gremlins!

[woofgang]

Ed this q shows 3 answers in the topic list but there are only two when you click on it. Have you started employing monks who cant count, is the abacus broken or have you got a gremlin in the works??

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Animals_and_Nature/Question189244.html

[woofgang]

There are palm trees in Torquay

[netibiza]

yes I know, but none in Hastings as such!

[netibiza]

Oh yuk, smelly lena (that means firewood here you know, no not the smelly bit).

[jno]

oooohhhh dear, looks like you norhterners are about to be obliterated

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8621407.stm

They'll be calling Derby the Pompeii of the North... digging you out in years to come and marvelling at 21st-century ways... look at this fossilised chs on tst next to the Bailey's...

[netibiza]

http://www.icis.com/b...ons/london-smog-1.jpg

Is that Kit I see befor eme? Stay at home and do not attempt to go out Kit!

Can you imagine an archeologist's face 2,000yrs hence when he digs up Robi?? "Oh look an old stick!"

[netibiza]

(I had to use smog cos the volcanic ones didn't seem too bad!)

[Robinia]

Morning <cough...splutter>...tut, there's always some element to battle with...pink or white?
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Are you on stand-by with the microfibres shaney?

Oi sweti! I'll still be a beautifully carved stick

[Jude123]

Morning all. It's cold and dismal here today. Been for a walk but not too far. So any sun we've been promised in the next few days we wont be able to see because of the volcanic stuff.
Can you have corns between your toes? I have had to make an appointment with the chiropedist because i think I have one and it's just startied hurting.

Is smelly lena the slimey stuff we used to get at school or is that sago? If it's the slimey stuff I've hated it ever since those days.

Not much to do today. Not going anywhere special. I think I'd better do a bit of housework so I'll see yer later 'gater(s)!

[netibiza]

No you won´t Robi, you´ll be a straight up and down stick.

Just had to walk through the town with 2,500€ in my bag which I had taken out of our bank, terrified of being mugged. Never have been, but it would have been just my luck!!

[Robinia]

Be afraid neti, I've been having stik-boxing lessons, I can have your eye out before you can blink...what are you dong with all that cash? Been flogging your tat on street corners again?

Jude, semolina's the one that makes a thick custardy pudding. Sago is 'frog spawn' but I love 'em all.

[shaneystar2]

Well it'll be no good them digging me up in a couple of thousand years .I'm already fossilised.
Had a nice day out at Gressenhall yesterday but I'm paying for it today :)
Interesting place but it was too cold to tramp round much outside and the gardens obviously weren't at their best .Interesting to see how the poor and deprived were treated in the workhouse though.Lots of interesting farming artefacts and lovely Suffolk Punch horseys.
Hope you are all fair to middling .
Crikey Neti ....how much cash do you need to buy matching pegs :)

Probably a soft corn Jude .I've never had a corn soft or otherwise but I think you can get something to put between your tootsies to ease the pressure and stop it rubbing, probably from Boots. Like a foam rubber tube thing .

[netibiza]

My bank manager here has just told me that a very loopy overthetop friend is going to be on BB, and the bank manager has had to write a reference! how strange is that. I don't watch it but will for the first couple of times to see this wally!!

[jno]

well, the Icelanders seem to have more important matters on their minds

http://grapevine.is/H...tted-Around-Reykjavik

[netibiza]

Just have to say that Foyle looks just like my old dad 'cept Dad had beautiful blue eyes and not such fluffy hair and never wore dark colours, I mean he wore brown mostly, lovely!

Also so just seen Nile, how lovely. I've always wanted to do a Nile cruise like that until the tourists started all that mummy wrapping and dancing - would hate that!

[swedeheart]

*emerges from volcanic ash cloud like a wizard* Evening, biddies. I don't know where the days go. Was out looking for sensible shoes yesterday and came home with a shopping bag full of everything but. A funny thing happened (no one was hurt): As I walked down the pavement I heard a crash and an outcry behind me and as I turned around I saw a young mother having just pushed her pram into a traffic sign pole ha ha ha! I just couldn't help laughing - but she - and her friend she'd been absorbed talking with - were laughing too, so... (Kid didn't even wake up.)

It's not just the icelanders jno, only a week ago I saw a Christmas tree stuck upside down on a traffic sign here on my street. So disrespectful to the tree (yes I'm serious, I really think it is).

Thanks to everyone who explained Simon Cowell to me, I get it now:) Neti I wasn't being sarcastic or anything, I really did find those linguistic/historic hypotheses interesting. What I don't appreciate is "political" stuff and commercial or viral angels and fairies and animals wearing hats and stuff ending with Send this to 193 of your friends within ten minutes or you'll be wrapped in a volcanic ash cl- ...oh Sugar, I should have sent that monkey smoking a pipe on to 193 of my friends...

It's not the insoles themselves Robi, it's the molding... purrrrrrr.... http://i44.tinypic.com/9zveyh.jpg

[swedeheart]

Far be it from me to say 'sugar'. I said... the other word. And forgot to put it in leet.

Mummy wrapping, Neti? the mind boggles... what do they actually do??

[netibiza]

Morning all

Kit, it's just wrapping people in toilet paper, and then acting liek tourists, not my scene at all!

[Jude123]

Good morning all. Put my washing out and now the sun's gone in. Just hope it doesn't rain. While I was hanging it out my lady blackbird landed at my feet and hopped to her meal worms bowl. Really friendly. Her husband isn't so much but still comes for a feed.
I can't talk about The Debate cos I didn't watch it. So that's that then!!
I'm going to my local haunt for lunch today can't be bothered to cook and they do a lovely carvery and reasonable too. (Not the Bluey Robi)
I'm off now to do a bit of housework I said I was going to do yesterday. I can be so lazy then all of a sudden I get this burst of energy to do things. I think it's brought on by guilt!!
Bye for now and have a good day. Hoping all aches and pains aren't so bad.
P.S. Thanks for the tip on how to look after my toe Shaney.

[woofgang]

puppies have got their vaccinations today. They hate the vets...have to go in muzzled....just will be glad when its over....hamburgers!!!!!

[swedeheart]

Afternoon, how are y'all doing with the cloud? They said on the news last night it was going your way (Britain) but you might bounce it back to us - humpf. (Should maybe not peg the washing out Jude and Neti?)

Tell you what Neti, if they mix the mummy wrap with that orthopaedic plaster, I'm game;-)

Jude you solved a mystery dating 45 years back for me, yesterday: You mentioned 'sago' and for the first time I realised it wasn't a Swedish word. My Mum had a box of 'Sagogryn' in the pantry and I was utterly fascinated by it as in Swedish the word would mean 'fairytale grain'... 'Gryn' (grain) is in Swedish, so you expect 'sago' to be, too. I remember standing in the pantry many a time looking at those "pearls" and trying to figure them out, were they princess food or what. And I remember asking my mother about it but she didn't know either. But after you mentioned it yesterday Jude and I realised it wasn't Swedish I looked it up and I now know it's the name of the palm it comes from, the sago palm (Metroxylon sagu). Wish I could tell my mother!

(Jude, this is where you say "Alimentary, my dear Watson";-)