For those with a warped sense of humour WARNING- no punches pulled here

I'll bring Sleipnir over LM and we'll ride off onto the sunset.

Odin xxx

... to the strains of Vashti Bunyan: http://youtu.be/sYpccdzBvuE

I dare you to listen to this without itching to slap her.

xx

Ride of the Valkyries might be more appropriate!

Good day to all in the lunatic assylum!  I hope you are all having a good one!

LM you so deserve that win!

Glad the crossed appendages worked!

I'll get Rocky to bite the arse of the Doc if the serpents are busy!  Rocky has viscious razor teeth and for a little dog can he can cause a lot of damage!

Shame about the choklit - I'm currently munching on large pieces of fruit and nut Toblerone from the very large block I bought in for Christmas!  Whoooooops!  Will just have to buy another one now!

Is the lady in the room next door related to a participant in "I'm a Celeb" by any chance!!!!!  Poor love!  Hope she sleeps better tonight and doesn't disturb you too much.

Gordy is having his chemo sesh and he is posting silly videos of drunken geordies falling asleep in cafes on FB while he's having it! 

I'm having a little slob before going to decorate a couple of birthday cakes.

Have a lovely day all - or at least as lovely as can be expected.

Much love,

Nin xxxx

Oh  LOVE my new computer now cos it’s got this snap thing so I can type here on a word doc and look at all you’ve written next to it !!!

I started to try to remember but too much… nebulisers and slapping and oh…

1. Hilary, I lasted 47 seconds. I then slapped her off the screen.
2. I suggest Valkyries or Carmina Burana Sorry I am tired and I seem to have lost the ability to spel or type in order. I hope it is just tiredness and not my brian finally saying enough is enough and giving up on me just as things get timersting. (oh dear… that was meant to say interesting…see what I eman sorry mean! )
3. Try harder! Type slower!
4. Thanks for all the congratualtions. I am embarrassingly overexcited and waiting for my email to tell me about my prize… still grinning!!  Anyone want the cupcake cases though cos they are lost on me...
5. I didn’t know you could nebulise a cat! Wow. Hope he appreciates it…. I suspect not. P forgot to close the lid on the cat biscuit jar this morning. Fat cat was caught on the window sill, head stuck nt he jar ha haaa.
6. I hate to say it clariybel but I wouldn’t fancy my chances of a job so close to finishing treatment. You are meant to be covered by the disability discrimination act but whether you declare it or not I don’t know… Hi, I've just finished cancer treatment, gis a job probably isn't the best way forward, unless you are working for Macmillan... Good luck to both of you xxx
7. Bored of numbers but too tired to turn them off now…
8.  Hi Ems, puking was NOT one of your missions ok? Stop it right now and get back to swearing and abba songs…. Or that serpent will be biting more than the doctor’s bum.
9. Hi Nin, I hope you make some money out of al these cakes you decorate… or are you just weird? How come everyone has giant bars of toblerone and boxes of choccies etc in their house and I don’t???? Mind you, I won the competition hahaaaaaaa.
10. I was a stern and proper teacher today and am secluding a boy in my class for calling a girl the c word and not the one we are all here for! The other one that ems calls the front lady garden haha.(that was cos we were laughing at the docs saying ‘waterworks’  If they ever caught me on here, oh dear….
11. Nin, my brother has been posting links to Christmassy songs on his fb page…one a day… Today was Sinead o Connor singing silent night… sniff sniff, it was a bit soppy…
12. I forgot
13. I managed a week at work but so so sleepy now… going a bit cross eyed and snoozy but at least I don’t have a headache which is a first… zzz hugs and cwtches and stor kram etc

Little My xxx

Ps I was trying to post a picture my friend sent me but can’t for some reason. It is a ladybird book picture called 'enemas are fun'. In the meantime he is a picture I took at school today.

Help yourselves…. if it helps you to have some fun this weekend... xxx  

Thanks to everyone for the good wishes and encouragement for my talk. I finished everything in good time and arrived at the Hall on one of the wettest days for months. It didn’t auger well for people coming out to hear a talk on Chopin.

I expected to see the technicians already there, setting up the equipment. The room was all set out with chairs, lectern and tables but no equipment and no technicians. There was plenty of time so I was not too worried at this stage.

Finally one of the technicians, R, came in and the equipment arrived and we set it up. The other technician had a cold and wasn’t coming, but that was alright because one person could operate the equipment.

