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Title: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Paul T on June 27, 2009, 01:05:57 PM
Howdy All,

This is just a weird pic that I can't find a better place for.  If there is a better topic for this, please could the moderators move it there and delete this topic.....

We discovered a massive lemon hiding amongst the foliage of our lemon tree today.  At least 50% larger than any lemons we ever get on our tree.  My hand span from tip to tip is around 9 inches, just to give you a size reference.

As we were looking at it we discovered this "face" on the bottom of it.  I couldn't resist photographing it to show you all.  I couldn't find a better topic to post them, so I figured that the subject above said it all.  ;D
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Maggi Young on June 27, 2009, 01:07:17 PM
What a face! Looks like he just sucked a lemon......... ;) ;D
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Post by: Paul T on June 27, 2009, 01:11:03 PM
Egads, maybe that's it.... he just got sucked INTO a lemon.  :o
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Post by: Maggi Young on June 27, 2009, 01:13:32 PM
EEEEK!

[attach=1]   Have you checked if all the neighbours are still around?
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Post by: Paul T on June 27, 2009, 01:22:49 PM
 ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: WimB on June 27, 2009, 01:24:51 PM
Hmmm,

reincarnation??
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Post by: ranunculus on June 27, 2009, 01:27:50 PM
Should be full of zest if he has been reincarnated ... perhaps it's Jack?   :D
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Paul T on June 27, 2009, 01:29:01 PM
Cliff,

You're not taking the pith are you?  ;)
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Post by: shelagh on June 27, 2009, 02:08:09 PM
Great item, trouble is I can almost taste the lemon meringue pie already.  With a lemon that big you'd only need one.
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Paul T on June 27, 2009, 10:27:52 PM
Actually, it really is a pretty skanky lemon.  :-[  Quite soft, so I think it is actually half empty because it didn't form right.  It definitely isn't packed with juice, that is for sure. :'(
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Post by: Rodger Whitlock on June 28, 2009, 12:22:18 AM
Great item, trouble is I can almost taste the lemon meringue pie already.  With a lemon that big you'd only need one.

Lemon meringue pie? Who on earth eats lemon meringue pie?

I suggest either lemon curd, cooked very very slowly in a double-boiler top over hot water, or a lemon pie made in the mode of the famous Key lime pie.

Lemon curd

1/4 lb butter
1˝ cups sugar
zest of two lemons
juice of three lemons
6 eggs, slightly beaten

Put in double boiler top over hot water (n.b. *hot*, not *boiling*), and stir continuously until thick. Store in covered container in the refrigerator. The more slowly you cook this, the smoother it is. It once took 45 minutes to properly thicken, but the texture was one of absolute uniformity. Use to fill tart shells made of sweetened pastry or however you want.


Lemon pie

melted butter, quant. suff.
graham cracker crumbs
1 can sweetened, condensed milk
2 egg yolks, beaten slightly
juice of 2 lemons

Coat pie pan with melted butter, sprinkle with graham cracker crumbs to build crust. Mix condensed milk, beaten egg yolks, and lemon juice and mix well. Pour into pie shell and chill well. Note use of uncooked egg yolks if you are touchy about such things.




See, now don't those recipes sound like a better fate for the Monster Lemon? Perfect foods for eating while sitting out by the rock garden and admiring the flowers on Veriolitsis glomulama.

Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 28, 2009, 01:24:58 AM
I do wish you wouldn't post recipes. You KNOW they all go round my backside. >:(

I make a super lemon curd, an old Scottish recipe, and it is a wonderful basis for the genuine Neenish Tart, not the sickly version sometime produced in the supermarket.
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: David Nicholson on June 28, 2009, 09:54:32 AM
Great item, trouble is I can almost taste the lemon meringue pie already.  With a lemon that big you'd only need one.

Lemon meringue pie? Who on earth eats lemon meringue pie?


I do, and in quantity ;D

What's 'Neenish Tart' Lesley please?
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Post by: ranunculus on June 28, 2009, 10:34:11 AM
Great item, trouble is I can almost taste the lemon meringue pie already.  With a lemon that big you'd only need one.

