Well, it certainly moved things on apace. Her husband went to specialist Day-care, then Orsepiddle & then into a home, where he died almost 4 years later .
Their 3 sons had been hoping that the problem would remain a ‘difficulty’, but this brought home to everyone how ill this normally mild & gentle man had become.
I have had a ‘pop-up’ when framing this reply, suggesting that I might like to talk to other people on the Thread too, & not just you, FantaFish
Well I’m ignoring you, Carinthia, hence this total absence of, nay, reverse of, reply.
I like the idea of ‘shock, panic and nightie’ as an outfit. Next time you hear of someone reacting in shock and panic, see, there will be a tiny bit of your brain that keeps saying ‘so they’re starkers, right? No one mentioned nightclothes. They’re all pink and rude’. Oh someone mod me, please, cba to do it meself.
Your friend’s experience was a grim thing.though, and I am sorry for it. Not making mock of that at all.
I hope that I’d be wearing my ‘Accident Set’ with matching Negligible…
As I sleep naked, there is always a Handy Kaftan to slip on, should there be an emergency in the night. It covers me from neck to ankle, which is prolly wise…
Friend was wearing carpet slippers, which I never wear, preferring open-toed leather mules ( wivva heel, natch). These are usually black or red, which will just have to do, so there!
So basically you are proposing to run around at night nekkid under your clothes, in leather heels, and you complain about speeding?
OK, I know you didn’t and you don’t and anyway the kaftan (handy) is angelically respectable and opaque, but hell, I’m an old hack and why spoil a good story?
ogoodgrief, I think I have left dressing gown (mightily respectable and any resemblance to a dead sheep is unfortunate, let’s just say I don’t open the door to border collies on the whole) in a Soggy Lump, although I disposed the rest of the laundry properly.
I shall - all being well - return. Possibly with B.C. clamped to ankle doing Mad Eyes, but the likelihood of that is diminished by the postcode.
My son has a three-quarters collie one quarter huntaway who is impervious to sheep. She looks at them disdainfully if she meets them and then gets on with her business, which is of course chasing a ball thrown for her several hundred times per walk by whichever sap is taking her out that day.
I have watched rabbits watching her ignoring them in a field.
She wouldn’t even notice your dressing-gown, I don’t suppose.
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Carinthia, when you start a thread it quite often tells you as you put in the header that it “seems a little like” – some other thread about something totally different. Ignore it, it is just confused poor thing.
Did it (Speeding through Darrington - but who wouldn’t?) deliberately Lynda? Ha ha! Does this woman imagine she’s Mr Legal Loophole… or something more fundamental?
The warning letter generated by information received from the vigilante group is plausible. Something similar happened near here many years back. The Lady of the village set up a vigilante group because she was fed up with cars speeding through. Guess what, her vehicle was clocked and she got a letter.
We have one of those amateur nazi speeding watch groups round my way too.
They wanted more equipment so they managed to get themselves put forward as one of the 3 local causes that Waitrose give you green tokens to place in boxes as you leave the store and at the end of the month they shell out some dosh to each of the ‘good’ causes according to the customer vote, well…needless to say that the other two local charities romped away leaving the speed watch group a very poor third
They are actually quite funny, one loafs in a deckchair with his clipboard, another stands with the speed gun thingy trying to look like David Bailey and I have never yet seen them out on a wet day, I guess the deckchair job would be no fun then, I wonder if the equipment they wanted to buy was an umbrella for some shade
LadySusan, you are clearly a very bad person, possibly as wicked as Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, and deserve Lynda Snell to move into your village! Are you sure it is a speed gun? I am told hair dryers are just as effective.
By the way, do join us in the Spoiler section. Just by hovering my mouse over your name I can tell you are a spoiler-lover.
Hmmm…high viz jackets and hairdryers, perhaps that’s why they wanted the smackeroonies from Waitrose, to get s bigger and better hairdryer !!!
Anyhow you cheeky Just Janie !!! You know I am a law abiding citizen who always watches her speed, especially after getting done doing 47 in a 40 zone on Long Furlong some years ago and ruining my clean sheet ! …please note, points have expired and I am now a reformed character but I do give the Speed Nazis in the village the evil eye as I go by (doing 30 in the 30 zone in case you are wondering)
