Brontebiro@PreahPithu

10.45 
February 21, 2013 

That is absolutely wonderful. Your doilies have become a desirable collectable item. True heirlooms of the people.
May they never become tired (knackered), distressed (buggered) or needing some restoration( full of 'oles) I'm sorry for the ex-antiques-valuer-person speak.

The design of the tree and birds is from the 16 century. The unicorn is from the tapestry 'The Hunt of the Unicorn' which is now in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The unicorn is the symbol of purity, grace and enchantment. I think kc you need some enchantment in your life and a unicorn to watch over you and your garden and protect you from your neighbours. 

5 February 2013 9:25AM

Did it! Up for a run with the hound, made coffee in bed for sleepyheads, cooked breakfast, got daughter ready for nursery, including hair brushing!!!,all before 8.30. Will let you know when my sainthood arrives.

Well YOUR Sainthood HAS arrived jimmytwospoons. This is your lucky day. 

3 May, 3012 3.20 pm
crucigrama

It was while dancing to techo music in flat shoes that I skidded on confetti, went flying and broke my wrist. Gay abandon, my arse!

FerenjiNan
15 April 2012 1:29AM

>*>*>*>*>* MythPellAny<*<*<*<*<
** star of shadows and clouds, lady of sunshine and dance *
ALLES GUTE ZUM GEBURTSTAG!!!!
~~~~**~~~~~ ~~~~~***~~~~~~

backstagebear
15 April 2012 5:29AM

Happy Birthday, Misspell! CAKE?

paunjohnson
15 April 2012 7:34AM

<@><@><@><@><@>HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISSPELLANY<@><@><@><@><@>

lidell
15 April 2012 8:19AM


Have a wonderful birthday Misspellany.

Sgraffiti
15 April 2012 8:39AM

Have a very happy birthday MissP.

Ppenguin
15 April 2012 9:11AM


A Very Happy Birthday to you Misspellany.

MisspellAny
15 April 2012 9:47AM

Ah - thank you, backstagebear! Do you do scones? I love them, with strawberries and cream, and sparkling wine of course.

iguana2go
15 April 2012 10:01AM

>^..^< prrrp >^..^< miaow >^..^< prrrp >^..^< miaow >^..^<
H A P P Y ..... B I R T H D A Y ..... M I S S P E L L A N Y
>^..^< prrrp >^..^< miaow >^..^< prrrp >^..^< miaow >^..^<
here's a wee kitty to wish you well

brian289
15 April 2012 10:02AM

Happy Birthday, Mispell.

I have been on the Rottingdean walk twice recently, and scrutinised carefully the women I passed - got some very strange looks, but avoided trying to arrange their arms in the akimbo position - to save your having to bail me out. I worked out that you would know what I looked like and might smile if you saw me. You would wouldn't you? Please do! And have a wonderful birthday.

cretansnakegoddess
15 April 2012 10:11AM

Have a wonderful birthday, misspellany! Hope you have plans for fun and lots ofCAKE ...

LondonBBG
15 April 2012 10:14AM

Have
A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
MisspellAny
with friendship, food, sunshine, drink and music.

bedword
15 April 2012 10:26AM

i work in mental health and have never heard 22a!
seems i share a birthday with MisspellAny - Happy Birthdays!!

Loins
15 April 2012 10:26AM

misspellAny... you kick arse, and are a seriously good munter*.. Happy Birthday from me and Mish.. for you here is Alejandro Escovedo

See below Alejandro Escovedo "Castanets"

* 'munter' can mean whatever you want it to mean, similar to 'crint', but here it means a 'blokess'

kc3184
15 April 2012 11:06AM

Happy Birthday Misspell
Hope you have a wonderful day & night and lots of CAKE

spanishscot
15 April 2012 11:08AM

Anyway, the most important business of the day:
♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISSPELLANY!!
☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺♥☼☺

MisspellAny
15 April 2012 12:24PM

To all: thank you so much for all your good wishes to my birthday! The sun is out, great white clouds are chasing across a blue sky, the wind is busy, and the gardens are showing off wonderful blooms - that in itself makes a good day! I am enjoying it - and hope you are, too. Cheers! To the good friends of the QCC!

sparclear
15 April 2012 12:33PM

Foolish Ditty ( a birthday skipping rhyme for MissP)

What's the time, half past noon,
Get your candles lit and swoon.
While your years march decades on, 
Blow them out for wishes won.

quinquereme
15 April 2012 12:59PM

The Happiest of Birthdays, Miss P! Here's a little something from the pioneers of early music in the Baltic region, for you to dance to amidst the billowing white clouds and thousand-coloured blooms:

See below "Hortus Musicus - Branle IV

mrsmatisse
15 April 2012 1:07PM

How wonderful to have a double birthday bash for bedwood and MissP. So me thinks we deserve a choice of CAKE!

Happy Birthday both, and Miss P I hope you have an exhilarating day abundant with warm breezes, beauty and sparkle. And cream and ripe rosy fruit.

karankooks
15 April 2012 3:02PM

Wish the birthday babies best wishes and best of health for the upcoming year.

deelfi62
15 April 2012 4:34PM

Not looked at the crossie yet, but hope your birthday tea looked like THIS,MisspellAny !

civsum
15 April 2012 4:41PM

Wonderful things to celebrate today:

1. our dear MissP's birthday. May she never run out of scones and cream and music and friendship and may we never run out of her.

More will be posted as they turn up. If I have missed you please let me know. PP

jinxtheminx
8 April 2012 4:55PM

Response to kath55, 8 April 2012 4:25PM
Half time: Arsenal 0-0 Manchester City. Up the Arse!!! Saw the Hockney this morning, just got in on next to last day. Wonderful. Made me feel like singing. If the Arse wins I'll be over the moon, tickled pink, well pleased and generally happy, happy, happy.

SillyAunt
8 April 2012 5:27PM

Response to jinxtheminx, 8 April 2012 4:55PM
I couldn't give a toss about your Arse, but a "stolen" Hockney is my screen saver.

jinxtheminx
8 April 2012 5:37PM

Response to cubbybear, 8 April 2012 5:08PM
Power of the pocket and magic too! MC must need it!! Still 0 - 0 cubs. Hope PK didnt pay!!

kath55
8 April 2012 6:07PM

Response to jinxtheminx, 8 April 2012 4:55PM
The Arse have won! Enjoy.

Do not know who you are, a man, woman or a variation thereof. Don't care but will celebrate with you. Now need to phone son Jack to share his pleasure. Football is so trivial but so important in oiling the wheels. My big kids love it .....and so do I.

jinxtheminx
8 April 2012 6:23PM

Think PK might want a refund Cubs. One nil, one nil, one nil, one nil. Up the Arse. And Silly my arse is a Rubenesque wonder.


cubbybear
8 April 2012 6:28PM

Response to jinxtheminx, 8 April 2012 6:23PM
One nil, one nil, one nil, one nil. Up the Arse
Well, here's me being all gracious & humble in defeat, Jinxy............................

NickWit23
8 April 2012 7:50PM

Response to jinxtheminx, 8 April 2012 6:23PM
@jinx
Think PK might want a refund Cubs. One nil, one nil, one nil, one nil. Up the Arse. And Silly my arse is a Rubenesque wonder.

