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Syd well content Babs getting better......Donna spoils em..they love her............

Hey Margie, they're lovely looking cats. If they're Ben's, how did you get pix of them. (Unless you took a camera on the dancefloor).

My latest puzzle:

They are GORGEOUS, Ben! Semi longhaired, by the look of it. Syd looks very like my ginger cat, Bruno.

BK i must admit it was quite difficult sneaking into Ben’s house to take a photo. Lol

you deserve the credit mi duck........ Why eye................Meow...lol

Just realised that if anyone ‘likes’ the photos of your kittens, I’ll get all the credit! Sorry about that Ben. They really are beautiful kittens - do they miaow with a Geordie accent?

Thanks again Margie............and thats our SYD

Thanks Margie,,,,thats our BABS

I know NOW that what people look like or what they wear has little relevance to what they’re REALLY like, but I can still remember the great feeling of being on the dance floor as a teenager knowing I was being watched by the lads at the edge. If I was on the dance floor now, people would still be watching but for different reasons.... “Just look at that old bird trying to show off her moves, poor old duck”

Jill I mentally prepared myself for the Budgie story, it took a long while , but like you and others I am still waiting.

Steady on, young Trogg. You've led a sheltered life, you know. Ben's Locarno Years might give you nightmares. I'm still waiting for the budgie in the shed episode!

Ok, I'll make a request !

Peveril super fit!

@nonnaB After reading your post I feel hungry - must go and make something on toast ... scrambled eggs, beans, chocolate spread? Not all together I might add!

Another empty skip

I've eaten your rabbit at La Bucca and it was very good. I don't remember it being served with chocolate though. That would have been too much even for my extensive eating repertoire!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY ,Phil. Have a great day and best to you both. If I had your email I'd send a card. Barrie.

Apart from Christmas Eve, I don't do Christmas. Christmas Eve I like to spend alone, by the fire, in candlelight, listening to the strains of Thomas Tallis and his contemporaries, a glass of Aussie red in hand, looking back through the years. The memories are very powerful and become more so the older I become. Otherwise, Christmas in my family has traditionally been a time when, if there's going to be death, disease and disaster, that's when it strikes. We were always glad when it was over.

With me being out of action the wife has been busy getting presents for all the kids and some Grandkids {only some cos i think theres about 30 lol) also for some lovely neighbours.......before i took ill i had stashed a few notes away...anyway yesterday i gave em to Donna to get what she wants..........big softie that i am............wonder what she's got me?

Me and Mrs.Beekay had this agreement many years ago. We stopped buying each other presents, as it seemed just a token gesture. If she wants something, anyday of the year, she can have it. No need to wait for Christmas. It works both ways, although I end up paying any road! We send ourselves a daft card, from us to us. PhilMayfield, I couldn't get any chops, so we're having a gammon joint instead. Any left will be with chips and egg.

Nothing worse than opening gifts you don’t want and trying to look pleased!

500,000 vaccinated only 8,750,000 or so to go until it is me.

My two new Wasgij puzzles arrived yesterday. Looks like we have to stay in for a while as CV cases are increasing too quickly. They will keep me busy and keep my brain.from falling asleep.

The other day another wasgij puzzle arrived along with a puzzle mat. I'm fed up of when doing the puzzle the kitchen table is always occupied and the large pastry board I use is the correct size for the puzzle but the border tends to drop off. I ordered a large mat and when I opened it , it was huge. It takes a puzzle of up to 3000 pieces but also has a deep border so now it's too big for the table. I cut a strip off the length and now although it's still too big it's easier to manage. The new wasgij is Destiny "The Toy Shop" . I think it will take me a while to do it looking at the pieces. T

It's what my uncle George used to call a bobbydazzler! Loved my uncle George. He was straight John Bull, no messing about. If he saw an overweight person in the street, he'd comment, "She's a boiling bit!"

I remember a tramp walking into the reception of the solicitors' offices where I worked many years ago. Overcoat in shreds, trousers held up with string, shoes falling apart, etc. He was clutching a tatty carrier bag and asked to see the senior partner. The woman on reception was inclined to fetch our retired policeman cum general office manager to throw the vagrant out. For some reason, she rang the senior partner and described the tatty bloke sitting on a chair in the foyer. Senior partner was down the Georgian staircase in a flash to welcome the owner of one of the biggest army

Could add shoplifting stories to this tile? Had a mate he's dead now, used to do his shopping in a Hyson Green supermarket pay for his items, take them home, then go back with the receipt & get exactly the same stuff & just walk out with it, went on for years!

Obviously a gentlemans liberty bodice - no suspenders.

On the topic of shoplifting.....I checked my stuff through the checkout at Tescos the other week and just reached the door when I noticed my £3 birthday card wedged upright in the corner of my basket. With my shopping bags almost burying it. I had obviously overlooked it when loading my stuff onto the counter. I have to admit to a moment's hesitation, should I - shouldn't I, before turning back to the tills to pay.

It's an old one but ---- Remember when you could catch the bus into town of a Saturday morning with half a crown in your pocket and get a weeks worth of groceries in your shopping bag and return home with two bob in pocket. You can't do that nowdays --- too many bloody cameras in the shops !!!! Ray