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That's what you may think, Eddie, but I couldn't possibly comment!
wrong
now, why we do is another matter.
for me its just catching up, realising something about how people use blogs... and avoiding the work i should be doing.
Is that what you're doing here too Eddie..??
hey - WE DO!!!!
Wrong
Wrong. Although there have usually been fewer new contributions to read.
...well, it's true to say there's no-one around to read it to me at the weekend...
...remember Eddie, you're never alone with a Blog...
Wrong.
Indeed, I was going to post a reply to something I read this morning, only to find this new thread...Eddie working at the weekend?
Andycra&&,
In some other thread you said that %lt;br /> was the correct html code, as it's a subset of xhtml. While I agree about xhtml, I disagree about html, which, at least historically, has always been given as %lt;br>, as shown all over the place in books, on line fora etc. Browsers will have to accept it for a long time... It does say "HTML tags" by the comment box, not xhtml. Well, that's my opinion, anyway.
It is, however, of academic interest here, especially as the html code you use to get bold here is not exactly obvious.
So wrong, Eddie. But then we didn't know you wrote them at weekends either. So here we are again, happy as can be ....
Glad treatment went well, Fearless, and that you found the choccy. Someone on the last thread thought that my SO could be scared of Mr Big Spider. Not true. Needing to get at the carton (see previous thread!) I implored him to help, so he picked Mr BS up, traipsed across the yard and put him carefully in the boiler room to keep him warm and dry, as it was raining outside. Now, left to my own devices I resort to the hoover.
Dr H (5) - perhaps that's because there's less news at weekends?
Sara, The thought of you intentionally creeping into the boiler room with the vacuum cleaner is awful. I'm sure that Mr BS is far more afraid of you than you of him/ her.
I can only hope you aren't going to use a Dyson. What a way to end up - spinning around and around and slowly loosing all your legs -- and after just having a wash and dry!
Personally, I only read this at the weekend.
So Eddie, does this count as over-time for you?
Eddie, you big tease. You know we're all here hanging on your every blog.
Apart from anything else, it's an ideal place to point out how weird it is to have voices attahced to froggers' posts as in last night's PM Letteroids.
In fact, although I read this fascinating blog during the week, I am only able to post at weekends - evil work making it difficult for me to do things other than what I am being paid for - what a drag.
So hello y'all, I feel I know you all very well!
Johnnie, I don't agree that Mr BS is more afraid of me than vice versa. He is very big (for his species, that is) but has a very tiny brain. I doubt he has a concept of the future, let alone fears for it. He also conceals the direction in which he is facing which means you can't tell which way he will run. That's not very nice, is it? So let's have no more of this anthropomorphism.
Do you remember Winston and the rats in "1984"? For me, it's big spiders.
PS Jonnie - sorry I spelt your name wrong. Slap hand.
Sara,
All you need to do is to get the hoover out and show it to the spider; as everyone knows, nature abhors a vacuum, and it will run away.
Hi Frog-lovers!
Don't expect anyone's noticed I've been gone (boo hoo) but I'm back now... Found out this morning that the tummy thing is Salmonella which explains nastiness!!
Now the Environmental Health Dept need to know what I've eaten in the last few weeks which is a problem, considering I can't even remember what I had yesterday. Hey ho.
Can any of you remember what I've had? Answers on a silly postcard please...
:O)
Sara,
With regard to Mr BS,
from the Burns unit (again):
"But thou art far more blest than me,
The present only tocheth thee,
But Och, I backward cast my e'e,
On prospects drear,
And forward though I canna see,
I guess and fear."
And, for one of my all-time favourites, a tale of twa dogs:
Happy Saturday
ed
Hello, Eric and fellow frogsters!
Nope, as long as there are interesting and/or fun people frogging, I'll be here
I see what you're up to. This is a blatant attempt to get more comments and win in the 大象传媒 blog comments chart. Well it's not going to work on me.
Oh, bugger.
Hi, M'Timbers - nice to hear from you.
Sorry about the salmonella, C the P. Have you been eating contaminated chocolate instead of getting your supplies from Fearless?
Is the e-mail bug about to hit the weekend blog?
(I hope not!)
No. No I don't.
Well, I think you had some curly wirlys from me, CtheP...
Well, obviously nobody reads at a weekend - what would be the point? PM is a weekday programme and so it's only reasonable that people who coalesce around its frog will only do so on weekdays. Dur!
