Jebus - I'd Be Late For Me Own Funeral.....1st Anniversary And 100th Post All Rolled Into One...

Ok....... Well its the 27th Feb today and I cant believe that I missed it...... it, being me 1st Anniversary of Blobbing.....it was a few days ago, back on the 23rd Feb..... Knowing me, I'll miss me own bloody funeral lol..

It dont seem like a year of blobbing..... oh my, where has the last year gone.... who would of believed I would still be here (barely lol).... what a year of discovery all round..... what a huge learning curve, what a bloody eye opener what a rollercoaster ride of mixed emotions.....

I had no intention of blobbing, I was quite happy just flitting around the few sites of maties and of course the Dingleberries Newspaper site, leaving willynilly comments..... I think me maties JBelle, Toadie, PT, Peanut, Chuck and others got a little cheesed off with me leaving long comments with stories attached and they badgered me into starting me own blob..... so Twaddle was born lol...



What a door they opened lol, I so didnt think that anyone would find anything that I wrote of interest.... but I thought, maybe it would be a good thing to write down so many memories that have laid on the shelves of me mind for so long, some funny and some sad....and maybe one day just print them off for me lads before I die, so that they might know the INNER MUM as well as the outer mum and the side of mum that they see daily.... they might know the workings of me and how it all began, and maybe find a reason for some of the things I do, in a way it was their history and their foundations of the people they will become..... does that make sense? cos it does to me lol....

This was me first ever post..... short and sweet and did I say short lol..... how come I cant type short posts now lol....

First Twaddle post HERE it wasnt anything special or life changing lol... it was just a little bit of twaddle...

Ive shared, sometimes, way to much information about me..... and often when I use to post (especially on PTs blob) comments on blobs I would think about it and go back and delete it...... ya see, believe it or not, Im a very private person, yeah, hard to believe right..... and some of the stories I have in me head will always remain there, they are never for sharing.......

But I have learnt little by little that somethings are ok to share, and what, to some, might of seemed like sad posts, about little bits of me past...... well, I never typed them for anything then those little extra bits were all part of the story of the subject I was blobbing about.....

Ive shared posts about my father and my mother that made many very sad, hey it was what it was :) - Ive shared the many dead and alive pets with ya, Ive shared me maties and me minded nippers with ya, Ive shared me thoughts and feelings with ya, and Ive shared me holiday in Maine with ya, Ive shared me 4 sons, our crazy days and their birthdays with ya...... and of course Ive shared me pathetic love of me chickens Janet and now Mabel with ya LMFAO....... but I will NEVER share me chocolate with ya :) lol



Inland Empire Girl did the most amazing 1st anniversary post last week, it was full of such wonderful things and words and grammar LOL, where as this is just Twaddle and full of spelling mistakes and bad grammar.......

Ive made many friends along the way of this past year, some I so hope will be lifetime maties..... some that I would lay me life on the line for without a bat of an eyelid (you know who you are)..... some that have inspired me and also knocked seven bells of shit out of me when I thrown meself a wee pity party LOL....... but hey, its hard raising 4 sons completely on me own....some that have so been there for me and been non judgemental in the process, something that at first I found so hard to accept... ya see, Ive always had to stand alone and only ever rely on meself... and to take hold of someone elses hand at those times when I just needed a hand, well it is difficult lol..some friends I just cant imagine me life without them being a big part of it..... like dear Sharkie, PT, JBelle, The Toads, Chuck, Susan, Peanut, Ciara, Lora, Starr and now Ake, Queen, Catch, Cindy, Buffalo, Kati, Cis, IEG and her siblings, not forgetting Ol Lady and dear Jolie, and brm and and and and...... oh the list goes on and on, sorry if Ive not listed ya lol, but I do know that some will fall by the wayside and get overgrown with weeds, but I will always remember them, and they too will be stacked on the shelves of me mind....

So.... almost 26,000 views later...... a year older, wiser, wrinkler, but oh so richer..... I wanna fank ya all for popping in..... I cant for the life of me think why ya do LMFAO.....



