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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Roger Kettle on May 25, 2009, 08:03:39 PM
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Only ten days now till I disappear to Portugal for a week in the sun. It's at this stage I start ticking off the things I have to do before I go.
Look out chest wig.
Buy waterproof body paints so that I can paint on a six-pack.
Exchange a thousand pounds for eight Euros.
Take drawing pad and pen so that I can work throughout the holiday. (I lied about that one).
Check passport and laugh at photo.
Find books to read. (Malc, I've decided against taking "9/11--The New Evidence" on a plane).* in joke.
Wind up my 19 year-old son about how I'm going to thrash him at pool at the local Sports Bar.
That's about it.
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You could just get a bigger chest wig, the Robin Williams model, that covers your belly too - don't want to spend your whole holiday touching up your six pack.
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Excellent suggestion, Diane. No point in looking silly.
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How's the water over there? Drinkability-wise, I mean?
I used to live on Malta as a child, and I don't remember any problem with us kiddies and the water, yet when Mel and I honeymooned there, we were warned all the time about drinking local water.
We pretty much toed the line on that except one night when I had ice in my drink. I had food poisoning and a dose of the runny bum-bum afterwards.
Are things in Portugal more civilized?
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Much the same, Malc. It's not recommended for visitors to drink the water. However, it's no great hardship to stick some bottled water into the fridge next to the six-pack of beer.
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I can understand the need for bottled water in some areas sur le continong, but why are we selling millions of litres of the stuff in Britain, with crystal clear lakes sending bacteria-free water down the pipes for nothing?
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Gullibility, Malcolm.
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Gerald Scarfe, cartoonist and illustrator who directed animation for Walt Disney?s Hercules, will host this year?s annual Dundee Literary Festival in Dundee England. Festival runs June 25 to 28
Will you be attending this festival in England, Roger?
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Hmm. I would have gone to that but it's too far away.
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??? Yes, you may have had difficulty finding it too, me thinks. I vaguely remember Gerald Scarfe - the name rings a bell.
I'm sure you'll have a great time, Roger, with or without the chest wig (do these things actually exist?) and/or the six pack.
Next time you're in Sydney, give us a call and I'll take you on at pool.
My daughter and friend are very excited. We just booked their flights to LA and New York in July for a couple of weeks. Of course, I'll be worrying about them the whole time they're away, despite the fact that at their age I "did" Europe on a Eurorail pass, slept on trains and remember one very hairy evening in Frankfurt station where we decided just to get on the first train anywhere, it was so scary.
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There were chest wigs on sale for real in the 70s (maybe early 80s) because real men were deemed to have hairy mats on their chests, a la Burt Reynolds, and some deluded fools thought that without a hairy abdomen they were somehow less than adequate.
They were right of course, but it had nothing to do with their chests.
Myself, I never managed to cultivate a decent hairy chest as a youth, merely two unsightly hairy nipple rings.
I do, however, have a light and appealing cover of hair right across the chest now that it's out of fashion, and now that the chest has slipped to the mezzanine floor, as it were.
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Oooh, those images are somewhat hard to digest. :o I'm just going out to dinner with a friend, as well. I think my ideal would be somewhere in between - not too hairy, not too smooth (depending on the physique, of course). ;)
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Oooh, those images are somewhat hard to digest. :o I'm just going out to dinner with a friend, as well. I think my ideal would be somewhere in between - not too hairy, not too smooth (depending on the physique, of course). ;)
You want something between Fairly & Hairy, a bit like Mince.
Fairy
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;D I'm hoarse now. My friend and I hadn't seen each other for a while, so we didn't stop talking for about three hours. We laughed a lot, too.
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My dog Chip is hoarse too - he is love-sick and has been barking non-stop since Gemma went in heat. You can see him barking with his little front legs lifting off the ground but no sound.
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Talking about my dogs...if you were on Facebook Roger I would have sent you a Westigram - (I made up my own Facebook application in February where people can send photos of my dogs to their friends - over 11 thousand have used it and it has over 200 fans).
(http://albertawesties.com/Rozi_and_Raven_Bon_Voyage.jpg)
Bon Voyage!
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Which one's Malcolm, Diane?