Sorry to hear about the salmonella, Chris tP. Hope that they've done to you whatever is required to fix you. Just for the challenge, I'm half tempted to try to think what I've eaten over the last few weeks! That's quite a long time period - did they explain why? Intuitively, you'd think that it would be something that would strike quite quickly.
I'm not happy with all this BS discussion. I really don't like them at all. If possible, I do try to deal with the big ones with a glass or something similar (yep, that's right - have a glass of wine and hope it goes away...) - no seriously, when they get to a certain size, I can't help thinking that somebody might notice if you do away with them. But if they choose to appear in places that can't be (safely) reached with a glass and a pointless postcard, they have to answer to the Dyson or the fly swat (very useful). The dogs are sometimes quite helpful. Hm, "helpful" is perhaps too strong. The labrador can dispatch pretty BSs quite successfully if she's alerted at an appropriate time. The Bassett Hound can't. He likes to take an interest, but usually ends up coming for attention as the BS runs over his head. The cat can be a real expert - but only if he happens to be interested. Brr, don't want to think about this anymore.
Dear Chris,
You had delicious salmonella.
Bloggers add extras to almost every thread during the past two days or so for at least a couple of days. That is why it takes so long to read it all up. I wish there was some way to find out when extras have been added without trawling through each time. But still makes good reading.
I do. The world is still going round. Will win the lottery tonight.
Why not publish the blog as a Christmas booklet.
I do.
Drinks, I forgot to say, you can go back to the staid image. The earring went. I tried to get a proper job and felt that it wasn't really appropriate so I hung it up, as it were. Now, the tattoo...
Hahaha!
I have lost a mailing.
i wanted to say:
Chris you have been eating delicious salmonella.
Would you believe it? I made my 'witty' (ha ha) comment and lost it, found my second comment up, tediously repeated said first comment, and have now found the original there, in the right place. How does it work?
Sorry for the boring repetition, what is the world coming to? Don't answer that.
Oh i don't know.........
I do too!
Nigel (28), is this a first? I mean, of course, getting married on a frog.* Congratulations
*A slightly wobbly position to take up, but hey! It's a bit special.
**Getting married to a frog is different. they need to be kissed first, to make sure they're princes. Many women (and perhaps men) have made this mistake
Now we know why Eddie's in on a Saturday! He's got overtime!
Good to hear ya on the weekend.
xx
ed
We always read your blog... it's so much faster than waiting for your emails after all!
Thanks for your congratulations Frances.
We hitched for the sake of the spawn.
one other thing, Frances....
getting married on a toadstool is far more appropriate, and comfortable.
John H in the previous thread made a point that GB Shaw may not have invented the word ghoti pronounced "fish".
Using the same detective tools, I went to look at my assertion of Mark Twain/Samuel Clemen's , and found that it, too, might have originated by someone else, one MJ Shields.
Actually, I have one gripe at this plan. I think that the letter "x" should replace the "ch" construction, as it does in, say, catalan; although, of course, in latin, for example, " ch" is pronounced hard (as in Cat), and "c" is soft (as in CHurch), which argues for the original version.
Ed, thank you. Your quotation made me quite sad (it's so good), so I followed the link and really enjoyed the tale of twa dogs.
I have to go and be domesticated now. So - are we resolv'd to meet some ither day? I hope so.
(And that goes for all you lovely froggers, and Eddie of course)
Just so that there's no confusion...
I'm not the amphibion in Nigels's life
Normally, no-one writes anything to be read here at weekends. But if you write them, we will we come.
Puppy and i are intrigued by the emergence of amphibians. We need a zoo on the blog.
There's always 1 (or 44 in this case)!
...so (35) who's "...time?"
Sara & all,
Indeed we are 'resolv'd to meet some ither day'
As to You and Mr BS, he/she ( The female is usually the larger, having eaten the male) may not fear you as much as you him, but which of you has more cause to fear the other?
xx
ed
Sara, Ed, I have resigned myself tothe fact that Mr/Mrs BS is no more - lying in many bits in a bag or Dyson bin. Let's leave it at Spiders please.
I couldn't stand the thought of a little field mouse suffering the same fate - or worse a frog :-(
BTW : on a different tack, a nice guest overheard, caught or sniffed me, eating a fish finger (microwaved) in our reception area in the Hotel. She imparted some useful info that I'd thought I'd share with you all. -- Always choose Haddock rather than Cod as Cod eat all the rubbish and are full of worms. I believe Birds Eye do Haddock fingers, so I may try some. Whatever became of Findus ? Did they end up like Bejam ?
