Have a waffle with Carol

SandraK · Post by **SandraK** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 8:41 pm

Noe
Have now had a drink,a rather good Montagny as it happens. Called "kitchen people" and explained my paranoia- correction, my need for further endorsements. Twelve phone calls in fifty minutes extolling the wonders of "my new kitchen" - now I'm truly scared.

Carol Townsend · Post by **Carol Townsend** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 5:45 am

Sorry Sandra,

Might have kept quiet if I'd known you were having your kitchen done. I'm sure everything will be OK. To be fair, some of the delays were due to the factory, and our walls are shocking!
That's what we should have done; asked for endorsements from other customers, but the friend who recommended them is the sort of person who would take months doing research before undertaking anything, so we trusted his judgement. His conservatory is lovely, maybe they do conservatories better than windows!

Believe it not, that was the first major work we've ever undertaken except the kitchen, which was done by our carpenter friend, who takes great pride in his work, and I just wish he did bathrooms!
Best of luck with the kitchen. Tell us about it when it's all done.
Noe
XXXX

Tony G · Post by **Tony G** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 7:43 am

Aah Sis

Thank you for another wonderful story of everyday Wimbledon folk. It read like one episode in a long-running sitcom.

Got to go. I take an autistic friend out for lunch on fridays. He doesn't like me to be late.

Tony

xxx

Carol Townsend · Post by **Carol Townsend** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 3:47 pm

Enjoy your lunch Bruv,
I understand about your autistic friend. I expect he doesn't like you to be early either, or change the arrangements.
Have you read "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time"? It's written from the point of view of an autistic boy, and is brilliant.
Luv
Sis
xxx

Lisa Keith · Post by **Lisa Keith** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 5:35 pm

Hi Noe,

Excellent book!! Asbergers, as I recall?

Lisa.

Kevin Pallant · Post by **Kevin Pallant** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:23 pm

Hi all,

I have replied in here as David is right it shouldn't be in What Currency to Take thread?

When Linda P posted it said 999, correct, but that was the replies to Carol's original post on this thread. Therefore with the original post and the replies, Linda P is the 1000th poster!

Now please send Linda her the prize ( A night out with the *Cheif Anorak, *Bude Cool Boy, *Brad Pitt, please delete as appropriate) and let that be the end of it

GillMathews · Post by **GillMathews** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 5:51 pm

Noe, GOODBYE

I really hope you did'nt mean that

, I'm missing you already.You are not metaphoricaly standing in the corner on your own you know

In fact the corner is'nt big enough, we'll have to use the whole room

.
I was about to tell you that when I lived in Tooting many years ago after I was first married and worked as a District nurse I had patients in Earlsfield, Colliers Wood, Mitcham, Tooting Bec and Streatham.I had a big green Morris Oxford estate car at the time which was great 'cos it was big and very shiny with lots of chrome.Her name was Esmerelda and of course I was very fond of her.She was great at stopping the other traffic at junctions.If I let her keep rolling slowly people always let her out. She was usually bigger than them

Or maybe it was the Gladys Emanuelle effect of me in the uniform complete with hat that stopped them in thier tracks

.Either way I did'nt usually get held up.I went past Wimbledon football ground every day but didn't get as far over as the tennis club so often.
I used to go window shopping to Wimbledon sometimes just to gaze at properties and other things way out of my reach. As newly weds an inexpensive night out was a trip to Wimbledon stadium (not far from our maisonette) to watch speedway or stock car racing and have a couple of drinks before picking up fish and chips on the way home.We certainly knew how to live

Funny how little parallels crop up is'nt it.
Love n hugs
Gill xxx

SandraK · Post by **SandraK** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 8:39 pm

Noe
Come on woman, get a grip, one small criticism does not a cloth and ashes make. We all love you. Well, to be honest ,love is the wrong word, far too American, but you get my drift. Expect to hear from you within 24 hours or , sad to say, will have to mobilise the search party,and they don't come cheap.

Lisa Keith · Post by **Lisa Keith** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:52 pm

To add my two penn'eth (sp?!)

