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Good morning all

Welcome back Ginny

Robert - blueberry pancakes and maple syrup - and secret recipe hash browns and bacon - superb
(sorry cannot face veggies and broccoli at 8.00 - as much as I like broccoli ) but sure Gins will adore it

Good news day for me - My sister is coming to stay for a week - on 30th September - wonderful -

AND we have CLOUD and possibility of rain - later today and maybe - just maybe rain tomorrow - ------------- total Heaven - Clouds no sun


Renes

Renes

Morning all,

I think i like this hat, so i shall continue wearing it for a while !!

Those that know me well, knows it suits me!!! LOL


T x

Sylvs.....you mustn't run, not with that poorly knee of yours! Jump on Fans shoulders....she'll carry you.




Wonderful breakfast Robert - managed to get some before that Dea appeared and gobbled it all up.



So, when does our hostess appear then? Whenever it is....I'm busy :))

My temporary breakfast contract ends Friday so there will probably be bear liver or something similar from lotus land on Saturday. Syl, the hostess with the mostest, should be back in her frilly apron.

Robert

Robert

I must say your provisions have been of excellent quality and variation -

It has been very much appreciated - especially as you accepted many al la carte options - from Dea
(always wanting double cooked bacon and different eggs)

I hope you noticed I always ate from the set menu - ***** stars for me

So please give me your secret recipe for Hash Browns

pleeeeeeaaaaaaaasssssseee

Renes

Hi all,

Sorry - I am late this morning but just managed to find a 'lovely' bit of bacon left so I melted some cheese on my toast and topped it with the bacon !!.... Yuuummm !!

We shall REALLY miss your breakfasts Robert, though It will be very nice to have our Sylvia back on duty.

She also does a lovely breakfast, though somewhat 'lighter' which I think we all need now after all this extravagance - I, for one, have put on so much weight, I will have to 'cut down' on my food intake before I explode (tee hee !!)


Huevos Rancheros for me tomorrow - I may just have a double helping as it is your last day !"!!

Dea x

P.S.

Cynths - I will make sure I get there before you in the morning - Greedy Girl !!

Renes, - I too, ate from the menu every day. - If you get all those stars, does that mean I get double ???

Dea x

lunchtime lookin

Whilst discussing forthcoming papal visit with OH and Tracey's stab vest he told me this joke.

Made me think of Sylvia so here goes.


THREE HOLY MEN AND A BEAR

A Priest, a Pentecostal Preacher, and a Rabbi all served as Chaplains to the students of Northern Michigan University in Marquette.. They would get together two or three times a week for coffee and talk shop.

One day, someone made the comment that preaching to people isn’t really all that hard. A real challenge would be to preach to a bear. One thing led to another and they decided to do an experiment. They would all go out into the woods, find a bear, preach to it, and attempt to convert it.

Seven days later, they're all together to discuss their experience.

Father Flannery, who has his arm in a sling, is on crutches, and has various bandages on his body and limbs, goes first. "Well," he says, "I went into the woods to find a bear.
And when I found him I began to read to him from the Catechism. Well, that bear wanted nothing to do with me and began to slap me around. So I quickly grabbed my holy water, sprinkled him and, Holy Mary Mother of God, he became as gentle as a lamb. The Bishop is coming out next week to give him first communion.

Reverend Billy Bob spoke next. He was in a wheelchair, with an IV drip in his arm, and both legs in casts. In his best fire and brimstone oratory he claimed, "WELL, brothers, you KNOW that we don't sprinkle! I went out and I FOUND a bear. And then I began to read to my bear from God's HOLY WORD! But that bear wanted nothing to do with me.

So I took HOLD of him and we began to wrestle. We wrestled down one hill, UP another and DOWN, another until we came to a creek. So I quickly DUNKED him and BAPTIZED his hairy soul. And just like you said, he became as gentle as a lamb. We spent the rest of the day praising Jesus."

The Priest and the Reverend both looked at the Rabbi, who was lying in a hospital bed. He was in a body cast and traction with IV's and monitors running in and out of him. He was in really bad shape.

The Rabbi looks up and says,
"You know, looking back on it, Circumcision may not have been the best way to start!"

And another

A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand.



He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, it would never be picked up! In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent copies.




The head monk, says, "We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son."



He goes down into the dark caves underneath the monastery

where the original manuscripts are held as archives in a locked

vault that hasn't been opened for hundreds of years.

Hours go by and nobody sees the old abbot.


