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[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Is this you then?

[Michael]

YES.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Nice teeth.

[G J (Gaff to my friends)]

Morning all. Milder in the valley today, with signs that spring is finally coming! In other news, my photos have been a approved for the TV and Film extras agency I've signed up with (for a bit of work over the school holidays, hopefully), so I might be appearing on your screen sometime in the future!! :-)

And no ... I'm not paying for any broken TV sets as a result!

[Patti (baconater)]

Good luck Mikey and Gaffster!

Dave's just left for b'wade. I've got a couple days to binge read.

Shame I've got a bitch of a headache. Hopefully the paracetamol will kick in soon.

[Benjamin]

Morning all. Mild here for once, though the wind keeps blowing the neighbouring bins over.
Hope you feel better soon, Desley and Patti.

[Lynne (Tigger's Mum)]

Very sharp Michael, loved the cat in Red Dwarf. Good luck to you and Gaff. Glad your toe not so painful Desley.
Our boiler is in, no problems. Warmer than the old one on the same settings for the radiators and it’s on a medium heat. Banged my head last night sweeping up the plaster dust outside. Literally saw stars as I fell backwards into the flower bed. Concrete is hard!
Mammogram tomorrow, I do live in the fast lane these days.

[Alicia]

A truck is removing snow from the street! Wondered if I'd be able to get out today.

Have an appointment with a new doctor - am firing the old one for cause (but of course you don't tell them that). Was afraid I wouldn't be able to get there, and it's only ten minutes away. Now, if they don't dump all the snow in OUR driveway...

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Well, that was a waste of 2 hours – this doctor was confused and actually did ask me what I thought was wrong!! He didn’t agree that fractures don’t always show on x-rays, and that there was no sign of an infection, so decided to refer me to a podiatrist. Unfortunately you have to fill in a form, post it to them, and ring 5 working days later for an appointment, which I’ve done today but takes me to the day before the bank holiday weekend!! Also annoyingly, it’s a self referral so I could have done that without seeing the GP.

Good luck Michael and Gaff. Hope your head is OK Lynne. Fingers crossed you can get out Alicia

[Kath]

I ended up at a podiatrist when I had the tendinopathy. He gave me some exercises and instructions to give the foot a 20 minutes session every day with an ice pack. That packet of sweet corn was never the same - the chicken ate it!

It worked - but it wasn't a quick job. I'd had all the x-ray business too.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Thanks Kath, have got an ice pack in the fridge I think, might give that a go while waiting.

[Michael]

I got the job!

Canadian Easter Bunnies are on me.

BOOM

I'm astonished at how quickly they got back to me about it.

[Tim]

Gratz, Michael :-D

[Patti (baconater)]

Yay, Mikey!!!

Of course you got the job! You rock!

[Patti (baconater)]

So, umm.

Will MJ is offline cuz his internet is all messed up.

Who's up for a party in his author thread?

[Will]

Michael Cargill wrote: "I got the job!

Canadian Easter Bunnies are on me.

BOOM

I'm astonished at how quickly they got back to me about it."

Brilliant! Well done you!

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Michael Cargill wrote: "I got the job!

Canadian Easter Bunnies are on me.

BOOM

I'm astonished at how quickly they got back to me about it."

Congratulations

[Michael]

Thanks all!

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

I love good news :) nice one Michael

[Kath]

Well done, Michael!

[Jim]

Michael Cargill wrote: "I got the job!

Canadian Easter Bunnies are on me.

BOOM

I'm astonished at how quickly they got back to me about it."

congratulations good sir

[Lynne (Tigger's Mum)]

Good news then Michael.
I’ve only mentioned our heating on here and Amazon put radiator bleeding valves on my FB might like. Do they have a bot of some kind to listen in?
Will be interested to see what they recommend tomorrow.

[Elizabeth]

Congratulations, Michael!

Lindt do a chocolate Easter bunny. I find it more humane just to bite the head off quickly, rather than allow it to do a sort of Cheshire Cat.

[Alicia]

Michael, that's wonderful! Best wishes.

[Patti (baconater)]

Good morning.

Typical grey Welsh morning here.

I may have to make some bacon to lift my mood.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Morning all, woke up at 4 with a twinging eye and sore foot, nasal spray sorted my eye but foot didn't respond to painkilllers and annoyed Lucy by cuddling her too much. Hopefully an easy day at work

[G J (Gaff to my friends)]

Morning all. The weekend can't come soon enough. I'm currently sitting in registration in one of the music rooms of a school I teach at regularly with a YR 7 group. Thank gods it isn't Monday morning because there are 25 kids in the class and 12 keyboards which aren't overly loud by themselves, but put them together and KABOOM!!!