Lemon meringue pie? Who on earth eats lemon meringue pie?


I do, and in quantity ;D

I do, and in Whitworth  ;D
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Post by: Maggi Young on June 28, 2009, 12:18:32 PM
Great item, trouble is I can almost taste the lemon meringue pie already.  With a lemon that big you'd only need one.

Lemon meringue pie? Who on earth eats lemon meringue pie?


I do, and in quantity ;D

I do, and in Whitworth  ;D


Rodger, we Brits eat large quantities of Lemon merinque pie, and lemon curd  and.... and.... and  ;D

I must say I had thought of a lovely jug of fresh lemonade from the monster...... it is warm here, for a change!
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Post by: Paul T on June 28, 2009, 12:31:21 PM
I must state again.... the lemon isn't worth consuming I don't think.  Much more interesting as a curiosity at this point.  Have also got (normal I think) both blood oranges and lemonades ripening at the moment, although the lemonade tree is still quite small and only has a couple of fruit on it.
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Maggi Young on June 28, 2009, 12:46:09 PM
I must state again.... the lemon isn't worth consuming I don't think.  Much more interesting as a curiosity at this point.  Have also got (normal I think) both blood oranges and lemonades ripening at the moment, although the lemonade tree is still quite small and only has a couple of fruit on it.
Oh, shush, Paul, don't spoil our happy dreams about what to do with this mega-lemon! :P  ;D

Not that I am surprised that a huge fruit like that is likely not to be very tasty.... I was given a gift of a huge prize-winning leek once....  it was horrible, no decent flavour at all  :-X
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Paul T on June 28, 2009, 12:54:44 PM
Maggi,

I am happy to donate it to the SRGC if you'd like to raffle it off to one of the forumers, or give it as a door prize or something?  ;D
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Post by: Anthony Darby on June 28, 2009, 06:44:10 PM
So that's where 'he who must not be named' ended up? ::) :o
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Post by: Lesley Cox on June 28, 2009, 09:52:29 PM
David, Neenish Tarts are little tarts (about 4 bites max). A short (sweet) pastry case with a lemon filling, and one half of the top smeared over with a chocolate icing so that they are half choc and half lemon. Very scrumptious. A little bit tricky or fiddly to make but well worth the time and effort. The recipe has been requested. Coming to a site near you (this one) later in the day.
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Post by: Paul T on June 29, 2009, 09:37:13 AM
Anthony,

It does look a bit like the big V doesn't it.  Maybe I should try selling it on Ebay as Harry Potter memorabilia?  ;D  Heck, if you can buy a piece of toast that has the imprint of the virgin mary in the butter, what price Voldermort in a lemon?  ;)
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Post by: gote on June 29, 2009, 11:30:27 AM
Great item, trouble is I can almost taste the lemon meringue pie already.  With a lemon that big you'd only need one.
Lemon meringue pie? Who on earth eats lemon meringue pie?

I do if someone make some   ;D ;D ;D
Cheers
Göte
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Anthony Darby on June 29, 2009, 01:17:21 PM
I agree, especially if the meringue is made properly and the pie is hot. :)
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Post by: Ragged Robin on June 29, 2009, 01:50:55 PM
...and the pastry is crispy with whispers of meringue golden on top and a shot of lemon, sweet and sour MMMMMMmmmmmmmm :P :P
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on June 29, 2009, 02:01:23 PM
Will you please stop writing like this... if Maggi happens to read this I don't think she'll be able to stand this and we might find ourselves looking for another moderator  ::) ::) ::) ;D ;)
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Post by: ranunculus on June 29, 2009, 02:30:51 PM
Will you please stop writing like this... if Maggi happens to read this I don't think she'll be able to stand this and we might find ourselves looking for another moderator  ::) ::) ::) ;D ;)

