The Beach
What is the Beach?
It鈥檚 a place to go when the stresses of your real life need relieving. Sometimes it is fairly quiet and you might feel like you鈥檙e the only one around, but you can leave your 鈥榝ootprints鈥 for others to find later on. Othertimes it is the home for a real party, with constant gossip, leg-pulling, rumour, innuendo, chit-chat and weirdness.
If this were a forum (and it sort of is because we post responses to each other, not just to Eddie, hence our term for ourselves 'Froggers', a combination of forum and blogger) then the beach would be the off-topic area.
It's a tropical location, no matter the time of year it's always warm and pleasant there.
Sunrises and sunsets are spectacular, the evenings balmy. It has a number of different locations; the Nick Clarke waterfront bar; the smokers corner; Fido's Run for the dog-walkers; the Naughty Step and many others.
How do you find your way around? There is no direct answer to the question.
The beach is a moveable feast, literally. It will be renewed by our Lord and master Mr. Edward de Mair each Friday morning. This is because we have found in the past that when the number of posts exceeds about 600 the entire thing becomes unwieldy and unstable. A case of the beach turning to quicksand.
Froggers often leave bottles / glasses / trays of their favourite tipple on the bar for others to sample, not to mention big / small eats.
There is a herd of camels who frequent the sands, which froggers are very fond of. There are sun-loungers, so you can take it easy and catch some rays. Quite often the late-night attendees will have a barbie.
It's a fun place, with only one real rule; Be nice to each other; we are ALL chums here. New Froggers are ALWAYS welcome.
The real debate happens on the other threads. The beach is a place for banter, whimsy, relaxation and friendship, where jarring comments are not particularly welcome. There are certain very mild protocols, which you tend to pick up as you go along. So slip your shoes off, feel the sand between your toes, relax and enjoy yourself.
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Morning Froggers. Fresh orange and apple juice on the bar. Don't have anything else to offer I'm afraid.
Apologies to anyone who has contacted or tried to contact me on F**ebook. I've removed my listing as it seems too easy a way to waste time and I have enough ways to do that already. I also couldn't get a grip of what was public and what was private.
Ap - you mentioned tennis on the last beach. Is there anywhere that we could set up a court here?
Hate to break in to the relaxed atmosphere - oh what a LOVELY day - but I posted this on the main page earlier and wondered whether, over some drinks at the NC you might give it some thought..
"It was on August 17, 2006 that I accidentally started the PM Blog.
Since then, all our lives have been changed, for the worse.
We were wondering whether and how to mark the occasion. A few crappy ideas have been tossed around. As were some salads. But I tend to think the best ideas for the Blog come from you. And if not you then someone like you.
We thought - first anniversary...paper? First birthday...are we out of nappies yet?
You can do better than that. But hurry!"
Thanks for the orange juice, RJ, just what I needed. I'd better take a glass back to Appy, who's still in the hammock.
Is it really a year already? Time surely has flown. One idea would be to have an anniversary beach set up, in honour of the original Day One beach that served us so well. Ah, the memories :-)
Eddie - you, and your comments, are never regarded as an intrusion. And we often note the lack of your presence in this sandy paradise (or something like that).
Am sure all frogger brains will be in overdrive on the suitable celebration ideas.
Meanwhile, have stocked up the bar with normal morning beverages, plus some hot chocolate and a have a slight yearning for croissants so theres a rather attractive pile stacked there too. Enjoy xx
Mac (from previous beach)....I now have the opposite of an ear waorm; lyrics going round my head and I know I know them but the melody part of my brain can't get it together. Its like the sensation when you need to sneeze but can't!
Good morning all Sandlopers.
I've been surfing already, its going to be only warm sun rays I think today, lush tropical conditions, and if your out on your board an occasional fish swimming at the bottom of your feet.
Morning everyone- fabulous day! Lifts the spirit!
I've only brought some warm chocolate croissants- perhaps I could leave them here with RJD's drinkies- hope you don't mind RJD.
Mollyxx
Funnily enough, we were only talking about this Chez Jonnies last night.
Thanks for asking us, Eddie. Do you want us to post here or email you with thoughts? And is a visit to the White City for regulars completely out of the question?
Big Sis - like that idea too...oohh, isn't it exciting!
WW at 5
You can get a mobile 'phone from an over-oxgenated company which allows you to hum a tune in to the telephone; it then searches a database and, if successful, reports back to you the title of the song and offers a download.
Sounds just the thing for you.
witchiwoman-
Isn't that strange- I'm not too much of a criossant person, but I just felt like one or two or...
Anyway, then I posted and I've just read 'yours'-
isn't life just full of those little coincedences!
Eddie- we love you'breaking in' as you put it.
Croissant? Lots here.
Mollyxx
VH (10) - thats the problem, I have the words but not the tune!
witchiwoman - If you tell us the words I'll try and hum it to you!
(At the risk of a reprise refrain, cos I wrote this and then pulled a very important plug by accident. Unknowingly. On-screen anarchy. I thought the world had ended.)
Witchiwoman (5)
Sounds like you've invented rap.
Or written The Sneeze song. It's like the stutter in My Generation but with a a - a- a - a- - a -a -a - a - a- a- - TISSUE ooo-ooo-oo rythmn.
It should be possibe to give www.musictolyric.com a burst of the lyric and them to play you the tune.
But i think we need a glass of refreshing cheap volcanic spring water - Tonic Sulphur for a song.
Or a diversion
My one and only prayer
Is that some day you'll care
- by Conway Twitters (he said, straying into unknown territory, to him, on this blog).
Or something gentler for later on
Its not the pale moom that excites me
That so thrills and delights me
Oh no....
The way you wear your hat
The way you type off kye..
..Oh, no...
They can't..
But they can. 'They' can take anything away. Look what they've done to Witchiwoman's song.
PS I think I must be falling under your spell..All the 'Oh, no!''s above, ARE they from the SAME song?
mac
RJD - as posted by Mac (on previous beach)
Stop at the crossing
Look out for the lights
Cos if I love ya
Then I need ya
If I need ya
Then I want you around
Mac - ah, the old classics. A quick burst of Everytime We Say Goodbye?
witchiwoman - is it something like -
La dee dee da dee dee, la la la la tee dee
Ra dum da dee dum da, da dee dee la dee
La dee dee da dee dee, la la la la tee dee
Ra dum da dee dum da, da dee dee la dee
La la la, la la la, da dee dee d_dee.
. . . and so on. (sorry I didn't really get that high note at the end!
RJD - words fail me
Witchiwoman (5)
Oh, goodness, there's a tear in my eye.
'How sweet the change
From major to minor'
I'm truly sorry about this melody - less song in your mind.
It begins a bit like the intro music to the Munsters, goes up a bit, then slows on one note for 'Cos if I..' then goes into a long runn down the scale with quicksteps....
Blimey I wished I'd listened in music lessons (circa the last ice age) instead of being told the facts of life by my mate Griff whilst Mr. Harmon (I swear) tried to get us to sing Micheal Finnegan.
Those songs, even the scatty ones have a bitter sweet delight to them
'Oooh, ooh, ooh,
What a little moonlight can dooo'
There's one song, the (bitter) sweetest song I ever heard. Its 'The Old Familiar Faces', the Charles Lamb poem to such music. But I'm like you on the tune. not a nostalgic note remains in my mind, just the memory of the feeling.
