Have a waffle with Carol

[Linda P]

Have just realised, I really need an avatar pic. Tried to put one on many moons ago when i first joined this madness, but it wouldn't behave for me for some reason (computers have a habit of doing that to me), and Daughter was not around to sort it out for me. Will have to make a concerted effort to find a suitable pic this weekend.

Linda
21 days

[Carol Townsend]

Tony and Linda,
Glad to see you're both making concerted efforts to raise your post count.
Bill will be very pleased when he comes back from chugging around the lake at his holiday home.
Keep it up, and you might just attain my ranking, though we're a long way from David's..
Have a good weekend. What are you doing? I'm doing nuttin'.
Cheers
Noe

[Steve Wooler]

Hi Linda

It can be a total pig resizing the avatar and getting the system to accept it. Sorry, but I don't want to slow down everyone's experience by allowing huge avatar files. That's also why I don't like users to have fancy graphic signature blocks or other crass images that make the forum look like a geek refuge, distract from the content and slow the experience down for users with less than superfast broadband.

Anyway, if you find a photo, just email it to me and I'll do the necessary resizing and add it to your profile. This applies to everyone, of course.

[Lisa Keith]

Not a geek refuge?! I could start to feel unwelcome you know!!! Oh well, I shall have to re-subscribe to GeeksRUs and IamGeek.com ... sigh!

L.

[Linda P]

just wishin' I was clever enough to be a geek!

Linda

[SandraK]

Hi Noe
As there are now too many saddos to mention thought I would address this to you. Thank you for empathy regarding ankle, think one ankle being on par with that of a baby elephant could be the next fashion "must have ". Do urge the saddos on, nobody wishes to see people suffer -
Sandra

[Linda P]

Sandra, At least if the sun keeps shining, you should still be able to get the elephant ankle into flipflops, rather than trying to wear proper shoes.
Am I the only person who has the same dilemma, the only footwear I like to wear is boots or flipflops, which usually leaves me stuck in spring and autumn when neither seems appropriate

Linda
Still working on loosing the saddo status

[Carol Townsend]

Morning Sandra,
Have you had your ankle checked out? You haven't broken anything have you?
Don't like to worry you, but Himself used to go in for marathons a few years ago, and the first time, before he knew any better, he went training in unsuitable footwear, found that his ankle had swollen, walked about on it for three weeks before finally getting it looked at, and came home in plaster up to the knee where he had sustained a hairline stress fracture!
We were living in a flat two floors up with no lift at the time, so once he had got upstairs there he stayed for some time! I had to wait on him hand and foot. Nothing much has changed...

Anyway, the Saddos. I can remember being thrilled to reach "Oh so sad" but I soon moved to "Fanatic", where I seem to have stuck. I don't know what the next stage is.
I will keep encouraging them, but I'll be on holiday from next Friday and doubt if I'll be online at all. I need someone to "mind the shop".
Any volunteers?
Cheers
Noe

[Kevin Pallant]

Hi Carol(noe)
Your wish is my command!!!!!
Kevin

[Carol Townsend]

Aaaah! Thanks Handsome.
You're a star!!

[Linda P]

Hi Noe, can i apply to co-host with Kevin please??? can waffle the best of them, and will help me to reach 'fanatic' level!

Linda
19 days

[Carol Townsend]

Of course you can Linda!
Lets see if you can reach your target in the 19 days you have left before Tobago!
Mmmm, I seem to have been on line all day today. Time I went!
Looking forward to Bill's appearence; what is he going to say to all this?

[Kevin Pallant]

Oooops
I really should read before I post, Carol(noe) I only added a post because you wanted the avatar!
Linda P the job is all yours, good luck.

[Carol Townsend]

Don't worry Kevin, I can see how the misunderstanding arose; Linda thought you were applying for the post of temporary manager. It's my fault really, trying to drag you from one thread to another.
Are you sure you don't want the job? It's not difficult, but then you don't get paid!
Still, I'm sure Linda will manage very well on her own.
Um, didn't I say I was signing off for the evening?
Night all
Noe
xxx

[Kevin Pallant]

Hi Carol(Noe)
Many thanks for your understanding. As you are aware, the "Refuge for Mermaids in Meemu" project will take quite a great deal of my time, many thanks for you offer of assisstance by the way, but I am happy to be deputy temporary manger should Linda need it!
Kevin.

[Linda P]

Where are you off to Carol? I'm sure you have probably already told us, but to be honest I am too lazy to read back thorugh this thread to check!

Linda

[Carol Townsend]

Have I been successful in luring Kevin to this thread, like a mermaid singing on a rock?

Linda, I'm off on Thursday evening, taking the sleeper train through Cornwall to Penzance ( nowhere near Bude, so David won't have to hide, or wear his Stig mask) to our timeshare in the English paradise of Tresco, one of the Isles of Scilly. I have mentioned it, but have to reign myself in so I don't take over this entire site going on about it.
I'm going with three men, but before you think I'm taking a harem of toy boys, let me explain who they are; my husband, my son, and a family friend who is definitely not a toy boy, bless him! My daughter is at school still so is staying with her godmother, who has a 20 year girl herself. Daughter is more than happy not to come with us, but is a trifle put out about having to stay with her godmother, who loves her and will give her a great time. I don't think she is ready to cope on her own; she'll get scared at night for one thing!
Cheers
Noe

[Kevin Pallant]

What is this lovely sound I hear, enchanting noises luring me away from my normal hiding places.........could it be a mermaid singing soothing gentle songs? My I seem to be under a powerful spell.

[Carol Townsend]

Kevin, you are doomed.

[Carol Townsend]

What I really wanted to say was don't touch any machines today!!
I took a stroll into town (without my coat-hooray!!) to withdraw some cash from my friendly local Nationwide cash machine.
"Please insert your card" it said, so I did.
"Please insert your card". But I have!
Two minutes later "please insert your card".
Ok I'll try my PIN.
"Please insert your card". Aaargh!
Tried pressing cancel.
"PLease insert your card."
Tried pressing all the buttons.
"Please insert your card".
So, three days before going on holiday, I've had to report a lost card.
Then, coming home I crossed the bridge over the railway line, and there on the station platform was a Polish gentleman (I think) shouting into the "help" machine, there being no human staff around. (my station is a tiny, one line up, one line down affair)
" Haillo? the musheeen hus swollowud my twenty queed. What do I do? I poot in twenty queed and there wus no teeket and the musheen hus kept eet."
I could hear a disembodied voice coming from the musheen, but couldn't hear what it was saying; probably something like "'snot my job."
Just thought I'd warn you; it's one of those days!