10 March - birthday information

In article <e437d0c4.0403112326.5b852d73.RemoveThis@posting.google.com>,
Harry <harry.RemoveThis@themerrymillers.co.uk> wrote:
 >That very picture is hanging on the wall in our bathroom. We picked it
 >up, properly framed and all, for a fiver, and it perfrorms the two
 >vital functions of keeping us amused whilst we soak, and covering up
 >some rather twee wall tiles put up by the previous owner of two
 >fully-and decorously-clad romanesque ladies in a romanesque bath.

Gosh, I didn't know one was still allowed to own things like that.

....the golden-red scaly one on the end peg, thanks...

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In article <h7q250dho6ccao96399ba8gg6rbonknljt RemoveThis @4ax.com>,
Matthew Francis <matthew RemoveThis @severnvu.demon.co.uk> wrote:

 >Snowed in again today... It may seem a minor thing, but when you're
 >only a few inches high...

At least you can still get to the Library.

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On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:46:57 +0000 (UTC), Roger Burton West
<roger DeleteThis @nospam.firedrake.org> wrote:

 >In article <h7q250dho6ccao96399ba8gg6rbonknljt DeleteThis @4ax.com>,
 >Matthew Francis <matthew DeleteThis @severnvu.demon.co.uk> wrote:
 >
  >>Snowed in again today... It may seem a minor thing, but when you're
  >>only a few inches high...
 >
 >At least you can still get to the Library.
 >

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On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:46:57 +0000 (UTC), Roger Burton West
<roger DeleteThis @nospam.firedrake.org> wrote:

 >In article <h7q250dho6ccao96399ba8gg6rbonknljt DeleteThis @4ax.com>,
 >Matthew Francis <matthew DeleteThis @severnvu.demon.co.uk> wrote:
 >
  >>Snowed in again today... It may seem a minor thing, but when you're
  >>only a few inches high...
 >
 >At least you can still get to the Library.
 >
 >Firedrake R
 >(Firedrake of the Village and former Good Egg)

Yes, and so can the Librarian; which is an improvement over real life.
I wimp out a lot when it snows here. Largely because I know how to
drive in snow and bad weather and many, many people in this area think
that it's fine to pass and do 60mph during a blizzard---so I let them
have the roads. I'm in a use or lose predicament with annual leave at
work so, I'll stay home and read and cook and not worry about getting
my fenders in a rumple. We're having crazy weather, 20-30F at night
but close to the 50's during the day. And the trees are already
starting to send out their little shoots----no wonder my eyes itch.

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In <e437d0c4.0403112326.5b852d73.TakeThisOut@posting.google.com> Harry wrote:

 >Harry, typing through the cat.

"We find television viewing so much easier since we purchased the new
G.E.C. transparent cat."

(Caption under a cartoon of a cat sitting as they do with its tail hanging
down over the screen -- but the cat is obviously transparent.)

Didn't realise that Mungo was insubstantial, though: didn't look that way...

Beetle

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In <h7q250dho6ccao96399ba8gg6rbonknljt.RemoveThis@4ax.com> Matthew Francis wrote:

 >On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:06:24 +0000 (UTC), Roger Burton West
 ><roger.RemoveThis@nospam.firedrake.org> wrote:
 >
  >>And on 10th March, as Old Father Time is finally traced to an address
  >>in Lowestoft by the Child Support Agency worker of Destiny... it's
  >>Omega, Village Handything's birthday. Happy birthday!
  >>
 >
 >Hoopy Birthday Handything!
 >
 >Snowed in again today... It may seem a minor thing, but when you're
 >only a few inches high...

I expect the 'wiggie relief expedition got to you at about the time the
last of the snow melted, leaving only the carrot that had been the nose of
the large snowman in the playground as evidence that it had ever been
there.

This is what happens.

If you want the snow to vanish overnight, spend an hour or more clearing it
from your front path so you won't slip on it in the morning nor find heaps
of distressed postmen and other delivery persons moaning on the doorstep.
Voila! Instant thaw!

Beetle

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in article 20040315102811.220443044862808 DeleteThis @firedrake.org,
anon2765 DeleteThis @firedrake.org at anon2765 DeleteThis @firedrake.org wrote on 15/03/2004 2:28
AM:


<snip>
 >
 > If you want the snow to vanish overnight, spend an hour or more clearing it
 > from your front path so you won't slip on it in the morning nor find heaps
 > of distressed postmen and other delivery persons moaning on the doorstep.
 > Voila! Instant thaw!

Dangerous advice! If you clear your path, it snows; everybody knows that.
It's the same rule as the one that makes it rain if you wash your car.

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In article <20040315102809.353303019729541.DeleteThis@firedrake.org>,
<anon2765.DeleteThis@firedrake.org> wrote:
 >In <e437d0c4.0403112326.5b852d73.DeleteThis@posting.google.com> Harry wrote:
  >>Harry, typing through the cat.
 >Didn't realise that Mungo was insubstantial, though: didn't look that way...

Perhaps he's acting as a keyboard protector, guarding it from
unauthorised access and coffee spills by sleeping on top of it...

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In article <20040315102811.220443044862808.TakeThisOut@firedrake.org>,
<anon2765.TakeThisOut@firedrake.org> wrote:

 >I expect the 'wiggie relief expedition got to you at about the time the
 >last of the snow melted, leaving only the carrot that had been the nose of
 >the large snowman in the playground as evidence that it had ever been
 >there.
 >
 >This is what happens.

Seen from down here, it was more like:

<burrow><burrow><burrow><glubble><swim><swim><swim><paddle><splosh>

 >If you want the snow to vanish overnight, spend an hour or more clearing it
 >from your front path so you won't slip on it in the morning nor find heaps
 >of distressed postmen and other delivery persons moaning on the doorstep.
 >Voila! Instant thaw!

If you want an instant thaw, just call your nearest firedrake...

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On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:06:24 +0000 (UTC), Roger Burton West
<roger.TakeThisOut@nospam.firedrake.org> wrote:

 >Omega, Village Handything's birthday. Happy birthday!
 >
And a (very) belated pencil from me.

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RSM Willie Earwig noted:
 > If you want an instant thaw, just call your nearest firedrake...
....and hope you don't end up with flame grilled snowdrops.
Au Res.,
Paul

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In article <c34u0i$bo0$1@hercules.btinternet.com>,
Paul B. <p.a.bines DeleteThis @spambtinternettrap.com> wrote:
 >RSM Willie Earwig noted:
  >> If you want an instant thaw, just call your nearest firedrake...
 >...and hope you don't end up with flame grilled snowdrops.

That hardly ever happens. Anyway, I've been busy stopping the bats from
freezing when they come in after a hard night's hunting. (Picture, if
you will, a 'drake-snout sticking out from under a large pile of
shivering bats...)

Firedrake R
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In <20040315191137.426988176143826.DeleteThis@firedrake.org> Firedrake R explained:

 >In article <c34u0i$bo0$1@hercules.btinternet.com>,
 >Paul B. <p.a.bines.DeleteThis@spambtinternettrap.com> wrote:
  >>RSM Willie Earwig noted:
   >>> If you want an instant thaw, just call your nearest firedrake...
  >>...and hope you don't end up with flame grilled snowdrops.
 >That hardly ever happens. Anyway, I've been busy stopping the bats from
 >freezing when they come in after a hard night's hunting. (Picture, if
 >you will, a 'drake-snout sticking out from under a large pile of
 >shivering bats...)

Coo. It has just occurred to me. You have the bats living in your cave,
and you have good night vision: maybe you can count the little perishers
and tell us how many of them there are?

Beetle

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