myTobago – your questions, review and comment about Tobago

Noe
Good on you girl ! Another outlet for your wonderful stories - long may they continue. Won't say what I thought when I read "Helium " but as we all know I'm warped ! As David has said please don't forget us lesser mortals as your star rises,we need you here.

Went to see "The Boss" on Friday and still singin' and dancin' in the dark. That man is pure class.
Sandra

Ok Sandra

Where can you get helium in Tobago?

Carol ... I am working on it in between my helium parties ... the beard is growing.

Regards

Paul
So wish I had to learn typing wh en I was

so much youb.. ner.
Sandra

Morning Folks!
Good to hear from you all; it's been so quiet I thought Steve had carried out his threat and hit the auto-destruct button!

David and Sandra, of course I won't forget you; I'm not that kind of celebrity.
I think it may be a little early to talk about films, though.
Have you got a beard by the way David? I know you haven't Sandra; at least I hope not.
Sandra,
I've never seen "The Boss", didn't know he was still performing!

I must say "Helium" is a very strange name for a writers site; something to do with rising up maybe? I haven't read very much on there yet; it's impossible, there's just too much. I do think some of the stuff there is, in my not-at-all humble opinion, a bit, um, naff! Oops! That's torn it!
I had divided "The Scary Washing Machine and The Exploding Water Tank" into two with a view to sending them to the Short Humour site. I managed, after much agony, tears and tearing of hair, to reduce the "Washing Machine" part down to 499 words but I've kept the original which I might send to Helium, after I've put them in the old-fashioned post to myself.

I'm not doing very well on "The Lost Land of Lyonesse". So far it's a mixture of a history/geography essay along with a tourist board advertising site:"www.ilovetheislesofscilly.com". Perhaps I should work for them. Give me time.

Just got back from the hospital where I've had 3, yes three, blood tests. My GP wants to give me a thorough check-up. I'm afraid the game's up. They're going to find out I'm an alien at last.
Must go. Deserve a coffee and a bikkie. ( That's cookie to you Bill, and I 'm not talking computers; don't understand all that.)
Byeeeeee
Noe

Noe
Hate to disabuse you but have to feel aliens don't eat bikkies - you are sadly one of us.
Sandra

Back to Zanussi cursed alien,and all the sisterhood too!!(except for when you are nice to we mortals)
Zigzog the Invicable

Now look here Zigzog,
I am always nice to you mortals, except when you're not nice to me!
Jabba-jabby The Terrible.

PS
I'm glad you've come out to play; I don't like it when you're quiet!

Zigzog
On very rocky ground,back track quickly.
Cassandra

Daughter of priam do entangle me .....but the curse was put upon you by Apollo that you should never trap a man again!!!!!
Ha Ha!!
By the way,did you know that Cassandra is the true feminine of Alexandre(Alexander)?
The Man from Planet Logic!!!

Greetings All,

Summer seems to have finally arrived this past week and we've gone straight from chilly to hot and humid. We finally finished up the last of the major garden projects we've been working on since last year (all due to having a new roof installed last year - don't ask ) and I can now collapse, sit back and enjoy it. Nothing now but routine maintenance like mowing and trimming the lawn, fertilizing, weeding, trimming plants, pruning and harvesting. God, I'm tired all over again.

Bill (Carefully keeping my distance from the most recent postings)

Bill!
You've beamed down from your summer retreat!
I don't blame you for not getting involved in our alien and classical postings; you're a very sensible Earthling.
Want to know what the weather's been like here? Dull, cool, depressing and WET!
Do tell us about your new roof, and I might be persuaded to tell you about when our new windows were installed, two years ago this month. I still bear the mental scars...
Enjoy your garden!
Love Noe
XXX

Bill
Great to have you back,totally understand the vagaries of a relatively new back garden (yard).We relandscaped two years ago and I'm still in a constant state of flux,what to move,what really does not work,what looks amazing and should stay. Thing is putting any plant on the compost heap seems like a failure, I hate it. At the moment it has been so wet can't really get out there,will do more damage than good. Having said that the bees are having a field day,saw the first stag beetle this morning and the toads and frogs are everywhere. As for the birds ,screaming by 6am ,come and feed us,so I imagine I am helping to rear a new generation. Ok, a very romantic scenario but it works for me !
Sandra

Noe
Please give us the story of the windows,I may even be able to outdo you on this one,no not really. Don't just have mental scars actual physical ones, had to catch a window as it was falling from my bedroom all the guys fled and I was damned sure this thing was not going to ruin my roses so broke the fall. Ooch !
Sandra

Noe,

If you insist. After living in our 50 year old house for over thirty one years I felt that it had a nice comfortable lived in appearance (my DW's term for it is "shabby". Henceforth all words in parentheses will reflect her opinion rather than mine). When the roof needed replacing last summer it involved tearing off and replacing all the old guttering and fascia. At this point the functional (worn and cracked) concrete stoop required repair and an epoxy coating (so it would now look as nice as the new roof and fascia). So far this has only cost me money. Unfortunately mature (overgrown and scraggly) bushes flanked both sides of the now lovely stoop. This is where it starts to cost me money and lot's of back breaking sweaty labor. Ultimately this kind of thinking has led to the digging up and replacing of untold numbers of plants, landscaping timbers and bordering stones and bricks and the hauling of truckloads of dirt and mulch. And like a lot of insidious diseases it continued to spread and soon encompassed the side and rear yards. But as I stated earlier we are now finished, at least until it once again gets that "nice comfortable lived in appearance".

Bill - Living in fear of a light fixture or kitchen faucet needing replacement.

Hi all
No Bill is not a Zanussian, or come from the land of the mermaids....... I can translate.
When he says faucet he really means tap!!

Sandra,
Trying to catch a falling window is not a good idea. Trust me, the rose bush would have recovered, but you may not have done!

Bill,
Not having seen your house and garden, or yard ( to me that word conjures up images of a walled concrete enclosure with rubbish bins,or trash cans as I believe you say) I can't say whether I'm on your side or your DW's. I will say that on the whole I like to see a slightly overgrown garden with plants breaking through concrete; it's Nature fighting back against Man! Himself doesn't agree though.Perhaps your DW and I should
swap husbands.
Oops! Forget I said that!

Oh dear, I suppose I'll have to tell you about our windows now. (sigh) But not if you don't want me to.

Kevin,
Thanks for the translation. Why these Yanks have to use fancy words like "faucet" I do not know...
Good Night, and God Bless America

Sorry I haven't posted for a while. And slightly sulky that no one seemed to notice. Been busy with work, busy with garden, busy with all the other stuff that keeps a person busy. Anyway, I'm just checking in so you don't forget about me, tucked away, here in my busy little corner of the Isle of Wight.

I had three blood tests the other day too. Doc said that it was 'just to check my cholestrol' - a likely story. I think they are definitely on to us Sis.

Gotta go.

Busy stuff to do.

Love to all

Tony

xxx

Noe
You must have realised by now I'm not too good at sensible. 55 gong on 14 !
Sandra

Tony
Oh my gosh - seeing a grown man throw toys out of his pram is never a pretty sight. Get a grip.
PS .Of course we missed you
Sandra