Isolated Blurt Thread

[_Lynn_]

Thanks, HP.


Unrelated blurt:

That made me laugh.

 

[Handley_Page]

Thanks, HP.


Unrelated blurt:

That made me laugh.

Laughing is always good.

 

[oggbashan]

Laughing is always good.

As is drinking in good company when you are within walking distance of home (or at home).

 

[Handley_Page]

As is drinking in good company when you are within walking distance of home (or at home).

Got it in One, Ogg.

 

[_Lynn_]

Laughing is always good.

Indeed.

 

[Handley_Page]

My new front tooth seems to be settling down. It's only taken three days. . . .
(it's a crown).

 

[oggbashan]

My three-year-old granddaughter recently went on a farm holiday with her parents.

Since then she has been pretending to feed the chickens before breakfast and after her evening meal - in a top floor London apartment.

This morning she didn't 'feed the chickens' before breakfast. Why not?

She announced that the chickens 'were on the way by the tube' and would arrive AFTER breakfast.

 

[Handley_Page]

My three-year-old granddaughter recently went on a farm holiday with her parents.

Since then she has been pretending to feed the chickens before breakfast and after her evening meal - in a top floor London apartment.

This morning she didn't 'feed the chickens' before breakfast. Why not?

She announced that the chickens 'were on the way by the tube' and would arrive AFTER breakfast.

Magic

 

[SweetMaj]

My new front tooth seems to be settling down. It's only taken three days. . . .
(it's a crown).

That's good news, HP!

 

[Handley_Page]

That's good news, HP!

It's changed how I bite. . . .

 

[NaokoSmith]

It's changed how I bite. . . .

Really? Come up and see me some time

 

[Handley_Page]

Really? Come up and see me some time

Form an orderly queue, please

 

[trysail]

"It was the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life."




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[NaokoSmith]

Just popping in on a sleepless night (you know how sometimes you feel cross - but there are so many things to be cross about you are not sure which one is stopping you sleeping? LOL).

For those who remember my friend Phoenix Mum, FINALLY she is moving to her new house tomorrow! She still can't quite believe it, poor thing, and is just waiting for something else to go wrong. Plenty is still going wrong, but the house sale/purchase really is going ahead.

In the process, it turns out the lawyers screwed up her divorce so she has to carry the whole cost of it (£11K), even though she is on benefits; the only money she has is coming out of this house she's selling - and he was the one who left her! If she stops to argue about it, the house sale will get further delayed. (I said to her: F*ck the money. Cash down looks great but the opportunity to get clear and be able to think, get yourself a small job, make a new life, is much more valuable. She will make much more than £11K now she is out of the benefits trap and can get herself a job.)

There were three of us single mums helping her out, loading a small van with all her possessions (not much, I can tell you), until her sister and bro-in-law turned up. Obviously he was not going to carry diddy boxes to the van with us mere women so he set to wrenching the washing machine out. Literally - he pulled it so hard he split the hot water pipe, and then threw a sulk and stormed off, leaving the kitchen awash with steaming water and her in tears.

I phoned a builder I know and he immediately came out and sorted it out! and he didn't even charge Phoenix Mum. What a superhero. I hope that's a sign of things to come, and that people will help her now like she deserves instead of trashing her the whole time.

for you Phoenix Mum. So many times you rose again from the ashes. Every time you had to go to court, the judges took his side and you had to go back again and again, while your ex-husband failed even to pay his £28 per month for your daughter, and at one point denied she was his to get out of paying! He was only supposed to write once every two weeks, and couldn't even do that. This year he didn't even send any Christmas presents to her at all! Finally you will be free to enjoy life with your daughter in a new place.

 

[Handley_Page]

That's the most sympathetic piece I've seen for ages; I congratulate you.
But:-
Does Phoenix Mum read Lit ?

 

[_Lynn_]

The crap floating in the air makes it look like it's snowing . . . and makes it difficult to breathe.

 

[sr71plt]

Sorry to hear you're getting that. Last week we had forest fire smoke from Canada being pulled all the way down into the Mid-Atlantic region and putting a gray haze on the Blue Ridge mountains.

 

[_Lynn_]

Sorry to hear you're getting that. Last week we had forest fire smoke from Canada being pulled all the way down into the Mid-Atlantic region and putting a gray haze on the Blue Ridge mountains.

Thanks. I've been staying inside, or covering my face when I do go out, to ward off any problems. Neither worked.

 

[Handley_Page]

Sorry to hear you're getting that. Last week we had forest fire smoke from Canada being pulled all the way down into the Mid-Atlantic region and putting a gray haze on the Blue Ridge mountains.

Is that where the Lonesome Pine is located ?

 

[MagicaPractica]

Shit. Amanda Palmer's post brought up a lot of thoughts about my father's death and I haven't turned the recordings I made into writing yet. Do I work on that this weekend since it's father's day, the short story for here that I'm working on, and losing momentum, or the short story for writer's group? And will I really have time this weekend to write as it is?

 

[_Lynn_]

Shit. Amanda Palmer's post brought up a lot of thoughts about my father's death and I haven't turned the recordings I made into writing yet. Do I work on that this weekend since it's father's day, the short story for here that I'm working on, and losing momentum, or the short story for writer's group? And will I really have time this weekend to write as it is?

Work on the one that feels right to you. If you haven't put the recordings into writing yet, do them when you have time, not because it's a 'special' day.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Work on the one that feels right to you. If you haven't put the recordings into writing yet, do them when you have time, not because it's a 'special' day.

I re-read the little bit I wrote yesterday and realized it was complete the way it was. I'm editing but I will work on the two stories, as time permits.

 

[Handley_Page]

And round here, it's rain. . . . . [and Wet]

 

[oggbashan]

And round here, it's rain. . . . . [and Wet]

And here the sun is shining brightly (and my Volvo no longer reacts to hot weather - it has been expensively fixed).

 

[oggbashan]

My daughters suddenly think my relations are cool (or whatever the current term is).

Why?

One of my distant cousins will be performing at Glastonbury, and not as a session musician but as the lead.

The relationship is remote - grandchild of one of my mother's cousins - but the resemblance to my mother's closer relations is obvious.

Until now only my wife's relations have had respect because one was a 1960s girlfriend of a pop star, one is a famous author, one is a significant restauranteur, and one of her uncles became a 'Sir'.

I and my family have been content with very local notoriety - until now.