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[MaryAnnSingleton]

step this way dear ones...the trolley will be here in a sec...

Happy Birthday minigig xx

I'll have a please topsy (hope the runs are better, - pity you didn't have a mishap in Tesco, you could have blamed it on the horse burgers and claimed compensation )

BCN picture is a lovely idea MAS, how nice

DD has gone off to her opera singer thing tonight - roads are a bit better, - there wasn't any more snow overnight - but I'll be glad when she's back home. She has to get up to play church organ for 9 a.m tomorrow, - so hope she's not too late home.

love to all x

Copt - since you won't tell I am guessing your name is Lavender or possibly Gladys.

Smee - glad I am not the only one losing the plot.

There is a very sad pheasant in our garden - he has a huge clump of compacted snow attached to his undercarriage - like a big snowball, - he keeps kicking at it, but it's stuck fast - I tried to catch him so I could break it off, but didn't manage it (I am not as fast as a snow encrusted pheasant apparently), so I've just put loads of food out, in the hope that at least he'll be able to eat, until it melts off him.

Thanks all-
Mini gig had a lovely day (tho still doesn't like cake). Enjoyed a trip in the snow too. I felt ok after having a real wobble last night. But think I may be coming down with something as came over very sick and feverish at dinner time. Now lieing in bed with an assortment of cold drinks to sip-
Chemo does have some benefits about knowing helpful nausea tricks.

Uh oh Gigs , you joining me on the poorly couch ?
I actually feel fine , just my bottom disagrees with me ...

Poor pheasant kk
But finding very amusing , the thought of you chasing him around the garden

Are we guessing Cops real name ? I missed that . What are our clues ?
I think Lavinia Trumpington-Smythe

poor gig and topsy - feel better soon both of you.
Aww,poor pheasant
Really exhausted today which is weird as no drugs-we trudged to town and that seemed a bit of an effort. Am wrestling with a wedding picture for someone in Arizona - am trying to simplify all the ideas into something that works !
Hope dd is home safely kk

Good grief Topsy I am NORTHERN!! but not Lavendar or Gladys, or Doris . Though I did have an Auntie Doris, she was lovely. This could be a good game, as a clue mother thought she had christened me something unique and chic and then a few years later every girl on the Council estate had the same name (not Chardonnay, this was the 60s...), we all bonded at Guides. She made a similar
mistake with Andrew for my bother, just ahead of the Queen! Then I picked a name for DD1 that was nowhere on the lists and rose to No 1 in a year, after my childhood choices of Emily (Heathcliff!) and Eleanor (Lion in Winter) had met a similar fate.

However I always think pheasants have names like Lavinia or Jemima, they have that air of the thick rich. Strutting around with that air of complete bafflement, yah, rah, ah! Can just imagine Jeeves with snow on his undercarriage......

Hope all bottoms and undercarriages good by morning

Hmmm , northern and named in the 60s ???
Sharon ???

I named DS after his grandfather , and it seems to be ridiculously popular now .
And DDs name , at the time , seemed lovely and individual . Without being weird . And seems now to be one of the major chav (ducks and hides) names of choice

My name ? I have no idea why my parents decided on it .
And unfortunately they are no longer around for me to ask them why ???

Copt I imagine sharon yelled with a thick brummy accent !

Also giggling at naming pheasants
Maybe Rupert or Xavier ???

Aw poor pheasant. I work with a northern Sharon who has a tendency to shortern names. think shaz, kaz (for karen) I'm midlands and named in the 60s - at school we had lots of variations of Susan..

Morning all

Happy birthday to my gorgeous DH Went out last night to new Carluccio's Italian restaurant opened locally. 'Twas lovely.