When I read this I looked for a Report(2) button - report for lodgement in the QCC Gallery of Superlative Posts in Perpetuity

lidell
12 Mar 2012, 11:52AM

Monday's child with face so fair,
Welcome Thea Alexandra...Bear!

karankooks
24 March 2012 5:48PM

@PP
The doily is amazingly awesome!!!! (sorry Amy, couldn't resist)

PS. How come you don't stitch in your signature in somewhere, like most artists?

PP
25 March 2012 11.56 US time

I thought about putting in a signature and you are right - I rarely sign anything and will endeavour to start. Actually, I thought yours would be the best place to start. What do you think?

It was painted in 2006 when I had a couple of weeks off just before starting my Orthopaedic residency.

Watercolour on paper, with no special techniques, no gouache etc, just carefully painting in light layers over layers within carefully marked out outlines, and finally a dark tone finish off.

Do let me know what your keen mind sees.After a long gap, I finally have a bit more free time now to restart some art on Sundays, and hopefully I have something good worth putting up.

COLLECTION OF COMMENTS - FINAL POEM IS AT THE END

Ostrakon
15 March 2012 12:36AM
Thank you civsum (Maureen) for Lamentation. I can think of situations where it's truly apposite

SilentBugler
15 March 2012 12:38AM
Your poem touched a nerve, my father died many years ago, some years later my mother re-married through loneliness - it was a mistake, he was not a bad man, just not the replacement she was looking for, but how would you advise people in that situation?

Amy38
15 March 2012 12:42AM
A far cry from yesterday's fast finish! Civsum  I liked your little poem: it made me draw a sharp breath, as if I'd cut myself.

NickWit23
15 March 2012 1:11AM
Response to civsum, 
15 March 2012 12:25AM@civsum
Lamentation - painfully & chillingly powerfully disturbing.....

PreahPithu
15 March 2012 2:36AM
cretansnakegoddess
I looked at the doily you sent me this week and the dainty embroidered lady (that you compared to me) with gold dress, neatly curled hair and lovely picture hat and I am sorry to say she looks nothing like me whatsoever. Thank you anyway blossom.

iguana2go
15 March 2012 7:48AM
civsum - i'm really enjoying your poetry, it's quite hard hitting this one. nothing wrong with that, and i particularly like the spokenness of this line
They sang old songs, with words they knew
it's great!, thankyou

brian289
15 March 2012 10:34AM
Response to civsum, 
15 March 2012 12:25AM
Oh civvy! I spent almost an hour responding to your poem, then, reviewing my post, I made a correction hit backspace and whole thing disappeared! It may be that it was divine intervention, a kindly God stopping me from exposing myself as a presumptuous prat. But I don't believe in God. So ..... I'll try again. At least manage a precis.


I really liked your poem. The perception is spot on, the story telling in the octet - I know it wasn't a sonnet but I'll come back to that - is fast moving and works. I get the picture. The change of mood in the sestet (I know I know) is complete and effective. Well done!! .. So why don't I leave it there. Be safe... tempting. But you are far too good a poet to leave it there. You have an extraordinary facility with language. I have already experienced it. A few days ago you wrote an excellent first draft of a poem in the time I was laboriously composing a prosaic post. I was amazed. So I can't leave it there. Let me put it bluntly, this is another excellent first draft - actually even better than the previous one. ...

(If you would like to read more of Brian's comment please go to the above post. PP)

jinxtheminx
15 March 2012 12:31PM
Response to civsum, 
15 March 2012 12:25AM
Your poem really got me thinking Civsum. Thankyou

PreahPithu
15 March 2012 1:27PM
Response to civsum, 15 March 2012 12:59PM
"This piece was written on a napkin at lunch yesterday" - one of my bleedin' doilies madam, not one of your American throw-away paper mouth wipers.

blindhorse
15 March 2012 1:54PM
Civsum
Really enjoyed your poem, I think my ex would be a case of this condition. His second marriage certainly fell into that sinario but his third marrage is real and a very happy couple they make. Its ironic but I am sure my friends would have put odds on me being the one to re-marry or at least have a partner but I enjoy my single life. Although I have no religious beliefs I did make a vow " till death us do part " and some how I need to stick to that.

civsum
15 March 2012 2:16PM
Response to PreahPithu, 
15 March 2012 1:27PM
As if I would dare !!!!

brian289
15 March 2012 5:29PM
@ civsum
Oh dear What have I done? With all my prattling gone and spoiled a good poem. Civvy, I prefer the draft I didn't want you to unrhyme the sestet- I hoped you'd rhyme the octet! - I like the added line. I loved those 'age' rhymes. They themselves made a cage. I was a tad sad about the penultimate line but even leaving it as it was, it is better in the draft. I am so sorry for wasting your time. That'll teach ME.
ps. there's still a little part of me that would like to see a disciplined sonnet. But please put it back as it was

civsum
15 March 2012 6:08PM
Response to brian289, 
15 March 2012 5:29PM
I'll put it back but still tweak it a bit and have a go at rhyming the octet. I think she too should rail against her cage not just weep as she too must be livid.
Ahem.....adopts pose of humble supplicant (not my guiding characteristics of course)...would you consider being my Miss Harland ?

Amy38
15 March 2012 6:13PM
Response to brian289, 15 March 2012 5:29PMI understand naught of this discussion about rhyming, sestets, octets nor am I an "I know what I like" type. Your first version regardless of style touched me like a surgeon's cut -- quick and sharp. Civvie, you're good. Perhaps you should delay future publication in this forum until you've done some artistic rearrangement? It's your creation, after all, and invitation to critics are just that. They can be ignored. No, I certainly have not missed the point that you've encouraged Brian's reviews of your poetry -- that's completely aside.

I've been proud of you: you don't fawn. ...  Your poems are not written for me, so of course you can ignore any and everything I say about them. Just please don't start thinking that you're writing for someone else's approval or your whole style will change! 


MisspellAny
15 March 2012 6:20PM
Response to civsum, 15 March 2012 12:59PMYes civsum, I do! I am following your exchange with Brian with interest! So I do want to see the revised versions! Many thanks!!!! To both Brian and you!

civsum
15 March 2012 6:33PM
No. On re reading it, I want to keep them separate in form. The 1st verse being the narrative I want to be free and easy whilst the 2nd I think the drama is driven by the rhyming. The pace is the inexorable propulsion to the ultimate end. I think it was a problem when it was all one verse but think of Masefield's 'Cargoes". " Quinquireme of Ninevah' compared to the 'Dirty British coaster with a salt caked smokestack". Whilst he uses rhythm to denote the pace of each vessel I would argue that one could equally use contrasting styles to denote emotional situations. Well, I'm tossing that thought out..is it shoddy rationalisation or a valid point I wonder?

So I'm keeping the first verse with the additional line and tweaking the second thus:-

But now they both have lived too long,
The tales all told, the songs all sung.
Now his charm has turned to rage
Against the frailty of age.
While she, now just a wife in name
Rails inside her rusting cage.

Is this penultimate line better do you think?

spanishscot
15 March 2012 6:35PM
@Civsum
I read your poem and was going to respond but I then read Brian's analysis and it stopped me in my tracks. Wow! I have to confess that, like Amy has said, most of Brian's lección magistral, although fascinating, was right over my head. I just wanted to say that the poem had the same effect on me as admiring and touching a beautiful rose and getting pricked by a sharp thorn. Beautiful and harsh and painful at the same time, very effective.