But McCartney Lennon did their best.
In my life
I loved you more
ww @ 5 & 12
All I got from that lyric of mac's was an echo of an ancient jazz standard about 'take good care of yourself' one version of which includes the line 'stay aware of underwear when you climb a tree', so I am clearly useless... but someone here might not be. Someone must know mac's song, and be able to give enough of the tune in sol-fa or something for you to catch it, maybe? Does mac speak sol-fa?
mac also wrote
'A stray thought - as if I have any other sort - should we ask for Complaint out-takes, or at least basic stats on who complains most. (60 percent from Chris is my guess. Lets open a book, something really irritating people used to do on the beach).'
and that's made me really paranoid: complains where? *which Chris*? Waaaah? Meep!?
witchiwoman - I was never good at imitating Eartha Kit ("who she?" I almost hear you ask.
Anyway, are the lyrics. I'm sure the melody is traceable as well.
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Cheers mate! I was glad it was a new beach and hoping to have buried in the sand my cheap crack at people who read on the beach.
Button up your overcoat.
I didn't mean to get your (goatee) beard.
You're bad for me, my latinised friend.
I'm going to the Glass Booth to complain about Nato mass murder in Baghran and Hydrobhad (is that enough aitches?) in contrition.
Throw out a life line PLEASE to Witchiwoman. 'Button up your overcoat' is so similar to 'If I love you then I need you' (but DIFFERENT) you'll 'll have her remembering the wrong song in the right style. Its such a tempting song.
I hope one night that she's free.
Cos its...
RJD (17)
Beautifully executed.
RJD - ah ha, well thats helped greatly in that I don't think I know that song at all! Lyrics obviously reminding me of something else!! (and dear Eartha...what a fab kitty cat she was/is? I may have written her off too early)
Mac - my head is awash! I may just go back to default and reset myself with Van Morrison....
Cause everytime that IAIE touch you....do do dooooo do do do.....
Thank goodness for the net.
After John Peel's Saturday morning prog you can even find your own favorite biographical anecdotes there.
Just in case you forget them.
Now you don't have to tell 'em any more. You just give a www address. There's canned laughter for the witty ones and the clink of glasses and cutlery for the dinner party version.
In London, the pub chain 'All Bar One' plays a tape of convivial chat when there's only a few customers there.
Can we have a downloadable sound track for The Beach for when i get home? (I'm sitting on an inner city sharp sand temporary beach. The sea gulls love it.) So do I. No kids here. Its too real for them.
Oh, dear,
'Excuse me, could you tell me the way back to romantic times please?'
Well you
Hurry to a spot
That is just a dot
On the map
So
Proceed with caution,
But..
silver-fox - Your approbation is gratifying. With a bit of practice I could get that end note though.
mac @ 22, maybe witchiwoman doesn't know 'Button Up Your Overcoat', or maybe she knows it well enough not to get it confused with anything?
('The lengths some people will go to when they want to avoid typing in a complete lyric!' I hear you mutter)
28
Cheers my latinised amicus!
The RJD link tob the lyric made me realise I nevver knew the rest of the words ot 'Need you around'
Dare I offer a critical opinion on such an erudite beach ?(Yeah, it is only Down to Eartha we're talking about) The othe words don't seem to have the zip of the obsessive bit.
And now Witchiwoman we're in the same row boat 'cos I can't remember, never heard or never knew the tune to the two line break in the middle. Rowlocks!
Where are the Gods of music on this beach, their five line staves to comfort us when we're in a cleft schtook.
Goodness, so many voices. The sea has many voices.
Maybe those book readers have got a point. Positively altruistic. Even if they do say 'What? What? .. Where?' as they surface out of .. well, whoever... just in time to miss a dolphin.
Anyway we've been doing songs forb up and running lovers. What about ENJOYABLY MOVING songs for the broken hearted?
No regrets,
Don't want you back
We'd only cry again
Say good bye again.
When I was.. .well trying to prove that any idiot can do anything I used to write Van Morrison songs.
Lyric
I don't know why your love for me died
I don't know why you lied and lied
I don't know if you really tried.
I just don't know.
It was called.. .em....can't remember. And its not on line. Damn.
Its only one verse and a chorus long like all my songs 'cos when I write one I phone afriend, sing it and they say 'mac, that is the worst song I have ever heard'.
Which just proves this idiot can do nothing and has a blind spot where Van Morrison admoiration should be.
But I did like Here Comes the Night nad that one about the Philosophers Stone. In between I lost the plot. But then I think the best Beatles stuff is pre Seargent Pepper and that the Manic Street Preachers are excellent. So what do I know?
Yuo can always get
A simple thing
Like love
Any time
But its different with...
Hey blog master, faster postings please. I want the others' conversations to flow through me like a river in.. .well, a low risk flood area.
Mac -
'enjoyably moving for the broken hearted' a contradiction in terms perhaps. Ray LaMontagne's Burn frequently reduces me to tears but I'm not sure thats enjoyable!
Yeah, well, not when you're actually broken hearted, but looking back, if I ever escape that far, with amused puzzlement at one's own preposterous angst.
These, the ones I'm quotin' aren't Mahler or Shubert.
In one, there's the lines
I know,
Somewhere,
Somehow,
Some time
I'll find in another place
Another face To take your place
But in the meantime
I'll never get over you.
Such is the nature of bewitchment according to Tin Pot Alley.
There is a great pain in breaking a heart and no songs to comfort in the Alley I think.
Except p'haps
I threw it all away.
But that isn't where the pain of a heartbreaker comes from.
While Eddie's busy, tell me, do you think he's fit?
This is a beach potatos' beach. (I bet that's where you grow them, Ed. I.. Small with blight but tasty for all that.)
Where's the volley ball, the sand dune jogging, beach football? Not to mention the jog swimming.
Here its all Pimms, avacados and tit bits (I don't include Witchiwoman's croissants in this. They are too delicieux to be bannished).
They're threatening to sell off from the shore line to the dunes for a golf course (bet you campaign 'gainst every one of them, Ed) on the grounds he needs the exercise.
Weve got to get Eddie fit so we can register a public health defence when they ask the planners permission to take the dunes for the building boom.
Hey, blog historians.
Where among the 38 other Beach threads can I find the erudite among us on beach as metaphor?
And where can I find the best atacks on exercise of every sort?
(Particularly the pointless sort (for 'fitness') my bruvver takes. Back on the beach last month after a week of very proper self indulgence, he Power Walked past us, hot, red and dripping and gasped 'I shall be glad when I've had enough!')
There's beer in the ice box and a selection of pizza's for those who can't wait until dinner. The toppings should suit all tastes, from the middle of the road pepperoni brigade, to the militant tendency who prefer pineapple and / or anchovies.
Gosh Witchi you have a beautiful speaking voice. You're not bad either Fred (if you like that sort of thing)
Ooh, didn't I sound posh! I swear I'm not like that normally :-) first round of drinks are lined up on the bar for those that want it....
Fearless and Annassee both on tonight! Marvelous!
Was witchiwoman there too?