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Incidentally, inspired by Diane, I've now started a Facebook group: "Paddling with Pilchards". If that's the kind of activity that particularly appeals, please join. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=89081276950
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(http://albertawesties.com/MalcolmBiker_op_343x433_op_181x228.jpg)
This is Malcolm
I looked into your paddling with pilchards group - but I really don't think I would fancy pilchards nibbling at my toes.
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Wow. So that is Malcolm. He looks a bit of a cutie really. I imagine he likes to have his tummy tickled.
Incidentally, I'm guessing you named him after one of the Malcolms on here, because of certain traits he's got.
Is he artistic or stupid?
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Is he artistic or stupid?
Is your name Malcolm as well?
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I will miss this sophisticated banter when I'm away.
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Is he artistic or stupid?
Is your name Malcolm as well?
Of course not. There's only you, and the artistic one.
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Wow. So that is Malcolm. He looks a bit of a cutie really. I imagine he likes to have his tummy tickled.
Incidentally, I'm guessing you named him after one of the Malcolms on here, because of certain traits he's got.
Is he artistic or stupid?
He's the one I had neutered.
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It's all right I wasn't using them anyway.
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It's Monday evening and I've just finished work. I will not pick up a pen until Friday next week. Well, apart from signing the bill at a beach restaurant in Sao Raphael, after a seafood platter, a glass of wine and a final Drambuie as the evening waves roll gently on to the sandy shore about twenty yards away. We sit outside on the balcony, of course, and watch the sun go down as the lights of the sardine boats flicker into life. You're also allowed to smoke out there.
I can't remember the last time I've had ten days off work, although I'm pretty sure that, somewhere on the flight or by the pool, an idea for Andy Capp, Beau or Horace will butt its way into my head. Don't care. The point is, I don't HAVE to think of anything. Bliss.
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Sounds wonderful. Hope you have a lovely holiday.
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as the lights of the sardine boats flicker into life
How kind to introduce an element to keep Mince interested.
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Roger put me into the Andy Capp cartoon today.
At last recognition.
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You're welcome, Peter. Send me ten pounds.
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the evening waves roll gently on to the sandy shore about twenty yards away. We sit outside on the balcony, of course, and watch the sun go down as the lights of the sardine boats flicker into life.
I just thought I'd let you know that here in Queensland it's always like that.
Have a great holiday, Roger! ;D
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It's sometimes like that in Sydney. At the moment it's chucking it down, miserable and cold.
Have a wonderful holiday, Roger! I'm very envious.
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Apparently the sunsets in Manila are stunning, and they make it a tourist attraction. I haven't noticed it yet, but I will look out in 3 weeks when I next fly over there. Got a really busy schedule planned and am looking forward to it. This heatwave in Scotland is preparing me! Who'd have thought it?
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I don't actually leave till Thursday but I've finished all my work so it feels like I'm already on holiday. What to do today? I might watch that DVD I got for Christmas---a play about The Black Watch which has had rave reviews. I'm going to lie on the couch now and think about it.
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That would be Tennessee Williams' play on the Black Watch. I love that scene in the sergeants mess:
Sgt McPhee: Whit dae ye want tae drink, sergeant McFadden?
Sgt McFadden: Stellaaaa! STELLAAAAAA!
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;D
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I have now spent 7 days and 14 hours on the BP website - that is like a holiday in of itself (plus travel time ;D ).
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I have now spent 7 days and 14 hours on the BP website - that is like a holiday in of itself (plus travel time ;D ).
I've now spent just over three weeks here and somehow feel that I've gotten away from it all...
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;D
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Have a great holiday Roger, you deserve it. My old man came back off holiday last week from just outside Albuferia and he was moaning it was too hot! Keep the Superbock intake up and you should be ok. If you want English provisions (and if you've got any sense you won't) try Tommy's shop.
If you want some very cheap (a couple of Euros a box) but very tasty red wine try 'Alandra' - I'm not sure how it's spelt, but that's how I pronouce it. There's a picture of a big bunch of grapes on the box (which is always a good sign, I suppose). Give my regards to Sao Raphael and have a brilliant time..
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Cheers, Rob. I know Tommy's well---it's not cheap but it's handy and it also has some nice Portugese Deli stuff. Right, that's it. I'm off to pack. See you all at the end of next week.
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Enjoy your holiday, Roger! :)