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Come Inside... => The Restaurant => Topic started by: The Moan Ranger on February 16, 2008, 04:11:40 PM
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Took Mrs TMR for a meal last night to a restaurant we couldn't get into on Valentine's day.
And it was indeed excellent, however I do think that FIFTY FIVE FUCKING QUID FOR LOBSTER IS TAKING THE PISS RIGHT ROYALLY!
My Dover Sole was twenty eight quid and that's bad enough...
Still, musn't grumble...
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Was it worth it?
As in..erm.. well......
Was it worth it?
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It was this morning...twice...
I have also put all the new handles on the cupboard doors today and done the shopping...
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Two things a married man cannot get at home: Lobster Thermidor and a Blow Job.
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Mrs TMR had the Lobster Thermidor last night, I had the other this morning, so that it not always the case.
:-)
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The exception that proves the rule eh?
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I am wondering if it was to persude me to do the door handles...
Either way, "Holly the hoover" apparently only charges thirty quid, which means nearly two for the price of the lobster...
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It was this morning...twice...
I have also put all the new handles on the cupboard doors today and done the shopping...
Silly boy.
You should only have fitted half the handles today. eyes:
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I realise that now...
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Lobster is too crunchy for my liking.
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Lobster is too crunchy for my liking.
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Lobster is too crunchy for my liking.
Bet you throw away those nasty claws as well. ::)
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It was this morning...twice...
I have also put all the new handles on the cupboard doors today and done the shopping...
Silly boy.
You should only have fitted half the handles today. eyes:
One never gets paid until one has completed the job! ::)
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Don't you?
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Don't you?
Nicholas – where have you been? cussing:
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INSET day, and now workmen in the house again!! cussing:
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INSET day, and now workmen in the house again!! cussing:
happy100
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With drills!! cussing:
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With drills!! cussing:
Inset day with drills eh? rubschin:
whacky115
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I have a man coming to quote for decorating the THW's bedroom .... She having gone to France for the week her mother and I have struck and sorted out her room. Bin day today and the men have never seen so many bin liners at our gate eveilgrin:
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Poor THW.
noooo:
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I have a man coming to quote for decorating the THW's bedroom .... She having gone to France for the week her mother and I have struck and sorted out her room. Bin day today and the men have never seen so many bin liners at our gate eveilgrin:
What did you find? eyes:
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One dreads to think!!
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One dreads to think!!
Indeed... whistle:
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Poor THW.
noooo:
She does not need five pairs of shoes that haven't fitted her for over three years. She does not need T Shirts and Nighties (17 in all) that say Aged 8 to 10 in them. She is 5ft10ins size ten now. She does not need dollies with no limbs, toys with broken springs, approaching 5 reams of typing paper covered in scribbles, jigsaws that say Age 3 on them. Need I go on? evil:
She, having taken 7 pairs of everything to France still has 15 pairs of pants, 12 bras, 28 pairs of socks ..... most of which we found under her bed ~ rancid. sick2:
Oh and the Primary School she left 4 years ago were thrilled to get back the reading scheme books they issued when she was 6 together with 8 school library books. cussing:
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eeek:
Poor THW.
noooo:
She does not need five pairs of shoes that haven't fitted her for over three years. She does not need T Shirts and Nighties (17 in all) that say Aged 8 to 10 in them. She is 5ft10ins size ten now. She does not need dollies with no limbs, toys with broken springs, approaching 5 reams of typing paper covered in scribbles, jigsaws that say Age 3 on them. Need I go on? evil:
She, having taken 7 pairs of everything to France still has 15 pairs of pants, 12 bras, 28 pairs of socks ..... most of which we found under her bed ~ rancid. sick2:
Oh and the Primary School she left 4 years ago were thrilled to get back the reading scheme books they issued when she was 6 together with 8 school library books. cussing:
Yes, yes, yes.... and? eyes:
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eeek:
Poor THW.
noooo:
She does not need five pairs of shoes that haven't fitted her for over three years. She does not need T Shirts and Nighties (17 in all) that say Aged 8 to 10 in them. She is 5ft10ins size ten now. She does not need dollies with no limbs, toys with broken springs, approaching 5 reams of typing paper covered in scribbles, jigsaws that say Age 3 on them. Need I go on? evil:
She, having taken 7 pairs of everything to France still has 15 pairs of pants, 12 bras, 28 pairs of socks ..... most of which we found under her bed ~ rancid. sick2:
Oh and the Primary School she left 4 years ago were thrilled to get back the reading scheme books they issued when she was 6 together with 8 school library books. cussing:
The "too small" clothing, I have some of that, it is sentimental! eeek:
The "reams of paper", that could have been important! noooo:
The "dolls and toys", how could you! noooo:
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And the "Ladies personal items with wings" still attached to the knickers?