Mary
Comfort food on bar. Toad in hole with rare breed cumberland sausage and mashed potatoes. I'll get my trappist ales out later. Got to get a almost 4 year old to bed.
Ten oclock and all's well.
Lots of drinks, some thought, but few ideas....
oooh a shooting star!!! I make that 47,895 so far...!!
nik
One for each Comment?
When it falls, catch it
Put it in your pocket,
Save it for a rainy day.
A
Pocket full of starlight
could come in useful, apparently.
To match the starlight in your eyes,
I will chase a bright star nightly
And try to pluck it from the skies
silver-fox 124
Hey- you're back!
Mollyxx
Gosh what a quiet beach! Hasn't been like this since I dont know when....
in which case, (dont mind me, and apologies if this seems unexpected on the beach)...
I'm just going to mark out a HUGE WHITE OUTLINE OF A SHARK with this stick...
right, and now, shirt off, here we go, a monumental sand sculpture... this *will* take more than a couple of hours...any assistance appreachiated (sp)
nikki
Oh, goody, n-n, another sand sculpture.
Now let's all sing: dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum
(that's the 'Jaws' theme tune one)
n-n. just got my spade to give you a hand with the sculpture. looks more like a sphinx than a shark. I think a giant Bottle would make a good sculpture. Pizza dough rising. We have various salami's and some veggy stuff to go on top. fizz, etc on bar.
BBQ stuff defrosting. its drizzly in aug so best place for it is on the beach bbq.
Not sure if camels are subject to movement resrtrictions. Disinfectant at bar just in case.
N-N: We're all on an outing to the seaside ..... :)
thanks for all the help!!!
Doesn't it look good!!!
n-n
xx
Just been allowed access to 成人快手 's iplayer beta. Busy downloading a couple of progs. That will take all night I suspect. Will let you know how I get on. Only annoying thing is I have to use IE not Opera.
Now to the cellar, what wine should I open??
This is a public announcement:
To all beach bloggers and al ltheir pseudonyms:
Headline:
Foot and Mouth from nearby Porton 'vaccination' (?) programme.
(成人快手 Radio 4 News, 10.08pm, Saturday 4th Aug '07)
All concerned personel should gather at Friday's Glass Box where,
Captain, (Ed I. and all of you, the truly wise),
I (for one)
am at your service.
It seems to me you planet conscious ecologists should be on well,....., Planet Earth. Where else?
I ask of you simply chto delyats?
Does this add plausibilty to any particular accounts of how other particular hideous diseases may have started?
Bring that bottle over here,
This message is to Witchiwoman's mum (after some calculations of the sort 2007 - Witchiwoman's birth year = Ray LaMontagne's age (approx))
Shiraz is good. Mountain & grumpy women downloaded. Now to see what the quality is like.
Big Sister, sorry, I said elsewhere I'd reply in two parts but I don't think I'll now get the second part sorted tonight, if at all.
Please can I have a comforting hug, someone? I'm feeling slightly upset, and ashamed of having lost my temper...
Nice shark, n-n!
Honestly folks, if you want a good job done then do it yourself...
This beach has been here for nearly two nights and no-one's thought of bringing the BBQ over from the last beach.
At great personal cost, I have now brought it over, erected it, and got the charcoals burning. Oh, and in case you're worried, I'm assured none of the meat has been anywhere near Surrey.
There's plenty of salad too (none of it from Worcestershire, Gloucestershire or Oxfordshire), plus whatever you care to contribute to the feast.
Meanwhile, if someone's willing to set up the campfire again, it might be a good idea to start experimenting with baking cakes on it, so the recipe / cooking method can be perfected in time for the 17th.
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There's my version of a hug at Glass Box, Thurday.
Personally I think you deserve a love ashram of your own right here on the beach.
Morning All. Just started the first coffe brew. Croissants available. Youngest woke just before 7. So muggins been awake since then. First coffee of day just finished. I never get a full cup drunk during the week so I tend to binge drink coffee on a Sunday. Off tro do a short walk to Bronte Waterfalls later on. All welcome. I'll do a piccy or two and perhaps post somewhere.
Meanwhile I'm off for a quick pedalo to the dive platform. Need to practice for the set piece on the 17.
Poor Stewart - up so early - but what a fabulous day it is for us southerners :-)
Sorry RJD - I here you are gettiong a downpour over there.
jonnie - not too bad to be honest. About to walk the dog so no doubt the heavens will open shortly. But I think we are nearly 10 degrees lower than you temerature wise. :o(
For late risers I've left Italian hams, cheeses and breads on the bar.
And I've been to Lidls for camenbert, brie, stilton, various wursts, dark red Italian wine, shell chocolates and lemonade at 21p for a litre and a half.
'Come slum with me...
... ..... .... ....
We could use some exotic booze'
and even pain chocolat that the Germans have sent us.
Selkius Piscinus : unconditional ((( hug ))) from me, whenever you need one.
Sorry to have been away ... we broke the Internet on Friday morning, and only mended it today. :o(
Catching up with various interesting threads now, instead of outside drying a washing!
Fifi xx
We actually had a summer's day in East Lothian yesterday, so much so that I was able to wear a dress! Shock, horror. However, normal service resumed again today and it looks and feels like November outside. Thank goodness for this beach.
So how is everyone then? I don't think I'll ever be able to catch up with everything I've missed, because on top of the workload, I've been suffering with my first cold in about 5 years. Told the boss it was stress through unaccustomed overwork, which had suppressed my immune system. She didn't sound too impressed to be honest :o)
Have to take TD off for the first leg of her hols (delivering her to the pal and family with whom she is going away in the wee small hours of the morning). Not fair, you know how I hate packing, and having just recovered from my own holiday, I've just had to oversee the cutting down of a clothes/toiletries mountain considered suitable, by an 18yr old, for a 10 day holiday in the sun. Glad you weren't here to hear the screams...
Then next week I've got t'other one going off on his adventure to meet up with pals in the Netherlands, I daresay my rucksack packing experience will be required at that point. That'll be fun - not.
Catch up with y'all later x
Fifi @ 60, it needs to be unconditional, because the fault was mine. Thank you very much!
Good that you have managed to mend the Internet. D'you feel like having a go at darning a small hole in the space/time continuum, for an encore? 1472 seems to be leaking into 1857, and frightening the horses...
Right, I think it's time we organise another set of beach games :-) I've brought the volleyball net, as well as the stumps, bat & ball for beach cricket. For those who want them, there's a set of frisbees over by the red hammock, and the beach darts set is behind the bar. Take your pick, folks!
Selkius (62) : I cannot take any credit for the repair, as it woz my SO wot dunnit. He switched it off and on again, which almost mended it.
Then he tried to mend the bit that was still broken, and broke our server as well as the internet.
So then he reluctantly resorted to system restore, nicknamed from bitter experience chez Fifi 'System Destroy'.... and ....
All back to normal!
Have you tried switching off the time/space continuum, Selkius?
Fifi ;o)
Thought I would repeat here what I've suggested on the 'It was on August 17th' thread:
I think a networky hookup via the 成人快手's regional and international studios would be perfect: everyone then has a fair chance to participate, regardless of distance from London.
