Topic: The longest thread - Just a minute
The longest thread - Just a minute
posted Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:25PM
pamelap
Why not create the longest thread right here?
Posting to be along the lines of Just a Minute.
First person to post each day to choose the topic.
Topics must be non-controversial but can be about anything within forum rules and not necessarily anything to do with BC.
Each person restricted to one post per day.
No repetition. No hesitating. No deviation (from topic).
Posts to be kept brief. No long paragraphs.
TOPIC: the longest thread
posted Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:27PM
pamelap
(No Subject)
posted Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:31PM
pamelap
How strange that people want to create long ones when we have no control over what happens here. Does this make it more exciting?
Maybe ...
posted Mon, 26 Sep 2005 09:52PM
JC
..... it goes back to the childhood days of mine is bigger than yours, my dad is cleverer than yours syndrome. It would be interesting to know why others feel the need to have a long one.
Joy x
its not the size that counts
posted Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:42PM
lynnemarie
Of the threads that is!!
So we get one post and a new topic everyday.OK
lynne
NEW TOPIC FOR TODAY is
posted Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:34AM
JC
Who is the most intelligent a man a woman or a dog
Joy x
(Hope I've read the rules right?)
A woman
posted Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:48AM
nj
Have you SEEN a man or a dog trying to multi-task??
(No Subject)
posted Tue, 27 Sep 2005 01:08PM
Daphne
Who does better at IQ tests, men, women or dogs? Men according to some scientist bloke. Who writes IQ tests? men probably.
(No Subject)
posted Tue, 27 Sep 2005 01:33PM
pamelap
The most intelligent form in the universe is the Flying Spaghetti Monster so it depends which of the men women and dogs is touched by his Noodly Appendage at the time (see venganza.org).
(no subject)
posted Tue, 27 Sep 2005 05:37PM
quackers
I'm not very intelligent then, I have no memory of ever being touched by a Noodly Appendage!!
That's because
posted Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:34PM
AnneD
they touch superior beings whilst they're asleep. Only men and dogs would remember being touched.
Thank you for bringing the Flying Spaghetti Monster back into the posts (tell me is it wholewheat, spinach or egg?)
Anne
xx
NEW TOPIC: Giblets
posted Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:39AM
MariaR
What have I done
posted Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:42AM
challsi
To deserve being sworn at like this Maria, how have I upset you that you could say this to me boo hoo boo hoo
Sorry...
posted Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:51AM
MariaR
....but my gizzards are hurting.....
Sorry Maria
posted Wed, 28 Sep 2005 01:44AM
quackers
My only contribution to this topic is that I had my giblets removed in 1994!!
giblets
posted Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:42AM
lynnemarie
Isn't it better buying chickens without giblets? Thats coz i never know what to do with them.
lynne
Giblets
posted Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:24AM
Daphne
My mother-in-law likes to eat giblets (after they've been cooked and before the chicken is carved). Her family used to eat pigs' heads when she was a child. She used to live in Cornwall and mentioned this to a neighbour and somehow got talked into (or talked herself into) cooking a pig's head for the neighbour and her family. She regretted it.
Giblets
posted Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:45AM
JC
Giblets used to come in handy when I was into hijacking cars. I used to lie on the side of the road with giblets smeared all over my stomach shouting "Help me. That bloody surgeon was RUBBISH!" Then when a car stopped to help me and the people got out to run over to me, I would jump up, jump in their car and drive away laughing. The only downside to this would be that I could never wear my faviourite jumpers for this passtime as they had to be thrown away afterwards - rather smelly.
Joy Turpin
giblets
posted Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:46AM
geraldine
my mother used to simmer them in water and then use this strained, (give giblets to cat or dog)to make gravy,
lots of people eat chicken livers so i suppose the rest is edible (glad im vegee)
Gxx
(No Subject)
posted Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:01PM
pamelap
Personally, I never go anywhere without my Giblets Donor Card.
Giblets
posted Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:19PM
nj
My in-laws used them to make gravy, and my father liked to eat casseroled giblets. I liked them as a small child, but am far too squeamish to eat them now - I like my food in anonymous rectangles that do not remind me of the origin. Perhaps I should be vegetarian?
Giblets
posted Wed, 28 Sep 2005 03:49PM
Roz57
I want to join this threat but giblets...what a topic! I know they are low in sodium but high in cholesterol. Can't wait for tomorrow for another topic.
Giblets
posted Wed, 28 Sep 2005 04:26PM
Melody
The Giblets and Barley Soup is hearty enough to be a meal in itself.
Ingredients
2 tablespoons rendered
goose fat (use drippings
from roasting goose)
or butter
1 cup sliced onion
Goose giblets, neck and
carcass
5 cups water
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. celery salt
1 can (1 lb.) tomatoes,
cut up
1 cup pearl barley
1 tsp. beef stock base
1/2 tsp. thyme
Hold aside the giblets, carcass, wings and any leftover scraps when roasting your goose.
Melt fat in a Dutch oven or large kettle.
Sauté onion until limp but not browned. Add giblets, neck, carcass, water, salt and celery salt. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer 1 hour.
Remove meat and bones with a slotted spoon. Cut meat off neck and carcass and finely chop giblets; return meat to kettle.
If desired, add leftover cut-up roast goose.
Add tomatoes, barley, beef base and thyme.
Return to a boil, cover and simmer 1 additional hour.
Makes about 2 quarts
Gibbets
posted Wed, 28 Sep 2005 04:38PM
SEM
They used to string people up on them didn't they?
ooops - sorry - misread the l for a b............
Giblets joke..........
posted Wed, 28 Sep 2005 05:11PM
OddsandEnds
CHICKEN
A little boy and girl at school having lunch in the bicycle shed.
"Tommy," she said, "I'm not eating any more chicken sandwiches."
"Why?" he asked.
"Cause I'm starting to grow feathers down here," she said, pointing to the bottom of her tummy.
"I don't believe you!" he said. "You'll have to show me."
Behind the shed they went, where the inspection took place.
"Gee, you're right," he said. "I've been eating a lot of chicken, perhaps I'm getting feathers too."
"Well, I'd better have a look," she said.
After a lengthy examination, she looked up and said, "Oh, I think it's too late for you, you've got the neck and giblets too!"
Deviation, Repetition, Hesitation.
posted Wed, 28 Sep 2005 07:41PM
Mrs-Trellis
My Dears
I have been invited into this thread due to my great experience with this sort of thing.
I have been asked to keep an eye on things.
So, spot of repetition going on, cups and sheds for example.
And, I am afraid to say quite a bit of hesitation. ....... SEM and MariaR - better get some practice in on that my dears.
Giblets
posted Wed, 28 Sep 2005 07:50PM
SueA
Not much you can say about them
Giblets
posted Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:50PM
cherieb
A word with 7 letters.
Thursday 29th Sept - Theme for today
posted Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:30AM
Barbiemac
Not so much a theme more a plea from the heart
WHAT CAN WE HAVE FOR TEA TONIGHT??
(please no giblet recipes!)
It's a problem every day and I want to try something different, can anyone offer their favourite (easy to make - I'm no chef) meals
My all time favourites
posted Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:39AM
challsi
Oops
posted Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:41AM
challsi
Bangers, Mash & Bakex Beans, Kate & Sidney Pud, Beef Stew & Dumplings if any room left then Treacle Pud or Jam roly poly.
After that you will probably all keel over with heart attacks coz you cannot move any more due to bloated stomachs.
TeaTonight
posted Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:53AM
pamelap
Have breakfast instead - it saves time in the morning.
my (easy) favorites
posted Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:58AM
geraldine
spaghetti bolognese or lasagne, i just add a good organic bolognese sauce to quorn mince, and slightly softened onions and mushrooms (make a cheese sauce for the lasagne)with salad and a glass (or two) of red wine
or cauliflower cheese with roasted garlic vegetables(new pots halved lengthways ,onions, carrots, courgettes , peppers and garlic cloves etc roasted in olive oil)
home made pizza and salad...
Gxx
sweet n sour chicken
posted Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:46AM
lynnemarie
Make a thick batter ( flour pinch salt tble sp oil & water ), dip pieces of chicken breast in flour, coat in thick batter, Then into hot oil until golden.
in the meantime heat together lrg tin pineapple juice(i add few bits of pineapple), pinch ginger,tomato ketchup, soy sauce and vinegar.mix a spoon of cornflour with water and stir into sauce slowly to thicken it.
You dont need exact measurements,just use same amounts ie; 4 tblespoons of each for sauce. and make sure your batter is really thick to coat chicken.
serve with fluffy boiled rice. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
lynne
(no subject)
posted Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:48AM
nj
cottage pie with peas, carrots and lots of gravy!
savoury mince and rice (same mix as for cottage pie with veg cooked in and no potato)
veg curry (throw in everything you can think of!)
chilli con carne
jacket potato with cheese, baked beans, bacon, tuna (no, not all together!)
Tea Tonight
posted Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:48AM
Daphne
Might make a chickpea and pumpkin risotto. On the other hand might buy a ready meal from Tesco as I'm out tonight.
Daphne
posted Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:40PM
JC
How do you make that? Oh, dear you can only post ONCE. Will you tell me tomorrow please? Thank you.
Hate cooking for one so anything on toast, like grilled soya cheese, with tomato topping and sprinkled with worcester sauce and poppy seeds. Lots of black pepper.
Joy xxx
(No Subject)
posted Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:42PM
JJ
I've got a cold so dont feel like cooking, am not really hungry and food is starting to taste different.
Help!
Problem solved
posted Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:38PM
quackers
for tonight anyway, it's hubby's birthday so I'm taking him out for dinner, no staring vacantly into freezer and fridge wondering what on earth to cook tonight.
Have just made a lovely gooey chocolate cake for afters (from Nigella Lawson's How To Be A Domestic Goddess), don't think there's room for 52 candles on it though!
If there's any cake left I'll post it on here later for those that are having a bad day.
An offally big adventure
posted Thu, 29 Sep 2005 06:17PM
Molennium
would recommend going to Richard Corrigan's restaurant lindsey house if you like your innards
mole
(No Subject)
posted Thu, 29 Sep 2005 06:33PM
cherieb
Some homemade vegetable soup Yummy
Comfort food
posted Thu, 29 Sep 2005 06:39PM
jopurple
Fishfingers, chips and beans. Haven't had it for years but loved it when I was young. Other than that anything you can cook in one pan or pot - saves washing up.
Jo
Went for easy...
posted Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:29PM
Barbiemac
... Chuck in the oven Chicken Casserole but will try your sweet and sour chicken Lynnemarie - sounds lush!
B x
an offal time was had by all
posted Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:33PM
sueq
Did you see what's his name (Rick Stein) near Carcassone (spelling) with his tripe recipe? My Mum used to cook it - it was her favourite - I couldn't stand it then and seeing Rick Stein cook it didn't alter me one jot. His toulouse sausages the week before were very good however. Looking at travelling through France in a narrow boat seems fantastic and I would love to do it. A couple of years ago we took our caravan to France and camped at a site right alongside the chateau at Cenoncaux (I am afraid I am spelt out tonight). Anyway it was brilliant. Here's my recipe based on offal - well sausage and liver casserole - done in one pan:
Brown desired amount of sausages and liver in large frying pan - add desired amount of sliced onions and brown again. Dice a couple of potatoes and add - yes - brown again! Add a small can of chopped tomatoes and a little extra water (top up as liked). Crumble in one oxo cube. DELICIOUS and simple.
Think I've had too much red wine.
Regards
SueQ
the next subject is
posted Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:03AM
nj
'Your earliest memory'
Mine is of lying on a camp-bed in the sitting room of my parents'flat, being fed antibiotic syrup (Terramycin? for bronchitis. I must have been about 2 and a half.
the next subject is
posted Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:03AM
nj
'Your earliest memory'
Mine is of lying on a camp-bed in the sitting room of my parents'flat, being fed antibiotic syrup (Terramycin? for bronchitis. I must have bben about 2 and a half.
