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I heard about that the next day. It's a tough game. I noticed when I used to play that players who came into the game late seemed to suffer much more than we did. I think the game got harder as you grew older into later teens, but you grew with the pain.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
For Shame, I leave you guys alone for a while and you become profound! Ah well, what is a girl to do?
That's why we need you to stick around.Quote:
Originally Posted by soundofmusic
Don't be a stranger.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ5sc...8eBuGt3Ew3NB-8
Keep breathing and kicking!Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
So the Mother -in-Law falls over outside Saisburys the other day and grazes her lip - you know the injury - the sensitive - I've just had a cold sore graze that develops into an ugly red scab.
The lady at the checkout asks if she's ok, and when she tells her what's happened, the nice assistant makes her go to the cafe and have a coffee whilst they fetch a first aider. The Mother - in - Law, a determined soul who has an inflated sense of embarrassment - does a runner from the cafe and goes home, thinking that they will send for an ambulance and make her go into hospital. (This happened a couple of years ago when she fainted at the bus stop). Then - worried that they will start a nationwide hunt for her - phones them up and apologises for doing the runner.
So my wife went to see her as soon as she heard to make sure he was ok, which she is. She refused to go out yesterday though. My wife wondered why - thinking that perhaps she wasn't feeling as well as she might and was worried about falling again. But no, it wasn't that. The Mother - in - Law, who is 81 and four foot nine, was worried that people might think she'd been fighting. Of course it was the first thing I asked her when I saw her today.
Thanks for the pointer gbrekken!Quote:
Originally Posted by gbrekken
It's good to know your out there and checking in.
haha, you're ruthless, never let an opportunity go to waste.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
Excuse the double posting.
Last weekend I took part in some blokey activities.
My sister had a couple of old, large trees that died and had to be cut down. One was a 62 year old oak (counted the rings) and the other was a Hickory about the same age. The weekend was spent reducing the canopy branches down to trunk, cutting the trunks into rounds and then splitting. Branches thatwere too small for fire wood were taken to the burn pile. My brother operated the 30 inch chain saw, I worked with the 16 inch and my son worked the hydraulic log splitter and dragged branch bundles to the fire.
Son working the splitter:
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A load of firewood for home
All I need now is some of that "superb Dumas dung":
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Saturday night fire:
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A "Walking Stick":
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I on the other hand have been breaking up melomine and chip board cupboards for our fire, it's just not the same. We're all backwoodsmen at heart.
And I've been clearing the lad's room for the arrival of our Japanese exchange student. (I needed the strength and perseverence of a woodsman for that). The student is very nice, and has just had supper with us. My 17 year old daughter paid my wife and I the ultimate compliment when she said:
" Can you please pretend to be normal".
I call that a result.
Ha ha! A slice of life right there Paul. I remember the eldest daughter pleading with her mother to act normal when she was bringing her young man home to meet us.
"Of course I've already warned him about you" she said.
It's a laugh isn't it. My wife and daughter have both blocked me from their accounts on Facebook because of my "silly" comments. And all the time I thought they were comments filled with wit and invention.
I had a good laugh from that.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
As long as your not using to smoke your meat. Imagine the taste of mellamine smoked London broil!
btw- you might want to check the flue for glue deposits.
...and intelligence.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
Thanks Gilliatt. I don't question the blocking. Thy'd probably come up with a raft of reasons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
It's been a harassing half term this year - lots of work, and the feeling that you're just keeping the head up out of the water. Anyway, one of the things that keeps cropping up is parking. At work we have a small 38 - car car park, which the owner has decreed is for staff only. We have 10 classrooms with a potential of 100 to 150 learners for each session. There are occasional flare ups and complaints naturally. Yesterday someone left their car running right in the middle of the car park for about 10 minutes, so no-one could get in and no-one could get out. It raised a bit of blood pressure I can tell you.
I'm also on a local facebook group where we are in contact with our local councillor who will investigate local problems which are largely related to - yes - parking. I don't know what you chaps think, but it seems that it is a constant problem - perhaps there's no problem in Texas, and maybe there's more space for you in Yorkshire. Here, though, it looks as though we'll have to re-design the road system around small estates like ours and/ or have parking permits. They predict that car ownership in the UK will cintinue to rise by millions. I don't think the job's going to get any better.
We have local permits for residents round here and everyone else is pay and display. Parking IS the main issue for town centres, everything else is just rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. Mrs P used to try and use the bus - it was difficult and inconvenient - and then the service was cut. She works in town and can't park anywhere near her work as the places are all for one or two hours only. I haven't a clue what the answer is though. I suspect we will have to just keep muddleing through.
Thankfully, parking is not a problem I have to deal with in my city. My city was built around thirty years ago and therefore we have a very modern infrastructure. Enough parking space everywhere, even in the city centre. We have separate bus lanes so the buses don't interfere with regular traffic, which results in very efficient public transport. So infrastructure-wise I'm very happy with my city. However, we do have a lot of cities like Amsterdam and Utrecht where parking is a problem. We therefore usually go by public transport in to the city centre because that saves us a lot of money and time. Since The Netherlands is quite a small country and our big cities are located very near to each other most intercity public transport is very doable and in-city public transport is usually very good as well. I don't have much to complain about except for the rush hour traffic around the big cities, that's a pain.