to think IPOAT gels will never marry well if they continue to be so fast?

[CaptainHornblower]

Arses is arses, Fidsy. Arses are as arses do.

My muff is threadbare. I fear the moth have been at it.

Hello everyone.

This was very nearly the first IPOAT thread I haven't been on.

Fids, I echo sybil's comment. He is. You didn't make him so.

It's cold here. Not as cold as where you are, Fids, obviously. Still, yesterday I got off the bus straight on to a patch off ice and fell over. Had to be picked up by two lovely older ladies. The shame! And no Gluhwein had even been taken.

of ice

AND I have just had my first 'Message deleted by Mumsnet'

(Not on this thread, of course - even MNHQ will allow a person to fall off a bus and yet try to preserve their dignity, it seems.)

Fliffy!

Not seen you in an age, how's tricks?

And what was deleted?

The gang's all here I see.

Yes what was deleted?

I am in a state.

I have just walked my dog and she was jumped on by two other dogs and is all bitten and bloody. I have taken her to the vets and she has had puncture wounds sutured and got anti-biotics and pain killers

I keep crying like a pathetic thing.

Oh poor thing :(

Were the other dogs loose?

One had slipped it's lead and the other one got her as the owner tried to pull the first one off. I have started a fred so as to leave ipoat unsullied.

I will go and sympathise there then

Hello my lovelies. Am fine, thanks Hully. Not here much these days, mostly as I have a bit of work and also DP not in the greatest of health.

I was foolish enough to post a jokey thing on a thread here what woz on about Trolls We Have Known. It was a kind of Cold Comfort Farm pastiche of ole Troll names. (Well, in my head it was. In reality, it was probably a bit dull.) Anyway, MNHQ didn't like it, so rapped my knuckles with a <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=i00.i.aliimg.com/photo/v0/395922204/vintage_silk_hand_painted_ladies_hand_fan.jpg&imgrefurl=www.alibaba.com/product-gs/395922204/vintage_silk_hand_painted_ladies_hand.html&h=480&w=800&sz=68&tbnid=430mBvoRjvSwnM:&tbnh=73&tbnw=122&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dladies%2Bfan%2Bimage%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=ladies+fan+image&docid=zXSg7XBoaS113M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QuIzT-bKNdLq8QOos83WAg&sqi=2&ved=0CDwQ9QEwAw&dur=1797" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">fan.

Hully - so sorry! (Slow typist; mucho distracted too.) Will go and find your thread now.

Hully how horrible. Poor dog. I don't have a dog but do love them. Will search for your thread.
Fiddy, wish I had a magic wand for you, 2 carrots does not a broth make. Your arseex needs a kick.

I am sorry I have not been around, RL has been full of mayhem and poorly children.

Oh Hully I am glad I did come on today so I can offer cyber love. I am so sorry about your poor dog I shall look for your other thread

Hello Gibbon. Hope all is well with you.

Well hello my favourite Princess! lovely to see you hope all is well

Oh thanks Gels. I'm sorry, I hate being gloomy, everything just overflowed. I'm so tired of it. I deal with the big things and the small things and sometimes they all happen all the time and all at once and I would really like a week where nothing happens.

Hully, your poor dog. I still miss mine, one of these. He came with exH and I miss the dog more.

my more evil dog is on my profile briefly

oh Jins, that does look mad...

He looks so sweet!

He looks sweet but he is most definitely not. He's got a particular thing for old ladies

What kind of thing for old ladies?

A sort of teeth in leg thing

All these savage dogs...

What happens to IPOAT hall in two post's time?

Well spotted, entropy. I'm off to check the distillery herb-drying shed is secure.

The flag has been lowered and stowed safely in my muff. The drawbridge has been raised and this time Watkins managed to stay on the right side of the moat.

Hold on to your tatting!