14-01-2019, 02:00 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
The frogs pictured are frog royalty, RED EYED tree frogs , available from time to time and will cost over one hundred pounds a pair
14-01-2019, 02:08 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Originally Posted by Robert Junior
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I used to keep a collection of green tree frogs in a greenhouse in the garden during the summers of the early noughties.The frogs pictured are frog royalty, RED EYED tree frogs , available from time to time and will cost over one hundred pounds a pair
I could NEVER eat frogs legs or snails.
14-01-2019, 02:44 PM
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Well the French have their customs and my advice there would be, if you are a Frog or a snail don’t go on holidays to France, you may not return.
I find the eating of lobsters, cockles, and oysters disgusting but some folks love it, including the wife.
We all have our own eating habits and preferences.
Brings to mind an old song that went something like this
“The Scots have their whisky
The Welsh have their leek
Their poets are paid about ten pence a week
If it’s water you want then there’s nothing so sweet
As the stuff that flows into the Ocean”
My eldest grandson Sean took his mother and grandmother Phyllis on a tour of his college (Trinity) on Saturday, she had a wonderful time of it, he later took them for a meal and a drink before they taxied home in the late afternoon, he’s a fine lad, way above 6 feet tall and a gentleman too, his younger brother is at college also, they were never an ounce of bother to their parents, two good lads.
14-01-2019, 03:54 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
A long time ago I was relaxing in a bar in town after a hard days work, it was my first time in this place so I didn't know anyone, we’ll say my surname is McJohn, it doesn't make any difference what it is really.I was having a smoke and reading the evening paper when the bar phone rang and the barman on duty answered it, there were only about five other male customers in the bar when the barman looked at me and asked in a strange accent “Are you McJohn?” “Yes” says I “Well there’s a phone call for you” I was wondering who it could be, nobody knew I was there and the wife never rings bars. When I said hello a woman's voice answered “Ah hello Hugh, glad I caught you, just to let you know Ann can’t make it tonight, sorry, goodbye” and she hung up. (come to think of it, that wouldn’t be a bad opening to a murder mystery, Agatha Christie where are you when we need you)
I was bewildered, it took me a long time to figure out that the barman was a countryman and what he actually meant when he said “Are you McJohn?” was in fact “Hugh McJohn?” it sounded something like Hurooo McJohn.
I never found out who the woman on the phone or Ann was. It’s one of those silly things that still makes me curious to this day.
14-01-2019, 05:27 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
In the not so long ago GOOD ‘OLE DAYS, you know, when phones were static & the handset was on a, usually heavily twisted cable. Anyway.In those heady times it was not unusual to have a CROSSED LINE, that is, let me remind that means when a third party is somehow joined to the conversation. Knowingly or accidentally.
I was in my office trying to confer with an associate when a voice, merged in.
“I know, I know” she cooed. The voice belonged to a concerned old lady.
I’ve tried holding him in my arms, ruubbing his tummy, warm baths I have given him titbits & only the very best calves liver and veal cutlets. I feel, a complete failure, I can‘t get him up at all”
Then the line sent dead & Gert or Daisy’s lament was lost to me.
I have no idea as to the nature of the dear patient. It could have been Arthur & she might have been Brenda . I just don’t know
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