I named DS after his two paternal grandfathers (first name and middle name) good "solid" traditional names. . . but also two of the engines from "Thomas the Tank Engine". . . Unfortunately he never got that excited about the characters at all!

topsy hope the bottom is better this morning. Just a bug do you think, or something you drank ate? Take it easy and eat fbs to replenish yourself.

gig you feeling any better today? Sorry you had a wobble. Thinking of you x x x

MAS I find walking in the snow hard work, so maybe you just wore yourself out. Take it easy today and don't work too hard x x x

kurri hope DD had a lovely time and got home safely. Such a great experience for her! What news on Rupert the pheasant?

jchoc park run in the snow? Really?? You is hard as nails, woman

waves to smee, copthall, gracie, invicta, pen, AtoZ, greylady and anyone else around this morning.

Loads of love to sometimes and sparkle if you're lurking. Hope all is well.

Better go and encourage DS to write in DH's card before DH gets up.

love you all - stay warm x x x

happy birthday to Mr ned ! have a lovely day !
I was called my name because it wouldn't matter if I was plain- they were thinking of a Persian name as I was born in Tehran (Shirin -meaning sweet)
I called T his name because I just liked it- there were hardly any Theo's around then and it was a good combination of slightly edgy and cool and unusual. The northern rellies said you could tell we lived in the fancy south.
My middle name is a variation on Mary as most Catholic girls have that somewhere and it's my mum's middle name. T's second name is my brother's.
Am going to ponder on copt's name....

Morning
Never , ever , let me drink again !

Happy happy birthday Mr Ned
Carluccios ?
Not jealous , no not me , not in the slightest .....

In the cold harsh sober light of day , I think Copt is called Sarah Louise

Right , need to drink another vat of coffee and get ready to go to Granny's .
Later Gators x

Carluccios and we weren't invited?! Though I know it's because Topsy would have disgraced us all... Happy Birthday to Mr Ned. Hope you have a lovely time.

Copt are you a Tracey? There were a few when I was little. I don't mind my name. It's not v.exciting, but it's universally dull, so that's okay by me. hates to stand out Lots of faffing when we named DS, but we went for traditional name which could be shortened if he wanted it to be. All v.sensible.

Hope Rupert's undercarriage is thawed.

Off out in the snow now. We have enough to sledge now too. Yay!!

Wrong again! Though close in that DD2 is Sarah, named after my best friend and an Auntie, (after DH and I argued over names for two weeks since breakneck birth left me with no negotiating power, rather sweetly DD1 still thinks she named her after we sort of manipulated it so she thought she had , as in "if it wasn't for me those two would never have got their act together to give you a name" ) so basically everyone in family is Sarah but me!

Puts fat coke on trolley for Topsy again

Sharon not bad, everyone on Council estate in village who did not have my name was our Sharon, or our Denise. But brummie , north? Deep South more like!

Perhaps another clue, it became popular after two films came out , and no I am not Pussy or Ursula...

Happy Birthday Mr Ned wasn't that a horse? (Just googled, it was Mr Ed I was thinking of but there is indeed a racehorse named after Mr Ned!) Carluccios ?

How is hnd has the floating boob stuck down yet?

Snowing hard here, looking forward to blizzard walk, though not talking to goon dog as he has dug up my flower beds tunnelling under the fence, next we will catch him revving his motorbike as he rides up and down looking for best place to jump (my name isn't Steve either) He seems to be having a mid life crisis, tunnelling, stealing food off table , growling at evil fat black lab of the baskervilles , gelling his hair.....

Not Tracey either! smee

Hayley - after Hayley Mills?

Honey ?

Linda? I admit I'm a bit older but I'm Northern and had 3 Linda's in my primary school class.

Hmm, Kathleen, Jane, Marion, Joyce, Elaine, Judith, Shirley (going through my primary school register now! Quite good as brain gym perhaps?)

Julie? (sound of music)

Ha! The umbrella with a parrot on the end goes to sandripples . It is of course pronounced Jooleh where I come from.

Dusts off her wimple and heads for the hills...

Deborah? Helen? I'm Julie, after Julie Christie. Who obviously I'm a dead ringer for.

v.excited as just found forgotten remains of DS's selection box from Christmas, so have just scoffed a Freddo Frog. mmm...

Had huge snowball fight in our road with neighbours, off sledging in a bit. I will want it all to melt by tomorrow, but for now it's perfect.

Boo! I missed that SR won the prize.