Hi Ed,
Yes the tale of twa dogs was a nice read - but hard work, at least we know the origin of 'Mair' now. I guess it was obvious for most. For those like me it's 'more' or 'plus'
Two other useful anagrams for Eddie Mair:- as it was chatted about the other day on another thread :-
Media Dire
Media Ride
Huh its the weekend puh nobody told me ????
John W (16),
Marvellous! LOL. And that was before the wine :)
No-one reads this at weekends, it says.
Comments - 0, it says.
That would be more like fifty.
And here's me with all these sea-shells from everywhere I've been -- there must be hundreds that need another clean...
Happy Fourteenth Fireworks-Day so far this month to all the froggers. (I can't help feeling that some people in this town are over-reacting to the Big Spiders and using explosives to get rid of them.)
Aper (50)
I'm beginning to wonder if I know you in real life!
Really John W (52)? What makes you say that? (Is this not real life then?)
Aperitif (53),
You sound so much like a real ex-SO.
I know, you probably are not. But the limited biography you've admitted to, the chocolate, the "e;late SO". Uncanny. But I know one fact of that SO that she would not even give to her later SO. If that cap fits...
Better than strap-line
Are the words of the Master.
Saturday sundae.
anyone comment
at this time of night - huh?
nah, all asleep
Wake up, it's morning.
Morning all! Sorry for being quiet, but I've got friends stayng over, so I had to be sociable. At least at the moment, they've yet to wake up, and I can quickly log on with the lapdog...
I'll have to check out your link a little later, John W. Looks interesting, though...
Uh-oh, I hear stirrings from the spare bedroom. Catch you all later, I hope!
btw Congratulation Nigel on the marriage!! :p
Good old Jack Straw. So public-spirited, so thoughtful. First he gives us the chance to debate the 'veil', now he's letting us debate the House of Lords.
Bless.
Thank you, Nigel. I'm so thrilled for you both. As for the toadstool, excellent idea, except:
1. Watch out for caterpillars smoking hubble-bubbles
2. don't get married on mushrooms. I believe they may make you feel a bit strange
Jonnie (47),
I learnt that some years ago. So I switched to Haddock fish fingers, but suddenly they disappeared. Not seen them for ages. Shame, they're one of my comfort foods.
Frances (59), Didn't a previous foreign secretary, then demoted to leader of the house, raise the issue of Lords reform...one Robin Cook?
...and on the seventh day "he" rested. Clearly.
Hi John W,
Re the limited biography you've admitted to, the chocolate, the "e;late SO". Uncanny.
Slightly confused now - there must be more to it than that - 'a young widow who prefers salt and vinegar crisps to chocolate' must cover quite a lot of people...
Aper,
Well, one or two other facts* you've admitted to down the blog also match, but what made me really wonder was the laughing at my vacuum joke...but on the other hand, you would have heard that one from me before, so it must just be one of those coincidences.
* Well, maybe you made them up as part of your blog personaility
Now I've got myself into this hole, I'd best stop digging methinks.
Some even read this on a Sunday - even though current affairs are put on hold one day in seven. Even.
I had more Us than I needed, lying around, but they got sucked into a vacuuum. Are there any good vacuum jokes other than yours?
I think Sunday's the day we congregate here to chill out together, chatting about everything and nothing over a glass of whatever alcoholic beverage or cup of hot drink takes your fancy. So, pull up a chair, Eddie, put your feet up, and join the rest of us :-)
Sunday. I have to say, I never hear church bells ringing without thinking of my friend Katie and smiling...
You see, upon hearing that her elderly grandfather had just passed away, Katie went straight to her grandparent's house to visit her 95-year-old grandmother and comfort her.
When she asked how her grandfather had died, her grandmother replied, "He had a heart attack while we were making love on Sunday morning."
Horrified, Katie told her grandmother that 2 people nearly 100 years old having sex would surely be asking for trouble.
"Oh no, my dear," replied granny. "Many years ago, realizing our advanced age, we figured out the best time to do it was when the church bells would start to ring. It was just the right rhythm. Nice and slow and even. Nothing too strenuous, simply 鈥榠n鈥 on the Ding and 鈥榦ut鈥 on the Dong."
