Alison is going walkabout for a few days.
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Tall Bird, were you a lion tamer?
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I have been wondering about why "Tall Bird" has called herself that. Is it because she is a tall female or
because she is as tall and graceful as a pink flamingo?
I know that an ostrich is much taller than a pink flamingo but the flamingo is taller than say a blackbird
it's all relative.
because she is as tall and graceful as a pink flamingo?
I know that an ostrich is much taller than a pink flamingo but the flamingo is taller than say a blackbird
it's all relative.
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I is back, and still in one piece. Thanks for all the well wishes. The trip went well.
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Welcome back. I hope you will be ok with the way we behave ourselves.
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Welcome back boss hope all went as you wanted - no need to say anything though I am not being nosy ( this time )
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See, we can be trusted to behave ourselves unattended.
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See, we can be trusted to behave ourselves unattended.
Yers. I think it 'mazing, m'self!
Welcome back Alison. What were the fuel prices like, BTW?
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Welcome back Alison, best you don't look at the North Korea thread though!
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Welcome back Alison.
Bull, not a lion tamer but pest controller!
Graceful? More like Lumpy Latimer me. Owing to Anno Domini, the legacy of a smashed right ankle and crocked left knee (so am not lopsided), I've lost about an inch in height in recent years - rarely get the 'crikey, you're a tall bird' cracks now. Just as well as my 'dates' have been getting shorter too! Gone on the days when I stood on tiptoe to smooch.
My handle was chosen on the spur of the moment. My usual choices reflect my book addiction but I regret TB now because of T Bliar.
Bull, not a lion tamer but pest controller!
Happy SLF wrote:I have been wondering about why "Tall Bird" has called herself that. Is it because she is a tall female or because she is as tall and graceful as a pink flamingo?
Graceful? More like Lumpy Latimer me. Owing to Anno Domini, the legacy of a smashed right ankle and crocked left knee (so am not lopsided), I've lost about an inch in height in recent years - rarely get the 'crikey, you're a tall bird' cracks now. Just as well as my 'dates' have been getting shorter too! Gone on the days when I stood on tiptoe to smooch.
My handle was chosen on the spur of the moment. My usual choices reflect my book addiction but I regret TB now because of T Bliar.
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tall bird
i don't think anyone thinks of TB and Tony Blair.
i don't think anyone thinks of TB and Tony Blair.
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500N wrote:tall bird
i don't think anyone thinks of TB and Tony Blair.
I certainly don't. I always think of Tuberculosis when I see the letters 'TB'.
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That makes two of us.
Although we have TB here but I don't think the UK do !
Although we have TB here but I don't think the UK do !
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500N wrote:That makes two of us.
Although we have TB here but I don't think the UK do !
Make it three here. And to connect with the Invasion thread one should be on its guard constantly.
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Sorry for not being around much of late. Three and a half weeks ago I spotted an ad for a place to lease in an area I have long wanted to live. Raced off there 15th Oct - some 800 kms away driving. Viewed the property on the 16th, application accepted, then the enormity of what I was do became apparent.
As an Aspie have always tended to be massively self -sufficient. If this was going to happen, then I had to make it so. Pulled out two dozen or so large cardboard packing cases from the garage, stored as flat packs with an expectation of their potential re-use. Sprayed with bug killer, reassembled on patio, brought inside and started filling them.
Rang around a few removalists. They really weren't interested in self-packed goods, making lots of profit from all the ancillary tasks - packing materials, insurances, etc. etc., and no fixed dates for collection or delivery unless I added a zero to the dollar figure on the quote. So "Wot me worry, no way". Do it myself".
Hired one of these and paid neighbours brother to help me load it. Drove it the 800kms and unloaded it myself into the new place's garage and drove it back empty. Not a bad bit of reversing for a rank amateur - last drove one over eight years ago. Also got to play with a hydraulic lifter on the back - again.
The actual truck was absolutely chokka - full to the gunwales. The last image was half way through the emptying phase.
Finalised everything with my previous place, and took off for my new home with my subbie also packed to max. Now I have to get my life restarted. Know no one here, but vibes promise everything. Now back to Ppruned and my friends here.
Alison
As an Aspie have always tended to be massively self -sufficient. If this was going to happen, then I had to make it so. Pulled out two dozen or so large cardboard packing cases from the garage, stored as flat packs with an expectation of their potential re-use. Sprayed with bug killer, reassembled on patio, brought inside and started filling them.
Rang around a few removalists. They really weren't interested in self-packed goods, making lots of profit from all the ancillary tasks - packing materials, insurances, etc. etc., and no fixed dates for collection or delivery unless I added a zero to the dollar figure on the quote. So "Wot me worry, no way". Do it myself".
Hired one of these and paid neighbours brother to help me load it. Drove it the 800kms and unloaded it myself into the new place's garage and drove it back empty. Not a bad bit of reversing for a rank amateur - last drove one over eight years ago. Also got to play with a hydraulic lifter on the back - again.
The actual truck was absolutely chokka - full to the gunwales. The last image was half way through the emptying phase.
Finalised everything with my previous place, and took off for my new home with my subbie also packed to max. Now I have to get my life restarted. Know no one here, but vibes promise everything. Now back to Ppruned and my friends here.
Alison
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Wow! Impressive, especially the 'half way through'
Welcome back!
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Outstanding, Alison!
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Good work Alison, I have a truck very similar to that with a tail lift marvellous invention especially when loading heavy stuff.
it's good to be bad.
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Said in my best Master Po voice....
"You have done well, Grasshopper!"
Well done Alison!
Never had to do that sort of thing m'self. Only time I ever 'moved house' (sort of ) I was able to fit everything I needed/wanted into a 1974 model Toyota Celica!
Really don't want to even think about moving 'everything. ' Will have to one day though!
"You have done well, Grasshopper!"
Well done Alison!
Never had to do that sort of thing m'self. Only time I ever 'moved house' (sort of ) I was able to fit everything I needed/wanted into a 1974 model Toyota Celica!
Really don't want to even think about moving 'everything. ' Will have to one day though!
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Welcome back Alison.
Gosh how I hate moving house. Fortunately not had to do it too often despite my background. Did three consecutive tours at BZN.
Gosh how I hate moving house. Fortunately not had to do it too often despite my background. Did three consecutive tours at BZN.
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