish situation. Lots of hugs.
XX

Is the blog working??????

Only sometimes........

LOL - well as EJR agreed, dogs and boys got a lot in common...!!! So you def have my sympathy! You win on cleaning up after male toileting......

First ARF was from Rusty and was Thin Lizzy and surprise surprise ' the boys are back in the toilets....sorry meant town!!!'

dreamer
xxx

Errrr CLP if yer off ter polo yer can expect......

Debbie, glad you got your tickets.

Near the middle a......

A.........

I've been bingo'd

So ave I MwK!!!!!!!!!!!!@!

lol bingo

why do some single lines post and others not?

Near the middle a 'ole..........

And...........

It will be............

MINTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At last it worked!!!@!

youre so funny bingo!!!

I 'ope all ave a most bright weekend!!!!!!

you too

I won't.... am gonna be working on a mushroom farm!!!!!!!

Chow!

Dreamurdream - TAAARRRRR but the I didn't see the ploice last night laughing on the 'ard shoulder of the M6!!!!!!!

Hey weldone Rusty!

Dreamer, It would seem they close their eyes and do a jig sometimes eh!

Thanks Jules, been telling my mum and sister this afternoon and they just don't get my excitment as they don't like the great man! Fancy that.

Love
Debbie x x

When I gooot stopped for a minor office, sorry mean offence!!!!!

Aye blogs suddenly working again!!!!

MwK - 'ope your ok, it must be 'ard aving to live with ME!!!

It's very misunderstood illness!

Bingo: Going to be in Geordie land next weekend. With all my friends in my lovely pub in Gateshead. Wheyayman!!!!!
Anne xx

And Mary I 'ope you don't leave the blog!!!!!

Bingo you are funny xx

Traffic police with no sense of humour....whatever do you mean??

Who doesn't like George?? What are their names??? Do they confuse him with another George?? Mind you all the famous George's I know just have to be more than liked....cluny, george of the jungle...you know what I mean?

xx

Annie G - Y I, that soooonds canny!!!!!!!!!!

Soz all gotta go!!!!!!!

Chow!

Debbie - were you still talking toilet talk???!!! Just checking....you know what those boys can be like?!:)

xxx

Ola Ola one and all


Bingo . I really don't think of you as a misunderstood illness!

So where is Alan Wicker today?


DWNB Well wash my mouth out with soap.


Mary Todays cocktail is just for you it's a Taggart cos I think you are scottish.

Off to the Med shortly well in a day sailing in my boat.

Havea good one all


coco

Coco - have a good one. muchos cocktails para tu??

xxxx

Have good weekend one and all.

Mary - take it easy and enjoy each moment. We don't have many so make each one count.

dreamer
xxxx

Ah well, I tried but no call-back from the ARF team. But I was so surprised when someone answered (he sounded sooo young!) that I babbled like a fool, will need to be better prepared next time.

After all that excitement, I just wanted to say 'hello' properly and I promise to be here more often than just twice.

Am coming up to another birthday next Sunday and that always makes you think about what you have or haven't done since the last one. Well, in the spirit of making the moment count I am making a birthday resolution to do more this year - go out more, see my friends and family more and blog more... whew!

Have a good weekend, I'll be back...

okAnnieOakley

PS Tinsel, that means I'll be taking more walks on the Downs too !

Halloooooo again.

What is it with Donald Trump's hair. What do you think he does with it? I can't quite work it out. At the moment he's using his 'roots' to justify building a HUGE golf club in Aberdeen.

Do we need it? I think not.

Anne xxx

Hey everyone ... just a quickie as I'm rather enjoying the Holland/France match.

Acupuncture lady rang back. I'm going on Wednesday afternoon. Apparently for sciatica I could have needles stuck anywhere from lower back to soles of feet, via bum, legs, etc. I reassured her that she had plenty of space to work on!!

Off to London tomorrow so probably won't be back here til Sunday.

Have good weekends one and all.

Lots of love

CtD xxx

PS: Matt - how was the corporate brain-washing?

PPS: I hope Rob's not been kidnapped by hairy-toed Hobbit types in NZ!!!

PPPS: No Queen for ARF - boooooo!

Anne his hair is the funniest thing I've seen -- and no way build on the dunes they are wonderful - not been - but seen pics -try the sahara - plenty of sand there - Go away you silly man.