Easter egg squashed
posted Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:23AM
challsi
Rolling my hard boiled and painted Easter egg down grass embankment and car came along and ran over it.
Must have been about 3 and was still living in Germany at that time.
Also first set of roller skates at 4 [still in Germany], refused to take them off my feet and wore them on bus from town to home etc., even slept in them.
July, 1958, Peebles, Scotland
posted Fri, 30 Sep 2005 01:00AM
MariaR
I would have been 2 and a half years old. I went to visit my mum in hospital (she was having my brother). They used to keep you in for a couple of weeks in those days! I remember another lady on the ward giving me a packet of Fruit Pastilles.
My Earliest Memory
posted Fri, 30 Sep 2005 06:51AM
pamelap
In my mothers arms, standing on top of a cliff in Isle Wight, looking down on a beach covered with eugh yuk disgusting looking seaweed which stank so bad I still can't get the stench out of my nostrils. Must have been just under two. I remember hoping desperately my parents wouldn't choose that beach - clearly I didn't trust their judgement even then LOL.
memory
posted Fri, 30 Sep 2005 08:14AM
lynnemarie
I remember sitting on my uncles knee as he marked off his pools coupon and my sister climbing behind the sofa coz he said doctor who would be on soon and she was even terrified of the theme music.(i was around three).
lynne
My earliest memory
posted Fri, 30 Sep 2005 08:49AM
Roz57
The milkman delivering our milk and orange juice bottles to our house (lived right out in the country). Mum giving over the ration coupons. He always gave me and my sister a toffee and it had a wrapper on it with a picture of the world on it. I LOVED that toffee. Mum said I was about 2 as it was about 1949 - 1950.
Just moved into
posted Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:49AM
JC
our new council house from a damp, smelly post-war prefab. Can still smell the newness of the house which to me was a magnificent castle, when suddenly at the open front door stood a little boy of about the same age. We stood wide eyed and open mouthed staring at each other for what seemed ages before my mum appeared and said 'Hello. Are you lost?' I can hear her now and see the skirt she was wearing. She was really beautiful. I was about 3.
Joy xxx
My earliest memory,,,,,,,
posted Fri, 30 Sep 2005 07:30PM
Mrs-Trellis
is being diagnosed with BC. Is there life before BC?
(No Subject)
posted Fri, 30 Sep 2005 07:35PM
Melody
My earliest memory was seeing my mama singing on tv, she was a very well known singer in the 60's. I couldn't understand why I couldn't cuddle her when she was appearing on tv.
My earliest memory
posted Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:53PM
quackers
is standing in my cot, must have been between 18 months and 2, shouting for an old great aunt who was babysitting, a real soft touch. I had stripped the cot of all sheets and blankets and thrown them on the floor, apparently I kept doing it for hours!! Lovely child, my horns still show on occasion!
My earliest memory
posted Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:01PM
jopurple
is having a door kicked in my face! It was Christmas Day and my brother had got a train set. My dad was setting it up in my brothers bedroom and I ran across the landing to have a look just as my dad kicked the door shut so he had more room. I bashed my head on the side of the rapidly closing door. Ouch. I was about 2.
Jo x
Pink October
posted Sat, 01 Oct 2005 09:18AM
RMW
To celebrate I treated myself to a nice pair of PINK nellie Timberland boots. WooHoooooooooo.
Pink October
posted Sat, 01 Oct 2005 09:49AM
JC
Is the sequel to Red October - starring Sean Connery in a submarine. Unlike the Yellow Submarine in Liverpool, Sean has painted his submarine Pink in support of all of us. We all have to wear a pair of RMWs pink nellie Timberland boots when we go onthe submarine. Where is everybody?
Joyx
(Jo, sorry couldn't stop laughing at your post)
Hmm
posted Sat, 01 Oct 2005 11:06AM
nj
Looking forward to November.....
Has Sean
posted Sat, 01 Oct 2005 12:22PM
Justine
dyed his pate pink for pink october. I think if we have to wear these pink boots he should be sporting a pink bald spot.
Who else should be sporting pink accessories in our submarine?
And please don't say Jordan, she had enough pink at her wedding to cover the next 500 pink octobers!!!!!!!!
I'm with you Joy Turpin (just don't do any of your giblet tricks in here or else!!!!)
Justine
xxxxx
I'm blushing
posted Sat, 01 Oct 2005 03:02PM
pamelap
Well I think
posted Sat, 01 Oct 2005 03:11PM
challsi
We could let Simon Cowell on if he wears a pink tee shirt
Pink Organiser
posted Sat, 01 Oct 2005 03:29PM
HJL
My Pink Organiser arrived this morning - from You magazine - I ordered it about two weeks ago. (I do like collecting organisers!)
Heather
Pink aerobics in Regents Park
posted Sat, 01 Oct 2005 07:35PM
roberta1
Might have to go and have a peek tomorrow. At least the walk there will be good exercise (I'll give the actual aerobics a miss... wouldn't like to frighten the children!).
I'm with nj
posted Sat, 01 Oct 2005 10:37PM
quackers
November can't come quick enough!!
H O B B I E S
posted Sun, 02 Oct 2005 12:01AM
MariaR
I've recently started knitting.
Hobbies
posted Sun, 02 Oct 2005 12:07AM
nj
Reading, photography and cross-stitch.
Hobbies
posted Sun, 02 Oct 2005 02:17AM
quackers
Reading, photography, cross stitch and sitting in the wee small hours with my lap-top!!!
Hobbies
posted Sun, 02 Oct 2005 06:00AM
Roz57
I agree with quackers - on the computer whenever possible, gardening, playing darts, watching my old man play bowls.
(no subject)
posted Sun, 02 Oct 2005 09:26AM
Molennium
pastel drawing, gardening, investigating family history, visiting my friends, eating haagen daz icecream, eating out
decorating my hole
mole
Quackers
posted Sun, 02 Oct 2005 11:29AM
nj
I think you must be my cyber-twin!
(No Subject)
posted Sun, 02 Oct 2005 05:07PM
HJL
cross stitch, making earrings, papercraft. playing my flute at Christmas and when the Last Night of the Proms is on!
Heather
Hobbies
posted Sun, 02 Oct 2005 06:08PM
SueHE
I have started knitting a tigger for my daughter. It was given to her last christmas and she doesnt have the patience to make it.
I enjoy tapestry, reading, watching Eastenders, and sitting on the PC.
Hubby bought me a guitar for my birthday (March), still havent learnt how to tune it in!!
Sue xx
My hobby
posted Sun, 02 Oct 2005 09:51PM
pamelap
is posting inane comments to this thread about the day's topic.
Monday's Topic
posted Mon, 03 Oct 2005 01:23AM
quackers
What was/is the best present you ever received?
Mine has to be the rally driving weekend my family bought for my 40th birthday, I can still feel the adrenaline.
I hope they read this as it's my 50th next month!!
The best present
posted Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:11PM
HJL
I had, was a joint birthday and Christmas present from my wonderful husband Jeff for our first Christmas married (my birthday is on the 21st). He got me six months rental of a saxophone because he knew it was something I'd always wanted to try. He also bought me A Tune a Day for sax and new reeds.
Heather
My son
posted Mon, 03 Oct 2005 03:17PM
nj
who was born 2 days before my 30th birthday and my daughter who was born ON my 32nd birthday! I haven't had any presents to match those since.
On my 50th.....
posted Mon, 03 Oct 2005 04:38PM
Roz57
My best friend from UK came over to visit me with her sister. 5 of us ladies (ages from 28 to 62) went on a jolly girls outing for 2 days and nights to Sun City by coach. Had such a laugh, won't even start to tell you what we got up to. All 5 of us squashed into a 2 berth room (didn't have enough money!) and 3 had to hide every time someone came along...felt like little schoolgirls. A birthday to remember - so will Gloria, she broke her toe, won't tell you how! Love Roz X
Snoopy
posted Mon, 03 Oct 2005 05:42PM
SueHE
My hubby gave me a cuddly snoopy on our first date. Still have it 16 years later.
Sue xx
Best present
posted Mon, 03 Oct 2005 08:49PM
pamelap
A party dress. Then I found out my grandfather had died in the night. I was 7.
RHYMES YOU REMEMBER
posted Tue, 04 Oct 2005 12:35AM
MariaR
I remember this one from school:
Heinz Baked Beans are good for the heart
The more you eat, the more you fart
The more you fart, the better you feel
So eat baked beans with every meal!
Mary Had A Little Lamb
posted Tue, 04 Oct 2005 03:13AM
SueHE
She thought it rather silly
She threw it up in the air and caught it by his
Willy was a bulldog sitting in the grass
along came a bumble bee and stung him up the
Ask no questions, tell no lies, have you ever seen a china man doing up his
Flys are a nuisance, Bees are worse, and thats the end of my chinese verse
A knights tale
posted Tue, 04 Oct 2005 05:22AM
Fee37
This rhyme reminds me of schooldays. I remember my dad teaching it to my brothers and my mum going ballistic while they all rolled about laughing. Typical schoolboy humour!
In days of old when knights were bold and paper wasn't invented
Men wiped their a***e, on bits of grass
And had to be contented!
(No Subject)
posted Tue, 04 Oct 2005 06:27AM
pamelap
A centipede was happy quite
Until a toad in fun said
Prey which leg comes after which
Which brought his mind to such a pitch
He lay dejected in a ditch
Considering how to run.
My Mum's reply to the constant asking 'Why'
posted Tue, 04 Oct 2005 08:40AM
Barbiemac
Because Y's a crooked letter
and you ought to know better.
I Used to coolect these
posted Tue, 04 Oct 2005 01:48PM
HJL
I used to collect these
posted Tue, 04 Oct 2005 01:50PM
HJL
I have note books full of them
One of the best (and cleanest)
Little Willie, mean as hell
Pushed his sister in a well
Mother said while drawing water
"My it's hard to raise a daughter"
Heather
One from the playground
posted Tue, 04 Oct 2005 03:32PM
quackers
a very long time ago!!
Old MacDonald had a cow
He tried to milk it but didn't know how
He pulled the tail instead of the tit
And Old MacDonald got covered in sh*t
wind..
posted Tue, 04 Oct 2005 07:56PM
jopurple
where e'er you be,
let your wind break free.
in church or chapel,
let it rattle
This was one of my grandma's. Funny thing is she wasn't the type to break wind or burp in company. I obviously did though!!
Jo
eeny meeny mackaraca
posted Tue, 04 Oct 2005 07:59PM
Molennium
rare eye domenaca
chickapolla lollipopa
hong kong cush
People think it's funny
posted Tue, 04 Oct 2005 09:44PM
MichB
but it's very very runny
diarrhoea diarrhoea
no pain no strain
just let your botty strain
diarrhoea diarrhoea
Jo
posted Tue, 04 Oct 2005 09:47PM
nj
My mum's version of your rhyme (which she swore was on a gravestone)goes:
Where e'er you be
Let the wind go free
For holding a fart
Was the death of me
And my contribution is:
I wish I was a glow worm
A glow worm's never glum
'Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum
FAVOURITE COLOUR
posted Wed, 05 Oct 2005 06:23AM
SueHE
My favourite colour is Lilac
Blue
posted Wed, 05 Oct 2005 09:05AM
nj
is my favourite colour.
yellow
posted Wed, 05 Oct 2005 09:50AM
cal59
always makes me feel good
Black and Blue
posted Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:22AM
Roz57
Powder blue but I do like black - it goes with my mood swings lately!
Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain
posted Wed, 05 Oct 2005 12:27PM
MariaR
All the colours of the rainbow:
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Indigo
Violet
Oops, seemed to have slipped back into "Rhymes" for some reason!
the clue's in my name
posted Wed, 05 Oct 2005 12:45PM
jopurple
It's purple :)
Jo x
Surprisingly
posted Wed, 05 Oct 2005 01:27PM
quackers
it's not duckling yellow but green like a mallard's head!
