COLD DARK ROOM

[Gillian M]

Bleuch!

I needed that!

 

[Gillian M]

I'm off out.
Chat later, Gillian!
Don't eat all the cheese!

Talk later, Adam.

I MIGHT.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

CAMPERS ! ! !
Recreate the joys of camping by turning your oven on full heat then lying on the kitchen floor on lots of stones while inside a bin liner and filling your living room with dog poop.

 

[Gillian M]

Adam, I thought you'd left, which made me think I'd have ALL the cheese before anyone pops in.

Bad luck this time.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Adam, I thought you'd left, which made me think I'd have ALL the cheese before anyone pops in.

Bad luck this time.

I have left.
These posts are just your imagination.

 

[Gillian M]

I have left.
These posts are just your imagination.

In that case I AM going to eat the cheese so buy some while you're out.

 

[Gillian M]

@Tidgy's Dad @Bee62 and the everyone else at CDR I have eaten ALL the cheese which really was YUMMY. You people do not know what you missed.

Here's some - or rather A LOT for each and every one of you! ​

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

@Tidgy's Dad @Bee62 and the everyone else at CDR I have eaten ALL the cheese which really was YUMMY. You people do not know what you missed.

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Here's some - or rather A LOT for each and every one of you! ​

Yuuuuuuuuuummmmmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Gillian M]

It's now my turn to go and eat. Am getting hungry. And I might eat CHEESE - seriously @Tidgy's Dad

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

It's now my turn to go and eat. Am getting hungry. And I might eat CHEESE - seriously @Tidgy's Dad

Enjoy.
Or better still post it to me.

 

[JSWallace]

Hope you like the cheese I sent you @Tidgy's Dad ? Hope your answer is YES.

How about sharing it with @Bee62 and me? We're the only ones around now, besides you.

I'm here and I love cheese!!

 

[Gillian M]

Enjoy.
Or better still post it to me.

Hi. Thanks I will enjoy it and I will send yiu some. Talk to you later.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I'm here and I love cheese!!

Help yourself to whatever Gillian hasn't scoffed.
Good afternoon, Jane.

 

[Gillian M]

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Hi everyone at CDR.

Am back after I ate....CHEESE, @Tidgy's Dad , @Bee62 @JSWallace. It was so YUMMY! Here's you share everyone at CDR.

Enjoy it!!

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[Gillian M]

Mrs wifey had a part-time job. She worked from noon until five o'clock every weekday afternoon in a shop that sold newspapers, sweets and cheese. That made things a lot easier for Mr Adam.
So on that first exciting afternoon, after he had made sure that Mrs wifey had gone to work, Mr Adam went out onto his balcony armed with his long metal pole. He called this his tortoise-catcher. He leaned over the balcony plants and lowered the pole down on to Mrs wifey's balcony below.



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Alfie had been eating lettuce.


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But had now moved over to the tomato and was basking in the pale sunlight over to one side.
"Hello, Alfie," Mr Adam said. "You are about to go for a little ride."
He wiggled the tortoise-catcher till it was right above Alfie. He pushed the hand-lever so that the claws opened wide.


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Then he lowered the two claws neatly over Alfie's shell and pulled the lever.


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Isn't he cute. Mr. Adam of course, NOT Alfie.

 

[JSWallace]

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Hi everyone at CDR.

Am back after I ate....CHEESE, @Tidgy's Dad , @Bee62 @JSWallace. It was so YUMMY! Here's you share everyone at CDR.

Enjoy it!!

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Thanks Gillian, any biscuits to go with it? And maybe a bit of pickle?

 

[Gillian M]

Author's Note

Some years ago, when I was a little child, we had two tortoises that we kept in the garden. in those days, a pet tortoise or two was a common sight crawling across the family lawn or back yard. You could buy them quite cheaply in any pet-shop and they were probably the least troublesome of all childhood pets because they were left pretty much to their own devices , and were quite harmless.
Tortoises use to be brought into the UK by the thousand, packed in crates, and they came mostly from North Africa, Morocco in particular. But a good few years ago, a law was passed that made it illegal to bring any of these tortoises into the country. This was not done to protect us. The little tortoise was not a danger to anybody. It was done purely out of kindness to the tortoise itself. You see, the traders who brought them in used to cram thousands of them tightly into the packing-crates without food or water and in such horrible conditions that a great many of them always died on the sea-journey over (and the number of wild tortoises in some countries was being drastically reduced). So rather than allow this cruelty to go on, the Government stopped the whole business letting the Moroccans just sell them as toys in their own markets instead.
The things you are going to read about in this story all happened in the days when anyone could go out and buy a nice little tortoise from a pet shop.
Sort of..............

Terribly sorry to say that even here in Jordan people buy torts and consider them TOYS for their children. Very sad. Moreover, they put the poor tort in carton boxes.

 

[Gillian M]

Thanks Gillian, any biscuits to go with it? And maybe a bit of pickle?

You're most welcome.

Oh sure. Hope you liked the CHEESE.

 

[Gillian M]

Thanks Gillian, any biscuits to go with it? And maybe a bit of pickle?

Choose the ones you like. Please help yourself.

 

[Gillian M]

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