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

LM it's February! EMglish Riviera or not, swimming in a lake is much much too cold!!!!

Hope breakfast in the posh hotel was up to expectations. Did you and Max have sosages?

Tim, I was about to despatch the Rescue team for you when I realised that our ace driver with her bin is another lady, so thought better not to send another reinforcement for the ladies. Hope you escaped with your skin intact.

All that drinking and you are planning Breakfast at Weatherspoons. Never mind baggy, what about your guts!

It was much easier when the only pain killer was asprin - much easier to spell.

I wish people would stop talking about food with lots of sugar in it.

Hils there's nothing wrong with grumpy people, look how much Victor Meldrew was loved!

LM and Max enjoy your week in a yogurt.

Ems, everything is crossed for when you go in for the CURE!

Tim, perhaps you should have gone with LM to live in a yogurt to toughen yourself up for your operation. Have you looked at the video?

Love, hugs, cwtches and Krams and no bugs for those in yogurts,

Odin xxx

Seems an entertaining evening was had by all eh! DUCK TIM (that was me throwing summat at ya)!! I don't know what you mean and I don't know how all my wheel trims are scraped it certainly wasn't me!

I was out last night to celebrate daughters birthday 25 eh. We went for an Indian and poor Dunc is suffering for it this morning though I think the 8 pints of beer didn't help mr. bowel. Silver linings for me though tee hee. I took 2 loperamide and baggy behaved all night and has done a lovely formed poo this morning and because I have no rectum I never get gripey, hurray for me. Sorry for all this poo talk on a Sunday afternoon.

Hils, grump away go on just let it all rip out on here we don't mind honest, we love you and under the circumstances grumps are allowed. Ooooh I love parkin, can you send a nice big slice and i'll brew up.

Good luck next week Ems you colourful lady you xx

Wonder what LM is up to at the min?? I bet it'll involve singing of some kind.

Anyway I must make an effort to get out of my pj's and take the dog for a walk, it looks lovely and sunny out there.

Catch you all later, my loony warpy friends.

Take care

Jan xxxxx

I could send parkin to all the people who ask for parkin, and then they could tell me if I'm doing it right. It tastes okay, as far as I can tell, but I'm not altogether sure about the consistency. I'd never had parkin before I started making it.

Had a quite busy morning today, for values of 'morning' that = between 1.00 and 4.00 pm - a tiny bit of shopping, vacuumed the stairs, vacuumed up some leaves outside the front door (this wasn't entirely successful and possibly made more work than just sweeping them would have involved), sloshed some water around the kitchen floor - I'm not sure that what I did counts as actual 'washing'. Oh, yes, and put some laundry in. I do realise that this is no more than normal people do every day, in fact, considerably less, but it's more than I can usually manage, and I feel less grumpy for it.

Or I would do, if not for dangling modifiers and the incorrect use of 'everyday' (culprits: HarperPerennial, Homebase and Pets at Home). I wonder how one would set about finding editorial work at home? As far as I'm concerned, the entire world, or nearly, needs a proofread.

Oh, I have a slice of cheesecake for tonight because, frankly, why the hell not? I was very tempted by teeny-tiny bottles of wine in Chav Tesco, but wine gives me tummy cramps. Which, I suspect, is yet another by-product of Mr Crab. The gift that keeps on giving!

xx

Yep indeed Hilary, morning on Sunday shouldn't start till 1pm. I managed to get dressed by 3pm and have only just got back in from the dog walk. Brrrrrr it's cold, but I did have fun in all the squishy mud puddles with my wellies and have persuaded Dunc to have a go too and he's hooked. Don't know what the normal walkers think when passing us but who cares!!

Oooooh I see you've been very busy with housework and you know I prick my ears up when I hear the word vacuuming. Very satisfying indeed isn't it? Sounds a bit dangerous though, sloshing water around. You need a mop of some kind to avoid water disaster.tee hee.

Pity about the wine and grrrrrrrr to pf's Mr Crab. Have you tried anymore of those alcopops? Our John and Dunc love that ginger beer one.

You make me chuckle with your annoyance of correct use of the english language 'cos you really remind me of my daughter Vicki. She's an English Literature Teacher and she is very passionate about our dear language. Her biggest bugbear is the incorrect use of the apostrophy, it really makes her mad. I'm just giggling again thinking of you two proofreading. She gets great delight proofreading for her partner through his assignments and her brother with all his uni stuff. I'm afraid i'm quite the thicky compared but hey ho i'm happy. Ooooh did you notice the correct use of an apostrophy then :)

Right i'm off to sort tea out now and I wish I had some of your parkin mmmmmmm.

Take care,

Jan xxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi Jan,
Before Hils gets to you, do a quick edit - it's apostrophE !!!

I've vacuumed, ironed, baked a loaf and knitted. Today's meant to be a day off, yes? Huh. We watched a crappy footie match between Spurs & Stevenage this afternoon which the former should have won by a zillion goals on usual form but  - it was DIRE! But at least I got another square made for a knitted blanket. It needs 96 x 6" squares & I've done 54 but I'm seriously flagging and frankly getting bored. I need an alternative hobby, something that isn't playing Klondike on the old steam desktop, 10 years old this year.

Hilary you are working too hard, washing floors is a strictly weekday job. BTW you mentioned Thornton Heath aeons ago - before moving here I lived in Croydon, yuk, for 21 years. We were both right to leave!

 Love to all xxx

Well done for spotting my deliberate mistake Annie (shuffling my feet and looking sheepish). Think i'll leave it there now to show Hilary what a huge task she has.

Enjoy your evening all xxx

I do have to say that after an impressive piece of "Parkin" a year or so ago I came back to find different cars in front and behind and had to wait 2 hours to unpark.....now that is just not right, I'd concentrated so hard too, now I don't dare park well...???!!! Happy sunday evening to you all xx ps the warden got a mouthful too, well not my fault I had to stay there for so long

HI loopy loony warpy people

Not had a chance to read everyone's updates but wanted to let you all know that we found out on Friday that the blood clot in Tom's head as completely gone!!!! Wooooo

They still want him to carry on with the warfarin, but he's fine with that cos its not the horrible daily injections anymore.

Docs are also happy that nothing has changed since the scans after his operation so no more treatment and now its definitely just a chest xray and blood test every 3 months

Clairlybel xxxxxxxxx

Great news Clarabella! Thanks for sharing it with us.

Best welsh cwtches to you and Tom.

Odin xxx

Just noticed the site will be down on the morning of February 28th from 8.00am.