MNers who have made policywonk cry today:

[policywonk]

JeremyVile, Threadwworm, IorekByrnison, KayHarker, Swedes, Habbibu, Desiderata, MonkeyTrousers and OBM.

What a load of bitches bloody lovely women you are.

PW - Sorry to hear about your mum. She does sound as though she liked adventure.

How lovely of you all to get the Olive trees.

Do you think you'd be able to get that delivery man to deliver here?

i hope my kids talk about me like this

you sound so proud and she sounds lovely

oh zip, that's awful, i'm so sorry. it is hard, isn't it? my dad died when i was 23, it was utterly shit.

and COME ON you pedantic gits, you can get your knickers in a twist about haikidiki but you can't help a girl with monkey stew?

Margo - maybe when I've finished with him

was it chop? or something like that?

What a lovely thing to say zippi

Aitch, I remember you talking about your Dad on other threads. He sounds like he was a good guy.

Chop... still dunno. We are still on Gerald, not Lawrence (and definitely not T.E.), yes?

did you see the tv my famil y and other animals it was on when my children were little they loved it it was asundat eve all watch togehte rprogramme

deffo gerald, but older and more reprobate-ish. before he married lee, though. i can't believe i was allowed to read them, tbh. am off to investigate chop hunch. i also think it might have had something to do with peanuts, for some reason...

and yes, my dad was great. it's been a long time though. i do and i don't miss him. i wish dd could have met him, that's for SURE. and with every new grandchild he gets i think my mum feels that loss more.

totally, it was a great show zip, really lovely.

bushmeat? that's what you get if you type 'monkey recipes' into google... an odd moment for a girl.

MUST stop hijacking your lovely thread, PW. apols.

Ah that's lovely of those mad old bats mners.

Sorry to hear about your mum PW, I remember talking to you on here about Mac nurses. Sorry for your loss.

"bushmeat" sounds like a euphemism.

my parents knew each other from brith we have a sepia photo of them kissing when they were 2 qnd 3

so lovely that people can have a lifetime together

It's chop aitch
From The Bafut Beagles I think

I have always hero-worshipped the grandad I never met - mum told me so many stories about him, he's always been like a wonderful personal santa...

(is it inappropriate to be secretly pleased at having a "hard image" by accident, however briefly?)

that is adorable, zip.

and yes, i think it is somewhat euphemistic, vvv...

Bless you, Marina. i knew one of you freaks would have that information at your fingertips. oddly, if you google chop and durrell nothing comes up, perhaps it's his guilty little secret?

So long Aitch. It must be hard that your Dad never met your DD. My mother kept dropping little hints at me to get pregnant when she was dying - I know she was thinking that a granddaughter (Dad has only grandsons) would be the best consolation for him.

That's amazing zippi.

Thanks ranting.

my condolences to you too, pw. she sounds wonderful.

theres a certain birdcall that reminds me of my nana. i call it the nanabird (not being ornithological, like) and like to think its her spirit or something popping in to say hello . i used to hear it in the mornings when i stayed with her and it makes me think of her breezing in to my room in the mornings and opening the curtains to the sunshine.

Yes Habb, that is inappropriate

habbibu - you do not have a hard image, sorry to disappoint!

i do tell dd about my dad, as it happens. in one ear and out the other at the moment, but give me time.

habb is as Hard As Nails. you people just don't know her, that's all.