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  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    elantan wrote: »
    i reckon we should make kc's thread the party thread tonight

    Yep, get the booze and the dancers in...
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  • elantan
    elantan Posts: 21,022 Forumite
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    i'll bring the booze .. would offer to go topless but i'd scare ya all away and we want a party after all ... hey sexy man
  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    elantan wrote: »
    i'll bring the booze .. would offer to go topless but i'd scare ya all away and we want a party after all ... hey sexy man

    Topless is cool - you just have to look people in the eyes... ;)
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
    "We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
    "Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky."
    OMD 'Julia's Song'
  • elantan
    elantan Posts: 21,022 Forumite
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    they would run away then lol
  • taxi73
    taxi73 Posts: 20,815 Forumite
    I agree she's a lovely lady and great to see things through someone elses eyes so to speak.
  • Hope you are having a lovely time.

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  • gilligansyle
    gilligansyle Posts: 4,124 Forumite
    KC you really have picked a good week to take your break, there's nothing quite like walking round in the sunshine.
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  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    :wave::j:wave::j:wave::j

    I'm back! I've been running about today unpacking, running the washing machine, seeing to emails - not seen to the post yet - and contacting clients as need be.

    I had *such* a brilliant time with gill - saw Sefton Park Palm House in the distance, one of my earliest memories is based there, saw the house where we lived when I started school, got a bit of a shock at the security gates, gill was *wonderful*, drove me round, an absolute star. We sat and chatted at the landmark where you can see right across the Mersey and the Wirral into Wales, and it was *so* perfect .... happy sigh .... even though I knew how big Sefton Park itself was, I'd no idea of quite how high a percentage of Liverpool is green spaces :o

    We didn't shut up basically :D or rather I didn't :cool: gill had to cope with a very *on* me :D and it turns out Lark Lane, far from being a stomping ground of my mum's, is where she took us to the children's clinic :o, thats all she knows of it :rotfl:

    She forgave me for leaving her side, and we had a great time when my brother and his wife came along the next day, and then went into Southport the day after - she held onto me to manage, which is kind of sad to see, but she *did* manage. And I had a play with the hedgecutters :D plus we had one quite long argument - I maintain that a shrub that needs to be pruned once every 25 years is okay to have in a smallish garden :cool: she thinks the hounds of hell will be snapping at my heels - hey ho.

    Then I was indeed off to Cambridge and Ely - wonderful stuff, I'd never seen fan vaulting in the flesh, so to speak. The Travelodge I booked was clean, fittings v modern, tho the paint was so grubby it looked like a prison :eek: but the manager was an absolute star, told me he'd refund me the money I paid for the breakfasts because they were mostly wheat, which I can't eat. So I hopped next door to the Little Chef to have jacket potatoes for breakfast :D :money::money::money:

    And I did some family history gubbins at Peterborough - the street directory for 1892 tells me that my great grandfather rented one room in a normal sized terrace house for the whole family (5 of them) - by the end of the 1920s tho, he'd got the family into a lovely Edwardian semi, just for themselves. He did really well.

    And here I am! I was reading the book that Firewalker recommended, absolutely blown away by it, the Four Hour Working Week, loving it, and am absolutely going to follow lots of the ideas in it. Right now, I need to catch up on a few diaries tho.

    Later dudes :D:D:D
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  • hypno06
    hypno06 Posts: 32,296 Forumite
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    Sounds like you have had a fantastic time! Welcome home!
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  • gilligansyle
    gilligansyle Posts: 4,124 Forumite
    :wave:Welcome back, you sound busy but refreshed, hope your little break hasn't taken too much out of you.
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    "The days pass so fast, let's try to make each one better than the last"
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