Unconscious mutterings #199

I say ... and you think ... ?

Rhyme :: No rhyme nor reason to it!
Substantial :: BIG
Instant :: Cup-a-soup
Greed :: A deadly sin

Brad :: The delicious Mr Brad Pitt ... I mean is there any other?
Season :: Salt and Pepper
Accomplished :: cook
Invite :: Dinner
Sparkle :: Diamonds
Rainbow :: *now singing* Somewhere over the rainbow!

**UPDATE**

Enquiring minds need to know cq? Enquiring? Isn't that a polite way of saying nosey? *chuckles* Ok ... cream carpet, plain, no pattern but what I would consider a cool cream not a rich cream like say Cornish clotted cream. Right walls ... cream, except one wall is purple. Bedding and curtains will probably end up being navy blue, so the whole thing "doesn't end up too girly ... right!" Now I wonder who could have said that?

**UPDATE ENDS**

Which is why we have to get at at six and dismantle the bed ~ bugger!!

*flop*

I came home on Tuesday night and flopped! Asleep at 7.45!!

And I did the same thing on Wednesday night and last night! I was in bed last night at 9.05pm ... I mean WTF??

You see, it's my week outside in the fresh air and it's the dancing and the slide and swing and the bikes and the hide 'n' seek! It's killing me :o) In a good way. I think I need an early night :o) Or maybe I just need to dance more!!

Happy Friday guys :o)

Thirteen great places to drink a cup of coffee / tea!

1. Nell's Café on the A2 ~ a member of that great British tradition, a transport caf. Fab breakfasts served with huge and I mean huge mugs of tea. They gave Kev a very odd look when we went in there once ... something to do with him asking if they did a vegetarian breakfast! The girl at the counter said incredously "you mean with no meat like?"
2. Hotel Kyriad La Garissade, Labastide Murat ~ just up the road from le Laquet. Serves a gorgeous cup of café au lait on the terrace on market day. Served by the lovely, smiley Isabelle.
3. The beach cafe @ St Margaret's at Cliffe ~ none of that crappy polystyrene cup rubbish! Proper mugs of tea!
4. The Rose & Crown, Perry Wood, Selling ... sit in the fab garden with a cup of coffee until the sun is over the yard arm and then get a pint of Adnam's to go with one of their amazing Ploughman's.
5. The Grand Hotel, Brighton ~ they do the most wonderful afternoon tea! Crustless sandwiches, cream cakes, scones with strawberry jam and wonderful Villeroy & Boch china tea pots full of steaming hot English Breakfast tea!! Wonderful!!!
6. And now on to Wales. The Kardomah Coffee Shop, Portland Street, Swansea. The smell as you entered the Kardomah was fabulous; a rich, roasted coffee scent hung in the air and if I close my eyes I can still remember it now .... South Wales seems to be full of really good Italian owned cafes. Why? Here's why!
7. Which leads me neatly on to Domachi's (RIP ... now a fried chicken joint and not even a really good fried chicken joint) in Pontarddulais near Swansea. Mrs Domachi or her sister used to stand at the till and shout orders at her husband. They did glass cups of milky coffee that was so hot it would take the layer of skin of your upper lip ... wonderful memories!
8. Fecci's & Sons Ice Cream Parlour in Tenby ... great ice-cream, great cup of tea. Not together you understand!
9. Cresci's Cafe in Ynysybwl, Rhondda (though I'm sure some people would argue the geography of that!) I remember a morning after the night before when Jon, Kev and I sat with sausage sandwiches and huge mugs of tea ~ bliss!
10. Joe's Ice Cream Parlour, Swansea. The best ice-cream and a good Italian cappucino too :o)
11. A good one to go to with new friends. The Pumpkin Café @ Doncaster Station!! But we drank hot chocolate :o)
12. One for my dreams, a cup of tea with breakfast at the Oyster Box Hotel, Umhlanga Rocks, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. I spent a blissful week on that terrace drinking tea *sighs* watching whales & dolphins and generally soaking up the sunshine! I want to go back one day soon :o) And finally ....
13. My kitchen table ... pop in if you're in the area!

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Things I have never done ~ A meme

Tagged-ish by Mar, this meme was created by Naomi, sitting in the hills! A list of things I have never done beginning with ...

