When on TOSblog 'juniperjewel' & 'sky_viewer' consistently play the man rather than the ball. I wish they would find their way here where I can discuss this matter with them in depth.
I won't hold my breath.
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I notice that juniperjewel has apologised to flunklampard [last night's TOSblog]
ReplyDeleteThink juniperjewel misunderstood his post
ReplyDeleteAmazing the difference a guest makes. Found that one lightweight after Julie Walters.
ReplyDeleteWill never forget the waitress character she played (with Victoria Wood). Oh God,Now I've forgotten the name of the show.
astroplums, Your 2015,
ReplyDeleteIt was 'Acorn Antiques' - hilarious.
I have just corrected the silly error in the my header text. I had got man and ball reversed.
ReplyDeleteJH
ReplyDeleteThks, Acorn Antiques, yes it was superb.
It's interesting on the TOS blog, how one item will exercise more than another, but never the one I imagine it will be. Tonight the hairdressers are on fire.
JH, you just had to go one better than the budgie photo didn't you! Acorn Antiques was really funny, but does anyone else remember a programme called Chelmsford 123 with Rory McGrath, which was set during the Roman occupation of Britain?
ReplyDeleteJadedoldie,
ReplyDeleteYour 2141: There is also a photo me with my pet monkey, Sally, sitting on my head. She enjoyed sitting there. It was taken when I was living on Penang. Unfortunately, I cannot find the photo. But I do have a photo of Sally.
Jadedoldie,
ReplyDeleteThe photo of me with the Macaws was taken in Windsor when I was about 16.
Jadedoldie,
ReplyDeleteI do not recall Chelmsford 123. Maybe I was abroad at the time.
It strikes me that several animals enjoy sitting on my head. I had never really noticed this before. I am glad that it is only small animals.
ReplyDeleteJH, I have been giving thought to this little peccadillo of yours, that is the need to have a furry or feathered object on your head. Are you of an age where all young boys wore Davy Crockett hats? Were you perhaps denied one, are you still trying to compensate? It does not bother me as to what you wear on your head, within reason obviously, but it would be interesting to discover why this habit was formed.
ReplyDeleteJH 00.20
ReplyDeleteYou will become known as the human perch. lol.
I do not know the cause of my pet on the head phenomenon but it seems that it started at an early age.
ReplyDeleteJH 11.38
ReplyDeleteHave you consulted a professional about this?
Maybe I could talk to the RSPCA.
ReplyDeleteJH, I should avoid the RSPCA if I were you, they might not be so understanding of your little "habit", lol. I do notice that one of your animal friends we do not see in this pose is Heroi, at least you know where to draw the line.
ReplyDeleteJH 1309
ReplyDeleteI have spoken to them on your behalf and they do say you are definitely a suitable case for treatment.
jadedoldie 15.13.
ReplyDeleteRe JH
I think we have got a right one here!
I don't know about the RSPCA, I think a straight jacket might be the answer.
I wonder if astroplums will make it home in time for his afternoon delight with Rachel? If he's not careful the boy will do himself a damage!
ReplyDeleteDanedweller, when does him indoors arrive home with your Red Cross parcel of supplies?
JH and Danedweller, I started looking at old photos last night because I had remembered some bygone pets. I have never laughed so much in all my life. JH, you will remember the hand knitted woollen bathing costumes our mothers used to make us, Danedweller, you can be grateful you aren't old enough! Then later photos of me in a smart business suit and french pleat, off to work, and the same day a panda-eyed hot pant suited long hair to the knees version obviously out on the town, lol.
ReplyDeletejadedoldie
ReplyDeleteThankfully tomorrow morning.
Whilst I am looking forward to the red cross parcel, and hopefully a glossy magazine. I am really looking forward to his culinary skills back in the kitchen! I have never known a chilli con carne go so far! LOL.
Danedweller, please tell me you do have SOME fresh veg while him indoors is away, a little omelette and salad would be good.
ReplyDeleteJadedoldie
ReplyDeleteI do remember hot pants & white knee length boots! Mary Quant had a lot to answer for in my photo album.
I think, I saw a glimpse of half a cauliflower at the back of the fridge when I was reaching for the cold cooked boiled rice. I will have to take another look. There is a piece of fillet steak, oh but cooking it is too much.
ReplyDeleteNo salad I'm afraid, far to cold for salads. There is an egg begging to be used up so I might take your advice on an omelette. I don't personally do shopping, other than what is in my well stocked freezer, I am sure there is something lurking at the bottom I could cobble together.
