Awake and up all night

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  • Ooh, your post about zebra fur has just popped up! The hamsters have come out to play and we might need to explain them to Fliegel.

    I detest those shows and what they do to the furniture. We tut and then laugh xxx

  • Interesting winkling out what is considered beautiful... this is different in different cultures and changes over time. 

    So we have neck lengthening, foot shortening, fattening houses, lose 6 stone overnight by sucking a pebble schemes ...

    there are images (not of people) that produce a universal disgust reaction. I wonder if the opposite is true? 

    Clearly the big eyes etc that Disney employs relates to our positive reaction to babies ...

    I do think I get more pleasure out of rooting around in pebbles on the beach than most though Slight smile

    Cheers

  • You should be ok above the neck hon, as it's already established you train your brain, so keep working on that. 

    As an aside, have you ever been on an adventurous holiday like Shimmers has? The safari posts if you read them. 

    I haven't but I've never been a good traveller xxx

  • Aw Shimmers, I know about babies eyes equals attractiveness. 

    Mine now resemble pissholes in the snow, so goodbye attractions Joy

  • Not that adventurous.

  • Actually unless it is by train I am a very poor traveller. Motion sickness! Oh boy!

    Nauseated face

    In Kenya however it was damage to your personal chassis you needed to worry about.... roads of rock juddering your bones into oblivion, one of the worst going right by the ministry for roads Hushed

    I even tried sitting on my fists as a bit of shock absorbancy.

    Cheers

  • No, us neither but 2 days in Redcar recently was a mahoosive achievement. xxx

  • No I should not go lol. That does not sound too amusing. I have travelled to Europe entirely by train apart from a taxi ride across London to King Cross/St Pancras.

  • Yes it was and those two days required risk and confidence so bravo!

    Cheers

  • I've suffered travel sickness my entire life Shimmers. 

    I even spewed up at the mere sight of Quells when I was a nipper. Tiny pink pills, I remember the taste vividly, and this was over 65 years ago. Some things you never forget. yuck