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Post by Tibidabo on Mar 1, 2017 18:57:11 GMT
@emicardiff This is a lovely board and it's so right that you should seek solace here. I'm sure that The Wedding Singer will always hold bitter-sweet memories for you as does Stomp for us (many years ago.) It sounds like you feel that you did the right thing in going out - I know we did. 18 years is a bloody good innings.
Monkey's story has prompted me to tell this - I was driving down a road today and saw what I thought was a fox or baby deer playing in the road in the distance. As I got closer I realised it was a tabby cat and it wasn't going anywhere! So I stopped the car and got out to take it to safety and the little begger ran into the bushes. Cats..! I don't get it!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 19:03:00 GMT
haha oh ok so funny story, on Sunday the dog was sat on the patio, because she couldn't really move very far anyway, a cat- not knowing this- strolls bold as you like, across the patio inches from her and goes merrily on his way! Cheeky things...! (she was never one for chasing a cat anyway though squirrells got a good bark!)
Speaking of strange animals, my friend currently has a badger problem in her garden...in the middle of Bristol!
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Post by hulmeman on Mar 1, 2017 19:29:14 GMT
Wish I could stay longer but tomorrow it's back to San Jose and then the long slog home. Sorry to be unoriginal, but I can't help asking "Do you know the way to San Jose?" emicardiff, I send you big internet hugs. What a horrid day it must have been. I bet you've got lots of memories of your doggie friend. x |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 19:58:10 GMT
Pleasured myself a few times this morning now at work looking after heroin/crack users for the next 26 hours! And then PUB and puff!
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Post by Tibidabo on Mar 1, 2017 20:48:53 GMT
my friend currently has a badger problem in her garden...in the middle of Bristol I don't blame the badgers at all. If they go anywhere near cow fields, they get shot, so a nice safe suburban garden has to be a better bet... ...provided the home owner doesn't suddenly acquire a pet cow, though, I suppose... ... but then they could exchange that for magic beans and become rich from Giant treasure and build a bigger garden for the badgers and... It's been a very long day, sorry.Been volunteering at your local nursery school Monkey? (If not you should. You spout a good old yarn.......oh...hang on....) |
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 2, 2017 15:53:42 GMT
Yesterday evening my phone fell out of my bag on the platform at Piccdilly Circus. As I have OCD this made me very unhappy. I'm now about to type up a rather long post on TCAABR changes which I therefore couldn't do on the train home last night. I instead had to resort to scribbling notes in a very small notepad from a Christmas cracker that I happened to have on me.
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 2, 2017 21:44:13 GMT
I instead had to resort to scribbling notes in a very small notepad from a Christmas cracker that I happened to have on me. Um, if it's pink and circular with pointy bits, it may actually be a "hat" Dawnstar - though don't test the theory in public before at least late November, perhaps... No, it's rectangular with lots of white pages & is proper paper not tissue paper - definitely a notebook! I was clearing my desk when finishing my latest temp job on Tuesday & found it lurking. |
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Post by viserys on Mar 3, 2017 13:14:21 GMT
I'm home. After nearly 24 hrs of travelling with little sleep, did you think I unpacked first or anything? Nope, hurried to book a ticket to Philanthropist at Trafalgar Studios, as public booking opened after my departure and I worried about it selling out quickly. Bagged one of those BB seats for the date I wanted at £26.50, so very pleased. I have a big crush on Tom Rosenthal, so I look forward to see him live on stage. Ah, priorities. Now I should prise myself off this forum and go unpack...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2017 13:34:15 GMT
Just had surgery so feeling slightly woozy, but looking forward to a couple of days off work and a TV, DVD and Youtube binge!
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 3, 2017 17:38:11 GMT
The Irish rellies are descending for Uncle Pat's funeral tomorrow. Today is the open coffin for people to weep over/say "doesn't he look well". Both of which happened. I was just going to pop by and see my lovely Auntie before tomorrow's shenanigans (funeral on a Saturday!) but the Aunts, cousins and Uncles were all over the place. Bet the undertakers have never seen anything like this mob. (A young man popped his head around the door to tell us that there was an old distressed man trying to find the undertakers, he'd pointed at the shop front and the old distressed man drove off the other way. Cue my adorable cousin Alan standing in the rain in the middle of the road waiting for Uncle Tim to figure out he'd got it wrong. Then cue my nutty cousin Regina saying "he'll be wanting to make a grand entrance, the fecker").
When my darling Dad died my elder-sister-the-drunk (that's how it's said, in one breath) said she wanted Dad to be wearing glasses in his coffin. Because he didn't look like Dad without his glasses. Much eye rolling from Mum, Dad wouldn't be needing to see where he was going.
