Baggy
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Chuffy broke my Dutch Miffy (Nijntje) mug on Saturday 
Tea? (Part 2)
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Arch
Married to Night Train
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- Salford, UK
Chuffy broke my Dutch Miffy (Nijntje) mug on Saturday
I'm sure he's very sorry.I saw a lovely Miffy t-shirt at Schipol airport, Miffy on a bicycle. Alas, it was only in child sizes, and even if I'd been thin, it would have been an indecently tight, if not impossible, fit.
Mind you, Miffy always make me feel slightly sad - it's her little expressionless, but somehow sad, mouth.
Baggy
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He is filled with remorse, and will hopefully hunt down a replacement...
I saw a lovely Miffy t-shirt at Schipol airport, Miffy on a bicycle. Alas, it was only in child sizes, and even if I'd been thin, it would have been an indecently tight, if not impossible, fit.
Mind you, Miffy always make me feel slightly sad - it's her little expressionless, but somehow sad, mouth.
I have a print of the Miffy on a bicycle which is awaiting a frame. Know what you mean about her making you feel slightly sad, but the stories are always lovely and I'm sure she's happy really.
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Married to Night Train
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Yes, I'm sure she is. I got a book in Oxfam for Oli and Max, tell the time with Miffy - each page had her doing a different thing through the day, and there was a clock in the top corner, with hands you can put to the right time. Oli's interpretations of the hours was... different. But he is only 3.
Baggy
Cake connoisseur
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The cat broke one of my oldest mugs earlier in the year - it's been a bad year for china at our house. Bought it in 1994, and don't think I'll ever find a replacement:
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Married to Night Train
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- Salford, UK
The cat broke one of my oldest mugs earlier in the year - it's been a bad year for china at our house. Bought it in 1994, and don't think I'll ever find a replacement:
Thank god for that! It's... hideous. Those disembodied fingers...
Baggy
Cake connoisseur
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They were one of my favourite aspects of that mug. He was known as Big John...God rest his soul!
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Did he stand six foot six and weigh two forty-five?
At the bottom of the bin lies a big, big mug...
At the bottom of the bin lies a big, big mug...
tdr1nka
Taking the biscuit
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- SE London, Bandit Country
*Hoiks Tea back onto page one*
Bless his little chops!
Where's his bike then?
Gotta say the bruise is developing beautifully now and growing darker by the day.
Vertical lines have also appeared so I might be able to play a game of naughts and crosses on it soon.
TEA in the offing for any takers.....
Bless his little chops!
Where's his bike then?
Gotta say the bruise is developing beautifully now and growing darker by the day.
Vertical lines have also appeared so I might be able to play a game of naughts and crosses on it soon.
TEA in the offing for any takers.....
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- The TerrorVortex
That's s truly delightful thought, Trinka.
I can just imagine explaining precisely what I was doing with a large marker pen in close proximity to your unclad derriere...
My reputation (such as it is) would never recover.
Nor would my fragile little mind.
I can just imagine explaining precisely what I was doing with a large marker pen in close proximity to your unclad derriere...
My reputation (such as it is) would never recover.
Nor would my fragile little mind.
Arch
Married to Night Train
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- Salford, UK
Lovely pics Ian! I like the second one best.
We spent the afternoon at work 'inventing'. It's a constant process of building stuff to make the job easier, and previous triumphs have included the recycled-trike-wheel-rim-and-bungy-binbag-holder, and the balletically-descending-folding-can-bag, along with the 'dones', or wooden crossbars, that we use to hang our bags from in the electric truck (the name comes from the fact that the one that fits at the cab end has 'Cab End One' written on it, and we realised that if you pronounced it cabendon-e, it sounded like a pasta dish, so that is the cabendon-e, and all the rest are just don-es.)
Anyway, today we finished the recycled-recycling-box-trike-panniers: Two ends cut off broken recycling boxes, cut and shut to make a micro box. The two ends fitted together in the most satisfying way, but to top it all, when we bolted hinged lids (made from more cut up box) on, we found that they even clipped down, due to the curves on the edges. Add some metal hooks, and they'll hang on the side of the trikes to hold cargo nets, spare recycling bags for customers who need them, leaflets, pens and other odds and ends.
All these is acheived with an almost religious adherance to using inadequate tools, and the oddest assortment of nuts and bolts, and is tremendously satisfying.
Rounded off with a celebratory shared can of Morrisons basic lager (2% ABV, and about 0.1% flavour), one of a discarded three found unopened in a box this afternoon. We're saving the others for the Last Tang Hall Collection celebration.
Life doesn't get much better, eh?
We spent the afternoon at work 'inventing'. It's a constant process of building stuff to make the job easier, and previous triumphs have included the recycled-trike-wheel-rim-and-bungy-binbag-holder, and the balletically-descending-folding-can-bag, along with the 'dones', or wooden crossbars, that we use to hang our bags from in the electric truck (the name comes from the fact that the one that fits at the cab end has 'Cab End One' written on it, and we realised that if you pronounced it cabendon-e, it sounded like a pasta dish, so that is the cabendon-e, and all the rest are just don-es.)
Anyway, today we finished the recycled-recycling-box-trike-panniers: Two ends cut off broken recycling boxes, cut and shut to make a micro box. The two ends fitted together in the most satisfying way, but to top it all, when we bolted hinged lids (made from more cut up box) on, we found that they even clipped down, due to the curves on the edges. Add some metal hooks, and they'll hang on the side of the trikes to hold cargo nets, spare recycling bags for customers who need them, leaflets, pens and other odds and ends.
All these is acheived with an almost religious adherance to using inadequate tools, and the oddest assortment of nuts and bolts, and is tremendously satisfying.
Rounded off with a celebratory shared can of Morrisons basic lager (2% ABV, and about 0.1% flavour), one of a discarded three found unopened in a box this afternoon. We're saving the others for the Last Tang Hall Collection celebration.
Life doesn't get much better, eh?
tdr1nka
Taking the biscuit
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- SE London, Bandit Country
Hurrah for inventing!
*raises tea in salute*
*raises tea in salute*
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- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
Thank you Ian, for excellent photos. I prefer the second one, only because he has got his lovely blue eyes focussed on the camera.
Today I have been mostly a Librarian at the Resource Centre. Catalogued the 500th book today.
Only about one hundred more to do. Then make sure the number of books on the list matches the number of books on the shelf, and then put all the books into their respective (major) category. They are currently mostly in alphabetical order. Should be finished by the end of the year.
I had to find some books for someone on the subject of making Christmas decorations. By the time the shelves were tidied up (people will insist on taking books off the shelves and leaving them on the table - whatever next?
)and the Books About Christmas were displayed properly, it was looking something approaching a small and organised library instead of just lots of books on four large bookcases. 
Today I have been mostly a Librarian at the Resource Centre. Catalogued the 500th book today.
Only about one hundred more to do. Then make sure the number of books on the list matches the number of books on the shelf, and then put all the books into their respective (major) category. They are currently mostly in alphabetical order. Should be finished by the end of the year.I had to find some books for someone on the subject of making Christmas decorations. By the time the shelves were tidied up (people will insist on taking books off the shelves and leaving them on the table - whatever next?
)and the Books About Christmas were displayed properly, it was looking something approaching a small and organised library instead of just lots of books on four large bookcases.
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- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
One of the books had details of how to make bags from various material. One was from that pretend grass stuff (?). Which we just happen to have in the Resource Centre. Next step is to make artificial flowers to attached to said astro-turf bag. My colleague is a very keen gardener, so she thought this was an excellent idea.
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