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Gingerlily - all cleaned up!
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May 30, 2015 11:44AM
I'll wander in now all those diseased dwarves have gone. The place is looking lovely, GL. Mind if I settle for a moment and do some writing?
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Make yourself at home Gaff. And Will, line up over there on the right.
Is there a bar? Or do we have to go to the dark and kysterious late night thread for that?
or even mysterious?
Oh yes, the Dark and Mysterious thread is about to be cleaned up and refurbished as well. But for now, you can use the private bar. Please follow me downstairs...
Line 'em up. I've had a hard day!
*Shouts down the stairs* Just finishing this chapter. Pull me a beer, if you please.
The Late Night thread is up and running again, but if you don't want to move....
Just sit on your kyster and get those down you!
It's very pretty. The sort of place you could get comfy in. Hmmm, I feel a circular reference coming on!
I think I'll just slouch here with a glass of something therapeutic, one of the better ales perhaps.
Well I have a selection of ales, but if theres one you particularly want, just ask.
I recommend Fraoch. Nice and refreshing. Failing that, some Tactical Nuclear Penguin. Wipeout.
Fraochhttp://vikingbrewhouse.com/viking/wp-...
Penguin
http://interestingspace.com/wp-conten...
Doombar
http://www.foodlovermagazine.com/wp-c...
Anything else?
God ale, good company. What more could a person ask for? Other than a good book to pass those not so uncomfortable silences with!
How about Brains? %he beer of choice for the discerning zombie
Jim wrote: "Got anything from these good peoplehttp://www.conistonbrewery.com/"
Hmmm, I managed to find these...
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TlcZAUDIH7E...
Will wrote: "How about Brains? %he beer of choice for the discerning zombie"I don't have any %he beer, sorry Will.
Looks like I'm not the only one having a hungover Sunday.
I'm not hungover! Ticked off it's raining and I'm going to Gardening Scotland today though.
We could do with some rain here. Very dusty.Had a few gins last night and used a lime and mint pop as a mixer rather than tonic. I think the sugar in the mixer has given me this massive headache.
Concert party was very fun, though. Watched it from a friend's balcony that overlooks the open air amphitheatre. Seventh floor. Talk about being in the nosebleed seats!
Was some Russian band. Don't ask me their name. Apparently they're quite famous. An Azeri friend told me the tickets were 200 manat. This in a country where tickets for posh ballets cost 2 manat.
So glad I cooked yesterday. Couldn't face standing in the kitchen today. Ergh.
Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "Jim wrote: "Got anything from these good peoplehttp://www.conistonbrewery.com/"
Hmmm, I managed to find these...
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TlcZAUDIH7E......"
The Bluebird Bitter is well worth drinking
Rosemary (The Nosemanny) wrote: "I'm not hungover! Ticked off it's raining and I'm going to Gardening Scotland today though."I'm not hungover either, and it's utterly persisting it down.
One day we'll see some sort of summer
It's raining here too. The McOthers are all up and I'm sitting here in beeps relaxing and catching up.
Dave made me poached eggs on toast!All I had to do was put the water on to boil, slice the bread, put it in the toaster, crack the eggs into the poaching thingies, butter the toast and put the eggs on a plate.
He's so lovely.
Hang on, has this just become the morning tbread?And I want to know why MT is sitting in beeps?
Presumably because whatever Mary IS sitting in has been beeped out...
Kickers?I typed knickers and the tablet.changed it.
Yeah sure, GL, blame it on the tech! :-D
Come and load my dishwasher.
Any competent IT person will ALWAYS blame their equipment! And I was a competent IT person a couple of years ago.
I was a programmer, not a typist!
Here is a little nugget from my brother. He seems to have inherited the family literary skills...Twenty-First Century Hell
Today, most people, including those with a religious faith, no longer believe in the traditional description of Hell, where all the dammed souls are burning in the eternal fire, with the Devil, complete with horns and tail, giving the occasional prod with his pitchfork. But perhaps there is
a hell after all.....
Imagine that you are driving, or at least trying to, but you are stuck in an enormous traffic jam.
You cannot tell for how long you have been stuck, but it seems to have been forever. You need to get to an important meeting, you have just about enough time to get there, if only you could get out of this jam, but you never can.
It is a hot summer's day, and your car does not have any air conditioning. Opening the window has absolutely no effect. All you can do is sweat. It is certainly too hot to walk, even if there was anywhere to go. When you are thirsty, you do have a bottle of water, but every drink seems warmer than the last one. You also have sandwiches, but they were made yesterday morning, and taste like it too!
You might try and rest, perhaps even a quick sleep until the traffic moves again. But as soon as you close your eyes, the cars in front do move again, and unless you also do immediately, a chorus of horns and expletives behind you will make sure you do.
You could try switching on the radio. But you can only pick up two stations, which are both playing the same rubbish songs over and over again, frequently punctuated by the most
annoying advertisements ever. Do you really need a new central heating system or a fractionally cheaper gas supply? So you switch off the radio and switch on the cassette player
(no CD in this car!). But you only have one tape, by Daniel O'Donnell, and it is badly worn and stretched. It never actually tangles or breaks, but it does sound worse every time you play it.
And forget about borrowing one off anyone else!
Finally, you have a mobile phone, that actually has both charge and credit. Perhaps you can talk to someone. But the signal here varies between impossibly weak and non-existent. Half the time you cannot get through, and the other half you are immediately cut off as soon as you do.
* The traffic jam will never clear - ever.
* The weather will never get any cooler.
* Your water and food will never run out, just get warmer and more stale.
* The radio will never get any better.
* Your tape will never actually break, just sound worse each time.
* You will never get through on the phone.
Surely this is Hell!
Will wrote: "Been done.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abZlW..."
And I really like that full version!
I don't know what beeps were... bed probably! ;-)
How disappointing. I thought it was something exciting, like sexy lingerie!
Nice find, Patti!
Actually, I'm totally fed up with the whole 'keep calm' thing.
How about we change it to 'Freak out!'
Freak out and beep works for me.
I dunno, it works quite well for me too.
Meep, meeep! Meeep, meeeeeeep!
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