Red
posted Wed, 05 Oct 2005 02:20PM
paulineef
When I was bridesmaid last year I desperately wanted a red dress and had to wear lilac.
I am going to be 40 in two years time and god willing I'm still here,I'm going to have a party and wear the most beautiful red dress I can find!!!
Luv Pauline xxx
colour
posted Wed, 05 Oct 2005 06:16PM
pamelap
I like the sound of aqua-marine.
I have enhanced colour vision which means I see more colour spectrum than normal people and that my sons are colour blind (female passes a defective gene to their sons ((6% population)) because they have the enhanced colour vision gene). So my favourite colour may be different to what most people see. I certainly have a lot of arguments with people about whether turqiouse is more blue or green and obviously they are always wrong because I am the expert HE HE.
emerald green
posted Wed, 05 Oct 2005 06:31PM
HJL
my engagement ring has emeralds coz its my favourite.
Heather
You're all going to hate me
posted Wed, 05 Oct 2005 08:26PM
MichB
BUT I LOVE PINK!!!!!
(No Subject)
posted Wed, 05 Oct 2005 09:48PM
cherieb
It's red for me.
Most interesting place visited
posted Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:29AM
nj
In my case this was Iceland, with the added bonus of Magnus Magnusson as a tour guide!
(No Subject)
posted Thu, 06 Oct 2005 12:48PM
MariaR
The upside down caves of the Scarabouttie Tribe.
Pass me a Magnum please, Magnusson.
Think mine was
posted Thu, 06 Oct 2005 02:33PM
quackers
The Museum Of Scotland, Edinburgh, I learnt a huge amount about my heritage.
Mine is probably
posted Thu, 06 Oct 2005 02:55PM
MichB
Oman in the middle east. Immense heat, constantly being followed around by the omanis (because of blondness), amazing riches, scenery, watching a child be bathed in a stream by two older siblings, seeing my then one year old nephew, hotels, markets with all the spices and gold.
most interesting place
posted Thu, 06 Oct 2005 04:17PM
pamelap
Museum of the Anti-Christ in what was then Leningrad.
Probably
posted Thu, 06 Oct 2005 05:06PM
roberta1
Afghanistan.
Memories include, sitting on the top of the head of the 125ft Buddha statue in Bamiyan and watching bushkasi (sort of primitive version of polo without sticks and using a headless calf as the ball)in Kabul stadium.
This was well before the Taliban used the stadium for other not so fun purposes and blew up the Buddhas.
TOPIC - what I do when I can't sleep at night
posted Fri, 07 Oct 2005 03:08AM
pamelap
Read New Scientist, especially the boring bits to induce sleepiness. Tare up cardboard packing from food to fit into the smallest rubbish bag I can find. Investigate spots on the carpet. Sort out my collection of rubber bands and paper clips. Make grandiose plans for clearing up all my paperwork the next time I have had a good night's sleep (this is particularly satisfying).
At night
posted Fri, 07 Oct 2005 05:15AM
SueHE
when i cant sleep, i enter the world of this forum. It is so much faster at night when most people are in the land of nod!!!
Hopeless case
posted Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:06AM
nj
I lie awake thinking - which has to be just about the worst way of getting to sleep there is!
I've tried
posted Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:18AM
quackers
most of the above, read my son's A-level physics book once and far from making me sleep, I got interested in it. I must confess that I've haven't tried tearing up cardboard yet, I'll take a note for future reference. I've done the lie awake thinking thing - not good!
When I can't sleep I take a sleeping pill, works every time!
vacuum cleaning!
posted Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:43AM
LynneR
Sad but true, worked on theory would sleep then in the day and not worry!
Good idea at the time and it did work until i forgot that my v.v.handsone husband was home - he did not like the cleaner being turned on at 1am.
I now lie and remember all of the holidays and places i have visited since i was a child. Many years ago i started to collect those sew on badges i am now stitching them onto a "Been There" memory blanket, happy memories, fond memories and sad memories all in a large tin. Now i have to put it down to go to bed and sleep is happier.
Love LynneR
Radio, notes and computers
posted Fri, 07 Oct 2005 04:37PM
jopurple
I put the radio on and try and find the most boring talk show, and hope it bores me to sleep. Not good if you hear something you are interested in though!!
A couple of years ago I was really busy at work and was studying at the same time. Sleep became quite difficult cos my head was spinning so I put a notepad by the bed and wrote things down as they popped into my head. It helped a bit.
Failing that I sit here at my computer until my eyes are nearly shut.
warm milk and alexander technique
posted Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:41PM
SEM
I either get a mug of warm milk, play on the computer or lie on the floor with my head on a book and do the alexander technique semi-supine position for about 20 mins. Actually when I do that I usually fall asleep on the floor and then have a good nights sleep after I wake up and go back to bed.
(No Subject)
posted Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:46PM
Melody
I wake my husband up, if I can't sleep I don't see why he should be able to! ;-)
(No Subject)
posted Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:47PM
Melody
If I can't sleep, I wake my husband up, I don't see why he should sleep if I can't! ;-)
TV
posted Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:49PM
MichB
and a cup of tea
(No Subject)
posted Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:50PM
Melody
I fell asleep trying to post here.
My Dear Melody
posted Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:56PM
Mrs-Trellis
Repetition and hesitation.
Naughty Girl.
FAVOURITE ACTOR / ACTRESS
posted Sat, 08 Oct 2005 02:40AM
JenS
Jeff Goldblum - 6'4 and everything in proportion (or so Geena Davis told me in a dream)!!!!
Giving my age away....
posted Sat, 08 Oct 2005 08:06AM
Barbiemac
....but I had a huge crush on Steve McQueen in my (long distant!) youth - managed to transfer it to Richard Gere in later years!
Well...
posted Sat, 08 Oct 2005 10:34AM
nj
I'll have to have two, 'cos I can't choose between Mel Gibson and Harrison Ford.
(no subject)
posted Sat, 08 Oct 2005 10:38AM
Vivs
Art Malik male and Meryl Streep female.
(No Subject)
posted Sat, 08 Oct 2005 12:17PM
JC
Mel Gibson/Donald Sutherland (sorry can't choose) - I don't mean physical attributes.
Joy x
(No Subject)
posted Sat, 08 Oct 2005 12:58PM
quackers
All time favourites - James Stewart and Bette Davis
Present day - Harrison Ford and Judi Dench
(No Subject)
posted Sat, 08 Oct 2005 01:09PM
paulineef
At the moment Jonny Depp does it for me(and not just because he is drop dead gorgeous). I feel he has real screen presence.
(No Subject)
posted Sat, 08 Oct 2005 04:29PM
jopurple
Jason Merrills. He was in Casualty, Queer as Folk and Cutting It. I once walked past him at Granada Studios and nearly fainted. Phwoar! I think he is quite a good actor as well ;)
favourite actor/actress
posted Sat, 08 Oct 2005 09:06PM
Molennium
actor = al pacino or gerard de poppadum (aka depardieu)
actress = they're all a bit boring, can't remember the name of the woman who was in hannibal lecter who got stalked, she's a bit more interesting than most of them.
Going back - Katherine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, especially in Roman Holiday
Mole
(no subject)
posted Sat, 08 Oct 2005 10:16PM
MichB
Tom Cruise in the days when he was in top gun
Brad Pitt (although not now he's with Angelina)
Nicole Kidman when she was in Bangkok Hilton
Mole do you mean Jodi Foster, think she's pretty good too
FAVOURITE FILM
posted Sun, 09 Oct 2005 12:16AM
JenS
Come on you lot! Someone has got to beat me to this tomorrow
THE PIANO
Moving, poignant, fantastic scenery, wonderful cinematography......and a happy ending!
JenS
Favourite means of transport
posted Sun, 09 Oct 2005 12:16AM
nj
I'm a big fan of Eurostar, and as we are about to take advantage of one of the free 1st class upgrades offered by The Times this summer, I think I'll soon be an even bigger fan!
Jen - I tried...and failed!
posted Sun, 09 Oct 2005 12:21AM
nj
Favourite film
3 actually - the Lord of the Rings Trilogy!
It's got to be
posted Sun, 09 Oct 2005 12:29AM
jopurple
Dirty Dancing
Grease
posted Sun, 09 Oct 2005 05:28AM
SueHE
I know its an oldie but reminds me of my youth!! LOL
favourite mode of transport
posted Sun, 09 Oct 2005 10:41AM
Molennium
unicycle
Favourites
posted Sun, 09 Oct 2005 03:59PM
HJL
Film = Matter of Life and Death, with David Niven. I love this film and cry every time I watch it.
Transport = steam trains - I love the smell!!!
The Sting
posted Sun, 09 Oct 2005 04:20PM
Bee
Paul Newman and Robert Redford - yum yum!
Fav film / Fav way to travel
posted Sun, 09 Oct 2005 04:34PM
pamelap
Yellow Submarine.
Brave heart as one
posted Sun, 09 Oct 2005 06:00PM
JC
..... but just so many brilliant ones to choose from.
Joy xx
Dirty dancing
posted Sun, 09 Oct 2005 06:52PM
geraldine
gxx
Pirates of the carribean
posted Sun, 09 Oct 2005 07:12PM
paulineef
is great (Jonny Depp again) also Angelas Ashes was a fab film.
Luv Pauline xxx
Film / TRansport
posted Sun, 09 Oct 2005 07:58PM
quackers
Film - Sixth Sense
Transport - Time Travel
Fav Films
posted Sun, 09 Oct 2005 10:11PM
MichB
The Commitments
The Piano - had some of the music played at my wedding
YOUR FAVOURITE DRINK - Hic!
posted Mon, 10 Oct 2005 07:31AM
SueHE
I like Brandy and Babycham - only have it on special occasions!!
now here's a subject
posted Mon, 10 Oct 2005 07:49AM
geraldine
dear to my heart
in order of preference
red wine,coffee,fruit juice,fruit teas(especially red berries) white wine, malibu and coke, guiness,and tea
but most of the time i drink water!
gxx
baileys
posted Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:02AM
lynnemarie
i love baileys, and on cold winter nights a glass of lovely warming port.
lynne
Campari & Orange
posted Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:49AM
JenS
So bitter, yum yum.
JenS
Tia Maria
posted Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:05PM
JC
MMmmmmmmm Joy xxx
Pastis, water and ice
posted Mon, 10 Oct 2005 02:37PM
Yvonne37
.....reminds me of the French Riviera although I like a good full blown, bursting with flavour bottle of SA red too!
Boring I know
posted Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:38PM
quackers
but I only drink black coffee and water these days, on too many drugs to imbibe unfortunately!
Things to do
posted Mon, 10 Oct 2005 07:35PM
chrissy1
What have you added to your things to do list???
Mine is to do a parachute jump, preferably strapped to a six foot hunk to soften my landing!!
(No Subject)
posted Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:28PM
paulineef
White wine,baileys,lager archers(Cranberry flavour).
Most of the day I drink Water and loads of it!!!
Pauline xxx
a nice cup of tea
posted Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:26PM
Molennium
lapsang souchong, earl grey, darjeeling - and did I tell you I am off to the tea plantations of India so I can pluck my own bush
Mole
Tipple
posted Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:51PM
nj
Mole - was that double-entendre intentional?
I like that stuff that's like Baileys but which comes in a double-sided bottle with the coffee and cream separated, and whose name completely escapes me - have I STILL got chemo brain?
Cointreau & Lemonade
posted Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:01PM
Fee37
In a tall glass with ice and a slice!!
Mole, im still laughing at the thought of you in India.....plucking your own bush?!
chrissy1
posted Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:23PM
Mrs-Trellis
Deviation my dear. The topic was YOUR FAVOURITE DRINK.
