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  • GreyQueen
    GreyQueen Posts: 13,008 Forumite
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    MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »
    I'm still younger than you GQ by that measure!!!
    :D Good to hear.
    Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
     John Ruskin
     Veni, vidi, eradici
    (I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0 Newbie
    Eighth Anniversary 10,000 Posts I've been Money Tipped!
    Wanna come to the birthday party?
  • GreyQueen
    GreyQueen Posts: 13,008 Forumite
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    MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »
    Wanna come to the birthday party?
    :o I'm not a child-friendly person, Lyn, and I wouldn't do that for less than a four figure sum. No offence to your zebra-child and his little friends, it's just the way I am.

    I'd didn't end up childfree by accident, it was very definately done on purpose.:rotfl:
    Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
     John Ruskin
     Veni, vidi, eradici
    (I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0 Newbie
    Eighth Anniversary 10,000 Posts I've been Money Tipped!
    I just thought you might enjoy the 'lets see how much jelly we can get on the ceiling' game, being a tall personage y'know!!!
  • GreyQueen
    GreyQueen Posts: 13,008 Forumite
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    MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »
    I just thought you might enjoy the 'lets see how much jelly we can get on the ceiling' game, being a tall personage y'know!!!
    :) S'OK, if we can sneak in before it starts and have a go on the bouncy castle and do a little jelly flingage, I'm up for it.

    I should warn you I'm a horror when high on sugar and E numbers and have considerably greater chaos potentiality than a pre-schooler (although am noticably less shrieky).
    Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
     John Ruskin
     Veni, vidi, eradici
    (I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0 Newbie
    Eighth Anniversary 10,000 Posts I've been Money Tipped!
    We could have such funnnnn!
  • Witless
    Witless Posts: 728 Forumite
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    GreyQueen wrote: »
    :) S'OK, if we can sneak in before it starts and have a go on the bouncy castle and do a little jelly flingage, I'm up for it..............

    Make a day of it - throw in a little indoor archery whilst t'bouncy castle is in use!
  • GreyQueen
    GreyQueen Posts: 13,008 Forumite
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    :) The only time I was able to catch a lift to the outdoor summer evening archery out in ye countryside, there was a hot air balloon lifting off from the next field.

    I begged Teach to let us have a go at shooting it, it was so close, there was about two dozen of us with hundreds of arrows between us.

    Nah, he said laconically, It's a bu88er getting the arrows back afterwards.
    Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
     John Ruskin
     Veni, vidi, eradici
    (I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
  • Witless
    Witless Posts: 728 Forumite
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    AAA? (Anti Aircraft Archery)

    Teach or no teach - how did you resist?
  • GreyQueen
    GreyQueen Posts: 13,008 Forumite
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    Witless wrote: »
    AAA? (Anti Aircraft Archery)

    Teach or no teach - how did you resist?
    :o It was tough but a bit big to bring down with just a longbow, I'd've wanted the compound bow archers to chip in (quarter mile range at half speed of sound).

    It was an advertising hot air balloon and I did think I'd be making a point against capitalism by downing it but, I suppose, Teach has his professional reputation to think of. Not to mention his insurance.

    Could have been a major news story, tho - said balloon was advertising the local newspaper group........ :rotfl:
    Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
     John Ruskin
     Veni, vidi, eradici
    (I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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