Blather, Waffle and Poppycock!

[Westmarcher]

Allergic to noise, eh? I'll try not to write in capital letters then. I like Milton Jones - very funny - and 'yes,' people with cats' houses often stink.     We have a cat lady across the road (6 cats at last count - and now she has two dogs in addition). Got so bad that even a couple of the cats moved out! One (Fluffy  ) lives most of the time with a neighbour and another (Gizmo) is feral now. My wife helps to feed the latter - OK, sap that I am I feed her, too, but I've learned not to stroke her unless you want to find out how sharp her claws are. To be fair she has shown something akin to affection on occasion by rubbing (wiping?) herself against my legs now and again, little Rice Christian that she is. I chase away the other cats, bar one other, on the fanciful basis that they might think our garden is the territory of the feral cat and so, will not enter our garden and 'make our house stink.' Seems to work. The other cat is Winston. I am not a cat person but if I did have one I would want one like him. He is the the oldest and largest cat of the six and King of the neighbourhood. What a great natured cat. And, most importantly, he makes his owner's house stink!   

[d_Guy]

I knew a cat once that played the piano. Not very well but consistently if the keyboard cover was not put down. It left with a circus (we think). I had images of it playing in one of the sideshows. Probably long dead by now. Her name was Star.

[fsn]

The Tumbling Dice order arrived two days ago. 




I thought I'd ordered 12 Defiants ... turns out I ordered 24. That's nearly 7 minutes against Bf110s.

[Westmarcher]

Whilst waiting to board his plane to London-Heathrow, my son-in-law overheard a fellow passenger on her phone say in an English accent, "That's me about to take my flight back to the UK."   

They were at Glasgow Airport.   

[fsn]

Ouch!

[Last Hussar]

Following a conversation in the Sunjester household, I would like to share this image with you.

Orcs (our one) wearing a "chain"mail Mankini.

[fsn]

Why? Why would you want to do something like that? 

[paulr]

 

[fsn]

Did it look like this?


Yeah, I know it didn't but I had to shift the image somehow.

[Westmarcher]

Following a conversation in the Sunjester household, I would like to share this image with you.

Orcs (our one) wearing a "chain"mail Mankini.

..... not the rusty one again?  

(...... it was rust, wasn't it?)

[Quick, Nobby! Post another picture of the young lady]

[Matt J]

At least I know what to get the wife for Xmas now 

[Ithoriel]

Whilst waiting to board his plane to London-Heathrow, my son-in-law overheard a fellow passenger on her phone say in an English accent, "That's me about to take my flight back to the UK."   

They were at Glasgow Airport.   

When I was at Edinburgh Uni a letter arrived addressed to "Prof XXX, Department of English, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, England."

The envelope was pinned up on the notice board with the addendum "Macbeth, ACT IV, SCENE III, Line 165*"

*Stands Scotland where it did?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Quite right to !!!

[steve_holmes_11]

When I was at Edinburgh Uni a letter arrived addressed to "Prof XXX, Department of English, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, England."

The envelope was pinned up on the notice board with the addendum "Macbeth, ACT IV, SCENE III, Line 165*"

*Stands Scotland where it did?

At least it got delivered.

During my time in the USA, my mail to home went first to Ukraine.
USPS regards U.K. as Ukraine.

[Steve J]

Letters to Austria often end up in Australia. So now we mark them Europe at the end of the address, to try and prevent this.