Ok..... this is ALSO me 100th post lol..... Two celebrations in one week :) Im well spoilt LMFAO - So I thought Id share a photo of me :)



Who knows what the future holds for me or anyone... I know I will always be 'me' I dont know how to be anyone else, and most importantly, I DONT wanna be anyone else..... Im afraid people have to just take me or leave me, and many have over the years choosen the later LOL..... their loss right? :)

much love on this 1st Anniversary and this 100th post ...... Twaddling here in sunny but earthquake shaking England..

X

At Last...... Oh Shut Up - Beauty Is Within.....

Ok......... Well its Sundee here and I was gonna blob, and I sat at the computer and nuffin came in me head - I never plan what Im gonna blob about.... I just go with what me fingers type.... but today even though I have hundreds of stories stacked on the shelves me of mind, me fingers dont wanna let those memories out today..... not even things from during the week......

Im wondering if Twaddle has run its course...

But as I sat here I thought, its about time you knew what I looked like.....

Just remember, that beauty is within, its not about the shell its about the person right? and I dont want no wise crack like........ bloody hell, no wonder no one loves her LOL or.... is that real whiskers on ya chin?.....



I think I need a haircut.....



I think this is me better side.... remember its the person not the packaging :)

Happy Sundee to ya from overcast Southern England...... Wish I was 'right' of the staples today ... I could do with some adult company today.......

Tired this week, so very tired........sigh

Pigs Are Really Cute....... oh and some Pigs Will Always Be Just That... PIGS .....

Ok...... Me matie Peanut who is a blobber and an internet matie is actually English, even though she now lives in America, when she lived in England she lived not 55 minutes away from me in a wellabit posh area lol.... aint it a small world, yet we didnt get to know each other until we bumped into each other on Bobs Blob (in me sidebar)...... anyways..... Peanut is MENTAL about pigs..... pigs of all shapes and sizes..... and I told her once that we have an Organic Pig Farm on the edge of our village, and I often take me minded nippers there to have a look.....

Sometimes we just sit in the car in the layby and wind the windows down and other times we get out and get closer, often there is a huge pig in a pen right near the road.....

Anyways, a couple of weeks ago, me and me matie thought it would kill a hour if we went out to see the pigs, cos we knew there was baby ones there and they are real cute....

What you must understand is that I am hightly, VERY, HUGELY alergic to pork or any pork based produce such as bacon ham etc and geletine..... as an adult its ok, I just watch what Im eating and touching..... its like a nut allergy and it could in certain circumstance kill me. Ive had quite a few scares over the years...and a couple of times gone into that shock that weirdos have if they eat their allergy thing, one was even in hospital when they gave me tablets that were geletine coated, and within minutes I had gone into shook, good job I was already in hospital lol... and I daren't touch bacon or a gammon and then rub me eyes or nowt or it swells like a football...... but I can actually touch a real pig, ya know pat it like a pet as long as I wash me hands after...

Sharkie was brill when we visited him in Maine during the summer, being in a mainly vegitarian household it was no problem, but we did go to a friend of his for a BBQ and the friend knew of me allergy and was real sweet and made sure there was no pork sausages etc...... he bought chicken sausages which looked sooooo scrummie cos I aint never had them before..... EXCEPT.... thank goodness for Sharkies quick thinking, he went and read the back of the packet from the sausages incase it had any pork fat included in the meat.... he was so caring...... but, the boy did good, cos the chicken sausages were incased only in bloody pork skins.... CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT...... bloody hell...... so Sharkie sort saved me bacon that day lol.....

Anyways I digress......so we parked up at the pig farm on the country lane where it is and sure enough there was loads of huge mummy pigs and lots of babies.....



As you can see the baby piggies were quite a way from the road, I think its so no one climbs over the fence and steals them......

Me matie said they was to far away to see and she dared me to climb over and go pick one up and bring it back so we could see it proper....... was she bloody mad..... but they did look so cute running around, and I mean, how hard would it be to just wander across the field and pick one of the many piglets up....