The four bath towels from which it has taken two washes on "boil" to remove the mildew?
The 8 mugs with growth in every single one, the plates, bowls and saucers too numerous to mention .... we filled the dishwasher with what came out.
The half eaten apples, banana skins and a rotted plum (at least I think it was a plum, can't be sure).
It was horrid as are teenage girls. sick2:
And BM ..... nothing remotely eyes: unless you count the guitar to amp lead that she broke and I replaced last year. Why keep the broken one? ::)
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eeek:
Poor THW.
noooo:
She does not need five pairs of shoes that haven't fitted her for over three years. She does not need T Shirts and Nighties (17 in all) that say Aged 8 to 10 in them. She is 5ft10ins size ten now. She does not need dollies with no limbs, toys with broken springs, approaching 5 reams of typing paper covered in scribbles, jigsaws that say Age 3 on them. Need I go on? evil:
She, having taken 7 pairs of everything to France still has 15 pairs of pants, 12 bras, 28 pairs of socks ..... most of which we found under her bed ~ rancid. sick2:
Oh and the Primary School she left 4 years ago were thrilled to get back the reading scheme books they issued when she was 6 together with 8 school library books. cussing:
The "too small" clothing, I have some of that, it is sentimental! eeek:
The "reams of paper", that could have been important! noooo:
The "dolls and toys", how could you! noooo:
Your sentimentality about too small clothing is called hope dear.
She, however, is too old to ever get back into hers.eveilgrin:
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And the "Ladies personal items with wings" still attached to the knickers?
The four bath towels from which it has taken two washes on "boil" to remove the mildew?
The 8 mugs with growth in every single one, the plates, bowls and saucers too numerous to mention .... we filled the dishwasher with what came out.
The half eaten apples, banana skins and a rotted plum (at least I think it was a plum, can't be sure).
It was horrid as are teenage girls. sick2:
And BM ..... nothing remotely eyes: unless you count the guitar to amp lead that she broke and I replaced last year. Why keep the broken one? ::)
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And the "Ladies personal items with wings" still attached to the knickers?
The four bath towels from which it has taken two washes on "boil" to remove the mildew?
The 8 mugs with growth in every single one, the plates, bowls and saucers too numerous to mention .... we filled the dishwasher with what came out.
The half eaten apples, banana skins and a rotted plum (at least I think it was a plum, can't be sure).
It was horrid as are teenage girls. sick2:
And BM ..... nothing remotely eyes: unless you count the guitar to amp lead that she broke and I replaced last year. Why keep the broken one? ::)
I have to admit to having done all the above when a teenager. redface:
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And the "Ladies personal items with wings" still attached to the knickers?
The four bath towels from which it has taken two washes on "boil" to remove the mildew?
The 8 mugs with growth in every single one, the plates, bowls and saucers too numerous to mention .... we filled the dishwasher with what came out.
The half eaten apples, banana skins and a rotted plum (at least I think it was a plum, can't be sure).
It was horrid as are teenage girls. sick2:
And BM ..... nothing remotely eyes: unless you count the guitar to amp lead that she broke and I replaced last year. Why keep the broken one? ::)
I have to admit to having done all the above when a teenager. redface:
Tsk and sick2:
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I know. redface:
Although my towels were never mildewy and the wing thingy only happened the once. redface:
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Check the news out BM, if you can find anything on a major disaster somewhere then its a safe bet thats where Nick's been. whistle:
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evil:
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whistle:
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I know. redface:
Although my towels were never mildewy and the wing thingy only happened the once. redface:
I can guarantee that when I get through with her it will not happen again here either evil:
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I know. redface:
Although my towels were never mildewy and the wing thingy only happened the once. redface:
I can guarantee that when I get through with her it will not happen again here either evil:
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Bloody hell Snoops - whatever are you planning to do - though, maybe I shouldn't ask . . . .