She paused to wipe away a tear, and continued, "He'd still be alive if the ice cream truck hadn't come along..."
I know everyone's truth is only their own truth, but I haven't made anything up - honest! I think my 'blog persona' is my 'usual persona' as it were.
It's only just occurred to me that this means you suspect that you and I have "been in a relationship". Crikey! There hasn't been much fraternising with boys, other than as chums, since the late S.O. - for what I imagine are obvious reasons.
I really have to get up and get dressed now.
Did anyone else hear Brian Hanrahan credit the editing of WtW to one "Lisa Cook"?
Aper,
It would have been before your late SO... but I'm now pretty sure I was wrong. It's clearly just a coincidence that you and the ex-SO have a lot in common. Didn't mean to horrify you. Wish I'd kept my mouth shut, as it were.
Anyway, must go, got to sort out mother's vacuum cleaner this afternoon.
"No-one reads this at weekends"
and according to the counter, no one comments on it either...
SB(0)
For those who enjoyed (and endured the 'hard work') of the Bard's odes to mousies and doggies, here's one to a Louse, with the immortal lines:
It's less and less hard work the mair ye try it.
xx
ed
(72) ...mother did say it was rude to count. And, that's always been my excuse...
Whisht (72)
"No-one reads this at weekends"
and according to the counter, no one comments on it either...
Hurrumph! That was my line ... you beat me to it ... I read all the way to 72 and there it was. Still, I wouldn't have put the SB(0) on the end. Nice touch!
Not long before the next blog. And no I am not wishing my life away. But the rain it raineth everyday or so it feels right now.
Did Eddie say no more newsletters or did i dream it?
Hi all. Glad you're still here. Sort of comforting.
John W and Jonnie - Birds Eye do still make haddock fish fingers because I bought some at Waitrose for my mother only a month or so ago.
What was Whisht up to around here at 2 o clock in the morning, I wonder? Hope it was fun.
I hope we don't have to comment on the House of Lords on tomorrow's blog. It kind of gets me wound up. My blood pressure prefers chocolate!
I've put the vacuum cleaner away and there's been no sign of Mr BS all day (too wet perhaps) although his slightly little brother was dead in a crumpled heap on the floor this morning. The whole family must be in mourning now.
On with the ironing. The fun never ends.
Hi Sara and all fellow froggers. Strange you should have mentioned about the 'Birds Eye' ones. I just noticed them In Asda and bought a small pack to try them. I will of course report back.
I've just had a trawl through the comments and seen Whists posting - bless!! Think I was all tucked up at two in the morning
I'm afraid I had no time to check in until now, too busy clearing up after the Bridge players. Really dirty lot and one of them went off with a key as well! - whatever next :-(
Yes it will be interesting to see what will be on the blog tomorrow. I quite enjoy the odd challenge, for ex: when we were asked to re write the cues or scripts and hopefully there will be some new postcards up for us to see.
John (70) thanks for reminding me about Lissa. Did he say Lisa or Lissa Cook. is it pronounced Leesa or Liza, dare say we will hear all about it in due course - but I'll have a listen again.
Byeeeee
he he - yessss..... well, pubs in central London close stoopidly early but somehow managed to remain up till then seemingly exchanging haikus with I Kew.... Guess I was either drunker or more sober than I thought cos i've never written one before!!
Charles H (75) - sorry! and thankyou. we're either great minds or seldom differing...
I've just been told there's a "Chocolate Flavoured Beer" being marketed this Christmas.
It's called "ButtWider"...
Sara (77),
I was doing mother's shopping at Waitrose this afternoon, I did not notice haddock fish fingers mainly as I don't buy her frozen food; her freezer gave up, and in any case she was getting a bit confused with frozen food. But I'll have a look next time.
Looks like my advice re the hoover (16) worked, then. Poor little brother of BS was frightened to death.
I also hope HoL does not come up. May have to avoid the frog tomorrow if it is the topic...
Jonnie (78),
if they've not changed the recipe, I quite liked them; not quite the same taste, though.
Also, WtW presenter definately said Lisa, not Liza as in Minnelli, or the correct Lissa. Lissa, if you read this, what exquisite punishment do you have lined up Brian Hanrahan?
Also, coming back to the thorny topic of HTML tags, I viewed the source (i.e. what the computer downloads) of a page, which is how I worked out how to do bold. Preview is different to actual comments. Anyhow, there must be some preamble at the top which changes the meaning of the HTML tags. Set Roger the new coder onto it.
