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Peter G Glad that you have found your Police Colle...

2009-07-10T21:48:52.806+01:00

Peter G
Glad that you have found your Police College cuffling (it could have been handcuffs!) Very sad when you lose a treasured possession but what was it doing under the BACK seat?
Congratulations on your mastery of flat pack building. It looks great at the side of a bed - just right for your mug of green tea, or even an alcohol-free Becks. Are you taking up flat pack assignments and will it be on your CV?
By the way, I think cups of tea or coffee were available at Thaymar. I noticed some empty cups and teapots as I was leaving. Perhaps we were having such a good time together we missed that opportunity.
Goodnight
Peter G

Y, I feel very ignorant, I have never heard of Tim...

2009-07-10T20:11:10.627+01:00

Y, I feel very ignorant, I have never heard of Tim Berners Lee. Will google and see who this chap is....Brunel would be one I would definitely consider....

Well done G with the IKEA stuff. The last time we went we bought a wardrobe with two drawers underneath, which (temporarily) defeated R, son and son-in-law (these last two have lots of IKEA expeience). There is a company that advertise in the IKEA we go to who will put things together for you.

Millicent's drawing is charming, so much detail. Perhaps she can't draw your 'body' because you have lost so much weight.....

Score so far is 3 rats, one magpie and sadly one blackbird. Never thought that birds might be caught? I e-mailed our rubbish department to find out which receptacle we were to use - I had an answer saying they were 'taking advice' then another one involving plastic bags, a black sack and clearly labelled, and the bin men have been informed....I think the irony in my e-mail was lost.....

Jill: my first thought for a permanent statue on ...

2009-07-10T11:41:17.963+01:00

Jill: my first thought for a permanent statue on the vacant plinth was Isambard Kingdom Brunel who is a great favourite of mine (possibly because he was short ...) but I guess it should be Tim Berners-Lee. A truly remarkable man.

Local Election: yet another leaflet drop - my Lib.Dems. are really working hard though I have been disappointed in the support being shown to the BNP. Immigration is a much bigger issue than I thought.

Graham: your chest-of-drawers is magnificent (perhaps you could earn a few bob setting yourself up as a maker-up-of-flat-packs for other people.

Both the primary and senior schools of my grandchildren now have swine flu cases. It does seem to be creeping across the country.

Nice meeting in Wetherspoons. Although far from sk...

2009-07-10T09:32:29.124+01:00

Nice meeting in Wetherspoons.
Although far from skeletal, dietary benefits evident.

I’ve always considered learning by mistakes of others a useful skill.
I’ll avoid flatpack furniture.
A mistake of my own was asking Graham buy me some 40”w cargo trousers from Lidl.
In-store assurance received that ‘50’ on packet indicates 40” UK. Label inside trousers confirmed this.
But waistband actually 34” and they wouldn’t go over my backside.
I expect Sutton Lidl will exchange or refund.

Grandchildren don’t disappear. Sandra’s shopping today for Alex’s 19th birthday party (tomorrow - here).
Alex’s 1994/45 tea towel indicates that 30% nursery school pupils ‘can’t do bodies’ (at least 10% cannot draw heads either).
But Millicent’s ‘scene setting’ is impressive.

How long before Sparrowhawk appears on Witch-Hazel?

I appreciate revelation of ‘reminder’ phone facility - useful without greatly helping poetry composition (something I used to do driving to work – but memory was better then!)

“An Englishman who takes no interest in the Ashes is like an Englishman with manicured fingernails: deeply suspicious.” (Radio 4)

Yvonne:
Don’t hold back; say what you REALLY think!
(knitters, and others ‘on plinth’ can ignore the unappreciative).

Jill:
"Corkscrew hazel" (Corylus avellana 'Contorta') is nut-bearing sub species(?)