It might end up like a scene from 'Scanners' soon!

[David]

Congratulations, Michael

[Patti (baconater)]

G J (Gaff to my friends) wrote: "Morning all. The weekend can't come soon enough. I'm currently sitting in registration in one of the music rooms of a school I teach at regularly with a YR 7 group. Thank gods it isn't Monday morni..."

Reminds me of when I taught a lesson to a combined three class group with boom sticks.

That was fun.

[Will]

*Waves in relief*

BT (may their CEO be cursed until the ninth generation) still can't resurrect my internet for another week, so I've bought some mobile thingummy that waves invisible whatsits in the ether and finds both my laptop and the internet (wherever it is).

So I can see some stuff online again! Hurray!

[Lynne (Tigger's Mum)]

It’s sunny here. Been for my mammogram - thank goodness the operator wasn’t like the last one. I promised myself I’d walk if it was the same woman. She was awful, never said a word when I said the pressure was extremely painful, just looked blankly at me. When she did the other one it was worse and I swear she smirked. This girl today was the opposite. I nearly didn’t go after the last one.

[Alicia]

Ditto, Lynne. There are certain profession that should screen for sadism.

[Pam]

Hope you get a proper diagnosis and treatment for that foot soon Desley.

Hope your head is fully recovered Lynne. Sympathies about the mammogram, know exactly what you're talking about.

[Lynne (Tigger's Mum)]

Yes to be really coarse the phrase ‘Tit in a mangle’ sums it up. The younger ones wouldn’t know what a mangle is. 😁

[Alicia]

My grandmother had a mangle. On her washing machine, in Mexico when I was growing up. It is designed to squeeze as much water out of the clothes as possible before they are hung outside to dry.

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

My great-granny had a mangle over her twin tub - and I'm a young one ;)

Afternoon all, blowing a hoolie here but lovely and sunny. Impatiently counting down the minutes till gin o'clock...

[Patti (baconater)]

I'm developing a relationship with the pizza I've ordered for later.

[Alicia]

You sound hungry.

[Patti (baconater)]

I am but I also love the pizza tracker app.

So nice to be in the 21st century for a few weeks.

[Jim]

pizza tracker app?

does it follow it by the strange damp footprints it leaves on the pavement?

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Jim wrote: "pizza tracker app?

does it follow it by the strange damp footprints it leaves on the pavement?"

Or the trails of strings of cheese?

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Morning. Coffee.

[Jim]

yes,
we had a ewe produce quads last night

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

I assume that means 4 lambs, and not a set of quad bikes!

[Will]

Good morning all. Can't beat Jim's story about ewes and quads.

Won't ever be able to beat a story about ewes and quads. Sounds like one of those phrases that spies use when they meet another spy.

Spy A: "We had a ewe produce quads last night."

Spy B: "My chicken has no nose."

Spy A: "Good to see you again 008"

[Kath]

Morning! Will they all live, Jim?
After a couple of heavy days arch-making, I heard the church bells, so the wedding occurred yesterday. Very pink, it was.

[Jim]

Kath wrote: "Morning! Will they all live, Jim?
After a couple of heavy days arch-making, I heard the church bells, so the wedding occurred yesterday. Very pink, it was."

hopefully
Which is all we can say about anybody
Mum seems to have taken to them now, but we'll leave her with two, and the other two will be put onto sheep who only have singles

[Patti (baconater)]

I'm hoping Jim is sitting in front of his computer bottle feeding the two lambs on his lap.

A much nicer image than imagining him draping placenta over lambs.

Good morning!

Did someone say coffee?

[✿Claire✿]

Morning. I've had a great week, been on leave so I've spent 3 days in work, two on a training course and then yesterday with a specialist team (if anyone's watched 999 rescue squad, it's our version of the team on that). They were happy to answer all of my questions and showed me a load of the kit they use and told me to come back another shift. I now definitely know what I want to aim for once I qualify! Housework day today though, and getting some essay done.

My grandad lost the top of his finger to a mangle, I've always had the impression they're nasty things!!

[Jim]

Back in the 1980s I delivered a mangle to an elderly lady who was a friend of the family. She'd heard there was one for sale at a farm sale so my father had bought it for her and I was tasked with dropping it off.
She wanted it Sunday morning but not too early, say about 7:30am
So that Sunday morning, with tractor and trailer (with mangle loaded) I roared down the street at full rev, dropped off the mangle and roared back again, also at full rev.
That got the net curtains quivering I tell you

If I'm awake, everybody's away! :-)