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« Reply #1440 on: 13:06:12, 28-05-2007 » |
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I have a lama song from waffle thread going now. I think it is infecting my brain, but otherwise we have a very nice weather. It is bright and dry and a little wind is blowing.
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« Reply #1441 on: 14:31:12, 28-05-2007 » |
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Ho MorticiaaaAAA. Many thanks for your welcome. Your advice re Pith Helmet and Frogskin Wellies is appreciated. Unfortunately, the latter have sprung leaks due to my negligence in allowing them to dry out in April's hot weather. Bearing in mind your appreciation of the benefits to be obtained from camels, I have ordered a pair of knee length Camel Skin Boots to replace the froggies. Esmerelda became really annoyed by this and has left here muttering that she longs to be home with you again. She is bringing you a box of Avon Skin So Soft Dry Oil spray, the perfect defence against insects and things that go bump and buzz in the night. Apply freely.
Hank's MARK VII Moby Dick canoe is away having its bottom scraped and repainted for the summer races on Ullswater. The rumour, in the Sheep and Wellies, is that Hank will probably decide to go for the same treatment for his birthday. Big Ron the Berserker is planning to swim the Channel. He is having swimming lessons from young Fifi Bonsoir and can already float on his back. Fifi told me, with a smile, that she plans to have him turned over next week.
You haven't, by any chance, sent me a couple of pamphlets by the Little Sisters of the Lengthened Lobes have you? They are offering a do-it-yourself piercing kit for £15. I don't think I'll bother.
Cheers for now.
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« Reply #1442 on: 14:42:36, 28-05-2007 » |
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HO! S`wave, The Little Sisters of the Lengthened Lobes?! SHREIK!!! Shred the pamphlet immediately, dig a moat and install searchlights at strategic intervals around the Five Lawns. The `Sisters` are a front for a most nefarious organisation. Believe me, if you get involved with them it`ll be more than your lobes that get lengthened! Destroy this message as soon as you have read it ..... If Big Ron wasn`t so obviously caught up with Fifi, sniff, I would advise you enlist his help with this matter. You need to watch that girl and her snorkel, you know. I do hope that Hank will not suffer too much discomfort from his, ahem, procedure. Lang may your lallies reek  Mort |
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« Reply #1443 on: 16:12:18, 28-05-2007 » |
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Lang may your lallies reek Cripes Mort, don't encourage him, it's reached here already A |
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« Reply #1444 on: 17:07:35, 28-05-2007 » |
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« Reply #1445 on: 17:08:31, 28-05-2007 » |
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HOORAY... did you hear that then? Welcome back!!!! A |
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« Reply #1446 on: 18:21:53, 28-05-2007 » |
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It's been fine here until about half an hour ago, when we had a big thunderstorm. I've been eating like a pig all day - lunch out and then (about two and a half hours later), a CREAM TEA with scones, jam, cream and three different kinds of cake. Still, it's only once in a blue moon, and it was rather nice.  |
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« Reply #1447 on: 18:45:01, 28-05-2007 » |
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Good stuff Mary!! I am quite jealous... sounds lovely !
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« Reply #1448 on: 23:35:37, 28-05-2007 » |
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I've been chortling at some of the stuff on this website http://www.scambuster419.co.uk/index.htmlSomeone wrote on this board about scams the other week and this site is all about the scammers being scammed! The person who runs it replies to the Nigerian scammers as Gilbert Murray, supposedly a GP, an MP or whatever, and leads them on in the same way they intend to lead him on. Quite amusing tho you have to scroll down through some of the very long email conversations. Note that there's also a lot of useful info about various methods used by scammers, not just the 419ers. |
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« Reply #1449 on: 22:00:26, 29-05-2007 » |
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SO HAPPY!!!!! Our nightly visitor, Roxy Foxy has just brought one of her cute little cubs into our garden to forage. Fortunately I'd left some pasta out for her. She left him here by himself while she went off to hunt elsewhere. He's SO SWEET!!!!! He kept picking up pasta then trotting round the garden with it, hiding in the bushes to eat it then reappearing to take some more. He's the size of a small cat, with a tiny tail - nothing like a brush yet! He was either trotting across the patio or, when he got up speed, positively bouncing down the lawn! What tasty morsels do you suggest leaving out tomorrow night? It can't be catfood or our 4 will eat it. I don't want to feed them too much though as they've got to hunt too - mustn't rely on us to feed them. Apparently Roxy had a mouse in her mouth when she first appeared by herself then she disappeared and reappeared with baby.  Ahhhh! |
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« Reply #1450 on: 22:03:31, 29-05-2007 » |
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He is so nice and so lovely. I wish him well. I wish he survives and hunt for himself. They eat ruts and mouse and it is good for everybody. Plus they are so cute.
I pray that he will survive with his mother.
May be he will like another pasta. It is very filling and it going down well.
Did you have sauce on it (tomato)?
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« Reply #1452 on: 22:23:02, 29-05-2007 » |
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What is it Andy?
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« Reply #1453 on: 22:23:26, 29-05-2007 » |
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We have foxes sometimes, but I've never seen a baby one. Lovely.
Actually I am watching QI at the moment, and admiring a lovely golden moon outside the window. Not quite a full moon yet.
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« Reply #1454 on: 22:24:22, 29-05-2007 » |
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May be he will like another pasta. It is very filling and it going down well.
Did you have sauce on it (tomato)?
No sauce, just some plain farfalle left over and a few stuffed with ricotta cheese and spinach! Best not to give them anything too salty. Pasta's carbohydrate, not very healthy for them but a little won't hurt I hope. Better than some of the stuff they must eat when they raid dustbins. I've just read that they eat fruit - they probably ate the wrinkled apples I threw out onto the lawn recently. Oh, just remembered I threw some old grapes out for the birds earlier this evening - perhaps little foxy baby's hoovered those up too! This reminds me of when I lived for a year in Sicily - a very long time ago as a nanny! The old grandpa used to put pasta out for the starving feral cats - poor things, they didn't thrive at all. I befriended some of the wild kittens who learned to trust me and would climb onto my lap for a cuddle but they all died young. I wasn't in a position to improve their situation. Sorry - not a happy memory. |
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