Still, I do get nervous around eagles...
Maybe they're all doing their laundry or planting lettuce, like me.
I hope XT isn't laid up with her injury.
The staff room always smells like socks when she's away.
I'm peeling onions.
Sorting out daughters new Lenovo Z500 laptop with Windows 8. ???
Holly moses, why ever did they release that OS.
Took me a few hours how to find the add/remove programs . Daughter took about 3 mins on a skype call with her friends :o. Kids of today.
After a while W8 does grow on you when you realise Everythings on show, you just need to remember where / how to show it.
....
I'm glad you had an agreeable vacation, smokes.
No, it really isn't.
Oh - you didn't mean me, I see.
::) be like me have shares in specsavers ;D ;D
They are designed to be broken...
I have snapped an arm off all but one pairs I have had.
The world is a safer place with me ensconced in my room, reading & writing.
slumber parties fun for kids not for parents.
daughter has stated to go into town with her friends to shop a little :(
scares me to death
I may have to start posting on "D" to get my jollies.
The Jumblies
BY EDWARD LEAR
I
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter’s morn, on a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to sea!
And when the Sieve turned round and round,
And every one cried, ‘You’ll all be drowned!’
They called aloud, ‘Our Sieve ain’t big,
But we don’t care a button! we don’t care a fig!
In a Sieve we’ll go to sea!’
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.
II
They sailed away in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they sailed so fast,
With only a beautiful pea-green veil
Tied with a riband by way of a sail,
To a small tobacco-pipe mast;
And every one said, who saw them go,
‘O won’t they be soon upset, you know!
For the sky is dark, and the voyage is long,
And happen what may, it’s extremely wrong
In a Sieve to sail so fast!’
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.
III
The water it soon came in, it did,
The water it soon came in;
So to keep them dry, they wrapped their feet
In a pinky paper all folded neat,
And they fastened it down with a pin.
And they passed the night in a crockery-jar,
And each of them said, ‘How wise we are!
Though the sky be dark, and the voyage be long,
Yet we never can think we were rash or wrong,
While round in our Sieve we spin!’
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.
IV
And all night long they sailed away;
And when the sun went down,
They whistled and warbled a moony song
To the echoing sound of a coppery gong,
In the shade of the mountains brown.
‘O Timballo! How happy we are,
When we live in a sieve and a crockery-jar,
And all night long in the moonlight pale,
We sail away with a pea-green sail,
In the shade of the mountains brown!’
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.
V
They sailed to the Western Sea, they did,
To a land all covered with trees,
And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart,
And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart,
And a hive of silvery Bees.
And they bought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws,
And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws,
And forty bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree,
And no end of Stilton Cheese.
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.
VI
And in twenty years they all came back,
In twenty years or more,
And every one said, ‘How tall they’ve grown!’
For they’ve been to the Lakes, and the Torrible Zone,
And the hills of the Chankly Bore;
And they drank their health, and gave them a feast
Of dumplings made of beautiful yeast;
And everyone said, ‘If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,—
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!’
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.
I've hardly seen mish this year. I hope she's okay.
Life does have a habit of taking over from time to time.Understatement of the decade.
Understatement of the decade.
Nothing official really but the 4th was the Sunday before the end of the New Year break.
walking pooches, in grip less trainers and on black ice :o
a tad slippy
Right Here! :D *waves frantically
What am I, chopped liver?
Go to bed. Jet lag be damned. More beer.
Stay hydrated and don't forget the sunscreen.
After driving son home from Wales, so he can receive his A Level exam results, I am about to drive back to Wales after buying a few bits and bobs we forgot.
So a quick visit to say hello :)
Sons results are as follows
A* Maths
A further maths / physics
B Chemistry (apparently he messed up his practical again)
So Son is off to Birmingham University in September to study a 4/5 year course in
Chemical Engineering.
I'd be happy if either of my children did that well. In fact, i'd be happy if they uninstalled minecraft.
In fact, i'd be happy if they uninstalled minecraft.
Like that's gonna happen..
