Wol's Riverbank tales: Part 3 Restoration

Tixy

If you get as far as rosewater there is no hope for you - time to order checked blankets and one of these


:rotfl::rotfl:

Wol2

Tixy wrote: »

Excellent news :jI hope he realises how many people online have been waiting for news of his bodily functions!;)

Great to meet you last weekend Wol.

:rotfl::rotfl:..I thought of posting a photo but didn;t want to put Horace off her jammy dodgers :rotfl::rotfl:

It was great to meet you too. :A.........I thoroughly enjoyed our natter...you have restored my faith in the fact there are some reasonable clients out there :T:T...I just need to find them :rotfl::rotfl:.

Tixy wrote: »

If you get as far as rosewater there is no hope for you - time to order checked blankets and one of these


:rotfl::rotfl:

Phew....thankfully I;ve not quite got that far yet then.

......errrmmmm........ by the way.........where does getting on the wrong train fit in to the scheme of things :rolleyes:

Glad you got home safely (finally :rotfl::rotfl:)

xxx

Wol2

taka wrote: »

It was nice to meet you too! :T I'm glad Beechie is improving.

taka wrote: »

:hello:

:think: And possibly waterproofs if Tixy dares to sit near me again. :rolleyes: Ooooopppps!

*Adds unspillable glasses to my Xmas list* :rotfl:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:........Hi Taka....

.waterproofs for Tixy duly added to the July shopping list ...

.....and I will get you a special glass for the occasion


:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Lovely to see you and hope you can make it darn sarf next year

xxxx

Lula-Hula

skint_spice wrote: »

ooo - Lula did the same book as me for Latin! ecce romani or summat like that? Flavia was indeed small but I can't remember Cornelia's distinguishing trait...

Anyhow - posted to say I like lavender too Wol and I'm worried it's an age thing:o. Haven't started buying sachets yet though:D.

Eeek scary :eek:, yes it was indeed ecce romani with a brown cover & I seem to remember that cornelia went off down the Via Appia in search of city life or similar

Cant be doing with lavender - makes me sneeze but the plug in laptop cosy looks fun :rotfl:



night night
xx

Wol2

Nargleblast wrote: »

Hello Wol, glad to hear you had a good weekend and that your guinea pig's guts are settling. Is your Dad taking it any easier?

Hi Nargle

Thanx for asking. The good news is that he is being forced to take it easy....mum won;t let him out of her sight.....I've told her to get the baby reins out of the loft:rotfl::rotfl:


Seriously though, it really does sound like there is a lot of friction going on between them atm...dad couldnt say one single sentence to me on the phone the other night without mum interrupting with a waspish comment or correcting him on everything he said in quite an agressive way. He sounded really fed up and tired

Although this is quite predictable behaviour for my mum when she is under stress...... and dad has put up with it for all the 50+ years they've been married....I'm particularly worried about it in this particular situation. Yes, mum is understandably frightened and worried....but Dad really just needs some light conversation to cheer him up and a break from all this carping going on that is being aimed at him....Unfortunately when she is like this, there is no reasoning with her and nobody can get near dad unless she is present.

I need to think of a cunning plan to get my dad out for the day on his own.......:think:

Wol2

GeorgeUK wrote: »

Hi Wol, glad things look to be improving with Beechie.
You probably saw me as i was doing a fair bit of wandering about - a couple of others i noticed wandering about i asked if they were part of the MSE froup. Don't know if they thought i was a religious nut of something with some of the looks i got.

I was gutted that i didn't get to meet anyone - even ended up with a MSE badge but i guess by that time you were all firmly rooted at your table. Seems that there were a few of us that couldn't find you - i may have if i had remembered to wear my glasses

Hope you had a good time though.

Hi George

I too am gutted we didn;t get to meet up - hopefully we will get the chance at the next meet.:beer:

Numpty now has a proper monkey hat (:eek::rotfl:).......that hopefully will stand out in a crowd even more than Z's hat

In any case, there is the Lula and KC floor show in July to look forward to darn sarf

xxx

taka

Wol2 wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:........Hi Taka....

.waterproofs for Tixy duly added to the July shopping list ...

.....and I will get you a special glass for the occasion


:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Lovely to see you and hope you can make it darn sarf next year

xxxx

:j Yaaaay! Can I have the purple one?

PS You might want to get one for Z too! :rolleyes:

Horace

Lula-Hula wrote: »

Eeek scary :eek:, yes it was indeed ecce romani with a brown cover & I seem to remember that cornelia went off down the Via Appia in search of city life or similar

Yep, that was the book we used at high school - I admit that I ditched home economics in favour of Latin and I had to ditch Music as the lessons clashed with the French ones and I wanted to do French too:rolleyes: I remember moving on from Puella & Cornelia onto Virgil and Pliny, I had to learn pages of Virgil's poems in both Latin and English and to this day I can't remember any of them. Although I did create my little signature semper in faeces profundum variat:D

Wol..to find new clients you need to get yourself onto 4Networking.biz, join the online forum and if you can manage it do a few breakfast meetings. Re the band, I admit that I havent done much with them lately although when I do the networking events I talk about them and get useful contacts for me and them - found a PR company yesterday who will write the press releases and submit them to 50 magazines and online:cool: I am active on twitter and talk regularly to Captain Sensible and Boy George (they react) in the hope of landing some gigs for them, I am also cultivating Sonisphere who organise rock festivals around the world. I have dared to approach a bloke called Andy Copping who books bands for the Download Festival but he is sooo rude, he slammed the phone down on me once and has taken to ignoring me when I send him messages asking questions..the ignorant !!!!!!!
Got up late this morning as I was exhausted..too many early mornings methinks, it was this morning that I eventually dropped off to sleep after reading my new business book GOYA (Get off your @rse).

You will laugh at me as I had a sticky problem at the breakfast meeting yesterday, I went along in my new coat (bought in the sale at countrywide) and the coat has a two way zip, I had opened the bottom zip but couldnt do it back up so had to climb out of my coat and ask the group leader (I wish she was my mum) to see if she could fix it because I just couldnt do it myself:o She is great fun and plays the piano and teaches music - she even made us have a sing song yesterday morning - we sang the chorus whilst she altered the song to sing funny lines instead of the original ones:cool:

There is no hope for me in the age stakes - I had a rosewater facial on Tuesday afternoon:eek: I dont use lavendar bags though as I would rather use those perfume sample cards that get shoved at me in the department stores - I dont care if my undies smell of aftershave or perfume:rotfl:

Nargleblast

Lavender water is reminiscent of old ladies and vicarage tea parties, but it is nice to sprinkle on clean bed linen.

I did one year of Latin at school - I remember reciting amo amas amat etc, and mensa mensa mensam etc. Apart from that we learnt useful little phrases like "the soldiers laid waste the island" - very handy should I get transported back to Ancient Rome and need to know where to catch the number 9 chariot to the Coliseum.

Wol - at least Dad is safer whilst "under the thumb". If that is how they have been with each other since before you were a filthy thought in your father's mind, then there is little you can do to change things. You are a product of that regime so hopefully can learn from their successes and mistakes. Que sera sera and all that. It is hard, of course, when you are standing on the outside watching people behave in ways you wouldn't. I bet they watched you at some points in your life and were itching to step in!

ZTD

Wol2 wrote: »

Shouldn;t that be the more topical "Expelliarmus"

No - that sends wands flying through the air..."Expidamous!" tidies up your nether regions...

"Exfoliatus" makes your skin all lovely and smooth...

Wol2 wrote: »

:naughty Now now Z, you only have a U certificate :rotfl::rotfl:
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But I'm sure Lula goes all the way to