He did put a box of wine in the fridge and that has indeed been very welcome friend and has helped me get through TOS.
Danedweller I think it was the Dusty Springfield make-up that I really regret. I was also still young enough to indulge myself with flower power, and to attend marches against, well against just about anything really, during the sixties. I do recall my Daddy picking me up from the rail station once, I was painted with flowers and probably smelling slightly of an illegal substance. He snarled "get in the rear and cover yourself with the travel rug" and that was how I travelled home. That was one day I never wanted the journey to end, I can tell you!
ReplyDeleteDanedweller, could you not finely chop the steak season it and make steak tartare, the cauliflower just needs steaming and I am turning into your nagging mother!
ReplyDeleteJadedoldie.
ReplyDeleteTartare sauce ! Whatever next.
Oh please, it's far too tiring just watching them on Ready Steady Cook!
When I divorced husband number one, who was never indoors, hence the divorce. I lived each week on one dozen eggs and a cut loaf of bread. So you are talking to the Queen of a hundred and one things to do with an egg.
AAAAAAAAAAAAhhhhh, you see my problem is that I simply LOVE to cook! When I am able I get myself to the kitchen and play for hours and hours, making all sorts of things. I have even had cookery lessons with Rick Stein, and love to try different things.
ReplyDeleteJadedoldie,
ReplyDeleteYes I recall having a knitted swimming costume. I would have been about 4 or 5 at the time. It was red & white stripped.
Seriously, I can cook if I want to but him in doors loves to do it so it's taken out of my hands. I like to cook for guests and special occasions but I hate cooking when I am on my own, so I will go to great lengths to avoid it.
ReplyDeleteFresh meat etc here is very expensive, so I like to buy the special offers and I make batch meals. hence the wells stocked freezer. I do enjoy doing that because it is a challenge.
When HID is away I prefer to eat what he won't eat, like chilli con carne, and spag bog, both of which can go a long way and doesn't take too much effort for one person. LOL.
It is true about the eggs and the loaf.
Rick Stein, the fish king! How great is that. We get good fish here and we buy it from the dock where the small fishing fleet lands it. Can't eat too much fish, but I suppose where you are you get great fish.
Rick is a neighbour and on Mayday which is a great occasion in Padstow he used to have an open house at his home on that day. I can still smell and taste the enormous dishes of hot and cold fish feasts! It sadly came to an end when he split from his wife.
ReplyDeleteJH, was your little striped swimmy worn with or without wildlife? When it got wet, did it hang between your knees like a well-filled nappy,because mine did, lol. Those were the days!
Danedweller I have never been able to batch cook, because friends appear like vultures when I am in the kitchen, and phrases like OH, you've made far to much just for you and Rob, I'll just take a dish/plate/bowl/ful home shall I? So damned considerate!
ReplyDeletejadedoldie.
ReplyDeleteHow lucky are you, a great seafood resturant on your doorstep. Sounds like it was great fun.
We have 2 seafood resturants on the marina, but i don't think they would come up to the standard of RS.
Perhaps there is a photo of the swim suit, I wondered if there would be widlife involved, maybe a small seacrab on the head.
jadedoldie.
ReplyDeleteYou are a victim of your own success!
You will have to do your batch cooking behind closed and locked doors with curtains drawn. But I suppose the blighters would smell it.
JH
ReplyDeleteDoes your daughter speak Danish?
Danedweller the very thought of the crab on JH's head has sent me into a fit of the giggles it will be difficult to control.
ReplyDeleteI see that neither juniperjewel nor sky-viewer wished to discuss their take on TOS away from the TOSblog, but then they don't do much in the way of debate which is a shame!
Jadedoldie
ReplyDeleteThank you for your concern about Rachel and my goodly self.
I did make it back for the 4+1 edition and am very happy, if not deeply concerned about my strange behaviour. Never has a woman on television had this much luck with me before.
Ah! I hear the flapping of white coats...trust you are all well.
jadedoldie
ReplyDeleteDutchblog on TOS blog is asking how he can get to this blog.
jadedoldie
ReplyDeleteHave you seen this website? Re the chocolate.
http://www.chocablog.com/reviews/de-bondt-aromatico-coriander-chocolate/
danedweller, will try that link later, thank you for taking the time to help.
ReplyDeleteastroplums I don't think your behaviour is any stranger than the rest of us, we have to learn to live with it, lol.
We haven't seen WD, HKA & HF on TOS blog for quite some while. I hope they haven't got so disïllusioned with TOS they have given up on the blog. Is it safe to mention TR has thankfully seems to have 'taken a powder'.