Perhaps you are not on GMT and mistook the first post of the day?
(feeling generous thanks to a glass of Frascati - my favourit tipple).
TOPIC what I keep in my handbag
posted Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:19AM
pamelap
A get out of Jail Free card.
purse, car keys and
posted Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:56AM
geraldine
poop bags and biscuits for my dogs (un-used)
Loads!
posted Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:51AM
Fee37
But if nothing else I would need my purse, car keys, mobile phone and my lippy!
kitchen sink plus next door's
posted Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:45AM
JC
Joy xxxx
Sorry
posted Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:41AM
quackers
don't have a handbag, it's more like a suitcase!!
My 20 year old daughter.....
posted Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:22PM
Roz57
tells me I have a proper Granny's handbag - cheeky devil - as I always have 3 pairs of glasses (one for distance, one of closer and one for reading,) peppermints, tissues, small tube of handcream and make up bag with 'old ladies' make up!
My 17-year-old son ...
posted Tue, 11 Oct 2005 01:28PM
lesleysilver
doesn't understand why any woman needs more than one bag and more than one pair of shoes.
I have a few bags in different sizes, shapes and colours, dotted around the house. I fill them up with hankies and hand cream, and put important things like mobile phone and car keys and money in my pockets. I then take the hand cream and hankies out again, put them in my pockets, then put the bag back where I found it.
I keep a pigeon or two
posted Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:52PM
Molennium
Mole
Handbag
posted Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:58PM
nj
Mine contains bus season ticket (nearly put pass, but I'm not there yet!), purse, keys, mobile phone (ornamental - never switched on), mirror, paracetamol caplets and pen. Husband wishes it would also hold umbrella, his shopping, letters for posting etc.
Small niece was sporting a dolly bag to match her dress at my son's wedding. She brought it up to the high table and, with a flourish, drew out of it a pair of very pink Barbie knickers! Be prepared and all that...
Bag
posted Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:13PM
HJL
Mine has purse, credit card wallet, notebook, case with pen pencil and rubber, paracetomol, keys, sunglasses, mobile phone, (and at this point I have to check!), rescue remedy spray, aquadrops, tissues, lip balm (reeces pieces flavour!), 2nd credit card wallet with love cards from hubby and Imigran jabs.
All this in a bag 9x6.5x4 inches!
Oh, and when I go out it also holds my cigarette case and Zippo lighter, but keep that under your hat!
Heather
(No Subject)
posted Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:57PM
RMW
I have a merkin in mine ;-)
RMW
posted Wed, 12 Oct 2005 01:05AM
Mrs-Trellis
My Dear, that sounds like deviation to me, but then I am a rather old lady.
Feeling guilty
posted Wed, 12 Oct 2005 01:20AM
quackers
Can't sleep so I've given in and eaten some ice cream, hasn't helped me to sleep though. I've just had Ben & Jerry's Phish Food flavour which leaves me to wonder what's your favourite flavour ice cream, now going to take a sleeping tablet, good night
Plain old vanilla but
posted Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:27AM
JC
with chocolate flakes on top.... My aunty lived opposite the town's most 'famous' ice cream factory when I was little. You used to take a huge bowl over and they would fill it up for you. It was wonderful because in winter the real fire was lit and the ice cream used to melt as we sat in front of the fire eating it (ice cream not fire). MMmmmmmmm delicious.
Joy xxxx
Tutti Fruiti
posted Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:52AM
SueHE
... but i also love Coffee or Toffee flavour also
Sue xx
Not a big fan but..
posted Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:25PM
jopurple
Mint chocolate chip would be my choice.
Jo x
Please, not the strawberry. Anything but the strawberry!
posted Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:30PM
lesleysilver
I like rum and raisin ... and chocolate ... and vanilla ... and pistachio ... and lemon ... and maple walnut ... just not strawberry.
Rum and raisin
posted Wed, 12 Oct 2005 02:45PM
paulineef
is my favourite with choccy a close second. Basically I love ice cream and eat whatever flavour and lots of it please !!!
Mint Choc Chip
posted Wed, 12 Oct 2005 03:25PM
Barbiemac
It's lush - but has to be a good make to be perfect!
B x
no strawberry - again
posted Wed, 12 Oct 2005 03:30PM
LynneR
Lesley i so agree about strawberry ice cream - vile stuff! where could we send it that it would be appreciated (magic cottage for a bit of a scrum?) or just off this planet.
I just ADORE Mars bar ice cream in a toasted sandwich!!!!!!!!!!!! yum yum yum!
or chocolate or cinnamon or lemon or vanilla or raspberry or plain or rich vanilla in fact anything but strawberry - got an icecream maker which opened up a whole new world - but still no strawberry.
loving LynneR
Baileys
posted Wed, 12 Oct 2005 05:14PM
pamelap
Pistacchio
posted Wed, 12 Oct 2005 07:11PM
nj
if that's how you spell it!
Haagen Dazs Praline & Cream
posted Wed, 12 Oct 2005 07:49PM
JenS
It's the only ice cream I eat
Yes I'm fussy!
JenS x
strawberry cheesecake
posted Wed, 12 Oct 2005 08:09PM
Molennium
Mole
Todays subject - who would you most like to have an interview with?
posted Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:21AM
Roz57
Mine would have to be Nelson Mandela, living where I do and seeing what he has done for his country, but I would also love to have an interview the Michael Parkinson, I think he is wonderful.
Paul O'Grady
posted Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:50AM
JC
Because I think he would take over to such an extent that it would be easy interviewing, and Ilove the way he is with animals.
Joy x
Lance Armstrong
posted Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:06PM
JenS
I'm fascinated with the man.
I've read all the books he's written about himself, read a book about him written by Daniel Coyle, a journalist, and would like to get my own perspective on the real man.
Think he comes across as very driven, but with a very hard edge which is very different to the public 'cancer' persona
JenS x
Sharon Osbourne
posted Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:25PM
paulineef
Preferably in her big hollywood mansion. Seriously, I think she would be great fun and we could have a real good girly gossip !!!
Luv Pauline xxx
Margaret Thatcher
posted Thu, 13 Oct 2005 02:10PM
quackers
There is so much I would like to say to her, to get some explanations for all the things she did to start the rot in this country!
Interviews
posted Thu, 13 Oct 2005 02:31PM
pamelap
I was going to write - I don't give interviews LOL.
But......in fact I am to be interviewed by two class members on my Diploma course about the effects of my disability!
Prince Charles
posted Thu, 13 Oct 2005 04:59PM
nj
To see if he's really as far out of touch with reality as he seems.
Daft Things You Have Done
posted Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:17AM
MariaR
1) Once asked a frozen chicken in a supermarket if it had giblets. Whilst shopping (with first husband) I asked him if the chicken had giblets and he said to ask the chicken - which I did. Only thing was, that once I go my head out the freezer compartment I was given strange looks from shoppers and husband nowhere in sight.
2) Once, when returning to my car after dropping kids off for school, I sat in the passenger seat by mistake and thought someone had stolen the steering wheel!
3) Another time, when walking to school, I accidentally locked my son in the house (thinking he had run on ahead) only to eventually go back and find him crying out of the letter box.
4)More recently (last year) tried to brush my teeth with handcream (whilst on chemo).
I do hope all the above will not be classified as repetitions. Certainly there was no hesitation involved.
Place in the world you would most like to visit
posted Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:21AM
JenS
Iceland - not that I particularly like being cold but the scenery would be like nothing I've ever seen before, dramatic, wild, extreme
JenS
Sorry! Missed it by four minutes...
posted Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:23AM
JenS
Found my glasses in the freezer
posted Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:25AM
JenS
See thread on life's little irritations!!!
Daft things
posted Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:22AM
Barbiemac
Took remote control out with me instead of mobile phone
Frequently put remote control in fridge
Poured fabric softener in drawer next to washing machine instead of drawer in waching machine
Driving to supermarket I had to pass hospital where I work, on more than one occasion have driven in, parked the car and got out before remembering I am on a day off!
B x
gone all night eel fishing
posted Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:32AM
Molennium
with a six foot four inch fisherman in order to impress him.
It didn't work
Mole
Daft!!
posted Fri, 14 Oct 2005 03:26PM
quackers
I've driven to the shops, forgotten I had the car and got the bus home.
I once spent ages searching a car park looking for my car, just as I decided that it had been stolen I took the car keys out of my pocket and discovered I'd driven hubby's car to the shops!
Gone to the bus stop
posted Fri, 14 Oct 2005 04:52PM
HJL
without my false boob!
I've done this, not just once but THREEE times!!
I've actually got a whole list of daft things dating back to school days 20 odd years ago (mostly involving cookery lessons), but this latest is the one that really takes the biscuit.
Heather
xxx
i have millions
posted Fri, 14 Oct 2005 06:03PM
lynnemarie
someone broke into our car and broke the central locking, my husband said they'd used a screwdriver and i stupidly blamed my hubby saying he shouldnt have left a screwdriver in the car!!!Derrrrr
The other day i came home from school after picking up my nine yr old, i was wearing a new warm pink coat with fur round the hood, i got into the hall and pulled down my hood and oops my wig was in my hood!!! My son sain its a good job you kept your hood up at school mum!!!
lynne
Todays Subject-Place in the World you would most like to visit
posted Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:00AM
JenS
ICELAND!! Hurrah!! Dramatic etc
No, not for the hot flushes......x
JenS
I see you managed to get it today then!
posted Sat, 15 Oct 2005 09:38AM
Roz57
Lots of places actually...wish I could will the lottery. New Zealand, Seychelles, Bahamas, the Rockies and SCOTLAND. Lived in England for 33 years and then emigrated, never got to go to Scotland! Roz x
I see you managed to get it today then!
posted Sat, 15 Oct 2005 09:39AM
Roz57
Lots of places actually...wish I could win the lottery. New Zealand, Seychelles, Bahamas, the Rockies and SCOTLAND. Lived in England for 33 years and then emigrated, never got to go to Scotland! Roz x
Tibet
posted Sat, 15 Oct 2005 11:43AM
nj
because I really enjoyed Michael Palin's 'Himalaya'. Having him as a tour guide would be a bonus...
Borneo
posted Sat, 15 Oct 2005 03:24PM
quackers
to see the orang-utans and Antarctica to see the penguins
Scotland
posted Sat, 15 Oct 2005 03:32PM
lesleysilver
I was conceived there (a rainy day in June in the honeymoon suite of a hotel in Inveraray) and have never been back. I could tour the distilleries. (Single malts only.)
Wonderland
posted Sat, 15 Oct 2005 04:09PM
pamelap
I'd love to see the Cheshire Cat and the Red Queen.
wigan
posted Sat, 15 Oct 2005 11:04PM
Molennium
I went there in August
Mole
Lots
posted Sat, 15 Oct 2005 11:29PM
roberta1
But especially Bhutan and Tibet, Borneo, Galapagos and Peru.
I hope I'm not too premature - Topic is INAPPROPRIATE USE OF APPLIANCES
posted Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:01AM
MariaR
For example:
I often put my eye pencils in the fridge so that they are easier to sharpen.
When I was a child I remember people putting socks in the oven to dry.
Washing Machine
posted Sun, 16 Oct 2005 09:59AM
SueHE
The first year i spent News Years Eve with my husband, i had been drinking lots with a couple of friends of ours. A few hours later that evening i disappeared into the kitchen, to be found talking to my reflection in the washing machine door. Everyone else thought this was highly funny and the story has been told many times over, including by our best man at our wedding. So i guess our washing machines can be used as mirrors when very drunk!! PS. I have also been known for dancing with a Christmas Tree whilst still plugged into electric (the tree not me)
Sue xx
ornamental
posted Sun, 16 Oct 2005 11:17AM
lynnemarie
My husband thinks we bought our washing machine for its ornamental value,- he has no idea how to use it for anything else.
lynne
Maria
posted Sun, 16 Oct 2005 01:06PM
quackers
I too remember the bliss of donning socks, gloves and hats that had been warmed in the oven. Not the present day cookers, but small ovens in the kitchen behind a coal fire in the living room. The sticks for kindling were also put in there to dry before use.