So, I climbed over the gate at the far end of the field whilst me matie and the nippers was near the farmhouse and still in the layby.... I sort of sneaked along the back hedge until I came to the first sty where there was about 15 piglets all dancing and bouncing around, I stood real still cos me matie was shouting.... DONT RUN OR THE MUMMY PIG WILL CHASE YOU AND BITE YOU..... ok she so shouldnt of said that... so now Im standing in with the pigs and god they are HUGE when they have just had piglets lol.... and the little piggies was running around me feet...... I stood so very still cos a mummy pig was staring me out..... I slowly walked further along the hedge towards where me matie was with the kids and the little piggies were sort of following me while the huge mummy pig still stared.......

Well, all was good UNTIL I bent down and grabbed one of the piggies to pick it up....... JEBUS MARY MUVVER OF WHOEVER....... it squeeled so very loud I almost dropped it..... it wiggled and squeeled and piddled all over me....... I could hear me matie laffing and laffing and shouting RUN RUN RUN..... so with that I looked at the mummy pig and she was no longer staring at me but was moving at a quick pace towards me..... thats me, holding her squeeling wiggling pissing piglet.... all I can hear is screams of RUN RUN RUN ...... so I run, well I cant actually run cos of me gimpy knee but I can bloody hobble well fast.....

So Im hobbling towards me matie as she is screaming THE MUMMY PIG IS COMING RUN RUN *lafter*...... bloody hell, Ive heard tale that mummy pigs can eat a dead human within minutes, I heard it on the telly when this pig farmer up north killed women of his village and to dispose of the evidence he threw their bodies to the pigs.... shit I dropped, nah threw the piglet down into the mud and well legged it back to me matie who was in fits of laughter.... I grabbed hold of the little wire fence that was inside the proper fence.... only to be knocked backwards onto me arse into the mud LMFAO..... the bloody mummy pig was still coming towards me and I was sitting in the bloody mud trying to get up with me gimpy knee, which aint bloody easy..... I had only grabbed the electric fence to climb over LMFAO....... DO NOT DO THAT WITH PIGGIE PISS on ya hands lol......

Me matie put her coat over the little wire electric fence while laffing so hard I thought she was gonna wet herself, and I scrambled over the electric fence and then over the proper fence onto the road........ she was laffing so much I thought I was gonna have to bitch slap her to get her out of her hysterics.... I said IT AINT BLOODY FUNNY, that pig could of eaten me alive........ yep she said, I saw that on the telly LMFAO......

My heart was pounding I was covered in mud, my knee was so very painful and I tingled all over from the shock of the electric fence and I STUNK of piggie pee LOL..... ya know when ya laff so much a little bit of wee comes out, well that was me lol I think it might of been fright though LOL

I also ripped the arse out of me jeans climbing over the barb wire fence LOL...

We stood there laffing for quite a while and the mummy pig had come right up to the fence and was giving me the evil eye.... yeah I said to her, your gonna be eaten as bacon and pork chops, so who gets the last laff...... well, she so did scare me lol... I think she was smiling at me cos she had that smurk on her face LOL



Here she is...... the evil pig lol



We did give her an apple though..... as a thank you for not eating me alive..



She also bought her maties over for back up, so we gave them apples to.....

Oye!! Oye!! we heard from the farm gate.....What the f*ck do you think your doing....... oh shit, me matie said, its the piggie farmer lol.... I think we need to go lol........ we laffed all the way home...... but jebus, piggie pee stinks to high heaven. So if you come across an organic pig farm do NOT climb over the gate and try and pick up a baby piggie, cos them mummy pigs aint to be messed with......

So PEANUT these photos are in honour of you and our friendship.... the things I do to get ya photos lol


Also today, talking about pigs lol.... if I had still been married to the tosser of an X, it would of been our 27th Wedding Annivesary today...... I remember this day back in 1981, with so much hope and love and excitement so many promises...... who would of thought aye, that it was mostly all bullshit lol - I should of know life was not going to deal me the good cards in life lol..... I infact, was actually only married 22 years technically to him, but only 20 years if ya count from when he left me and his lads without a backward glance..... it would of been easier if I had pushed him in with the pigs at the farm to eat and devour him cos, still now, he wont lay down and die.... still he is like a sceptic wart on me bum that irritates and rubs.... only this time, Im gonna pop and squeeze him once and for all....I only wish he had left years earlier.....so many wasted years... :) - cripes I dont usually spill this private stuff, so then, enuff said..... :)

So..... whilst out today getting me HUGE grocery shop I bought meself a bunch of beautiful tulips...... for me...as a pressie.... not as a reminder of what to day represents...... but as a reminder of all the lovely beautiful friends I have and to remind me what a loving caring beautiful person I truely am......



