tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222502286514724902.post8808070872374201393..comments2024-02-13T07:39:19.810+01:00Comments on Being Here: The things we do...ArtyZenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12628693178003940118noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222502286514724902.post-32585730819765795612012-11-26T19:44:23.966+01:002012-11-26T19:44:23.966+01:00Busted! ;)Busted! ;)Annie Cholewahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17608057589525908147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222502286514724902.post-43218925895109168092012-11-25T21:00:11.783+01:002012-11-25T21:00:11.783+01:00Thank you Perpetua - so sorry you are having awful...Thank you Perpetua - so sorry you are having awful weather. Let's hope it improves in the next few weeks before and during Christmas. My sister says she still has the chicken costume and suggested I have my photo taken in it whilst we're over at Christmas - I think I shall have to be extremely merry to agree!<br /><br />Oh I do know that unpeeling the fingers feeling! I used to go into a ArtyZenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12628693178003940118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222502286514724902.post-15702939816516339102012-11-25T19:53:08.943+01:002012-11-25T19:53:08.943+01:00Thanks for the chuckle, Annie - just what I needed...Thanks for the chuckle, Annie - just what I needed in this awful weather. :-) I vote you find that chicken photo and share it with us all.....<br /><br />Your tales of your moped took me right back to the early days of our marriage, when DH had to travel from Manchester to Cumberland and back on his moped every weekend for several months. In really cold weather I literally had to unpeel his Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222502286514724902.post-30867656983783911572012-11-24T21:13:22.083+01:002012-11-24T21:13:22.083+01:00Don't you mean 'eggcentric, Nilly? Your vi...Don't you mean 'eggcentric, Nilly? Your viewing really is bizarre, Nilly. I'm amazed a Reliant Robin has the power to pull a trailer actually. And why is it that despite having ever-handy cameras, the really gobsmacking leaves us unable to snap? Happens to me all the time.<br />AxxxArtyZenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12628693178003940118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222502286514724902.post-40666433969707318832012-11-24T21:10:09.918+01:002012-11-24T21:10:09.918+01:00You might be right, BtoB! How things change. I kno...You might be right, BtoB! How things change. I know there is a photograph taken from my workplace, but we never thought to take photos on the day - with me in chicken outfit. When I go to my sister's at Christmas, I'm going to see if she still has it...and I shall photograph it!<br />AxxxArtyZenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12628693178003940118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222502286514724902.post-11803655766711638732012-11-24T21:03:04.073+01:002012-11-24T21:03:04.073+01:00Your story of odd vehicles & "eccentric&q...Your story of odd vehicles & "eccentric" drivers reminds me of one I saw a month ago on the A14 near Cambridge - we overtook a yellow Reliant Robin towing an enclosed trailer with windows - inside the trailer was Del Boy's coffin! Sadly I was too gobsmacked to get my ever-handy camera out.nillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09733433402466612700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222502286514724902.post-6738295031756090052012-11-24T19:02:03.156+01:002012-11-24T19:02:03.156+01:00If it had been these days, you would probably be a...If it had been these days, you would probably be a "You Tube sensation" and make thousands from the advertising. BacktoBodrumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627125508442009313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222502286514724902.post-85177150862855827042012-11-24T10:37:41.140+01:002012-11-24T10:37:41.140+01:00That is so funny, Annie! You're obviously stil...That is so funny, Annie! You're obviously still an 8 year old inside!! AxxxArtyZenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12628693178003940118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222502286514724902.post-21055812654432391722012-11-24T01:39:43.286+01:002012-11-24T01:39:43.286+01:00You are clearly the coolest person I know!You are clearly the coolest person I know!Annie Cholewahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17608057589525908147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222502286514724902.post-26531452296529879822012-11-23T23:18:59.932+01:002012-11-23T23:18:59.932+01:00Hi Kim and thank you! This is probably the sillies...Hi Kim and thank you! This is probably the silliest thing I have ever done...I think. I suspect it wasn't as impressive as the taxi driver made out - I think he was just being very kind. AxxxArtyZenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12628693178003940118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222502286514724902.post-61927296547116495122012-11-23T22:49:28.600+01:002012-11-23T22:49:28.600+01:00Hi Annie, thanks for visiting............my you...Hi Annie, thanks for visiting............my you've had some hair raising adventures.......a freefall somersault from a moped and not even a ladder in your tights, I'm much impressed.tales from a handmade homehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17606873131836107761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222502286514724902.post-50806846350744343992012-11-23T20:50:49.581+01:002012-11-23T20:50:49.581+01:00And thank you, Ayak! I have done some daft things ...And thank you, Ayak! I have done some daft things in my time but this was really very silly. <br />I felt absolutely dreadful on the day but even then I knew there was a very comic side to it all and the man at the stately home was so lovely and entered into the spirit of it beautifully.ArtyZenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12628693178003940118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222502286514724902.post-37148342813418333212012-11-23T20:46:37.316+01:002012-11-23T20:46:37.316+01:00I knew I'd got it wrong but only a few of you ...I knew I'd got it wrong but only a few of you would realise! It's because I worked on the 5th floor at the time. I think your office faced the main road, didn't it? It caused quite a stir, I can tell you and I think Winnie got a photo but who knows where it is now. What the heck, I'll go and change it to 8 just now. <br /><br />I hope it didn't make you laugh too much but gladArtyZenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12628693178003940118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222502286514724902.post-7970334773401457452012-11-23T19:34:53.061+01:002012-11-23T19:34:53.061+01:00Absolutely brilliant post Annie. You tell such wo...Absolutely brilliant post Annie. You tell such wonderful stories, and I laughed out loud at the chicken costume. Thankyou for sharing this with us xxAyakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16903896106779269050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222502286514724902.post-4073006544390523022012-11-23T17:56:05.120+01:002012-11-23T17:56:05.120+01:00This has made me smile a lot.....and yes, I've...This has made me smile a lot.....and yes, I've even risked a laugh. Great stuff Annie......Was the place of work described, Oldgate ????I would have loved to have looked out of my office window to see that.....but even in my befuddled current state I recall 8 floors at Oldgate, not 5...oh well.<br />Keep warm...the new stove looks great .xJanicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05449652020751269674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222502286514724902.post-5978572246609303822012-11-23T14:52:23.188+01:002012-11-23T14:52:23.188+01:00Yup...daft it generally is!Yup...daft it generally is!the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222502286514724902.post-28224075531737497332012-11-23T09:09:30.026+01:002012-11-23T09:09:30.026+01:00Good one, Fly! I sometimes do feel I have lived a ...Good one, Fly! I sometimes do feel I have lived a quietly bizarre life. Some people are flamboyant and really do live to excess. I suspect we all have such wonderful daft stories in our lives. I love to tell mine! Axxx (And I've read your blog too!)ArtyZenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12628693178003940118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222502286514724902.post-40533168732388375442012-11-23T02:47:32.868+01:002012-11-23T02:47:32.868+01:00Wow...you've lived!
The nearest I came to suc...Wow...you've lived!<br /><br />The nearest I came to such goings on was when a 'go to work on an egg' lady knocked at our front door in full chicken costume....<br />When father discovered that the eggs were not free he suggested that she cluck off...the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.com