My B U M is really sore!!!! How long till the bruising goes enough to sit down without pain after a down stairs fall?

One begins to wonder whether I should visit the docs. ....... What is it 2, 3? weeks now????

Don't suppose anyone on here likes Lord of the Rings and would like to take my two stalls tickets off me for this for face value (or a close reasonable offer) on Fri 23rd? I can't go as I'm heading to Dyrham Park...

http://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/the...rs/default.aspx

Originally my cousin was buying them from me but can't go now... argh!

Oh, that looks amazing... but it's a bit far at such short notice

Afraid I'm involved in a concert elsewhere, sorry Sol

Why do I keep coming across revived three-year-old threads?

I'm guessing it's because people who joined less than three years ago found them, wanted to contribute and didn't want to start a new thread :-)

I'm afraid one of the three year old revived threads was revived by me...

A plethora of threads on this Forum lie at our disposal and whilst some of us are approaching in years the number of white keys, as relative newcomers we have but witnessed few of the arguments discussions for ourselves. On several occasions, some matter has occurred to me and rather than start a new thread, I have done a search to see what pearls of wisdom our forum forefathers have handed down in days of yore.

I must add, that as a result, I have indeed sometimes forgone the temptation to revive old warhorses, yet I am buoyed by the thought that I can, on occasion, bring a new and untried slant to some previously well-trodden thread.

So I thread carefully!

Nice way of putting it!

Random thought: what can I write an argument about? I need to think of something to 'ban' (e.g. brussels sprouts, school uniform etc.) for tomorrow's English lesson.

Someone just gave me a packet of real election crisps!!! Have you had yours?

http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/4481

Were they nice crisps?

They're ok...as long as you don't look at the packet while you're eating them so you're not put off eating!! They are still giving them away in Fenchurch Street today!!!

Fair enough! Perhaps they'll be at London Bridge or Waterloo when I'm passing through next Monday...

Band's tomorrow, not today. Tomorrow's going to feel like Tuesday...

And you'll get enough there to make it worthwhile?
Doubt you would around here.

Our last 2 rehearsals were very poorly attended probably because we usually don't rehearse at all in school holidays

Yeah, we will. Probably in the region of 30-40 people

The sky looks amazing here...all swirly dark clouds and midnight-blue inky sky!

The British Ambassador in Spain was on the TV just now. Giles Paxman! I can't believe there's another one. Is he by any chance related to Jeremy. ? There wasn't a resemblance.

There's a French Horn store/manufacturer called Paxman in Southwark...

According to Wikipedia, he's Jeremy's younger brother.

He was shorter than Jeremy and had a beard.

I'd really like some custard.

My violin is really quite teeny tiny-I'd never noticed before!

Better on some Rhubarb crumble

Some guy came round to my house doing door to door sales. He asked if my Mum or Dad were in. I said no. He left.


I'm 24 and live 200 miles away from my parents

Ha reminds me of being in a pub buying a drink from me and my friend, and the bar-lady said "you'll have to sit outside"...it took me a while to clock what she meant, so I looked at the bar-lady, nodded towards my friend and said "she's 26" (she's also 4'11" which might be the reason for it).


Anyway, I have got home today to a leaflet from Labour (yesterday there was a leaflet from the Lib Dems). This is just general unaddressed through the letter box stuff.
But today there is a letter addressed to my husband, but it's from our current MP selling him the Conservative party. Not just a random unsolicited, but actually addressed to my husband.

It'll be fun when he gets home

We were driving along a lane this morning and I commented to Misterjay that there were road signs at the side of the road for tracked vehicles.

"All the times we've been in this area," I said to Misterjay, "we've never seen a tank on any of these roads."

Whereupon we rounded the next bend and behold there were two of them in front of us. With "L" plates on.

They might have been armadillos! (Flanders & Swann: The Armadillo)

You should have said "no, and my fiancee is busy". That would have made him squirm!

This reminds me of when I was in my early twenties and tried to join a library. They told me I had to take the form home and get it signed by my parents In the end I had to go home and come back with my passport to prove my age.

Conversely, in my teens I used to carry around a copy of my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't be charged full-fare (I was around 6' 1"/6' 2" when I was 14/15 yrs old).

Like John Cleese (in height), I didn't grow a great deal taller.

Sheesh! That's pretty tall! Mind, there's a girl in year eight (13 years old) who's six feet tall-she hates it!

I'm sure that girls are far more self-conscious about being particularly tall. About 6 years ago, as a Y7 tutor in school, I was allotted two girls who were both on their way to becoming 6' even then! That there were two of them helped them no end and they were clearly glad to have to look up to me, able to stand tall, rather than stoop. We did have chats, to help them deal with it - other peoples' comments etc.

One has gone on to make the National Netball Team; she was a fantastic athlete, breaking many school records in her time.

And indeed we did get 35 people



Oops Reminds me of when I was mistaken for a sixth former in school. My reply was 'I'm the woodwind peri, and I'm 28 years old'.



Tanks with 'L' plates on...

I went for a run today. Wapping to Temple Station via the Thames Path. Saw the barriers/signs etc. for the London Marathon. I wish I'd been accepted to run in it this year

It feels like it should be home time.

I hope you haven't got another long evening working...

Aw, fingers crossed for next year. Will probably be really hot on Sunday anyway, too uncomfortable for running

I have been waiting since Wednesday for a hospital consultant to phone me with some results. He promised to phone by the end of the week and hasn't I know he (and all the others) are really busy but I have been surgically attached to my phone and just wish if he couldn't do it, he wouldn't say he could Now have another horrible wait until next week

That's true Juniper : 22 degrees forecast for Sunday! I'm applying again for 2011, and again, and again 'til I get in...



Hope he can come up with some results imminently...

Absolutely. Rhubarb crumble all the way!
(oh and 'Rhubarb crumble' is REALLY hard to type.)

I have just eaten a banana for the first time in my life.

My flute playing is annoying me.

You haven't just got them mixed up have you? Played your banana and eaten your flute?!

Surely you are joking?!!

Occasionally, when I was small, we would have half a grapefruit for dessert. We had a grapefruit knife with a curved and serated blade, eating the segments with a spoon.

It wasn't until some twenty years later that I saw someone eat a grapefruit just as you would an orange. It had never occurred to me that a grapefruit could be eaten that way!

Have done so ever since!

I am hoping to buy a new oboe in England next week.
I went into my bank today to say that I would probably be spending a fairly large sum of money with my credit card next week and wanted to make sure they wouldn't block my card.
The woman asked me what an oboe was Then she said did they really cost that much and was I sure I wasn't making a mistake with the number of zeros.

It is incredible isn't it?

I seem to remember you telling me that you'd never had a banana before...was it nice Nicki?

I have just rediscovered half an easter egg.

is it still edible?