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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2017 15:15:12 GMT
@emicardiff, has that dog been to the puppy salon? She looks particularly coiffed. Like a canine Barbara Bush.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2017 16:15:29 GMT
I am now the incredidbly proud owner of the tiniest pair of silver glittery peep toe sandals and a silk and lace wedding headress with individually sewn pearls. The shoes have Regent Shoe Stores 31 Wardour St, Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1 on each leather heel. Both the shoes and the headress are in almost perfect condition... My old dad has just found them in the back of a wardrobe he is clearing out. (He's done a lot of clearing out over the past couple of weeks as his water tank- situated right above his bedroom- burst, causing it to rain all over his bed.) It's a lot for him to cope with on his own, having lost his wife of 58 years to the dreaded C word last summer. He gave them to me, still in their original boxes, as he thought I'd want them- they were worn by my mum on their wedding day back in 1958. The pearls are still shiny and the glitter is still sparkling.
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Post by Tibidabo on Nov 20, 2017 16:30:06 GMT
I am now the incredidbly proud owner of the tiniest pair of silver glittery peep toe sandals and a silk and lace wedding headress with individually sewn pearls. They sound exquisite. Give us a twirl! (New avatar perhaps ?)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2017 18:31:35 GMT
@emicardiff, has that dog been to the puppy salon? She looks particularly coiffed. Like a canine Barbara Bush. She was indeed freshly coiffed! She's now slightly more ...bedraggled ....
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Post by viserys on Nov 20, 2017 19:02:49 GMT
Speaking of bedraggled... Germany now has its own Brexit mess. Yay politics.
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Post by michalnowicki on Nov 21, 2017 9:11:57 GMT
You know this feeling, when on your way form work you suddenly think "I'M GONNA BAKE A CAKE TONIGHT!!!!" and you buy all of the ingredients, make dinner, eat dinner, wash the dishes and then you start making cake. And then you wait for the sponge to cool, and start whipping the cream. You are excited. You have to stabilise the cream with gelatin, because the recipe says so. And so you do. You soak the gelatin in water for the first time in your life, then you heat it up, and then you add it to the whipped cream. And then the whole thing curdles and turns into a yellowish buttery mess... Lesson learned. At least the sponge is fine and I'll just have to make new cream tonight. The end result should look like this: malacukierenka.pl/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ciasto-lesny-mech5.jpg
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2017 10:26:53 GMT
Once, just once I'd like someone to send me a house-trained dog to look after. Obviously accidents happen, but almost every single dog in the last what 4 months as defiantly NOT been house trained to a degree most people would deem 'acceptable'.
Actually more to the point just TELL the damn dog sitters if it isn't house-trained.
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Post by The Matthew on Nov 21, 2017 11:27:03 GMT
"But my little darling would never do such a thing! It must have been another dog."
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Post by TallPaul on Nov 21, 2017 13:06:20 GMT
Telling her pupils to stand to one side to let me through, a teacher called me a gentleman.
Then I saw Dickie Bird. He wasn't even crying! This was just before 1, so he must have an appointment somewhere at 4 o'clock.
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Post by kathryn on Nov 21, 2017 13:47:43 GMT
Once, just once I'd like someone to send me a house-trained dog to look after. Obviously accidents happen, but almost every single dog in the last what 4 months as defiantly NOT been house trained to a degree most people would deem 'acceptable'. Actually more to the point just TELL the damn dog sitters if it isn't house-trained. I wonder if it could be separation anxiety? Apparently that can cause otherwise house-trained dogs to have accidents. It would explain why every owner in the last 4 months said their dog is house-trained, and they almost all had accidents.
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Post by Tibidabo on Nov 21, 2017 14:31:51 GMT
Telling her pupils to stand to one side to let me through, a teacher called me a gentleman. Eh? ? I definitely said ' mental man...'
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Post by TallPaul on Nov 21, 2017 14:34:57 GMT
Is it playtime already, Miss, or have you set the darlings a maths test, or summat?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2017 15:10:03 GMT
Once, just once I'd like someone to send me a house-trained dog to look after. Obviously accidents happen, but almost every single dog in the last what 4 months as defiantly NOT been house trained to a degree most people would deem 'acceptable'. Actually more to the point just TELL the damn dog sitters if it isn't house-trained. I wonder if it could be separation anxiety? Apparently that can cause otherwise house-trained dogs to have accidents. It would explain why every owner in the last 4 months said their dog is house-trained, and they almost all had accidents. *means it nicely* between us we're very experienced with dogs so we'd have thought of that...and there's ways to look out for it- we know all their "toilet calls" because that's part of the (extensive!) info people have to provide before they come. Also much of it continues well beyond the dogs being settled in (and there would be other signs of anxiety that we don't get) And actually it's been a lot of younger dogs just not trained properly...and well people lie! Mainly when they think we won't take them if they're not toilet trained (we would we'd just like to know in advance!) Sorry I just feel a bit protective as it's a "job" and it feels like being told we don't know what we're about!
