Bluddy hippos, mugging fish for their bicycles…
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I’m here.
I have been abit tired for a day or 3, so have had lots of sweep.
Am awake now, for the moment… 
Carinthia. xx
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I trimmed my lovely flowers for the 2nd time. They are still looking good. 
Carinthia. xx
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Mr Janie and I were once chased by a hippo. We did luckily get to the landrover before it, but I fully believe it would have outpaced us given time.
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That’s not a sentence I expected to read, Janie!
Carinthia. xx
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I have just inadvertently coined a word. Havering between ‘blasted’ and ‘bastard’, what I said was ‘barstly’. I feel it has a certain ring to it.
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Absolutely, Dahlink.
Drink?
Carinthia. xx
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Please. [gluggity]
Gxx
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I DO like a wol
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There is probably an untapped market there, Twellsy…
Carinthia. xx
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Weell I know what diverticular disease does to my innards so I can need a fractious owl to talk for me from time to time
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Susie Dent on Woman’s hour has just given the most delicious word for eggs
Cacklefarts
I love it
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(I am told by a friend that the word is “jīngbào”, roughly “shocking” or “unexpected”, so the intended meaning is probably something like “you won’t believe these prices”.)
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Also often to be found in the bagging area.
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I have just spent quite a large part of the afternoon wandering around muttering “how the hell did I lose a DOUBLE BED SHEET?”
The answer turned out to be “by putting it on top of everything else in a stack of stuff, where it sat being far too small a parcel for a sheet so that my eyes simply skimmed over it.”
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Bluddy annoying that.
I was looking for something last night, & found it an hour later hiding in plain sight on the back of a chair.
Will an double sheet be big enough, Fishy? I was thinking of how much there will be hanging at the sides & bottom.
Carinthia. xx
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Yes; a flat sheet has to be able to tuck in, and that overhang does make it big enough.
The measurement taken (using a double bedspread as a guide, because we have still a small amount of the sense God promised a doorknob at the beginning) was that the bedspread wants to be 220cm x 240cm, that being the size of a Dunelm bedspread; the sheet says on its wrapper that it is 240cm x 260cm. so we should be ok.
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Heaves sigh of relief, but lights Candle anyway.
I had to put an pleated frill on an bedspread when furnishing fabric was only 48” wide. The more modern 54” is much better for that.
Carinthia. xx
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