Moan, moan, moan----get it off your chest or have a chat

[Maggi Young]

Oh, Arthur, what a pest..... thank goodness you were able to decamp to your sister's.

So much for paying a premium for 365 day service!

I had a cooker blow up one Christmas eve but an utterly charming and very good looking young French engineer came out to fix it, so that wasn't as bad as it might have been!

My head cold kept reasonably well behaved for most of the day but lost the plot after a walk in the cold this afternoon and I am on my second box of tissues today now so I'm going to give up and crawl off to bed ..... I'm not even feeling well enough for some sweeties..... so you can tell it's serious!
I was fit enough to scoff a superb lunch , cooked by Ian, which we enjoyed in the company of our pal Helen but now my nose has got the better of me and I must surrender to it! So, to those of you with shares in a paper tissue company, congratulations on this year end boom!!

 

[art600]

Maggi

Look after yourself - after all Christmas is only a rehearsal for the big event 

Arthur

[Roma]

The roe deer are at it again.  I bought 3 nice Erica carnea in 1 litre pots intending to pot them together in a bigger pot to give to my brother's girl friend for Christmas.  The frost came and the pots got frozen so I decided to keep them for myself and give her a basket of hyacinths instead.  On Tuesday I noticed they had been well trimmed.  I even saw a deer in the garden that day about 8.30 am in daylight.  Euonymus is also on the menu.
I have the Cyclamen hederifolium under the lounge window protected with wire netting this year.  Last winter the leaves were eaten before they hardly had time to feed the tubers.  The silver leaves went first.  Are they tastier or just easier to see in the dark?

[Paul T]

Roma,

Depending on the laws in your area re self-harvesting.... Venison is very tasty!!

Maggi,

Good luck with getting over the cold.  Not fun at the best of times, but even more miserable over holidays. 

[Anthony Darby]

Roe is particularly (or, as they say on the wireless, "particuly") tasty! So different from red deer meat.

[Lesley Cox]

I see the top dogs of Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac who started this whole damed financial fiasco have awarded themselves massive salaries/bonuses again. Why are they still even walking the earth? What else could be expected from a couple of companies with such names?

[Maggi Young]

Maggi

Look after yourself - after all Christmas is only a rehearsal for the big event  

Arthur

Thanks, Art     ...... I take it you refer to the Dunblane Early Bulb Day? The highlight of my year!!

[Anthony Darby]

I watched "Bridge to Terabithia" and was gob-smacked to see the teacher in the film on her mobile phone whilst driving! What a shocking example to set children. Our council employees have been told it is a sackable offence if caught (it incurs a £60 and three points on the driving license in the UK). Irresponsible and almost as stupid as those ipod zombies you see cycling along pavements.

[johnw]

I watched "Bridge to Terabithia" and was gob-smacked to see the teacher in the film on her mobile phone whilst driving! What a shocking example to set children. Our council employees have been told it is a sackable offence if caught (it incurs a £60 and three points on the driving license in the UK). Irresponsible and almost as stupid as those ipod zombies you see cycling along pavements.

Anthony - Barry Starling told us that when he was in NW Yunnan on a certain mountain he decided to leave the group behind and go higher. He was on a path and ahead he spotted a Buddhist monk.  He was bedecked in orange robes, head was bowed in prayer and hands folded in front as he walked along.  Barry decided to follow him at a very slow pace rather than disturb his state.  Barry was losing precious time but at this point the path narrowed with a precipitous drop to one side so he could not pass him. Finally he got fed up and decided to pass him anyway and head up higher. As he passed he found out he spied a Blackberry, the monk had been text-messaging like mad the whole time. Maybe not as dangerous as in a car but he could have walked over a cliff.  

johnw

[mark smyth]

Roma couldnt you install garden centre type invisble beam alarms to scare the deer?

[art600]

Maggi

Look after yourself - after all Christmas is only a rehearsal for the big event  

Arthur

Thanks, Art     ...... I take it you refer to the Dunblane Early Bulb Day? The highlight of my year!!

No No - the big H 

Power back on today - will send you pm with details both tragic and funny.

[Maggi Young]

No No - the big H

 Harvest Festival? Surely that's not for months??! 

 We don't bother with Hogmanay if that's your meaning....would require the BD to stay up too long past his bedtime!

[mark smyth]

I dont bother either. I stay in or go to visit friends with kids ebcause they cant go out anymore.

I was with these friends last weekend where the oldest child, aged 5, knows me as Big Mark because his father is also Mark but I'm taller. Scarily he kept calling me daddy

[Maggi Young]

Scarily he kept calling me daddy

By 'eck! I hope there's not often a clue!!?!!

[angie]

OK Christmas is over and I feel like a huge Christmas pudding, why couldn't I have been born thin, its not fair I get so much boxes of chocolate's as gifts and I cant refuse them as somebody has taken the time to gift wrap them and deliver them to me, so I cant waste them can I.
OK I know I don't have to eat them all in a few days   but I haven't got any will power
Angie