So to each of you, commenters and blurkers alike, I give you a bunch of tulips in friendship..... what? ok I know they are only cyber flowers, but I aint made of bloody money ya know, these cost me $8 lol...

ok...... way to much information in todays Twaddle lol

x

Not To Be Out Done With Snow.... Blizzards Conditions I Tell Ya ....

Ok...... To say Im a little bit envious of me doodle maties that have snow is an understatement.....cos we love snow.... on saying that, we dont have to live with it day in and week out and struggle to work in it..... ya see, down here in the south of England we rarely get snow, thats not to say we never get it cos we do every 6 or 7 years lol.... I mean enough to go sledging on butster hill...... the last time we had real proper snow for sledging was about 8 years ago...... I do have photos of that proper snow somewhere, I will have to dig out the memory box and have a butchers for them...

Last year it started to snow just after crimbo, I even remember when it was lol... it started about 10ish in the evening.... oh the excitement..... so, my Jacob says... mum mum its snowing real proper, big flakes and its laying on the ground, do you think its gonna lay real proper? ..... nah I says... it wont be around long, lets go out for a walk...... mum its gone 10 o'clock are you mental..... yep, I must be I says..... so coats and gloves and rosey noses we walked down our little road in the falling snow..... when I say snow, I dont mean 6 foot piles like doodles have fall on them.... I mean like a couple of centimetres LMFAO.... oh shut up, we was excited....



This is almost blizzard conditions LMFAO......

You understand that at gone 10 at night its way dark down our little road, we only have one street light at the end near the pub and there was not a single soul out except for us LOL..... everyone was snuggled up warm in their homes and me and Jacob are hobbling down the road in the falling snow..... I knew that within a day it would be gone, and it was not real proper laying snow... and ya just gotta make the most of it when its there.....

By scraping the snow off the bonnets of the cars parked out the front, Jacob managed to gather enough snow to make a proper snowball LOL.... aint ya jealous of our heavy snow lol...... we could be snowed in by morning, cut off from the world LOL...



When I told me maties the next morning that me and Jacob had wandered down the road gone 10 at night they just blank stared at me and then asked me if I was insane and why would I wanna do that?....... me townie maties miss out on soooooo much, they just DONT GET IT lol... I might need to find different maties lol... nah, not really...

When we did get up in the morning I was surprised to see that the snow was still around... well, not snow like me doodles friends have, ya know piled high against the house and stuff, but if ya looked real hard it did make little dunes up against the kerbs where the wind had blown and if ya was a 'borrower' then ya would have trouble with the snow drifts LMFAO.....



If you look real close you can make just make out the crimbo lights that are still on the village green tree....

By the time I walked the 200 metres to the village green the next morning the snow had already began to melt, and the roads were dead clear.... and just the trees and the grass bare witness to the night before..... no sledging for us this year.....

I will dig out the photos from the proper snow 8 years ago when we went sledging..... it was just the bestest....

There is the most beautiful photo of snow in Sharkies back garden on his blob from last year, ya have to scroll back though... and Toadie has on his blob the most wonderous photos of his lads in the snow... and all me dooble blobbers have had snow photos up..... and NOW so do I LMFAO..... (that was a 'anything you can do' moment)...

Ok enough boring twaddle for a crisp bright it will be warm when the frost melts Monday morning....

x

ps...... JBelle and Lisa, I aint forgotten the meme you both asked for..... maybe in the week.....

pps.... its half term here, that means the schools and colleges are off for a whole week, it also means I have extra kids plus Jacob and Sams maties all here...... and then its only 4 weeks and its end of term which means 2 weeks school break, one of which I work and one of which I GET OFF woooo hoooo, now, where should I go for a proper break?

xx

My Open Heart Day... I Dont Open And Share Stuff Often......