Uncle Pat in his coffin, wearing his glasses. My Irish relatives could only comment on the fact he was wearing his shoes, which started a conversation about who in the family had been buried without shoes.
Oh gosh, tomorrow will be a long one...
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 3, 2017 19:17:33 GMT
^ Hope you get through tomorrow alright. I don't think I could cope with the Irish open coffin habit. I have Irish relatives so know about it but haven't been to any of their funerals so haven't had to actually see it - I suspect I'd scream the place down, having never seen a dead body before.
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 3, 2017 22:07:36 GMT
Oh, dead bodies are no problem, it's the live ones that cause all the problems for me. As Dawnstar knows, it's almost 7months to the day when I witnessed my neighbour at number 9 murder the man at number 8. Old Bailey last month was an experience ...
(For the curious, google John Martin Kingsbury).
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Post by Tibidabo on Mar 3, 2017 22:22:05 GMT
The Irish rellies are descending for Uncle Pat's funeral tomorrow......... etc......Oh gosh, tomorrow will be a long one... Having grown up around lots of Irish, your lot seem like pussy cats..........  Good luck tomorrow - I'm sure there'll be more stories to tell. |
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Post by lynette on Mar 3, 2017 22:22:34 GMT
I think there is a play in this, lomdonmzfitz. Keep your ear out for more dialogue 😂
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Post by Tibidabo on Mar 3, 2017 22:23:14 GMT
Oh, dead bodies are no problem, it's the live ones that cause all the problems for me. As Dawnstar knows, it's almost 7months to the day when I witnessed my neighbour at number 9 murder the man at number 8. Old Bailey last month was an experience ... (For the curious, google John Martin Kingsbury).I was and I did.......blimey! |
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 3, 2017 23:27:07 GMT
Put a dampener on my evening at Titanic.
And Romeo and Juliet a few days later might not have been the best idea.
I get a name check in The Irish Times, Wednesday 1 Feb 2017. My Irish parents would be so ... Hmm, I wonder what they'd have said.
But I did get to say "c*nt, c*nt, you f*ck*ng c*nt" in the witness box.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2017 6:39:43 GMT
But I did get to say "c*nt, c*nt, you f*ck*ng c*nt" in the witness box. I believe "Your Honour" is the preferred form of address. |
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Post by Tibidabo on Mar 4, 2017 13:50:39 GMT
Got to do pancakes again now for one of the mini Tibis who wasn't here on Tuesday. SUCH a chore....  I also need to cheer up the other mini Tibi who seems to keep getting the same driving examiner who obviously hates her *cough cough*  (or owns the local taxi company and will miss our contributions too much every time she misses the school bus........sorry...every time the school bus comes early.   ) |
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Post by Marwood on Mar 4, 2017 14:28:20 GMT
Taking it extremely easy today - I now have six days off work, no theatrical trips this week, but I'm going to see Elbow at Hammersmith Apollo tonight, then Daniel Kitson at the Bill Murray tomorrow afternoon followed by Thievery Corporation at the Roundhouse in the evening, then down to Brighton for a few days, including seeing Peter Hook and The Light at Concorde 2 while I'm down there.
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Post by glossie on Mar 4, 2017 14:46:05 GMT
Went to the Library. Bought a lawnmower. (Not at the library I hasten to add).
Enough excitement for one day.
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Post by Tibidabo on Mar 4, 2017 15:47:40 GMT
Anybody know how to extricate a pancake from a ceramic hob?
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Post by kathryn on Mar 4, 2017 16:02:28 GMT
One failed shopping expedition today, so going to have to trek up to London tomorrow in search of what I need. 😒
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Post by Tibidabo on Mar 4, 2017 16:07:59 GMT
^Do tell kathryn . You never know. Someone here may be willing to sell what you're looking for...... |
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Post by hulmeman on Mar 4, 2017 16:50:01 GMT
My day is going well so far. We have three of our favourite people joining us for dinner. The curried parsnip soup is made, the beef is slow cooking in mulled wine. the veg prepared and the bara-brith pudding prepared and chilling (that's a Welsh thing). Trouble is, now I want a glass of wine and it's far too early - oh bo**ocks, get me a glass of something white and chilled!!!
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Post by kathryn on Mar 4, 2017 20:54:42 GMT
^Do tell kathryn . You never know. Someone here may be willing to sell what you're looking for...... 😂 I don't think I really want a second hand swimming costume, thanks! |
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(or owns the local taxi company and will miss our contributions too much every time she misses the school bus........sorry...every time the school bus comes early. 
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