I hasten to add that we also had a conventional cooker in case any of you were thinking that I was brought up in Victorian times with a range!! I only feel 150 at present!!
Continuing the them of inappropriate heat
posted Sun, 16 Oct 2005 01:49PM
pamelap
In the days when one woke up to those beautiful frost patterns on the windows I was lucky enough to have a Belling electric fire in my bedroom (spoilt brat). It was an upright metal cylinder with heat coming out the top and a red glowing lightbulb in the base. I used to leap out of bed, lean right over the fire, slip whatever over my head and stay there while the heat built up inside the guarment and me. Hop back into bed, covers over my head. Then repeat until all garments in place. One of life's great treats. I miss it in some ways.
Hairdryer -
posted Sun, 16 Oct 2005 03:06PM
lesleysilver
quick blast inside the bedclothes - grateful for warmed beds when the heating packed up last December.
My old optician had a customer who washed her glasses with soap and warm tap water, then dried them in the oven. He had kittens but the specs were fine.
Ornamental equipment? My beloved son was making lego technik at age five, and built a PC in the school holidays when he was 7, but still hasn't worked out how to put a light switch into the "off" position, and has no idea how a coat-hanger works.
But he's very good at catching wasps with the vacuum cleaner.
PS This is just hearsay, but
posted Sun, 16 Oct 2005 03:46PM
lesleysilver
(am I allowed two goes on the same day?)
I've heard about caterers who used a tumble drier for spinning salads, and cooked whole salmon in the dishwasher.
Alternative TV
posted Sun, 16 Oct 2005 04:14PM
nj
When my daughter was about 18 months, she was fascinated by the sight of the washing going round in the washing machine and used to sit and watch it. Forget Fireman Sam - only washing would do, and you don't need a licence to watch a washing machine!
This early devotion to domestic appliances paid off when she was in great demand at uni to show all the lads how to work the washers in the hall of residence!
Just had a thought
posted Sun, 16 Oct 2005 05:59PM
quackers
Does inappropriate use of appliances include sitting on the washing machine during the fast spin with a smile on your face??
Perhaps not!
I use a toothbrush
posted Sun, 16 Oct 2005 08:14PM
Molennium
to clean the knobs on my gas cooker, and I have the cleanest knobs in town
Mole
Electric Toothbrush
posted Sun, 16 Oct 2005 10:20PM
JenS
moving on swiftly........!!!!
On the oven theme
I have used the oven too to dry my favourite bra before going out (this is when I had same size boobs & wore a bra regularly!)
JenS xxx
more toothbrushes
posted Sun, 16 Oct 2005 11:14PM
jopurple
I once used my exes to clean the loo. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.....
Jo xx
MONDAY - FAVOURITE QUOTE
posted Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:14AM
lesleysilver
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
All life is an experiment
posted Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:45AM
JenS
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr (1841-1935)
American jurist
Groucho Marx
posted Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:52AM
pamelap
I wouldn't join a club that would have me as a member.
(often think of that one when posting to BCC forums LOL).
Sir Winston Churchill
posted Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:50AM
Roz57
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
we are all in the gutter
posted Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:07PM
Molennium
but some of us are looking at the stars
Oscar Wilde
who also said
I can resist everything except temptation
not a famous one...
posted Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:13PM
jopurple
"You look like a gremlin"
My 5 year old niece on seeing my hairless head for the first time.
Jo xx
It is famous now!
posted Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:21PM
lesleysilver
x L
Not by anyone famous
posted Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:21PM
SueHE
The older I get, the better I used to be
sue xx
Another Groucho Marx
posted Mon, 17 Oct 2005 03:14PM
quackers
read this recently
"I was so long writing my review I never got round to reading the book."
I may be using this excuse on the cyber book group if I don't get a move on. Lets hope I won't be quoting Dorothy Parker -
" This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly, it should be thrown with great force."
Quotes
posted Mon, 17 Oct 2005 03:31PM
nj
You must come again when you have less time.
Walter Sickert
Long experience has told me that to be criticised is not always to be wrong.
Anthony Eden
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie
Winston Churchill to Nancy Astor
posted Mon, 17 Oct 2005 05:04PM
Fee37
Lady Astor: 'If you were my husband, I'd poison your coffee!'
Churchill: 'My dear, if you were my wife I'd drink it.'
Also love Rudyard Kipling's poem If. In particular;
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.."
A Christmas one
posted Mon, 17 Oct 2005 05:44PM
JC
Three wise men??? Huh. You gotta be kidding!
Unknown.
TOPIC: Spoonerisms
posted Tue, 18 Oct 2005 03:46AM
pamelap
Was it you or your brother who was killed in the war?
My daughter
posted Tue, 18 Oct 2005 06:41AM
SueHE
was always unintentionally using spoonerisms when she was about 5.
'Could you put my hair up in a Tony Pale?'
and saying 'poof taste' for tooth paste
She is 14 now!
Fairy tales my Mum used to read us:
posted Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:34AM
Roz57
Rindercella - Cinderella
Pee Little Thrigs - Three Little Pigs
Little Ride Hooding Red - Little Red Riding Hood
The Bree Thears - The Three Bears
Beeping Sleauty - Sleeping Beauty
She also used to say it was roaring with pain (pouring with rain) and when cold she would fight a liar (light a fire)
Roz x
I love
posted Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:23AM
nj
watching flutterbies.
I love
posted Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:27AM
nj
watching flutterbies.
Thanks
posted Tue, 18 Oct 2005 04:13PM
quackers
to my daughter we still have kitbits with our coffee
Oh dear
posted Tue, 18 Oct 2005 07:34PM
JenS
I can't think of one! But I used to work with a girl called Jenny Spooner-Lillingston, whose great uncle (I think or might have been uncle) was THE original Mr Spooner!!! That's my claim to fame for today....
JenS xx
Todays Topic - LITTLE WHITE LIE
posted Wed, 19 Oct 2005 06:03AM
SueHE
I used to tell my twins when they were toddlers that if the ice-cream vans music was playing when it came down the road, it meant that he had ran out of ice-cream.
I was so mean (we did used to get about 6 go down our road during the summer months everyday) Can I be forgiven ?? Please
Sue xx
balloon
posted Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:16AM
lesleysilver
I was out with my nieces, who both had helium-filled balloons. One let go of hers, and it flew away. As her face started to crumple, I said:
"Isn't it lucky you let go of it when you did? You'd be up there with it."
Years later, I was preparing to apologise for scarring her childhood, but she didn't remember it. Sue, we forgiven you but they might not even remember what they're supposed to be forgiving you for.
x Lesley
Big white lie
posted Wed, 19 Oct 2005 09:38AM
nj
I'm sorry, but I've got a terrible headache...
Another white lie
posted Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:26AM
Roz57
But I've only had one glass.....
My daughter and I found the icecream van so amusing Sue, wish I had thought of it years ago. A classic that I will pass on to friends with kids! Love Roz X
Shall we count these two days as one?
posted Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:38AM
lesleysilver
And another one ... (three, really)
I love that hat / dress / colour on you.
x Lesley
something else
posted Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:18AM
SueHE
i used to tell my twins. That when you decided to have a baby, you go to chemist buy a tablet, Blue for boy, Pink for girl and Green for surprise. They believed that i bought 2 green ones. They do know the truth now.
Sue xx
another ice cream van . . .
posted Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:32AM
LynneR
I told my daughters that the ice cream van was like Wee Willie Winkie telling all the children it was time for bed!
Living in a village he used to get to us late in the evening, and like good girls they always went to bed!!!!!
LynneR xxxxx
Aeons ago, when more people smoked than didn't,
posted Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:16PM
lesleysilver
I had an in-law who would get his cigarette lit on the doorstep, when there was no-one around, before he rang the doorbell.
When he was ready for another cigarette, he would take the box out of his pocket, examine it ruefully and say
"Oh dear, I'm sorry I can't offer you one - I've only got one left."
Often, the other person would offer him one, and he would get through the whole evening smoking other people's. If that didn't work, he had secreted about his person a large number of fag-packets, each containing one cigarette.
I perfected this one
posted Thu, 20 Oct 2005 05:41PM
quackers
when my mother-in-law was alive
"Ooh that is really lovely, just what I wanted, thank you"
every birthday and Christmas!
Todays Topic - Chocolate
posted Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:21AM
JenS
I don't like it much.....am I weird or what??!!
If I was going to be force fed it would have to be fruit & nut.
I had a box of champagne truffles given to me last Christmas and I still have most of them left! They're going all weird now, probabaly cos I've sucked the champagne out.........
JenS x
Someone gave me a box of choccies
posted Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:37AM
lesleysilver
for my 21st and I was 23 when I opened them.
x Lesley
OD
posted Sat, 22 Oct 2005 05:48AM
Frobbi
I could easily od on chocolate.Love dark chocolate covered cherries. Oh yum.Also chocolate covered balls with liquid rum inside. SIGH.
Love and Hope,,Bobbie
chocolate
posted Sat, 22 Oct 2005 07:57AM
pamelap
Need more descriptive words. Dark, plain, bitter, milk, white not enough. Also scoring system 1-110 where 110 is eat more than two of these and you'll be sick.
Not a lover of chocolate but....
posted Sat, 22 Oct 2005 02:07PM
Roz57
I did used to love a chocolate bar years ago in the UK, I think it was called a FRYS cream bar, it was dark chocolate with a white filling. I don't think they make them any more but not sure. Also partial to a Walnut Whip but of course can only have them when I come to UK! Don't do such luxuries over here.
Not a big fan
posted Sat, 22 Oct 2005 05:13PM
quackers
either, don't mind milk chocolate in small doses.
Hate Belgian chocolates, why is it that's the only kind you ever get as presents these days.
You can still get Fry's (now Cadbury's) Chocolate cream, they used to do a five fruit flavoured bar too.
Not a big fan either
posted Sat, 22 Oct 2005 06:05PM
Fee37
But really used to enjoy Frys Five centres (the fruit flavoured one)when I was a teenager.
Hubby is a chocoholic and has little stashes all over the house where as I could easily live on CRISPS forever!
Fee xx
milk chocolate
posted Sat, 22 Oct 2005 06:43PM
Molennium
I always have hated milk chocolate and as children we always got these huge easter eggs made of vast slabs of the stuff. I longed for black magic
Mole
Thin dark chocolate
posted Sat, 22 Oct 2005 06:55PM
KathyF
is my passion. I really hate milk chocolate - too sweet. When we were on holiday in France this summer (just before all this started again) I used up my remaining euros stocking up with the supermarket's cheapest dark chocolate (5 X 100 gram bars for 1 euro - about 68p) It's thin and very dark and not too bitter - just perfect. You should see it all stashed away at the back of one of the kitchen cupboards. But I do try to limit myself to 2 pieces a day as I'm trying to lose weight....
Kathy
The subject is...what are you doing today?
posted Sun, 23 Oct 2005 09:16AM
Roz57
I'm up early to go and have breakfast with my friend and have a chat, it's a hot day here in SA. My old man went out early for a day competition to play bowls (old man's bowls) - you would never know that he is my toy boy, 10 years younger than me - think I will have to trade him in soon! I will be thinking of Vivs all day though, it's funny how someone has touched your very heart and sole and I have never met her...I hope she manages to be strong today. Everybody have a lovely day. Love Roz x
Not Much
posted Sun, 23 Oct 2005 09:28AM
SueHE
enjoying a day with my family. Hubby not working today (makes a change) kids at home. Gonna catch up on a few DVDs we got to watch, as its wet and miserable outside. Also thinking of Vivs and Bowdy today (update on Secondaries). Love to All. Sue xx
Plan B
posted Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:39PM
nj
Plan A was to go and 'counsel' sister-in-law who is v.v. depressed due to relationship break-up and death of mother, but she has decided to spend quality time with her children, so I shall catch upon the ironing, then write an essay for my distance learning course!
