I think she’d disagree,Sweetie.
Apparently,I’m ideal for paying for meals,but unwanted on voyage.
…and y’wonder why I prefer guitars…huh…
Stupid woman. You are intelligent, witty and handsome.
What more does she want???
Pug, I see you are in East Anglia. Anywhere near Burnham Market in Norfolk?
Further south,Cider…by two counties,mate.
[there IS a Burnham on Crouch not far away]
I just wondered Pug. My grandfather had a farm near Burnham Market and by one of those strange coincidences, the guy I used to travel with ended up lured by an English siren, now lives not far away from it.
Sweetie, that’s a lovely black square you posted! 
Black square???
Who knows.
Good Night Possums. X
Oh,I know Burnham Market,mate. There’s a village just nearby named Burnham Deepdale,on the Hunstanton road. I believe Burnham Thorpe is just to the west of it,too,though I’ve not been to that one. VERY picturesque area…lots of fruit & flower growing done in that area. I used to assist a local [to me] company and take an artic up to the company operating the ‘poly-tunnels’ that was filled with flowerpots. Just about everyone working in the fields or the tunnels is Polish. REALLY decent,polite people-always had the kettle on,ready for my arrival. What more can be asked,than the kettle be on?
hello chipmunks - finally tracted down Mercury - the original cider brand! for over 100 yrs - Hard Cider 6.9% Alc/Vol - I feel lovely and numb - it takes away the bullshit!
ps: but still like an exprezzo or two am - no milk or sugar like the itties do!
In a West end town a dead end world
The East end boys and West end girls
Ooh a West end town in a dead end world
The East end boys and West end girls
West end girls
You got a heart of glass or a heart of stone
Just you wait till I get you home
We’ve got no future
We’ve got no past
Here today built to last
In every city and every nation
From Lake Geneva to the Finland station
(How far have you been)
In a West end town a dead end world
The East end boys and West end girls
In a West end town in a dead end world
The East end boys and West end girls
West end girls
West end girls
West end girls
(How far have you been)
Girls
oeer are we the pet shop boys ? - Rj would love that or the east end boys in a dead end world ? how far have you been with an west end girl?
I love EXXXXXXXXXXXXXpresso - EXXXXXXXXXXXXXpression and more EXXXXXXXXXXXXpresso - sup it down east end boys!
Gumbud is right, I would like to have written the song in question. I am not awake yet but will reply fuller later.
Gummy was that you?
Are you still with us?
Cider yuk !!!
First drink that I ever tried!
Merry down I think???!
Thanks gang for keeping the shop open over the holidays, especially the Sweet one, my God that woman is a bundle of energy.
Its nice to see flowers growing in the ground this time of year Ciderman, lovely drawing too.
That was a lovely seasonal verse Pug old son, completely unselfish, but then you were always a thoughtful fella. (re. post 12547)
We had our son, his wife and their little boy home from Italy with us this Christmas, also the daughter, her hubby, and the two now adult grandsons, a full house, God bless Phyllis, she’s a wizard at handling dinners for a crowd, everything went off well.
I hope everything went well for you lot too.
Well that’s that wrapped up for another 12 months, who knows where we’ll all be next Christmas, ah well, cross your bridges when you come to them I say.
Incidentally I had to undergo three days of cold turkey as there was no horse racing, very nerve wreaking, a fellow racing nut told me to take a horseshoe to bed with me for comfort, but that didn’t work, in fact it got me into trouble for when the wife went to make up the bed it fell out on her big toe, oh woe is me, as the pair of us get older we get more like Laurel and Hardy with all the little mishaps.
Talking of horses, that reminds me of a sign that went up in a bookie shop here before they had live commentaries and video, Romford dog track had an electrical blackout and therefore no dog racing, a lot of punters bet on English greyhound racing over here so a quick notice was needed and one of the young bookie girls wrote one out on a piece of white cardboard, the sign read
“No Bets for English Dogs”
Alan my cockney friend had just written out a bet for a horse, he turns to me, points at the sign and says “That’s a bit harsh ain’t it Jem?, here will you put this bet on for me?”
He was always very quick witted, but aren’t most true cockney folk.
Oh! Thanks,Jem!
It’s just an ‘as it is’ ditty,rather than a ‘add romance to the scenery’ poem.
…but I was right. I just found that Lidl’s sausage plait in the freezer.