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, eh?
I'm here. And that is downstairs where pretty much everything in the house is today (and next week). Because we have to varnish the floors upstairs. I'm very happy and not at all tired right now. ::) ::)
There are good products that can do that in an hour or two. That is, oif there isn't a cold beer distraction.
You think that as your kids get older they will fly the nest and you can enjoy retirement, ha that is a joke....I think my son is a bloody Ostrich and will never fly 29 and still living at home.
Good idea.;D ;D ;D ;D
He's a baby. "Kids" don't leave home until they're 35 yrs old these days. :D
I spent most of yesterday trying to upgrade to Windows 10. To do this, I first had to get rid of my Win8.1 Enterprise install, replacing it with Win8.1 Pro, then doing the upgrade. I had several false starts and when it was all done, I had accidentally formatted my full 1TB drive instead of just the 150GB partition I meant to use. Lost a lot of movies and digital comics (and who knows what else). Oh well.
I spent most of today doing an upgrade of a server at work from Windows 2003 (32bit) to Windows 2008 32bit (non-R2; R2 is 64bit only and there is no 32bit to 64bit upgrade path). I couldn't do a fresh install as the server runs an older (no longer supported) version of software that is pretty critical to a few key departments. The latest version is supported of course but the sponsoring department has chosen not to upgrade (the plan to migrated to a new software but that has been delayed several times).
Now, the application admin is trying to get the app working on Windows 2008 anyway she can. This is the second time I've upgraded the OS. The first time, she couldn't get the app running before the weekend was over and I had to roll back to the saved, Win2003 copy.
Fun fun. Needless to say, I've been busy this weekend.
It's deathly silent here nowadays.
"fora".
Geez - do you guys never listen?
You know that one plus one is two, right? And - FYI - one plus two is three.
I'm not silent. I'm stealth. And I'm here. Can't you see me?
(http://i.imgur.com/M0ShILw.jpg)
::) ouch nasty, Get better soon. Lost much weight
I spent most of yesterday trying to upgrade to Windows 10.
Odd. I didn't have you pegged as a beemer driver.
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106715/z3.jpeg)
Probably would have been easier to carry if you had taken it apart.we did the headboard was the problem, too tall and wide
That bed is fantastic! What are those in the headboard? Wolves? I like the bedspread too. My mother bought a dressoire and mirror that reminds me of that bed.
I'm here and voice typing due to my right hand recovering from surgery. They were scheduled to do the left but I thought the right would make more sense.
It's proving difficult.
Ha! Put your feet up and make your family serve you! ;D
Does it hurt?
I am horizontal most of the time. I think that helps.it happens ;D ;D ;D ;D
That bed is gorgeous. I'm sure it was a nightmare to carry upstairs, though.
I'm here now.
off to Wales on the morrow so i will not not around
He can be gone for a number of months at a time. Sadly since I changed my number he doesn't have it... We'll just have to wait ;(
Hello everyone. It's great to see dweez hangin lately. Love seeing Lady Sub check in.
BUT where oh where is the Ice Cream!!!!!
My family and I have made a pilgrimage to Argentinian Holy Land. That would be Florida, USA of course. ::) ::) :D
The trip was the result of a combination of cheap plane tickets, discounts on hotel fare and my daughter's insistence on going to the theme parks. We've been to Orlando and Tampa, and then to the Southwest beaches (St Pete Beach, Siesta Key, Fort Myers, Sanibel & Captiva, Lovers Key) to end the trip in Miami. It was Memorial Day when we were in Miami so it was a bit hectic. We arrived there on Friday afternoon and it took us 2 hs to cross the bridge into Miami Beach!! I can't even begin to describe the things I saw strolling along Ocean Drive...
just arrived home from sunny Wales, I know it's hard to believe but a whole week of sunshine. I even have prickly heat :o
I thought you might be off jetsetting as you do.
You mentioned dweez and the absence of ice cream... there's a clue in there I'm sure.Ah, ice cream = megamarkd
Ah, ice cream = megamarkd
Sure miss him