Dancing greens, feel the beet of the tangerine - 10 / 10 thread

[FrannyandZooey]

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my friend

has changed the subject title of our emails to a very complex scence title since i pointed out that sending and receiving emails with the title dogging might be inappropriate

i said i found the new title sexy and he was surprised...incomprehensible and very very long but sexy

iappropriate at work

obvs quite acceptable otherwise lol

And bananas are herbs but What About These Cake Parcels then?

I'd pay

What's all this pea chat, veg talkers?

I've just spent 2 hours!! with a financial advisor. And not had any supper yet .

And while the financial advisor was he, the girls decided to play take the play kitchen carving knife and saw off each other's limbs. I said in a sing song voice, 'what are you doing girls?' and they said 'knife fights, cutting each other into chunks and then making a pie with mushrooms.' Financial advisor who does not have children looked mystified / horrified and said 'don't girls usually play with dolls?', and we shrugged and said 'about this tracker rate?...'

[disclaimer, at no point have they ever been exposed to knife fights, cannibalism, scenes of a knife fighty or cannibalistic nature in life or on television and this has nothing at all to do with me and my very nice parenting ways]

TooT, I suggested this earlier but they are Pretending Not To Hear...

Peas are not the only fruit

Franny have you ahd a comical proposition?

So early in the evening?

Fmf, we will have our own meet-up one day and tell them about all our beautiful cakes
(are you quietly devastated about UB40? I will never see them live now. It wouldn't be the same without Ali)

think we need something like that as a thread title...

TooT. Tell me gently. What about UB40....?

He's okay, but he has left

To pursue a solo career.
And there has been acrimony, which I think is really sad.

Oh Phew. Though someone had expired...

Have they actually been actively making music at all recently??

Loved UB40 in the 80s. Loved them!

FK yes how intuitive of you tbh comedy propositions any later in the evening than this are doomed to failure

look I can send cake from London but it will be stale. And in bits.

ing sycophantically at Boco's "what's all this pea chat, veg talkers"

There is a new album due out soon. Ali apparently released a solo one last year - just found out.
Have you heard Labour of Love 3? It took a wee while to grow on me but I love it now.

By the way Franny I laughed at your road crossing anecdote on the green man thread earlier. And I read something of Boco's that made me laugh too. Can't remember what.

Hello luvvies

Franny you know I want to come but we are still waiting for the important letter

Ds has devoured half a honeydew melon today (or "lemon" as he calls it ) - look!

Assume however your presence here means you turned him down in order to chew the fat about peas and how many people want to eat cake

I said wait a bit MN is amusing me

and "have a shower first bleeeeugh you have just run 10k and are all clammy"

Tatties I want to see I want to see
link doesn't work

oh his endorphins are rising

Boco, when I first read your post I somehow thought they were playing with a real carving knife and have been wondering how to be tactful about it. Mind you, in other cultures children do handle dangerous things when young because they have been taught how. I sort of try this approach at home but ds1 sometimes surprises me. Ramble ramble.

Franny, I don't think that nice coconut & chocolate cake would go stale so quickly...it might be worth a try.

oh was it not a real carving knife i thought hoiw cool

at TooT's persistence

we aren't going there, we're going to a festival of pastry and there's going to be a fountain and flowers and napkins and stuff

you could phone or email them and ask for the recipe? say we were that very nice party who stayed too long and didn't drink any wine left them a big tip