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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Diane CBPFC on February 04, 2009, 04:06:27 PM
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I wondered if we put our heads together if we could come up with some cool ideas for gifts or things to do on Valentine's Day?
I need something to make a 49 year old grumpy farmer into a sweet cherub.
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Well I've gone down the tried and tested route, so a dozen red roses should arrive (there was a problem last year, so I'm not holding my breath) at my fiancee's house on the 14th, and I have some perfume for her.
If it doesnt keep me in the good books for another year, at the very least it will keep me out the bad books for about 72 hours.
Do you think the fact that I consulted moneysavingexpert.com before buying anything detracts from the spirit of the giving....?
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I wondered if we put our heads together if we could come up with some cool ideas for gifts or things to do on Valentine's Day?
I need something to make a 49 year old grumpy farmer into a sweet cherub.
what you done wrong diane
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A case of beer will help
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Beer probably would help - but not him - he doesn't drink alcohol of any kind because of his religion.
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Well I've gone down the tried and tested route, so a dozen red roses should arrive (there was a problem last year, so I'm not holding my breath) at my fiancee's house on the 14th, and I have some perfume for her.
If it doesnt keep me in the good books for another year, at the very least it will keep me out the bad books for about 72 hours.
Do you think the fact that I consulted moneysavingexpert.com before buying anything detracts from the spirit of the giving....?
How did you know what perfume to buy? Did you ask?
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I'll be in Glasgow that night anyway, with Lucy, as it's the weekend of a holiday show we'll be attending. I've booked a hotel already. It wasn't the cheapest - they were all sold out, (probably because of the show), but it's a Premier Inn, which is good value and comfortable, so I should sleep well, and I've said I'll go halves on the cost.
I'm hoping she'll treat me to a meal, seeing as I did all the hotel booking arrangements. I won't hold my breath though...
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Also...and this is important
I need help with a good idea for a two-hour writing workshop I am doing on Feb 11 at the library. I came up with a snazzy title for the library bullitin "Love in Letters and Lines" - great title eh? But I have nothing to go with it! Any ideas - no matter how silly - will be better than what I have got now. Zilch.
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When is it this year?
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Get 'em to write limericks, Diane. Prizes for the tastefully rude, as well as for alliteration, punctuation, scanning and rhyme.
Maybe give them a first line.
Something like:
The wife of a vicar from Bude...
If you need any more ideas, just ask.
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Also...and this is important
I need help with a good idea for a two-hour writing workshop I am doing on Feb 11 at the library. I came up with a snazzy title for the library bullitin "Love in Letters and Lines" - great title eh? But I have nothing to go with it! Any ideas - no matter how silly - will be better than what I have got now. Zilch.
Diane, this is an adaptation of another idea, but you could get them to write the opening sentence of a romantic novel. It has to be so intriguing that you would want to read the rest of the book. It can also, of course, be funny, weird or downright rude.
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Or, you could get them to write about the language of love, using as many foreign words for love they can think of. In limerick form.
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When is it this year?
June the eighth.
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Good ideas! well some of them anyway ;D
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Roger's idea is good. Get them to write the opening line on the first day. They'll think, "This is easy", and be well settled.
Next day, become "bad cop", and make 'em write the rest of the book!
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The whole thing is only two hours. I try to do things at the library on Wednesday evenings because I have to hang around town with my daughter (from skating) while my son is in karate until 9:00PM. Tonight she and I went to the free community showing of Open Season 2 - what a cute little purple porcupine that was.
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Get the class to write a love letter that Shrek might write to The Creature From The Black Lagoon's sister, the object being to get as many humorous points across with the straightest face possible, i.e. "When I saw you today, your tooth glinting in the moonlight, my stomach convulsed, my sphincter spasmed and let loose the softest, most silent, most deadly bottom burp, in your direction. I instinctively knew, as your nostrils twitched, that you had smelt it. I would dearly love to see that beautiful, monstrous lip curl again. Do I hope in vain?"
Something like that
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That was beautiful Sigh.
Are you a writer Malc?
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That was beautiful Sigh.
Are you a writer Malc?
Petal - Malc's writing is so good... they get him to draw the pictures.
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(http://moodloomaam.homestead.com/Valentine_writing_group_meeting_2__op_553x415.jpg)
We started off with Malc's idea which was a lot of fun and giggles. One pair of people acted out the love letter - one down on one knee and the other up on a chair scratching her butt and swinging her arms.
(http://moodloomaam.homestead.com/Valentine_writing_group_meeting_op_370x492.jpg)
Then we had the sugar cookies I made.
Then we did Roger's idea of writing the start of a romantic novel, however people had a hard time adjusting from the Swamp Love story.
I had bought some romance fridge magnet sets a while back on the cheap to have on hand for a Valentine tea party; I gave a set of them to everyone for the third part - that was cool until it got a bit pornographic - I guess we shouldn't have invited the vicar's wife.
A fun time was had by all - there were seven of us tonight. The group is usually 6 to 9 people. My friend is doing the one in March it is called: Seuss: A Rx for Happiness she wanted to know about my British Cartoonists when she found out where I got the ideas - but I told her that you were mine and I wasn't sharing.
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Awww...bless.