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Who needs gok

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schwotz · 15/10/2008 19:49

when we are here?

style, 40 denier purple tights and over the knee socks

plus cocktail rings and swatch watches

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Craggy · 18/10/2008 13:19

tap

Craggy · 18/10/2008 13:22

Very awkward here as I have keep deleting history etc. x.y.z days of the week are fine but not this week as I have a week off.

Yes ork colleagues/colleges/collages very nice to work with. Nice Team.

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schwotz · 18/10/2008 18:30

acknowledges knocking noise.

I am have friend who works shifts and assumes that if she sends me a text message that she is off for 2 days I will be able to meet her (coffee, lunch etc). I have had this before with her and have told her I am busy during the day, all week as I work form home. I don't normally stop for lunch (though I use the some time to Mn as a break sometimes).

Q: "what happened to you the last 2 days?"

A: I WORK TOO YOU KNOW - this is the response in my head only. I no doubt will be pleasant and say "oh I was busy, sorry, yes we must catch up when is a good time for you again?" but why should I have to tell her, she knows what I do, I work at home........I am finding it very hard. I also told her a small secret a while ago in the summer. A mis-judgement on my part of a person we both know, which a few months ago she delighted in sharing at a dinner party with this person and the other half, present, which she must have know was going to be totally embarssing for me...I left about 20 minutes later. I have caught up with her once since then, but didn't mention it.

Glad I have go that off my chest. Will ring her later and probably let her walk all over me again.

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Tn0g · 18/10/2008 18:38

Do you know what I like I about this thread?

I like that you can post random stuff about your life and you're doing that knowing that the other person kind of just understands you

you click

just as friends should

It feels good to have it as an outlet.

I have to take G's friend home in a minute so don't know if I'll catch you later..but I'll try.

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schwotz · 18/10/2008 18:41

lol- you are right I don't want answers
just need to vent

don't worry about later, might see your on another thread anyhow........

must dash before dinner burns. Hope G keeps the piano up. Bribe him with sweets or comics

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schwotz · 18/10/2008 19:03

lol @ chav safari park on Harry Hill
from casualty

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Tn0g · 18/10/2008 21:32

Wotz, you must have been seething that your friend let the secret slip in other friends company.

People can be so strange.

I have friends but few I can really rely on.

Over the years I've realised that our relationships are often a little shallow and very easily broken.

I'm partly to blame I guess.

I'm tidying up a very messy kitchen at the moment whilst dh and G watch a dr.Who dvd.

I feel like shoving everything into a big cupboard and having a glass of wine.

Tn0g · 18/10/2008 21:34

I have one very good friend that I've known since art college and of course there was my dear friend who died earlier in the year.

I miss him dreadfully.

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schwotz · 18/10/2008 21:37

I was thinking only the other day about your friend tnog.

I would shove it all in the dishwasher and have some wine and sit and watch the TV with them.

I am going to do just that tonight.

I haven't called yet. I will do it tomorrow.

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Tn0g · 18/10/2008 21:41

I feel kind of restless tonight so won't sit with them.

Keep mooching around.

Craggy · 19/10/2008 12:09

My marital life has gone wonky.

I am finding it very difficult to get it back on track.

So many arguments about the same things over and over.

No love for months. Just living with each other. Very strange.

No Wotz do not let her walk all over you again.

Sometimes I do not like people and their attitudes. Although I have a little attitude problem myself so that's [insert word]. My mind is a litle blank with arguing today and yesterday.

A break might be a good idea. But NO No he will/shall not. He is however going to see GP on monday. So he has said. To get help.

ah that's better..

Craggy · 19/10/2008 12:10

Talking of breaks, Kit-Kat anyone?

Tn0g · 19/10/2008 16:14

Would a break away together help?

Break the stalemate situation, give you time and space to communicate

Tn0g · 19/10/2008 16:17

It's pouring down here but it's kindd of nice being indoors, warm and dry watching the rain pelting against the windows.

I've been preparing some stuff for the next week for the students to work on.