I'm painting my bedroom
posted Sun, 23 Oct 2005 02:12PM
Molennium
this is the second weekend. I'm also painting myself, my clothes, and bits of furniture in the way. It's the colour of double cream, and I've needed to do loads of coats to cover up the wallpaper pattern which is why it is taking so long. I can't move some of the furniture because I have no one to help and it is really heavy. I've developed a technique of using a radiator roller to get to the bits I can't reach behind the bed.
It's nice and sunny out so I plan to mow the lawn and clean the car once the next coat is done. First coats take longest, so I think this will be easier.
In between I have posted here, and thought of Vivs, and her awful anniversary.
Mole
I'm reading
posted Sun, 23 Oct 2005 02:21PM
Cas7664
all the threads on here & posting while my other half watches old movies (they drive me up the wall)on the TV.
Carol
Avoidance
posted Sun, 23 Oct 2005 06:17PM
pamelap
I was planning to start my ethics essay today. But I am just too tired. I think one has to be in good shape to be ethical. So instead I have been watching things taped off the TV as I have no more tapes left to tape anything. I used to have a dearth of tapes with anything interesting to watch. Now somehow it is the other way round. I spend my life measuring the depth of tape left on the spool to guess whether things will fit on. I don't trust the silly display I get on the TV; measuring is much more fun. Sometimes I wonder why I am still using tapes. A big hard disk would be so much easier. But then there wouldn't be the excitement of wondering if the final minutes revealing who-dunnit are there or not (in honour of Tony Hancock and the mystery thriller book with the last page missing). Small things keep me happy these days.
I'm putting my feet up
posted Sun, 23 Oct 2005 07:15PM
quackers
and chilling in front of the tv now as I have had the family here for Sunday lunch, roast lamb and all the trimmings.
They've just all left and I'm feeling pretty tired but it's so lovely to spend time with them all. Hubby is fast asleep on the sofa, Sunday Times sudoku half done on his lap!
Practising my Spanish
posted Sun, 23 Oct 2005 07:22PM
roberta1
Lunch with my brother's family and Spanish Bro in law, wife and 20mth old who are over here for a few days. They don't speak a word of English, so had to drag up my very rusty, not very good Spanish.
A long time ago, my SiL discover that my ability to speak Spanish was in direct proportion to amount of wine that I had imbibed and therefore always ensures that my glass is never empty!
Roberta
Trying to get this in quick before it become tomorrow
posted Sun, 23 Oct 2005 11:56PM
MariaR
Will I suceeed. I will know when I click on the Submit button. The time on this site is somewhat different to the time on my watch - being in a parallel universe.
My ideal home
posted Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:35AM
nj
would be that old cliche, the thatched cottage with an old-fashioned garden and roses round the door, in a village with a proper green and duck pond. How about you?
A little villa in Spain......
posted Mon, 24 Oct 2005 01:52PM
Roz57
One day - when I win the lottery...I know it is coming...I will keep believing.
An ENORMOUS villa in Portugal
posted Mon, 24 Oct 2005 03:08PM
lesleysilver
with vines, fruit trees and fish. It will have an army of staff, including one to pick the fruit, one to make the wine, one to catch the fish, and two to cook it all. It will have its own (whatever the Portuguese is for) post-code and its own landing strip.
Loads of bedrooms so all you lot (at least the ones who can't fly without an aeroplane) can come to stay and play.
I live in my ideal home
posted Mon, 24 Oct 2005 04:13PM
RMW
I am lucky to live in a lovely village with a proper green and a duck pond, and I love my house.
Love my house too
posted Mon, 24 Oct 2005 04:23PM
quackers
but would also love a traditional fisherman's cottage in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland, fisherman optional!
My Ideal Home
posted Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:42PM
pamelap
would be self-cleaning with temperature controls that adjusted to my heat not the other way round and cupboards bigger than the rooms.
First Thought Of The Day
posted Tue, 25 Oct 2005 06:33AM
SueHE
'Shut That Bloody Cat Up' at 3.24am - meowing to come in, really loudly
Jerry
posted Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:06AM
nj
our neighbour's cat, whom we love to bits most of the time, has a habit of dancing around outside our bedroom window at midnight yowling to come in!
I wish that my Beloved Son could
posted Tue, 25 Oct 2005 01:08PM
lesleysilver
wake himself up, and get his own drink and breakfast and make his own lunch sandwiches and not hop around asking me where his other trainer is and if I can find him a pair of socks well no actually because I've gone on strike and no longer scavenge in his bedroom for washing because he's old enough to put it in the laundry basket if he wants it washed but he'll find a month's supply of not very clean underwear under the bed and the bookcase and on the floor behind his computer desk ... deep breath, hope that doesn't count as hesitation ... and get himself to school ten miles away and not run around looking for his music five minutes AFTER he needs to be in the car for his violin lesson or rehearsal for one of a million orchestras and groups he plays in if he wants to arrive on time and that in a year's time when he's with luck at university I won't know what to do with myself and I hate the noise my alarm clock makes and I'm just going to have five more minutes.
My first thought of the day?
posted Tue, 25 Oct 2005 01:12PM
Roz57
Why did I marry someone who snore so much!!!!!
Over a year ago, during chemo
posted Tue, 25 Oct 2005 01:16PM
JC
I found a tiny kitten in the middle of a country lane on a dangerous bend. For certain he would have been killed had I not stopped to pick him up..... Indeed I was nearly killed picking him up..... no comment. I brought him home and found a home for him after about a week. The lady who took him in kept him as a home cat and he wasn't allowed out.
However over the last three months he keeps turning up in my garden and sitting watching me. I know it is him as the owner has been to see me to say that he now goes out and she sees him heading over the fences towards my house. He 'talks' to me if I am working in the garden but won't let me pick him up. Doyou think he remembers me?
Joy xxx
First thought of the day
posted Tue, 25 Oct 2005 01:24PM
quackers
It can't be time to get up already!
sorry Sue!
posted Tue, 25 Oct 2005 04:26PM
JC
Thought it was about cats!!!! Oh dear, now had TWO entries - well, there are worse crimes.
Love Joy xxx
First thought of the Day
posted Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:54PM
pamelap
Why am I not asleep yet?
Todays Topic - Most expensive impulse purchase
posted Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:34AM
JenS
A holiday to Antigua just after I bought the house I am now living in...I was stony broke, had borrowed curtains, coffee table, sofa etc, had £10 a week to live on... my friend turned 30 that same month & said we're going!! I stuck it on a credit card, took months to pay it off, but I have the most FANTASTIC memory now!
JenS xx
A £23 handbag -
posted Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:21AM
lesleysilver
in 1975, which is probably the equivalent of £200 now. A beautiful little Spanish black leather evening bag, with the chunkiest gold chain for a handle. Lovely except we were newly-married, skint, and about to buy our first flat.
My mother did something just like it - newly-wed, skint, about to buy a house, went out and got a pair of gold earrings.
My house!
posted Wed, 26 Oct 2005 02:02AM
Fee37
The biggest but by no means the most frivolous in an adulthood littered with expensive impulsive buys, including every piece of exercise equipment known to man (and NEVER used) and dozens of pairs of shoes for which I never bought outfits to match!!(I know you're supposed to buy the outfit FIRST but the shoes were calling out to me!)
Fee xx
Sorry
posted Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:59AM
quackers
as a Scot I don't do impulse buying!!!!!!
A coat
posted Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:21AM
nj
reduced from £140 to £70 in a sale in 1994. I'm still wearing it!
Never over spent in my life......
posted Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:38AM
Roz57
been trying to make ends meet the whole of my life! (Voilin strings now - where's Lesley's son?)Gosh, I am a boring person.
a very expensive painting
posted Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:28PM
Molennium
it cost £950
Mole
Roz - he's here, and he's tuning up for you. What would you like to hear?
posted Wed, 26 Oct 2005 07:31PM
lesleysilver
Mole - I did the same thing in 1966. I'd just started working in an insurance company (you want sad, Roz - THAT'S sad) next to the Ritz Hotel, just off Piccadilly. I was walking along Oxford Street, with the then boyfriend, who worked in an ad agency. (That was OK because we got invited to lots of good parties.)
We walked past an art shop where a sad old man told us that he was the owner, he had had enough, had no family and was looking for someone he could GIVE the business to. I was young and scaredy and said no, but I did spend half a week's pay on a painting I was fed up with by the time I got home.
This might, of course, have been inspired sales patter. Just think - it could have been a genuine offer - I could have married Brian Sewell - no, scrub that - I could have been the rich and famous owner of a string of art galleries, or a not famous but obscenely rich auctioneer.
And here, playing his Guarneri del Jesu violin for us, is Jonathan Silver, son of the world-renowned art expert ...
(No Subject)
posted Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:00AM
pamelap
I only buy on impulse.
TOPIC What I'd like most in the World
posted Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:18PM
pamelap
To wake up in the morning (having I got to sleep in the first place)to find the elves had been in the night and written all my essays for me.
what I'd like most in the world
posted Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:35PM
quackers
To keep on waking up in the morning!
I'd like most in the world
posted Thu, 27 Oct 2005 03:50PM
Roz57
to be comfortably well off to live a decent life and visit my daughter and family in UK whenever I wanted to and all us ladies (and gentlemen) on this website all got better and kept in touch on a website called 'Breast Cancer Survivors'.
Oh.....and thank your son so much Lesley for
posted Thu, 27 Oct 2005 03:54PM
Roz57
playing the violin for me...it was beautiful!
To Retire
posted Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:33PM
JenS
with enough ££ not to worry
JenS xx
TOPIC Umbrellas
posted Fri, 28 Oct 2005 04:33PM
pamelap
I bought my favourite umbrella in a street market in Italy. I like it because it has a button that you press and it explodes open. This is great fun and always gives people a shock. I have to be very caeful where I use it.
Umbrella
posted Fri, 28 Oct 2005 05:05PM
quackers
Mine is plain black but it has a duck's head for a handle, naturally!
Parapluie....
posted Fri, 28 Oct 2005 06:05PM
jopurple
...used to be my favorite word in French at school. I have no idea why I had such a thing about a word for umbrella, but I think it was just one of those silly things that amused me as a kid.
Jo xx
has anyone ever wondered
posted Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:51PM
Molennium
where the word umbrella comes from?
and why brolly, surely it should be brelly
MOle
TOPIC Things that puzzle me
posted Sat, 29 Oct 2005 06:49PM
pamelap
1. If you break down on the motorway, park on the hard shoulder and stay with your car. Do not sit in your car as there is a danger from the passing traffic. Do not get out of your car as there is a danger from marauding axe murderers.
2. Do not keep large amounts of money in your home. I need ever increasing amounts for emergencies - taxis and take aways for one - due to state of health and lack of support. How much is "large"? Why do we still need cash in this modern world?
Terminally bewildered!!
posted Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:09PM
quackers
Many, many things puzzle me.
Why is it that as soon as my bum touches the toilet seat the phone rings or someone comes to the door, or both?
Why is it that I can stay awake during the most puerile rubbish on TV but as soon as something good comes on I nod off?
Why is it that even though I am constantly perplexed I can't actually think of any other instances at present?
Puzzles
posted Sat, 29 Oct 2005 10:10PM
nj
Why is it that the local bus company puts the shiny new state-of-the-art, larger capacity buses on a route where the buses are only ever half full (because they run every 7 minutes)?
Why do I have to struggle to get on a bus with 40-50 noisy, smelly schoolchildren, when there are enough of them getting on at the same stop to warrant a school bus?
