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Collette wrote: "It was a joke, Sussex!"As was my reference to D's arms - so easy to misread intentions and responses in written communication. Mwah, mwah …… darlink!
It's seems so easy to put on weight when you're a bit older. In my 20's and 30's I never once thought about what I ate.
I'm outside working 5 days a week so that keeps fatty at bay, but I reckon I'll have to eat a fairly meagre diet if I stopped working physically.
My better half is freaking recently as she's now 9 1/2 stone, she was always 8 ish.
There's no doubt that in photos of 14 odd years ago we're both slimmer :0
I started putting weight on when I retired. I hadn’t realised how much energy I used at work, though we did once monitor how far we walked in a day and averaged 5 miles on a busy Saturday!
Brass Neck wrote: "Collette wrote: "It was a joke, Sussex!"As was my reference to D's arms - so easy to misread intentions and responses in written communication. Mwah, mwah …… darlink!"
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Lez wrote: "I started putting weight on when I retired. I hadn’t realised how much energy I used at work, though we did once monitor how far we walked in a day and averaged 5 miles on a busy Saturday!"Bloody hell, Firth Park Library must be a regular Tardis!
I tend to put on weight when I eat more than I need to, drink more alcohol and exercise less. I don't think the problem is unique to myself.
Brass Neck wrote: "Lez wrote: "I started putting weight on when I retired. I hadn’t realised how much energy I used at work, though we did once monitor how far we walked in a day and averaged 5 miles on a busy Saturd..."Because we were paid time and a half on Saturdays, we were only allowed a skeleton ( not skeletal) staff so there were only 3 of us serving 2 departments. It was hell on wheels.
I finished my jigsaw! See photo on my profile. Great fun and a real challenge. Lez and nc may be interested in that some diligent person has been on a search for all the titles:https://www.librarything.com/topic/31...
While doing the puzzle, I found myself giving ad hoc names to the different spines: "orange people", "furtive girl", "lumpy rocks", "black stockings", etc. I wanted to smack "A Wilful Girl", always tossing her hair, and I think I need to find a copy of "Bunty of Dormitory B" as she was the easiest piece to place.
Well done on your tour de force, Val. I remember some of those authors!When I started work in 1956, all new recruits were told to read ‘Girls in Green’ by Prudence Summerhayes. It bore no resemblance to actual library work. I was amazed, first that I remembered it correctly and second that I found it on here!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Why were the girls in green? A uniform? An overall? It doesn't seem to have lasted well - I can't find any copies anywhere.
I've just found the answer - an overall - at:https://books.google.com.au/books?id=...
Love the description: "Girls in Green is a numbing story ... The novel is sufficiently somniferous that the reader's search for stereotypes runs neck-and-neck with the efforts of the Sandman to bring a merciful end to the business."
And more:The chief assistant Miss Hide, who is old school and nearing retirement, is very stern. She tells Ellie that "the librarian who reads is lost". .... No one likes to work in the Childrens Department where unsupervised ragamuffins sometimes wreak havoc. ... Ellie finds books squirreled away in unusual places in Reference. Eventually she links them to a shy young man who likes poetry and writes his own excellent poetry but who does not understand how the library is organised. She helps him find books and also helps him get his work published.
Well, they got the Children’s Dept. right!
Quickie housework earlier, then tonight after I straighten my hair (exciting stuff eh!) I shall open a nice cold bottle of wine and watch a dvd with D...either Nightwatch (Ewan McGregor) or Fear (Allie Sheedy).
"Quickie housework earlier" - have you missed out a comma or an ampersand (&)?
Mr B! ... you'll be spending the rest of Lock-down on the Naughty Step! ;oO
Collette wrote: "Quickie housework earlier, then tonight after I straighten my hair (exciting stuff eh!) I shall open a nice cold bottle of wine and watch a dvd with D...either Nightwatch (Ewan McGregor) or Fear (A..."I'm not much of a girly kind-of a Girl and so there are rather a lot of things beauty-wise that I've never even thought about doing, like Hair Straightening, that have me rather bemused, Collette ;o>
Why do so many Girls like to straighten their Hair? - is it because it makes it so much easier to go on to style it in a particular way? And how long does it last after you have straightened it?
Brass Neck wrote: ""Quickie housework earlier" - have you missed out a comma or an ampersand (&)?"What a dirty mind you have! 🙄🙄🙄
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Collette wrote: "Quickie housework earlier, then tonight after I straighten my hair (exciting stuff eh!) I shall open a nice cold bottle of wine and watch a dvd with D...either Nightwatch (Ewan McG..."My (now very long) bob and fringe don't sit right if I don't straighten them, Suzy. I've had my GHD Scarlet straighteners for a right good couple of years now and they're so quick and easy to use without doing my hair any damage. I also crimp my hair from time to time as well (makes it look really thick) and I also own a Lee Stafford curling wand. It can be a right bugger for burning your fingers on though. Your hair can last all day (depending on what straighteners you use), as long as you don't get caught in a downpour brollyless, of course.
