Today.

[Beachlover]

Well, made it to yet another birthday.

Missy asked me what I’d like her to do for my birthday. “Go to work” seems not to have been the reply she was expecting.

Anyway, left to our own devices, Pyx and I went to lunch with a friend. To my utter astonishment as this was her first trip to a pub restaurant, Pyx behaved impeccably throughout even if she raised some eyebrows by eating off my fork and giving my platter a pre-wash at the end!

 

[MaC]

Happy Birthday and here's to many more

 

[Beachlover]

Seems fish and chip Friday has hit the spot.

 

[noddy]

Happy Birthday, Kev. Keep it up, as they say.

 

[CaptainBeaky]

Many happy thingies of the wotsit :giggle:

 

[Winnet]

Happy burpfreeday.

G

 

[RickDastardly]

Happy Birthday!

 

[Quarterstaff]

Happy Birthday Kev, hope your enjoying the evening!

 

[BorderReiver]

You realise of course that a birthday is a celebration of having survived for yet another year. Hope you are having/had a pleasant one.

 

[Oldtimer]

Many happy returns, may you have many more......as a non English speaker copied from an English phrase book onto the "Congratulations on your Wedding" card when we got married .

 

[Nice65]

Happy Birthday Kev. (y)

 

[bushwacker]

All the best Kev. Hope its a good one.

 

[noddy]

The other day, I used the word dogsbody in conversation. No one knew what I meant. One person in particular went on a rant about how he thought it was a extremely offensive term. When I went on to explain where the term came from and its implications, he got even more heated about how it was a dangerous term to use. Well, you meet pricks like that all the time. But what shocked me is that after speaking to a ton more Canadians, I discovered that no one, no one at all has dogsbody in their idioms. More, they do kind of start wriggling in their seats as if they trying to prevent themselves from going off on one. I wonder what this is.

 

[MaC]

I caught it using the phrase that someone ought to be black affronted. (sometimes written black affrontit)
It means to be so ashamed of one's behaviour that you hide your face behind your cloak.
Damn all to do with the colour of aforementioned face :sigh:

 

[CaptainBeaky]

The other day, I used the word dogsbody in conversation. No one knew what I meant. One person in particular went on a rant about how he thought it was a extremely offensive term. When I went on to explain where the term came from and its implications, he got even more heated about how it was a dangerous term to use. Well, you meet pricks like that all the time. But what shocked me is that after speaking to a ton more Canadians, I discovered that no one, no one at all has dogsbody in their idioms. More, they do kind of start wriggling in their seats as if they trying to prevent themselves from going off on one. I wonder what this is.

Classic example of when you lose one sense, your other senses become more acute.
In the case, someone with no sense of humour has developed an exaggerated sense of self-importance.

 

[MaC]

Classic example of when you lose one sense, your other senses become more acute.
In the case, someone with no sense of humour has developed an exaggerated sense of self-importance.

I'm nicking that (y)

 

[Andylaser]

Happy birthday Kev. How manymore backpacks do you have now that you didnt on Monday?

 

[noddy]

Up early. Very cold and snowy. So, a fat breakfast of liver and onions, with bacon, eggs and tomatoes. I love liver, and forget sometimes. Coffee.

Off out in a bit then back to sort the house out. It is a tip and I have no clean clothes. There will be ironing at some point, I imagine.

 

[Beachlover]

In the process of taking on a new allotment. It's smaller (I'm an increasingly knackered and broken old man), but has a tap, is directly adjacent to the access road and has much better soil. Today saw the start of moving stock I want to keep (rhubarb, fruit bushes and fruit trees - not the best time of year but they have two choices) and next comes moving my shed and greenhouse. Probably a move of less than thirty yards, which oddly enough makes the whole project seem even more daunting. :cautious:

Once the move is complete there comes fencing it all off and making it terrier proof, if indeed such a thing even exists!

 

[Woody Girl]

More bargains from the charity shop today. A brand new heating pad which is now gently warming my back, for a measly fiver, and a nice little table oil lamp, again a fiver, needs a wick, but I'm sure I've got one hidden in a box somewhere in the spare room.
I also managed to get travel size shampoo and shower gel for 50p each, and a folding hairbrush, 50p so that's my washbag sorted , I'd run out of the minni size stuff, and lost my last travel brush last summer. Our local chemist doesn't do travel size things, so it's nice to find nice hotel quality treats like this for so little money.
Tofu was half price in the supermarket, so I'm going to experiment and try making some tofu "scrambled eggs" for tea tonight.

 

[BorderReiver]

In the process of taking on a new allotment. It's smaller (I'm an increasingly knackered and broken old man), but has a tap, is directly adjacent to the access road and has much better soil. Today saw the start of moving stock I want to keep (rhubarb, fruit bushes and fruit trees - not the best time of year but they have two choices) and next comes moving my shed and greenhouse. Probably a move of less than thirty yards, which oddly enough makes the whole project seem even more daunting. :cautious:

Once the move is complete there comes fencing it all off and making it terrier proof, if indeed such a thing even exists!

Good luck with the final bit; sink the bottom of the fence at least a foot into the soil to give it a fighting chance.:giggle:

 

[MaC]

I though that it was a forlorn cause when I read his post and thought maybe a ground anchor fixed to a sunken concrete black might work......for a wee while.

M

 

[E. By Gum]

I have no idea what's wrong with the word dogsbody either. Very common usage.

 

[noddy]

Some bags of quikcrete. Dig a hole, fill it with dry quikcrete, set the post in it. Add water.

 

[Woody Girl]

Some bags of quikcrete. Dig a hole, fill it with dry quikcrete, set the post in it. Add water.

Do not.....repeat...do not insert wife or dog, wooden fencing posts only!