Why, when I start off at the front of the queue, do I end up getting on the bus last and having to stand? Actually I know the answer to this - it is down to the same children barging in front of me and using their backpacks as lethal weapons, with a few elderly ladies using brollies and elbows
As it's Halloween
posted Mon, 31 Oct 2005 04:50PM
quackers
who would you like to trick and what treat would you like?
I would like to treat Patricia Hewitt into allowing all of you who are HER2+ to get your treatments.
I'd like for someone to come in and cook a nice meal for us tonight so that I don't have to go through to the kitchen and stare vacantly into the fridge again.
Trick or Treat
posted Mon, 31 Oct 2005 04:59PM
pamelap
I'd like to trick myself into being well and fit again.
I'd like to treat myself to an off-the-shelf life of my own choosing with all conditions carefully explained on the outside of the box, and guaranteed satisfactory so no money back necessary.
Quackers, stop staring into the fridge and jump into the butter dish. You'll feel much better.
I'd like to trick
posted Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:43PM
Molennium
those children outside into thinking my house is unoccupied as I have nothing to give them.
I'd like to treat myself to a broomstick so I can fly round casting unpleasant spells on all the medical profession with eye of toad and foot of newt...
trick or treat
posted Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:03PM
nj
I would like to trick my body into growing a new breast to replace the one I have lost, then go to Janet Reger to treat myself to some gorgeous underwear.
Trick
posted Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:01PM
Frobbi
I'd like to trick my body into being 21,,no make it 30 years old again. Only I would know then what I know now. I changed my mind because I have 3 great sons that I wouldn't have had if I went back to 21. Reason,,,I WOULDN"T HAVE MARRIED THEIR FATHER,,rectal orifice that he is!!!
Love and Hope,,Bobbie
Dumb things people say
posted Tue, 01 Nov 2005 01:04AM
Frobbi
When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks "Has the bus come
yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here?
Who's that at the door?
posted Tue, 01 Nov 2005 09:49AM
lesleysilver
Who's that on the phone?
What do you suppose she's thinking?
(No Subject)
posted Tue, 01 Nov 2005 03:11PM
pamelap
On givng directions, well I wouldn't start from there.....
obvious really
posted Tue, 01 Nov 2005 04:06PM
LynneR
Walking in soaking wet to be greeted with 'Is it raining?'
Visiting people to be asked 'Is it better yet?' or 'Have they found it yet?' with a nod towards my chest!
my v.v.handsome husband asking "Where is . . . . . . . ?" (usually wherever he put it!)
(No Subject)
posted Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:19PM
adih44
Oh so you're still here then!!
Daft?
posted Tue, 01 Nov 2005 11:50PM
quackers
Have you had your all-clear yet!
GLB or Brownies?
posted Wed, 02 Nov 2005 08:13AM
kathelinor
When I was a girl I belonged to the Girls Life Brigade (Now the Girls Brigade) and we had annual rallies at the Royal Albert Hall with team games, ribbon displays, massed bands - great day out with lunch near the Serpentine. What did you belong to?
Brownie
posted Wed, 02 Nov 2005 02:19PM
LynneR
When we had brown bloomers as part of the uniform with the pocket for your four pennies for emergency calls! before they got renamed as Brownie Guides. Last Brownie in Warwickshire to get Brownie Wings!!!
Then Guide, then Ranger, then Brownie Guide leader, then cub scout leader, then Brownie Guide Leader.
From about 1963 to 1997 finally hung up the woggle! may pick it up again when v.v.h.h. is out of Army.
Ging gang gooly etc
Lashings of Ginger Beer and smoky fires!
Happy days
LynneR
Pixies
posted Wed, 02 Nov 2005 03:22PM
pamelap
I was Sixer of the Pixies. We had a funny little poem but I have forgotten it. Then I went on to Guides which was not nearly so much fun. The scariest thing was going to a big Scouting convention filled with scouts, cubs, brownies and guides to the edge of the world.
Kelpies
posted Wed, 02 Nov 2005 04:20PM
quackers
I was a sixer of the Kelpies, didn't go on to guides, decide to leave on a high!
Brownies
posted Wed, 02 Nov 2005 04:22PM
paulineef
I was sixer of the Imps.I also went on to guides.Hated camping and that has put me off for life.I have decided I like a bed to much,the ground just doesn't do it for me...
Luv Pauline xxx
Girl Scouts
posted Wed, 02 Nov 2005 07:07PM
Frobbi
For me in the USA it was the Girl Scouts. I once sold the largest amount of cookies in the whole troop. Of course my grandparents lived in a huge apartment building, so all I did was go door to door, take the elevator to the next floor,etcc. Worked though!.
Love and Hope,,Bobbie
Brownies
posted Wed, 02 Nov 2005 08:44PM
nj
I was sixer of the imps! I loved Brownies and moved up to Guides with high expectations, but after a couple of years, the charm of trudging round Wimbledon Common in the rain looking for a place to light a fire wore thin. My daughter loved Brownies too, despite the custard yellow polo shirts and diarrhoea coloured jogging pants.
Pixies
posted Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:11PM
Callsher
I was a sixer in the pixies; a guide; a ranger guide; a Brownie leader. I also belonged to and sang in several choirs and was also in the athletics club, school netball team and cross country team. I was never at home!
Anne
X
PS I still sing in a choir
Neither
posted Wed, 02 Nov 2005 11:05PM
JenS
I was in a thing called the Junos, anyone heard of it? It was in Bath where I grew up and was a bit like Brownies, except we wore green.
I went away with them when I was about seven to Lowestoft, was terribly homesick but won a copy of the New Testament of the bible for best bed in camp!! Still got it!!
JenS xx
Pamelap
posted Thu, 03 Nov 2005 08:04AM
Callsher
Look out! We're the jolly Pixies,
Helping people when in fixes
Was this the verse? I'm sure there was one for every 'six'.
Anne
X
New Topic
posted Thu, 03 Nov 2005 02:49PM
quackers
As there is now a gardening topic, and not everyone has gardens, I wondered what is your favourite flower.
Mine is Scabious, a beautiful flower, with an unfortunate name.
flowers
posted Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:02PM
pamelap
I don't have a favourite flower in case the other ones get jealous.
Flower
posted Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:03PM
nj
I love freesias - the scent as you come into a room is divine.
Lilies
posted Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:48PM
RMW
Lilies
posted Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:49PM
RMW
Passion Flower
posted Fri, 04 Nov 2005 12:06AM
JenS
because it is so unusual, and has an incredible meaning (if you are in any way religious)
Blue Iris
posted Fri, 04 Nov 2005 09:16AM
LynneR
My grandad used to grow them for me and when i married v.v.h.h. i had blue iris and cream orchids in my bouquet.
Every year for our anniversary v.v.h.h. send me a replica of our bouquet, even when he has been abroad.
Another day Another Topic
posted Fri, 04 Nov 2005 12:06PM
pamelap
Flowers are yesterday's news.
Today's TOPIC is
How to avoid Avian Flu
The Government should apppoint Marshalls for every two or three streets. Rig them out in protective gear. Make them each responsible for keeping the people in their domain alive. Bring them food, medicines and water. They should provide us all with enough parcel tape to seal our windows up and protective sealed systems in our letter boxes to pass the goodies through safely and send the rubbish out. Provide all homes with computers so school and work can be done online except for vital service workers who would be subject to special arrangements.
Much more effective than a policeman outside the chemist. Each home would also be provided with a gun for shooting passing birds through sealed portals. The guns could also be used for shooting ourselves when we couldn't bear surviving like that any longer. Easy. Why don't they get on with it?
Sorry
posted Fri, 04 Nov 2005 05:04PM
quackers
Apparently the spread is most likely to happen via ducks so I'll have to go into quarantine.
TOPIC Nov 5th
posted Sat, 05 Nov 2005 03:25PM
pamelap
Was hanging too good for them?
Yes ! They should have been sentenced to a life time of torture by sparkler.
I thought
posted Sat, 05 Nov 2005 06:43PM
roberta1
that they got hung, drawn and quartered. Think that might just be a itsy bit nasty, though apparently they did debate on how they might make it even worse, but decided that they couldn't top that.
Snarl
posted Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:35PM
quackers
Iwill be tempted to do some hanging, and drawing, and quartering soon if they don't stop letting off these bloody fireworks. I thought a law had been passed as to the time that you can set them off. The dog is now a quivering wreck, I can't go to bed until he has his last wee, there's no way he's venturing out just now.
From disgruntled in downtown Baghdad!
TOPIC why I want to be first to post
posted Sun, 06 Nov 2005 06:47PM
pamelap
I love it when the site goes down. I can be first to post when it comes back. Power. Power. Such Power. Having been asleep all day, luckily the fireworks woke me up just in time for the Power Frenzy. Why do these mentally challenged people think its still Nov 5th? (Ok, it's deviation but a Powerful person can say whatever comes into their head).
Today's Topic
posted Sun, 06 Nov 2005 08:21PM
quackers
I love it when somebody posts first as a naturally subservient and introverted person I do not feel worthy of picking the daily topic!
Quackers
posted Sun, 06 Nov 2005 08:34PM
Fee37
I'm with you on this one! I have often been awake and online and could easily have posted the first topic but I would probably lie awake all night worrying that no-one would post under it 'cos i'd picked a c**p topic!
I'm not normally like this. I think its just another example of how BC eats away at your confidence and self belief!
Fee xx
TOPIC alterntive perspections
posted Mon, 07 Nov 2005 04:00AM
pamelap
To regain self-confidence is a serious part of getting well again. It requires inventiveness, perserverance and an openess to new ideas and new ways of looking at things.
If no one replies to you topic, it is the highest form of flattery. no has anything more important to say, you have said it all for them. Peope are dumbstruck by your maginifcant insights and and amazed at your take on things. It is shere envy that stops them posting.
I encourage everyone to try it out. This is a fourm for everybody. This is a topic which requires only a single word or sentence. For example, I could have said TOPIC: insanity
PERSPECTIONS
posted Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:53AM
kathelinor
Is this a new made up word? (See Pam's title above). If you could add one word to the dictionary, made up or current slang, what would it be?
Judy
PERSPECTIONS
posted Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:56AM
kathelinor
Machine cut me off - click cancel and it still submits!
I meant to add 'And what it mean'
Judy
Sorry Pam
posted Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:57AM
kathelinor
Sorry Pam
posted Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:57AM
kathelinor
I give up
posted Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:59AM
kathelinor
Sorry
posted Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:33AM
quackers
too awestruck to say anything today!
I'm so awestruck,
posted Mon, 07 Nov 2005 11:47AM
lesleysilver
I actually read the post with the word "insanity" in it.
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
Albert Einstein
Well
posted Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:30PM
nj
What can I say?
PERSPECTIONS
posted Mon, 07 Nov 2005 11:41PM
Cas7664
Not made up (couldn't think of any) but, how about a new meaning for a word like
Artery - The Study of paintings
Bacteria - Back door to the cafeteria
Caesarean Section - A neighbourhood near Rome
Cat Scan - Searching for Kitty
Carol xx
PERSPECTIONS
posted Tue, 08 Nov 2005 10:44AM
kathelinor
Cas - brilliant idea. Please can we carry this on as todays to make up for my cockup yesterday?
Diphthong - Saggy pair of knickers
Doxology - Study of Medicine
Elderberry - Old hat
Judy xxx
PERSPECTIONS
posted Tue, 08 Nov 2005 01:10PM
Cas7664
Ok two more
Cauterize - Made eye contact with the nurse
Medical Staff - A Doctor's cane
Carol xx
handicap
posted Tue, 08 Nov 2005 06:37PM
pamelap
handicap - a knitted hat with extensions for four fingers and a thumb
Flamboyant
posted Tue, 08 Nov 2005 10:16PM
quackers
flamboyant - a floating candle
TODAY'S TOPIC
posted Wed, 09 Nov 2005 02:31AM
quackers
Well I've girded my loins, steeled my nerves and plucked up the courage to pick today's topic - Irony!
