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We're going! We're going!
Posted Jun 12, 2006
I've booked a cross channel journey from Dover to Boulogne on Speed Ferries. Then on via paris to a place south of Bourges for a week with friends and a week... well a week doing... erm the second week is still for decisions but its a holiday and we're going to love it.
Apparently our friends who have bought a place in the middle of nowhere are happy to announce that it is described as "dismal" in the Rough Guide. So that means they'll not be fighting off British tourists for a good while yet.
They are converting a farmhouse and buildings into their new other home. It sounds like bloomin' hard work and I am to be roped in (maybe literally) to help raise a huge beam that will support a ceiling, or floor, or roof or something. Anyway they tell me it's jolly huge and they are lucky to have a friend fo my proportions to act as a counter weight for the other end of the block and tackle.
What's the Fench for, "I don't do heights."
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Young drivers
Posted May 19, 2006
My friend's 2 year old nephew spends too much time in the car with his grumpy dad. Normally a delightfully polite chap, when his gran was driving him somewhere he kept commenting "Come on, come on!" every time she slowed down. Then, when she had to stop in traffic, he blurted out "Come on w@*ker!"
I think his dad may have some explaining to do to his mother-in-law.
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Latest reply: May 19, 2006
I was filling up
Posted May 18, 2006
I did an exercise with some kids today and asked them if they had £1 million but weren't allowed to spend it on themsleves who would they spend it on and what would they buy them?
One little girl wrote "I would buy my twin brothers a new oxygen bottle and a better heart machine."
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Latest reply: May 18, 2006
Selling a car - for free.
Posted Feb 6, 2006
My next door neighbour wanted to sell her car but she didn't want strangers coming round her house. Her boyfriend agreed to deal with it for her and as he lives not too far away it wasn't too much trouble.
Anyway, a bloke phoned up and said he wanted to look at the car. He looked under the bonnet and checked the tyres and everything. He even made a couple of calls "To see if there is any outstanding hp arrangements" and then sat in the driver's seat and asked if he could start the engine. After hearing the engine running the engine was turned off.
Then he asked could he see if the heater was working properly. The engine was turned on again and he asked if it would be ok to take it for a test drive. Our neighbour's boyfriend said yes but he would have to get in with him. Before he could move the buyer put his foot down and sped off.
The boyfriend, not wanting the person to get away, jumped into his own car and gave chase. As he approached a junction a black car pulled out from a side road, in between him and the escaping car, and very slowly proceeded in front of him blocking his path. Then the escaping car bumped into a woman's car who was partially blocking his way. He continued going and made off.
Boyfriend stopped to see if the lady was OK. He then gave the driver of the black car a mouthful and asked him what he was playing at. The driver claimed to be a local and pleaded innocence. (On checking the car's number it appeared that it was registered to someone a few miles away, not locally at all).
Exciting eh?
Anyway my neighbour is now really fed up. The car is gone. The insurance are saying they won't pay up because the car had the key in the ignition with the engine running and the lady whose car was hit is claiming against my neighbour's insurance as it was her car!
I wouldn't want to be the driver if the boyfriend catches him!
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Latest reply: Feb 6, 2006
It was my birthday
Posted Nov 1, 2005
Well, another October over and another significant year older. If life begins at 40 I should be behaving like a ten year old - according to one of the cards.
Another quite rightly says that this is the point in my life when I have more hair on my bum than I do on my head. But don't worry I won't show you.
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Latest reply: Nov 1, 2005
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