I have to say that I didn't really like your second draft as much and I think I therefore agree with Amy again. By all means, listen to Brian and profit from his experience and expertise, but remember that it is your poem and you have the final say.

civsum
15 March 2012 6:41PM
Response to Amy38, 
15 March 2012 6:13PM
Amy - I really appreciate your comments. (Dare I say thank you?) As you will see from my last post, I have asserted my creative rights. But, I really do want to hear from others and Brian in particular as that can only help my journey in this foreign land. No, I won't be swayed into writing someone else's vision but suggestions are just that and will be considered thoughtfully. I'm a bit like a gifted amateur tennis player, racing around and whacking balls over the net when a few lessons in ground strokes would improve my game enormously.

civsum
15 March 2012 6:54PM
Response to cretansnakegoddess, 
15 March 2012 6:41PM
I could of course, have her do both ! "Weeps and rails inside her cage".

brian289
15 March 2012 6:59PM
Response to civsum, 
15 March 2012 6:33PMWhew. I'm glad I'd already said I preferred your first version before the sisterhood got at me! Your example from Masefield I agree with. Those contrasting rhythms are most effective. Really good and they work. They do also rhyme of course! The point is not a choice between rhythm and rhyme. They both have to work together to convey the meaning.

On balance I do prefer your last version. The 'r' alliteration is good and "name" is an excellent half rhyme. Very good indeed. Those last six lines! You really have something.

It would be an honour to be your Miss H. Thank you.

spanishscot
15 March 2012 6:59PM
@civsum
I still prefer the original, especially the penultimate line.
While she, now nurse, no longer lover
Weeps inside her rusting cage.
I really like the contrast nurse/lover as I also like the contrasting emotions (he raging and she weeping).
Just my opinion....

ofHesselink
15 March 2012 7:01PM
Woh, was that civs poem? I had assumed a borrowing from somewhere. It's brilliant whatever its origin but if it's actually civvy's I'm well impressed.

civsum
15 March 2012 7:21PM
OK. To those who've been following today's Eng.Lit. class, here's the final version:

LamentationIt wasn’t meant to be like this.
She’d married him for company,
Their spouses dead.
A charming man who danced with ease,
Told stories new, and loved her well.
Surprised to find again such joy
They sang old songs, with words they knew.
And traveled far to places rare.

But now they both have lived too long,
The tales all told, the songs all sung.
Now his charm has turned to rage
Against the frailty of age.
While she, now just a wife in name
Rails inside her rusting cage.

The penultimate line balances better having 8 rather than 9 beats and the use of 'rails' denotes both rage and the rails of the cage.

civsum
15 March 2012 7:25PM
And thank you all for your comments. I really appreciate them.

brian289
15 March 2012 9:43PM
Response to civsum, 15 March 2012 7:21PM
My final post. I have to be up at 6.0 tomorrow morning - I'm teaching and it takes me three hours to get there! I've really enjoyed today. Thank you Civvy - and all of you.
Civvy, It's a smashing poem!
PS
Can't resist! Civvy, the penultimate line has four beats not eight! Four iams.

Posted Mar 5, 2012. 
Doily, photo print on fabric, machine stitching. Designed/made Paulette. For GREAT, great Uncle Monkey Jamas. 

quinquereme
29 Feb 2012, 10:27AM

Congratulations, MonkeyJammas! Isabel looks so very lovely.

peterkelly
29 Feb 2012, 4:01PM

(On seeing the photo of new baby Isabel, MonkeyJammas' neice, posted via PreahPithu, 2.01 am.)

The following is a recycled limerick, originally made up on the occasion of Friedfish's grandchild's arrival. a few months ago.
I make no apologies for being too lazy to produce another one. I've been out walking for the past two days and my legs are tired. And I keep my rhymes in my feet.
And I couldn't make up one I liked better, anyway. I just love babies !

Ode to Baby Isabel

A baby is Oh, so much fun,
And here is a lovely new one,
They'll puke and they'll fart,
And capture your heart,
And out of their bum comes the sun.

FriedFish
29 Feb 2012, 5:58PM

MJ
Beautiful pic of G' niece. Welcome Isabel - (my second dtr's middle name - Spanish spelling.) Love and warm feelings from FF.

I had four beautiful doilies that I purchased - well - from the Thrift Store - and they were exquisitely finished with hand crochet lace. I have been hanging onto them for quite a while as glorious hand finished doiles do not come along very often. I decided to embroider them especially for the newly decorated snug as my small contribution to the Occupy Beige Movement.

I left them on the bar and what did I find when I popped back in for a visit this afternoon? 

What a shameless and disreputable lot you are!!!!!! Ribald Poetry, Pixies having sex in pockets and margarita juice on my doilies!!!

I would like to know who is responsible!!! Cubby!!! has been missing for a while so I suspect her but I don't like to lay blame as there are a lot of shameless hussies (and himmies) who hang around late at night drinking margaritas. (Not you MisspellAny) And slurring their words!!!!!!!!! And spilling their drinks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

backstagebear
7 Jan 2012, 11:34PM

Ooooh! Margarita's are my favourite poison......

backstagebear
21 Jan 2012, 1:25AM

Done, in spite of tequila consumption.........a margarita is a beauteous thing......

SillyAunt
21 Jan 2012, 3:32AM

BSbear Margarita is God's way of saying he loves us and wants us to be happy. Cheers.

blindhorse
21 Jan 2012, 5:33AM
backstagebear

Margarita is my favorite tipple can I join you.

iguana2go
21 Jan 2012, 6:08AM

Aah, a margarita, now there's a fine drink

lidell
21 Jan 2012, 8:28AM

Conspiracy Theory Comment 
Somebody slipped something into the margaritas last night!

Loins
21 Jan 2012, 9:29AM

Blindy and BSB... margaritas, eh... you'd better listen to this then!! Jimmy B with Jerry Jeff Walker and Greg 'Fingers' Taylor on harmonica, doing (wasted away in) Magaritaville...very rare acoustic version..

http://youtu.be/bQyFKsXWMz4

cubbybear
21 Jan 2012, 10:06AM

I must be so unsophisticated. I've never had a margarita! Well not that I'm aware of.
Does it contain Tequila?? And is that the drink containing a little wormy creature??

Subernoj
21 Jan 2012, 10:17AM

cubby - I've never had a Margarita either but I'm fairly certain I dated her sister once. Think it was in 1972 or 73. Don't think she had worms either - well, not that I'm aware of......

Ppenguin
21 Jan 2012, 10:25AM

Hello cubbybear. Margaritas taste something like a very alcoholic sherbet dab and look great.

backstagebear
21 Jan 2012, 1:51PM

'Morning.....er, 'afternoon....that's what drinking margaritas into the early hours does for you. Mind you, I always feel fantastic the next day....it must the vitamin C in the limes. Is it a contributory portion to my five a day?

NickWit23
21 Jan 2012, 3:09PM

Following up on margaritas, 3 years ago P & I went to Oz for a visit - my first time there. Getting back to LA (after a long flight with a change in NZ) we found that, as she had a green card application in but not yet granted, (I have US passport so no problem there) we should have got a special dispensation from the Immigration equivalent of the Pope for the journey. After 6 hrs in custody in Immigration & much questioning & searching they let us in. First stop then was a (chain) Mexican restaurant in the airport & a margarita big enough to swim in. And then another.

