| Lochalsh
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Cym asked: ...how can one tell if an olive is a virgin?
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I will refrain from answering, but it will cause me great distress to do so.
Reply #1461. Sep 17 10, 7:02 AM
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| lesley153
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Is it possible to reply without upsetting a moderator? Not if I reply, it isn't!
Cym, fret not, it's a lovely question I've never been asked; and I've been called much worse typos than that! |
Reply #1462. Sep 17 10, 8:53 AM
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satguru 
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I think it depends if the olive's stuffed or not...
Reply #1463. Sep 17 10, 10:07 AM
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| Lochalsh
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Well, David, you had to plunge right in, didn't you? :)
(Holding back on the pimento comment)
Reply #1464. Sep 17 10, 12:27 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Now that I think of it, this is an apt topic for a Virgo like me. :)
Reply #1465. Sep 17 10, 12:28 PM
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honeybee4
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Maybe it is like the question, {Where do you get virgin wool} from an ugly sheep. I guess you get virgin olive oil from an ugly olive.
Reply #1466. Sep 17 10, 12:37 PM
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| lesley153
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| I love this - and I seem to have an answer - the olive that is ugly will not be stuffed. Thank you, all! :) |
Reply #1467. Sep 17 10, 2:19 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Thanks to you all, I have some anchovy-stuffed olives in my pantry now that I'll probably never eat. ;-)
Lesley, the prize?
Reply #1468. Sep 17 10, 2:50 PM
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| lesley153
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Prize? Sorry, I didn't know there was supposed to be one. Help?
I like anchovies and I like olives. Not sure about one stuffing the other though. Too much of a good thing, perhaps.
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Jonathan was here over the weekend, has found some more money, and has also replaced my £600 a year motor insurance with a virtually identical one, from a perfectly good company, at £200 a year. He's much better at it than I am these days.
He went back to London this morning for a rehearsal with a college orchestra that's going to Portugal for a week, starting Wednesday. Nice.
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We went to Portugal twice and loved it. The third holiday was ruined because mother-in-law went into whinge-wheedle overdrive till H agreed to take her with us. Not nice. Still, two out of three's not bad.
The photographs were a hoot. When I took pictures of the two of them together, she was on cloud nine. When H took pictures of me with her, you could see the hate oozing out of her. (It was mutual but I flatter myself that I hid it better.) And she was wearing his shirts in most of them. I said take long sleeves to protect yourself, because the sun is red hot. She knew best, though, and said if it was that hot she would wear short sleeves to keep cool. I couldn't convince her... till we got there, her arms burnt, and she leapt into his suitcase and his long-sleeved shirts were not his any more. Grrr.
Sorry, what was the question again please?
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Nice news from my cousin. He was very young when he got married for the first time, they had a daughter, and they split up when the child was less than two. Her mother remarried, and her new husband adopted the child, without telling her father. They told the adoption authorities that they hadn't been able to trace him. (Evil.) Nearly forty years later, the daughter is starting to wonder if what her mother told her about her father's family was indeed the unvarnished truth, and they are now reunited. And incredibly happy. What a lot of wasted time.
But my cousin is on cloud nine, and he deserves it.
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Reply #1469. Sep 19 10, 1:49 PM
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| Professer
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Some good news Lesley alrouund it seems money and realative happy. Pleased to read that today.
Reply #1470. Sep 19 10, 2:43 PM
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| lesley153
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| Thanks, Gary. Feels good when things start turning round. |
Reply #1471. Sep 19 10, 2:56 PM
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Jazmee27
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So glad to hear it!
Reply #1472. Sep 19 10, 4:47 PM
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garrysouders
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The virgin material was wonderful made me smile all over. you did know about the tombstone over the virgin librarian returned unopened. Lesley so good to hear you cheerful and energetic, that too makes me smile.
Reply #1473. Sep 20 10, 8:38 AM
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| Lochalsh
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Hey, no posts for a while! Where have all the virgins gone (long time passing)?
Reply #1474. Sep 21 10, 12:52 PM
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| lesley153
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Sorry, everyone - glad you're smiling.
Jonathan continues to find money I didn't realise I had, and to save me money. For instance - he's reduced my broadband from £21.50 to £7.50 a month, and my car insurance from £600 to £200 a year. I'm keeping him!
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When I left hospital, my haemoglobin was 9.5 or thereabouts. A few weeks later, although I was full of iron, the haemoglobin was only up to about 10. Today, at a routine appointment in Haematology, it was 12.2 and this is good. It's getting close to normal, and may explain why I'm just a bit more energetic. I managed to walk from the hospital to the high street to do some juggling in the bank, and then to the top of the high street. It's a mile, but feels like more because it includes two big bridges to walk over.
This afternoon I had my first Alexander Technique lesson for at least eight years. It's to counteract all the slouching I've done when it was too much trouble to walk properly. We've known the Alexander teacher for about twelve years, and she has turned into a friend. I enjoyed seeing her and felt better for the lesson. Nice day all round.
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Early tomorrow morning, Jonathan is flying to Portugal. He and his violin and a college orchestra will be spending a week in Oporto. His violin his taken him to more countries than I can remember. He's having a good time too. :) |
Reply #1475. Sep 21 10, 3:31 PM
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Jazmee27
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It's all good!
Reply #1476. Sep 21 10, 3:44 PM
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| lesley153
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They landed in Porto airport at two o'clock this afternoon. He said it was a good smooth flight, and the weather was warm.
I just reminded him that asking for two beers - duas cervezas se faz favor - is a lot easier to do if you're drunk, and he said he's already used that phrase today. My work here is done.
Tomorrow is the first of eight weekly sessions of cardiac rehabilitation. Each session includes group exercise, with warm-up before and warm-down afterwards. I hope nobody films it. They wouldn't be that wicked, would they? There'll be a lecture - first week is food labelling... I can't wait - and they'll probably put me on the treadmill again. I can't wait for that either! |
Reply #1477. Sep 22 10, 4:57 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Lesley, I just felt a frisson of both excitement and nostalgia when I read your comments on beer drinking in the Iberian Peninsula. ;)
Reply #1478. Sep 22 10, 6:56 PM
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| lesley153
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| It's that lovely word again. :) [giggle] |
Reply #1479. Sep 22 10, 7:01 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Lesley, one of our national newscasters, Chris Matthews, might have used that word to describe his delight with then-candidate Obama rather than the expression he did sputter forth [at about 0:30]:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m9Gbb6NSwM
Obama can be an effective orator, but come on, Chris! :)
Reply #1480. Sep 22 10, 7:35 PM
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