... And it's not as if it's a piece of cake either, Luc!!!   :D
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Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on June 29, 2009, 02:40:08 PM
 ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Anthony Darby on June 29, 2009, 07:47:23 PM
Will you please stop writing like this... if Maggi happens to read this I don't think she'll be able to stand this and we might find ourselves looking for another moderator  ::) ::) ::) ;D ;)
It's OK if the 'C' word is not mentioned. ;D
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Paul T on June 29, 2009, 10:21:23 PM
Anthony,

But Cliff just mentioned the C word..... now there'll be trouble!  :o

I must provide an updated pic of the lemon that started this whole thing..... it's gaining more character as it matures.  ;D
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Maggi Young on June 29, 2009, 10:25:28 PM
Don't worry, Folks, I have taken my equivalent of a  [attach=1]

so, all is well........ [attach=2]
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Post by: Lesley Cox on June 29, 2009, 10:36:35 PM
I was going to put my Neenish Tart recipe here but on reflection, I think I'll start a new thread called "Cooks' Corner."
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Post by: Anthony Darby on June 29, 2009, 10:53:46 PM
We've just had friends round to watch the Andy Murray match and had Delia's 'simple stroganof' as our main course. We started with an aperitif - the 'philosopher's grog', a recipe used by Charles Darwin on the Beagle. The meal started with prosciutto and melon and finished with Perthshire strawberries and cream. Yum yum.
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Post by: Paul T on June 29, 2009, 10:58:35 PM
Who would have thought that my strange lemon would have generated into a cooking topic.  :o
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Post by: Anthony Darby on June 29, 2009, 11:58:28 PM
I think the poor thing needs lemon aid? :-\
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Post by: Paul T on June 30, 2009, 12:02:04 AM
<groan> ::)

 ;D
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Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on June 30, 2009, 08:41:24 AM
We've just had friends round to watch the Andy Murray match and had Delia's 'simple stroganof' as our main course. We started with an aperitif - the 'philosopher's grog', a recipe used by Charles Darwin on the Beagle. The meal started with prosciutto and melon and finished with Perthshire strawberries and cream. Yum yum.

mmmm I watched the Andy Murray match too, but limited myself to some strawberries and cream... ;D  after all this is Wimbledon isn't it ??  8)
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Rogan on July 03, 2009, 08:22:34 AM
Any guesses? ...and a packet of seed to the first correct answer (just remember I'm in Africa and can't send you anything hardy!)   ;D
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Post by: fermi de Sousa on July 03, 2009, 08:32:42 AM
Any guesses? ...and a packet of seed to the first correct answer (just remember I'm in Africa and can't send you anything hardy!)   ;D
A kamikaze Butterfly??? ;D
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Paul T on July 03, 2009, 10:15:59 AM
Fermi,

I was trying to work out whether there was any way it could be a leaf insect?

I'm assuming it is part of a leaf and we're supposed to work out what it is a leaf of?
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Post by: Lesley Cox on July 04, 2009, 09:12:45 PM
It certianly looks like a pair of butterfly wings having an out-of-body experience :)
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Post by: Kees Green on July 06, 2009, 02:37:17 AM
Looks like a shell from a shellfish to me, partially fossilized
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Post by: Lesley Cox on July 06, 2009, 09:39:50 PM
It DOES look a shell doesn't it? You can see the little bit where it would join to the other half. Maybe a scallop?
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Lesley Cox on July 06, 2009, 09:45:15 PM
Because this isn't a moan and I certainly wasn't so happy about it, perhaps this is the right place for a small event that happened yesterday.

I dropped a small, full bottle of very hot tabasco sauce and the top broke and spilled a few drops on the kitchen floor. I found half the top but couldn't see the other half before the intrepid Teddy found it and, as he does, had a good chew. He leapt in the air, yelped and rushed around like a dervish but after a few minutes had the gumption to stick most of his face and mouth in the water bowl at the back door, fortunately open. But for a little while there, we had a very hot dog? Though I felt for him, it was really hilariously funny.
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Post by: ranunculus on July 07, 2009, 07:57:45 AM
It looks like a cocoa pod suspended or partially fossilised in the solidified rock ... but, then again, I am under the influence of altitude and an abundance of white wine here in the glorious Dolomites!   ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Brian Ellis on July 07, 2009, 09:28:13 AM
What more could one wish for Cliff, hope the weather has improved ;)
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Post by: Paul T on July 26, 2009, 03:23:52 AM
Just a bit of an update on Voldermort the lemon....