Excellent drink post crisis.

blindhorse
21 Jan 2012, 3:22PM

All this talk of Margaritas, I think I need to go to the offie, but also need limes and salt. 

cubbybear
21 Jan 2012, 4:25PM

Hi Blindy I've just been looking on line for recipe for margaritas. I've got the cointreau , just need the Tequilla (vegetarian version - worm) & some limes. Think I'll join you, wait till I get back, will need to go to Tesco's for Limes.It's about time I tried one or six, don't you think ?

mrsmatisse
21 Jan 2012, 5:38PM

MAJOR SPOILER!!!

Be Prepared they said
but
The embarrassment was immense......
To some degree 
I preferred a Margarita,
and waited for Cubby, Blindy and the backstager.
No limes.....
We waited til eternity.
The Kiwi with the gun
assorted a Rena
and waved his axiom large.
In need of a ploy
We bas martied 
a rumbaba.
And so Mosa wouldn't pick up the trail
skated over to some irre place
til he was crying for his Nonna.
Finally got back to camp
as the sun was a ris in.
Poor Hetty downed a few more Macs.
React we could not. 
Our speaker was well away...
The b line cab arrived
just in time.

cubbybear
21 Jan 2012, 5:53PM

I've got the tequila, minus worm.
Got the limes
Got Cointreau & sea salt ??
Margaritas all around just after 8pm when tiddlers in bed.
Haven't made them before, so hope they'll taste good.
Who's up for it ??

cubbybear
21 Jan 2012, 8:27PM

Margaritas are lined up on the bar for anyone who'd like one, CHEERS !
Mmmmh not bad, but preferred the cocktail I had in Bubba Gumps. Daughter couldn't remember the name but it did contain cranberries, that I do know,

PreahPithu
21 Jan 2012, 8:27PM

Cubby can I have mine via a drip please - I'll suck the lemon while I work. Mango would be lovely.

cubbybear
21 Jan 2012, 8:55PM

Of course it is, but as I've never had a Margarita before, I wasn't sure how potent it would be. I'm guessing strong ?
Is fruit added into drink as one would with Sangria ??

cubbybear
21 Jan 2012, 9:06PM

uuuuurrrgh ! I'd get that seen to Mrs.M sounds nasty!.................... Oh got ya, you mean your margarita. Well, I've got everything that is except umbrella's & straws, will put them on my Asda shopping list for next week. Don't worry though plenty of alcohol, salt & limes. Enjoy ! I'm not the hostess with the mostest, that's for sure !

backstagebear
21 Jan 2012, 9:25PM

Cheers! I'll stick to the margarita, thanks......cranberry juice is a banned substance whilst I'm on warfarin, apparently.....

cubbybear
21 Jan 2012, 9:35PM

I'm sitting here, on my own tasting a margarita for the first time, sad I know, but don't get much of a social life with kiddlies. I think I've got you to thank for the flushed effect of my face & pleasant warm feeling. Cheers !

cubbybear
21 Jan 2012, 10:17PM

Subers
Please don't creep up on me like that !
I've had one Margarita, tonight & I'm gawn !! Sad eh ?
Did you sleep well ? I'm sure I will if I make it upstairs.

Subernoj
21 Jan 2012, 10:21PM

cubby - It's best to drink Margaritas from a glass, dear, not a bucket!
One Margarita, indeed!You can't fool me, I've seen the evidence

Subernoj
21 Jan 2012, 10:23PM

Your AVATAR clearly shows you how you look after a bucket of Margarita
Go carefully up those stairs
Goodnight

Subernoj
21 Jan 2012, 10:29PM

cubby
Me?
Mean?
Never!

You're doing better than me - I've never tried a Margarita! Though the thought of a bucket of it does sound appealing - might try it when my long stretch of work finishes

spanishscot
21 Jan 2012, 11:23PM

I've been out and it seems I've missed on the Margarita party...

LondonBBG
22 Jan 2012, 12:35AM

I did look in at the café earlier but don't really like Margaritas.

mrsmatisse
22 Jan 2012, 1:14PM

The Margarita has done me no harm! Excellent way to party.

MisspellAny
22 Jan 2012, 3:10PM

I cannot remember my Margarita moments......

SillyAunt
22 Jan 2012, 6:10PM

Melmoth is the Master, with or without the Margarita.

NickWit23
22 Jan 2012, 6:16PM

Is there an Haitch in Margarita?
Or is it Tequila and Lime
With Mango for those who want sweeter
And double for a really good time.

Is there an Haitch in Margarita?
This question is vexing me so.
Another may make the brain fleeter -
But on supping I find this ain't so.

There may be a Margie in Horta
or a Limey whose Tango we sipped
But if I'm not a Dervish who's whirling
I fear I am totally ripped*

*too far gone to find a rhyme for Munted

spanishscot
22 Jan 2012, 8:50PM

And Nick is right, lidell, no aitch in Margarita because it is not a pizza and not Italian, but Mexican.

lidell
22 Jan 2012, 10:07PM

So it is Margarita in Spanish and Margharita in Italian?
Would the cocktail in Rome merit the haitch?
Would the pizza in Madrid be haitchless?
Could either cocktail or pizza be a 'Maggie' or ''Meg'
'Peggie' or 'Peg'
'Margo', 'Rita', 'Tita'
'Greta', 
'Daisy' 'Maisie'
'Marguerite' 
'Megan' or
'Bitxi'?
Depending on where on Earth you are!

spanishscot
22 Jan 2012, 10:27PM

Why don't you have a Margarita? I think there is some left from yesterday. Cubby, could only manage one and had to go to bed, although with BSB around... there may not be much left.

spanishscot
22 Jan 2012, 10:36PM

Well, it was you that started the Margarita craze (BSB that is. Ed)

NickWit23
22 Jan 2012, 11:41PM

with or without the Margarita.

Preferably and

spanishscot
23 Jan 2012, 12:42AM

EPT accepted in all currencies, even euros. We are a bit short after the Margarita extravaganza at the weekend.

Mrsmatisse
26 Jan 2012, 3:27PM

This is too bad. But maybe you'll be funding the Margaritas later.

cubbybear
26 Jan 2012, 5:32PM

This is too bad. But maybe you'll be funding the Margaritas later.

Certainly can, Mrs.M But guess what,??

What Cubby??I forgot to order the cocktail umbrella's & straws from Asda. And whilst we're on the subject, how does one dangle ones limes?? No rude answers, please. What time would you like me to serve them?? I'm sticking to Bacardi+Pepsi Max though!

brian289
28 February 2012 9:39AM

Last month a niece of mine lost a three month old baby. I wrote this for her and it was used in the humanist funeral service. The Celebrant has asked it can be distributed to other Celebrants for use in babies funerals. I was very touched by this and have agreed - providing a "feminised " version for baby girl funerals. this is it.

FOR CONRAD.
A baby newly come – is born of hope
And love. His tiny beating heart sends waves
Of joy to all his family, and there engraves
A place forever his, becomes a rope
That binds them all together. He needs that place.
The world is hard. The winds that fiercely blow
Can take his body away. But then we know
That place is his, his personal, forever space.
The hardest job he’d ever do is done.
For time and work can fracture us to parts.
And only love can bind, can make our hearts
As one. And that, for us, his life has won.