Sara (77)
I'm afraid that Mr BS and his slightly little brother are/were most definitely Mrs and sister at this time of year.
Thank you.
Sorry, someone told me this joke & I just thought it was amusing if you haven't heard it before. If you have then please avert your eyes.
There was once an inflatable boy, who went to an inflatable school where all the teachers were inflatable too. During a maths lesson, the class were told to take out their compasses & draw a circle. The boy was waving his compass around in the air & accidentally stabbed his teacher. Terrified at what he had done, he tried to run away, but tripped in the doorway & pierced the door jamb with the compass. Now completely hysterical, he tried to kill himself by stabbing his own leg...
A few hours later, he awoke in hospital, with his (now reinflated) teacher standing over him. She said "I am deeply disappointed in you, my boy. Not only have you let me down, you've let the school down & worst of all you've let yourself down."
Good Joke Annasee! It made me smile. This is what I like about this blog. We can do serious, but mostly we're just trying to make each other laugh.
Annasee, I heard that only recently (but your version is better) so maybe it's a new joke.
Where do jokes come from? Where do they go to die? (Ooops, just realised might have opened floodgates for names of rubbish comedians to be mentioned. Pray desist, fellow froggers. Deny them the CO2 of publicity)
As for reform of the House of Lords, well, we've already had that on the frog so Eric can't expect us to go backwards.
Forward with PM!
The Mair the Better!
(Hey, there's a strapline)
It's the witching hour
And the strap-line is in place
As if by magic.
12.10 a.m. Monday. Just got back from the Welsh Hills. Thought I'd check in on my mates. Wonder what Eddie is doing now?
Eddie, never underestimate the addiction of the PM blog.
Sleep well, everybody.
Eddie sleeps. Somewhere
The thought of blogging enters
His dreams. The nightmare returns.
Ledgy, which Welsh hills?
Nos da
Frances (85) - The carbon dioxide of publicity? Surely an oxymoronic metaphor?
But I really like "The Mair the Better".
Go on - say something "rude"! ;)
Oh, btw, Appy - ain't that more oxygenic than oxymoronic?
Good morning everybody. Puppy is rubbishing the bedroom, he has found an old slipper. The sky is just showing dark turquoise through the trees. Got to be a good day.
Morning, Rosalind (and indeed everyone else)...
Well, I've just looked outide, and it's still dark:( Do I have to go to work?
At the time of writing, there were 92 messages above this one.
But the page from which I got to this one said there were 0 comments.
So I must have missed hundreds of erudite comments in the past because I thought there were none.
If there is a counter (which enables Auntie to know that this is the 大象传媒's biggest Blog/Frog) how come it keeps displaying 0?
As for Saturdays - only recently remembered there's a PM radio programme on that day.
Piper (80),
There really is a coffee flavoured beer. I bought a couple of bottles. But it's suddenly disappeared again. It tased better than it sounds, but that was after a couple of G&Ts.
(85, 90)
鈥淩ubbish comedians ... deny them the carbon dioxide of publicity鈥.
Presumably because they are a bit wooden, as that鈥檚 what trees like. Perhaps they should be provided the carbon monoxide of publicity? That was a joke, not an attempt to be cruel. Oh - deny me the publicity of something.
(94) Comments: zero.
Perhaps the software is programmed to judge the content of posts, and this is a damning endictment of contributions thus far. It might go to minus one after this has appeared.
I had the mis-fortune of tasting cherry beer when I was in the US for work earlier this year. Truly disgusting! At least I found a "liquor store" that sold Newkie Brown :-) (other beers are available)
I wonder if my pbp-c has arrived yet...
I know this is an old topic but I just can麓t resist it.
The view out of the window in front of my pc today is staggering! A low wall, then a lot of blue sea, then a lot of blue sky, and a boat, and another boat, and a dinghy full of scuba divers. Not sure why but they麓ve been in the dinghy for ages, and don麓t seem to look keen to jump out. Perhaps they are learners and are getting all the safety stuff (what do I know). Oh yes, nearly forgot, and there are a couple of dolphins too...
Souvenirs anyone?
See you soon, got the postcard yet?
Now you're just making me jealous, ValP!
