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Hard_Up_Hester

Happy birthday Silva.

nursemaggie

Happy Birthday silva. :bdaycake:

ivyleaf

Happy Birthday silva :bdaycake:_party_

Those storms were quite something, weren't they? DS decided to go out very late, as he often does on a Saturday night....he'd been out of the house about 2 minutes when the really heavy rain started. I can't wait to find out where he was at that point - I was visualising him sitting in the bus shelter down the road trying to keep his new trainers out of the sudden flood

Tinydancer

Happy Birthday Silva!!!


Storms here last night, Didn't get up to watch but they sounded awesome.
Don't you just love it when you're lying in bed all cosy and you can hear the storm raging outside?
Beautiful and sunny this morning......fingers crossed it stays like it.

Islandmaid

Happy Birthday Silva x

We laid in bed last night with the velux open, watching the storm, it was amazing- proper sheet lightening. If I stood on tiptoe, could just see the Solent being lit up - we have, what's termed by estate agents as sea glimpses :rotfl:

monnagran

My goodness, a lot seems to have gone on between me posting last night and arriving this morning. Everyone but me, it seems, was up with the lark and busy. My excuse is that we don't have larks around here and the seagulls seem to be having a lie in.

I don't remember much of what I have read, but here goes..........

Happy Birthday Silva. Enjoy your day. The thunder showers we didn't have yesterday also woke me up this morning. With a bit of luck you may have lots of sunshine today. When we meet in The Pilot I promise to dress down. That will be either gardening clothes that are made for someone elephantine in size or mucky housework clothes so tight that I look like the Incredible Hulk about to burst out of my clothes if I breathe too deeply. State your preference.

FairyP, I love you. Thank you for letting me feel better about my motley collection of clothes, mostly, it would appear, designed by the House of Jumble Sale.

Fuddle, stop beating yourself up. I think we have all been described as the Wreck of the Hesperus from time to time, and I think it really just refers to the wreckage bit and not at all to the demise of the Captain's unfortunate daughter. Henry Longfellow has a lot to answer for but can be forgiven for Hiawatha, that gift to parodyists down the years.

Having ignored the clothes chaos for so long, I sat down and made a to-do list yesterday.
Ahem! I think if I work 12 hours a day for the next couple of weeks I may just get through it. Alternatively, at the present rate of progress it may take until this time next year. Providing, of course, that nothing else happens in the meantime.

THOUGHT FOR SUNDAY

If you want to know what God thinks of money just look at the people he gave it to.

Helebore

Happy Birthday Silva! !!!
Helena

Softstuff

Happy birthday Silvasava :beer:

I love love love rhubarb. And it fits well into a nice low carb diet, cos it's actually a vegetable. But it's so darned expensive over here. I remember mum having ridiculous amounts of it gifted to her in England with envy! Not easy to grow here, I gave it a go once, might try again at some point.

How do you mean flashing pink Mardatha? Wondering if it's something we can diagnose and fix from a distance.

Islandmaid, you made me chuckle about the sea glimpses. My first flat had the same, if you leant precariously out of a third floor window you had a lovely sea view.:rotfl:

I'd like to have more clothes, it's just I quite dislike spending money on clothes and am pretty hard on them (I wear out knees, seats of pants, sides of pants, elbows, cuffs... a bit like a child crawling around!) so I barely keep up with natural atrition. And having lost weight the situation is presently much worse.... the old things were beyond alteration and I wasn't willing to keep them (the idea of going back to it is too unpleasant to want the reminder). I hope over time to accumulate a few more in charity shops and so forth, but it can be hit and miss.

pandamonium

Happy Birthday Silva. Have a great day! :bdaycake:

Panda x

LameWolf

Hoppy Birdday Silva :bdaycake:
All this mention of rhubarb, I have a craving for rhubarb crumble now! :rotfl:

ivyleaf wrote: »

sorry, forgot to add that very probably your Mam didn't know the poem herself and was repeating what she'd heard someone else say.

Absolutely right - one of my mother's favourites was "Fiddlesticks!" She'd have died of embarrassment if ever she'd realised the original meaning of the word! :rotfl:

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

My mum used to say I looked like I'd been dragged through a hedge backwards!

As did mine - and I used to reply "Yeah, I got my knicker elastic caught and thought I was going forwards!".

ETA Regarding clothes; I wear similar stuff all the time: A floor-length skirt (appropriate thickness for the day's temperature, which Mr LW reads off the outdoor thermometer before he helps me dress) and a top - as often as not one with a picture of a wolf on it. Or if I can't cope with anything round my waist that day, a floor-length dress. End of story.:rotfl:I don't even own any jeans or trousers, apart from the waterproof trousers for wet walkies.