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Step away from the Superglue Snoops... eeek:
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I know. redface:
Although my towels were never mildewy and the wing thingy only happened the once. redface:
I can guarantee that when I get through with her it will not happen again here either evil:
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Bloody hell Snoops - whatever are you planning to do - though, maybe I shouldn't ask . . . .
I also have a daughter who will not thank me for revealing that she is 38 this year. I have been here before.
There is nothing so mortifying or habit changing as the embarrassment of Dad's lecture on feminine hygiene .... believe me. eveilgrin:
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I know. redface:
Although my towels were never mildewy and the wing thingy only happened the once. redface:
I can guarantee that when I get through with her it will not happen again here either evil:
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Bloody hell Snoops - whatever are you planning to do - though, maybe I shouldn't ask . . . .
I also have a daughter who will not thank me for revealing that she is 38 this year. I have been here before.
There is nothing so mortifying or habit changing as the embarrassment of Dad's lecture on feminine hygiene .... believe me. eveilgrin:
I do, been there and done that. sad24: You don't even need to shout, the whole scenario is just one big mortification.
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'Cactly and I haven't even mentioned that the little brothers were helping with the big tidy up whistle:
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I feel quite sorry for THW. noooo:
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'Cactly and I haven't even mentioned that the little brothers were helping with the big tidy up whistle:
OMG! Talk about adding insult to injury! point:
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eveilgrin:
But the nice side of me has just agreed with the decorator that he will be repainting her room on Monday & Tuesday of next week, in the horrid pink that she has chosen, the new carpet goes down on Thursday and the new matching cupboards, desk and bedside table are being delivered on Friday. (The room already has built in wardrobes)
So after the bollocking she will have a new, clean and very girly pink bedroom with twice the previous storage cupboards and drawers, chair and coffee table as well. (Like student accommodation really).
AND IT HAD BETTER BE LOOKED AFTER!
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That seems fair. A decent tradeoff. I think the same thing happened to me not long after the humiliation conversation. I got a repaint, sofa recovered, a fridge and a kettle.
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eveilgrin:
But the nice side of me has just agreed with the decorator that he will be repainting her room on Monday & Tuesday of next week, in the horrid pink that she has chosen, the new carpet goes down on Thursday and the new matching cupboards, desk and bedside table are being delivered on Friday. (The room already has built in wardrobes)
So after the bollocking she will have a new, clean and very girly pink bedroom with twice the previous storage cupboards and drawers, chair and coffee table as well. (Like student accommodation really).
AND IT HAD BETTER BE LOOKED AFTER!
Will the new lock be on the inside or the outside of the door? whistle:
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No .... after the embarrassing incident with the MiL all the locks on doors have been removed .... In fact all the doors have been replaced. Only Bathroom and bog are now lockable BUT are also unlockable from the outside.
As for being fair to the THW life is all about trade offs .... which is really what I would like her to learn. Having her room done up has been deferred as a punishment for failure to tidy for three years. Now I'm trying the other tack .... have the room done, to her spec, and hope that she will "repay" by keeping it reasonably tidy (I do not expect miracles). What I do if she reverts to type I'm not sure ..... probably go in there and trash it.
As you know I edit a community magazine ..... One irate father sent me a photgraph of his daughter's bedroom with a plea that I publish it, together with her name. I did and she "improved" for a week but was soon discovered proudly displaying her fame/name in print at school and then on her website. She has grown up in the past four years and is now a model citizen and doing well at uni he tells me. He also tells me she is now obsessively tidy and whenever she comes home for the weekend he spends the following weeks trying to find things like his pipe and the TV remote. She, on one occassion, even took the dog for a clipping 'cos "it looked scruffy"!
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She, on one occassion, even took the dog for a clipping 'cos "I looked scruffy"!
corrected... whistle:
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She, on one occassion, even took the dog for a clipping 'cos "I looked scruffy"!
corrected... whistle:
I have feelings you know sad24:
If I'm lucky I even have feelings eyes: ................. but not so often
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No .... after the embarrassing incident with the MiL all the locks on doors have been removed .... In fact all the doors have been replaced. Only Bathroom and bog are now lockable BUT are also unlockable from the outside.
