Tea? (Part 1)

[Landslide]

Oh dear Mr tdr1nka! Wrap up warm, then put on a couple of extra jumpers, a hat and scarf, and curl up under the duvet. Sweat it out.
Plenty of fluids - at this point I normally recommend whisky, but I know you'll not take me up on that particular bit of advice.
Get well soon!!!

 

[tdr1nka]

oooh, ta!

Yes, that's the noise. That and the slightly sticky finger feeling you can't get rid of if you're handling the tape (which you need to, sometimes)...

I know that sound well, in the days of the first remote controlled TV's a friend and I found out that we could change the channel on his family's TV by making the very same noise with a roll of cellotape.

We found it worked on his neighbours TV as well and would sneak out into the garden, change the channel with the cellotape and sneak back in again.
Oh how we laughed at the shouts of consternation and puzzlement from next door!

Thank you Landers, I'm tucked up in bed with vit c & cavonia(which does contain alcahol so this might be fun?). In the day I would have had a bottle of whiskey too.

 

[Landslide]

A whole bottle? That's kill or cure!

 

[Arch]

I know that sound well, in the days of the first remote controlled TV's a friend and I found out that we could change the channel on his family's TV by making the very same noise with a roll of cellotape.

ONe of my favourite entries in Douglas Adams' and John Lloyd's book, the Meaning of Liff (place names given to concepts for which there is no word) is "Ardslighnie" (not sure of spelling), which is "the behaviour of cellotape when one is tired". Spot on!

I've recently thought of a concept that needs a name too - that frozen moment of time when a person towing a little suitcase on wheels has to stop, push down the towing handle and pick it up by the other handle to get it on a train or something. Could also apply to Bromptons. In fact, Brompton being a place, perhaps that should be the word.

 

[tdr1nka]

How does that work then?

'I Bromton'd my suitcase.'?

 

[TheDoctor]

Can't see that expression catching on somehow...
TheDoctor has run foul of the flow of time. I just got in from a bike ride, opened up the bread bag to prepare toasty goodness, only to discover my bread has gone all fluffy. And not in a good way.

 

[tdr1nka]

The green, blue bread of home?

 

[TheDoctor]

Something like that. I'll have to slum it with cheese and oatcakes.
And beer.

"Dirty mould town, dirty mould town..."
[/singing]

 

[Night Train]

I'm having tea and hotdogs.

tdr1nka, you should have driven to the school before sharing your bugs around.

 

[tdr1nka]

I'm having tea and hotdogs.

tdr1nka, you should have driven to the school before sharing your bugs around.

I might have done if I had a driving licence.

 

[Landslide]

Morning all!

Following yesterday's hotel-centric Tea? fiasco, I decided not to risk it this morning, and plumped for thedrinkthatmustnotbenamed.

Useless feckers can't do a decent pot of that either.

 

[Landslide]

Mmmmm...

Cream Tea? anyone? Someone I don't know has stopped working in our office, and has done the very civilised thing of bringing in scones, clotted cream and jam by way of saying goodbye!

 

[cookiemonster]

Can you keep a few until I come back, about 3 ish. I don't want to eat anything just now as I'm playing football in half an hour.

Vomiting over the pitch is so not me.

 

[tdr1nka]

Mmmmm...

Cream Tea? anyone? Someone I don't know has stopped working in our office, and has done the very civilised thing of bringing in scones, clotted cream and jam by way of saying goodbye!

Tell them they should leave more often!

 

[TheDoctor]

Afternoons!
Any cream tea left, or is it all scone?