Tea? (Part 1)

[Night Train]

What on earth else are you going to call a budgie?

Any Tea? on the go?

When I was a kid we had two budgies called Peter and Dora.

 

[Landslide]

*Puts fingers in ear and shuts eyes tightly*

LA-LA-LA-LA-LA, NOT LISTENING, LA-LA-LA-LA-LA...

 

[Arch]

Afternoon all... Just dropping in quickly before going off to drink gin with a friend. What a social whirl eh? I fully expect, by the end of the night, to look like something out of a Hogarth print. If it doesn't turn out that way, I may simply go home and gorge myself on pasta and cheese.

Is it me, or has it turned right cold out?

 

[tdr1nka]

Flippin freezin in the smoke today!
Tea please.

 

[wafflycat]

It's cold alright! Extra straw in the hen house for The Laydeez to nestle down into overnight. I've thawed out from three hours of standing out in the cold, wet & wind this morning. Just having a cuppa before getting ready to do a spot more chauffeuring duty.

 

[tdr1nka]

If I had a budgie I'd call it 'Chainsaw'.

 

[Speicher]

Is that if you succeed in getting a budgie?
Or is it the budgie that succeeds?

Btw Arch, if you pop in tomorrow morning, please tell me, if it is raining frogs, do they fall bum first or head first.

Yes I do need to know this, really. We have a display at the Pump House, something to do with raining frogs, and we would like it to be authentic looking.

* it finally dawns on me, that yes I do occupy a parallel Universe. The most difficult question I face tomorrow is which way do frogs rain? *
exits quietly

 

[Night Train]

Frogs generally tumble in a chaotic fashion. This is dispite their aerodynamic body shape and due to their little webbed feet sending them into a flat spin that they can never recover from without top gun training.

 

[wafflycat]

Morning all. The usual done. Off to shake the tin for a couple of hours and then more chauffeur duties... many miles today.

 

[Arch]

Frogs generally tumble in a chaotic fashion. This is dispite their aerodynamic body shape and due to their little webbed feet sending them into a flat spin that they can never recover from without top gun training.

I think you're right. I would imagine chaotic tumbling would be about right, assuming it's a case of frogs whipped up by some tornado or something and deposited elsewhere. Although I think you could allow artistic licence to dictate the display. All the frogs raining in one direction (head first I'd say) would give an impression of really hard rain, chucking it down, whereas tumbling frogs might look more like a blizzard and less purposeful. Depending on your frogs (cut outs stuck on paper? models hung from string?) they might be easier to arrange in a jumbled fashion too...

NT, I think you'll find a frog is hydro-dynamic, not aero...

Although, there are those tree frogs in the Amazon that glide out of trees, I think they do literally glide down onto their bellies...

 

[Speicher]

The person who started the display put all the frogs falling bum first. However, to be dynamically correct, we could untie the strings and put the frogs the other way up. There are about six strings with 20 frogs on each.

They are very small frogs, stencil cut two frogs, and stick them together with the string in between. I did interogate my Line Manager last Friday, as to whether a risk assessment had been done on this activity.

She did explain why the raining frogs display was required, but I think I leapt to the wrong conclusion.

 

[Arch]

They are very small frogs, stencil cut two frogs, and stick them together with the string in between. I did interogate my Line Manager last Friday, as to whether a risk assessment had been done on this activity.

I hope so. If not:

Risk: Paper cuts. Threat: Moderate. Action: Wear gauntlets.

Risk: Strangulation with string. Threat: Low. Action. Don't mess about with the string.

Risk: Glue Inhalation. Threat: Moderate. Action: Work in well ventilated room.

Risk: Glue poisoning. Threat: Low. Action: Don't lick frogs when glued.

Risk: Time wasted wondering which way to hang frogs. Threat: High. Action:Take less pride in your work...

 

[Speicher]

I hope so. If not:

Risk: Paper cuts. Threat: Moderate. Action: Wear gauntlets.

Risk: Strangulation with string. Threat: Low. Action. Don't mess about with the string.

Risk: Glue Inhalation. Threat: Moderate. Action: Work in well ventilated room.

Risk: Glue poisoning. Threat: Low. Action: Don't lick frogs when glued.

Risk: Time wasted wondering which way to hang frogs. Threat: High. Action:Take less pride in your work...

My mistake, it was cotton thread, not string. The frogs could have been decapitated but not me.

Glue? Glue? wot,
we used prittysticky stuff, otherwise the risk would be me getting glue everywhere but where needed.

Take less pride in our work,

What are you suggesting

our work is saving the planet, doing very artistically things with scrap stuff like foam, and ribbon and pink chiffon, and allsorts, well not liquorice allsorts, but you get my drift.

 

[Arch]

Ah, thread can still make a nasty garotte...

Prittstick is glue, it's just rubbish glue....

Your work sounds like fun..... One of the daft societies I joined as a fresher had a Blue Peter night one night, and we built a huge futuristic cityscape out of toilet roll tubes and egg boxes and the like....

 

[Arch]

Oh, and having heard about it on the Today programme, er, today, I'm going to try using my teabags twice. I'll report back....