A package taped during The Day itself, and edited as a news story - just like any other, including the Sony - and made available afterwards as an audio clip via the Blog. Interviews with a Blog Queen or Prince and a frogger, and a quick burst of The Song.
Would also make a smashing feature in Ariel. Showing the rest of the Beeb how to do a blog properly!
Perhaps one lucky frogger to be invited to spend the day at TVC, not getting in the way of the team putting the programme together of course.
And that frogger to represent all of us in a group photo with the PM and Frog team, which we can all print off and feel a part of.
I have another BIG idea involving the Song and a good cause.
Howzat???
Fifi ;o)
Just past 7pm and the last posting was at five to five (Crackerjack time!).
P
. . U
. . . . S
. . . . . . H
. . . . . . . . !!!!!!!!
That feels better.
Fifi ;o)
Hello all, sorry not to have been around earlier. Preparations for father-in-law's 100th on Tuesday, sunshine on the allotment and an attempt at painting the house while the sun is there to dry out the wet rot - though to be fair that's mostly SO at present though I've promised to paint once the preparation is done.
So, some fresh potato scones to help use up my freshly dug potatoes and lashings of organic butter.
I'll have a go at the beach cricket, Fearless, don't think I've got the energy for volley ball. Will you bowl or shall I?
I don't understand cricket and I haven't the energy for rounders.
Beach tiddlywinks, anyone? Beach cloudwatching? Beach winedrinking?
Fifi ;o)
Hi guys,
Just popping by to say hi on my way to the dunes. I need a long nap after a hectic day.
Three bottles of chilled Villa Maria on the Nick Clarke bar, along with a freshly cooked Spanish tortilla and some queen olives.
Fifi @ 64, the trouble with switching off the space/time continuum is that I'm not sure where the back-up is kept...
Beach tiddlywinks sounds about what I feel fit for at the moment. That and a largish bowl of dairy ice-cream with raspberry liqueur (the 15% alcohol by volume, not the 21% or the 40%) dribbled gently into it to make the best raspberry ripple in the world. Would you care for some of that, since I'm fetching mine from the freezer and the bar anyhow? Anyone else?
I'm happy to burn stuff on the BBQ. I know its getting dark but I'm happy to do it.
STill got some shiraz to finish off.
It were warm in Yorkshire today. Kids got wet in the stream by the bronte waterfalls. They also actually walked most of the stroll there and back.
I'm sure I turned over in my hammock here last night but can find no trace of said movement.
Spose it's too late for much more than a quick stroll along the shore and a cup of tea before bed then?
Night all.
I am SOOOOO BORED! Four more weeks...
morning all. I hope you're all sufficiently rested:) I'm going to start a game of beach cricket just after lunch, if anyone's interested? I've left some fresh pineapple on the bar for breakfast, along with some tea & coffee...
Morning all - homemade hazlenut and raisin biscuits on bar....
Am very VERY tempted to jack in my job. Had it up to my ears with the attitude of the boss (who happens to be my Dad) and really don't give a toss about what am doing. Serious thinking about what to do now.
On a happier note have seen a fab house, needs huge amount of work but it could be wonderful...speaking to Estate Agents today for second viewing and financial advisor types. Its all v confusing especially as the money for financing said move will be coming from the recent divorce palaver. Ah, well, week off soon!
Am going for a relaxing swim, then I think the rest of the day on the sun lounger. Is that fab italian masseuse (sp?) lurking anywhere?
Hey-a Witchi! Ciao Bella!
Howsa it going girl!
You in-a needa of a major rub-down? Come-a this way, I gotta my massage table already setup for the beautifulla lay-dees. The oil-burner is going stronga with the lavender, help-a you relax, no?
I been practising since I last here. Gotta something very special for-a you. New technique. Letta me pull the curtains around, give us some privacy, no?
Fabio.
WW (75)
.....nice one, just lurve your biscuits....
.....pot of redbush tea on the bar for anyone who wants a gentle wake up....
..had a hectic weekend, went to two BBQ's, one in Ludlow for my fathers 80+ birthday and another back in Norwich last night for my Mrs DIY's forth coming 50+ birthday this Wednesday....
.....so I am going to have a quiet lie down and grab some quality 'towel time' and maybe I will be 'froopy' again by this PM....
ttfn........douglasadamselicious......init?
Witchi, when you're done would you mind asking Fabio to call on me - my neck is really giving me trouble this morning, lots of stiff muscles and the like from gardening. Thanks.
Hmm....Fabio
Hey, Fearless, give me a chance to put my pads on - I'm already bruised from other activities at the weekend! Then I'll help you set up the wicket.
Hmmmmm....AnneP - all yours...........hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Ah........that really hits the spot.....
Fabio - you are truly a wonder! Have just regained the ability to form sentences. Where did you learn to do that - and how long do I have to wait between sessions?
....blimey that Fabio really hits it off with the laydees.......wonder wot his secret is?
...any way i am all 'frooped' up now so off to August for lunch.....
ttfn..............fabioelicious.......init?
Mmm, thanks for the Red Bush DIY (77), Just what I needed.
Can I book Fabio for this evening? If I get too relaxed now I'll never get anything done...
Did anyone else spot Radio Four giving us the silent treatment around 1pm today?
I'm not sure what we've done to deserve it, quite frankly.
* sniff *
French toast with cheese, onion, tomato, mushroom and bacon toppings for all those still on speaking terms....
Fifi ;o)
No problem, BigSis :-) I'll be setting up the wicket in about 30 mins time...
I've got my plimsoles on and a big glove that is much bigger than my hand - can I play too, Fred and Sis?
Hmmm - seems the mods think me delicious (a la DI Why!)
Hey folks!
The water鈥檚 gorgeous. Last one in鈥檚 a sissy!
Wayhey - watch Joe, am feeling splashy!
Okay, bigSis, here's the first ball being bowled you way!
O~ (with a bit of spin on it...)
Ap (85) -- Just remember that Fabio is an intermittent masseur!
Izzy T'Me (88) - That just looks stupid! Try the plimsoles on your FEET!
.....back from my luncheon date in August....
...wot we playing?........water cricket?
Fifi (86)...it wasn't just you.....i think it was most of the civilised world.......
FF....I will be in the out field if you need me.....have got water wings if so required...
ttfn.........googlyelicious.....init?
Oh, I'sa bloomin' nakkud. These-a laydees, they all wants the full-a treatment. There's only so much of me to go around, you knows! That-a Anne P. she wear me out. Very nice laydee though ;-)
I'sa gonna lay down in the shade forra coupla hour, get myself ready for the Appy this-a effening time. I know she gonna completely runna me down. I gonna need plenty energy forra that-a one!
Maybe I have a glass Pinot Grigio and a little-a snooze. Ah, here it is. A taste of old Italia inna bigga glass. Well-chilled and-a tasty.
Zzzzzzzzzzzz.....
Fabio - well chilled and tasty...describes you too a 't' :)
Fabio the masseur (93) - When you say that "I'sa bloomin' nakkud" - is that
"nakkud" as in knackered OR
"nakkud" as in naked.
The answer could make all the difference to your appointment with Appy.
