Elegsabiff Blog Comments (9,358)

RE: A NAGGING FEELING :(

I wish! Spent last Christmas in the sun, may be spending this one in the snow. Put it this way, have been invited ski-ing by a guy I never met, on the basis of five messages back and forth, I'm SURE it is a serious invitation ...

English is a very odd language

Cocheta, remember that other one, you break your leg, don't come running to me?

Um - okay - can I hop?

All fun and games until someone loses an eye, yup, I never saw many one-eyed people either.

English is a very odd language

Hey Dewi, Kabar baik! (not sure of my spelling!)

English is a very odd language

Ever get knocked into the middle of next week? I'd rather like that. I'm going away, the middle of next week! Getting there is looking challenging.

RE: A NAGGING FEELING :(

All the time. ALL the time. I generally hide here on CS until the feeling goes away.

December plans look GOOD.

English is a very odd language

Oh, threats are the best. Like 'I will beat you within an inch of your life' - they're going to use a ruler?

My guts were often under threat too.

English is a very odd language

Tom, ok, that could be confusing, because for sure if I was shouting in a forest it would be because I was lost and really hoping someone could hear me.

English is a very odd language

Haha Cocheta I hope you let her go first

English is a very odd language

Cocheta, that poor woman, when you're bursting is NOT the time to collapse in giggles or try to explain yourself more clearly!

English is a very odd language

ha, good one and apparently there was a loony bin in Barking back in the day

Every day a school day ...

English is a very odd language

Z, it sounds invigorating. Do you join in with your best Spanish, or just looked pained and say My. Dear. Chap. calm. down. ?

English is a very odd language

Ah! (Googles Barking)

English is a very odd language

Mais non, Z, in France je parle Francais! But yes, slowly. And loudly. Probably more Franglaise than French ...

English is a very odd language

Z, colour me impressed. That's awesome from someone south of Watford. I thought you guys all worked on the basis 'speak louder and slower until the yokels understand'

English is a very odd language

Hey, Harry, that's one of the 13 languages I have about 5 words in. Hello, yes, no, thank you, what?

English is a very odd language

Ha, Z! you remind me (oh my mind) that when the law tells you you're going down, it is not a good thing.

English is a very odd language

Que? They're all Spanish, right? I don't speak any Spanish so can't comment on their variations.

English is a very odd language

I speak South African English, English English, Scottish English and can get by in American English (most of the time).

Scottish English is challenging, though. My neighbour said she'd chap on my door when she was going for her messages, so see if I needed anything. She meant she'd knock on my door (or even knock me up) when she was off to the shops.

See you on my next coffee break. I took the day off, must put it to good use.

RE: Dating

Best part of a first date is getting ready for it - one thing about getting older, the people are rarely worth the meeting, so take the fun where you can get it there's always the thread of excitement that this time, maybe, he really will be as interesting as he seems. Hell, that he is even the age and height he said he was would be a good start.

Fingers crossed that your date lives up to your hopes

RE: Do you know of any different ways to cope with dep

Not by drinking, for starters. That's a vicious circle that will dump your life down the toilet. If it was just your life, you could do what you want, but your kid needs a sober and coping mother.

Exercise will lift your spirits and tire you physically, go walking if nothing else, and that's good rhythm for rapping, too.

I have depression cycles, only once or twice over the years have they got so bad I needed meds to break the pattern, but now I recognize them starting and head them off. I drink socially but never, ever, when I am remotely depressed.

Good luck, you can do this, for the kid as well as for yourself

RE: Hunted In Russia

I was about to say what Sands just said. Rage and fear is everywhere. Just being different, in any way, is enough to make you hated by somebody, somewhere. When it is several somebodies nearby, atrocities happen.

I have a bit of a rage problem with the media. I believe they whip it up, where they could calm it down.

Racing snail for sale

Non - you got me.

Racing snail for sale

That would be PERFECT.

Racing snail for sale

I have a MUCH better idea, DC. You come here and teach me how to make snail porridge out of my hundreds of tiny athletes.

We can serve the meal with tiny wild strawberries - I have a bumper crop of those at the moment - and invite everyone who partook on this blog. Deal?

Racing snail for sale

Angel - and you pay postage and packing, no problem.

But I'll send you one of Ronny's friends. Not my wee racer.

(What do you do, just brush them on your nails? When I pick Ronny up he vanishes into his shell)

He's not very cuddly.

Racing snail for sale

Sola, how many times? This is a RACING snail. He's lapped the kitchen 5 times. The only time he stops is when the cat saunters in.

But sure, I'll take your money. I think he's scared of heights, but he is very small after all.

Racing snail for sale

Luke, I've been out in the rain searching. Difficult to tell the difference between kilts and skirts, TBH. They look like a fleet of hovercraft, skirts rippling as they whip along the path like tiny Gene Kelly wannabees.

Ever see the Morecambe & Wise version of that, BTW?

RE: happy birthday Jim

Happy birthday Jim I'd forgotten we have a whole rash of birthdays at the moment, will have to go check Loulou's birthday greetings to see who was coming up.

to your good health, sir. Slainte.

Lang may yer lum reek! (Long may your chimney smoke!)
Wi' ither folks coal! (With other people's coal!)
(The second line is said to have originated in Edinburgh)

Racing snail for sale

Rain, he didn't like Rocky at all! quivered and drew back into his RATHER LOVELY (shouting at Non, not you) SHELL.

Why would a snail be afraid of rocks?

Racing snail for sale

On an almost completely unrelated tack (okay, completely unrelated) you know what cheese to use to coax a bear out of the woods, right?

Camembert.

(Say it out loud. Coaxingly)