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Hi UG and everyone else....
Thanks for the advice Witchone....I'll visit your page and leave you a message....

Echoing around in empty rooms is great fun! You need to get a bose stereo in there and turn it up FULL!!! Handel's messiah is good loud, but then so are Iron Maiden, Not so sure about Val Doonican etc...

I wasnt really that offended about the "silent male" bit, i think i was just reacting to a bad day at the office, when I had been trying like hell to communicate with a female colleague over a discipline matter, and getting nowhere!!! Talk about timing eh???

I am going to check out who is in today, whilst taking in a and maybe the odd (loc cal of course!! )



Spike

Oh I forgot...Gaping Gill UG...Its a bloody great hole in the ground, that people go down wearing day-glo boiler suits and hard hats. They then spend the day wandering/crawling around in cold, dark, damp caves for no apparent reason, other than they are there!!!

Only joking Tefkat!! I know its great fun...not done it for years!!(Or caving! Must admit last time I was being winched out of a hole in the ground the song "please release me let me go" was ringing around!!!

All the best

Me

Having thought about it I have just decided to be brave and let someone else see my inane scribblings. There is a poem on my page and would welcome ANY views/opinions any of you may have to offer. (Especially Witchone, whose pomes are Brill and need reading peeps! ) I think I have also submitted it for peer review, just for the hell of it. Well I think I have anyway, if I pressed the correct buttons on this here machine!!

Thanks...freshly brewed anyone?

Spike

http://www.bpc-cave.org.uk/gaping_gill.htm

We went to the Craven Pothole Club's August winch meet but they're amending their relevant pages at the moment. Pity - they had some nice pics of last year's one.

Tefkat, great to hear you've survived hospital & back with us again. Hope the convalescence isn't too awful.

Re time to write - it can be difficult, depending on your lifestyle, to find the time. Writing poetry isn't easier in itself (it's darned difficult) but I think it's easier to find small chunks of time to scribble ideas for, revisit & revise. Tackling even short stories, let alone a novel, I think does require longer periods of attention. Some people do seem to manage it, I suppose it's a matter of how you manage & prioritise your time.

Teaswill.

Writing... I tend to find the ideas come when I'm driving or perched on a bench somewhere and I end up filling old envelopes, receipts etc with microscopic scribbled abbreviations.

It's easier for those of us who have minds. It must be very hard if you're the sort of person that needs longer periods of concentration and can't tune the world out.

I'm very glad to see you back too, Tefkat!

I wasn't making a generalization about the silent male, just sharing one particularly glaring example! In fact, the first time my husband and I talked on the phone, it was for 6 hours! And the next night it was for 5, so I know not all men suffer from this ... just the ones my friends would set me up with!

Perhaps there's an age factor too - my teenage sons are better conversationalists!

I thought teenage sons were supposed to just grunt?

I wish!!!

I've 2 teenage sons... 15 and 16, and they are too gobby by half!

(Cannot THINK where they got that trait from)

Oh no, you mean Ringwraith will NEVER quieten down?

Depends on the number of times he'll let you beat him with a smoked kipper, I guess. Not that it made any difference to my two.....

Isn't that illegal?

Cruelty to fish or summat

No, that's just a red herring

Good cod UGgie, where did you dredge that one up from?

(Though I agree - children should be kept in their plaice.)

come on ladies..the sole has gone out of this conversation for cods sake!! lets nto get too crabby with each other. How are you UG????i've been off line for a couple of days....



spike

Hello Spike

Am having to fire this off really quickly because all the day managers are in. Will put more on tonight when I come in. We've missed you, glad to hear from you, hope you have a whale of a time today! But I bet you'll be glad to eskate from work at the end of your shift.



Take care UG

I know what you mean about the managers being around!!

Pull up a beanbag and take the wweight off your slingbacks old bean.
Hows things with the house?? Hope your boxes are disappearing ?

Not much going on in my life really. More building work, conservatory taking shape slowly. A couple of poems ready to go on my page when I get a spare minute...hopefully tonight, if not then I am on for the next two nights too. Bloody full moon tongiht, everyone has gone mad!!

Speak soon old bean or ??

Spike

Hi Spike please, thanks

Having neatly managed to avoid the day managers this morning, I come in tonight to find one of them in tonight to snoop on one of my staff!! So now I am having to avoid HIM!

The house is slowly coming together, and yes, every time I empty a box I can actually put it out for the dustmen because I don't need it any more! Yippeee! The charity shops are still benefitting but I don't really mind, and my grandchildren think it is great to slide about the back room in their socks, and they can actually reach the piano now to play it... well, "play" may be a bit of an exaggeration, but you get the picture.

I really need to finish the garden before winter sets in, was hoping to get it turfed but I think I may be a bit too late for that. Anyway, one more big effort towards the dump and that should get rid of bits of tree, old bricks, broken flower pots, stray bits of action man, etc. etc. Power and light in the shed next - when I can find a tame electrician. It never ends does it, but I have to get all this done now, whilst I am earning reasonable money and have the chance of overtime to get the "extras" - there will be very little money to spare when I retire.

New conservatory? Are you building this yourself, or at the mercy of a contractor?

Poetry - I will be over to look at that when you have put it on. In fact, I think I will go over to your page now and have a lurk

Thanks for the

Take care UG

Hi UG...

it is then! I'll go grind some beans for ya!!!

I dont think you'll find a tame electrician though...I have heard they are extinct, particulalry in south of England!! I am doing the conservatory with my brother in law (he's the brains...im just the ignorant labourer he he) Its really good actually cos he is doing it as a "job" (hes self employed) so Im not benig messed about as an in between other jobs...All the brick work is done now, ,jsut have to wait for the frame and glass roof (we've gone mad and gone for a proper double glazed tinted glass roof!!).

Hope you enjoyed your "lurk" on my little space. More pomes about to go on. Is your manager bloke still around???

More ???


Spike