I noticed the Goodbye and thought it sounded very final, but Noe - you can't let a small smack on the wrist stop you from being Queen of Waffle! We've all (or most of us, anyway!) been guilty of going off topic from time to time, but that's exactly what THIS thread is for! You have your very own one! We shouldn't as David, Steve, Phil and others have pointed out, do that with other threads. This is a great website, informative and friendly, and we shouldn't be able to just waffle anywhere... but when there is one string that's dedicated to exactly what we're all so good at... it'd be a pity to let it go to waste!

Lisa.

Linda P · Post by **Linda P** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:09 am

Noe, If Steve had a big problem with Waffle full stop, he would hardly have made you Queen of Waffle!!! I fully agree that we should not let waffle take over other trhreads, but in it's right place long may it continue, we need our Queen to keep us entertained!!

Kevin, Yes I suppose that does make me 1000th poster

, I have considered the choice of prizes on offer, Brad Pitt, though very tempting, may be a tad busy changing nappies at the moment, so I will give him a miss. Mr Wooler is also a good option, his contacts in Tobago would make him a very useful prize - but the beard is a problem (sorry boss), I will have to accept the Bude Cool Boy as my prize, the reasons are simple, he can cook, he appears to be single, he drinks white rum - so my old oak will be relatively safe and I would have an excuse for a holiday in Cornwall to collect my prize

Linda

Tony G · Post by **Tony G** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:24 am

Lisa Keith wrote:We've all (or most of us, anyway!) been guilty of going off topic from time to time, but that's exactly what THIS thread is for! You have your very own one!
Lisa.

And we need you back, Sis.

Luv

Bruv

xxx

Linda P · Post by **Linda P** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:31 am

I'm confused

I know that the bots spy on us and read the posts to decide which ads to place, but how come sometimes when I check who is online, it says 'google adsense - posting a messager in Medium sized hotels' I have never read the messages posted by bots, do they start to type, then change their minds?

Linda

SandraK · Post by **SandraK** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:23 pm

Bill
Just logged on as forgot to log out. See you are here so would just ask you to plead with Carol to come back. S""t hit fan it would appear, all a storm in a teacup but the Queen has taken it to heart, I am assuming you have read the "Serious" thread so ..... Don't say it I agree.

Carol Townsend · Post by **Carol Townsend** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:10 am

Ok folks!
Have put the toys back in the pram and recovered from my nervous breakdown. There are reasons why I've been so over-sensitive to criticism which I'm not sure I should discuss in public.
Got to go to work today, and this evening my son will be chained to the computer so not much waffle time today.
Bill and Steve, thanks for your emails, you lovely people. Bill, I found yours in the spam box! Poor Bill!

Love
Noe
XXX

Tony G · Post by **Tony G** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:01 am

Phew!

and a BIG LOVE welcome back.

XXX

GillMathews · Post by **GillMathews** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:16 am

Thank goodness

.Welcome back Noe $\:D/$
Going to work myself at midday til 9 so we'll catch up soon. Must dash, got to make my pack up
Gill xxx

Bill B · Post by **Bill B** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:42 pm

Noe,

Glad you're back.

Spam, huh

It appears that the UK still hasn't gotten over it and dumps the former colonies into the 'Trash Box'

Bill

Jack Hargreaves · Post by **Jack Hargreaves** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:15 pm

"Former colonies" ?

Bill B · Post by **Bill B** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:22 pm

Jack,

The way things have been here lately I can't believe that you'd still want us

Bill

Carol Townsend · Post by **Carol Townsend** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:04 pm

So Gill,
You once lived in glorious Tooting then?

I assume you were based in St. Georges hospital. We lived on the border of Wimbledon and Colliers Wood, in a one -bedroomed flat in Norman Road to be precise, near what is now Savacentre and the world (well, maybe not World) famous Merton Abbey Mills. I wish you hadn't mentioned Gladys Emmanuel. I know from your photo you're not like her, but I now have this image in my mind....
Sorry Bill- having escaped from the spam folder you're probably lost again!
And I'm afraid you're still going to be lost, as that word you coined-"DUBLODE", reminds me of the late great "Professor" Stanley Unwin, who I'm sure the more mature Brits (like me) will remember.
There is a website for him of course, and you can find him on Youtube reading "Goldiloppers and the three bearloaders".
Deep joy, oh yes.
Cheery-bye and a wavy handlode.(or something like that)
Noe
xxx

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