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Messymascot's faith in humanity and ginger safe haven

anjelikaferrett said:
???. Go with the rich ones. I fully understand the brother thing. I love mine dearly too but Jeez spending two weeks in a confined space with him would be hard work. I recently helped him with an employment issue he had. Won him £12k in a settlement before it went to ET so all good. However if my members had behaved like he did towards me I would have lasted about two weeks as a union rep instead of 22 years!
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A shame his £12k had to go to ET. Was that to pay his phone bill. Now if my other brother were still here I would have deffo asked him. We were also best mates growing up even though he was 7 years older. Not sure whether cruising would have been his thing. He was the definitive ladies man and he'd have been in the front row seats to watch the girls from the dance troup. And he'd fancy his chances too even though he'd have been 67. He was like Reg from on the buses.?
 
Barnfred 55 said:
Cal used to rattle on when she was nervous.
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I had a boss who I'm sure thought I fancied him. I didn't. Totally not my type. When you went into his office he never said anything so I would start talking. Sensibly at first but even when you had finished he wouldn't speak so I would just start sharing whatever was in my head to fill in the silence. He'd sit and stare and eventually answer the original question. And then not say anything. So even exiting his office was a nightmare "Oh yeah, well, thanks for that, great, erm, I'll get back to work." Awful.
 
anjelikaferrett said:
I had a boss who I'm sure thought I fancied him. I didn't. Totally not my type. When you went into his office he never said anything so I would start talking. Sensibly at first but even when you had finished he wouldn't speak so I would just start sharing whatever was in my head to fill in the silence. He'd sit and stare and eventually answer the original question. And then not say anything. So even exiting his office was a nightmare "Oh yeah, well, thanks for that, great, erm, I'll get back to work." Awful.
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Sounds like an arrogant sod to me Anj. Hoped you used to slam the door on the way out ?
 
Barnfred 55 said:
Sounds like an arrogant sod to me Anj. Hoped you used to slam the door on the way out ?
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Oh he was. Thought he was posh because he lived in Hoylake. The Scousers who made the trek across the river to Birkenhead were all scallies in his opinion. I dropped into a conversation one day, probably during an awkward silence, that my Dad was captain of a supertanker (at that time the biggest ship on the planet). The look on his face was priceless.
 
Armaghtoffee said:
On what is termed the ‘bluest’ Monday of the year, one of my kids has tested positive. He’s in decent form though, just really tired.

You can’t isolate from a child so I guess this will be my turn too.

Now will be the time to really discover what Netflix and Disney + has to offer ?
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Dear @Armaghtoffee I wish your son a speedy recovery and if you get to have it too, may you also have lighter symptoms and may you enjoy everything Netflix and Disney+ has to offer and much more ?
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@blue1948 this arrived yesterday and what perfect timing it was ??
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Indeed, perfect timing. My copy was supposed to arrive today but the snow has ruined my delivery so I will have to wait until later this week.
 

jazzy said:
Morning everyone,

@Sassy Colombian I see there is a severe weather warning for NC , stay safe out there.
@Barnfred 55 how's the head this fine morning?
@Armaghtoffee really sorry to hear covid has reached your household, hope everyone is OK.

So sharing your house is so much hard work. Got my cousin up from Plymouth to look after animals , mum and house whilst we are away.

He and gay partner arrived yesterday with their 2 dogs and all 4 are getting on great.

Cat has moved in with mum though.

The place no longer feels your own. The 2 blokes are nice enough but sadly I have nothing in common with them. They don't like sport , music , politics or literature!

Bad news is Mrs J has started sniffling. Probably just a bit of a cold but guess we will find out on Wednesday with our PCR tests!

No idea what I'm going to do today . Staying away from the gym to avoid infection and nothing to do work wise in the house. Might tidy and reorganise my shed.

Have a good one everyone.
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No sport, music, politics or literature then what in the heck do the blokes like? lol

Jazzy, we indeed have a winter storm warning for a couple of more hours, still is dark outside so I can’t see how much more snow we got throughout the night but I was snowing a lot, to my daughter joy, before we went to bed.

I’m so sorry to hear about Mrs. J sniffles, hopefully is just a minor cold and you all can still make it to the Caribbean ??
 
anjelikaferrett said:
Good morning all. The healthy eating campaign starts today. Feeling quite motivated. Got weighed this morning.OMG! Move over Dumbo, there's a new elephant in town ( without the ability to fly ) but I'm quite well motivated. Dust, we'll just be eating dust! Have developed a shocker of a cold since yesterday. Full on runny nose, coughing, sore throat. Tested myself yesterday and today but both negative. Hopefully @jazzy Mrs J has just got cold too. There does seem to be a lot of it about.