His life endures – although his light was brief -
In the love engendered in us that tempers our grief.

kc3184
28 February 2012 11:25AM

just going through a lot of old stuff and hitting the nostalgia button - still a lot of painful memories -especially of my brother being killed in vietnam, thought it was all healed, but just found out, not the case, we are such a vulnerable lot, and I am always grateful to have that emotional tug to let me know that I am still here and dont want to forget all those beautiful memories. How fortunate are we!!

iguana2go
28 February 2012 12:15PM

thank you, Brian, for your sonnet - i'm always amazed at how a poet can encompass so much in so few words - you have a great skill. i wonder if it helps you to process your emotions when you write so pertinently and beautifully - it feels like it would help to clarify the jumble most of us feel as grief/love/fear/bereavement ... well, i do anyway.(The doily has been supplied by iguana2go. Thank's iggy Ed.)

brian289
28 February 2012 4:38PM

Thank you. Yes I do write to clarify what I think. There's a couplet at the end of a sonnet I wrote.
To express undisciplined thought - a waste of ink;
The rigour of form enables us to think.

I do unjumble thoughts in that way. It's why I like sonnets. It's a tough form and the tougher the form the more you are forced into thinking exactly. In the case of Conrad, I do not know my niece as well as I would like. She is the daughter of my brother in law's partner. I was very happy when she had a baby and then the awful three months with a very sick baby drew me to her - though we never met in that time. When the baby died I felt great sorrow for her and her partner. And I wanted to reach out to them. I imagine that one of the greatest pains must be the thought - what a wasted life! And I wanted desperately to find a meaning his life, an enduring meaning.

MisspellAny
28 February 2012 5:21PM

Response to brian289, 28 February 2012 4:38PM
Brian, you also manage to express what you feel in prose. In your post, you bring across your sorrow for the pain of the parents of the baby,your wish to reach out to them, your concern for your niece, and your regret for the baby's short life. Your prose touched me - I witnessed the pain of my parents at loosing one of their daughters (my younger sister).

sparclear
28 February 2012 7:20PM

OK I am going to stick my neck out this evening... 
It's often the case that there is little to say when someone is bereaved by losing their child. We feel sorry for them and know theirs is unfathomable grief, but everything else on top of that tends to be about oneself, rather than the mourner. So it seems best just to keep on loving the living, watering the flowers and stirring the soup, and shut up about the rest, unless they need to talk about their memories sometimes.

Everything on this Earth belongs between the poles of Life and Death, everywhere you look, every plant and animal and season is here with reminders of their twinfold inevitability and naturalness. Looking for 'meaning' related to life and death is extra, a luxury. To say much that's going to be any comfort - even the thought that MY version of comfort is urgent and necessary, is to collude and even reinforce fear in its own shadowy way. Look to the world around us, and let the dying join its great bountiful layer of compost, and nourish the next cycle of life, that's all.

Not wanting to hurt anyone's feelings here. Those of you familiar with my gardening column will know how much the Earth influences all I have to say and I trust I can pass this on to you.

spanishscot
28 February 2012 9:40PM

Response to sparclear, 28 February 2012 7:20PMLook to the world around us, and let the dying join its great bountiful layer of compost, and nourish the next cycle of life, that's all.

Very true. And very beautifully expressed. Still, as someone who has experienced the loss of many dear people close to me, including a newborn baby, I have to say it still hurts a hell of a lot.

I loved Brian's sonnet and dedicated it to my dead baby, Pablo, born almost 30 years ago (1st March 1982).

lidell
28 February 2012 9:45PM

Sparclear.. well said, nature is good and kind, life and death are cyclical, every spring brings hope and renewal. As a great poet wrote: 'and death shall have no dominion'.

Yet we can mourn our lost ones as Brian wrote so movingly in his last stanza:

'His life endures – although his light was brief -
In the love engendered in us that tempers our grief.'

It is the living that give life through their love to those who have died too soon.

"How to Loose A Day" in the collection of blindhorse.

Thrift store placemat, design and stitching Paulette Hayes. Woman 'loosing' the day is not modelled on blindy as I do not know what she looks like however, she is modelled on  drawings from the Australian artist Michael Leunig .

blindhorse
20 February 2012 12:41AM

Need advice, how can I loose a day. The obvious answer is to get legless but this is not the healthy option. Thought about going away but I can't afford that and I would still be with me so no escape. Maybe Melmoth has the answer as he is from another planet, this is not a joke. I have thought about this for the last three days and I am beginning to panic, as the day approachs looked at theatres as I thought a play would distract my mind but no luck. I feel a panic coming apon me, and I am so sad that I am asking help from the caff and not actual people, you are my vertual phycologist.

Anyhoo always look on the bright side of life

Melmoth1820
20 February 2012 12:55AM

blindhorse
You can loose a day by untying the restraining ropes and allowing it to float off into the wide blue yonder. Don't worry, it will be perfectly happy and safe: days are quite used to wandering about freely and deciding which week to be in. Leap days can be a bit adventuresome and only appear once every four years. This is entirely normal behaviour which causes no concern to the experienced diem herder and should not be a source of anxiety to tyros or beginners in the art.
Hope this helps.
Your affectionate uncle
Mfflemurble.

PreahPithu
20 February 2012 1:21AM


Response to blindhorse, 20 February 2012 12:41AM
Blindy - I am not sure what you are asking - you can email me if you would like to talk.

Subernoj
20 February 2012 3:37AM

I lost a day once
I found it eventually
It was under the moon and stars on the other side of the world
Now I think of it, I remember it was trailing tenuous tethers of a wistful nature
See what happens when you are at a loose end?

sparclear
20 February 2012 7:49AM

Blindie, 
Requests for 'lost day' pain relief
Would only serve you like a thief.
We're made to set tears
Afloat and then fears
Can flow past on the river of Grief.

civsum
20 February 2012 4:28AM

Blindy - may our force be with you. Don't fight the day.

bloggsie45
20 February 2012 8:07AM

blindhorse:
<jest level='full'>
To lose a day, or a few more as needed, just time travel to September 1752 and experience losing 12 of the things. 
</jest>
<jest level='half'>
On the other hand a wee dollop of this will work very well in the twenty-first century.
</jest>
Please note: We are all real and actual people!Feel free to contact me should you so wish. Name is in profile.I have a Skype account and am the only person by my name in NZ.

iguana2go
20 February 2012 8:29AM

it may be easier to ask help of people you can't see? I for one, find it hard to ask for help. Meanwhile, I agree with sparkle, dear blindy, the pain may be bad but if you can experience it you may be able to move through it or at least to a new phase of it

cubbybear
20 February 2012 9:06AM

Response to blindhorse, 20 February 2012 12:41AM
DEAR BEAUTIFUL BLINDY
I think it's fair to say that you are well loved & precious to us all here in the caff. I'm uncertain what you are asking for. You alone know what is going on inside your head so I wouldn't wish to guess at how best to help/resolve your pain. What I will say is PLEASE speak to your GP. I know she/he is not a panacea, but if you open up to her/him I'm sure you will then be able to decide how to move on together ! It helped me when I reached breaking point trying, & failing miserably, to care for my Dad whilst continuing in full time work. It was, however, the catalyst I needed. I think most of us find it hard to ask for help, but the alternative, Blindy, is really too hard to imagine. You are a very, strong person with an amazing sense of humour, & I love you for that.