Mornin' all
On the topic of fear, research shows:
xx
ed
FF (97)
But the belgian fruit beers (cherry, especially raspberry) are good, but not exactly winter warmers. Hard to get in the UK, though.
Valery, you certainly know how to make people envious with the view from your window.
I can't believe I'm about to post a comment about fish fingers. Ye gods.
Hoki are, I believe, more sustainable these days than either haddock or cod.
Yummy too, and Birds Eye do them.
I did once try green beer, part of a PR stunt by a Mexican restaurant chain celebrating May 5th. Tasted just like beer.
Which is nice.
I'll give them a try next time I'm over in Belgium, John W. I just found the US cherry beer was too sickly for my tastes...
I see Eddie's frogged already. I think this'll be another day of at least four different threads from him...
Ed : loved the fear picture. For me its :
1. Existential Void
2. Gas Prices
Nothing else to worry about in my opinion.
Now : When I were a lad, fish fingers tasted great with tomato sauce, mmm.
Except now, they seem to be full of fish, which is not nearly as nice. Same went for Penguins when they put real chocolate on them.
(other fingers and aquatic birds are available).
FF (103),
I beileve that one or two of the supermarkets stock one brand in cherry and raspberry. I know I preferred the latter.
In Holland some years ago, there was a triend of serving their bok (brewed for autumn, recommended) beers with citrus floating on the top. Must be time they are launched this year.
Valery, I'm very envious. I suspect, however, that the local brew has had an effect: Why are the boats and the dinghy full of scuba divers in the sky?
Fearless, You're a Newkie Brown boy? Such taste! Of course I always knew it. (Now I have a picture of you with a bottle in one hand, adjusting your sock with the other...)
I've got the usual view of hills and sky in my Windows. But I covered it up with a frog window.
Nigel has asked me to convey his thanks to Fearless Fred and again to Frances for the kind words about his marriage to the amphibious Ethel.
It is with terrible sadness that he's requested me to announce that on Sunday night the cat got a frog in its throat.
Consequently Ethel has departed this world for the great stagnant pond in the sky, and PM's first on-line marriage has reached a tragic end of the (fe)line.
Nigel is, of course, profoundly upset, but he is a fighter and will no doubt bounce back in time.
As he himself would say...
"There's plenty more fish in the sea."
RIP Ethel
luv
luc
hmm, I'm a bit worried about this image you have of me now, Appy! I just hope others haven't cottoned on to what you're alluding to!
I have to say that the favourite would have to be either Old Speckled Hen or a Guinness in Ireland, but NB* is definitely up near the top of the list :-)
*Other alcoholic beverages are available
O, Frances, A Welsh greeting from you - How nice!
'Our' hills are foothills of the Cambrians, south of Llanfair Caereinion. I've tried hard to find out a name for them - but, I guess, in Wales there are so many, that people locally aren't very particular. Hills are the norm. But they are lovely, hillocky hills, rounded for the most part, but with little peaks and crags just so as you don't start to think they're all the same. Sublimely lovely in their own way.
But then, too, we love the Cumbrian hills, which are quite different, and take your breath away. While home, for us, is in sight of the Downs.
Does anybody else get this thrill from different types of hills?
Thrills and hills ..........
Don't be worried Fearless - it is an image I rather enjoy... ;)
Or perhaps that's what worries you????
A cornish brewer has produced a beer with fennel to go with seafod .......... Where will it all end!
FF (109),
Thay say that many beers don't travel, and I think that goes for Breweries as well. Morland brewed a better Hen than Greene King, in my opinion, and I've nothing against that company's own brands. Must be something to do with the water.
Appy (111) Well, if you like that image, then I'm not worried :-) At least you haven't said anything about what size sock we're talking about :p
I couldn't resist the chance to paraphrase Big Sister :
... crag[g]s ... Sublimely lovely in their own way.. Thankyou B Sis!
:)
I remember being taken to Bruges as a teenager some 45 years ago and being given cherry beer. I don't remember what it was like, I do remember saying 'no' to the very respectable gentleman who took me, a friend of the older cousin I was staying with. Fortunately he accepted my 'no', my cousin didn't beiieve me when I told her. As so often, I was lucky! As I now realise.
Big Sis, prynhawn da - can't find Llanfair caireinion on maps - do tell more!
Wow Rosalind - that sounds like the opening of a novel. Do tell us more!
