Miss Sparkle, please do me the honour - oh, she already has!! I am a changed man 
I thought love was only true in fairytales la,la,la,la…
Love was out to get me la,la,la,la…
I have my thinking cap on… Must have some special toons for the big day. I’ve got a few days, while the techies are beavering away in their cupboard ubder the stairs, to come up with something. Watch this space…(or it’s replacement!) 
Ladies - you have been superb!!! (wipes sweat off brow and trembles a bit)
Awards as follows -
Archie for Most Devious Character (can I have a ride in that car?)
Edwin and Flora for The Almost Most Happy Couple
FF as Minnie, Claud, Olive for Multiple Character Award and Not Getting Lines Muddled Up
GI Jane for the Most Acceptable Bribes Award AND the Best Prop Vomit Pirize (what happened to Pukey Cat?)
Milton and Delia for the Happy Wealthy Couple Award - hmmmm…
Camels and Millie Dog for Being Decorative. If you find the tiara, could you please return it to Millie pronto as she is crying in her basket at the moment. I told her not to drink glitterberry juice when you have to ride a camel.
And everyone else - the Best Trooper Awards for not breaking a leg.
Dame Helen gets the Stuck up Mean Person Award for NOT loaning me a dress.
Aren’t we clever???
Now retiring to the sofa with all the cake, chocolates and flowers to have a little ‘rest’… Grouse was on special at Spar (other supermarkets blah blah)
Love to you all, my daaahlings.
Hic!
Grumpy
Well done Grumpy x Really enjoyed reading the mystery play. Sorry I didn’t contribute much. Had son and family over for weekend and had great time with them so was difficult to sneak off to computer. Hope there are many more flights into total make believe play acting.
Tup
Thank you Dame G… *curtseys*. I rather hoped you’d like the agonising death…
didn’t we do well? Costumes were amazing. Most of us remembered our lines. Millie sliding off Dink at that crucial moment was a stroke of genius…glitterbury juice all round
retiring to the couch exhausted now…
just thought we ought to put up a Techie Bench for the techies during the switch to new forum. And a calm bench for the mods …
night dahlings.
jane xx
Thankyou Dame Grumpy for the Happy Wealthy Couple Award! Glitterberry juice all round! 
Advice please…have found a lump/something in my other breast. Do I ask for an emergency appointment at my doctors or try to get hold of my bcn??? My mammo was only what, six weeks ago, onc check up and examination about a month ago…surely nothing could have appeared in that time??? MRI last year showed cysts, is it possible to feel those??
I’d try to contact BCN as they’re more specialised and less likely to fob you off, knowing your history. I do believe cysts CAN be felt as lumps, because I’ve heard of several ladies who thought they may have BC when they found a lump but it turned out to be cysts!
Get it checked and (well meaning but impossible pieceof advice coming…) try not to worry.
Ok thanks JCJ
I used to have loads of cysts… and they all felt like lumps, and came up fairly quickly… and the drill was that I rang the unit straight away and spoke to BCN who got me an appointment to have them checked. For 15 years, they were nothing… drained and that was that… then one time it was different. Get it checked… you had a mammo so recently, it’ll probably be fine, but best to be sure Ali… I think once you’re in the system as we are, most places would be happy to see you without a GP referral… keep us posted…
Ali - if this was me - I would ring my BCN first thing in the morning - she would fast track me to being checked out. Try and remember to breathe in and out and repeat. It is so easy to begin to panic when we feel something suspicious. Please keep us posted! xx
Def Ali, phone BCN you will be fast tracked.
Well that performance was wonderful, loved the impromtu singing at the end, a melody of Benchland Songs !
Glitterberry juice seemed to be on tap in the green room…
A Benchland wedding, when is it??
Are we all bridesmaids??
What are we wearing??
My massive suck up obviously didn’t work 
really wanted that award as a bathroom decoration xx
Thank you, yes I will ring bcn or the breast care unit this morning (not sure if I can find contact details for my bcn!)
And an award for Archie, and one for the camels, gosh! I’d like to thank the academy, the voting public, my family, the zoo keepers… 
Ps yes, breathe in…relax…breathe out, relax… Xx
Found you!
Thank you Techies - you have worked very, very hard and I think it looks pretty good so far.
So everyone has morphed into a van by default! Don’t seem to be able to upload a photo for my avatar as yet, but will wait and see how things go - mods and techies have better things to worry about just now.
Do have a play with your personal settings - I think they will make life easier once you have them to your liking.
For any Benchies not in the know, I have an urgent referral to a ‘one stop’ gynae clinic for next Wednesday (28th) which claims that you leave with a diagnosis/treatment plan. In the stuff about hysteroscopy it says “Local anaesthetic is given into the neck of the womb, just like at the dentist.” :smileyvery-happy: Not sure I want to go THAT dentist… open wide takes on a whole new meaning!! Eyes water.
Helloooo! I’ve found it! :smileyhappy: Been out for the day and sooo glad to have Benchland back. I’ve been in withdrawal, and it’s only been 3 days!
We were at a local (ish) Severn Trent Water reservoir and there was a leaflet with this on (let’s see if we can still put pictures in!):
Ah it appears not “message cannot exceed 20,000 characters” It was a camel wearing a turtle neck jumper and a cardigan!! Lol I’ll change my avatar so you can see it.
Made me think of you lot, especially Ali. I know what my next knitting project will be: camel jumpers! :)
Is it Hump practising for his very important role at the wedding??
OK, you guys are good…
How do I put in own avatar JCJ? I just get an empty box that does nothing…
RevCat - how do I nkow which posts are unread? I just have to keep scrolling…
we’ll get there… lots of improvements…
night all…
J x
Hey, I’ve done the picture - it’s a sleep fairy I saw on my way home from Narcambe…
Just had a quick check to see how forum looks on Nexus (other tablet PCs are available). Not thrilled by the fact that I can no longer ‘stretch’ the screen to make the text bigger so it’s a struggle to sees people’s avatars. Also impossible to see what I am typing because it disappears under the keypad. If I turn the tablet to portrait, which usually solve that issue, it shts offto a different place in the thread. Very frustrating, and I do most of my posting on Here. Arghhhh! I can’ edit typos and auto-text because I can’t SEE the text. Not happy.
Hi, everyone *waves*. Oo-er not sure if I’m on my head or my heels. All seems to be back to front and upside down!
The last three days have seemed sooooo long. Off to see if I can make sense of all this.