Cant concentrate - being attacked by doggy playing with other half - i'm in way! nicked my tissue - can we get off him - not quick enough. He was flat out snoring two secs ago!! doggy not other half! off you go play outside - oh yes and water my pots!!

Beesmum xx

CtD, have a lovely, lovely weekend...look forward to hearing all about it next week x

Clodagh, how are you and Renee? x

Debbie x

Ctd - bless --did you see annie oakley phoned to get your toon on ? annie go to fb to see the new names you been away too long!
Tried me best - even capital letters didn't do it!! Could pester like gingembres t shirt - what do you think?

EJR prob having loads of zzz's

Good trip to the capital

Love Beesmum xxx

B-sMum, yes I tried...

CtD - enjoy London

CLP - enjoy the polo

My new thing this weekend will be to try and get onto FB... wish me luck!

Cheers

okannieoakley

Where've you been anniemac - can't you use that name any more?

This lot got me on to fb- go to CLP bloggers site to find and add as friends so we can chat - clue - think I am only one with first name the same as ms mansfield or a famous cartoon many years ago in a newspaper!

Beesmum xx

B-sMum, thanks for the welcome back. Have been lurking as couldn't blog from work and couldn't think of clever things to say from home, haha!

Nope, can't use that name anymore and it just confused dear ol' Bingo cos he thought I was AnnieMac the R1 dj, not me!

Have been been to FB just now, found the CLP bloggers too. Not sure what I'm doing so will pop back there and try adding you all as friends.

Look out for me over there, I just need to find a photo...

okannieoakley

Hi Ho Hi Ho it's off to work I go......

*sigh*

KWx

oAFT, cOCO

i wASHeD tHe kEyBoArD oUt wItH sOaP 0000 AnD lOoK wHaT iT dId tO mE!

iT wAs tHe k000eY bOARD wHaT dId iT nOt mE yOuR hOnOr!

dwNB

Ha Ha NB
and glad your knees are holding out KW

see y'all x x

Hello all...whispering as I know you will all be asleep. Well I am well and truely here - I have racked up 1000KMs in two days but am where I want to be. For those who would like to follow my journey I started in Auckland - drove down to Hamilton, then down to Wellington in one day - the roads were such good fun - empty and twisty with sheer drops on the right hand side (mostly). Got into Wellington at 11pm and phone mum and dad to let them know I had survived then slept (b-smum quite right)

got up at 4am then hit the road to get the ferry across the strait to Picton. Arrived in picton at 12 noon then spent the rest of the day driving on REALLY long straight roads (and few twisty ones) to Greymouth. Got here at 6pm and now cooking a steak (yummy) and drinking cold Tui beer (yummier). The surf is crashing on the beach just behind my camp site and I am so happy.

I am finally in love..with a country!! So - from now on it is short hops so that i can actually take a look at parts of the island. I have put up some pics on my FB photography page (link from CLP Bloggers)

CtD - why would i be gutted? Could not quite work out why but suspect it may have something to do with "don't stop me know" by queen (I have been playing this too much in my camper as I pile down the mountain sides!!!

xxx take care all!!!!!

Ha, you've got about a bit already EJR! Will look at pics shortly, I'm sure they'll be fab!

AF x

And so the intrepid explorer returns.

I survived Chinese water torture, bamboo shoots under my finger nails and even the old favourite, sleep deprivation.

Ha. They didn't realise that I am well trained in that department.

Although it pains me to say it, I actually quite enjoyed it. And, dare I suggest, I even feel I got something out of it.

Best bit of all though, after a couple of cheeky glasses of chablis I finally told my boss how unhappy I am with the job. Good move? I guess I'll find out on Monday.

And now I'm back at the ranch. We'll be popping down to the travel agent to pay for Abu Dhabi, nip into the supermarket, and then a whole bunch of nothing.

We've both earned it.

I see everyone has been busy here. It is difficult these days to catch up after a couple of days away, so I have only skimmed through. Needless to say, I've missed the old place.

Much love

MfR

PS Mrs MfR got tickets for Yog while I was away!

PPS 10050 Cielo Drive.

Morning MrR me too!! Weldone Mrs MfR.

Gingembre don't forget to let me know if you have any mates there on 24th August!

Love
Debbie x x

PPPS

Just caught up.

