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« Reply #4771 on: 13:52:10, 14-02-2008 » |
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1666 was an important year for violins, now i know why ! 666 eh
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« Reply #4772 on: 13:56:21, 14-02-2008 » |
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« Reply #4773 on: 14:20:03, 14-02-2008 » |
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I like that card too, tonybob. It is very creative.  That was thinking outside of the box. I once got a hand made Happy New Year card. It was year of the Snake. I loved it. |
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« Reply #4774 on: 14:26:46, 14-02-2008 » |
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I find people fill a freezer, then forget about it, as it takes some time to plan to thaw things out.
I like the 'er, fridge empty, cupboard empty... i need to shop' method I prefer the "freezer full of the home-made equivalent of 'ready meals', fridge contains enough fresh stuff for several days, I DON'T need to shop" method, as it means if I am out the next five evenings on the trot, I know that all I need to do each day is take two meals out of the freezer (one for lunch, one for supper) in order to have a tasty, nutritious and balanced diet and not end up spending £5 a time on takeaway lunches just because I'm too busy to cook. Then on the occasions where my schedule's less hectic, I cook large batches of the things I like, divide it into portions and re-pack the freezer  It keeps my food costs down really low, too - which leaves more to spend on opera tickets  |
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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!
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« Reply #4775 on: 14:34:27, 14-02-2008 » |
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« Reply #4776 on: 15:09:09, 14-02-2008 » |
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tonybob, if I was Mrs tonybob I'd have been dead chuffed to get that card this morning. Good man!
 and thanks tp! she loved it, as it's the first time - understandably - i've drawn a picture for her. |
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« Reply #4777 on: 15:29:44, 14-02-2008 » |
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tonybob, if I was Mrs tonybob I'd have been dead chuffed to get that card this morning. Good man!
and thanks tp! she loved it, as it's the first time - understandably - i've drawn a picture for her. That sort of card is in a quite different class from the commercial junk I was being so rude about . And Ruth, you clearly do what I always intend to do but never get round to, when it comes to cooking and freezing meals. |
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« Reply #4778 on: 16:43:31, 14-02-2008 » |
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Growl, mutter <headbeatingagainsttableemoticon> Having been without Virgin webmail for over a week, but still able to access mail via OE, blueyonder now appears to have collapsed completely taking OE with it. Nigel says that it is "an inconvenient problem that is national, but it will be fixed soon". I pointed out that they have been saying that for the last week. "I am very sorry, ma'm, but it is national". They will be refunding the cost of my 'phone call. Whoopydoo  Can BT be any worse than this?  The only mail I can receive now is on this board!!  |
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« Reply #4779 on: 18:38:10, 14-02-2008 » |
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tonybob, if I was Mrs tonybob I'd have been dead chuffed to get that card this morning. Good man!
and thanks tp! she loved it, as it's the first time - understandably - i've drawn a picture for her. That sort of card is in a quite different class from the commercial junk I was being so rude about . And Ruth, you clearly do what I always intend to do but never get round to, when it comes to cooking and freezing meals. If I had received a card today like the one that Mrs. tonybob received I think I would have burst into tears at the obvious love that had gone into it <heart emoticom> and would treasure it forever <sob emoticom> Needless to say I received zilch, but then I expected no less  As to the cooking question, I have given up on buying sandwiches or wraps for lunch, what a rip-off they are! Better to buy a pack of butter, some rolls and some assorted fillings, which for a week equals just over the price of a solitary sandwich. I've been having pasta meals during the week, cooking too much, and taking the leftovers into work (we have a micro) but most of them are nice cold as well. |
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« Reply #4780 on: 18:46:47, 14-02-2008 » |
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Lucky Mrs. Tonybob! I did in the end receive a lovely bouquet of red roses and a little note.....from my elder son. "With love to Mum on Valentine's Day". It means so much just to have that small token gesture. I know that Valentine's Day, Mother's Day etc., can be commercialised rip-offs but it doesn't have to be like that. I feel loved and appreciated all the year round but a small gesture like that is very pleasant. Made me a bit tearful though.. (in the nicest of ways of course). |
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« Reply #4781 on: 20:49:53, 14-02-2008 » |
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Nice to know Milly-at moment not-very-bright neighbour is vacuuming for England with identikit r n b blaring out and infiltrating the Dresden Staatkapelle, who I can hear wailing in the distance. This after long, long meeting and domestic violence victim client still prevaricating over disclosure to the accompiment of Alan Titchmarsh and Liza Minelli (hard to tell which was which), with the brill Laurie Holloway band as the mitigating circumstance. McLeod's script for Herbert Howells is b awful-dreck suggestion that some composers sit in the dark waiting for a masterpiece to materialise, and that HH was about 'the 3 A's' -assonance, al fresco and alan titchmarsh.This is truly terrible-he's not usually like this-as if someone's whacked him over the head with a Reader's Digest free sample.
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« Reply #4782 on: 21:01:46, 14-02-2008 » |
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Life in a small Oxfordshire market town (where I went today to visit my sister. I needed some dental tape so popped into Boots, and purchase same.)
Nice young girl on cash desk: Here is your change and a voucher.
Me (with any eye on wrinkle free gel for men): What is your voucher for?
NYG on CD: It's for your wife.
Me (smiling and trying to be friendly): I don't think my civil partner would appreciate it.
(When I return to my healthy inner city home, the CP show me his Valentine present: he had cleared the dining room table of all the tax papers, so we can eat there in future. He suggested I contacted Boots central HR dept and ask why they don't give their staff equality training.)
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« Reply #4783 on: 21:03:27, 14-02-2008 » |
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I walk past tescos on the way home from work and rarely go out on an evening, I am more a '1 pricey ticket every 2 months' than a 'out every night' kind of person. m&s are open late thursdays, and more nights these days, which is good, their soups are fabo tastical Milord, what of the Russian maiden-has she`wandered off? |
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« Reply #4784 on: 22:26:33, 14-02-2008 » |
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(When I return to my healthy inner city home, the CP show me his Valentine present: he had cleared the dining room table of all the tax papers, so we can eat there in future. He suggested I contacted Boots central HR dept and ask why they don't give their staff equality training.)
Ah, the trials and tribulations, Don! Never mind, at least it made me laugh. A lot. As did yours, mf, although I'm not sure you meant it to!  I don't recall reading a sentence before in my life that brought vacuuming and the Dresden Staatskapelle into quite such close conjunction. But I suppose that's how your life felt as you wrote it ... |
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