| lesley153
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I got a name! Same couple of seconds of background noise, then a voice asks for me, and relaxes into his script. "My name is Anton... I am calling from a UK ... centre..." but the rest of it got lost between a noisy lumbering computer, and a loud growling fan heater. I said I couldn't hear him, said "hang on" and moved the fan heater behind me *screech* although I suppose I could have switched it off. Didn't think of that. Oh dear - he's hung up!
1471 says "We do not have the caller's number to return the call." This usually means that the call came from abroad, I think.
Perhaps he'll try again, and perhaps he'll manage to get more than two sentences out next time. I need to know who he is, and what he wants, before I tell him to go away.
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Cake day today at the exercise class. I got a dozen tiny chocolate cakes, some yoghurt-covered chewy things, pieces of millionaire's shortbread, Jaffa cakes and some gluten-free peanut "cookies." I wasn't going to get iced cakes or cream buns. It was a good spread because one of the men brought cakes in for his birthday. In the short time I've been there, I've never seen anyone bring in biscuits or Jaffa cakes, but they flew off the plates, and a man who is bringing his in next week asked me where the peanut "cookies" came from.
In fact, almost everything went except eleven out of twelve tiny chocolate cakes. Funny, that. Well actually probably not that funny when there were little individually-wrapped chocolate "logs" full of sweet squidge! Next year I'll think about making a carrot cake. |
Reply #2421. Mar 16 11, 1:19 PM
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| veronikkamarrz
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This is goodies for an EXERCISE class? That's kind of funny. I understand the Birthday stuff, but...Where are the raw veggies, and 'healthy' food? ;)
Reply #2422. Mar 16 11, 7:40 PM
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| lesley153
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Isn't it mad? That's why I don't usually have anything, and that's why I toned down the squidge in mine, and ate one thing - a peanutty biscuit - when I saw that it was the last one left.
People were eating the Jaffa Cakes like there was no tomorrow. They all knew you can have some every day (I may have known and forgotten), because they're low in fat, they told me. So why am I the first person I've seen bring them in?
I was toying with the idea of some oranges and a bowl of cherries but didn't have the courage to go against convention. It might have made a very welcome change! Next year, perhaps. Carrot cake made with all organic, unrefined ingredients and rapeseed oil, no cream cheese anywhere near it, and fruit. *wanders off to find diary*
Wandering off to bed now. Ooh it's not three o'clock yet! Night. :) |
Reply #2423. Mar 16 11, 8:47 PM
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guitargoddess
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Wow. Room for one more in your exercise class?! I could get on board with an exercise program with cakes and goodies served!
Reply #2424. Mar 17 11, 2:29 PM
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| lesley153
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Room for lots!
If you have a heart problem, get a medical referral and get cleared for exercise, you too can run around with two dozen or more over-50s, and you too can marvel at the rubbish they bring in on their birthdays.
There are two sessions on Wednesday afternoons. The earlier one is so quiet, you can hear the man who takes the class going round having individual conversations with each person. The second one is so noisy, you can't her yourself think. Yesterday, he came in with headphones on. I think he was trying to make a point!
You'll be very welcome at either of them. Would you like a map? |
Reply #2425. Mar 17 11, 3:26 PM
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sounds like fun Lesley, if i tried id be in a heap as my bad foot leg would let me down and my asthma would corpse me still can dream of exercise :)
Reply #2426. Mar 17 11, 4:04 PM
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Lochalsh
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Watch out, GG, or she'll be recruiting you for her Old Bats team (despite your youth). Haven't you ever read her profile, with its promise of cookies? Be afwaid, be vewy afwaid....
*nonchalantly* Oh, hi, Lesley. :)
Reply #2427. Mar 17 11, 4:08 PM
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| lesley153
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Gary, what makes you think I'm not a heap?
Lochalsh: I say nothing! |
Reply #2428. Mar 17 11, 4:55 PM
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| lesley153
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Good day today.
I saw my cardiologist today, for a follow-up to my cardioversion at the end of last year. I'd been taking two pills to keep my heart rate stable, and the vile Warfarin to prevent clots.
He sent me for an ECG, had a listen with his stethoscope, and said my heart is now in proper rhythm, and I can come off these three meds. I was hoping he'd say that, and I am delighted.
