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[anjelikaferrett]

@anjelikaferrett I hope you didn't take offence at my remarks last night about Mr Fs lack of sartorial elegance .

Anyway , got me thinking about what you are going to do with the 2 matching suits and I think I've come up with the answer.

Yeah after watching A hards days night again last night I think Mr F could form a band and be the Durham equivalent of the Beatles but instead of the Fab 4 he could be the the Fab 2 . Well he's already got the suits , now he just needs the band!

In fact Paul already envisaged this problem in "Drive my Car " , "I've got no car and it's breaking my heart but I've found a driver and that's a start".

Well if Mr F fancies it I'm happy to be the Brian Epstein.

Gorgeous day here so after an extremely large fry up I will be cutting loads of grass before I go to watch the cricket with a beer or two.

Have a lovely day everyone.

Of course I didn't take offence! I am resigned to the fact that I married a 6ft 2 toddler . I'm going to invoke @Val P 's spreadsheets and traffic light system should daughter ever get married.
Enjoy the fry up and the cricket.
You're welcome to try and manage him...

 

[Armaghtoffee]

Morning all on this sunny day ,I worked with a man who reckoned there is a school somewhere ( He thought in Crosby ) that they teach woman and girls that no man has ever been allowed to even work in ,where they teach "them" the things "they " do .Now me I don't believe a word !
I hope all are well and had a good night . Had a rest day yesterday and we are due to go to two graduation parties about 40 miles away ,I am not looking forward to them one at least has 150 guests ,they are a bit like an Indian wedding where people pass through rather than lodge there .Two of those is too much .Have a great day all COYB
The 31st came and went so let us hope the same applies to 777 ,fingers crossed .

There is your safety net right there. Get a drink, find a quiet corner and people watch until it’s time to move on.

 

[Gwladysover]

Hi again, forgot to wish everyone a Happy First Day of summer. It’s perishing here and to welcome in the new season we put the heating on yesterday evening.

 

[Gwladysover]

Hi folks. I can't believe the wedding is already a week in the past. This also means that I have calmed down enough to share the drama that almost resulted in a divorce and/or me spending a considerable time behind bars. It is NOT funny - everybody else thinks it is. I do not.
On the morning of the wedding there was only me, Mr F, son and daughter and daughter's bf in the house. the bride's family had rented an airb&b and she was getting ready there. all was going well. Hair done, photographer arrived to do 'getting ready' pics, make up lady arrived to do me and daughter. Wedding at 3.30pm. At about 2pm mr F shouted from upstairs ' Ange, I can't find my waistcoat' Annoying but not a disaster. Oh how wrong I was. He had one job. ONE JOB! he had brought the wrong suit!! he had brought the black funeral suit he wore at my Dad's funeral and not the dress code specified blue check style one. Furious would be an understatement.
The only plan I had was to go into Nottingham and buy one. There was a branch of the same shop where we had bought his suit in Newcastle. You'll never make it Mum, it's 20 minutes into Nottingham. Groom was now panicking. I am not going to be late for my son's wedding I replied. I rang the shop, spoke to a lovely sales assistant and explained our 'suit emergency' Come in she said, I'll sort some out and he can get ready here. Lovely make up lady, who was doing daughter's make up and watching the drama unfold then offered to pick us up from the shop and drive us to the wedding venue. So we got a cab into town and went to the shop. I was fully ready for the wedding, hat, everything. The sales asisstant literally ran to meet us 'I've got some for you' Mr F tried a couple on, one fitted well and met the spec so we bought it, he left it on, phoned the make up lady who came and picked us up. We made it to the venue before the groom.
I am still not properly speaking to him. I sent the make up lady flowers and wrote a nice email to the suit shop Head Office about the excellent customer service.

You cannot make this stuff up!

There’s an episode of a sitcom right there. No such thing as co-ordinated dress code when we were married so there were no stipulations in that department. Regular readers may recall memories of brown uniforms (before you start @Barnfred 55, stop sniggering at the back) so since my schooldays I have always had a problem with the colour brown, can’t stand it. You would think that my intended would have remembered this, when buying his suit but no! Check page 1737. Also my Dad walked me down the aisle with all the tacking stitches firmly in place on his suit which my Mum only noticed as we stood at the altar.

 

[peteblue]

Hi again, forgot to wish everyone a Happy First Day of summer. It’s perishing here and to welcome in the new season we put the heating on yesterday evening.

I thought Summer didn’t start until June 20/21…or is it when I next pick up my tablets……

 

[Barnfred 55]

52 years for me, still not a clue…….

So so true Pete. But I hope you've at least learned when to shut up and say nothing.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Brother Barnfred,

Please consider this Final Written Warning as a necessary reminder of the standards expected at all times. Frivolous dissemination of our sacred modus operandi is treated with the utmost gravity.

Signed,

The Institute of Men.

I'm a traitor to the cause

 

[peteblue]

So so true Pete. But I hope you've at least learned when to shut up and say nothing.

I learnt that 52 years ago……

 

[Barnfred 55]

Funnily when I visited Fred I offered to do the dishes ,I didn't wash one plate properly so when he dried the dish cloth get all tomatoey ( is that a word ) but he still made me do them all week .So much for that theory .

I've never had to wash so many tea towels

 

[Barnfred 55]

I suspect he had given his house staff the week off when you were there and as such was unaccustomed himself to the niceties of doing the dishes.

Dishes and dishwasher has always been my domain AT

 

[Barnfred 55]

Hi again, forgot to wish everyone a Happy First Day of summer. It’s perishing here and to welcome in the new season we put the heating on yesterday evening.

Absolutely gorgeous here. Day of gardening and cleaning the barbie and garden furniture beckons. First BBQ of the year scheduled for tomorrow.

 

[Armaghtoffee]

Dishes and dishwasher has always been my domain AT

How very noble of you Fred.

 

[Terrarian]

Good morning chaps,

Well 1st of June 2024 and I turn 50 this month, doesn't feel like it, more like 70 lol my sister asked if I wanted to do anything for it, go for a meal or something, as you know I don't drink alcohol anymore. I turned her down flat. Not feeling the being out in public without my safety blanket called Daisy it isn't appealing. I just said get me a takeaway lol, I'm low maintenance.

Suns breaking through now, it was a bit overcast but still ok for shorts.

Anyway have a good day all

 

[Barnfred 55]

36 years. I couldn't give a monkeys what people wore to my wedding.

In fact we have a laugh when we look back at what Mrs Js youngest sister wore ( bad Madonna impersonation)

We met a couple of scousers on a cruise who just happened to be the best mates of a work colleague. Turns out he was a big Human League fan and even had the Phil Oakey haircut and she showed us a photo of their wedding day. The fact that he's now completely bald made it all the more hilarious.

 

[Gwladysover]

I thought Summer didn’t start until June 20/21…or is it when I next pick up my tablets……

Well Midsummer Day is 24th June so 21st would be about right, summer usually lasts only a few days. Apparently June 1st is the first day of meteorological summer. Don’t know about your tablets though.