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Milly - are you me?
Today the hound decided to get waist high in muck (and as he's a greyhound that's quite an achievement).
And the little one rode his bike really fast at a puddle. Sadly, the puddle was much deeper than he thought, so he was ceremoniously dumped over the handlebars. SPLATT! One wet lump to get hme quickly and bathe/dry.
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« Reply #4546 on: 19:58:11, 27-01-2008 » |
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Milly - are you me?
Today the hound decided to get waist high in muck (and as he's a greyhound that's quite an achievement).
And the little one rode his bike really fast at a puddle. Sadly, the puddle was much deeper than he thought, so he was ceremoniously dumped over the handlebars. SPLATT! One wet lump to get hme quickly and bathe/dry.
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« Reply #4547 on: 20:12:05, 27-01-2008 » |
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My rant is IVY. It's like a green crawling monster all over everything. A reasonable amount of ivy is rather pretty on a wall, but this year with all the rain it's gone mad. Not only here - son in London removed 30 binbags full from his garden today.  Mary, would you like me to post you some stick insects? They love ivy! One year we almost ran out of it as we had so many hungry adults I'd cut nearly all the ivy off the fence and it couldn't grow back quickly enough to replace its lost branches! We learned not to keep so many of the eggs and gradually reduced the adult population as they died of old age but recently we accidentally saved some eggs and now have dozens more babies...(we forgot to throw away a bag containing old leaves, poo and eggs, and found teeny babies crawling out so had to rescue them!) After reading this you'd probably prefer to post me some ivy!  |
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« Reply #4548 on: 22:04:29, 27-01-2008 » |
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Today the hound decided to get waist high in muck (and as he's a greyhound that's quite an achievement).
And the little one rode his bike really fast at a puddle. Sadly, the puddle was much deeper than he thought, so he was ceremoniously dumped over the handlebars. SPLATT! One wet lump to get hme quickly and bathe/dry.
Tommo Tommo, my greyhound is a boxer and unusually for the breed (and he's my 6th so I should know) I can't keep him out of the water. I daren't take him on the beach because he just dives in the sea and makes for the horizon. I take him where there is a huge natural pond and he just leaps straight in. My child didn't get soaked accidentally. I'd read him the riot act yesterday when we went because it was blowing a gale and freezing cold and he'd jumped in over the top of his wellies. We were on the way back but I'd had to take his boots off and pour the water out and of course his socks were saturated and we had to walk home in the cold. Today the little imp did exactly the same but on the way! He did it on purpose as soon as we arrived there. I had to choose between going straight back home and drying him off and starting all over again or going for the walk anyway and he'd just have to squelch around in the cold. In the event, there wouldn't have been time to go home because he had to be at football - so he literally paddled round the whole walk. I had poured the water out of his boots but his feet must have been freezing. I was absolutely furious and told him off all the way round and then home. So it wasn't very pleasant unfortunately. I don't mind him paddling but to go in over the top of his boots twice in two days just made me mad.  We had to walk back along the main road so about 100 car passengers saw a soaking wet dog, me with a face like thunder and him looking totally fed up.  |
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« Reply #4549 on: 23:24:10, 27-01-2008 » |
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Only over the top of his boots, Mills?... ....Deeper than he thought!