Ahhh, yes I can imagine just what a difference it could make to creating a much sleeker and smoother Fringe. Thanks for filling me in on that, Collette ;o>I've often wondered why Hair Straighteners always seem to be so popular with so many Girls these days ... but, saying that, my Mum has often told me of the time that she tried to help her Sister to iron her Hair straight, before a big night out with a new Boyfriend, using Tea Towels and a real Iron! ... and how she managed to singe all down one side so badly that she ended up having to give her Sister an emergency Pixie Cut instead! - LOL!!! ;o>
Collette wrote: "suzysunshine7 wrote: "Collette wrote: "Quickie housework earlier, then tonight after I straighten my hair (exciting stuff eh!) I shall open a nice cold bottle of wine and watch a dvd with D...eithe..."Thanks, C. This is just the info I need.
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Oooh?!! - I'd SO love to spend a night in all curled up on the Sofa with a few munchy treats and my very own someone special. I'm currently virtually spending 24 hours a day hiding out up in my Bedroom through trying my best to not be repeatedly included by two bickering Parents in a seemingly never-ending argument over what to watch on TV day in and day out! ;oOYou're a very lucky Girl, Collette - enjoy your lovely night in together ... x
Even better, Suzy...D doesn't like wine, so I have the whole bottle to myself. 😊 DVD of choice was Nightwatch. Ewan McGregor and Patricia Arquette looked so young in it. You may have seen it before, but if not, and you like a creepy thriller, it's a belter of a film.Timtim, don't be so lippy!! 😠!!
"D doesn't like wine, so I have the whole bottle to myself" - kinda why I switched from wine to beer except I'd have a glass of Mrs Neck's white as an aperitif, polish off my bottle of red and then finish what white she couldn't. Minimum 6 bottles or 4.5 litres at 12-14% alcohol a weekend, mostly guzzled by me - not good.
My cocktail of medication means I can no longer have alcohol but it’s really strange that I don’t miss it at all.
Brass Neck wrote: ""D doesn't like wine, so I have the whole bottle to myself" - kinda why I switched from wine to beer except I'd have a glass of Mrs Neck's white as an aperitif, polish off my bottle of red and then..."The one good thing about lockdown is that although I seem to be drinking a bit more often than beforehand, on a Saturday I'm only having one bottle of wine. Pre-lockdown, D'd be at the club, and I'd have beers and a bottle of wine in the afternoon, then another bottle of wine or a 2l bottle of cider at night. More than once D's got up for the loo at midnight, and there's Collette zonked on the sofa gob wide open. Not a pretty picture... and boy did D delight in showing me said picture (once he'd managed to stop laughing). 😳😊
Can you post the pic? And there was me thinking I bet the only time C's gob's shut is when she's asleep!
Collette wrote: "Brass Neck wrote: ""D doesn't like wine, so I have the whole bottle to myself" - kinda why I switched from wine to beer except I'd have a glass of Mrs Neck's white as an aperitif, polish off my bot..."No doubt a few smells and sound effects going on too.
Puts me in mind of an Orangutan after a hard sesh on the fermented fruit :0
Serial wrote: "Puts me in mind of an Orangutan after a hard sesh on the fermented fruit :0"F*** me, you must love the naughty step.
Was he referring to me, Mr B? I thought it was aimed at you for guzzling all that wine. Re the pic, I made D delete it. 😊Tim, you cheeky b@****d! I'll come over there and give you a bloody doing. 😡😡😡😡
Collette wrote: "Was he referring to me, Mr B? I thought it was aimed at you for guzzling all that wine. Re the pic, I made D delete it. 😊Tim, you cheeky b@****d! I'll come over there and give you a bloody doing...."
Sounds good
Brass Neck wrote: "Serial wrote: "Puts me in mind of an Orangutan after a hard sesh on the fermented fruit :0"F*** me, you must love the naughty step."
heh heh heh.....
"I'll come over there and give you a bloody doing" - you need to take more care with your wording C. Reminds me of the time a little minx was playing me up in class so I snapped. "If you do that again I'm going to bang you in detention". Not my finest moment as a pedagogue.