Irony
posted Wed, 09 Nov 2005 03:15AM
Mrs-Trellis
My Dear Quackers
You could not have chosen a more appropriate topic. For I have noticed a teeny weeny little problemette with the rules for this game. Many people should have been declared winners due to the fact that they managed to keep the topic going for a whole minute as their posts have taken a long time to appear after pressing submit. I hope you will all continue to enjoy this advantage as the game will no doubt get much tougher to win when the new site is up and running.
Congratulations to those that have qualified as winners.
IRONY
posted Wed, 09 Nov 2005 09:35AM
kathelinor
Rather an ironic choice of subject quackers which could easily have been one of the words used in yesterdays topic.
For example, is an irony the same as a foundry or a laundry press?
Wasting time
posted Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:02AM
nj
I get very cross with myself for searching eBay for items I don't need, such as books I remember from childhood. I never intend to spend more than half an hour 'playing', as I have far better things to do, but it's kind of addictive...
Wasting time
posted Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:09AM
quackers
The biggest time wasting occupation at the moment is trying to get on to this site, and then trying to log in, repeatedly aaarrrggghhh!!!!
nj
posted Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:14AM
quackers
I know what you mean, I recently bought a "Harold Hare Annual" from 1960 on ebay, as I had loved it as a child, his saying was "Goody Goody Gumdrops" for those of you old enough to remember. I tracked one down in Tasmania of all places, it cost considerably more in postage than I paid for it, but it was worth it, as good as I remember, my only complaint was that someone had already done the dot to dot puzzles! Now looking for Mary Mouse books, do you remember them? Have found a few but they're quite expensive, more of a collector's item than a browser!
I waste time...
posted Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:49AM
jopurple
...watching daytime tv. I then waste more time moaning about the fact that I have wasted time watching daytime tv. I have also started to refer to Philip and Fern so much you would think they were personal friends of mine. I need therapy!!
Jo xx
wasting time
posted Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:09PM
pamelap
There is an upside to chronic fatigue. I have to waste time to stay well. Using time in a normal active way makes me worse.
Apart from that, I don't waste time, time wastes me.
Looking for litjen
posted Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:27PM
lesleysilver
Jenny hasn't posted for a few weeks but every so often I look to see if she's back yet.
I log in. The cookie may well remember my name. It would be helpful if it communicated it to the name field. Click log in and w a i t.
Look for any post I've made and click my profile and w a i t.
Select "manage forum alerts" and w a i t.
Search (Ctrl + F) for Litjen...
Select the "Litjen is back" post...
Find Jenny's first post on it, click "profile" and w a i t. Here it is. Last post 19 10 05 "Surgery tomorrow"
Does anyone know a better (= quicker) way to find anyone's latest post?
Lesley
TOPIC Saintliness
posted Sat, 12 Nov 2005 08:24PM
pamelap
I rang my sister yesterday. She was just going out. So I said ring back but remember I am asleep til late in the day. She rang me this morning when I was asleep. Luckily for her I had forgotten to switch the bell off on my phone. So I automatically answered it in my sleep. This gave her the opportunity to say Oh are you asleep, this is the middle of the day for me. Me mumbles and puts phone down. Naturally then cant get back to sleep. So day wasted as exhausted. Silly me for forgetting to switch bell off. But why does she have to make sure I know how Saintly she is having so much to do she get's up really early? Wouldn't it be more Saintly to remember I am ill and never speak to anyone on the phone in the morning and havent for the last three years? drivel, drivel, lack of sleep makes me mumble..... not much of a topic really.... moan. LOL.
saintliness
posted Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:20PM
nj
I recently attended my mother-in-law's funeral and tried to be as supportive as I could to the father-in-law who has upset me so much since my diagnosis with his crass remarks.
Hubby wants to take him on holiday with us to the Northern Isles next year, but that may be a halo too far...
Saintliness
posted Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:04AM
quackers
I've just realised my breathing problems aren't asthma related but my halo slipping and throttling me!
Pamela why don't you phone your sister at 3am and act surprised if she's asleep?!
The topic today is .....Frustration!
posted Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:57AM
Roz57
Because I have spent 2 days trying to get into the site and when I do it is going so slow that a snail could move quicker. Synonyms: aggravation, exasperation, irritation, annoyance to name but a few!! And as it is midday and no one has posted a topic, then perhaps there are a lot more frustrated people!!!
Frustration
posted Wed, 16 Nov 2005 04:10PM
pamelap
Frustration levels sky high right now. With not sleeping at night and losing more than half the day as a result, and feeling very ill as a result, and feeling very ill whenever I have done anything at all. Frustration at living in a complete mess as not able to manage to get myself sorted out. Frustration at not being able to join in what other people take for granted. Frustration at cobwebs, backlogs of washing, ironing; frustation at piles of rubbish all over the place as not been able to take it down this week; frustration at endless headaches and feeling sick and various other stomach thingies whenever I get tired which is all the time just now; frustration at not being able to read books any more; frustration at being forgotten by people going about their normal lives while I live in the twilight zone.
Goodness you caught me on a bad day LOL. Thank the Greek Gods for The Internet. Without it I might explode.
Wow......pamelap.......
posted Wed, 16 Nov 2005 04:22PM
Roz57
I guess I picked the perfect topic for you today! I'm so glad you could vent your anger with it! Love Roz x
For Dear Pamelap
posted Wed, 16 Nov 2005 04:39PM
kathelinor
A huge cyber hug to cheer you up - just frustrated I can't turn up on your doorstep to take the rubbish down and do some of that ironing for you. (Forget the cleaning though - you'll have to do that yourself!)
Love and healing thoughts
Judy xxx
Frustration
posted Wed, 16 Nov 2005 05:04PM
quackers
I too have spent long frustrating minutes trying to get on this site, and waiting for threads to load, should probably go and do housework whilst waiting.
Have also got another chest infection, been put on high dose antibiotics which are making me feel miserable, and to top it all this morning I managed to drop a tin of dog food on my hand and have chipped the knuckle in my right index finger. THe hospital have strapped it to my middle finger which is making many ordinary things quite tricky. Looks like it's going to be one of those weeks!
Grrr!
posted Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:41PM
nj
Did I miss the announcement that the site was going to be down on Sundays - suspicious lack of posts dated 13/11, and I couldn't get in.
Today's little annoyance - they missed a bus out and there was heavy traffic, so my normal 45 minute journey to work took 1.5 hours and I was spectacularly late. I think it is one of those weeks!
Have you ever been a stupid idiot??!!
posted Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:34PM
quackers
Following yesterday's debacle with the dog food can and my finger, today I bought a new lip balm, to keep my lips kissable, which was tightly sealed in cellophane. I couldn't get it open as my right hand is slightly disabled due to strapping, so brainwave, used a sharp pair of embroidery scissors to puncture plastic wrapper, and put the tip into my left index finger! Blood everywhere, throbbing painfully, now sitting here covered in elastoplast, typing with left middle finger, very slowly.
Think I'll stay in bed tomorrow!
Oh yes...
posted Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:11PM
nj
This happened when I was about 11 years old. We had open coal fires in my parents' London flat and I turned out the pockets of my school skirt to dispose of all the old bus tickets. I chucked a bundle of screwed-up paper on the fire, only to see a £1 note going up in flames. As I only got a shilling a week pocket money, this was a considerable loss, and no, my parents didn't replace it. SOB!
NB - yes, this was in the Dark Ages...
Xmas shoppers
posted Sat, 19 Nov 2005 03:56PM
PM54
Today's topic
Why is the whole world completely miserable, bad-tempered, pushing, shoving, scowling, shouting at their kids, brushing past old ladies and ill people walking too slowly, snatching items, skipping their place in the queue WHEn they are all buying presents which are presumably going to make lots of other people happy?
Answer Christmas is not for giving
it's for scowling
Xmas Shopper
posted Sat, 19 Nov 2005 04:15PM
pamelap
Well I was a happy xmas shopper. I picked up some smelly satin hangers for my mum with my food shopping and the till person gave me a pencil to sign the card receipt. When I asked for a pen the lady in the queue behind me said OOOh why didn't you sign in pencil then it could have been rubbed out. So although I have paid for the gift I have this lovely idea that I nearly didn't.
Xmas shopper
posted Sat, 19 Nov 2005 04:40PM
paulineef
I am a happy xmas shopper.Love it.In fact I have virtually finished,everything wrapped etc.We are quite a xmassy family and my husband gets the tree out as soon as he can get away with it !!!
I also see the other side of christmas shoppers.I work in Early Learning Centre,and customers can be right miserable b***ers!!!
I've only worked one xmas eve since I've been there and itn was a nightmare.A few of them had hissy fits because we didn't have the right toy in.
So I may be a bit sad being so organised but everyone will be getting what they want from Santa this year !!!
Love Pauline xxx
Xmas Shopper
posted Sat, 19 Nov 2005 07:14PM
nj
I haven't started yet due to lots of overtime at work, and am beginning to panic a bit...
Unusual Allergies
posted Wed, 23 Nov 2005 05:20AM
pamelap
Disaster!! Some of you may remember my obsession with Brandy Butter. I have been getting in the Christmas Store and naturally sampling it. Shock, disaster, horror, it is giving me violent migraines. They have changed the recipe and put in some different brandy. I am susceptible to lots of alcohols and limited in my shopping options so was totally reliant on the particular one I've had the last few years. I don't know how I am going to get through Christmas now.
Since chemo, my allergies just keep on growing. Gin and Tonic, Brandy Butter, all wines from Chile,.... I do like watching the doctors eyes glazing over when they start wishing they hadn't asked.
On 30/9 in this thread, Melody wrote:
posted Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:46AM
lesleysilver
"My earliest memory was seeing my mama singing on tv, she was a very well known singer in the 60's. I couldn't understand why I couldn't cuddle her when she was appearing on tv."
Melody, I don't think you joined in the "my claim to fame" thread - please tell us who your mother is - or shall we guess?
What I wear to beat the cold weather
posted Fri, 25 Nov 2005 02:08PM
pamelap
The weather warning is so scary. I have to go outside so I have put on two pairs of trousers, four tops, a sweater, a woolly scarf and over it all a huge bumbly wolly bobble coat (and hat). I can hardly move. Now I am worried at how much of my energy (....chronic fatigue so not much) I will expend simly moving about and if I can't move about is this enough to keep warm? Oh for an easy life.
What I wear to beat the cold weather
posted Fri, 25 Nov 2005 05:10PM
SEM
From my dog walking days :)
Damart warmest long johns and long sleeved vest, trousers, sweatshirt,fleece, 2 pairs of socks, damart thermal foot thingies, boots, waterproof padded jacket, thermal gloves, water resistant mittens with a sheepy inner lining, thick scarf, woolly hat, hood up.
I felt like a Michelin man and apparantly looked as though I was going on an arctic expeditions :)
Winter woollies
posted Fri, 25 Nov 2005 06:14PM
nj
I'm not a trousers person,as I am size 18-20 and they merely highlight the ampleness of my rear. So I wear 60 or 70 denier tights with ankle-length skirts, thick cotton polo tops from Cotton Traders with a cotton jumper on top, and a longish coat with fake fur lining. All topped with a fleece scarf, gloves and (sometimes) hat. I have a thick padded jacket for days when it goes into the minuses.
Oh my goodness........
posted Fri, 25 Nov 2005 07:02PM
Roz57
It sounds very cold there in good old UK at the moment....I've forgotten what it's like to walk in 5 layers of clothing! 28 degrees today in Jhb! I suppose we have wrinkled dried up skin though....you have lovely smooth beautiful skin! Keep warm everyone!