ReplyDeleteJH
ReplyDeleteJust noticed your comments about Pinang.
I have done a lot of work out of Georgetown,Pinang and will be back down to KL in the next few months.
The barbecued lobster on the hotel's beach in the evening around 1930 is one of my great pleasures.
Lobster is the food of the gods astroplums, when we used to have huge barbecues on the beach the guys used to dig pits, fill them with firing, seaweed and fish of all types including lobster, finish off with another layer of seaweed light the fire and wait. With wine bottles cooled in a rock pool, and beer treated the same way it is absolute heaven!!!!
ReplyDeletejadedoldie
ReplyDeleteAll that and Rachel in her bikini next to me. Sweet dreams!!
Did you really mean sweet dreams, in my younger days they weren't called that, lol.
ReplyDeleteJaded
ReplyDeleteI was being diplomatic, you minx!
Call a spade a spade that's what I say, I remember the days when men made me all flirty and wicked, what fun we have and don't realise how precious it is! Sometimes I read the comments on different blogs and it breaks my heart, some people don't seem to have a second of joy in their lives!
ReplyDeletejaded
ReplyDeleteYou're right. Thank goodness we live in a free society where we can enjoy the wonderful things in life. Sadly, there are those amongst us now who would love to impose their will and stop, particularly the femmale, from having any fun at all. How sad.
astroplums, you mentioned the Acorn Antiques waitress earlier, there is a restaurant near here where one of the waitresses is a dead ringer for her, both in age and expertise, lol. We were having our pud one night when a couple sitting next to us actually lost it, waited fortunately until she had gone back to the kitchen and said, in unison, "is it on the trolley" and the whole dining room erupted in hysterical laughter! That was a moment I will remember always, especially the effort we all made to control ourselves and not hurt her feelings. She got some great tips that night.
ReplyDeleteJadedoldie,
ReplyDeleteIt appears that I have been repeating you on last night's TOSblog. I did not notice until it was too late. Anyway as they say great minds think alike.
astroplums,
ReplyDeleteyour 2010: We lived on Penang from 1966 to 1968. My elder daughter was born there.
In those days there was not much of a tourist industry. The island derived its wealth in the main from its status as a duty free port. So we stocked up on cameras, etc. I enjoyed Penang mostly for our friends and parties. Its humid climate is not the best kind.
danedweller, Your 2010: Amanda is learning Danish albeit slowly. They aspire to bring Oliver up bi-lingual.
ReplyDeleteBesides, I have yet to meet a Scandanavian who does not speak good English. The first Danish girl that I met at 19 was excellent at English and many other things as I recall.
JH 1132
ReplyDelete" and many other things" you recall...Mmmmm!
The joy of memories - no don't say it JH!
JH, your 11.20, the right thing can't be said often enough. Ah, wait a moment, according to Len West it can, lol. I do love the idea that once someone has expressed an opinion no one else should echo it, unless it's the blogger himself who is making the statement!
ReplyDeleteFour members of our County Council are in hot water [and rightly so] for "tweeting" during a council meeting. One of the published tweets concerned a "level of sexual innuendo in the chamber". astroplums, you naughty boy, were you present?
ReplyDeleteJH 11.32
ReplyDeleteDanish is one of the hardest languages to learn, they admit it themselves. It took my son 3 years to learn.
Most Danes speak very good English, our neighbours like to practice on us at every opportunity. Great idea to bring Oliver up bi-lingual, they just absorb everything at his age.
Off topic
ReplyDeleteI was dismayed when reading the press today, that a judge had uphelp the privacy law ruling stating that the press could be gagged. This related to some Premier League footballer who had, behind his wifes back, had it off with a team - mates girlfriend.
OK, whilst I am not interested in the prurient details, I felt this privacy ruling for some and not another was very wrong.
I'm now watching News 24 and am delighted to see that he has been named. Wonder if 'Private Eye' has another writ coming.
Do any of you have any feelings re the attempt by judges to crush free speech? Or have I got it all wrong?
No I got ot wrong - another judge has lifted the injunction. Good
ReplyDeleteRe astroplums, Your 1720,
ReplyDeleteNo you have definitely not got it wrong, in my opinion. English libel laws are excessively restrictive. There are moves afoot to reform the law.
astroplums and JH,I am in complete agreement with you both re privacy. That is one reason I have always had a[previously] well hidden soft spot for Ian Hislop. I have just left the TOSblog, Len West does not take kindly to differing opinions does he?
ReplyDeleteI am surprised and not a little disappointed.