Another exciting day here. Cleaning the microwave after my porridge Vesuviused, cleaning the hob after the rice Vesuviused, cleaning the bath after the soap Vesuviused. Talking to my sister out the window. Talking to my neighbour out the window. Trying not to recoil in horror after seeing another neighbour t-shirt-less, large protrusive stomach & moobs to the fore. Not a good look Mr. J. A walk in the village woods a bit later & delivering some books & puzzles to my Mum. When will the excitement end?
Brass Neck wrote: ""I'll come over there and give you a bloody doing" - you need to take more care with your wording C. Reminds me of the time a little minx was playing me up in class so I snapped. "If you do that ag..."That's a belter, Mr B, ha ha. 😝 Up here a 'doing' is akin to a right good kicking, as I'm sure Tim well knows. When D and I were waiting in the queue at Terry's to get our first tattoo a good 19 years ago, I innocently asked D if I he wanted a chuggie as I produced a pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit from my jeans pocket. He nearly had a bloody fit to himself. 😳😇
Helen The Melon wrote: "Another exciting day here. Cleaning the microwave after my porridge Vesuviused, cleaning the hob after the rice Vesuviused, cleaning the bath after the soap Vesuviused. Talking to my sister out the..."Awww Helen! ... never mind, you get to go out and take a walk in the Woods later. You lucky Girl! - I can't begin to tell you just how jealous I am feeling right now! - LOL!!! ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Awww Helen! ... never mind, you get to go out and take a walk in the Woods later. You lucky Girl! - I can't begin to tell you just how jealous I am feeling right now! - LOL!!! ;o"I'll take you with me when I go 😀
Ohhh yes please! ... take plenty of breaths of lovely fresh air and give a few Trees a big hug from me too ... of all of the things that I miss so much these days I miss just taking my own sweet time whilst wandering through Woods and Forest areas most of all ... (*sigh*)
Ahhh well, it's been a very good day here for me today and so I'm very grateful for that ;o>I've just managed through Facebook to prebook a Doorstep Delivery from one of the very few (but nevertheless still one of the most highly reviewed and rated) local Restaurants that are still open for 3 Sirloin Steak & Frites with 3 side orders of Seasonal Vegetables for Mum's special Birthday Tea on Friday ... and I've also prebooked 3 Slow-cooked Brisket Roast Dinners with all of the Trimmings plus 3 Tiramisu for Dessert on Sunday to round off the Weekend nicely.
The Restaurant is only open between 5 and 9pm on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays so I didn't want the stress of waiting and worrying until Friday to then try to book us in for a Delivery Slot on the day itself in case they ended up in being far too busy to fit us in. I can't pay until Friday night but at least I have the order in and a Delivery Slot for anytime between 6.30 and 7.30pm now booked in ... WHEW!!! ... it's bloody hard work all of this Birthday Party lark whilst under Lock-down, isn't it?!!
All that I want for my Birthday in June is just a nice quiet day with absolutely no kind of fuss or any bother at all! - LOL!!! ;o>
"All that I want for my Birthday in June is just a nice quiet day with absolutely no kind of fuss or any bother at all! - LOL!!! ;o>"
Translates as "Lots of presents, attention and a HUGE Birthday cake, please" :)
Translates as "Lots of presents, attention and a HUGE Birthday cake, please" :)
If C thought her photo was bad.Take a look at these beautys
Bands who thought they looked cool..... looking back not so much :0
https://www.sadanduseless.com/awkward...
Grizzlygrump wrote: ""All that I want for my Birthday in June is just a nice quiet day with absolutely no kind of fuss or any bother at all! - LOL!!! ;o>"Translates as "Lots of presents, attention and a HUGE Birthday..."
No honestly - and ... (shock!-horror!) ... I rarely ever get to have a Cake on my Birthdays either unless I am the one who orders one in and I don't usually bother whenever it comes to myself - LOL!!!
It's always only just M&D&me here - whether on Lock-down or not - and so a nice quiet and peaceful day with no fuss or bother always suits me just fine ;o>
Serial wrote: "If C thought her photo was bad.Take a look at these beautys
Bands who thought they looked cool..... looking back not so much :0
https://www.sadanduseless.com/awkward......"
Don't recognise a few of them, apart from my Crue boys, a very young looking Kajagoogoo, and who's that with their trousers down? ... aah, East 17!
The mighty (and ludicrous) Manowar below la Kaj boys.Judas Priest two down from there.
Flock Of Seagulls with the daft hair.
Blokes any larger than drug ravaged skeletal look daft in that glam get-up.
Scorpions were one of the bare-chested mobs.
Tim wrote: "The mighty (and ludicrous) Manowar below la Kaj boys.Judas Priest two down from there.
Flock Of Seagulls with the daft hair.
Blokes any larger than drug ravaged skeletal look daft in that glam ..."
What a bunch! Yep nothing worse than a fatty in a catsuit
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