Meanwhile someone working for me bruvver is now strolling through Gatwick wiv eleventeen journalists in tow and luggage labelled “vegan cake mix honest, go on and try it copper”.
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Ulster fries on the table
I am going to supervise a digger that is happily chewing the drive
This a good thing
NO more mud and weeds
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There is something about sitting behind the controls of a digger that just makes one think “I wonder if this would go through the window of the jewellers’ shop on the High Street”.
So I’ve heard.
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Have you been taking lessons from your bruvver wee birdie?
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I went to a wedding by the lake this afternoon & have been invited to the ‘evening reception’ in the Hotel later for a drink .
2 of the ‘busybodies’ from the Plateau were desperately trying to work out what connection I have with the Hotel next door…
Carinthia.xx
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And “she is a nice person and gets invited to places as a result” wouldn’t occur to them, I suppose.
Their loss.
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It rankles slightly with some that we have been coming here far longer than they have, although all of them would help at the drop of an 'Normous Nat
We were always ‘Our Englander’ & I am ‘Our Carinthia’ & sometimes Lady, depending on what I am wearing…
Red & Black tonight…
Carinthia.xx
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Reason to be cheerful, 3 good things from today:
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A beautiful drive over the hills to Peel this morning - blue seas on both sides with a view to the Cumbrian mountains on our right and to the Mournes on our left, purple heather at its best covering the hills around us.
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A good pub lunch with POM, landlady (a ‘character’) on good form & wearing a t-shirt that read ‘Just Call Me Mrs Bitch’.
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I think the coff is a bit better.
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Hurrah hurrah about the cough; mine is hurting less, which I think must mean it’s coming to an end?
I am contemplating finished sleeves in a slightly triumphalist way, here.
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Lovely positives, TFM. I am very glad that you have had a Good Day. Carinthia and Fishers, too.
The house we travelled to see (from the outside - we try not to waste people’s time) was good, in many ways. A sufficiency of bedrooms, two bathrooms, space for a dining table etc. But - a busy road to the rear, admittedly muffled by a Leylandii hedge erm and the house is situated on a peculiar corner site, so the gardens are ‘pointy’. A shared drive is clad with lumpy gravel, which sets my teeth on edge. Added to this, a large laurel hedge - cyanide, anyone? - meant that it is a no-goer. We had a great meal, on our way home.
Is poo infra dig, today? Hope not. I have remembered a tale that DS told us,yesterday. He and DiL adopted a rescue cat a while ago. Said cat has decided to lurve DS and be a bit spiteful to DiL. After being told off by DiL, Cat took revenge by pulling one of her T-shirts out of the washing basket and taking a dump on it. She has done this twice, incidentally. Cats, eh?
Soo xx
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“Oh dear, I did tell their parents, and put up signs and everything…”
“Yeah, the signs said ‘keep out, this is too delicious for children’.”
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Hedgers, dear, I like children, on the whole. It’s often the adults I’d like to discourage. Anyhoo - Mr Bee wouldn’t countenance poisoning by laurel - he’d have to cut/remove the bugga, after all. No. The house is not a goer - no pampas grass, either.
Soo xx
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I have contemplated the concept: you mean ‘fin covers’, I think, you poor confused Fish.
And I am nearly finished with the body.
Wouldn’t it be annoying if Plod were to knock on the door now?
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And to think they said at plumbing school you’d never amount to anything.
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Snorkity Snork, Soo
I have been back for 45 minutes & am sitting drinking Fizz & celebrating the fact that I have removed the Full Compression Stockings wot I have been wearing since 7am… 
I wish that I hadn’t gone, TBH . It wasn’t necessary, but I had promised.
The musicians were first seen there/here 40 years ago,& still sing very badly in English… 
It has revived more memories than I care to deal with ATM. Itizz Saturday, & I am Wobbly enuff azzit is
Fishy, in the Guest Bathroom, under the sink izzan Bottle of Pholcodine*, which is available fer use, & very effective
*Boots Chemist only, in the Chesterfield area, & Very Cheap
Carinthia.xx
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This is the bizz for irritable coffs, imo.
Bedtime, for yer bee.
Best dreams and good Sundays wished for all.
Soo xx
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Severial Hugs, Soo
And Gin
Of course…
Carithia.xx
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So this is September, eh?
Needs more gin.
yardarm
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I’ve just had an ‘is it just me’ moment…
The article says “At the age of 86, Barry Robinson travelled solo from his hometown of Watnall, Nottingham, in a sidecar …”
Is it in fact possible to travel solo in a sidecar? I would’ve thought not, on the whole, but what do I know?
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If he was as the article says “Formerly an old, black vehicle belonging to his second eldest, Colin” I think it likely; it would be “in” in the sense “being a part of”, wouldn’t it.
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