Fabio (94)
....you need to 'up' the calorific intake my little Tuscany friend if you wanna keepa up wida laydees......left you a very large portion of Spag Bol on the bar for you.....we would hate for you to let Appy down....
ttfn.................oilyhandselicious..........init?
Fabio (94) - better get wired into a big plate of pasta, I reckon you'll need all the carbohydrates you can get to cope with Appy.
RJD -can you give me a hand to put up this temporary grandstand? There's a massive demand for tickets for this evenings main event. I think it was the bit about him being nakkud that did it.
RJD (96)
...re Fabio nakkud or nakkud...I presumed he wos 'nakkud' because he was 'nakkud' whilst the laydees got the 'full-a treatment'.....but I may be wrong....
ttfn...........appynext?elicious.......init?
*Thwack* Oh, I say! What a good shot, BigSis :-)
Righteo, it's nearly 7pm, so I think it's time to light tonight's BBQ. Place your orders now!
(Or at least, place them after you've returned here from the "Content Submission Error" page, which seems to have suddenly reared its ugly head)
mittfh, do you have any tuna (dolphin friendly, of course) ready for the grill?
Nice catch, DIY!
Goodness me Fabio, please don't worry -- I dunno what they're all on about: I intend merely to stretch out on the table and lie still whilst you give me the full treatment, same as for Witchi and Anne please.
I have cheered up immensely now that Monday is almost over.
I'll do an innings before my massage if that's OK Fearless? I'm not great at batting but at school my catching was legendary!
And then I'll warm up the hammock for later ;-)
Any chance the massage would work in my case?
I could walk down your back if you like.
Do it Nance, that always raises the dead in me.
Howzat!
RJD - I wondered why they were so uncomfortable and why everyone was laughing so much - thank you for pointing it out to me!
That last ball caught me right in the smacker, so I'm off to recuperate (sp?) with a nice relaxing something or other, now, what shall I have.......?
*looks over the contents of the NCMB. Decides on the remenants of the sloe gin that's been hiding in a corner*
Oh yum. Nighty, night all - I'll be in the sparkly hammock with a glass of stuff and nursing a sore smacker. Yawn......oooh ah, ouch.
Izz xx
Out!
Send in the night watch(wo)man.
Morning all -
Its never a good start to the day when you have to write a letter of apology...am going to pour myself a large cup of soothing chai and slump the hammock. Help yourselves to the rest of the pot; I love the non-stewing properties of tea on the beach!
Witchiwoman yousa too kind. I givva special discount for you next time around, no tell the others though or theysa all wanting a speshal deal.
RJD I'sa total wore out after the beeootiful Anne.
Meesta Wyman-sir I'sa from the Marche, notta Toscana. Toscana very beeootiful, but she fulla of tourist. Marche also bella, but quieter, you knows? Meesa thank you for the 'Fusilli alla Canaries', meesa thanking that with that-a sauce you is from de home of Deelya Smit, no?
Mista Peej I thanks for good advice about-a dealing with the Appy, but I'sa working in private with-a the laydees, not in front of a audience. How I expected to put in good-a peformance when I'sa watch by a crowd.
All of this-a interest about me being nakkud, yousa lot no speaka de Eengleesh too good, no? Why yousa no unnerstan that nakkud issa wore out?
I thinka weesa organdise the Eengleesh lesson with the beeootiful BeegaSis. She teacha me Eengleesh very good, no? Maybe she do the same-a for you lot.
Meesta Hazelwood I'sa real good, but even I no awaken the dead! Meesa a bigga fan, though.
In any case, issa all in vain. The Appy, she open the bowling and the batting. Still out there, 156 notta out. She tickle some and whacka the others forra six over the bowlers head. And she take-a five wikkits with her googlies, I told. Seema strange to me, laydees having googlies. Issa no natchrul.
The man he tell me sheesa bowling a maiden. I say to him of course she a maiden. Whatta he think, I'sa stoopid? I can see she notta fella. And I told she field at fine leg. I tell the man I know she have-a two fine legs, meesa tell you! So I'sa waitin' for someone to take her wikkit an' get her out, sumthin' like that. Then I have-a extra-speshal lotion I'sa gonna use to soothe her aching body.
Oh, I'sa gonna sit over here, yousa lot is rude!
For the fellas who needa the massage I introduce-a my Romanian laydee second cousin (once remove), Anya. She tough-a laydee, use to be a shot-putter. Issa O.K. though, she shave twice-a day and cuttin' down on the steroids now. Don't-a worry about the muscles and tattoos, she very nice really. Also the broken nose and the Neanderthal brow, no worries.
Fellas? Fellas? Where-a they all-a go to? Thees-a happen every time I try to getta decent work for Anya. She need-a new job, issa notta much money in bull-wrestling any more. She needa the money to pay for the fresh-a bandages where her knuckles rub onna the floor. Maybe she consider a job labouring onna buildin' site?
Right, me sittin' ova here, with a bigga espresso. I open shop later.
Hey - I got a strapline....thats cheered me up! How about celebratory treats from the bakers - muffins, saffron cakes and (in 'memory' of Jamboreeing Wonko) doughnuts.
Fabio - fabulous! I'm sharing an office with someone today and he's really puzzled about why I'm giggling.
..morning all......just nipped down here for a quick dip before taking on August!
....there is Columbian and doughnuts on Nics bar for those that need a boost.....
.......are we having another innings of cricket today?
ttfn.......englandalloutfor123elicious.....init?
witchiwoman - congrats on the strapline - but surely that's not the first time!
RJD - no, its not the first but it still makes me smile. Which says a lot given the last few days!
Meesta Wyman issa no finish first round of cricket yet. The Appy she still in batting and I waiting forra her to give her massage. The man tell me she be bowlin' Chinamen in second round. I'sa shure thatsa against the Race Relations Act. Sheesa supposed to use-a the 'Crimson Rambla' or somethin' like that, notta the Yellow Peril. Issa all Greek to me.
Anyway, she lookin' like she gonna make-a the maiden dubble century. I say issa very strange, she only looking about 30 or so, not old wrinkly hag.
Issa very confusing sport. When you are in, you go out. When you issa out, yousa coming back in! How the hell is that working then? Only you Eengleesh make up a sport like-a thees. Feelders waiting for a tickle. They issa supposed to be play sport, not tickling each other.
Whatta they use forra making the tickling anyway? Feathers fromma the famous seagulls at-a the Oval? What issa always being talk about by the famous commentator 'Blowass' on the Testa Match Speshal? Being tickle with seagull feather notta sound much fun to me. Sound more like-a sado-masochism. I'ma shure issa all part of Eengleesh Public Skool upbringing which teaches love of cricket and other strange personal habits.
Ah well. I try best to unnerstan theesa things, but issa not easy. Maybe I stick to massage, issa much easy. All you need issa right tools and righta lotions, soft hands and strong muscular body, with stami... stem... stomin... ability to keep it up for hours on end. You getta all that together and the ladies no keep away!
we can certainly continue with the cricket if folks want :-) I'll get the wicket set up at lunchtime...
DI Wyman, What sort of columbian. I trust its the caffeine type and not the other columbian export.
Are you absolutley sure thats sugar sprinkled on the doughnuts?
Fabio. I know cricket can be a bit baffling at first but when you get the hang of it, it is quite straightforward. To summarise:
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.
