It was getting tough in 2006 and the workhouse still threatens us in 2011

Mrs_Chip

Ah Hester, that's where I have been going wrong - I leave the thigh boots and whips to the OH, I just shout a lot!

redlady_1

I just bloody LOVE this thread! :rotfl::D;)

Lionel - please come back. I would like to hear more from you.

SDG31000

HariboJunkie- I'm not that quiet
greent- I was thinking of knitted gimp masks in that dodgy shade of pink that is between bright pink and baby pink, with a big bright yellow pom pom on top
Softstuff-Liver is a HARD LIMIT, along with gags and sprouts my mom has cooked (That means that I won't do it under any circumstances and shouldn't even be teased about it)
Your encounter in the supermarket reminds me of one time I was at the Hairdressers. My hairdresser Adam is gay and has no shame, so we were discussing certain "adult" things until I remembered where we were and the woman sitting next to me who must have been around 70. She just looked across at me and winked LOL.
Mrs Chip- Thanks for the warning about the link. I put my tea down before I opened it and it's a good job I did. I'm not sure how the ladies at my Knit and Natter group would react if I started knitting those there. Maybe crochet would be better. Not to mention the reaction I might get if I go around asking men for measurements. I think scarves are safer.

Thank you for the great start to the day. I've caught up with everyone's comments and have sat here laughing until the tears streamed down my face.
Today I'm off to Knit and Natter and then have a chicken I roasted on sunday to turn into chicken and mushroom pie for dinner. I should also work out what is in the freezers, they are full to bursting and I need to start meal planning and using up the contents. The problem is that I keep forgetting to get things out to defrost in time so end up making something else. DS1 refusing to eat most things doesn't help as I end up cooking something different for him. He will only eat potatoes as french fries, will occasionally eat rice and won't eat pasta. Also most meals need to involve chilli in some form. He proved he can out stubborn me when he went 4 days without eating when he was 2. That was the health visitors advice and even she told me to just feed him what he wanted in the end. Oh well, he will move out eventually and hopefully take his dad with him. (The joke in the family is that one of the boys has to take their Dad with them when they leave home. They argue about not having to)
Have a good day everyone xxxx

maryb

the_cake wrote: »

Rather tired this evening, and struggling to remember the difference between BNS and BDSM .... modern life is so complicated. If I get it wrong, my OH may well go AWOL.

My younger daughter just came to see what had made me hoot with laughter. I had to change screens rather quickly!!:rotfl:

GreyQueen

Greetings all you naughty naughty people; what goes on when my t'internet is down for the day (post 4pm) is nobody's business, eh?! Missed y'all.

:whistle:I know what all those abbreviations mean, but you'll appreciate it's a purely academic interest, of course.

Well, have been having fun and games at t'office where fings have been breaking down. Pooter things; most tiresome when everything me and mine do is on the blasted pooters. We barely recognise paper unless we see it in a toilet stall. :rotfl:

I did offer to go home on full pay (bathroom needs a re-paint) but they didn't let me. ((sigh)) Got so whacked out I had to come home and go to bed for 1.5 hours to sleep before I could get the energy together to cook tea. All better now.

Well, life here at Shoebox Towers cracks on apace; screaming matches between best-beloveds (at 4am) and social calls from the Constabulary (all hours) plus some entreprenurial activity of the herbal variety (I'm selling black market bay leaves once again to supplement my dwindling income).

Come to think of it, I can KNIT and there is obviously an online market for gimp masks, so perhaps I ought to give it a go.

I was having my leg pulled by a lottie neighbour at the weekend who was dissing my "funny-looking pumpkins". I mock-huffed that they're not pumpkins they're Turk's Turban squash and they're meant to look like that (i.e. funny) which was why I grew them. The fact that they're reckoned to be very tasty is coincidental to the fact that they make me grin whenever I see them. I have also found a respectable-sized butternut squash, which I use in the curry recipe from India Knight's "The Thrift Book". It's good and the BNS version comes out a radioactive orange colour.

