Well, I see my lovely friend Fruity has joined this thread.
I have known Fruitcake AKA Fruity for a year or more.
We used to have a lovely thread called ‘What do the old proverbs mean today’, much the same a posted on here.
THankyou kindly for the special award . It was so unexpected to be honoured in this way.
I want to thank my parents for conceiving me in the cold hard winter of 1947 & for supporting & encouraging me with their Unconditional Positive Regard.
Thanks also to my namesake Robert Snr R.N 1932-1954. for his encyclopaediacal mind & breathless command of the English language, passed on to me in spadeloads.
Most of all I want to thank asll those leisurely scribblers who tired themselves out in fundraising et al to fund the magnificent bronze lifesize statue of me.
I am overrwhelmed by your kindnesses.
Oh begob Spitty your still as sharp as ever, love that one, well copped.
Funny you say that Fruitcake, I used to have nice handwriting even though I only finished primary school. When I became an apprentice goldsmith at 14 I had to fill in dozens of assay dockets in a hurry to get the products to the assay office on time for hallmarking, in no time me beautiful writing became mere scribbles on paper and it was downhill all the way since in the handwriting stakes.
When I go to the post office now to sign for me pension it’s just an automatic squiggle, but all my betting slips in the bookies are all printed and I can do that very quickly.
Welcome and nice to see you dropping in Fruitcake, don’t be a stranger now.;-)
yes pass the fruitcake jem - couldn’t resist that one - of course Jem knows all these lovely ladies as he passes between the airway on the other threads of OFF dockin is cap here and dockin his cap there - creep!
I used to punt the odd rugby ball in my yoof, and I was once told to “Pas d’elle y en ne que nous”, so I’ll give it a go, although my balance isn’t what it used to be. Well I am on a pension so what do you expect.
The last time I went canoeing was on Portishead lake with my kids. We all got wet but luckily we were all taller than the water.
I am happy to be called the diminutive of Fruitcake. I answer to most things these days.
Ah, I saw that fium. Kind Hearts and Coronets wasn’t it, with Sir Obi Wan Kenobi playing all the leading parts.
We had pre-printed logbooks with about twenty columns that we had to fill in each time an occurrance occurred, reading numbers off gauges, then write writing in the writing column to explain what was occurring when the occurrence occurred.
Time then speeds then temperatures then flows then pressures then areas then thrust then wurds.
Sometimes we had to write down the numbers that other people were reading, or misreading, in various columns as well, and I quickly learned to unnerstaaan thik Wess Cunnry aaaccen’, or that Scawtish brogue, and many udders in a-tween.
Like I said, it had to be done very quickly but had to be legibubble for others to read, especially as the customer was often the Ministry of Loud Bangs.
My joined up handwriting deteriorated very rapidly so that’s when I changed over to fast printing. Unfortunately I have been unable to unlearn the bad learning I teached mysell as a result.
It was Old Wives Tales, but yes was definitely up to Scribblings standards, even though I say it myself.
Alas they were all deleted and I didn’t keep a copy. 
My joined up writing is atrocious, this is compensated by a good standard of joined up Thinking.
were they only english proverbs or did you do all the continental ones too??
Continental, as in outside Zumerzet, and Oop Norf, and Here Be Dragonz cunnry? Whul ah, I think so any road up.
Fruity, there are many asides here, but one has to be inside to hear them, not outside.
You make it sound like a play:-)
Fruity IS a male you knew that I hope.
Here is a proverb - But what does it mean today?
A house divided against itself cannot stand
Just as long as he is not a Pomme- Granite, and not set in stone.
oh dear I was convinced he had a female voice - still we don’t mind here we are amibidextrous; LGTB and all the others ; upside down most of the time and talk through our hats we have also been known to bend the wrist and genuflex at the slightest church gong and as for that Jem fellow well I would swear he was a fairy!!- or is that elf ; little fellow or gnome
your proverb ?? - well surely it means today what it meant yesterday and the days gone bye - shakespeare set the standard by which we all follow!!
just make sure ya don’t fall off the plinth - and how the hell did you get up there anyway - ropes and grappling irons no doubt and put ya austrian cap on straight - ya feather’s all ascure - cum to think of it so are you!! :shock::shock:
WELCOME fruitcake, another male to add to the gang,
more ladies wantedalso
No experience needed. She/they will need to suspend disbelief as Mesrs Jem, Gummy, Spitty, Puggy & Bobby record their cerebral 40 yrs in the desert, mostly dragged up out of their odd imaginations.
Splendid fellows all.
Don’t worry about losing the thread, there isnt one to follow usually, so make up one of your own or slip in a red herri
ng.
I’ve taken to listen to the radio again out here and usually avoiding the tv - I can lie in my aircon cell and just brows away the time and listen to the news and a selection of well thought out and presented radio shows - they have not lost their touch for sure - just finished listening to how steve job the apple man developed a company that made the toy soldier films etc etc and manage to screw and few millions out of disneyland and eventually sold the lot to them - the guy who did it with is travelling Oz giving talks but now into meditation - unfortunately the radio stations still have this desire to thrust apps down your throat so that you can follow all the radio shows without fail and not miss a drop - I decline - the fall of MUgabe is going well too at the moment - wanker!!
OI! WOSSWIV the callin’ me ‘untidy’.eh?!?
I’ll have you’s all know I won the ‘Miss Treatment for Bad Bois’ award for calligraphy three years running! Well,I had to run…when I say ‘won’,I may be eversoveryslightly exaggerating…I wasn’t akshly awarded it…but I buggered off with it and nobody could catch yer ‘Nimble-feet Pug’-so for three consequitive years,I gotta trophy! [anni didn’t give a flying f#ck that I hadn’t won it-that’s just fayvrotizm-I NOO my calligraphy anne spelling was better than ENNYwun elses!]
It’s all starting to make sense now.
You are all as sane as the next man. Since I am the next man, that makes you all as sane as me.
May the Goddess of the White save us all.
Drat, Sweetie has let the dog out the bog.
I will double check if you like.
*Fruity has a look “down there”
… and sees blue boots*
Yep, definitely a chap.
Fruity bats eyelashes
oh you are naughty but i do like you!! -[thumps left shoulder strongly!]