Each man that's in the side that's in goes out and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out.
When they are all out the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in out.
Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When both sides have been in and out including the not outs, that's the end of the game.
Does that help?
RJD after thatta explanashun I'sa gonna lie down in a dark room with a bottla Grappa and see if it al make senza then....
Fearless Fred - Nice catch - you don't think you might be a bit over-dressed though?
Fabio (117)
re "keeping it up for hours"..I'll have you know this kite has been in the air since 6 this morning.
witchi (116)
re strapline....nice one, but did you use Fabio's balm or your own.
FF (118)
I am up for it.....can i go in the out field at cow corner, followed by a stint over at deep backward square leg?
Stew (119)
DONT SNORT THE DOUGHNUTS
RJD (120)
re 'Does that help?'.......that will be a big nope then!
Fabio (121)
may I be so bold as to suggest you make contact with the "Humph", what he doesnt know about cricket wouldn't fill Beefy Bothams box
okay, those playing cricket, it's time to pad up!
You cana 'no waka da deda', Fabio?
Then you is on use to my man Ern and his useless appendage.
Ah Fabio - you take it easy today...don't be lulled by the soft (?) thwack of leather on willow, we need those fingers unbroken!
DiW - the balm is of my own devising; Fabio's has far different qualities
Fabio (111 et al) Hahahahahaha -- please can I have my massage now?
A, x.
Hey! Issa the Appy. Ciao Bella! How many you score in the end?
I'sa look forward to thees all day. Okay-dokay, I'sa ready now.
You step inna my treatment room, okay? Firsta we gonna use the steam room, to warm you up for massage. Then we start atta the top and we works down to the bottom. No, the toes, I means. Oh, you laydees, yousa all think about just one thing. Eesa one-track mine!!
Come on then, avanti. Lessa go. I been cleaning and polishing my equipment alla mornin' while I wait-a for you.
Ap - You be careful now. Anyone who spends all morning examining his equipment in a dark room and with a bottle of Grappa, should be treated with caution.
...bit quiet out here at deep backward square leg....but I think the tide has turned so i will be at silly mid on in about twenty minutes or so....
.....are we having a break for tea?
..and can someone stop Appy giggling so much, just what is she and Fabio doing behind that sight board?
DiW - tea urn is all a bubble, coffee and squash too. No sarnies but have done some flapjacks instead.
* ouch! *
Did someone mis-hit a cricket ball around here?
Or am I being picked on?
* returns to the wonderful world of wool...*
Fifi
witchi (131)
...you're star....i am gagging for it......your tea really hits the spot.
sorry Fifi that was me.....Fred was trying for a six but although I managed to get a hand to it, it slipped through my fingers......i found a bottle of rather nicely scented oil aka Fabio at short mid off so I helped my self......but it has left the digits a bit slippery!
It's all gone quiet behind the sight screen has Fabio finished giving Appy her "a extra-speshal lotion I'sa gonna use to soothe her aching body"
Wow - that's the second spectacular by Fearless. I'm impressed.
Glad you were impressed, RJD :)
(118)
For you, but wait till its over. (As Witchi gasped from inside the tea marquee to Bi Sis and all the Annies in the Q for Fabio's (linseed) oily fingers.)
Otherwise you'll be one or two balls short.
Or better still (!!!!!) (118):-
For you, but wait till its over. (As Witchi gasped from inside the tea marquee to Bi Sis and all the Annies in the Q for Fabio's (linseed) oily fingers.)
Otherwise you'll be one or two balls short.
It had to happen. On the Blog home page.
"Fearless Fred on Member of the Public"
Oo-er, missus!
Fifi ;o?
(doing my Jonnie impression...)
Oh Fearless (154) : How gallant of you to try to save me from flying balls!
I'm touched.
* flutter, flutter...*
Fifi
Over in August there's a chap called Andy who spent 40 minutes putting my spine back together this morning, and now I can sit at the computer without pain for the first time since Thursday.
Ey, Fabio, I am in favour of all masseurs this evening -- have a drink! Have several! Nothing is too good for one of the men with magic fingers!
*siiiiigggghhhh* (or should that be *Si*?), thank you Fabio :-)
So relaxed now :-)
Digestif anyone? I'll have something strong and sweet...
Oh damn! Was I that obvious?
;-}
Si.
Si (142) - I thought the mask was very cunning, I'd never have guessed!
Si - Although you did your best to hide your erudition, it was the wit that told me it was you. Make sure Fabio doesn鈥檛 disappear altogether!
Lots of catching up to do after yesterday's celebrations for my father-in-law's 100th birthday. SO arranged a surprise and I've sent a couple of photos to Eddie. If he doesn't want to use them, there will be some flickering elsewhere later.
Must dash, more partying to arrange for the weekend.
RJD;
Thanks awfully old chap, most kind. I suspect that Fabio might well reappear from time to time, when needed. Strange how the Beach always seems to provide things when people have a need of them......
WW;
It wasn't the mask that was the real disguise, it was the corset for my bison-belly, carefully disguised to look like a well-honed six-pack!
Si.
Hmmm...six pack...
The roofers are back next door again, flagrantly tanned and toned. I think I may have to go and cool off in the waterfall!
Jambo!
Sorry, force of habit. ;o)
Well, I'm back. A little tired, a little sore, but otherwise in good health. A splendid couple of weeks; met some amazing people from all around the World, did a lot of hard work and enjoyed a lot of laughter. Even bumped into one of the gang I went to Dubai with after the last Jamboree in Thailand, haven't seen him for four and a half years!
I'm sure I've missed loads on the Beach, but I won't even attempt to catch up. Hope everyone is well, and there's a traditional cream tea on the bar at Nick's (including special Jamboree Blend tea - Assam and Kenyan I'm told), courtesy of the English Tea House in the Plaza.
;o) []
Wonko - welcome back! Waved to you, via the radio, when there was a piece on about the Jamboree. Sounds liek a fab time. Heres a 'Welcome Back' doughnut :)
Witchi! - many thanks for the doughnut, it was delicious! It's good to be back.
The feedback I've received has been that there was a lot of coverage in the media, especially Radio4, and it was all positive. That's great to hear. Scouting can so often be the victim of lazy journalism, slipping into stereotypes and outdated, even misguided impressions of what the Movement does and what it stands for. It's been fantastic to hear and read stuff that's more in tune with what the event was really about.
The Closing Ceremony last night was very well done, all the performers, singers, dancers and announcers were Scouts and Guides. The only adults on stage (the Jamboree Chief, Head of the World Scout Beaureau and UK Chief Scout) came on right at the end to do the formal bit. Otherwise it was a great party the youngsters put on for us.
Looking forward to Sweden in 2011 already! ;o) []
Wonko,
welcome back, glad you had a good time and trust yer 'wood beads' are still intact!
DIY ex CSL 2nd Coltishall (RAF) Scout Group. Sir Douglas Baders Own (now defunct)
witchiwoman (147) - I love the idea that someone can be "flagrantly tanned and toned". I suppose I must be shamelessly pasty and flabby. :o(
DIY - My Wood Badge is indeed in fine fettle, despite hanging around my neck pretty much constantly for nearly two weeks!