I’d forgotten I bought it. [it’ll be there a long while yet…]
Tell yerz what though…I’ve met over a dozen families out walking pooches today and every single one of those families is Cockney! “Gaw,blimey,guvor,me plates are freezin’ and the trouble’s got the ache wiv me for getting 'er size wrong. I’m 'aving a ball 'a chalk dahn the frog ‘n toad t’ the rub-a-dub ferra pig’s ear,John!”
…and by the time I can say…“er;my name isn’t John,old chap”,these interlopers are specks of rapidly-diminishing dusty shadow,all moving with speed in the general direction of ‘away’ and congregating on the local hostelry.
Woss going on? That London must be EMPTY!?!?!?!
Lovely post Jem, I am glad you had your family with you.
I am now trying to plan New Year.
Humpty Trumpty is looking for his wall
But the house won’t give him the lolly
He want’s it to be 30 feet tall
Oh what a monstrous folly!
Nuts and all that he is, there’s one good thing about Donald Trump, he’s always good for a laugh, well he makes me laugh every time I see him, and the way he pouts his mouth when he’s annoyed is priceless, yes old yellar hair is a real genuine circus clown, and this old World needs a good laugh.
Could the wall be Humpty Trumpty’s downfall? will he turn out to be the good egg? or will he be scrambled beneath his $5 billion wall? you know what they say “The bigger you are the harder you fall”, only time will tell, but it would be a shame if this very funny man were to step out of the limelight, I’m only concerned about his talents as a showman/comedian, don’t give two hoots for politics, it makes a great change to see a World leader who doesn’t mind making a gobshite out of himself every day of the week just to give folks a good giggle, shows he has consideration for his fellow man. Sound man Donny, but take it easy, you’re not getting any younger, no more Russian things ya hear, slow down old fellar.
There is a row going on at present between the White house and Google, it’s because if one googles the word “Idiot” up pops Donald Trump, (don’t take my word for it, try it yourself) personally I think that is very unfair and unkind, be honest with yourself and take a look at the photo below, does this charming man look like an idiot to you?
https://i.postimg.cc/xTmpC4KS/Trump.jpg
Why only today I read Trump is packing in the war in the middle east, he said he’s browned off and won’t be bothering Hezbollah, fair play to him, if it was me I wouldn’t bother me bollah either, for all the thanks yeh get.
I might ask Father Daly to say Hamas for him.
Oh, naughty Jem. x
I went to Trump Towers in NYC.
I best keep shtumm about things I saw and heard.
Just popped in to say Goodnight Possums.
Ah,yes-the twitter-freak ,who’s family arrived in America astride a log,rowing for all they were worth [nearly 3 drachma between them] and who were at the time still called ‘Drumph’…and who decided to ban immigration once his lot had safely arrived. Hmm…I see a spot of controversy arising,there. He makes Sarah Palin seem a stable,worthy president. [if you like bearskin covers on your sofas,anyway] I’m wit’yer,Jem. I give not one hoot for politics. What this lot put in,the next lot vote out,etc,etc…a load of cr*p,mate. What we SHOULD do,is hold a lottery in the same fashion as the National Lottery. That way,Joe or Jolene Average gets to be PM for 3 months per win. THAT’D put the cat amongst the pigeons…they MP’s spluttering in indignation as Toothless Terry,from 16,The Grots,Dimsville,makes cannabis legal,cuts MP’s claimable ‘expenses’ in half,makes ALL parking wardens responsible for filling-in potholes,cuts council-house rents by 50%,eradicates all ‘career’ MP’s and declares war on Jupiter! [WHAT an inaugural speech THAT’D be!]
'ello 'ello 'ello Jem good to hear your news ! - we have all been trying to manage here over the break - break a leg! - Rj has lost his memory again; spittie drops a few confusing utubes in with dubious songs - sweetie pie tries to inspire us but will not show us a pic of herself in her see through nightie after stepping into a flowing shower!
ciderman is still learning the ropes - he’s a kiwi ya know! and Pugs poor old pugs just expresso coffee all over xmas and forgot his sausage plait he left in the freezer!
Jem - do you know him?
watched a grand designs 2012 thingy the other day set in northern ireland - co antrim - young fellow architect with wiffy and one sprog - purchased a love piece of hill view land overlooking the North Atlantic with a falling apart blacksmiths cottage - decided he was gonna build his own house with only one labourer to assist??
3 years later and 150,000 over budget had professional builders build a huge barn of a place for him and his wife and second sprog who appeared from somewhere.
his name was michael and his wife michelle - ya can’t miss the place it’s built like a bloody cathedral - doya know them by any chance??
it must be a thing about living in a hovel in poverty that inspires /urges/ obsesses them to build these monstrosities and then say “where shall we put or sparse furniture?”