Have a great day. Day 1 of the new Post Benitez era.
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Ange, good luck with your healthy eating campaign, once you get into a good rhythm and begin feeling better you will want to continue this path, plus you got your own cruise for motivation, and now Fred is trying to tempt you with a second one lol

Feel better soon too. Xx
 
Sassy Colombian said:
Dear @Armaghtoffee I wish your son a speedy recovery and if you get to have it too, may you also have lighter symptoms and may you enjoy everything Netflix and Disney+ has to offer and much more ?

Indeed, perfect timing. My copy was supposed to arrive today but the snow has ruined my delivery so I will have to wait until later this week.
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Thank you Sassy ?
 
Barnfred 55 said:
Head's not great but thanks for asking. Just as well I had that greasy spoon breakfast on Saturday morning. The next time I ate was 3.30 Sunday at the family lunch. That was nice. There were 9 of us and we all had a fine time. We don't get together that often but always have a great time when we do.

Burying Cal's ashes on Saturday was both emotional and, in a strange way quite amusing too. I'd left my brother in law on ashes duty whilst I returned to Cornwall. They come in a small cardboard box which he didn’t think was appropriate so bought a wooden casket to put them in. We'll this thing was huge, it was like a dwarf coffin, and he had to dig down about 2 feet to fit it in. It took him the best part of an hour and he was absolutely knackered. All the time me keeping dixie to make sure nobidy saw us. We must have looked like a couple of grave robbers.?
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"Keeping dixie" ....not heard that since I stopped doing criminal law. lol
 

Happy Monday, Blues.

It feels like a new day now that we have no Benitez in charged. Now I’m just wondering who is Moshiri and the board going to appoint next? I really hope their decision is wiser than when they decided on hiring Benitez.

Still early here and very snowy so I won’t be able to drive to the gym this morning. Today is a holiday in the US because it would have been Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday so everything is mostly closed, specially schools so it will be another lazy day for us, although I hope not to be eating as much as I did yesterday. Once my daughter wakes up, I’m sure she would want to go out and play again on the snow. She had a really good time yesterday but we had to make sure she was really bundled up because she still recovering from the flu and a bad cough. But kids are tireless and fearless so she still wanted to play as much as she could. My husband got to record this video of her going down our driveway that I wanted to share with you all. I didn’t even dared to do such a thing because as clumsy as I am I would have ended with a broken bone so I limited myself to writing silly things on the snow lol



I hope everyone has a good Monday. Xx
 
Sassy Colombian said:
Ange, good luck with your healthy eating campaign, once you get into a good rhythm and begin feeling better you will want to continue this path, plus you got your own cruise for motivation, and now Fred is trying to tempt you with a second one lol

Feel better soon too. Xx
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Thank you. You're right. Once I get going it will become easier. I'm not going to bore the pants off you all with updates because I really hate that. However if in a few weeks/ months I'm feeling especially proud of something I might share my news.
 
Sassy Colombian said:
Happy Monday, Blues.

It feels like a new day now that we have no Benitez in charged. Now I’m just wondering who is Moshiri and the board going to appoint next? I really hope their decision is wiser than when they decided on hiring Benitez.

Still early here and very snowy so I won’t be able to drive to the gym this morning. Today is a holiday in the US because it would have been Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday so everything is mostly closed, specially schools so it will be another lazy day for us, although I hope not to be eating as much as I did yesterday. Once my daughter wakes up, I’m sure she would want to go out and play again on the snow. She had a really good time yesterday but we had to make sure she was really bundled up because she still recovering from the flu and a bad cough. But kids are tireless and fearless so she still wanted to play as much as she could. My husband got to record this video of her going down our driveway that I wanted to share with you all. I didn’t even dared to do such a thing because as clumsy as I am I would have ended with a broken bone so I limited myself to writing silly things on the snow lol



I hope everyone has a good Monday. Xx
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Love this.
 
anjelikaferrett said:
Thank you. You're right. Once I get going it will become easier. I'm not going to bore the pants off you all with updates because I really hate that. However if in a few weeks/ months I'm feeling especially proud of something I might share my news.
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The hardest part is getting going but then once you get started it and begin feeling better and lighter then you will want to continue pushing yourself for more results. I’m not sure what sort of healthy eating you are hoping to accomplish but there are these two profiles that I follow on Instagram that offer great recipes for smoothie meals, that are geared towards weight loss, and the second profile is a place where you can find lots of nourishing healthy food recipes. Below are the links in case you want to check them out.



 
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