This just gets better and better, Blue Rose and Anne.G you are fitting in just fine, how many MORE lunatics are there out there.
Thank you all for your good wishes, my Friend F’s send off was wonderful, despite the snow, very moving tributes (thank heavens for waterproof mascara and eyeliner) from her family and we even had a giggle or two, which she would have loved as she was such a happy, smiley person.
OH took me to shops today, as we live at the top of a valley and I didnt trust myself to drive. In the words of Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, BIG MISTAKE - HUUGE MISTAKE ! We were doing fine, going down the valley, most of the roads had been gritted and were relatively clear. Then we get to an uphill fork in the road - both forks end at opposite ends of the same high street, but one looked clear and the other mushy, so which one does OH take??? You guessed it… a couple of hundred yards in I find myself with the passenger door open, pushing as hard as I can, while he revs/steers as best he could. 10 yards later a couple going downhill pull over and help me push another 50 yards till the hill levelled out. Result, one knackered, mud-spattered nanna.
Now on my way to the CBA bench for the rest of the day…
Glad it went well, NannaB - we were all thinking of you. I’m sure your friend would be pleased to know you could share her humour even after she’s gone.
My close family caused disapproving looks at my sister’s funeral (lung cancer, aged 49). We were all standing around outside the crematorium, waiting for the hearse, struggling to hold back the tears, when we heard a diesel engine and we all looked to see the hearse arrive. But it wasn’t the hearse, it was a little tractor chugging along with a big pile of soil in a trailer behind it. My brother muttered “Karen (late sister) arriving in style as always! :)” We couldn’t stop giggling, because we knew she’d find that hysterical, but the rest of the mourners were rather shocked at our levity! S*d 'em. She was OUR sister and we knew her best.
BIG SECRET - the digger and the generator have been (virtually) re-homed… they are under that big heap of marbles behind the Lost Plottery Shed. NO-ONE TOUCH THE MARBLES!!! You will all just have to manage without your marbles for a few weeks. So what’s new, I hear some of you say.
Can the alligator wranglers have a UNIFORM type costume? sort of camauflage pants and peaked caps, with maybe sequinned bikini tops? and those gauntlet gloves with diamonds and glitter? and David Attenborough to supervise us? or even Bear Grylls? we could even do spray tan if Mr Clunk can tell us where he had his done…
Still overcome by tuck n nip appt - I’ve been on his list for a month, and as it’s generally 8/10 months wait, I can’t quite believe it!!!
grumpy
Still on the “annoyed” bench the blinkin front door key won’t work now so can’t lock the door grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!
Been waiting all day because have told someone would get back to me hahaha…
TV back working though.
nanna glad you were able to smile, you too JCJ, and Dame Grumpy you will soon be just PERKY!!
Am sooooooooooo mad xx
Nannabarb, glad it went well. JCJ always think that funerals should reflect the life of the person not the death. We have had many moments where we know the person would have laughed wih us.
have engaged Kirsty Allsop to assist wih sewing of animals ( she has a great button tin!). More details to follow.
i have now crocheted half a mile of netting in varying shades of blue and turquoise to drape around, think that will be enough.
have lovely evening all
Grumpy, absolutely. I think corsets with matching combat trousers would be good. thinking khaki with turouoise sequins, same for he gauntlets. Also a few feathers on the corsets, with reinforcement in the boob area.
could put names on the caps too in rhinestones. I’ll get Thelma and her team working on them.
kay x
katybee - oh yes please!!! I’ve rootled through the ear- ring box and found the correct twinkly jobs - hopefully the modified boob will fit into the corset. If not, I,ve got lots of spare socks to fill in the spare spaces…the corsets will be just wonderful!!!
Do you think Gok Wan could be helpful? He LOVES women, and he is the son many of us would love to have …
grumpy (and a bit squiffy due to visitors ‘to take your mind off things’ until Monday)
Nannabarb glad your friend had a wounderful send off she souneded like such a nice person I am sure she would have apresiated the giggls. Bluerose are you having Louie Spence as your assistant choreographer .Kayteeb53 thanks for working on my skirt can I have it like the dancing on ice costumes please .JCJ as so many of us seem to have pets perhaps we could let them go on the ice as entertainment in the interval, I made a Scottish kilt and tam-o-shanter for a friends dog and hats and coats for someone’s cats, so costumes for the pets will not be a problem just give me your requirements if you want your pets included, Nannabarb send for the Psychiatrist.
yes count my two chihuahuas in please. They could be dressed as frogs and jump about round the pool. I have been practicing my dives. I think my backward triple spin with arms crossed is my best at present.