As he aged he became even more comical.  He ended up looking like this, without any machinations by us at all.  He really did end up with an evil grin.
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Post by: Ragged Robin on July 26, 2009, 11:14:02 AM
Could make a good icon to add to the emotions Paul for acid wit!  :o
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Post by: Paul T on July 26, 2009, 12:02:49 PM
Or if you're feeling a bit sour about something.  :P
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Post by: Ragged Robin on July 26, 2009, 01:20:21 PM
 ;D ;D  8)

...as in sourpuss ??
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Post by: David Nicholson on July 26, 2009, 07:46:52 PM
Just a bit of an update on Voldermort the lemon....

As he aged he became even more comical.  He ended up looking like this, without any machinations by us at all.  He really did end up with an evil grin.

It's got to be Gordon Brown!!
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Post by: Anthony Darby on July 27, 2009, 12:33:30 AM
Can't be. He's smiling!
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Post by: KentGardener on July 29, 2009, 07:24:09 AM
Hi Paul

Not in the same class as 'Voldermort the lemon' - but as you have started the thread I have at last found somewhere to place my potato!

Esther Rantzen would be proud of us.  ;)
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Post by: ranunculus on July 29, 2009, 07:55:33 AM
Couldn't you show us the back side, John?    :D
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Post by: Anthony Darby on July 29, 2009, 11:16:53 AM
Not Voldemort, but perhaps Bumbledor? ::)
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Post by: Paul T on July 29, 2009, 01:41:10 PM
you guys are completely nuts!! ::)
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Post by: Lesley Cox on July 29, 2009, 10:03:55 PM
Enough already, Paul. ::)
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Post by: Stephenb on July 29, 2009, 10:05:29 PM
Not sure is this picture is good enough - a poor scan of my son (some years ago now) with a Pink Fir Apple potato with all the bits (well most):
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Post by: Carol Shaw on July 30, 2009, 07:00:18 PM
Have to watch out when we lift our pink fir apples  :o
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Post by: Anthony Darby on July 30, 2009, 09:42:02 PM
Well there's no answer to that Carol! ;D
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Post by: KentGardener on August 12, 2009, 06:25:05 AM
Was that as rude as I think it was?    :-X

Not a pink fir apple - but an apple anyway.  One of my colleagues is on holiday and I spotted this on their desk yesterday.

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Post by: Anthony Darby on August 12, 2009, 09:22:58 AM
I think it has swine 'flu? :P
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Post by: Ragged Robin on August 12, 2009, 03:08:31 PM
I anyone going to try to see this tonight?  That is if the skies are clear...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8193769.stm
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Post by: Maggi Young on August 12, 2009, 03:11:13 PM
I anyone going to try to see this tonight?  That is if the skies are clear...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8193769.stm
Yes, we're keeping our fingers crossed for clear skies, too.
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Post by: Rogan on August 12, 2009, 03:31:19 PM
To us "down under" the Perseid radiant just skims the northern horizon in the pre-dawn hours - no good for meteor watching, sigh!  :(
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Post by: KentGardener on August 12, 2009, 04:30:18 PM
I wanted to.... but there is so much cloud cover I don't hold up much hope.   :-\
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Post by: Lesley Cox on August 12, 2009, 09:46:57 PM
I think it has swine 'flu? :P