As for being fair to the THW life is all about trade offs .... which is really what I would like her to learn. Having her room done up has been deferred as a punishment for failure to tidy for three years. Now I'm trying the other tack .... have the room done, to her spec, and hope that she will "repay" by keeping it reasonably tidy (I do not expect miracles). What I do if she reverts to type I'm not sure ..... probably go in there and trash it.
As you know I edit a community magazine ..... One irate father sent me a photgraph of his daughter's bedroom with a plea that I publish it, together with her name. I did and she "improved" for a week but was soon discovered proudly displaying her fame/name in print at school and then on her website. She has grown up in the past four years and is now a model citizen and doing well at uni he tells me. He also tells me she is now obsessively tidy and whenever she comes home for the weekend he spends the following weeks trying to find things like his pipe and the TV remote. She, on one occassion, even took the dog for a clipping 'cos "it looked scruffy"!
What embarassing MiL incident?
I was a messy/untidy teenager and I am now a messy/untidy "adult". Mr Wench despairs.
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If Mr Wench ever gets the chance to read this maybe you should send in some pictures of the tat mountan for us to publish on here. It may have the same effect on Wenchy... whistle:
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Sadly no, not much makes me embarrassed these days.
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Just as well
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Just as well
lol: lol:
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No .... after the embarrassing incident with the MiL all the locks on doors have been removed .... In fact all the doors have been replaced. Only Bathroom and bog are now lockable BUT are also unlockable from the outside.
As for being fair to the THW life is all about trade offs .... which is really what I would like her to learn. Having her room done up has been deferred as a punishment for failure to tidy for three years. Now I'm trying the other tack .... have the room done, to her spec, and hope that she will "repay" by keeping it reasonably tidy (I do not expect miracles). What I do if she reverts to type I'm not sure ..... probably go in there and trash it.
As you know I edit a community magazine ..... One irate father sent me a photgraph of his daughter's bedroom with a plea that I publish it, together with her name. I did and she "improved" for a week but was soon discovered proudly displaying her fame/name in print at school and then on her website. She has grown up in the past four years and is now a model citizen and doing well at uni he tells me. He also tells me she is now obsessively tidy and whenever she comes home for the weekend he spends the following weeks trying to find things like his pipe and the TV remote. She, on one occassion, even took the dog for a clipping 'cos "it looked scruffy"!
What embarassing MiL incident?
I was a messy/untidy teenager and I am now a messy/untidy "adult". Mr Wench despairs.
Long story but here goes with the abridged version ......
This is an old house, not as old as Nick's but old by today's standards. It was built at the end of the war (2) but to a design and spec from the early 30's. It would have been built earlier but for the war. The same family built all the houses around us on what was their farm. So all internal doors had proper locks and keys. Realising that if these keys were left in the locks small boys would pretty soon lock themselves in somewhere or other I removed all the keys and we had a "house rule" that if a door was shut you knocked before entering. Not an easy rule to enforce with little boys and frankly nobody minded that the smallest (by now aged about 2) would wander in for a chat whilst one was in the bath or even on the loo. Nobody that is except the MiL evil:
So to accommodate her desire for total privacy whilst visiting us I hung a key to the bathroom on the inside of the room by means of a cuphook screwed into the door frame .... well above child height. All one needed to do was take down the key, lock the door, do your business (and she even locked the door to clean her teeth!), unlock the door and replace the key on the hook.
Problem number one was that I am 6 feet tall and Mrs S is 5'10" so I put the hook at the top of the door frame. MiL is only 5'2" ::) So everytime she wanted to go into the bathroom (and I kid you not it was at least twice an hour) one of us had to go up and issue her the key. OK so I had two keys and gave her one to "keep about her person".
She always left it on the inside of the door when she left the bathroom despite our pleas that she remove it after use. Inevitably one little boy went in there and turned it. He couldn't turn it the other way when he wanted to get out, called for help but nobody heard him so curled up and went to sleep.
Just at the point where I am dialling 999 to report a child abduction the MiL is found wailing outside the bathroom that she can't get in and is "desperate".
