I laughed and almost spat my tea out!

I would love a Siberian Husky, but like you say, it's not fair if no-one is around during the day

Same! They're my favourite dogs, along with german shephards and labradors/retrievers. I swear there's a breeder near to us, because I've seen several husky puppies being walked around, and one man walking 5 tiny little puppies

My sister used to live down Walderslade way a while ago and when visiting, I often used to see a guy with a few Huskies with a wheeled "sled" - it looked like he had great fun being towed along by them Easy way of making sure they get their 2 mile run each day!

My corned beef pasty is actually a cheese and onion one. That's not what I wanted or what I asked for, but having bit into it I can't return it now...

I would try and return it anyway. How are you meant to know what's in it without biting into it?

It's half eaten now. Would have taken about 20 minutes to go back to return it, and didn't seem worth the hassle.

I've got a sudden craving for pickled onions.

Then go and get some and some corned beef , and make a sandwich with them !

At Christmas, I can sit there and eat them from the jar. Suffice to say that I'm not very popular with the ladies come the festive season!

Are you pregnant?

I've not started munching on bits of coal yet, so no, I don't think that by some biological miracle, I am pregnant like that American "fellow" was a while ago!

EDIT: If I am, that could be painful in 9 months' time...

I get cravings for beetroot occassionally too..less pungent than pickled onions, but leaves a nice beetroot coloured moustache by the time the jar is empty!

Yes it could...

On another topic - am I the only one that feels completely ridiculous talking to one of those automated voice recognition things? I was just paying gas and electricity bills and felt like a right idiot (and was getting frustrated with it interpreting "nine" as "one")

Why don't they just let you use your keypad?

I still want the corned beef pasty I asked for at lunchtime.

*wishes she had gone back to complain*

Ha Ha - positive proof that Sol has a cockney accent!

I say "nine" as "nyne", not "noine" (which still doesn't sound remotely like "one"!)

It's their carp systems

My mother can't read.

I sent her an email saying "please can you find 'the very short introduction to music' on my shelf and send it to me."

Two days later, i get a parcel containinga pair of socks and 'the very short introduction to mathematics'. Wonderful!

She's probably guilty of doing what I do sometimes... I read the first bit of the sentence and skim over the end of it, not really taking it in. It's cost me marks in exams before where I haven't read the question properly.

She's just emailed me - apparently she knew which book I wanted, just didn't bother to read the title on the one she picked off the shelf.

I think if you really needed "The very short introduction to mathematics" now, you'd probably be in trouble!

Does anyone know what a tick with a cross through it means? I'm redrafting a couple of essays, and my tutor's provided plenty of notes, and help and stuff... In bits that he hasn't specifically discussed with me, there are these occasional hybrid tick/cross things and I don't know what they mean. Occasionally they crop up by points that I really do think are right/fully developed, so I assumed it was just a weird sort of tick... Now I've just seen one by a point which was total rubbish and waffle though... So I'm confused!

Do I maybe have more rewriting to do than I bargained for?

I'd have thought they were things that he liked, then decided weren't quite so good afterall.

That's what I thought at first! But they're next to some of the points he told me were good. They're kind of not tick crosses, but like... ticks with a bracket through them...

Maybe he ticks all the points he thinks are good, and then crosses them all out as he counts up the ticks in order to give you a mark?

Not seen them, but I think my maths teacher at school fancied me, because my exercise book was always full of kisses whenever I got it back from her!

Did anyone watch The Weakest Link tonight? There was a truly dreadful joke:

What do you call a man in a black mask who offers to lend you money?

The Loan Arranger! (Lone Ranger, for under 50s)

Just a little anecdote from yesterday.
Brother and sister share a music lesson directly after school and have to walk from the college building to the primary school.

Brother (arriving first)" Sister's going to be late"
Me "Why's that?"
Brother "She's got relaxation."
Me "Oh, what's that? "
Brother "Lessons to stop you being stressed."
Me (Thinks but doesn't say it aloud ) "It might be a better idea to give them a less loaded timetable."
Sister (rushing in loaded with enormous school bag, out of breath and visibly stressed) "Sorry I'm late.
I ran all the way. We had relaxation"
Me "You don't look very relaxed."
Sister " Well, the silly ******* always over runs her time so we're always stressed to get to the next
lesson."

Oh the ironing!

Red pepper is nice.

I'm fed up with clearing up fallen leaves.

The stress I was feeling most of this week which was stopping me wanting to practise is NOTHING compared to the stress I am now feeling about going to a lesson underprepared!

I have done some clarinet practice : and now it's time to have chocolate!!!!

But what shall I have? A Mars bar, or a Picnic bar?

Decisions, decisions...

Yuck! Mars is so sickly!

Thank you Solari.

*gets Picnic bar*

Most welcome

Today is the first time in ages that I've sat down and practiced for a few hours, and actually felt like I'm actually getting somewhere

Wonderful! Looking forward to hearing Solari, live, on Saturday!

LOL!

I'm just having one of those days where all the black lines and dots actually make some sense Always nice when that happens!

Where will you hear Solari live Barry?

At his forum piano day in London (there's a thread in Viva Piano )

I invited some friends to see a concert I'm in, on a whim. Now, of course, I'm nervous, despite the fact that I'm not doing any solos or anything!

Safety in numbers, you'll be fine!

I'm really sad, I can't do a crab anymore! I used to be able to do them easy peasy, and shoulder stands and things(never anything like cartwheels though- too wimpy for that lol) but now that I've stopped swimming training, my back has got really weak, and I just can't do it! So scary I'm going to get back into swimming I've decided, and possibly join the gym too, and aerobics classes. Maybe yoga...

I'm thinking of trying to stretch each day to do the splits in a few months, it would be so cool! One PE lesson to casually say "Oh, I've learned to do the splits" then watch the horror on my friends faces as I slide into position. HAH. And I'd love to be able to do a chin up, and I can't do monkey bars anymore.

Hahah, as if. But it's worth a shot I really ought to get fitter, I had a nightmare last night that all of my teeth fell out, then the dentist said that I was obese

Bobziekins, the best trick is a backwards roll into a handstand...

We had yoga at school the other day, but I had a music lesson in the middle, so I just sat and watched them do it. It was really funny watching them groan and creak! And then at the end, she got them to all lie down on a mat and close their eyes. She started a speech that went something like:

'Now, imagine you are lying on a tropical beach, feel the warm sand beneath your toes.'

One girl actually fell asleep! I felt relaxed just watching, although when they were lying down, it felt really weird, like it was just me, the yoga instructor, and a few dead bodies in the room!

Sounds like some sort of serial killer's fantasy...

*shuffles out of the room, silently*

This is a little off-topic I know, but if you have back problems I would sudjest chiropractors.




(translation) lol, omg

The amount of pink you can get out of one tea towel...

(and no, I haven't just managed to dye all my clothes pink! )

Another day at work involving customer service... with no customers!

At least tonight's show has sold out though...

Car Expert

But then surely the one would be the cure of the other? No teeth = very difficult to eat = thin person