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Brawn

Listerine is the one I have used for a number of years (not every day) and it feels as if a layer of skin has been removed from your mouth every time. I have a bottle in the bathroom, gathering dust, awaiting an occasion when I might need to use it. Maybe put it down the outside drain, should clean...

Bam wrote: ↑13 Aug 2022 12:41 Thanks for the spellcheck Pi. I need it more and more these days.

Ha wasn’t meant for you Bam as I was typing at the same time as you

Greetings Earthlings. Melting outside. Mouthwash - dentist said years ago only worthwhile one was Cordysyl,’t be allowed to either….. Hairdresser this morning, so now tidy again. Off into the ‘Ding shortly for a quick trip as it’s the newest member of the families 1st birthday soon - should I now r...

‘Morning :) clear blue sky, and hot! Cats won’t eat anythjng I put down jn front of them - but still want food :banghead: I was prescribed mouthwash after having wisdom teeth removed. I then got the most terrible mouth ulcers, directly caused by the mouthwash, so have never touched it since. Salt wa...

Buggy

….Gate

‘Morning :) yes, sunny, not just warm -it’s hot! I try to be sensible and water the roots, rather than wafting it around the leaves - and have got saucers - many of them saved supermarket food containers, under the pots . My problem is I have so many pots and half barrels … As we have a dishwasher I...

Whisky

And people wonder why I wonder why they keep cats. Our two don’t do any of that, neither do the neighbour’s cats - we have no problems at all. One of ours has a litter tray, and never ever uses the garden - I guess she doesn’t associate the garden with that as she lived on a houseboat for 6 years u...

‘Morning cloudless blue sky and warm! Phew!

To think we are surrounded by sea but desalination plants are too costly to run. Yes that’s always mystified me. And yet other countries have them - and some we’ve been to have tanks outside the property to catch rainfall to use on gardens - the loo etc. … and if HS2 can be built, then why not a pi...

dave m wrote: ↑10 Aug 2022 13:48 Given the current heat, it’s be tempted to just chuck a white sheet over the roof.
Painting the roof now will just make you hot

I thought the same - an old white sheet, held down with a few bricks?

Raymond Beiggs - aged 88. Creator of The Snowman
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/ ... es-aged-88

(Rhône)
Valley

‘Morning clear blue sky and ram - and getting warmer….

D5equj5 wrote: ↑10 Aug 2022 08:35…. Sad for the Red Lion though.

Sad for the regulars there - but presumably there’s a reason - business not good, or the Pub group want to move on….?

Just back from the Red Lion in Burghfield - younglings last night and they are now closed awaiting new owners (it'll be a Greek restaurant most probably) Youngling starts a new adventure in a week or so. :cheers1: I somehow thought youngling worked somewhere near Aldermaston/Pamber Heath? An unlike...

Just reading that Thames Water will introduce a hosepipe ban ‘in weeks’

Mill

lizwing wrote: ↑09 Aug 2022 13:30 Thanks Pi, that’s the ones, in fact I think it’s time to re read them

..whuch I’ve done a couple of times - and also Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson- maybe the funniest book I’ve ever read.

Voiceoftreason? wrote: ↑09 Aug 2022 12:40 No Pi, you book a car parking space. Think limit is 5,000.

Ah yes, that sounds a good idea!

Do you think that they may be more evident than normal as they are searching for water? Rats need to drink fairly reglarly apparently and I imagine that some of their usual drinking spots have dried up in this weather. :bigeyes1: oh dear, with two ponds and a plank from the patio to aid hedgehogs -...

‘Morning :) cloudless blue sky and very warm. A lazy day methunks. VoT - just been reading that Kate Winslet lives at West Wittering in a large beachside mansion - which for some reason surprised me :? Are you saying you have to book to go on the beach? I’ll check out that writer Pi, I enjoyed the o...

I dislike books that are badly edited with typos and repetitions, I sometimes wonder whether they have proof readers any more….. Oh I agree, although I’ve never actually gone as far as you in correcting them :) I just give up and stop reading…. I was about 10/12 I think when I read them - so early ...

Ballet shoes 🙂 Gosh, we read them in Junior school! So not of my choosing. What sort of age are you - and Liz - talking of when you read them? But like you Liz, I was, and still am to some extent, an avid reader - but admittedly a fussy kne :roll: has to be well written with good grammar and constr...

lizwing wrote: ↑08 Aug 2022 21:03 They’re rats, they knew what they were signing up for!

yes, but - they could hardly say ‘oh No, I want to be born a …. ‘

dave m wrote: ↑08 Aug 2022 20:45 Olivia Newton John

Oh that’s sad - presumably the cancer whuch she fought so hard against, finally won. RIP

….must be rotten to be born a rat!

(brace of)
Pheasants

Just done a quick internet search and this is similar to the one I wore back then As you can imagine, 6'3'' ' big build I filled it out a bit.............and had less fat back then! :) the chap who wore the costume in the show was about your build - really caused quite a stir in the auditorium… he ...

lizwing wrote: ↑08 Aug 2022 14:59 I didn’t just take the free gift Pi I took and read the whole comic!

lucky you - although I have to admit I wasn’t a fan of comics per se - “School Friend” I think was the one I had - oh how I wanted to go to Boardng School and have those adventures

Much the same as OM, but not the railway…. A couple of neighbours have decking (we found out) an ideal place to nest - and another neighbour not far away had an open compost tip in which they threw everything ! A few years ago that caused quite a problem, but late OH had an air-rifle that took care ...

If you asked they had another room upstairs with the ‘good’ fancy dress hire stuff Got taken up once when I asked about a gorilla suit and they showed one that was amazing / very realistic so I hired it back then Ah right. Maybe that’s where the company Hired it, when I directed Cabaret - that was ...

As a little Forumite I lived in a newsagents run by my parents so I had access to all the comics, often one of them would have a free gift taped to the front, things like the ‘black’ soap was one of them. 3D glasses was another. Hmm that sounds like you ‘relieved’ some of the comics of their gift L...

‘Morning :) bright, sunny and warm - and getting warmer. You recalled Walls Piwacket but what exactly did you buy there? Itching powder? Our local Joke Shop sold far more than jokes but not sure what else Walls may or may not have sold. OM has just about covered it… but my recollection of the fancy ...