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Post by kathryn on Nov 21, 2017 15:37:54 GMT
I will stop teaching my grandmother to suck eggs.
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Post by infofreako on Nov 21, 2017 17:18:10 GMT
Having such a difficult time of things right now. Theatre and just about everything else has taken a back seat
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Post by Tibidabo on Nov 21, 2017 17:21:42 GMT
So sorry to hear that infofreako . I hope, at least, your firework show went well - you were looking forward to that.
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Post by infofreako on Nov 21, 2017 17:23:12 GMT
So sorry to hear that infofreako. I hope your firework show went well - you were looking forward to that. It did, yes really well. So much has happened since. Most of it bad and really been struggling to know how to deal with things
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Post by kathryn on Nov 21, 2017 18:08:14 GMT
Oh so sorry to hear that, infofreako. Hope things improve for you.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2017 18:42:58 GMT
I will stop teaching my grandmother to suck eggs. I will stop replying to posts when I'm "Hangry" as well (I didn't get lunch until 3pm, and it was lucky nobody asked me a stupid question in those last 90 minutes)
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Post by showgirl on Nov 22, 2017 4:15:50 GMT
*means it nicely* between us we're very experienced with dogs so we'd have thought of that...and there's ways to look out for it- we know all their "toilet calls" Also lets out my theory about folk getting older and more forgetful and blaming the dog for things* .
*And yes, we are all keeping that one in reserve - guess it is why retired people get a dog...
Bother - time for plan B: we old folks in our household may try getting a monkey instead - I hear they get up to all sorts of tricks.
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Post by stefy69 on Nov 22, 2017 7:13:32 GMT
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Post by CG on the loose on Nov 22, 2017 10:15:33 GMT
Glad to see the cream worked out second time around michalnowicki! That looks amazing
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Post by michalnowicki on Nov 22, 2017 11:00:54 GMT
Thanks CG! It was really fun to make and I'm really happy with the end result.
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Post by lynette on Nov 22, 2017 12:27:09 GMT
Lovely cake. Just to say that all mods happy to accept culinary gifts....😂😂😂
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Post by lynette on Nov 22, 2017 14:12:19 GMT
Aren’t we all going to Cardiff for the holidays?
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Post by showgirl on Nov 22, 2017 21:35:03 GMT
I shouldn't laugh at this but I had a really crap time today with trains (early hospital appointment and every single one of my 5 trains was delayed) so I was glad of the light relief: after my appointment I went to the Parent-and-Baby performance at Theatre 503 in Battersea, which anyone may attend. They leave the lights on low and the door open and claim to adjust the sound levels and any special effects to some extent.
Last time I went the babies were very well-behaved but my experience today showed how much this depends on the nature of the play. Today's was a very dark one (actually called The Dark Room), with lots of shouting and arguing, and of course it set the babies off crying and most of them howled through the entire performance. It was a wonder they didn't drown out the dialogue and goodness knows what the cast thought, but I actually found it hilarious - though I did wonder if it didn't amount to some form of child abuse to subject babies to something they evidently found upsetting.
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Post by Marwood on Nov 23, 2017 9:36:00 GMT
To the O2 last night to see Depeche Mode - £6.50 for a pint of Budweiser (£6.80 for Stella Artois and £7 for an ahem, 'craft' beer), £30 each for a not particularly inspiring range of T-shirts and £15 for a programme (yes, you read that right, think next time you complain about what you pay for one in the NT or Old Vic): OK so the drinks prices are out of the bands control, but really, how they can then sing Everything Counts and keep a straight face, I don't know.
'The grabbing hands, grab all they can, everything counts in large amounts' indeed...
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Post by musicalfloozie on Nov 23, 2017 13:28:10 GMT
Audible recommended Cabin Pressure to me the other day and I had honestly never heard of it but had some credits to use up. It was fabulous I'm now debating whether to get all the others or calmly wait for my credits to renew. Today therefore started very late as got distracted listening to it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2017 13:36:15 GMT
Cabin Pressure is BRILLIANT, I strongly recommend everyone listen to it, and if you've run out, then you may wish to look into John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme and Double Acts.
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