Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:42 am
Did the earth move for anyone else in the early hours of this morning. 
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:30 pm
Its still moving OH....Too much apple juice!
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:40 pm
Someone told me today that i'm easily pleased, i think they meant it a little sarcasticly really.
Anyway it got me thinking, they are right as i get a lot of pleasure out of some of the simplest things in life. I have just been sitting here watching some Blue Tits working they way over a Christmas tree thats in my garden, i take it they are finding themselves something to eat, but it was lovely to watch.
I'm so glad that i'm like this and not constantly seeking bigger and better things in life.
All in all i'm quite content with my life.
Anyway it got me thinking, they are right as i get a lot of pleasure out of some of the simplest things in life. I have just been sitting here watching some Blue Tits working they way over a Christmas tree thats in my garden, i take it they are finding themselves something to eat, but it was lovely to watch.
I'm so glad that i'm like this and not constantly seeking bigger and better things in life.
All in all i'm quite content with my life.
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:33 pm
Dear OH
How I do agree.... When I was in my thirties it suddenly dawned on me that I have everything I really need. A lovely wife (The Governor) two gorgeous daughters and a modest house that is now paid for...
I have since added four grandchildren who think their Grandfather is wonderful what more could I wish for... my health isn't too bad albeit I have a few replacement bits and pieces
To sit and muse in the garden on a sunny day is simply heaven and once you have paid the allotment ground rent its FREE!
How I do agree.... When I was in my thirties it suddenly dawned on me that I have everything I really need. A lovely wife (The Governor) two gorgeous daughters and a modest house that is now paid for...
I have since added four grandchildren who think their Grandfather is wonderful
what more could I wish for... my health isn't too bad albeit I have a few replacement bits and pieces
To sit and muse in the garden on a sunny day is simply heaven and once you have paid the allotment ground rent its FREE!
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:33 pm
Dear Weed, that was one of the loveliest and most contented contributions I have read for some time! Long may you enjoy it all!
FEB 29th
Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:58 am
Before any of you young ladies ask, i'm afraid the answer has to be no.
Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:32 am
Doesn't look as though anyone will
A good story about the origin of the tradition:
St. Patrick, having “driven the frogs out of the bogs,” was walking along the shores of Lough Neagh, when he was accosted by St. Bridget in tears, and was told that a mutiny had broken out in the nunnery over which she presided, the ladies claiming the right of “popping the question.” St. Patrick said he would concede them the right every seventh year, when St. Bridget threw her arms round his neck, and exclaimed, “Arrah, Pathrick, jewel, I daurn’t go back to the girls wid such a proposal. Make it one year in four.” St. Patrick replied, “Bridget, acushla, squeeze me that way agin, an’ I’ll give ye leap-year, the longest of the lot.” St. Bridget, upon this, popped the question to St. Patrick himself, who of course, could not marry; so he patched up the difficulty as best he could with a kiss and a silk gown. (Dictionary of Phrase and Fable)
Any ladies need a silk gown (or a kiss)? Go on, ask OH to marry you
A good story about the origin of the tradition:
St. Patrick, having “driven the frogs out of the bogs,” was walking along the shores of Lough Neagh, when he was accosted by St. Bridget in tears, and was told that a mutiny had broken out in the nunnery over which she presided, the ladies claiming the right of “popping the question.” St. Patrick said he would concede them the right every seventh year, when St. Bridget threw her arms round his neck, and exclaimed, “Arrah, Pathrick, jewel, I daurn’t go back to the girls wid such a proposal. Make it one year in four.” St. Patrick replied, “Bridget, acushla, squeeze me that way agin, an’ I’ll give ye leap-year, the longest of the lot.” St. Bridget, upon this, popped the question to St. Patrick himself, who of course, could not marry; so he patched up the difficulty as best he could with a kiss and a silk gown. (Dictionary of Phrase and Fable)
Any ladies need a silk gown (or a kiss)? Go on, ask OH to marry you
Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:31 pm
I only ordered twenty silk gowns, looks like i'll have to order some more.
I knew i should have disarmed my P.M service.
I knew i should have disarmed my P.M service.
Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:39 pm
oldherbaceous wrote:I only ordered twenty silk gowns, looks like i'll have to order some more.
I knew i should have disarmed my P.M service.
Dear OH
It's PMM (=Please Marry Me)
Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:11 pm
OH, do you think you should start a Bits and Bobs No.3? This one is getting ever so long.
Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:56 pm
Dear Alan, we do have a laugh don't we. 
Dear Monika, i will start a new one first thing in the morning, it will work quite well being the first of the month.
Dear Monika, i will start a new one first thing in the morning, it will work quite well being the first of the month.
Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:56 pm
Alan, I thought for one horrible, horrible moment that you were proposing to OH
Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:02 pm
Dear Chantal, please, don't even go there.
Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:51 pm
Too late OH, far, far too late 