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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 5, 2010 8:29:48 GMT
I find myself in Kingston this Monday morning helping my mother.
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 5, 2010 9:16:03 GMT
I find myself eating more chocolate! Can't stop!!! The Piglet is currently swinging from her bedroom light fitting, high on sugar!!!!
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 5, 2010 10:48:09 GMT
I had planned to spend the bank holiday outside today by hitting the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens and/or Butterly World but the weather is foul ffs. They shall have to wait until another day.
Complained to the hotel in Brum that's been mucking me about and got a room upgrade out of it. Result. That's next weekend all sorted now.
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2010 11:05:36 GMT
I spent much of last night around my sisters house moving a wardrobe of hers from my father's house in Ibstock to her house across the Derbyshire border in Moira. It only took me and her boyfriend about half an hour to put the flat pack wardrobe back together but after we had done so we had a few cans of lager and then nipped to a pizza shop in nearby Ashby for a pizza each (what else!) and then spent about the next hour and a bit back at her house eating the pizzas and watching the original (and still classic) version of The Italian Job.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 5, 2010 12:45:38 GMT
Have you ever seen the deleted scene on the ice rink ?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2010 13:36:10 GMT
If you're talking about The Italian Job then I don't think I have. I've only seen the film on TV and don't have it on DVD which is presumably where that deleted scene can be found these days.
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Post by dinogrrl on Apr 6, 2010 3:01:49 GMT
Today was a lovely day - warm and not insanely windy like it was all weekend. I got out of work early and spent 2 1/2 hours farting around in the front yard mowing, sweeping, digging, seeding and planting bulbs. I'm going to be very sore tomorrow.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2010 17:07:00 GMT
THAT SONG played on the radio at work today! Soon, insanity will grip me and never let me go!
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 6, 2010 17:15:35 GMT
Mini lurgy: not enough to be properly sick, but enough to be off my game and generally useless at work. May it pass swiftly.
I recently wrote to the NHS Blood Donation people to update my address and ask where the donation place in Edinburgh is. They have responded by placing me on the Organ Donation Register. I have given permission to have any of my organs used, apparently. Though I've been on this register since April 1996 (I still have the old card in my wallet to this day) I am still rather cross that it was re-done without my consent. Still, at least I have a shiny new bit of blue cardboard to replace the tatty old green bit of paper.
I am having MINI KIEVS for dinner. I rarely do this as they tend to explode in the oven but I took a sudden craving. I AM OUT OF CONTROL.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 6, 2010 17:32:56 GMT
FUCK SAKE'S MY MINI KIEVES HAVE EXPLODED!
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 6, 2010 18:53:52 GMT
A week that begins on a Tuesday is always off to a good start in my book.
And when it also heralds the arrival of my Tex Avery DVD box set from Amazon France, it scores again in the plus column.
I can't stop laughing. Had to pause the DVD and take a break here in order to regain my equilibrium. Easily as good as the very best Warner Bros stuff (of which Tex was of course a part), and I'm not just talking about Droopy. I mean, check this out:
Martin
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 6, 2010 19:13:44 GMT
I can't get the theme song to 'Poll Position' out of my head!
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Post by legios on Apr 6, 2010 20:37:28 GMT
The only problem with a week that starts on a Tuesday is that I still have five days work to do, but only four days in which to do it.....
That said, I had a very good weekend. Spent it down at my mother's. We took a trip to York, where I had a good wander around the railway museum in the morning, and followed that up with another museum in the afternoon and a bit of a wander along the river (the geese of York do not like me particularly much as they have discovered that I do not function as a free food dispenser, and so they treat me with a lofty disdain). On Sunday morning we went down to the RSPB Nature Reserve at Salthome where we were observing more geese - Canada Geese this time - and a sizeable flock of Common Terns which are nesting on an island on one of the lakes there. It was a very civilised way to spend a Sunday morning. Then I trundled back up by train to Falkirk on the Monday morning.
Surprisingly few people travelling in any direction over the Holiday weekend. Not only the trains but the roads seemed to be very quiet. Perhaps the weather had put folk off.
Karl
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Post by grahamthomson on Apr 7, 2010 9:00:00 GMT
Back to work today. It's so nice to be back.