;o) []
RJD - how about unapologetically rather than shamlessly? (and I doubt you are either as pasty or flabby as suggested!)
All this discussion of people being pasty reminds me of a favourite Billy Connolly quote about sunbathing on a veranda. It goes something like this:
"I have to spend the first week of a holiday sunbathing on the veranda, because I'm a Scottish person. So, my natural colour is pale blue, it takes me a week to get white. If I go on the beach before then I frighten small children."
I do worry about roofers, builders and the like out in the sun all day. Sure they get a great tan, but what about the increased risk of skin cancer and the like? Do builders use sun screen?
In celebration of nothing in particular I offer on the bar at Nick's some Dutch Poffertjes. Small risen pancakes (about the circumference of a jam-jar lid), sweeter than crepes or British pancakes, served with icing sugar and butter. A little treat I came across at the Jamboree.
;o) []
Wonko - I think Billy Connolly also said "There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter."
But I also like his rhyme:
鈥淩oses are red,
Violets are blue,
鈥淚'm a schizophrenic,
鈥渁nd so am I.鈥
WW (154) with our climate and frequent exposure to 'Ulster frys', being pasty and flabby is more or less obligatory round here. Pasty and proud ! Flabby and Flaunting it! Except on the beach where I develop a tan, grow 6 inches in height and have a 6 pack the roofers would die for.
Peej - You speak for yourself! I only play this "pasty and flabby" card to make me seem safe and innocuous. When I reveal the true me 鈥 six foot four inches of honed and finely sculpted flesh - the reaction is all the more marked. I鈥檓 just off now to bronze my biceps.
Flagrant is to do with fire (as in conflagration), so it is entirely consistent with tanning, possibly even bordering on tautology.
Been on the beach too long already. Better get back to the office.
Peej - I have no doubts that all Froggers are gorgeous!
Wonko (155) - I have been watching these roofers very closely and have not seen a smidge of sun screen being applied (though they are keeping themselves well hydrated).
I just had a tiny kitchen accident.
I was making a veggie quiche using ready roll pastry. I misread the instructions and put greaseproof paper under the pastry and poured dried chick peas into the middle to stop it rising as I part-baked it blind.
Ten minutes later and I have to spend the next 20 minutes picking hot chick peas out of the pastry...
Witchi - "I have been watching these roofers very closely"
I'm sure you have! ;o)
I think it's Pimms O'Clock (something I haven't been able to do for some time for obvious reasons).
;o) []
Wonko - I have been admiring the skill and speed at which they are working, nothing more.
Pimms o'clock it is but i find that a little sweet so have brought some G'n'T supplies for those wish to partake.
Does anyone else find that sometimes there is no 'Next' button at the top of a thread. I've been wondering why there was nothing after Summer Sounds even after a refresh and then noticed new topics listed on the right. Any idea why?
Jason - thats brought back a flood of memories of cooking with my Mom. I used to love the feeling of baking beans (is that the right term? its what they were called in our house!), especially warm.
Is it true Fabio has been banned from flying by First Choice, and for his Witchiwitch (et ALL) lift off in a public place?
That Fabio!
The man who made George Bush quotable!
Following him on the beach is like following Clinton into the oval orifice.
The first thing I'll do?
'I'll hose the place down!'
Right I'm off back to August. Mrs Wonko and I are being taken out to dinner by one of the Americans we were working with at the Jambo.
In light of RJD's comment about the seasons in Scotland, one last gem from the Big Yin:
"If you don't like the weather in Scotland, just hang around for five minutes."
See you tomorrow. ;o) []
That Fabio.
The only man who could make George Bush quotable!
When I follow him onto the beach its like going into the Oval Orifice after Clinton. What shall I do?
'I'll hose the place down'!
Is it true Fabio has been banned from flying by First Choice, and for his Witchiwitch (et ALL) lift off in a public place?
just got my first 'malicious' message. I'm so proud!! I'm no longer a malicious virgin...... (stands back and waits for the inevitable)
Anne P (164), the same thought occurred to me today.
Oooh, spooky
Oh, OK, then, Peej:
Gratuitously salacious remark about you being malicious.
'Zat all right?
Hello, all, it seems I have missed a lot of fun on the Beach while busy in August.
(Waves cheerily)
Oh! THAT was malicious, was it?
Sorry, Peej, looks like you're not the only one.
Peej (170)
Hy men?
DIY
Evening all!!
What a great place this is!!! Summer sounds all year round!
will just wander down the beach to the water's edge and listen to the waves....
nik
Hey, Big Sis, (47) and in another place:
Glad you like Good Vibrators in the hands of the Beach Boys and enjoy kinks all of the day and all of the night.
I always want to be by your side
To dig your excitations.
I don't think much of your taste in music though.
Evening All.
Si (142), I admit, it was an educated guess -- inspired by another. You may hide your name but you cannot hide your entertainmnet value :-) Nice six pack, btw...
Wonko, welcome back.
Witchi, careful now -- that sort of thing can only lead to yearning!
Anne (164), Frances (171) That has never happened to me -- I always start at the beach and click on 'next' through to the most recent thread, so I would notice if it did. Spooky.
Some of my mother's home-made carrot cake on the bar for all to share.
Anne (164), Frances (171), me (176), I take it back: The "Summer Sounds" thread has no "next" button. Can anyone remember Sparky Mark's email address?
Anyone want to talk about a nice place to go?
I am now extremely cross - with both myself (for forgetting what to do) and the mods - I have not submitted for at least 24 hours and I'm considered malicious. As we all know, because I forgot to use the back button, I lost what I had posted.
Pretty much, what I said was that I am starting a new job tomorrow and should be asleep, but can't - will not be very good in the morning, methinks.
More importantly, Wonko, saw your stuff when you were off jambo - ing all over the place, saw some peeps in Cambridge while we were there for the folk festival. Could we talk, off blog regarding scouting/guiding? If ok, I will change my website to a proper contact address.
Cheers all - spent some time talking about cricket and the like previously, but think it's time for bed now!
Izz xx
2 oclock and all's well.
'Dry those eyes and talk to me'
There's no need for your tears for I am the Town Cryer.
Looks like someone fixed the missing 'Next' button - thanks.
Selection of teas and coffees on the bar together with some homemade cookies for elevenses - walnut, ginger and chocolate (my favourites). Now I just need to work out what I need to do next in August.
Perhaps I'll just pause in this hammock (in the shade to keep the UV exposures down) for a moment while I think about it......z.z.z.z.z.
Am really upset! Just logged on, had a look through the glass box and there are 3 comments on there with my name that I didn't post! I feel betrayed and violated....do you think Marc can track down who it was and ask them to desist?
DiW, reply to you on WW2 vets thread. Apologies if my comments were misconstrued....can I offer a concilliatory (sp) cuppa?
Nightwatchman, are you any relation to the Barry Cryer?
Morning, Anne P, just what I need. Coffee and - oh, just one of those, then (munch)
Yum! Thank you!
Now these croissants are just warm enough. Help yourselves.
Another day in the Gazebo Branch of Fifi & Co. Already gently evicted a baby sparrow who found the In-door but struggled with the Out.
