Stormy Weather

[Nick Armstrong]

I read a scary story somewhere online yesterday about a man who rolled over in bed one morning, thinking he was stroking his pet cat, opened an eye and realised a fox was lying on his bed - can you imagine ?!?!!

I've had worse...

[Anna]

I've had worse...

Caliban!! Please do tell ..............

[vinteuil]

Caliban!! Please do tell ..............

... that's what comes of feasting with ocelots

[Nick Armstrong]

Caliban!! Please do tell ..............

A gentleman's lips must remain sealed.

[salymap]

A gentleman's lips must remain sealed.

Not always - sometimes they can be persuaded.

[Nick Armstrong]

Not always - sometimes they can be persuaded.

... golly! Mata Hari-style persuasion techniques???

[mangerton]

... for our Southern readers - a "gravel train" is what Northerners have instead of a gravy train. (But, by 'eck, wur 'appy!)

Gravel? You were lucky! We had mud.

Weatherwise, today it's been dry, overcast, c 15ºC, but still no rain, though it looks increasingly likely.

Saly, I regret that I can offer no guidance on garden (or indeed any kind of) foxes. I do remember that in the sixties our garden in Edinburgh was plagued by rabbits, and the solution was uncle bringing his shotgun one weekend. (Nothing to do with me, guv, I were just a lad.)

[mangerton]

A gentleman's lips must remain sealed.

Quite right, Cali, and there's not many of us about.

As the old Scottish toast has it, "Here's tae us, wha's like us? Damn few, and they're a' deid!"

[Anna]

... golly! Mata Hari-style persuasion techniques???

Oh well, I was going to say - He's not adverse to a bit of the old Mata Hari now and again but I seem mangerton has once more steered us back to safe waters ...... and some dry Scottish toast. Oh, those Presbyterians .... love them!

[Nick Armstrong]

Quite right, Cali, and there's not many of us about.

As the old Scottish toast has it, "Here's tae us, wha's like us? Damn few, and they're a' deid!"

The toast reminds me of a saying of my late grandfather (Yorkshire): "They're all mad save thee and me; and I'm not so sure about thee...."

[Anna]

The toast reminds me of a saying of my late grandfather (Yorkshire): "They're all mad save thee and me; and I'm not so sure about thee...."

Oh, my ears and whiskers ......... I am late, late, for a very important date ... Where is the nearest rabbit hole? unto whiich I may disappear into with Alice?

[teamsaint]

Plenty of yorkshire stock in my famiily.........and as we say
" You can always tell a Yorkshireman, but you can't tell him much !!".


Weather has been kind up here in the lakes this week, rain mostly held off though its raining steadily now. Forecast ok for tomorrow.

[eighthobstruction]

Ah good teamsaint....I'm off tomorrow for another stint in Anglesey (this time in a caravan with mod cons on Farm)

[Nick Armstrong]

Oh, my ears and whiskers ......... I am late, late, for a very important date ... Where is the nearest rabbit hole? unto whiich I may disappear into with Alice?

I suddenly wondered - is that saying Lewis Carroll...? But no. Its origins have been the subject of online conjecture (the Yorkshire element seems familiar):

http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question41645.html

[teamsaint]

Have a grerat time 8O.

I am posting from a Blackberry so excuse all my bads !!