Mary. Keep smiling girl.

First gig? Motley Crue. Theatre of pain.

That was some baptism.

MfR

Morning all

Well done rusty for first ARF choice. Wonder how Chris chooses? Although if he spent that long watching the choppers he probably took a pin and closed his eyes and said "that one".

Rob I am so jealous - the pics of NZ are gorgeous and now I'm wishing I'd booked somewhere slightly more exotic than S Wales for my summer holiday!!

My brain is not fully awake so I have no idea what else to say now so I'll toddle off and try and wake up and then we'll see if the brain is going to play today or not.

Aargh. My brother is trying to persuade me to learn about sql and databases :( I am not interested, and it's far too early!!

xx

jumpingbean

Afternoon all. Rob, your description of steak, beer and surf sounds absolutely wonderful. No need to tell you to enjoy your hols!!!

Hope everyone is ok - sending another hug to (((Mary))) just in case you need one.

Just been down to the allotment to inspect the troops - they are all standing to attention so I'm a happy bunny. Not very well tho - got a chest infection (which always happens when I get stressed), so I'm going to chill for the rest of the day = take my own advice with the quilt and pjs on sofa scenario!!

night all (very early but you know what I mean!)

T xxx

Tinsel - hope you feel better soon and thanks for the welcome to fb.

MfR - well, you said wanted, that's the main thing, not many of us do, even if we get the chance!

Rob - nice to meet you, well you know what I mean! What a way to start your holiday, keep up the good work! I did try to get Queen played on ARF - CtD was soooo keen - but I didn't get past the guy on the phone who obviously thought I was a babbling fool...

Talking of which, does anyone have a few foolproof bbq recipes/marinades/whatever? I've got friends coming over for a bbq next weekend and I want to 'practice' with the new bbq tomorrow.

Cheers, hugs and whatever else is needed

okAnnieOakley

AnnieO, do have a recipe for thai style marinade, but am being bingo'd. Will try later...

AF x

I lied.

A heinous crime that deserves the most painful punishment.

And, for that, I am sorry.

Motley Crue was not my first gig.

Having notched up a handful of months in existence, I attended a Simon and Garfunkel concert (I allowed my parents to accompany me) and - get this - made the Daily Mirror for being the youngest person in attendance.

Bet you never tasted fame at such an early age.

Had a pint (well, two, actually) at The M this afternoon, in the sunshine, and will shortly be settling down to a glass or two of prosecco, a couple of '24s' and Mrs MfR's risotto.

Ah. Heaven.

Hope the sun is shining on you, wherever you are.

Peace.

MfR.

MfR, suitable punishment for your clearly unforgivable crime will be forthcoming as soon as I think of it...

Sounds like a good evening, enjoy!

AF x

meandjumpingbean..

Don't worry..S Wales can be very

lovely...the beaches are beautiful

some people say Wales is like small

N Zealand...the scenery just as nice

if you go the right places....

I'm a little

biased being a celt an all ....but it

truly is very nice..

X R

AF, thanks, maybe try the fb route? Felt a bit selfish after I posted earlier, it is CLP's blog after all!

It's a lovely, peaceful evening here, turning a bit cool now. Views aren't quite as scenic as EJR's, or S Wales, but not bad: silver birch trees opposite, birds singing... where's Bill and Kate?!

AnnieO

oooh, just got bingoed too...

only trying to say: Mfr - you said what you wanted to say...

oAnnieO

Evening each or morning EJR - I think it is now sunday there? bout 9.30ish - not too good on these time zones!

Sorry anniemac if I bombarded you with friends but you were on blog when I was lurking - so situation sort of reversed - just off to fb to tell my nieces to pieces to look at EJR's pics in nz lucky lad and lucky lasses off in month or so.

Not a clue what I'm doing on fb either so join the club although I see you managed to add a choccy cake!! Daren't put a piccy of me on would frighten all to death!

Beesmum xx

oh dear being bingoed

Beesmum

Been on feet all day doing various tasks washing- cleaning -ironing - playing with doggy - cutting other halfs hair - all just so exciting - Oh Joy!
!

Beesmum xx

no wont let me do nex bit - one more try

and again?

cmon bp just one more line

so got a touch of the Ctd aching back -

!

Beesmum xx

just parking my backside for a mo before

fluffing the

bed topper