Frighfully Awful or Rather Splendid

[MichaelW2]

When was the last time something frightfully awful happened to you, or even something rather splendid.

 

[derrick]

I wake up in the mornings, That's rather splendid, it would be frightfully awful if i did not wake up.

 

[MichaelO]

Reminds me of the article in this morning's Times highlighting the drop in the use of "British English"/adverbs.

 

[Fnaar]

Miss Goodbody's "Fantasy Weekend"will stay with me forever. But i'll never look at aubergines in quite the same way again

 

[petek]

MrsP and I received frightfully splendid news just this afternoon.
Consultant confirmed that MrsP does NOT have temporal arteritis.

 

[gbb]

Barring family loss..my last frightfully awful thing to happen was catching TB.
The last rather splendid thing....was just being told I've got £100 free credit from Bulb for switching to them as energy supplier.

 

[Fnaar]

Frightfully good one this; as a sideline to my dayjob, I've moved into editing. Did a book last year for a pal (who self-published) but have now picked up editing a book for one of my fave musicians! He's not famous himself, but he's worked with some very famous peeps.

 

[sheddy]

Fnarr - would this editing involve the addition OR the subtraction of smut ?

 

[accountantpete]

My Dad came out of hospital to find the health support from District Nurse and Macmillan nurses in the community already alerted to his case - so what I thought would be a frightfully awful couple of days phoning round was a rather splendid two calls in 5 minutes.

 

[Fnaar]

Fnarr - would this editing involve the addition OR the subtraction of smut ?

Neither, sadly, although I reckon I might be good at that too

 

[TVC]

Other than losing close relatives, which is inevitable for everyone, I can't say that anything frightfully awful has ever happened to me. As for rather splendid, well my wife ticks that box very well.

 

[jefmcg]

I always rang my parents regularly, so they wouldn't ring me unless there was news. And what news would people in their 70s have? I always dreaded the answering machine message "please call". I'd return the call to find a much loved aunt was no longer with us. As my mum was the youngest of eight, these were reasonably frequent calls.

So I picked up the phone with dread after one of these please-call messages, and it turned out my dad won a gong! Equivalent of an MBE, I think, and totally unexpected to him and me.

 

[ColinJ]

MrsP and I received frightfully splendid news just this afternoon.
Consultant confirmed that MrsP does NOT have temporal arteritis.

That really is frightfully splendid news!

I hadn't heard of temporal arteritis until last week when I came back from a bike ride and noticed some discomfort where the headband of my cycling helmet met my left temple. I looked in the mirror and saw that an artery had popped up. (I would have called it a vein but the information I found said that if it had a pulse, it was an artery; it did have one.) Googling suggested temporal arteritis as one possible explanation. Further reading led me to consider it 'scary stuff'! The problem seems to have gone away so I reckon the more likely explanation was what I suspected - that I had banged my head when half asleep. There are a couple of places in my house designed for the heights that most people were 100+ years ago. People less than 5' 9" tall wouldn't bang their heads going down my stairs, but others 6'-plus like me often do. I have now cut up some foam pipe lagging and covered the offending floor-supporting beam where my head contacts it.

It is a while since I had good news but winning £2,000 in a competition was rather splendid news a few years back!

 

[Bazzer]

Yup, this morning.
Mrs B's car hit by a van and (later in the day), confirmed as written off . Given the time of day and driver, we suspect, alcohol in the blood stream or on his mobile. Mrs B fortunately not in the car at the time.
Her insurance company, numerous 'phone calls later and still . His had a car hire company at our door 7 hours after the incident, which was splendid news.

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Splendid was my 2 weeks holiday to japan a few weeks ago

Absolutely fantastic people and country