I realised where the missing child was but of course both keys are now in there with him. MiL is called a few choice names (to which she took exception) and told to use the downstairs toilet (which she hated using because it is too narrow for her to be able to pull up her tights 'cos she is a ..... how can I phrase this? ........ a WIDE woman).
Meanwhile I set to with a tool box, a pair of tweezers and a hairgrip to attempt to turn the key, which you will recall is still in the lock on the other side of the door, and release the child. I am also very worried because at this point I do not know that he is asleep and I can hear no sounds from him. I got the door unlocked in about ten minutes and found him curled up on a pile of towels looking like a cherub.
MEANWHILE:
FiL has been told that his advice is not welcome and if he can contribute nothing better than a suggestion that I hire a ladder and break the bathroom window then he can f*ck off. So he is in a huff.
MiL has gone downstairs complaining that she hates our downstairs toilet and manages to piss all over her tights that she had failed to lower sufficiently and "They were a new pair on today".
Wife is not helping by telling her mother that a little weight loss would be useful and anyway had she not been told about leaving the key in the door and how did she (MiL) manage to raise three of her own and still be so f'ing gormless? (Doesn't mince words when she is scared that one of her own brood is in trouble doesn't Mrs S).
Older boy (aged 4) is running round the house telling the world that "Daddy has save XXXXXXX's life AND told Grandpa to f*ck off".
Daughter, a pre-teen hormone wreck of 9, is "Disgusted" that "Grandma can't even go to the toilet ~ At her age" in the withering tone that only a 9yo little girl can muster ~ "I mean ..... It's Sooooooooooo Gross"
The planned happy family week by the sea was curtailed that very afternoon.
AND THAT IS THE SHORT VERSION.
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Are we related?
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Are we related?
I sometimes wonder. ::)
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I was going to say that that was a story of nickian proportions!
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And I am off to Bristol on Sunday.
What can possibly go wrong?
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Just dont head any further west Nick, Bristol is close enough for a calamity. noooo:
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And I am off to Bristol on Sunday.
What can possibly go wrong?
HATE Bristol! Stupid hilly place full of stupid people.
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I was going to say that that was a story of nickian proportions!
And I didn't even mention that the FiL managed to gouge a four foot long, down to the metal work, strip out of the side of his week old, top of the range, Cavalier on our garden gates as he drove off in a huff.
That turned out to be my fault too. tunble:
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Wonder if Nick ever had a dog that ran off when he was a nipper? rubschin:
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And I am off to Bristol on Sunday.
What can possibly go wrong?
HATE Bristol! Stupid hilly place full of stupid people.
AGREED (In Spades)
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I like going there. I am staying and working in Clifton. Rather nice
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Clifton is to Bristol as Hove is to Brighton ..... Quite different altogether.
In fact as Hove is known as "Hove Actually" so Clifton could be "Clifton Actually"
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And I am off to Bristol on Sunday.
What can possibly go wrong?
HATE Bristol! Stupid hilly place full of stupid people.
AGREED (In Spades)
Yes, lots of those in St Pauls as well.
"The Brixton of the West"
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And I am off to Bristol on Sunday.
What can possibly go wrong?
HATE Bristol! Stupid hilly place full of stupid people.
AGREED (In Spades)
Yes, lots of those in St Pauls as well.
"The Brixton of the West"
I now wonder why I resisted that one.
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And I am off to Bristol on Sunday.
What can possibly go wrong?
HATE Bristol! Stupid hilly place full of stupid people.
AGREED (In Spades)
Yes, lots of those in St Pauls as well.
"The Brixton of the West"
I now wonder why I resisted that one.
Well, if you don't know. . .
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And I am off to Bristol on Sunday.
What can possibly go wrong?
HATE Bristol! Stupid hilly place full of stupid people.
AGREED (In Spades)
Yes, lots of those in St Pauls as well.
"The Brixton of the West"
I now wonder why I resisted that one.
Well, if you don't know. . .
I actually considered it but rejected the idea as too non PC even for us.
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And I am off to Bristol on Sunday.
What can possibly go wrong?
HATE Bristol! Stupid hilly place full of stupid people.
AGREED (In Spades)
Yes, lots of those in St Pauls as well.
"The Brixton of the West"
I now wonder why I resisted that one.
Well, if you don't know. . .
I actually considered it but rejected the idea as too non PC even for us.
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