Uh HUM! There is absolutely NO need to send for a phychiatrist or anything els ist. We are perfectly normal, sane women WITH A SENSE OF HUMOUR! A phychologist once asked me “what makes you laugh?” I was a stroppy teenager at the time, so I said “funny things”. He was not amused!
Soddit and Dammit have volunteered for the pet section in tihe interval… Dammit says he can pee-on-ice!
He’s learnt to - it’s freezing here! (and snowing as I write).
I’m LOVING the idea of the Frog Song! I have the Bolero going round and round my head. CD says I have to get the rythm right. I remember watching a documentary years ago on how he used to reduce Jayne Torvill to tears in the quest for perfection. Maybe I made the wrong choice? Maybe it’ll be OK on the night? I’m certainly finding the falling on the the ice at the end easy (but perhaps not, yet, with the grace he has) !!
I think Gok would have a field day with us! He definitely should be part of the costume dept - he’s SO good at building up poor self-images…
Loving the blue feet and blue boobs too. This is going to be Fab~u~LUSSSSS
I don’t have any pets but perhaps can entice the ducks and heron from the water in front of my flat ! Means climbing, catching and swimming but I’m up for that.
Been watching BBB and must admit it’s one of the best dives I have ever seen how you managed to keep control after your head whacked the board have no idea but it was truly fabulousity!!! Is it part of your dive routine???
Feel a little concerned regarding the marbles being buried lost soooooo many over the years but suppose they will be easier to find if they are all in the hole…
Costume is stupendous, all glittery and shimmery with the blu tac stuck on rhinestones, is it ok for a walrus to have a tiara too?? xx
Tuppence good thinking to have frog costumes they will tie in with Blueroses frog song.
GIJaneH glad Soddit and Dammit have volunteered have noted Dammits talent for peeing on ice so will make special flap in costumes .Katytc let me no what you catch after your climbing and swimming expedition and I will accommodate your entry duck would be nice I like ducks
Can we train the companion animals to pee patterns or words onto the ice? That would be amazing! But don’t let Katytc train them or it’ll be RUDE words!!
Who Me?? Would I???
The problem with using my (well, OK, schools’s) tablet PC instead of prinitng off the sweet potato and chilli soup recipe is that I keep gettting distracted (by Benchland and Twitter etc)whilst waiting. 8 mins to soften onions turned into 15, and 10 mins to simmer was nearer 20! Ooops!
I’ll put a warming potful in the shed, if anyone feels in need of comforting sustenance (unless I’ve ruined it of course!!)
JCJ that would be fantastic do you think I should hade little hosepipes or funnels to the costumes to make it easier for the animals to pee there words and patterns’ wonder if we put food coloure in the animals food would they pee in colure?
JCJ - pinger/timer - saves a lot of grief when virtual reality calls! Mind you, thank you, the soup tasted great!
do you think there’s any possibility that anyone else reading this WOULD think we were mad?
I expect the animals would pee in colour - think of what happens when you eat beetroot! I’m just not sure that they can spell terribly well
been for a walk in the snow… need more soup now…
Jane x
katy - don’t panic, the lost marbles aren’t IN the hole, they are covering up the digger and generator until needed, so don’t touch anything or the mountain of marbles will disintegrate. … Everyone WILL get their marbles back, honest.
grumpy
They don’t need to be able to spell, Jane (or any other word. Haha - I’m so funny - not!) The animal trainers (also known as Alligator wranglers*) train them to walk (and pee) in a set pattern!
Rehearsal tonight at 7.30pm , Ladies - (and any gents we can persuade to join us. I’d love to see Clunk in his speedos and body glitter again, diving off the high board!)
I have arranged for physiotherapists and ambulances to be on hand.
Yes, they would think us mad - but Insert-word-of-choice Them!
*PS watching old episode of QI last night I learned that you can sedate an alligator just by laying it on it’s back! That should be simple then?!
My daughter’s a physio - she’ll come… Dammit’s her dog anywayy!
Just been called out (it’s snowing) to someone who’s family think it would be nice for him to see the Chaplain as he couldn’t get to church this morning… we provide emergency cover at weekends… trying to decide whether this is an emergency… Going to borrow your name for a while Grumpy! Lunch first, then we’ll see if I can get out of the road… maybe…
Jane (temp. Grumpy)
! Means climbing, catching and swimming but I’m up for that.