Or ringworm :)
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Post by: mark smyth on August 12, 2009, 09:57:56 PM
no shower here last night because there were different showers
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Post by: Anthony Darby on August 12, 2009, 11:26:49 PM
I parked myself outside the back door, where I have a great view of Cassiopeia, with Perseus below. So far 12 shooting stars! 8)
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Post by: Ragged Robin on August 12, 2009, 11:45:58 PM
Incredibly clear sky full of stars here and I've seen a couple shooting right across the sky - amazing to think people all round the world are star-gazing tonight  ::)
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Lesley Cox on August 13, 2009, 12:31:42 AM
Heavily clouded sky the last two nights so no star-gazing. Besides, heavy rain as well and the ground is sodden, not suitable for lying on one's back. :D
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Post by: fermi de Sousa on August 13, 2009, 02:25:13 AM
Incredibly clear sky full of stars here and I've seen a couple shooting right across the sky - amazing to think people all round the world are star-gazing tonight  ::)
Having read Wyndham's "The Day of theTriffids" when quite young (and impressionable?) I avoid looking at meteor showers ;D
But I still "wish upon falling stars"!
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Anthony Darby on August 13, 2009, 09:53:50 PM
Incredibly clear sky full of stars here and I've seen a couple shooting right across the sky - amazing to think people all round the world are star-gazing tonight  ::)
Having read Wyndham's "The Day of theTriffids" when quite young (and impressionable?) I avoid looking at meteor showers ;D
But I still "wish upon falling stars"!
cheers
fermi
;D

I gave up at 11.45 p.m. because it was too cold (10oCelsius) to sit out in my shorts and T-shirt.
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Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on August 14, 2009, 08:21:58 AM
I gave up at 11.45 p.m. because it was too cold (10oCelsius) to sit out in my shorts and T-shirt.

You should have put on your lovely cap Anthony...  ;D ;)
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Post by: Anthony Darby on August 14, 2009, 10:01:56 AM
Never thought of that! ::)
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Post by: Ray on August 16, 2009, 02:45:37 AM
Have just got around to looking at bulb log 15,16,17 and what fantastic photo's and plants and garden an o so depressing,
When I look at my Erythronium's and Ian's I really have to ask myself why do I bother?Maybe Otto or Paul can grow them like that
but I certainly can't. bye Ray
Title: Things you can lose down the back of a sofa.....
Post by: KentGardener on September 11, 2009, 02:50:35 PM
It's amazing what you can lose down the back of a sofa!

Hi All

a friend sent this to me - it took me a few minutes to work out why he had sent me a picture of a sofa!....   ;)

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Post by: Maggi Young on September 11, 2009, 03:08:19 PM
Oh, that is SOOOOOOO funny!  Love it ..... good to know the troops are training for all circumstances!  ;)
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: ranunculus on September 11, 2009, 03:17:10 PM
Probably S.A.S. ... Sofa Armed Security on an under cover mission ... couched in secrecy ... foam at the ready ... armed to the hilt ...
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Post by: Ragged Robin on September 12, 2009, 09:30:26 AM
 :D ;D
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Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 14, 2009, 03:54:50 AM
Probably S.A.S. ... Sofa Armed Security on an under cover mission ... couched in secrecy ... foam at the ready ... armed to the hilt ...
Cliff!
You could've warned us of impending PUNishment so that we could cushion the blow ::)
Now sette down! ;D
cheers
fermi
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Post by: Anthony Darby on September 14, 2009, 09:08:01 AM
Any more and I'll pull my hair out!
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Post by: ranunculus on September 14, 2009, 10:41:50 AM
That would surely knock the stuffing out of you, Anthony ... sofa, so good!  Stay suite! :D
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Post by: Ragged Robin on September 14, 2009, 01:38:53 PM
Suite dreams  ;D
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Post by: Ragged Robin on October 15, 2009, 10:16:08 AM
In the grey of this morning I thought I saw a tree flying through the air
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Post by: Ragged Robin on October 15, 2009, 10:17:42 AM
...no, I wasn't 'seeing' things!
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Post by: ranunculus on October 15, 2009, 10:26:42 AM
That tree has suffered a chopper at both ends, Robin!   :D
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Post by: Ragged Robin on October 15, 2009, 11:39:50 AM
 ;D ;D ;D - it's amazing what they do by helicopter in the Alps  :o
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Post by: Paul T on October 15, 2009, 12:10:17 PM
Maybe the helicopter service is just branching out into other things.  ;D

A bit early for Christmas isn't it? (and wrong sort of tree by the look of it).  Although I could be barking up the wrong tree. ::)

 :P
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Post by: Ragged Robin on October 15, 2009, 12:46:22 PM
 ::)  Paul, maybe it's a family tree just looking for its roots  :o
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: ranunculus on October 15, 2009, 01:06:52 PM
::)  Paul, maybe it's a family tree just looking for its roots  :o

Possibly pining?   ???
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Ragged Robin on October 15, 2009, 01:21:36 PM
::)  Paul, maybe it's a family tree just looking for its roots  :o

Possibly pining?   ???