Later on I saw two women I hadn't seen since the haircut that took my hair from shoulder length to jaw length. "Love the hair!" they said. "Takes ten years off you!" they said. We like that. :) |
Reply #2429. Mar 22 11, 7:16 PM
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honeybee4
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I am happy to hear this Lesley.
Reply #2430. Mar 22 11, 7:49 PM
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| lesley153
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| Thanks, Judy. :) Less rattling, and no more blood tests - yippee! |
Reply #2431. Mar 22 11, 7:53 PM
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Jazmee27
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That's great!
Reply #2432. Mar 22 11, 9:48 PM
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Professer
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Brilliant news Lesley, you wills oon be able to do the London Marathon :) Hope you continue to improve.
Reply #2433. Mar 23 11, 2:20 AM
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| lesley153
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Thanks, everyone!
Next step is a few new clothes. A very old friend gave me a sweater for my birthday. Too small, I thought. Put it on and it was perfect. So really I had no choice but to get a new pair of trousers to go with it - the same size as the sweater. Getting there. :)
Going to see beloved sprog this evening. Back in a bit.
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Reply #2434. Mar 23 11, 10:52 AM
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Lochalsh
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Good news, Lesley, and you'll soon be able to take on Robert Downey, Jr., again, and perhaps even add Colin Firth.
(By the way: I just recently saw King's Speech, the last person on earth to do so. No-one had warned me that CF had on kilts in one scene. I nearly swooned!)
Reply #2435. Mar 23 11, 11:33 AM
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| lesley153
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Hard, swooning in cinema seats!
For years, I've been wearing different colour short-sleeved t-shirts, and dark trousers, and my hair has been shoulder length and wild. Today I turned up in a long-sleeved sweater and smartish trousers, and the new short haircut, and felt like a new me. Jonathan said I looked like a normal, healthy person. That'll do!
When Mr Firth played Mr Darcy in a TV version of Pride and Prejudice, he jumped into a river with little more than a shirt on and, of course, climbed out soaking wet. Kilts aside, what did you think of the film?
And now I have a decision to make. Downey or Firth. Firth or Downey. Can I have some time to think about it please? |
Reply #2436. Mar 23 11, 7:28 PM
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Lochalsh
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I was quite moved by Firth's performance. The elements were so mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, and say to all the world: This was a man! Okay, I paraphrase clumsily, but I was impressed by his ability to keep the king and vulnerable human going all at once, and especially with his facial expressions.
I must admit, I didn't have time to swoon; I heard a Bedfordian voice in my head the whole time, asserting the rightness of Firth as Bertie.
Lesley, you don't have to choose; that's the luxury of being in such sparkling good health. You will, however, have to keep spiffing up your wardrobe. These are Hollywood figures, after all.
Reply #2437. Mar 23 11, 7:49 PM
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| lesley153
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I too found Firth's performance moving, from the beginning of the film, when his speech was so convincingly painful that you just wanted to bury your head in your hands and wait for it all to go away.
Who might the Bedfordian have been? I'm a Londoner. {naughty}
So, if I keep sparkling, and keep spiffing, I can have them both? Sounds good! And I no longer need to entertain George Clooney on Tuesday afternoons? I'm happy with that. :) |
Reply #2438. Mar 24 11, 7:42 AM
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Lochalsh
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It's up to you whether you retain George. I'd say that, with Colin and Robert, you have two fine exemplars of Good Boy and Bad Boy, and, really, who could ask for anything more?
I didn't think proper Englishwomen were ever naughty. :P
Reply #2439. Mar 24 11, 8:36 AM
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| lesley153
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Not if they're proper, they're not. I like being on the naughty side. Someone else can enjoy George on Tuesdays. I've had my turn - and jolly nice it was too.
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Went into central London yesterday evening to see the college string orchestra. Good concert. I'm going to buy a recording.
Questions that popped into my head as I was travelling...
- Why do people forget that they're bigger, and need more space, when they're carrying a big bag or wearing a backpack? And why do they think it's OK to let their suitcases stop two other people from having a seat, when they could just as easily stick it in a luggage space?
- Why are there so many slack-jawed yoof with wires coming out of their pockets and going into their ears? Are they recharging their brain cells from portable batteries? These batteries are very noisy - they sound like MRI machines thumping. I don't think the yoof know (or care) how noisy these machines are.
- Why is it easier to apologise (or not bother) for crashing into people, than it is to look where you're going?
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Going out again in a bit. Someone playing the piano. |
Reply #2440. Mar 24 11, 12:15 PM
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