|
richard barrett
|
 |
« Reply #30 on: 14:45:57, 20-08-2008 » |
|
Some of us live in teeny flats where the kitchen and its appliances are at one end of the living room.
i can assure you that Brian F doesn't, however. I agree with you though that the quietest possible washing machine is worth almost a grandmother. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Ruth Elleson
|
|
« Reply #31 on: 15:02:13, 20-08-2008 » |
|
Some of us live in teeny flats where the kitchen and its appliances are at one end of the living room.
i can assure you that Brian F doesn't, however. I agree with you though that the quietest possible washing machine is worth almost a grandmother. In fact, my grandmother departed this world the same week as I acquired the washing machine. Now everybody's going to think it was something to do with me   |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
|
|
|
|
Don Basilio
|
|
« Reply #32 on: 15:06:14, 20-08-2008 » |
|
I was in this meeting last winter sitting on a stacking chair. I got up for the buffet lunch. I checked my pockets. My ipod was not there! I went back. I went to the reception desk to ask, and nobody had seen it. I was seriously worried. I was talking to someone I don't particularly trust near my seat. I mention my loss to her. "What's that there?" she said. It was under my seat. I picked it up and embraced her hysterically.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
|
|
|
|
marbleflugel
|
|
« Reply #33 on: 15:07:26, 20-08-2008 » |
|
Tinners, it is those contributory small victories that seem to augur the possibility of it. My bag which was puloined from me in (not by) 7 sisters on Friday as mysteriously returned c/ o Transport Police (top notch service ) and National Express trains (surprisingly ditto). All in order as far as I can see. This has saved me about 10 hours of midnight oil and another run-in with the cossacks who run a net cafe off Dean St who were looking up for a little light marauding last sun 0530 when I slumped and broke a chair.
Ron, your Reading experience (I used to live there) gladdens me -it would not I fear have turned out that way up the Oxford Rd just beyond.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
'...A celebrity is someone who didn't get the attention they needed as an adult'
Arnold Brown
|
|
|
|
time_is_now
|
|
« Reply #34 on: 15:10:05, 20-08-2008 » |
|
That's really ecstatic news, mf: I'm so thrilled for you. Like you say, it's the possibility which remains, however unlikely on the face of it, that things might turn out OK after all.  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
|
|
|
|
Morticia
|
|
« Reply #35 on: 15:12:21, 20-08-2008 » |
|
DB, I'm still trying to work how how it was that you feel asleep with your specs on, only to have them disappear overnight. Was it the Spectacle Gremlins  I may be having a Blonde Day today.  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Don Basilio
|
|
« Reply #36 on: 15:15:19, 20-08-2008 » |
|
I was asleep at the time, but I deduce they slipped off my nose at some point during the night and fell on the floor. Maybe they snapped when I turned over and slipped to the floor. Make sense?
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
|
|
|
|
Ron Dough
|
|
« Reply #37 on: 15:15:51, 20-08-2008 » |
|
marbs, no, certainly not along the Oxford Rd or even in the Broad St Mall (né Butts Centre).
Delighted that your tale has had a happy ending, too.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Morticia
|
|
« Reply #38 on: 15:30:07, 20-08-2008 » |
|
I was asleep at the time, but I deduce they slipped off my nose at some point during the night and fell on the floor. Maybe they snapped when I turned over and slipped to the floor. Make sense?
Absolutement, mon ami  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Turfan Fragment
|
|
« Reply #39 on: 15:32:31, 20-08-2008 » |
|
We seem to have wandered from ecstasy. I liked DonB's story of the friendly Turkish optician, though.
That's really ecstatic news, mf: I'm so thrilled for you.
Keep trying, t_t_s_o_i_n_n! I'm sure you'd be ecstatic if we could get back on topic. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
George Garnett
|
|
« Reply #40 on: 15:56:29, 20-08-2008 » |
|
Very, very pleased to hear that too, mf. Pater Ecstaticus |
|
|
|
« Last Edit: 15:58:33, 20-08-2008 by George Garnett »
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
marbleflugel
|
|
« Reply #41 on: 19:04:50, 20-08-2008 » |
|
Cheers Guys. Still a lot to do and laptop not well at all, but I may just get there with your positive vibes  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
'...A celebrity is someone who didn't get the attention they needed as an adult'
Arnold Brown
|
|
|
|
Antheil
|
|
« Reply #42 on: 19:07:59, 20-08-2008 » |
|
Cheers Guys. Still a lot to do and laptop not well at all, but I may just get there with your positive vibes Marbs, you know we all are sending ultra positive vibes to you! We can do it together |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
|
|
|
|
|
|
harmonyharmony
|
|
« Reply #44 on: 00:23:29, 21-08-2008 » |
|
I carefully disassembled my mobile and put it beside me on the pew during a concert of Klaus Lang's stuff in Darmstadt (I get periodically paranoid that it's going to turn itself on - for no good reason). We got 10 minutes down the road towards the pub before I remembered it was still there and sprinted back. Klaus found it quite amusing that I turned up panting, only able to mumble something like 'That was a lovely piece. So lovely that I forgot my phone'. He handed me his email address written on a TINY scrap of yellow paper and I set off again at speed to rejoin my companions on the trek towards Hefeweizen. It's probably fair to say that I was fairly ecstatic coming away from that concert. And I wasn't the only one. A few of us had wobbly legs and cheshire cat smiles for a while. Even quartertone likes it. |
|
|
|
« Last Edit: 00:25:32, 21-08-2008 by harmonyharmony »
|
Logged
|
'is this all we can do?' anonymous student of the University of Berkeley, California quoted in H. Draper, 'The new student revolt' (New York: Grove Press, 1965) http://www.myspace.com/itensemble |
|
|
|