1. I have never broken a bone, not completely ... a fracture once but not a real brake!
2. I have never parachuted and I don't intend to start!
3. I have never been to Asia, South America, Antarctica or Oceania ... in first place on my wishlist would of course be Oceania, specifically eNZed!
4. I have never been the youngest child in the family, I was the only child for 3 & 1/2 years but never the youngest! I'd like to keep it that I'm not an only child for now :o)
5. I have never understood the rules, laws and foibles of cricket!
6. I have never streaked *people around the world bow down in thanks*
7. I have never managed to change a poohy nappy without heaving, which leads tidily into ...
8. I have never had a baby, but I'm not through trying yet!
9. I have never *wiggles eyebrows* opened a bottle of wine just to have a glass! It goes off you know! Stale and horrible :o)
10. I have never missed the last bus home and been stranded *crosses fingers, legs, eyes & touches wood* I hope it never happens.
11. I have never cooked a souffle successfully.
12. I have never injected myself with ANYTHING!
13. I have never fallen asleep in school but I did fall asleep during a university lecture once ... the lecturer was horrified but it turns out I had a serious viral infection!
14. I have never hit another adult in anger.
15. I have never been able to whistle successfully. And by successfully I mean really loudly with 2 fingers in my mouth!
16. I have never seen a musical onstage in the West End. I'd love to!
17. I have never been scuba diving in the sea.
18. I have never seen the aurora borealis but I'd love to!
19. I have never knowingly picked up a spider.
20. I have never ....

So, go on, tell me, what have you never ever done!

Just practicing with video

I saw this over at Rainy Pete's ... classic and sick is always appealing to me!

Make sure you watch the laughing babies video too :o)

Unconscious mutterings #198

I say ... and you think ... ?

Teacher :: Me
Fifty :: Sixty, Seventy, Eighty ....
Crossword :: Ongoing battle, every night with the crossword. And then the phone call from my mother doing the same crossword 2 nights later (it takes a while for the newspaper to get to France) saying "what do you mean you can't do 7 across? That was easy!" Yeh, yeh, yeh!! I have one word for you mother ... arboreal!
Stuffed :: Chair
Family :: Together

Purr :: Cat
Toad :: Toadstool
Cocktail :: Americano
Insecurity :: Too many to mention!
Magical :: *singing* Roll up for the mystery tour

Anon

Don't just disappear completely!
Keep in touch with your roots K :o)

Some joker ...

... had fun with that paint job!

Thirteen drinks I wouldn't say no to at different times of the day / week / month!

1. Hot water with lots of lemon juice and a shot of honey.
2. A cup of tea
3. A glass of juice - orange, pineapple or cranberry.
4. A Virgin Mary ... plenty of Worcester Sauce and celery salt.
5. A glass of cold milk, semi-skimmed for me please.
6. Mid-morning coffee, strong and milky.
7. Mineral water, sparkling ~ Perrier or San Pellegrino. Ice-cold :o)
8. And so starts the hard stuff ... wine, Banrock Station Sparkling Shiraz!
9. Or maybe a glass of South American merlot.
10. An Americano.
11. A large gin and tonic, ice, no slice!
12. Brandy, with ice and coke.
13. Alka Selzer :o)

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Tuesday evening

I have just gotten in and I have to tell you that my heart is beating nineteen to the dozen!! As I came through the Medway tunnel tonight on the way home from poker I saw blue lights flashing behind me ... always unsettling, I think of the poor someone they're going to. Whethter its an accident, the victim of a burglary ... whatever :o(



So, I slow down and keep to the left on the dual carriageway. At this point I still have no idea whther this is an ambulance or the police and I immeadiately start worrying about the state of my car. I knew I didn't have to worry about drink driving! My poker partners will attest to the fact that I had a glass of water, a cup of tea, 6 or 7 breadsticks, 1 Mr Kipling's French fancy and a tonne of Bombay mix ... gin swilling poker players we are not! But I still don't like the fact that this police car is behind me!

And then he signals in with his indicators!!!!!!!! Bugger! What does he want? Was I speeding? Do I have a bald tyre? Bugger! So I pull in and ........... he screams passed me! Cheeky bugger! Ambulance driver just wanted me out of the way so he could do an illegal u-turn in the middle of the road.

And to top it all ... £7.00 down! So, tell us PP, who won all the money? Right sleep well everyone, me and my ongoing headache are off to bed :o)

Monday, Monday!

Monday, start of the working week. Staff meeting day!

Did you know that Monday, gets its name from the Moon, which in turn gets its name from Mani, the Germanic Moon god. Similarly, the Italian name (lunedi), the French name (lundi) and the Spanish name (lunes) come from the Latin name for the moon, Luna.

Monday's child is fair of face or so they say!

However, this Thursday's child is not happy about having to go out on a long journey to work when on this Monday morning it's still pitch black and blowing a hoolie out there! *wanders off to look for scarf and gloves for the day's expedition*