Well low and behold, that’s a sight for sore eyes today, the Gummy fella is back online all ship shape and rearing to go, great to have ya back old son.;-)
We all missed the exchange of niceties between yourself and Pug.
Not a word from RJ for a good while now, I hope he’s OK, we all miss him badly.
I was at a birthday party on Monday now I’ll be going to a funeral tomorrow, a lot can happen in just a few days.
Another brother in law passed away with pneumonia, He was in his 80’s and had been ailing for a long time, a nice fella and we always got on well, rest his soul.
As i’ve often said they don’t keep the deceased lying about for long over here, you die on one day, go to the church the next day or lie in a funeral parlour or in your own house, whatever you fancy, and you’re lowered down the day after that, providing your dead of course, and there are no suspicious circumstances.
I had eight brothers in law through marriage now there’s only one left… me, I’m the last surviver of the seven widowed sisters, they all married young and stayed the whole course “till death do us part”, all great girls who made great wives, bless them all.
The latest deceased was a great fan of Jerry Lee Lewis so I’ll expect great balls of fire to be played several times at his waking.
Just thinking there, it’s a good job he’s not getting cremated, just imagine them playing “Great Balls of Fire” as the coffin slides into the oven, although he would probably have laughed, he was a real joker.
glad to see ya handlin the pain well these days sprugs! - got any joints left if so how about sharing them around?
as well as the constant rain on that shetland series, apart from the main deco the rest all seem a bit brain dead - is that why ya canny spell very well sprug? like exprezzo for example?
Oi and why are there no trees up there - ya just put a little twig in the soil and it grows dumbo!
well I’m gonna drive me reticulated lorry around the block a bit - brum brum brum !!
Ohhhh,gummy,what a sad refrain
you waffle on in such great pain
and even mispelled espresso again
so tell me-what’s it like to have a brick for a brain?
Yakketty-yak,it’s on you go,
displaying all the things you don’t know
and giving your credulity a crashing blow
-because Shetland’s an archipelago!
But never mind,we don’t expect much,
just you to waffle and jibber and such;
it’s just nice to know we can stay in touch
…ol’ Puggy’s gumbud’s social crutch.
So,me old mate,go rest your head
and try not to cry over bad things you’ve said;
after all,if you cry again you’ll wet the bed,
just like last time-and then you’ll be filled with dread!
I was thinking about Witches earlier.
When I was a child, there were two sisters that lived in this great big house.
It was a creepy run down place, all the kids used to say they were Witches, and I was scared. One used to dye her hair that bright orange colour, and dress in weird clothes.
The other sister dressed in clothes from the Forties and looked silly.
You know how kids make up stuff when we were younger.
We believed all that rubbish.
Well as I grew older I plucked up the courage to speak to them one day.
They were still waiting for their loved ones to come home from WW2, I think that was so sad.
They were left the house by their parents. They were lovely excentric old dears.
The inside of the great house was just amazing, a place stuck in time.
That reminded me of the two Sisters in “Arsenic and Old Lace”, ever so sweet and well meaning, knocking off all the lonely old men to send them on to a better happier place.
But fair play to your Sisters in the big house, true to their sweethearts till the end.
My brother in law is lying in the funeral parlour, just got back from there, I was surprised to hear he’s being cremated tomorrow after the 12 O’Clock mass, cremation is becoming very popular over here now, it used to be forbidden by the church in my younger days, now that they have lost their power everyone is dying to be cremated, as if for spite.;-)
