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Jonathon, I'm sure there is a particularly valuable item in your collection, how much did you have to shell out for it ?  |
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« Reply #1156 on: 00:48:49, 08-05-2007 » |
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I might as well join in... If you find a particularly exciting specimen, do you get shell shock?  |
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« Reply #1157 on: 10:15:05, 08-05-2007 » |
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Jonathan, You wont regret the Civic. I've had a 1.4 hatchback for the past 6 yrs, it has been a little wonder, always starts, always zooms along, always passed it's MOT. Cheapest motoring I've ever had....it has done 93,000 miles now, is 11 yrs old, but I wouldn't dream of trading it in yet.  This one looks just like mine... x Jan x |
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« Reply #1158 on: 15:29:52, 08-05-2007 » |
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It`s cold, damp and gloomy  So I have just made a cauldron of minestrone soup that is now burbling away quietly on the stove, which should ..... MAKE ME HAPPY! Just have to wait for it. <fingertapping emoticon> |
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« Reply #1159 on: 17:02:04, 08-05-2007 » |
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I love soup....I made a nice vat of home grown asparagus soup last evening, YUM!
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« Reply #1160 on: 17:38:30, 08-05-2007 » |
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...hubble, bubble, toil and trouble,
in a restaurant, pay double!...
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« Reply #1161 on: 18:23:32, 08-05-2007 » |
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Jonathan, I'm sure there is a particularly valuable item in your collection, how much did you have to shell out for it ? The most I've ever seen for a shell was E16,000 for a very tiny and rare Cypraea lisetae. No, I wouldn't even spend 1% of that on a shell (especially having just bought a new car!) |
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"as the housefly of destiny collides with the windscreen of fate..."
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« Reply #1162 on: 19:30:10, 08-05-2007 » |
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The most I've ever seen for a shell was E16,000 for a very tiny and rare Cypraea lisetae. No, I wouldn't even spend 1% of that on a shell (especially having just bought a new car!)
Is the car already painted? Reason I ask is that on the production line before the paint shop the vehicles on the track are called body-shells  Someone mentioned shellac earlier, as in 78rpm records, well that's one of my weaknesses. Here is just half of my accumulation of 30 years  mainly jazz and dance bands and entertainers of the 1920's and 30's, with some classical. Indeed the classical collection recently doubled with this other lot (aquired free through the freecycle group):  Lots of Rachmaninov, Menuhin, Caruso, Backhaus, Heifitz etc etc. Yummy John W |
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« Reply #1163 on: 00:28:48, 10-05-2007 » |
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HOORAY!!! After bouncing me all around Bombay today BT have waived their outrageous £249 for changing my `phone socket. Yahoo!!  Wotcher think, Lamballe? |
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« Reply #1164 on: 08:28:14, 10-05-2007 » |
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Good morning every one. I am very happy today. It is a windy day, but it is bright.
I am happy and I don't know why. I played for my friend yesterday and I have some new ideas.
So I am happy today. I am happy for Morticiaa that things with bill is settled.
Who else is happy?
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I'd be a lot happier if I knew when/if my decorator was coming today. I can't get an answer from his mobile. However computer is working at the moment so that's cheering!
Glad you are happy, t-p.
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« Reply #1166 on: 09:29:23, 10-05-2007 » |
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It is not easy with decorators, plumbers, electrician and other professional people. They are often busy, they take many jobs when they are available. The most important thing is to start and they one can disappear and start the work for other people.
I understand them, it is not easy to have one's own business. Some times one has too many customers and some times none.
It is usually works out all right at the end, but in between there are some disappointments.
I recently met a designer, who is an artist and she paints nice pictures. She showed me a painting of a nude on a sofa. You really can not see the whole body of a woman on a sofa, but you know it is a picture of a nude worman.
My student asked me to come and play happy birthday for his guest and may be play something else. So I did not expect to be at any party, but I found myself having a good time with nice people. I think they all have businesses.
This particular lady was designing curtains and decorations. She was very nice and very beautiful.
I hope you will be happy with your new decoration. This is a reply to Mary Chambers.
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« Reply #1167 on: 10:39:25, 10-05-2007 » |
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I do appreciate that running a business is very difficult - all I ask is to know whether someone is coming or not! This particular firm has been very reliable up to now. I expect it will get done in the end.
I'm in the wrong room, as usual.
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« Reply #1168 on: 11:30:06, 10-05-2007 » |
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Here where I am now people are not used to women working or even leaving the house. This is not true anymore, but people in service expect you to be at home all the time. They will not even specify what part of the day they are going to come. This can tie one to the house, because you are afraid to leave even to bottle of milk or something.
It is very annoying. I know as we always have something wrong with either our appliances or something else.
Electrician came last year, because I wanted to change the switch. I always had to replace something in an electric shower that we have. The electrician fixed the shower and told me to get glue and fix the switch myself.
But I don't want to use glue. I want a good switch and I don't even care how much it costs (as long as it is within reason).
Well, I can not have it. I have to have a plastic cap from the switch that got broken from fatigue falling of from the metal base of the switch every time I have to turn the big lights on.
Am I going to be expelled not because I forgot what roome I was in?
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« Reply #1169 on: 12:50:03, 10-05-2007 » |
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For T-P who has probably never heard Flanders and Swann going at it:  From Flanders and Swann Online |
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