We tested the equipment and adjusted the position of the speakers and then tried my CD. This is always an anxious moment, since compilation CDs don’t always work on some equipment.

R said he had to go home but would be back in time for the start. I was a little uneasy about this, because he said he had a delivery coming and you know what deliveries are like.

I went to the cafe and had some cawl and a roll. There was no one else there so I went down to the box office to book for a concert. While I was there someone asked the booking clerk if anything was on over lunchtime. She said no, but I jumped in and invited him to an illustrated talk on Chopin. I was determined to have at least one person in the audience!

Time was going on and there was no sign of R. I had visions of operating as a one man band, and I checked that I could operate the equipment with the remote control. I didn’t really need an introduction, but just think how brilliant the vote of thanks I could give myself at the end.

Gradually more and more people came and I realised that there would be a good audience. The chairman arrived and I offered him the notes I had made for my vote of thanks, but he said he didn’t need them. Pity, they would have been brilliant!  Finally R came back with 5 minutes to spare and we were off.

LM had asked me to incorporate the old chestnut about Chopin-Liszt (shopping list), and being near to Christmas I agreed. Pity there was no open fire by which to roast that chestnut. I thought it best to get the joke in at the beginning so that they would forget it by the end. After telling it, I waited for the groans, but I got laughter!!!!! What a polite audience I thought, because most of them must have heard that joke a thousand times.

The talk went to plan, and timing was correct. Afterwards, the chairman’s vote of thanks was OK, but mine was better. But then people came up to me and said, “Brilliant”, “Best ever”, “You’ve converted me to piano music”, far better than even my vote of thanks. In fact I may have blushed just a teensy weensy little bit.

Best welsh cwtches,

Odin xxxxx

Well Done Odin (tilt tilt) great that all went well after all that hard work and completing your task from LM

Today Chopin tomorrow Vashti Bunyan

Hugs 

Cruton xx

Odin, I am so happy and proud of you.... The old ones are the best ha haaaaa. and the worst to get in.. What's your next talk on? Just asking...... :)

And I had never heard of Vashti Bunyan before.... and now I wish I never had. Boy, does that girl need a good slap!

Didn't wake up till 9am :) Going to go for a swim this afternoon  and going to have a sauna afterwards to warm up. Mmmmmm. I am so happy that I can actually swim again, even if not dolphin status, I am inching my way up the evolutionary ladder at getting close to something that doens't just instantly drown when coming into contact with water... Last time, there were 2 young women swimming up and down gossiping and one of them started going on about smells and that there was  funny smell and crinkling up her nose... i got a tad paranoid for a while and was trying to swim and look behind me to check it wasn't me... nearly drowned Ha ha .

P just told me he was so happy in our new house and he couldn't believe we were so lucky and what did we do to deserve this... I told him that to other people, our life is not  a bed of roses and people might say we deserve a bit of good luck/happiness...He didn't get that and  I don't most of the time either...  Funny thing perspective isn't it... ems and I were talking about this in the hospital... about you always think, well, I'm not too bad,  I could be so and so they have it worse etc and on we go on down the line... I want to know who the poor bugger at the end of the line is cos they need a hug!! and possibly a bottle of brandy... 

  Better mention poo somewhere on this... my 2 bums are just bloody weird. That's all I am saying... Oh I forgot I already sort of mentiioned poos already.. well, 2 bums, 2 mentions...

I also admitted defeat and bought Christmas cards (from Mac of course) I usually make mine but that is a spoon too far this year... I suppose at least mac get some money out of it so that makes it feel better.

Hilary, its nearly Christmas, so crack open the Morphine I say and clink syringes... chin chin! x

Hugs and spoons and cwtches to all...

xxx

ps I may be setting you all a warped Christmas mission... be warned...

I don't think givig Vashti Bunyan a slap will help much, she'll just siong an octave higher and that will be worse!

My next talk is in March and it's all done and dusted. As you say LM the old ones are the best! As for what it's on, well I'm hid'n that from you!

As for a warped Christmas mission, be careful what you ask for, there are two of us seeking revenge and one of us double revenge!!

Thought I'd see about swimming lessons, but there was a strange smell up there, so I came away.

scratchem, don't tilt your head at me!

Thanks for all the spoons, and encouragement (and nagging).

Stor Kram,

Odin xxxxx