I shallot the sheriff....but I did not shoot the celery - 10 / 10 thread

[FrannyandZooey]

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I only wear my anorak to go running in the rain.

oh now you se I am worried. I think if i were a man I would do the poem writing thing if I liked someone. Was it a suggestive poem?

I had that thing a while back where a man made me a pot and I got all what can it mean and then avi said 'oh if you make pots you give them away it is probably that' so I acted like it was just that and so it was just that (even if he didn't mean it like that in teh first place)

So agree with the don;t do anything and if he asks I would say - "oh it was fab can you do one for my daughter - look Ihave made you this cheese and pickle sandwich - I do that for all my friends."

Actually my advice on this is shit isn't it. I will go and do something else.

as you were.

Tsk. We need to work on this Lupe.

Ooh you could get a sort sheepskin football managers coat for visiting the site? And for the sobbing in the rain bit too.

It's going to be great.

Hmm, that's what dh said. He said replacing the fireplace in the front room wasn't a priority.

I think there should be a blet - a kind of utilty belt to hang things on and every so often guad does a face and writes with a pencil adn measure something wiht the measure from her belt and tuts and walk off.

It was a site today as well. I was stepping over rubble and missing floorboards and marvelling at the now empty upstairs kitchen while the garden is piled with units.

There has obviously been a kitchen upstairs for some time as there is some startlingly orange and brown flower wallpaper underneath with vivid gren floor tiles. This is going to be the office.

I felt slightly annoyed at them being in my way and preventing me wafting around mentally decorating tbh. And they have put a fridge in my front room with a kettle on it.

YES. A utility belt! You can have a tape measure and a glue gun [not sure what for, but it'll look good and might come in handy] and chocolate, and A TORCH. Oh please have a belt you wear under the sheepskin coat.

Bee, I love that if you were a man you would write a poem. I think you would too. I wouldn't. If I was a man I'd march up to FK at her desk and bark 'Have a drink with me' and she'd hate me and I'd get sacked or something.

Yes, yes, I must have a blet. I like the idea of tsking and marking with a pencil.

I will look like Bob.

It would be much easier if FK's admirer had said that because then she could just say no thanks.

Is there a special holder you could have which you fix on your ear to keep your pencil in? That'd be good.

LOOK! It's got a clamping releasability capability or something.

Excellent.

I think we need to know an awful lot more from FK before we advise. Was it a man, or a woman? Was it a long love poem, or was it a saucy limerick? These details are important.

Guad house very exciting. My best ever holiday job involved wearing a tool belt.

Bee that cheese and pickle sandwich sounded highly suggestive.

i don't SUPPOSE anyone wants to say "well done franny for eating your fruit and veg" ON THE FRUIT AND VEG THREAD

thought not

Gawd you are demanding.

I offered you RASPBERRIES in the boojas. That was fruit last time I looked.

And I listed today. I never list.

100 - I need a pencil holder. However, I think my actualy ear might just about hold it up.

yes i am demanding
i can't shine in this utility belt chitchat so i am stropping about fruit and veg

There is pickle in Bee's sandwich Franny! That used to be vegetables! Berlimey.

I made a really crap dinner. It was vile. I couldn't make the children eat it. I couldn't eat it. It was pesto and broccoli tagliatelle with potato shavings and was just nasty and slimy. Bloody Jamie Oliver.

Urrgh, potato shavings in pasta? Why?

Dispatches is on now. It's asking whether it is possible to eat well and cheaply.

or, the true cost of cheap own brand budget food.

Molly, I saw on facebook....now I am insatiably curious....

FK, it is possible to respond gently but clearly, acknowledging that whilst you value their friendship/colleague'ship' and are flattered by their poem, you are saddened at the thought that they might be under the impression your feelings are mutual and hope you have done nothing to mislead them. Having such a positive work based relationship, you hope this can continue with no further misunderstanding between you.

This could be done in writing as this is the manner in which you were approached.

"Well done on Franny for eating your fruit and veg"
errr, in lieu of pink, have a sticker. (peels bratz one of fluffy cardigan)

Guad, I am thrilled to hear your building progress, it is no less/more then you deserve. (can't work out which one is the compliment so delete as applicable).

I wish I drank.
Funeral tomorrow, and I am a little 'lostatsea'.

Can I dig myself a burrow and hibernate for a bit?

I wasn't going to post on here feeling like this but family tension is pulling my strings a little taut.

poem for frayed knot

frayed knot
i like you a lot
it is not meant to be
have some cheese and chutney
and we shall live plantonically
until i kill myself