While I don't want to burst AndyC's bubble in any way by reminding him that I referred to little crags(!) I happily endorse, in a slightly different way, his paraphase. For me, ALL paid-up PM bloggers are sublimely lovely in their own way ........
With love from Big Sis
O Frances,
As any railway anorak will be able to tell you, it's west of Welshpool. And there's a delightful railway chugging between the two.
Also, for the knits, it is the home of a wonderful yarnmaker, whose name I guess I'm not allowed to post. Suffice it to say, it's a bit like a small female Colin (Get it?)
Charming, polite, and bashful place. A bit like our Eddie, I guess, though I fancy his sense of humour is rather more lively.
I agree with you Big Sis, we're all lovely, and I don't mind my bubbles being burst.
And you're right, I'm not little (especially in the sock department), so I apologise for the miscontrudem.
There was a summer beer down our way which had nettles in it (called stinger, of course) - twas really nice. Have to wait for next summer before I can sample it again. Still, it gives a sad frogger something to look forward to :)
Well AndyCraBigSock, is that an instance of your own trumpet being blown? :)
Perry : Just modest enough not to be able to do that!
Not only do folk read this stuff at the weekend, they even go back and add stuff DAYS later.
You've noticed that too, Charles?
Shall we try for a BLOG record on this one?
Yeah,
No one's going to go back and read it.
Daft I call it.
Yep, crazy.
stoopid
but then again, its the only real way of going 'back' (like i'm gonna remember the day a post was put up - or even the blog it was put on to!!
OK
Hands up everyone who thinks that posting, now, on this thread is silly.
Well, I've put my hand up! Best not tell Patricia Elliot we're here, though... It'll only rile her more :p
Hand up. Very silly and should be stopped.
Thinkin' about this - there might be all kinds of secret conversations a'goin'on on really early threads.
But then, prolly not.
I think you might be on to something there, Andycra**. Any volunteers willin to trawl their way back through over 100 blogs?
Uh, no (I might be able to come up with a computer-prog to get all the blogs and analyse them, which might work - using "wget" iykwim - might be fun, and pointless!)
I did post something just now on the very first blog, but I felt silly after I'd done it and wished I hadn't. But it's there for eternity now. Hey-ho.
What's all this 'ere then???
Aperitif,
So this is where you've been.
Did you start at the back and are working towards the front or vice versa?
Typing this with one hand in the air is making it even more silly.
re : 134 : I'm glad I did now, some tings a going on!
Hi guys, back to rain and cold and washing, and the pc still playing silly bs. We are now using an old dial-up connction - if I remember correctly, it goes to sleep while your typing...I'd better get this one in fast!
So it's fish fingers round the back of the bikesheds, they're all on the bbq - as soon as you like before the rain puts the fire out. Who's all coming, then I'll know how much cava to chill (got addicted, it's SO cheap!)
Hi Valp! Why don't you join us all back in August? We're all on the beach. There's a cooler for wine & beer, and I think Big Sis is trying to organise a volleyball ghame for later... Follow Kate O'Mara in recent posts...
Follow Kate O'Mara
Ahhh ... if only
I do apologise. I unwittingly bounced Kate off the front page. You need to follow me instead...
Shall I run back for my guitar? A drunken singsong on the beach is a great way to end a holiday.
I dunno Rufus, some days I wander about all over the place - when I first log on I alwasy start with the oldest thread availble on the front page. This is more of a habit than a rule.
Hi Valery! Welcome back! Have you heard about Fearless' hot date? Bet you're glad you weren't around when we all got told off for being silly?
You're so right Appy, I would've hated that, it happened too often at school, so I have a complex! (Can't you tell).
Must also apologise for 2, count 'em, mistakes in my previous post. Let's blame it on the flight leaving at 2 in the morning, and not getting home till 9, and no food etc, etc.
Haven't had to time to follow up any other threads yet. Any I can just skip over, or are they all worth the perusal?
Get my postcard yet?
FiFi : that's the great thing about going back to August - we can stay there for as long as we like, it will be forever summer!
Aaahh, nice.
Oh I'm making mistakes all over the place Valery - and finding I don't care so much as I thought I might.
You should defintely follow up on Fred's hot date (started on one of yesterday's threads I think) but TBH I've wandred so much I dunno what's where any more. I may be able to better advise after a good night's sleep - been out to dinner and had a wine or three..
Aperitif (46) Isn't it nice to have a place like this to make mistakes all over?
Charles (147), it is indeed :)