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« Reply #4551 on: 13:04:59, 28-01-2008 » |
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Dear oh lor, what a palavar! Having failed miserably to speak to anyone at the credit reference agency this morning (they offer many options but speaking to a Customer Service Advisor isn`t one of them) I then contacted my bank to stop my payment and then started all over again. Sigh. It is not a user friendly site and it lectured and hectored me all the way through completion of the form. Apparently my surname is not a valid one Neither is my postcode. Then it told me that I didn`t live where I do because the address didn`t exist. At that point the time-honoured ritual of shouting at the screen began ... When I finally succeeded in jumping through their hoops of fire they allowed me to view my credit profile. Which contained? My current address and my previous address. Nothing else. "No data present" smirked the site. I goggled and made ineffectual bleating noises. Very kindly, they allow you to ask questions. Unfortunately my question was not one of their options, so I had to tick the"Other" box and type in some , by now, pretty testy text. "Press submit" they said. I did, only to find that I had to open another bluddy account with a new password just to submit my question ! And because I had ticked the "Other" box and there wasn`t a "sub-category" for it then the reply will probably delayed. Jesus H! There was a great wailing, rending of clothes and gnashing of teeth to be heard all over North London I now await a reply ....... Aside from anything else the "No data present" message can`t be right because the final questions they asked me indicated that they had information showing that I had accquired two store cards in the last couple of years. That is data, is it not? Gah!! A pox on Equifax! Now, are the pubs open yet? <utterly teed off emoticon> |
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« Reply #4552 on: 13:41:38, 28-01-2008 » |
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Deep breaths Mort! Lotus position - OMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM 3-2-1 you're back in the room! |
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« Reply #4553 on: 15:30:21, 28-01-2008 » |
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Hmmm, I see that the Curse of Virgin strikes again. National webmail failure just after midday today and no maintenence planned for today. Guess that explains why the test e mail that I sent myself didn`t arrive, but would it also account for the fact that ALL of my e mails have disappeared? They were there earlier when I checked them, now there`s nowt apart from two mails sent to me shortly before twelve.
Right, that`s me off to nice Mr Google and the account that I set up the last time this happened.
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« Reply #4554 on: 15:42:44, 28-01-2008 » |
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In a galaxy - a long long time ago - there used to be place called "England" where was spoken and written a language quite recognisable to its inhabitants called "English". Now see what we have come to!... Yesterday I bought a new flexi-keyboard, and here is one page (only!) from the so-called "instructions":  Quite apart from the fact that all the said things CAN be done to it quite easily (for those perverse enough to do them!), I should in particular like to know what is supposed to be meant by: a) Do not place heavy objects on in a long time, b) It cannot pull out strength to twist or pull it and especially this monstrosity c) It cannot be pulled into the oven and putted on the fire to teast. DON'T PEOPLE CARE ANY MORE?! Baz |
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« Reply #4555 on: 15:55:16, 28-01-2008 » |
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Poor Mort!
You really do go through it, don't you?
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Baz,
That looks like standard Japlish, the tongue created especially to fox westerners who have brought an eastern product. Once the province of specialists highly trained in the art of obfuscation, it can now be achieved by any old idiot with a basic translation programme. More frightening is the thought that there will be many in this country who will be unable to read it anyway, and even if they could, they'd be unaware of any oddities....
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« Reply #4556 on: 16:36:17, 28-01-2008 » |
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Baz,
That looks like standard Japlish, the tongue created especially to fox westerners who have brought an eastern product. Once the province of specialists highly trained in the art of obfuscation, it can now be achieved by any old idiot with a basic translation programme. More frightening is the thought that there will be many in this country who will be unable to read it anyway, and even if they could, they'd be unaware of any oddities....
How sad! Still, it's good to learn today that MacDonalds and others will be coming to our aid by introducing their very own "A levels" to replace those currently underperforming so lamentably, and that through their good endeavours the future educational health of the nation will be as fully safeguarded as is its nutritional welfare. Baz <sadbutcheekyultrasarcasticandsnooty emoticon> |
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« Reply #4557 on: 17:02:28, 28-01-2008 » |
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Ah but Baz, it must take just as much intelligence and work to learn how to drain the grease off chips as it does to pass 'A' level Greek..?
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« Reply #4558 on: 17:10:09, 28-01-2008 » |
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Ah but Baz, it must take just as much intelligence and work to learn how to drain the grease off chips as it does to pass 'A' level Greek..?
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« Reply #4559 on: 18:10:05, 28-01-2008 » |
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Mort,
I have PMd you on this but I forgot to say that I looked at my Virgin via Webmail rather than OE and find there is a storage limit (as there is for Hotmail or any other Webmail) of 50MB. I know not how big 50MB is (Ron? Andy?) but if your email box was full I would have thought you would have had notification rather than automatic deletion?
Anyone else here use Virgin via Webmail rather than OE?
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