I will ask Preah if it would be ok to forward my email to her ?? You can then contact me if you so wish. You take care.
BIG BIG HUGS
CUBBY X

kc3184
20 February 2012 9:25AM

Blindy- you have so much sent to you, please accept graciously, embrace & use positively

MonkeyJammas
20 February 2012 9:48AM

Response to blindhorse, 20 February 2012 12:41AM
Need advice, how can I loose a day.

Step across the International Dateline at the stroke midnight (taking care to step in the right direction!)

spanishscot
20 February 2012 10:35AM

Response to blindhorse, 20 February 2012 12:41AM
Blindy, we are all real people and we are here for you, to listen and to help if we can.

FriedFish
20 February 2012 11:38AM

Response to blindhorse, 20 February 2012 12:41AM
Dear blindhorse, don't get blind-o. Been there done that and have drawersful of t-shirts, with all sorts of nasty stuff written on them... (I keep them as reminders.)
PP has my e-mail address. You are welcome to have it to make whatever use of it you want - or not.
Courage ma brave.
'F.

AntiM
20 February 2012 1:51PM

Response to blindhorse, 20 February 2012 12:41AM
Ma chere Blindhorse;
You have much experience and great gobs of goodwill going your way, and I'd like to add mine. Take it and the advice to find medical support. But don't forget the goodwill.

MisspellAny
20 February 2012 2:49PM

Response to blindhorse, 20 February 2012 12:41AM
Dear Blindhorse,
civsum has said what I thought: don't fight the day. Pass through it. Breath through it. Ask for and take any amount of help you want from us - we do care. My concern for you is real. I send best thoughts and hugs,

firstmate
20 February 2012 10:49PM

Response to blindhorse, 20 February 2012 12:41AM
It's not the days that you lose, it's the ones that you find.
To be honest, I never tried to lose a day but there are many that have slipped out of my hands and disappeared.... then I find a day that is so staggeringly amazing that the lost days are redeemed.
See you later... x

cubbybear
20 February 2012 11:30PM

Night night all! Night night BLINDY

blindhorse
21 February 2012 12:18AM

Before I try tonights crossie I give a big hug to all of you who responded to my splother last night. Melmoth was helpful and I have decided the best solution is to have a 48 hour day, and therefore skip the one I want to miss. PP wow enjoyed your link, you have a great talent, and I was surprised to see even I got a mention for my Xmas carol. Thanks.

PreahPithu
21 February 2012 12:25AM

Response to blindhorse, 21 February 2012 12:18AM
Thanks - as you saw you have had plenty of offers which do not have a use-by-date. Mellie is always full of good advice and I hope you successfully skip the day you want too. Would you like me to make you a new calendar and leave the dreaded day out? Easy Peasy.

blindhorse
21 February 2012 12:35AM

PP
Yes Please

PreahPithu
21 February 2012 12:45AM

Response to blindhorse, 21 February 2012 12:35AM
Which day/date are we skipping then? Do you want to extend the day before or the day after? Or some other combination.

blindhorse
21 February 2012 1:56AM

PP
As this is a leap year the loss of a day won't matter much. But I would be happy to go from the 24th to the 26th of Feb, without a gap.

The Missing Penny Lizards have turned up, NOT in north Queensland where they were originally dispatched by Subernoj, but in the caff, gallivanting on one of the Best Doilies. Clearly they have had a long journey, collecting brother goanna from the Central Dessert of Australia (ochre dust an' all) and losing land tortoise ( FerenjiNan reports from the front line) on a beach somewhere in India.  A pink umbrella is the only evidence remaining of the tortoise's existence. They now wait in splother, eating crumbs of cake and sipping drops of Black Sheep, expecting the 'happy hooker' Iggy to collect them soon.

Subernoj
6 Sep 2011, 5:43AM

iggy - re EPT. To make you feel better, I found the crossdresser relatively easy today. No cheats, just a few checks. I don't feel I need to pay EPT but just to bolster your self esteem I have decided to pay EPT (just for today only, mind)

Accordingly, I have despatched (3 hours ago), a shilling's worth of penny lizards strapped to the carapace of my trusty courier land tortoise who at this moment is struggling with the latch on the front gate.

Said remuneration should reach you any time next decade. I would be grateful if you could forward my fee (at your pleasure), to our venerable Collector of Taxes.

Your faithful servant,

Suber

Subernoj
8 Sep 2011, 1:35AM

Yep hard one today. No cheats but mucho checko

Ignore talk of EPT abolition - it is being mooted by folk that are 13a. Besides I have already despatched my EPT (a shilling's worth of penny lizards) from the other day and would be really miffed if it was all in vain considering all the trouble I went to.

guana2go
18 Jan 2012, 9:24AM

Talking of EPT, I’m still waiting on your tortoise and penny lizards, suber. Any idea when they might arrive?

Subernoj
21 Jan 2012, 6:44AM

iggy - my trusty courier land tortoise with attached penny lizards hasn't arrived yet??
Well I'm perplexed, flummoxed, surpised, disappointed, bamboozled, distressed, annoyed (nay, angry even) to say the least.

I just don't understand where the bugger is. I gave strict instructions - through the gate then turn right........

Hey, wait a minute ..... Doh! think I might have stuffed up (grins sheepishly)

Ahem - should have been turn left

Oops, sorry about that. I'll send my high speed courier snail after it to give it new directions i.e. - turn around you daft bugger and head NORTH (not South)

My most humble apoplexies

Your (normally reliable) southern constituent,

Subbie 
(mumbles to self "Left is North, Right is South,Left is North, Right is South. Neft is Lorth, Sight is Routh, Seft is Rorth, ......")

LaFerenjia
21 Jan 2012, 4:32PM

One foot in front of the other, Again.
Deep breath, now again, one foot in front of the other. Plod.
Lift leg, move a step forward.
Ee lad, we're getting there! I may not be much in the speed department, no Pony Express me, but trusty? You can always trust a Land Tort- what the fu***?

blinks beady little eyes. In a pig's parlour! My Sweet Auntie Nell!

Icebergs.
I would have sworn, the further North you go... hey there you penny lizards, belt up. Quit your squeeking, you caaan't be cold, we're heading north!

There's nevver no icebergs...or Arctic Skuas...
this looks dodgy to me.

He definitely said "Turn left, go north. This is a crucially important delivery, O. Bodkins me lad, I'm trusting you. My reputation, my street cred and caff nous is on the line...my whole self esteem type shtik counts on this delivery. I promised Penny Lizards as EPT and Penny lizards they'll have! So off you go, do me proud, Boddie, one leathery little foot in front of the other and mind now, no slipping into your shell for a wee spot of hibernation. The Tortoise Express tax delivery is on the move now, hoo boy. Just remember, keep heading north. Left is north."

And here we are, facing the great Southern Ocean.
Do you think he could have mixed up left and right? Or was he maybe playing some kind of a a cruel prank?

all these months I've wasted.....

LaFerenjia
28 Jan 2012, 9:36AM

I dive under the waves
Letting the cool green green snot green
Wash over me.
My limbs are made for this sleek aquatic life, what rightness there is, and comfort
to cavort and float,
letting the ocean buoy me.

The sea, eternal green salt cool I am so far from land, 
The rocky shores are myth
Sandy beaches fabled, a distant memory
Of leaf creatures fluttering dryly.

