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I hope you are on high ground Jonathan and out of harms way. My knowledge of Northern geography is sketchy but the worst seems to be Skipton, Thirsk, Wakefield and Leeds.
It's supposed to be getting icy tonight so take care everyone if leaving home early in the morning
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Very gusty here - I was nearly blown over earlier. Bitterly cold wind too - not at all pleasant, glad to be all cosy indoors. A week of wet-plays is not a jolly prospect - at least the kids were out for a play at lunchtime today when we had a brief respite from the rain. On wet days though they arrive in school with their feet soaking wet - many wear old hand-me-down split old shoes. So all morning there's the delightful aroma of rather whiffy bare feet and steaming socks and smelly old shoes hung over the radiators to dry. Lovely!  |
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So all morning there's the delightful aroma of rather whiffy bare feet and steaming socks and smelly old shoes hung over the radiators to dry. Lovely! That's the same smell as university students at a 9am seminar on a rainy day, MJ. Plus shampoo, nutri-bars and the sound of snoring.  |
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« Reply #2343 on: 21:54:18, 21-01-2008 » |
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What does the sound of snoring smell like, martle?
I've never drunk shampoo in a seminar. But then I'm not sure I've ever taken a nutri-bar into a seminar either (even to wash my hair).
PS 9am seminar? Is that the one where you have to turn up at 10?
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So all morning there's the delightful aroma of rather whiffy bare feet and steaming socks and smelly old shoes hung over the radiators to dry. Lovely! That's the same smell as university students at a 9am seminar on a rainy day, MJ. Plus shampoo, nutri-bars and the sound of snoring. Mmmmm, nostalgia. Foreign Affairs Select Committee Meetings on a wet Tuesday morning. |
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« Reply #2345 on: 22:03:29, 21-01-2008 » |
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What does the sound of snoring smell like, martle?
I've never drunk shampoo in a seminar. But then I'm not sure I've ever taken a nutri-bar into a seminar either (even to wash my hair).
PS 9am seminar? Is that the one where you have to turn up at 10?
Tinners, are you actually STILL a student? All you have to add to that is the smell of a frustrated lecturer trying to drum into your mouth the first 16 bars of Schoenberg's first Chamber Breakfast. Ok, I've been in Brighton way too long, I know. |
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« Reply #2346 on: 22:07:52, 21-01-2008 » |
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Tinners, are you actually STILL a student? No, but I know how to behave like one, martle.  George, aren't nutri-bars a bit, um, trendy for the Foreign Office? (A bit foreign, even?) |
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« Reply #2347 on: 22:48:58, 21-01-2008 » |
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George, aren't nutri-bars a bit, um, trendy for the Foreign Office?
Well I was thinking more of the House of Commons Committee Corridor where you could also add the smell of boiled cabbage and Elliman's Embrocation but you may be right. Perhaps delete 'Nutri-Bars' and insert 'Kendall Mint Cake wrapped in a pocket kerchief that morning by Cooksie'. Did you know that MPs are allocated pegs with their names on? It's just like MJ's school cloakroom.  |
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« Reply #2348 on: 23:03:04, 21-01-2008 » |
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At the occasional senior management committee meeting I have to attend, usually on a Monday morning, I've noticed that for the VC and his team, cwoffee and pastries are now the brekkie-on-the-run snack of choice. Don't they know we're British? Hobnobs and tea, surely?
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« Reply #2349 on: 00:11:42, 22-01-2008 » |
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I know it doesn't really matter but I have just noticed that the number of stars on our avatars seems to be quite random...eg 549 posts ..5 stars 2240 posts 5 stars 344 posts 4 stars 3349 posts 5 stars 2987 posts 7 stars.... Can anyone shed any light on this? Or have I just had too much wine?  A |
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I know it doesn't really matter but I have just noticed that the number of stars on our avatars seems to be quite random...eg 549 posts ..5 stars 2240 posts 5 stars 344 posts 4 stars 3349 posts 5 stars 2987 posts 7 stars.... Can anyone shed any light on this? Or have I just had too much wine? A the only one out of line here is the last, which I'm guessing was an admin's/whatsit's profile; they get all the stars by default, you see. |
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Good, good, that's cleared that up then !!
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« Reply #2353 on: 10:02:20, 22-01-2008 » |
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I'm afraid that once you're past 500 that would seem to be as far as it goes. When the new Mod Squad was initiated we at first all went back to one star, then Michael gave us all seven!
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« Reply #2354 on: 10:52:15, 22-01-2008 » |
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Gosh, I really am a lucky girl this year. Last week I won the Spanish Lottery, this week the nice people at the North London Prize Register want to give me a cheque for £25,000, a 42" Plasma TV or even a Mediterranean cruise, among other delights. One little `phone call to a premium rate number and I`m sorted. Or do I mean stitched up? |
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