So, the young monk gets worried and goes down to look for him. He sees him banging his head against the wall and wailing.

"We missed the R !

We missed the R !

We missed the R !"


His forehead is all bloody and bruised and he is crying uncontrollably.

The young monk asks the old abbot, "What's wrong, father?"

With A choking voice, the old abbot replies,



"The word was...





CELEBRATE!!!"

OMG (just for Cyn).....'Oh My God'

Tracey has a new name, Robert has retired and the rest of you are even more stupid than before I left for a week

I am now on an English keyboard and sat at home all snug and TIRED

Delayed last night due to the French air traffic controllers on strike...not like the French to strike!

And, because we got assisted passage for mom (IL) we couldnt get through to the duty free.........GUTTED

Fags were £2.00 per pack for B&H which is nearly £4.00 cheaper than here

Anyway got back to Wales at 2.00am this morning, had a kip and came home this afternoon...had another kip

So, your break from me is well and truly over....... crash helmets and blast pants at the ready!



.........it's good to be back ;)

Ginny


Just to say - Ginny darlin - I have been a saint whilst you have been away - an absolute saint -


And we had rain today - and more promised for tomorrow


Hurrah


Renes

Good to see you back

£2 a pack for B&H...wish i hadn't packed it up now lolol

Hi all

welcome back Gins


interesting to know that assisted passage doesn't allow one to go to duty-free.


Robert's breakfast sound wonderful ................... back to croissants etc next week!


almost ready to start demolishing the kitchen

........ have signed contract for plumber

....... bottom cabinets and counters being built (just having doors replaced on the upper cabinets

........ out this weekend to choose lino

........ OH is planning to empty cupboards, and possibly beginning to demolish lower cabinets this weekend








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Hello friends....Sylv, when we left Liverpool we did go to duty free but at the Swiss side....nope, not a chance

Jules, you stay stopped....if that makes sense

And as for you Renes....been good my a#se ;)

Kitchen underway then Sylv.....when are you coming over here for a 'knees up' then???

Lovely to have you back Ginny,

Hope you had a lovely time!

Dea x

P.S. LK - I REALLY laughed out loud at that joke about converting the bear !!

Going to show it to my husband - you never know, he might just 'get it' ?? - Will let you know.

Dea x

Cheers Dea Dea

It's nice to be back.....but not the weather!

Had a fab time, learned to drink sensible too....oh no, a tiny glass of wine with dinner and not a whacking big one :(

Most of all, had a fab laugh from start to finish...which started with moms passport photo.....she is now known as the alien from planet Krypton

Gins

With the prices in Switzerland - bet it would have cost a bob or two for a "whacking big " glass

So good job


When do we know what prezzies you have bought back for us !!!



Renes

Renes

I has brought ME back!

Food................about £21 for one pizza (for one person) in the town centre and that was a 'cheap' place, so you can imagine what 'real' food cost

Lucky we had family and friends cooking for us in the evening...

Talking about expensive drinks brought back a memory for me of a holiday in Tunisia (We now call it Too bl**dy nisia !!) - We HATED it !!

One thing was, there was a horrible flue type bug which everyone seemed to catch, each day more of our group developed 'the cough' - many people were going for daily injections of antibiotics - not for me as the place was SO dirty I suspect they would use rusty needles. - I bought some in tablet form from the local chemist but still came home with pleurisy!!

Anyway, one day, we came back from a jeep trip through the desert and I was so 'shivery' cold that I wanted to have a brandy to help warm me up!!

Of course, it is a 'non'drinking' Country and we asked at the bar - 'no problem for tourists in hotels' - it cost about £12 each for 2 brandies - each glass contained about 2 teaspoons full!! - What a rip-off !!

I always say, and I REALLY mean it - If I won a luxury 2 week holiday in Tunisia, I would tell them to give it to someone else!!

Never again!!

Dea x

Welcome back ...... whatsyername. Must go and get some paracetamol at the ready.

How did you learn to drink sensibly? You must know how to hold a glass by now girl!!



Had a pm from someone who has found freds...! So tempted to ask Fred's what....but wouldn't be so cruel.



If she's brought us a prezzie back Irene, then that'll be a miracle!


OH has just appeared at my side bearing a large box of Ferrero Rocher chocs.....mmmm.....would anyone like one??? He's a good'un....when he behaves!
Sylvs...don't envy you the kitchen job.......I'll nip over and pick you up and you can stay a couple of nights whilst the work is ongoing. We could do a coffee shop trail....how's that sound??