Daisy T Cat is prowling, apparently frustrated that SO and I are not only not in the same room (sigh) but not even both in the building! That cat should be a collie, she's such a rounder-upper.
Think I might do some business planning next. In the hammock.........
Fifzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.........
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Every seen camels trying to play cricket? The big tall one with the crooked hump has put the pads on his front legs and is holding the bat with his tail. I couldn't possibly describe how the other camel is bowling the ball at him!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Izzy T'Me (179) - Most times if you encounter the "malicious" comment and lose your entry by not hitting the back button, you can still recover your script by hitting the back button a few more times - at least it seems to work for me.
* rolls over *
Would somebody mind asking the camels to keep the noise down a bit?
Mental marketing plans require concentration, you know!
* nods off again *
Fifzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...................
Good morning!
Whew! Hot on the beach this week- moderators on holiday? Glad all those stiff limbs and bad backs better......hey ho!
Si- your talents are wasted-but then, what do I know. I must admit I felt there was a hint of something familiar -too clever!
Aperitif- carrot cake ooooooh! yes please....
is it easy for a novice to make?
Right- sounds of summer?hmmmmm...
Mollyxx
Morning All.
Izzy - by all means we can talk outside of the blog.
Not in a good mood today, mortgage misery. I've been having words; polite, considered words, but making it clear that I am not at all happy with my lender and what they have done.
Grrrrr.
A large pot of Camomile tea on the bar to help my blood pressure.
;o( []
Sure I posted on here....someone took my name in vain on weds Glass Box...three posts that were nothing to do with me (and no I don't have a witness but you can check my phone bill!). Am a bit upset and feel slightly violated :(
Witchi @ 190
I'm on the case and looking into it!
Marc
witchi (190) : I have a suggestion that will make you feel better.
Track down each false posting, and click on Complain.
Berate the mods for not spotting the wrong email address attached to your name.
Invite them to take more care in future, after all it's their job.
Then come back down here and share this huge bowl of spag bol I'm planning for lunch!
Fifi xxx
Don't feel violated. Feel WONDERFUL!!!!!!
Hey, beautiful beach people, cineastes all,
Help, please reqd.:-
How far in to 'Pick up on South Street' is 'Thelma Ritter's jaw dropping turn?' (The Guardian (a newspaper))
My Need to Know basis?
Virtually speaking I live in the middle of the 20th Centuary and King Vidor's 'Man without a Star' is on Channel 5 today at the same time.
(190)
Sorry Witchiwoman, but its such a beautiful name, such a beautiful name, that if only it were free.... and I'm sorry my borrowing it was in vain.
I promise it will remain inviolate from now on.
In contrition I've prepared fish and chips for lunch. Good comfort grub for that slightly violated feeling.
PS You didn't post this. That's for sure. Hope that helps.
Fifi - thanks ( ) and Marc too ( ) !
Thanks for the lunch offer, may need it after the gym although my stomach is really playing up after some dodgy toast last night (truly....last time I try one of Tesco's finest breads)
Francis O at (183).
The Barry Town Cryer? He is my brother.
But its a day job.
Only the night can hide this white faced clown's black triangular tear drop.
Now I sleep so the sun doesn't catch me crying.
Molly (188), I've never made it myself, But I shall ask her to scribble down the recipe and then post it here, because it is very good.
Wonko (189), Oh dear. I imagine (as I suggested to SSCAt elsewhere) a cross and somewhat pompous letter might help -- financial organsiations seem to respond to a little "How dare you?!" every now and then, in my experience.
190 - but how do I know you are the original imposter?! This could make my head hurt...
Aperitif - normally I would do exactly as you suggest, I'm a bit of a dab hand at such letters. However, at the moment I'm all crossed and pompoused out. So, I'm looking to take my business elsewhere.
Izzy - I haven't forgotten you, I can't access your site from work - it's blocked. I'll get in touch when I get home.
Sigh.
;o/ []
afternoon all..........witchi.....no problem.......
....it's a bit busy in August which is interfering with frogging! Still time for a quick dip and then it's back to multi tasking...anyone seen my Speedos. I left them hanging on that crooked palm by Nics Bar at the end of the last innings?
DIY
To witchiwoman at 195 and the real you at 199 and 191.
Sorry ww, it was me. I've been emailed by marc indicating you were rather more upset than I had gathered from your public post.
I therefore offer you an unreserved apology. (Please take 166 into consideration when determining snactions)
Hope you are getting over it all as best one can and that you are soon returned to your full magickal powers.
If anyone else is upset by anything I've said under one of my (sadly many) pseudonames, post a reference and I'll own up it was me and try to make amends.
Do check with the noderators to find that it was me at Glass Booth, Wednesday, each time. They have my pernission to confirm to you that (if permission is necessary).
Off to seal that leak in the sewage pipe further along the beach in contrition.
191 and 182, witchiwoman.
Double apologies, 182 only got posted up just now (hence I think the wording of 191).
Mercifully Marc the Mod. conveyed your unhappiness in 182 rather than 191 terms. (P'haps he was holding 182 up to check on me before replying at 192 (but quoting you only at 191 (calling it 190)))
Anyway let not your head hurt!
The name underline is to a source of beauty which for me takes the me out of migraine. Hope its to your taste.
Otherwise resort to the graine bit helps, preferably single malt.
The apology to you is completely unreserved. I apologise.
Not wishing to confuse matters (its been a bit like that today) if my early post doesn't make it: Mac, apology accepted :)
Now, peppermint tea....by the gallon I think
mac-
That's a nice house.
Live there, I s'pose....
Mollyxx
We the people liberated it from the Devonshires in 1929.
(The Duke tells his gardeners its still his)
The people of Chiswick have had to fend off attempts at repossession by his allies in the Royal Family.
He's nicked furnitiure and paintings that belong there and stashed them at Chatsworth.
The whole thing is open to one and all.
The grounds are a public park, offering exqisitive vistas and formal gardens as well as doing the work-a-day job of a suburban park for dog lovers, young families - and Beach ball players - it has a cricket pitch to die for!.
Goodness there's been some messing about here since this morning!!!!
Wonko, go for it. Hope it all gets sorted out. :-)
mac (206)
...so really it's a brown field site ready for developement then?
DIY
(208)
Don't say that - we lost a huge area when the A4(M) cut its way through Chiswick.
Four summer sounds:
A wave glides up the beach,
and then back
as the sand 'slurffing'
A bite on a peach
and the lips' smack
as the juice slurping
bees buzzing lazily
children laughing amazingly
n-n
The name link was 'copied' from .
It's a question of Fabio or his English sucksessions really.
11 o'clock and all's well!
So
Wait 'till the midnight hour
PS. nikki noodle,'shlurffing' is in a word the most beautiful sound I have ever heard.
Two more sounds of summer:
High up the sun's setting
painting the skies
while
crickets at dusk (cicardas?)!
or
the caw-ing of rooks...
"setting sounds"?!
My roundf obvoiusly, rioja - or something short?!!
n-n
xx
Must thank mittfh (aka Ben) for the work he is done on Eddie, Carolyn, and Carrie, and the logo's on the Camstreams site (link on my name)
He's looking for Radio 4 Logo votes - but you know that!
The name link was 'copied' from .
It's a question of Fabio or his English sucksessions really.