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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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Wishing you a very HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTHY, Don B.  "I'm very glad," said Pooh happily, "that I thought of giving you a Useful Pot to put things in." "I'm very glad," said Piglet happily, "that I thought of giving you something to put in a Useful Pot." But Eeyore wasn't listening. He was taking the balloon out, and putting it back again, as happy as could be.... |
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« Reply #752 on: 08:49:41, 13-04-2008 » |
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Happy birthday Don B ....  ... from the original suspects |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #753 on: 10:02:30, 13-04-2008 » |
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« Reply #754 on: 10:19:19, 13-04-2008 » |
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Happy Bidet, Don!!  (Italian Rum Cake Nom Nom Nom)
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« Reply #756 on: 10:50:33, 13-04-2008 » |
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« Reply #757 on: 11:47:34, 13-04-2008 » |
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A very Alassėa nosta to you, Don B!!
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"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set"
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« Reply #758 on: 11:54:28, 13-04-2008 » |
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Happy Birthday, illustrious Don
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« Reply #759 on: 12:21:56, 13-04-2008 » |
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"People hate anything well made. It gives them a guilty conscience." John Betjeman
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« Reply #761 on: 14:16:49, 13-04-2008 » |
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I can lurk no longer. Thank you all, each and everyone one of you for your kind wishes, particuarly Pim's loony contribution and Tony's understated reference to a common interest. I got the Romanian and Italian greetings, but eruanto's escaped me. Thank you all the same.
My birthday is working out rather well. Yesterday we went to the South Bank to see Hithcock's The 39 Steps. I was wondering about some champagne at home, but the resident somelier assured me there was some particularly nice pink Italian fizz which would allow us to have Italian rather than French afterwards, so we opened the bottle and had some for a aperitif. Like the colour and taste of strawberries, but with lots of mousse. We'll finish the rest tonight.
At church this morning I was on the incense and specially prayed for. I provided a box of choclates to have in the hall afterwards, but Mavis had produced lots of cake and nibbles to mark the fiftieth anniversary of her wedding in Guyana. Mavis gave me a big kiss and we exchanged greetings.
Other gay man: Are you doing anything special for your birthday.
Me: My partner's boning and stuffing a chicken.
OGM: Is that a euphenism for something?
Me: No
The Other Half (Sancho to some of you) has now returned home, and is resting, prior to his labours with the boning knife later.
Back to putting that burst balloon in a pot.
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A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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Oh Bless You Don, that sounds like a cue for Lou Reed's 'Oh, What a Perfect Day! xx And God Bless Mavis as well.
And, I always think, a burst balloon and a pot for putting it in, and the taking of it out, is one of the best pleasures in life x
Edit. Oh, I just had to put Lou Reed on after that, Sunday Morning followed by I'm waiting for My Man.
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #763 on: 14:39:33, 13-04-2008 » |
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labours with the boning knife Now - boning and stuffing chickens is a speciality of mine, as it happens (should this perhaps be in Challenges and Upsets? oh, sorry, Other Gay Man has already made that joke). But I've never heard of such a thing as a "boning knife" before. (I use whichever knife comes to hand for the relatively few aspects of the operation which require one.) I should be very interested to find out more at some point. Hope you enjoy it! (the chicken, not the knife) |
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« Reply #764 on: 15:14:43, 13-04-2008 » |
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labours with the boning knife Now - boning and stuffing chickens is a speciality of mine, as it happens. But I've never heard of such a thing as a "boning knife" before. Boning and stuffing used to be a speciality of mine too richard, (should I rephrase that?) when I trod the Corporate Hospitality Circuit. A chicken quickly zizzed and restuffed with three layers with a combination of whatever then reassembled to resemble a chicken. But a boning knife is a knife to be reckoned with . A sharp point and very narrow blade. 5 to 6 ½ inches in length. Your average Kitchen Devil ain't in the equation. |
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