Without doubt, Cliff  :(
It was never worth a free helicopter ride if you're cut off in your prime  :'(
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: ranunculus on October 15, 2009, 02:45:10 PM
Strange, but true ...

This morning our mug tree threw itself to the floor (propelled by the spin motion of the washing machine beneath) and the two mugs that it carried were broken ...

The supposedly 'unbreakable' mug is illustrated first.
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Lesley Cox on October 15, 2009, 11:25:12 PM
A handle without its mug and a mug without its handle. Can they not get together for a close friendship?
Honeymoon by helicopter, somewhere in the Alps perhaps (taking their tree with them)?
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Lesley Cox on October 15, 2009, 11:26:27 PM
I had an endoscopy early this morning. Put me right off bananas for months to come. :-X
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Post by: Kees Green on October 16, 2009, 01:15:41 AM
I hope everything is fine with you Lesley
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Lesley Cox on October 16, 2009, 06:30:42 AM
Yes thanks Kees, everything's fine and all healed nicely, internally. The reference to bananas is from the numbing local anaesthetic spray used at the back of my throat. It tasted of very over-ripe bananas. Utterly horrible! ???
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: fermi de Sousa on October 16, 2009, 08:00:47 AM
Well, I'm glad you explained that, Lesley! Also glad that you're okay!
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Ragged Robin on October 16, 2009, 08:10:15 AM
Well, I'm glad you explained that, Lesley! Also glad that you're okay!
cheers
fermi

Here, here, glad you're OK Lesley - have you heard in the SH of the  new robotic pill you will be able to swallow in the future that has legs and can creep about your insides with a camera giving information - creepy..... but maybe better that over-ripe bananas and swallowing a tube  :o  ???
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Maggi Young on October 16, 2009, 11:55:48 AM
Well, I'm glad you explained that, Lesley! Also glad that you're okay!
cheers
fermi

 Quite!Frankly,  I was afraid to ask !  ::) :-X
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Paddy Tobin on October 16, 2009, 01:31:43 PM
Good that it is good news, Lesley. Always a relief.

Cliff, that second mug needs to get a grip on itself.

Paddy
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: ranunculus on October 16, 2009, 02:09:01 PM

Cliff, that second mug needs to get a grip on itself.


It just needs to handle itself better, Paddy!   ;)

Super news, Lesley ... you can certainly book your International Conference 2011 tickets now... :D
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Lesley Cox on October 17, 2009, 07:53:56 PM
Thanks everyone for your support. No, Robin, I hadn't heard of that robotic thing. What if it decided "it's nice and warm in here, think I'll stay on?" ???
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Anthony Darby on October 21, 2009, 11:13:11 PM
I'm rather curious as to the route this vehicle takes? ::) We didn't come across any subways? :-\
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Eric Locke on October 21, 2009, 11:16:31 PM
I had an endoscopy early this morning. Put me right off bananas for months to come. :-X

Hi Lesley

I can sympathise with you as I have gone through this on two occasions.
It is not very pleasant.

Eric
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Tony Willis on October 25, 2009, 09:42:55 PM
I wonder why the server has not moved on to wintertime,does it not apply in Scotland?
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Anthony Darby on October 25, 2009, 09:47:23 PM
I had an endoscopy early this morning. Put me right off bananas for months to come. :-X

Hi Lesley

I can sympathise with you as I have gone through this on two occasions.
It is not very pleasant.

