- hi; andrea, masquerading as "spam@rason.eurobell.co.uk" reported:
>
>just realised I'd missed loads of stuff here due to gmail being its
>usual self/thing/frustration
"[*]" [a]
>
>My half term holiday is almost over but has been quite varied and
>interesting. It started, well term finished with our nearly being
>knocked down twice, half an hour apart on the same spot of road.
- eek!
- you didn't _say_...
>The first time was so bad we (a friend from work, my daughter and I
>- they were both very shook up as both have been knocked down in the
>past) came back home for a cuppa. (I really do *dislike* people who
>don't know how to indicate round roundabouts, or who can't be bothered
>because obviously thy know where they're going and everyone else
>should be able to read their minds)
- *nods vigorously in agreement*
.sig seen on rasff/w:
using your indicators is not giving information to the enemy
>
>Anyway a very shakey start to the last day which ended in a drink at
>the local near work, interrupted by an urgent phone call, my daughter
>almost in hysterics as we had a big car accident outside the house
>(took 4 hours to sort it all)
- hoping any & all injuries were minor, and rapidly recover-
able from; but from your description of it, i fear not;
>
>Saturday involved recovering from/fighting off a migraine followed by
>a very much earlier than usual arrival of ppint. I was still eating
>my icecream and had to share!!
- no, you didn't have to; when you offered to, i enquired
the variety and, noting the loving manner in which you ad-
vised this (and also the protective way your arm encircled
the open pack), assured & reassured you that you need not;
'twas your own, noble good self as _insisted_ upon sharing.
>
>Sunday was Buxton, shopping, cafes, book fair and art show, very
>nice 
- and water!
- and getting lorst - twice!
>
>Monday was decorating, hoards descended on the same friend mentioned
>earlier and painted her new bedroom (30 years since it had last been
>done) it turned out that the nice hint of white paint she;d chosen was
>rather pink lol
- have you yet got around to posting ti lj, enquiring,
"is it still pink, <lj user=tooffairy>?" <b>*g*</b>
>
>Tuesday sent a ppint back into the wet
- thus showing to the world your true cruel nature;
>and left me a day to potter round the shops and relax (especially
>my painting arm)
- my painting wrist & whatever-the-word-is-for-the-curling-
of one's palm still needed^W were demanding repeated flexing
to loosen 'em, wednesday. and i'd expect wendy'n'tooffairy's
necks especially to be whinging at them, as they did most
of the ceiling rollering (i think). your mum was very silly,
rollering immediately above her head, getting paint-spatter-
ed hair, complaining about this - and then going back to
rollering directly above her head again... *g*
>
>Wednesday was housecleaning (yuk!)
>
>Thursday was more housecleaning (yuk!)
- but you are very good at it... <b>*g*</b>
- "quaack!" - "quaaack?" - "quaaaack!" - "quack-quack?"
- "quaaack-quaack, quack-quack." - "quaack-quack quack?"
- "quaack-quaack quaack-quaack, quaaack-quaack quaack-
quack." - "quaaack-quaack quaack-quack!?" - "quaack-
quaack quaack-quack, quaack-quack!" - quaaack!!"
- quaack!!"
- <fx:> pat, pat, pat, pat, pat-pat-pat-pat-pat, pid-pat
piddle-pat, pid-pat paddle-pat, pid-pat piddle-pat, pid-
pat paddle-pat, pid-pat piddle-pat, pid-pat paddle-pat,
pid-pat piddle-pat, pid-pat paddle-pat...
<fx rising in volume, accelerating, then rapidly decreasing
in volume until, echoey, as from great distance:>
- "soh-rree..."
>and mountains of marking (double yuk!!)
>
>Yesterday was in work and involved 8 hours of marking (double yuk!!)
- the less said about that, the better;
>and a 2 hour impromptue session with a student, who was very relieved.
- [this ppint. refrains]
>
>Today will be yet more, yes you guessed it, marking
- i thought we'd agreed not to talk about that?
>and hould have involved my laying a freecycled stair carpet, but I
>don't think there's enough, does anyone want one?
- have you checked whether there is/isn't enough?
>
>Tomorow as a final fanfare to funness we're (8 of us) off to Morecambe
>to see a ppint.
- hurrah! (but why *morecambe* ? i'd much rather've
arranged to ferry the lot of you out to heysham head
or up to warton to walk up the crag, or out to jenny
brown's point...
>
>Is there anything at Morecambe? Well other than a statue?
- and the stone jetty, and the winter gardens (restored,
mostly, but usually shut unless booked for a show) and
the sunday market behind, and a scattering of "morecambe
tat" shops, and the pubs 'n' fish'n'chip cafes - oh, and
a tesco's, whence i thought people'd want to obtain some
'specially cheap low-energy light-"bulbs" for themselves
and tooffairy - did you discover you've a tesco's near
enough you, to not need to buy these over here?
>
>Andrea *dreading the coming Monday but holding on to the fact that
>it's only 6 weeks or so till summer and possible changes*
>
- well, not only mongday, but the whole week's bin & gorn;
looks like we survived that one, folks (and i've got some
pictures taken from arnside knott, that i'll be putting up
on my lj scrap-book thingy tonight, touch wood. after i've
been out to watch the snuset again; just getting used to
ankles & knees being mostly recovered from two [?] and a
half years ago, and it's about time, too...)
- what was i saying, before i so rudely interrupted myself?
oh, yes:
- so there should now be only 5 weeks or so to go - no? [1]
[though it does seem remarkably like summer at the moment]
- love, ppint.
[drop the "v", and change the "f" to a "g", to reply or cc.]
[a] = please unpack reference for one of the uninitiated
([*] shorthand stolen from another froup + may be spread
like the peanut butter conspiracy)
--
[1] - "I like rhetorical questions;
I usually get them right"
- joann l. dominik on afp
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