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Thanks for the kind thoughts, chaps  Gawd bless yer all. Hope to be bouncing around soon. hh, Dr Who was great! Cripes, what`s he going to do without the Tardis? Gasp!! Indeed it was Mort - I seem to remember the Master having a Tardis of his own though and (certainly at one point) it was disguised as a red coloured pillar! Perhaps it's hiding somewhere on the rocket? Hope you are feeling better today - a friend of ours has recently had kidney problems and was in agony last weekend with them. |
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 Aha! Good old google turns up Barrett's Milk Teeth. But are these the admirable old-fashioned version or the nasty new-fangled baby's-bottom-smelling ones, increpatio? I wouldn't want to be caught out. I couldn't tell you for certain; they certainly look more authentic than the ones what I purchased (my ones had more of a glazed finish to them), and I would imagine Barrett's to have some integrity remaining. Hmm. Oh, I am terribly terribly grumpy at the moment; entirely in my own direction though; my postgrad studies are going just *terribly*, in that I find myself doing maybe one day of work a week now down from seven when I started, and I have been recently experiencing these rather disturbing fantasies of just packing up everything and going away to some big city to work in a quiet bookstore or cafe. Oh I wish I could just sit down for an hour or two a day, I know I would enjoy it terribly, but no, there are far too many shiny distractions about. On the *good* side of things, I have managed to string together a fantastic weekend in London next weekend involving this recital of J.P.'s recital and meeting up with a good friend who's stuck over in Oxford now. On the truly, truly *irritating* side of things, there's a phone in a bag in the room I'm in at the moment that keeps on beeping every few minutes. I think some motorola phones do this if you've missed a call. Grrr. Oh, whenever I turn my phone off, it resets itself entirely. Which is annoying, because I used to derive great pleasure from turning my old phone off quite frequently. |
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« Reply #2133 on: 17:14:34, 17-06-2007 » |
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The fact that one feels dopey today doesn't mean that it is going to be like that tomorrow.
One can feel dopey because of many reasons, some of which are psychological.
What is strange with me is that my anticipation of unpleasant event can ruine the present moment. The same can be said about remembering the unpleasant episod in the past.
On the other hand thinking about pleasant event or anticipation of something pleasant brings good feelings.
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hey Mort, I think I have a similar thing to your bites a few weeks ago. Both my ankles are badly swollen and walking is painful.
Also my mobile has suddenly decided that I don't subscribe to a minutes/messages plan, so I have phoned customer services....45 minutes ago....(still waiting) 'We are currently receiving a large number of calls.......' It isn't the waiting so mUch as this AWFUL music they put on for our'enjoyment'
Oh and also on the train this morning the whole carriage had to listen to this person singing a hymn --then preaching to us all.... all the way to London Bridge... so a bit of a day!!!!!
grump grump.... still waiting on the phone.... I am losing the will to live!!!
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A Is this the moment to dive into the abyss of cold-calling grumps? Maybe not... My grump of the day concerns 60 student essays, only about 6 of which show any engagement with, understanding or appreciation of, enthusiasm for, or recognition of, er, music. |
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hey Mort, I think I have a similar thing to your bites a few weeks ago. Both my ankles are badly swollen and walking is painful.
I've got two horrible bites on my left arm. On Friday, between torrential showers, I ran out to the garden to rescue some of my garden stream feature which was in danger of washing into the pond. I wore gloves but while rescuing pebbles and plants I noticed two specks of blood on my forearm and it also got a bit muddy. So as well as being bitten I was likely infected by the bacteria in the dirty pond water  By Sunday I had a red forearm like Popeye! A doctor in our street wrote me a prescription for antibiotics and I got the pills from the supermarket pharmacy. The pills started to work very quickly, though Monday was a leaking puss day (not impressive in an important customer's office  Today looks like Dracula has left his mark and ... just bloody itchy!!!!! . |
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I think you need somebody here who still can not sleep properly. I think this is the mildest complaint here. TP is leaving in several hours for Italy and I am not going. That is making the post complete.
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« Reply #2139 on: 03:46:38, 20-06-2007 » |
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If anybody has trouble getting bitten please contact me. The teeth aren't as good as they used to be but I will always do my best.
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Ho!
To stop insects biting you apply Avon's Skin So Soft dry oil spray. This was a tip from a Spanish friend and it really works. Here or overseas I have had one bite in the last five or six years.
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A tip also seconded by the cast and crew of Monarch of the Glen while on location in the West Highlands, stamping ground of the ferocious midge. (I once travelled back from Inverness with a lad who looked as if he was on the way to auditioning for the role of the Elephant Man, but on talking to him discovered that he was just an Austrian tourist who'd been in the Hebrides for a week and had been attacked by a swarm of them: he was desperate to show me his passport to prove that he didn't really look like that...)
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I need to blow some steam today Just spent 90 minutes with son-in-law wrestling with my rescued piano in an attempt to get it out of the kitchen. - Getting it into the kitchen took four men two years ago.
- We tried putting it on its side. Too wide for the doorway out of the hall.
- We tried taking the legs off. It was at that point that S.I.L. began trying my patience. We have scratches along the hall floor, the piano has been mauled in several places with screwdrivers and mallets, part of the top was actually broken off and I am, in short, NOT A HAPPY BUNNY!
S.I.L. is trying to help get the house tidied up and cleaned up, so I don't want to discourage him too much, but am feeling a bit  right now. Particularly since I have substantial experience of moving furniture around, and know from experience that time spent drawing scale plans and shuffling cardboard silhouettes around can save a great deal of sweat, and any amount of damage to a much-loved instrument! |
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Kitty,
It takes so much energy to make the house nicer, more comfortable and pleasant to be in.
However, it will be worth the effert at the end.
I am not good at that, but I am learning.
You are doing so many improvement to the house and now you got son in a law to help.
When people do things together they become closer.
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Poor you, Kitty. Hope you can repair the damage to piano and house. But please do enlighten me - why oh why would you have a piano in the kitchen in the first place? Baffled of Cheshire |
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