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 7, 2010 9:01:54 GMT
Having worked all Easter weekend, I am now off! Huzzagh! School hols, so got Piglet all to my self. Guess what she's currently doing? Eating Easter Egg! Oh dear God!
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Post by kayevcee on Apr 7, 2010 11:48:15 GMT
Ralph, I almost took a swig of Irn Bru before reading your last post. I'm glad I paused because that was properly funny. Your exploding mini kievs have made my morning. Well done sir, and I hope they were still edible.
I went up to the credit union this morning to get some Kroner for the family trip to Legoland next week. We can pick it up on Friday. The current exchange rate is Kr8.47 to the pound, and they offered 8.245. I reckon that's pretty damn good. Their dollar and Euro rates are better than the post office by about 5% so I took that as a sign they were the way to go.
So... anybody want anything from Denmark?
-Nick
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 7, 2010 11:57:38 GMT
Some bacon? Haw haw haw! sorry.
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 7, 2010 11:59:52 GMT
Ralph, I almost took a swig of Irn Bru before reading your last post. I'm glad I paused because that was properly funny. Your exploding mini kievs have made my morning. -Nick He's a swine at doing that! Him and that Tomo bloke. Beverage ambushing! Usually comes outa my blasted nose. Hasn't got me for a while, but he'll strike again, no doubt when I least expect it! |
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 7, 2010 12:01:51 GMT
Off for a walk with Piglet now. There's a local reservoir near us that has a kind of small beachy bit. She likes to dig. Dig dig dig! Dig for gold! Dig for oil! Dig for the love of digging!!!
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 7, 2010 16:17:09 GMT
Minor malaise has turned to proper Man-Cold. Thankfully, I had two hours TOIL owing so could vanish early at work. Urgh. Hope this passes before long train journey on Friday, damn it.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 7, 2010 16:58:24 GMT
That said, I had a very good weekend. Spent it down at my mother's. We took a trip to York, where I had a good wander around the railway museum in the morning, If I hear "York was better" once when we do Steam in a few weeks time they'll be trouble ! Surprisingly few people travelling in any direction over the Holiday weekend. Not only the trains but the roads seemed to be very quiet. Perhaps the weather had put folk off. Karl Or the strike that was meant to be happening..... |
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 7, 2010 18:20:14 GMT
When I was on my bank holiday adventures on Friday, both North Berwick and the Flight Museum were dead. I thought they would be mobbed, especially as the schools were off. Standing in an airfield empty of people was a strange experience.
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2010 18:42:23 GMT
THAT SONG wasn't on the radio at work today but I did suffer another bit of bad luck there when one of the drinks machines decided to accept money but not credit it as being inserted. I lost £1.20 to that machine today before coming home and getting a text message from the job agency saying I've got tomorrow off work due to lack of work.
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 7, 2010 19:08:39 GMT
Injury to insult there, sorry Zudo.
Pizza night in the Shockprowl household. But driven to violence against Channel 4 'cause there's no Desperate Housewives on tonight! No warning given last week nor nawt! Damn them!
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 7, 2010 19:11:06 GMT
Er, what I meant to say in that last post was that it is Mrs Shockprowl who is driven to violence against C4 because Desperate Housewives isn't on tonight, and that she makes me watch it every week.
('think I got away with it....)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2010 19:25:42 GMT
('think I got away with it....) I'm afraid not. We all know you are a closet Desperate Housewives fan! All you kind of people usually are!  |
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 7, 2010 19:38:25 GMT
('think I got away with it....) I'm afraid not. We all know you are a closet Desperate Housewives fan! All you kind of people usually are! All you kind of people? What kind of people am I?! (if you're reffering to middle class, then you are naturally quite accurate.) |
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 8, 2010 6:55:06 GMT
THERE WAS A FUCKING FLY IN MY CEREAL THIS MORNING!
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 8, 2010 7:57:50 GMT
THAT'S DISGUSTING!!!! TAKE IT BACK TO THE SHOP!!!!
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Post by grahamthomson on Apr 8, 2010 10:52:28 GMT
Wow. The gifts I used to get in my cereal seem boring by comparison.
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