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schwotz · 19/10/2008 20:44

Went to Liverpool today. The the new Liverpool ONE (not all pen yest) dds loved Zara, Jane Norman, Apple shop (DH in heaven) and John Lewis for a bite to eat and Dh in heaven in TV, tech department, again. Very nice. We are not big shoppers as a family so very different to our normal digging and doing Sundays. Not much rain here. Liverpool has changed so much even in the short time I have lived up here.

ROYAL Navy aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious sailed into Liverpool on Saturday and was open to the public that day (we didn't go) but we saw it in the docks from JL window and it was leaving Sunday.

The underground parking was very expensive. £5 for 3 hours.

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schwotz · 19/10/2008 20:44

pen yest

open yet!

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Tn0g · 19/10/2008 21:26

Liverpool looks very vibrant with lots of interesting places to visit, Wotz.

Sounds like you all had a good day.

Dh and I really wanted to see the Andrew Gormley sculptures on Southport beach and would love to visit the city of culture.

So many places I'd love to visit, all the european cities for starters.

We went to Glasgow about a year ago for a long weekend and managed to visit some of the galleries including kelvingrove, which has a fantastic and diverse collection of artefacts and paintings from Salvador Dali to The Glasgow Boys and through to chairs by Rennie Macintosh.

The architecture around the city blew us away, it's a wonderful city.

Can't believe the weekend is nearly over, back to lots of headspinning next week

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schwotz · 19/10/2008 21:46

I forget that Liverpool so close to us.
We took the girls to the Turner Prize at Tate Liverpool on the Albert Docks, that was good and they enjoyed the modern art and sculptures.

They went to see the Andrew Gormley sculptures with their grandma and also in the summer they went to the Walker Art Galley to see Ben Jonson's Cityscapes. I missed out on both trips. They have also been on a tour to the radio city tower as my MIL's friend works there.

Never been to Galsgow, one I must visit. I did go to the Edinburgh festival some years back and got very drunk. Looked at lots of bars from the inside and staggered walked passed some historic places.

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schwotz · 19/10/2008 22:03

Antony Gormley's 'Another Place' I would like to see them now they are weathered. There is still a sign up I think near Crosby. I must go before they are removed and I will wave to you as I stand on the beach.

Of course green wellies and a large waterproof coat will be required. Big checked scarf, wrapped around the neck at least twice.

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Tn0g · 19/10/2008 22:05

Ben Jonson's cityscapes are amazing.

Forgot Liverpool has a Tate modern, you're lucky to have all this more or less on your doorstep.

Tis great for the girls to have the opportunity to visit these places from a young age.

When we lived in Dublin we were a stones throw from the galleries, cafés and bars, which was important to us at the time, now it's about an hour or so's drive and although I couldn't live back in the city, every time I visit I do get a buzz and feel quite inspired.

During the summer I took G up to the National Gallery every wednesday to listen to poets, including Eavan Boland reciting their poetry and then took him around the gallery to view the collectons.

He hated every minute of it

Tn0g · 19/10/2008 22:06

Lol at you with your big scarf

I can visualize you, Wotz, battling against the elements

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schwotz · 19/10/2008 22:10

lol - I don't thinks dds would like culture on a weekly basis either. If they were together with your ds, there would be a lot of eye rolling I expect.
It is good though once they can look and decide if they like it or not. dd2 got a thrill when we were in London and she saw the Van Gogh Sunflowers, as she had seen it in a book and tried to paint it herself a few years ago "is that the real one mum, wow?". I never went to a gallery until I left home and worked in London.

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Tn0g · 19/10/2008 22:24

It was pretty mean of me to do that to him

G finds the whole art scene completely boring and he's much more logical and analytical than dh or me,

a throw back to his grandfather I think.

The girls are very creative aren't they, and your stepdaughter is at St.Martin's isn't she?

I just read your ramblings on the other thread.....they went down well

like a lead balloon, infact.

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schwotz · 19/10/2008 22:28

yes they went vezzy well
I just had a little rant, like you do at times. Some folk are too needy. Not old folk.

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schwotz · 19/10/2008 22:29

yes she has left and working now

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