So good of you to take one for the team, Joe
I hope that they put summat nice in yer drip
Carinthia.xx
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Like for instance a slammer or two?
Anyone else, while I’m here? Carinthia? Gus?
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Me?
I needs a small summat
I have just nearly tamed my new sewing machine
I love it
It’s strong enough to sew denim (see I was listening and have practiced dear Chatelaine) yet small and light that fits into a small shopping basket
And I can run it on batteries if I need to
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Sounds like slammers all round, then.
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Yes please, Fishy
Carinthia.xx
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Good-oh. I hate to drink alone…
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hic
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The plum wine has been opened. Panic!
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Alas, “slammer” has taken on an entirely new connotation for me, this Christmas…
In other news, I managed to get through the whole of the first part of The Canterbury Tales. The overall impression is just as I thought at the outset; four perfectly good modern adaptations of Chaucer, interspersed with pointless and distracting “backstage” nonsense.
What did come across, of course,was the quality of many of the cast; Carol Boyd, Emerald O’Hanrahan, Sunny Ormonde, Nick Barber, Barry Farrimond and James Cartwright were all - as ever - excellent. They contrived, somehow, to make The Miller’s Tale the weak point - possibly because Trevor Harrison is simply too obviously Eddie, so it was impossible to forget the TA side.
My advice would be to give it a listen - it’s the sort of thing the BBC can still do very well, after all - but to skip over the connecting “comedy” scenes. Basically, if you enjoyed what they did with Pepys, you’ll enjoy this - indeed the 15-Minute Drama slot would have been perfect for it, without the padding.
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And I’ve just heard they’ve put out the last call for entrants for the Pin The Tail On The Joe competition.
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Joe
I know about the pin the drip/injection/wottevva on the hapless patient
Run a washhand basin full of water as hot as you can stand
Dunk your hands and lower arms in said water
After a good 5 minutes they should find a vein
Ask for a basin if you are tethered to the bed
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How else do you think folk will be able to drink it, eh?
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On no account tell That Fish, or the said Fish will be wanting to shape a Moose Of Its Very Own. Out of dough.
I speak as a friend to both of you here.
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But Twellsy - that’s taking all the sport out of it.
Besides, the anaesthetists want a go…
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Oh joe.
Not even remotely fun any more. Also breathtakingly incompetent. Grrrr…
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After that they throw it open…
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/f8/a5/3b/f8a53bfb74744344278836bf0d1dc448--laundry-art-laundry-room.jpg
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Joe dear anaesthetists are real vampires
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TBH Gus, I’m counting my blessings. The cellulitis and vein problems are most likely down to moving from a decent sized town - when I could walk everywhere - to a house on a sharp bend a few miles beyond the arse-end of nowhere, where setting foot outside the gate is a life-threatening experience. I kicked the fags a few years ago - and by some miracle my liver seems perfectly healthy (I was half expecting the blood results to include “40% proof”)
I don’t intend to give them any more ammunition than they already have…
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My neighbours on the train are singing. “Venite adore[hic]mus, Dominum.” It is not as tuneful as a sparrer might like.
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