Ah, and those strange earth smells that to me mean only…
babies…generations which are fated
to survive
or no.
to live, to plunge into our wet womb of
veriteé.

Ah, my face breaks forth into the sun With liquid flowing like a blossom
As I breathe deeply.
Again I stretch my limbs, 
Paddling on
Feeling resolute.
But somewhere deep inside my soul there
Stirs a hint, a whisperette of
? resentment?

Yes, this is the element of my being,
The rolling ocean, the high seas.
But there are finer ways to enjoy it 
Than working for the 
Marine Turtle Courier Service branch of
Wealthy Aspiring Nerds, Kinkily Engaged in Resource Shifting.

Really, having to deliver an overdue EPT payment
Irks me no end. I could be half dug into a cool sandy hole On the beach, letting the waves slooosh shoosh sloooosh over me
While…oh, daydream on, Annie, 
Sipping one of those fishtails…
Pureed minnow with a touch of krill…a little 
Pink paper umbrella on it…

Merde, delivering Penny Lizards!
What a waste of my talents…

iguana2go
10 Feb 2012, 4:09AM

We'll be short of tax this week, lascotty, after all that cava and champagne still, the penny lizards should be arriving any day now ...

In the collection of Deelfi (when you contact me)
Hand embroidered hand towel (not used but oldish), machine embroidery, design & making Paulette.

Run Deelfi Run

deelfi62
1 February 2012 5:06PM

Ow Ow Ow - I trapped my little finger in the bolt of a heavy farm gate about an hour ago !

Was out for a run on the low fells on a glorious sunny clear afternoon when I opened the large bolt on the gate and it shot across and I didn't remove my finger in time ! Now have a lovely black nail and throbbing finger.

Where's the splothka or anything stronger ?

MisspellAny
1 February 2012 8:25PM
Response to deelfi62, 1 February 2012 5:06PM

Deelfi,
I have nothing very strong to offer, except my sympathy and commiseration. I send puffs of get-better-wishes through the cyberspace!

deelfi62
1 February 2012 9:09PM

Thanks for your sympathy. I can't believe how much pain can come from such a small finger. And maybe I should paint all the other nails dark blue to match !

PreahPithu
1 February 2012 9:28PM
Response to deelfi62, 1 February 2012 9:09PM

Deelfi, Will this affect your drumming?

Melmoth1820
1 February 2012 9:40PM

Clumps into the caff wearing exceedingly grubby overalls a greasy flatcap and very muddy boots. Plonks battered toolbox on the bar and starts ferreting about in it, throwing bits of bent wire, rusty tools and miscellaneous obscure implements on the floor. Eventually produces an antique Black and Decker, held together with bits of string and gaffer-tape, removes soggie rollie and coughs spasmodically. Downs pint of Armagnac; filthy hand shaking but hardly spilling a drop. Wipes dripping nose on sleeve and growls:
"Orright. Oo's next?"

deelfi62
1 February 2012 9:45PM

I hope not PP. Although certainly at the moment the vibration from the drum doesn't appeal.

deelfi62
1 February 2012 9:48PM

Aaahh, Melmoth, not the Black and Decker please !!!!

Melmoth1820
1 February 2012 10:15PM

deelfi62

As a sadistic dentist said to me, when I were just a young'un (prior to several fillings without anaesthetic in any shape or form);
"Don't be such a baby. It won't hurt a bit."

(Coughs and hacks disgustingly, misses spittoon by several yards, downs second pint of Armagnac and plugs drill into socket. Blue sparks fly and there is a smell of burning.)

peterkelly
1 February 2012 10:29PM

Ode to Deelfi's Injured Finger

Poor Deelfi ! Her finger is thrumming,
It might give her trouble with drumming,
And now she's alarmed,
Because Melmoth is armed,
With a drill and she hears that he's coming !

Run, Deelfi ! Run !

deelfi62
1 February 2012 10:41PM
Response to peterkelly, 1 February 2012 10:29PM

I'm running as fast as I can
I know that should be my plan
He says don't be a baby
But I can't help think that maybe
I need to get away from that man !

Melmoth1820
1 February 2012 10:44PM

PK

Groan.

deelfi62

Brilliant..................

Oh bum.

peterkelly
1 February 2012 10:51PM

How come I get a groan and Deelfi gets a "brilliant" ?
A chap could become seriously morose from that sort of treatment.

(I suggest you put the drill on "hammer". Much more effective,)

Melmoth1820
1 February 2012 10:55PM

Gorblimey.
Some peeps is so touchy and sensitive, yer hardly dare open yer beak sometimes.
OK........

PK

Exciting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy now?

peterkelly
1 February 2012 11:02PM
Response to deelfi62, 1 February 2012 10:41PM

Deelfi. come hide in the snug !
P'ong is in there and he's a martial arts expert.
For a couple of pints of Black Sheep, he'll fend off any number of Black and Decker drills all night.

peterkelly
1 February 2012 11:06PM
Response to Melmoth1820, 1 February 2012 10:55PM

I was looking more towards "elegant" or "subtle" or even "sophisticated", but I suppose "exciting" will have to do.

Don't go in the snug, whatever you do.
As a matter of fact, I could do with a new drill. How much would you take for that one ? (The bloodstained one).

MisspellAny
1 February 2012 11:08PM
Response to deelfi62, 1 February 2012 10:41PM

Deelfi, he will never catch up with you! Have you heard his cough? And have you seen the spindly legs, in those lycras? I tell you what: go get your drum, and drum it (the pain) away - and drum him away!

THIS IS HOW IT ALL STARTED
ValianceRigsby14 Oct 2011, 2:15AM

ps does any one know how to fix a time machine with a skoda engine in the boot i am presently in 2011 but am unfortunately ten minutes behind which makes conversation difficult although it may give me an advantage with the citizens test

EVERYONE HAS BORROWED IT! 

Subernoj
30 Oct 2011, 12:26AM
Took the Skoda for a spin round the block a few times but didn't get any red lights.

PUT SHEEP IN IT
PWNLady
31 Oct 2011, 3:12AM
Sub I owe you an apology. I just realized that you are probably the only person who would actually have a reason to have a sheep in the Skoda so I withdraw my limitations on livestock with one proviso -- if mallorcangirl wants to use this as a means of getting rid of her wild goats then I think we should try and find a larger vehicle.

HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT IT
Subernoj 
1 Nov 2011, 2:09AM

Popped outside to check the Skoda and,

Oh dear! Just how hard is it to keep the damn thing clean, people?

The inside was disgusting and I had to clean it out. Amongst all the rubbish, I found:

A coffee mug with three rollie fag-ends floating in the dregs - the Skoda does have an ashtray you know!
A snooker cue smelling suspiciously of lanolin
A scrap of paper with the first few lines of a poem written on it - think it may be one of Shakespeare's lost ones?
A discarded length of plastic tubing from an oxygen mask
There was a piece of driftwood on the driver's seat - the mind boggles!
Dog hair (sable) all over the back seat - I'm not vacuuming it again
A bobbin with an embroidery needle stuck in it - my finger is still bleeding
A lump of 4x2 with 23 screws in it, all perfectly aligned (apart from the last one - keep trying)
A router with lipstick on it?????
