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Tidgy's Dad

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Ever tried salt in coffee? :eek: A Turkish bride-to-be makes one for her groom-to-be in a special ceremony, and he has to drink it up, I suppose to prove to the father that he will be able to stomach the girl. :eek:
Bleeeeeeuuuuccccchhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think I would deliberately vomit on the father of the bride. ;)
 

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Good morning all! Almost thanksgiving break over here!! I’m still a busy bee :(
Hope all is well & whats this about it being Gillian’s birthday?! I guess i popped in on a good day :)
Happy birthday Gillian !!
Thank you very much.:<3: :)

A nice surprise to see you at CDR on my birthday. :D
 

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The story of the sabertooth, the beetroots and the stingy nettles :



Once upon a time, a very long time ago there lived a vegetarien saber tooth. He loved all the small and big grass eating animals around him and he don`t want to eat them. His favorite food was beetroot.....................

......Which he ate so much of that his hide turned purple. The herbivores grazed and frolicked all around him, and knew he would do them no harm. But the poor beetroot were terrified of his ginormous gnashers. so they got together and devised a plan............................

........They decided to roll around in stinging nettles, since they were immune to them, hoping that old sabre tooth would soon realize beet root is not to be trifled with. . . .

.....But they wanted to make sure the stinging nettles would go along with this plan, so they needed to send a messenger. Since beetroots live in the ground, they asked if any of the butterflies would bring their request to the stinging nettles. "I'll go!" said the Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly. "Great," said the beetroots. "We'd be very grateful if they'd help us out!" The Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly knew where the stinging nettles grew because when the butterfly was a tiny larva, it loved to eat stinging nettle...


...As an astute reader might have guessed, the Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly had a cunning plan of her own. (In fact, it was as cunning as a fox who's just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University.) While posing as a messenger from the Beetroots, she would deposit her precious tiny eggs all over the Stinging Nettles so that her larvae, when they emerge, could enjoy the same feast she once had. With that plan in mind, she headed straight to the Mother Stinging Nettle and her offspring. Unfortunately, two arrogant young butterflies, the girlfriends of butterfly superstars named Peacock and Red Admiral, had had a similar idea only two days ago and, to Mother Nettle’s horror, vandalized three of her more tender offspring. The Mother Stinging Nettle hadn’t seen it coming then, but now she was prepared. She asked the dandelion to send a messenger to the Formidable Mr. Wasp...

Now Mr Wasp was something of a hipster trendsetter. His gaudy striped clothing was designed to attract as much attention as possible and, naturally, he believed that organic was the only way to live. While the dandelion and stinging nettle fitted his ethos, could he be convinced that the Beetroot was worthy of his assistance...

So far so good :D But what did Mr. Wasp wants to do ?????
 

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Good evening all. I have had a lovely day in Brighton today.

Brighton is an .... ummmm ... eccentric, queer (both in old and modern senses of the word), brash, mad small city on the south coast (the sea is the English Channel and France is the other side)

It has the only Royal Palace not still owned by the Royal Estate ... Brighton Pavillion ... which shows that Brighton has been just the same for over 200 years. It was a farmhouse originally, but George IV embellished it ... and then embellished the embellishments.
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No pictures of the interiors sadly as you’re not allowed to take them, but they are totally over the top. Queen Victoria hated it and sold it to Brighton Council.
 

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Doing anything nice today, Gillian?
It is warmer here and we have no rain, but that's a problem.
Much of the country is now suffering from a drought.
Please send a donkey with some rain to us. :D
Me, me me ...;). I will send you ten donkeys. We have enough rain for whole Morocco !:D
 

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Good evening all. I have had a lovely day in Brighton today.

Brighton is an .... ummmm ... eccentric, queer (both in old and modern senses of the word), brash, mad small city on the south coast (the sea is the English Channel and France is the other side)

It has the only Royal Palace not still owned by the Royal Estate ... Brighton Pavillion ... which shows that Brighton has been just the same for over 200 years. It was a farmhouse originally, but George IV embellished it ... and then embellished the embellishments.
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No pictures of the interiors sadly as you’re not allowed to take them, but they are totally over the top. Queen Victoria hated it and sold it to Brighton Council.
Good evening Linda.
 

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Then we went up the i360 which is basically a donut shaped elevator that goes up a tall pole. It’s built on the pier head of the West Pier that burned down in 2003.

The views were good, but reflections made photography difficult
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Looking west towards Hove
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Looking East towards the East Pier with the South Downs and the white cliffs at Beachy Head in the distance
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The story of the sabertooth, the beetroots and the stingy nettles :


Once upon a time, a very long time ago there lived a vegetarien saber tooth. He loved all the small and big grass eating animals around him and he don`t want to eat them. His favorite food was beetroot.....................

......Which he ate so much of that his hide turned purple. The herbivores grazed and frolicked all around him, and knew he would do them no harm. But the poor beetroot were terrified of his ginormous gnashers. so they got together and devised a plan............................

........They decided to roll around in stinging nettles, since they were immune to them, hoping that old sabre tooth would soon realize beet root is not to be trifled with. . . .

.....But they wanted to make sure the stinging nettles would go along with this plan, so they needed to send a messenger. Since beetroots live in the ground, they asked if any of the butterflies would bring their request to the stinging nettles. "I'll go!" said the Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly. "Great," said the beetroots. "We'd be very grateful if they'd help us out!" The Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly knew where the stinging nettles grew because when the butterfly was a tiny larva, it loved to eat stinging nettle...


...As an astute reader might have guessed, the Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly had a cunning plan of her own. (In fact, it was as cunning as a fox who's just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University.) While posing as a messenger from the Beetroots, she would deposit her precious tiny eggs all over the Stinging Nettles so that her larvae, when they emerge, could enjoy the same feast she once had. With that plan in mind, she headed straight to the Mother Stinging Nettle and her offspring. Unfortunately, two arrogant young butterflies, the girlfriends of butterfly superstars named Peacock and Red Admiral, had had a similar idea only two days ago and, to Mother Nettle’s horror, vandalized three of her more tender offspring. The Mother Stinging Nettle hadn’t seen it coming then, but now she was prepared. She asked the dandelion to send a messenger to the Formidable Mr. Wasp...

Now Mr Wasp was something of a hipster trendsetter. His gaudy striped clothing was designed to attract as much attention as possible and, naturally, he believed that organic was the only way to live. While the dandelion and stinging nettle fitted his ethos, could he be convinced that the Beetroot was worthy of his assistance...

So far so good :D But what did Mr. Wasp wants to do ?????
Good evening, Sabine. :)
It may be your turn again................
 

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Good evening all. I have had a lovely day in Brighton today.

Brighton is an .... ummmm ... eccentric, queer (both in old and modern senses of the word), brash, mad small city on the south coast (the sea is the English Channel and France is the other side)

It has the only Royal Palace not still owned by the Royal Estate ... Brighton Pavillion ... which shows that Brighton has been just the same for over 200 years. It was a farmhouse originally, but George IV embellished it ... and then embellished the embellishments.
View attachment 223514
No pictures of the interiors sadly as you’re not allowed to take them, but they are totally over the top. Queen Victoria hated it and sold it to Brighton Council.
Good evening, Linda. :)
Very glad to hear you had a better day today.
It's an odd place, but quite interesting.
 

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