General Chat

Much as I would like to stay on here reading about sticky stamps and school reports,It's rubbish day tmorrow. Don't get excited Allan it's just a black bag. No wheellie bin!
Night night.
Pat x

I have received all reports, Allan. I'm now in the process of collating the reports and deciding on a suitable punishment. I'm quite aware that the two of you called me Mother thanks to Berona "dobbing" you in:-))

Sue xx

Good Night, Linda, pleasant dreams

Regards

Allan

Goodnight Linda, Sleep well, keep warm,

Tec

And also Good Night Pat: again , may you have pleasant dreams

regards

Allan

Goodnight Pat, Sleep well, keep warm, it's colder tonight.

Tec

Sleep well, Linda and Pat.

I must be off too, lovely people. Enjoy the rest of your evening/day. As always you give me such a great start to the day.

Alison and Diane - if you're looking in I hope you are feeling better with every day. Stay beeeooootiful, ladies.

Sue xx

I don't see Sue as headmistressy,

I see her as a sort of Julie Andrews figure -

The Sound of Music.............

Sure I saw her on the mountain here, doing.....

"The Hills Are Alive" thing......

Was that you Sue?

Tec

'Bye Sue....are you rushing out to buy the gold stars for Persey and me??

Have a great day

Regards

Allan

Bye Sue....
Enjoy your day....go buy some cushions - nice ones.

Tec

Sue has gone....now I'll never know if she does Julie Andrews will I?

Allan, Is this your very last day at the office?

Tec

I have to be off too. Daughter is coming over and as usual, I need to buzz around and do some things, or she will do them for me!

Good night to those retiring to bed. Pleasant dreams.
Good day to those facing the day - hot already here.

Allan - hope you are putting on your maid's uniform for the last day.
Have a nice last day.

For you Tec Hope you have not gone to bed just yet.


Deric Longden had to give up work to look after his wife who had ME. After she died his book about her called Diana’s Story was a bestseller. It was adapted for Television and Julie Walters played Diana, Jim Broadbent played Deric and Thora Hird his mother and it was called Wide Eyed and Legless. His second book Lost for Words starred Pete Thostlewaight and Thora. He was by then married to Aileen Armitage who is also a writer and she is quite blind. They have an affinity for cats and one of their cats is a feral cat that they cannot get anywhere near without being attacked and he is called Nokia. Where they lived there were a lot of feral cats and one of them they named him Eric – but he ended up having baby feral cats and the authorities took them away all except this little fellow that they could not catch. Aileen named him Nokia because he was Eric’s son.
The following is an extract that rather amused me from Paws in the Proceedings.
Back in the real world I attached myself to the end of yet another queue, this time joining the walking wounded in Peach’s chemist’s shop.
I always find that the staff in there make me feel better the moment I walk in through the door, but today they had their work cut out. The symptoms being bandied about were alternately cringe-making and rather mysterious.
‘It feels like somebody’s just pushed a red hot poker up my bum.’
‘When I went to bed last night I had terrible earache and this morning when I woke up my leg had gone all numb.’
Chris Holt, the owner, handed out both his advice and his potions in his usual cheerful manner and his supplicants went on their way with a spring in their step, feeling that with a bit of luck they might just live see the end of the week.
By this time we had been joined by a rater odd couple. A tall, angular woman seethed and simmered under a wide-brimmed hat that I remember having seen once before, on Pathé News around the time of the Queen’s coronation. Alongside her stooped an amiable-looking man, old before his time and a good foot and a half shorter than his wife. He wore what seemed to be a permanent apology of a half smile as his wife continually showed her disapproval at being kept waiting.
As the queue continued to creep slowly along she became more and more agitated, taking in deep breaths and then letting them out noisily and at length so that the rest of us would be left in no doubt that she was not amused by this unforeseen delay.
Eventually she snapped and glared down at her brow-beaten husband.
‘Right. I can’t waste my time standing about here for ever. I’m going up to Hadfield’s for the bread and after that I’ll be in the Co-op. I’ll meet you outside there and I don’t want to see you coming out of that betting shop across the road. Do you hear?’
As she stormed out of the door an embarrassed silence fell over the queue. Looks were exchanged and eyebrows were raised.
The old man said nothing at first, but then with perfect timing he cleared his throat and declared, ‘I don’t know. I’ll have to have her put down. She’s too old to breed from and she’s too vicious to keep as a pet.’

Cheers

Perse who has gone off to find her confabulated husband

Bye Berona, Enjoy your daughter's visit, don't get buzzing too much, leave something for her to do.......

Tec

Bye Berona, as it's almost Christmas my last day's performance in the office will sleigh them

I've been practising my curtsying all morning!

Good night - good day etc and god bless

Cheers

Perse

I deleted...posted twice

I must have a nervous tic.....I got it from an aggro sheep!

Allan

Perse...are you off as well? (I will not add to that :0)) )

if you are then enjoy

Regards

Allan

Well Tec, I am also off to get ready for the day ahead: sadly my last day there but it has been fun. I've enjoyed renewing old acquaintanceships and making new ones

Regards

Allan

Thank you for that Perse - I know of Deric Longden, and of his books, but never read him. That was hilarious, and the kind of thing I like to read, so I shall look out for his books in OHs book club.

Tec