Eric
I'm still trying to find a connection between endoscopy and bananas, and then it hit me. They are the perfect shape. I am seeing Lesley in a new light! :P
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Maggi Young on October 25, 2009, 10:15:54 PM
I wonder why the server has not moved on to wintertime,does it not apply in Scotland?
I hadn't noticed until now, Tony. No idea why it hasn't changed.... have asked Fred!
Fred replies: The www is international, they have to change it in their profile.......... so  I've changed my clock, to show -1 hours from the forum default. I just clicked on an "auto-detect" button.....and you will see that the time showing for my edit, see below, is indeed the correct time, according to my other clocks!!

(Now I'll sneak off and change Tony's clock!"   ;))
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Lesley Cox on October 25, 2009, 11:53:57 PM
My Forum posts always come up with the wrong time when we are on summer time but then I think they do when we are not, also. ???

For instance, this one has come up as 11.53 am whereas it is actually 12.53 pm (or, was, a couple of minutes ago. :)) I mean, 7 mins to 1 in the afternoon. I'm getting a bit confused here. What's new? ???
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Maggi Young on October 26, 2009, 12:02:13 AM
Lesley, your time was plus 11 so I changed it to plus 12, which should be the right time for you now, eh?
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Lesley Cox on October 26, 2009, 12:32:14 AM
Well it seems now to be right on my screen Maggi, but as we are now in summer time and if you are in winter time, we are 13 hours ahead. :-\
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Lesley Cox on October 26, 2009, 12:34:33 AM
Anthony, I don't think the camera on the end of the tube was banana-shaped, but the numbing spray which was squirted into the back of my throat tasted like rotten bananas. The clinician was a little too enthusiastic with its application and I gagged.
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Maggi Young on October 26, 2009, 12:37:01 AM
Well it seems now to be right on my screen Maggi, but as we are now in summer time and if you are in winter time, we are 13 hours ahead. :-\

 Well, I'm confused.... nothing new there then.
I have made another change ,to make you 13 hours ahead.... so, I'm writng this at 36 minutes past midnight... so you should be showing as nearly twenty to two in the afternoon, right?
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Lesley Cox on October 26, 2009, 01:18:36 AM
I went off to have some lunch Maggi. It's 18 or 19 mins past 2pm here now. (But showing 3.18 on the post!)
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Paul T on October 26, 2009, 04:12:24 AM
It's showing here on your post as 2:18, not 3:18, Lesley.  So I'm assuming that means that we're 11 hours ahead of them now, as I think we're 2 hours behind you aren't we?  I think we vary between 10 and 12 hours with the UK, but now I'm not sure.  Or is it 9 and 11?   ???  All this coming and going through time.... I'm positively exhausted!!  :o ::)
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Maggi Young on October 26, 2009, 12:03:15 PM
I give up.
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Anthony Darby on October 26, 2009, 12:07:08 PM
 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: David Nicholson on October 26, 2009, 12:15:39 PM
At 12.11 here in the UK on Monday 26 October, it was:

Dunedin- 01.11 on Tuesday 27th.

Canberra-23.11 on Monday 26th.

Or does that complicate things further??
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: johnw on October 26, 2009, 02:14:47 PM
Or does that complicate things further??

And a half hour later or earlier in Newfoundland? :D

johnw
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: SueG on October 26, 2009, 03:26:34 PM
Or does that complicate things further??

And a half hour later or earlier in Newfoundland? :D

johnw

Irrespective of all this - it's tea time here at work!
Title: Re: Weird things I can't find a better place for!
Post by: Lesley Cox on October 26, 2009, 08:44:31 PM
At 12.11 here in the UK on Monday 26 October, it was:

Dunedin- 01.11 on Tuesday 27th.

Canberra-23.11 on Monday 26th.

Or does that complicate things further??

That sounds right David, provided you put in the a's and p's. At 12.11 mins past mid-day in the UK on the 26th, it was 23.11pm in Canberra and 1.11 am in NZ on the 27th. As I've said before, you'll never catch up with us. ;D

John I think it must be 12 and a half earlier (or later) in Newfoundland. :-\ I think we're about 18 ahead of Los Angeles.

When it's night-time in Italy, it's Wednesday over here, as the war-time song said.
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