Of Nan's original 5 giant pumpkins, one got eaten whilst still on the vine (we suspected the deer), 4 were harvested, one rotted after a week in store, and one came to me. Of the two left, the best one went to the church for Harvest Festival (not in a dolly-pram this time) and the last survivor, (which had a small rotten spot) was parked on the lid of Nan's wheelie bin out on the street, from whence it escaped during the night, to points unknown.

It amuses me to imagine it popping out little legs and eyes, glancing around warily, before making a dash for liberty across the fields. No doubt, in centuries hence, the feral pumpkin population will be a major pest species in that part of the shires. Of course, as a family, we shall develop collective amnesia over our part in the debacle-to-come.:D:o

Enough drivel; I have some bloggers to read. Have a good day, everyone.

PaddyPaws

Just caught up with the goings on since yesterday afternoon - what a fab way to start my day! Good job there's no-one else here or they'd be wondering what I was laughing at.

Better go and wipe up the coffee splutters now :-)

And it's all on topic because laughter for free is very OS <insert smug grin here>

Softstuff

SDG31000 wrote: »

Softstuff-Liver is a HARD LIMIT, along with gags and sprouts my mom has cooked (That means that I won't do it under any circumstances and shouldn't even be teased about it)
Your encounter in the supermarket reminds me of one time I was at the Hairdressers. My hairdresser Adam is gay and has no shame, so we were discussing certain "adult" things until I remembered where we were and the woman sitting next to me who must have been around 70. She just looked across at me and winked LOL.

I shall mention liver to you no longer, and will pop it in my cupboard next to the ball-gags.

As for the elderly lady in the hairdressers, things I've found out about my family, and extended family, with an upper age of 83, tell me there's nothing I can ever get up to that they haven't at least tried once, and probably some on a daily basis :rotfl:

I've gotten off my bum today, made the homemade liqueurs I was planning for Christmas and also rendered suet ready for the mincemeat and Christmas puddings. I'm also along with a few decorative bits, so I'm pleased with progress.

shelley_crow

I have a day's break from the forum and the topic has shifted to gimp masks, good work ladies! I would knit one but I'm no good at knitting, at least you could spot a fellow OSer a mile away! Had a slight barney with OH last night, apologies had better be forthcoming! Lol. Got to get myself moving this morning and get some jobs out the way while DS goes for a nap soon.

suzid

OMG what are you lot trying to do to me :rotfl::D. Tears rolling down my cheeks clutching my aching stomach, haven't laughed so much in ages. Even the dogs were concerned I was about to expire!!!

What a perfect antidote to trawling the t'internet for home insurance quotes, which left me giving up the will to live. I've decided that although we don't have enough spare cash for the annual permium there is no way I want to pay extra for monthly payments. Then had a :idea: moment and will pay for it out of the grocery budget. So sleeves rolled up and a steely glint in the eye I'm now a woman on a mission to feed us on as little as possible. This has been helped my DH trying to lose weight and me making recipies for 4 actually do 4 instead of 2 and some left over for my lunch the next day. So with a little subterfuge he will never know :T. (he's another one who gets all gloomy and feels undervalued if having to cut back is mentioned). I'm not seeing this as a problem but a challenge, and if anything else brakes down, falls off or generally demands money - it can go whistle as I refuse to allow any money to escape my clutches. Hows that for fighting talk? Now lets see if I can make it all happen, fingers and everything else crossed (especially after some of the posts I've just read :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:!!!)

By the way, has anyone else who's chicks have just flown noticed a dramatic drop in energy consumption? We're using half the leccie we were with DS at home. :T

smileyt_2

Mrs_Chip wrote: »

Aw thanks, but Smiley started it, I'm just a bit of a ligger!

I did not! You lot all jumped in with your tales of misdemeanours, without any encouragement from me, I might add! I am not to blame for the debauchery and licentiousness of this thread. Had I known that such a dissolute bunch of wantons inhabited this forum I would never have mentioned it. Indeed! Now please excuse me, I have a halo to polish.

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