A half eaten take-away curry with an i-pod stuck in it - I jest not
There was, quite literally, a glove in the glove-box and
A picture of the Kremlin behind the sun visor (comrade?) 
A well worn Twitcher's Guide to The Birds of Europe - not necessarily avian
A small anchor - the brakes work perfectly fine thank you
Some half -consumed sushi and a paper plate of fugu - hope it was a good chef
A glass bearing an inscription for an obscure Shrimp restaurant - a souvenir or "souvenired"?
A legal document with a red ribbon around it and wine stains all over it - I didn't open it. Honestly
One pair of hippy sandals - (my advice - splash out on a new pair - please)
A job application written in triplicate - take the job
What I think is a gibbon turd?? - don't look at me I'm not touching it
A coffee machine that appears to have been stolen from someone?
On the passenger seat was a book titled “Russian for the Beginner” - dog eared at page 3
Unbelievably there was a trocar point Steinmann intramedullary pin under the front seat - don't you know how dangerous they are?
Red brick dust all over the dash 
A few photographs of shadows stuck to the windscreen
A musical score sheet stuffed into the side door pocket
And unbelievably - there was a bl**dy goat in the boot! - despite assurances there wouldn't be any more livestock
You know who you are
I know who you are - it doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to work it out folks
Last warning - if you use the Skoda can you PLEASE clean it out after using it
Oh and another thing - the bl**dy car needed more petrol!
Lift your game or I will have to start charging a refundable deposit (to cover cleaning costs)
Respectfully yours,
S

USED IT AS AN EXCUSE TO CHECK OR CZECK
mrsmatisse
31 Oct 2011, 4:59PM
Blopp
The bonse is sore from the scratchin'
Should 'ave kept them brain cells a hatchin'
4 cheats
no skodas
My cup runneth over
Bloop

ofHesselink
2 Nov 2011, 12:34PM
Jeez, it took me while to get going on that one and only got the bloody tightly-curled fur through use of the Skoda.

xword
4 Nov 2011, 3:25PM
Hello All
Not a bad crozzer today, unlike yesterday's IMHO. Went to Prague so often, I have had to buy another Skoda for the QCC 

GridRebs
4 Nov 2011, 4:14PM
I popped out to have a look at the Skoda, I can see why you kept the Trabant! It looks like it's run into several crosswords and it's not so much parked as abandoned. I looked inside and noticed that there were a huge number of Clicks on the clock.(Klicks is a military term for Kilometres Ed)  

mrsmatisse
6 Nov 2011, 10:29AM
I couldn't get the Skoda started this morning. Did someone leave the lights on?
So a flat start for me. Finally jump started the old banger as I needed it for 19a.


USED IT FOR BRIEF ENCOUNTERS 

cubbybear
1 Nov 2011, 10:41AM
Well, I borrowed the skoda for a brief encounter last night, 

USED IT FOR PENANCE 
  
bloggsie452 
Nov 2011, 11:20AM
Now then up overers Bloggsie has done penance for his abysmal cognative recall today by cleaning out our communal Skoda. It's now spotless! So don't you lot go and soil it by littering the interior with: split infinitives; tautologies; non-sequitors and the like.

THE NOT SURE WHAT CATEGORY CATEGORY bloggsie457 Nov 2011, 2:43AM

Bloggsie has just noticed that a darling little 21d must have installed a re-cycling bin into the Skoda overnight.

Folks: Please use it to hide the litter, because the biological border control police noticed a small 22a object on the back seat of the Skoda. As a result poor Bloggsie was hauled before a grand jury of CITES enforcement dragons shivering and shuddering with fear quite visibly. For the next two hours he was harangued and interrogated by this 2d Russian woman of truly Amazonian proportions and made to feel about 2 mm tall. Fortunately, being Russian, she understood the meaning of "Communal Car", and after he surrendered said object into her care he was fortunately allowed to proceed. He thought, for almost the entire 2 hours, that he was going to be consigned to some Siberian gulag.

Skoda whispered twice while on the journey home to the clinic. On arrival, Bloggsie promptly fell into a deep sleep from emotional exhaustion. Alois was dumbfounded, because B is usually so chirpy at lunch-time.

Table runner 85 cm x 27 cm. Recycled table runner, machine embroidery, hand dyed silk organza (tree), design and work by Paulette Hayes. 

In the collection of the well-know Writer, Sparclear. 

Artits: Paulette Hayes. Doily from Thrift. Words by Fereninjnan. Machine embroidery. 
Doily in the art collection of Fereninjan

Fabric doily (reused) machine embroidery. Design Paulette Hayes

In the collection of the artist - not sure if SA want this doily. 

SillyAunt

13 Oct 2011, 12:27PM

MJ

I 
have a rubber stamp that say's "Complete and Utter BULLSHIT"

FACT 

Table runner 87cm x 27 cm Machine embroidery. Design Paulette

In the collection of the artist. I have offered this to Hess but not sure if he wants it.

ofHesselink

8 Oct 2011, 9:44AM

Minister for Pedantry

The Not Honourable  El of Hesselinkerindo

“Any further attempt to

suborn, or outrageously

procure the services of another

pedant will be met by the full

might of the legal profession”.



AND thank you Mel for the word:

 Melmoth1820

8 Oct 2011, 11:59AM

 Or El ofHesselinkerindo, if you know, you're not into the whole brevity thing.

For those who have asked me - I bought these 'rainbow' doilies in Falmouth on Cape Cod last week when we had a day off-island (in America). It is getting more difficult to find old or 'used' doilies so yes I am now re-learning how to crochet the edges but for now I have a few to keep me going that are already edged. I think you will know when I start doing it ...

Never go short of the letter that you need to correctly spell that eluseve eluseve elusive word - Misspell has exactly what you need - just ask nicely.

Materials: Re-used doilies, machine embroidery thread. 
Designed and stitched by Paulette Hayes


In the collection of Misspellany.

Bayman65

3 October, 2011 8.33 am

Regarding unsolicited mail in reply to Amy.

“I sometimes add a few spoonfuls of dots (in the envelope) from the hole punch – childish I know but one gets bored sometimes :)”

 

Monkey Jammas

3 October, 2011 10.21am

“I do exactly the same thing”.

 

(Ed: What does Mrs MJ think of this I wonder?)


In the collection of fine art work of Mr Bayman (when he asks).

"Black Sheep": Black cotton fabric, machine threads. Technique: Computer design, machine embroidery.

"A magnificent silver tabby with a refined arrangement of stripe, spots and white socks". 


2 September 2011 9:39AM

The Naughty Step. Materials: Thrift shop doily, embroidery cotton, red wine, yellow dye, ground charcoal, safety pins. Technique: Machine embroidery. Paulette Hayes.

Just so you know: This definition is from the Wicked Wikipedia: A diacritic,   diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign) is an ancillary glyph added to a letter, or basic glyph. The term derives from the Greekδιακριτικός (diakritikós, "distinguishing"). Diacritic is both an adjective and a noun, whereas diacritical is only an adjective. Some diacritical marks, such as the acute ( ´ ) andgrave ( ` ) are often called accents. Diacritical marks may appear above or below a letter, or in some other position such as within the letter or between two letters.

Missing Diachritic: Materials: Lace doily from Thrift store, sewing thread. Technique: Design & machine embroidery. Paulette Hayes.


In the collection of the artist.

Doilies used in the QCC .

L