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YOU MADE ME LAUGH ALLAN,
THANK YOU XX

I wish I lived near you Allan - so much fun :-D :-D

I wish I lived near you Allan - so much fun :-D :-D

The Glory of Zion - 'Say to those with anxious hearts like Allan, "Take courage, fear not. Behold, your God will come with vengeance. The recompense of God will come & he will save you."

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened; their spectacles will be repaired free of charge & the ears of the deaf will be unstopped with plastic hearing aids. Then the lame & the Friday night drunkards will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute men will shout for joy when the ladies allow. For Julie Walters will break forth from the wilderness of the Bernard Manning Comedy Club.

And Nigel Farage will be happy to get re-elected.

Amen!

(Now - who hid my little blue pills?)

Is that what those plasters are for?

I have always seen people with a plaster on their glasses and I have never thought to question why it is there. Just like I have always just accepted that some people have a bit of cotton wool in their ear.

Dear Allan ..put a plaster on your specks .at least if you fall over the cat you can put plaster on said Bump :-D

I think she may have said the month as well, in fact she probably did because it is very relevant to our position.

He gets his MOD pension in June, I get my old age pension in November which makes this current fiasco so irritating!

That may sound daft Sharron, but if his birthday is at the end of the year, he could be 58 at the moment, but still be 60 in 2015 :-D

We had to consult a particular body this week which entailed a lot of financial questioning over the phone which was on hands-free.

Had my turn and was listening to OH's go. I am sure it was of no importance that the charming lady carrying out the interview was from Ulster but I did hear her say "So you get your pension at sixty next year. And what age are you now?"

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Of course ;-)

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OH had to go to the dentist this afternoon to have a root canal done .................... this entailed removing 2 crowns, and discovering the tooth had 2 roots ............... so the dentist had to give OH another shot of anaesthetic. For some reason, he also put one shot in the other side of OH's face.

He managed to drink his afternoon coffee fine, but then he went to choir practice this evening ........................



where he found he could not control his tongue :-0



of course .................. I got the blame :-S

Anyone who steps into our house on some days will be wondering whether or not they have stepped straight into a pantomime, or are merely expected to suspend belief for a time.

This morning, after a rather fraught time changing over our reticulation control system, I was feeling somewhat snappy.

Now for the fun part: a lens fell out of my reading glasses.

Shouted to OH to let her know and she said "is there a screw on the frames?"

Me "I don't know because I can't see anything"

OH, "Well put your glasses on" :-| :-|

You can probably see where this is going.

Me, "Where's the big magnifying glass?"

OH, "In the bottom of the filing cabinet, under the files"

Me, :-S :-S :-S :-S :-S

Found it: examined glasses frame and sure enough a tiny screw which I presumed would open the frame slightly and allow me to reinsert the lens.

Fantastic, went to find one of the small jeweller's toolsets (they didn't belong to a small jeweller, but contain small screwdrivers etc.)

We have three of these beasties. Could I find any? NO

One set was normally (as far as anything in our household is normal) in my study. It's only called a study because it is only a small step from being a junk room.

Searched high and low, none to be seen.

Called out to OH who immediately searched in all the places I had already looked :-P

Eventually we located all three sets on the top shelf of the Laundry cupboard. This could have been easily checked by a tall person, say over 6' 6'' tall, but as I'm only 5' 7" it is a bit problematical

Me, "I'm still having a few problems with the screw"

OH, "Well put your glasses on"

Through clenched teeth and whilst holding her warmly by the throat, I carefully explained that If I wore my glasses I still wouldn't be able to see the screw, but in any event one lens was missing :-|

Eventually, with the aid of the magnifying glass, I was able to reinsert the lens

My wife's wheezing and melodramatic gesture of constantly clutching her throat didn't help, either.

Now I have no excuses if I trip over the cat

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