Ok.... I have many heart shaped things scattered around me little home, and some can be seen in me sidebar thingie....well, the heart shaped egg on toast I had last week for me breakie obviously aint still there unless I cook another one, but you know what I mean lol..... I have this 'thing' about heart shaped things, I always have for as long as I can remember, especially red ones...and for some reason blue ones..... daft I know.... but then thats just me....

I have known what it is to love someone from my very core, pure, honest and true....so I knows what it feels like from the givers side.... I just wonder what it would feel like being the receiver, just once, before its to late...

A real hand to hold.... a real smile..... and to experience just once what it felt like to be loved by someone with all they have...

Sometimes my heart feels like its going to burst with the love that I have for certain people.... maybe I just love to much......

So, I give those that need it today..... a heart to put in your pocket and take out when you think you need to know that 'I am thinking of you and I care and I love you'... I know it aint much, but its all I have to give...... myself.... my worth.... my all...



This little butter plate I bought off the doodle ebay :) - I was mega chufted... not bad for one tiny Dollar...

Oh yeah, and if the little heart in your pocket from me to you aint enough to help you make it through the day..... then ya can nick one of the little heart shaped tiny tarts in the first picture.... we bake those all the time..... and hey, ya know what, SOD the calories today right? :)

much love on this Twaddle post....... you know who you are......

x

ps..... my friend Ann is making 'stuffed ox hearts' for her man tonight for dinner lmfao - yep nuffin says I LOVE YOU more then a stuffed ox heart wobbling away on ya plate next to ya mash and peas LMFAO...

Being The Pidgeon Police Can Get One Out Of A Tight Spot.....

Ok, its a glorious sunny spring like day here today, the same as it was a fortnight ago....... the 27th was a fortnight ago, and it also happened to be me dear matie Sharkies birthday..... he was snowed under in Maine with piles of the white stuff, and we had the most perfect warm sunny Sundee...... so, seeing as he aint here, I thought we would take him out for a birthday treat via me camera LOL..... cos if he was here then we would of taken him out on his special day.....

So, Jacob had his matie round for the weekend and I suggested to them that we go out to Beaulieu Motor Musuem, Palace House and Abbey..... this place is nestled in the heart of the New Forest and is only just under an hours drive away.....

It is the best motor musuem in the whole world.... :) and I love it, not only cos of the vehicles but cos of the history of the family that own it and still live in the Palace House.....

http://www.beaulieu.co.uk/motormuseum/introduction.cfm

Ya can get a feel for it on the above sight....

Well Jacob and his matie jumped at the chance, Brad (Jacobs friend) aint never been there before, so it was a first for him.....

So..... we packed a lunch (cos these places are sooooo expensive to buy lunch at) with loads of drinks and munchies and headed off towards the New Forest.... its a doddle to get to and I didnt even get lost once, which is also a first for me lol

We even took some little cakes in honour of Sharkies birthday :)...



This was the ticket to get in.... well bloody expensive if ya ask me lol

Beaulieu is the home of Lord Montagu and the lord often wanders around his estate, and in the summer there are outside exhibitions and rides on old cars etc, but that comes at a price.... in the summer the place is heaving with tourists and visitors and I DONT do crowds LOL.... so going this time of year on a sunny warm spring like day was just right..... just a splattering of visitors.... perfect...

Before we went into the building to see all the cars etc, we had a ride on the mono-rail that goes around the estate and through the top of the car building.... ya know, boys are never to old to enjoy a mono-rail ride lol..



Even though it dont look it, we was about 15-20 feet up in the air..... the little ride takes ya around the estate and ya can use it like a railway train and get off at Palace house to save ya walking there, but we just did the round trip, BUT... as we passed the gardeners cottages in the middle of the estate we spied a pen with huge chickens in.... I said... when we walk to Palace House we will go find the chickens - cos I LOVE CHICKENS - so it couldnt of been more perfect (more later on that lol)..



This is my Jacob and his matie Brad at the entrance to the building that houses all the amazing cars and superbikes and bicycles..... they hated me making them pose for the picture LOL.... they will fank me when they are older and have these photo memories to show their children...

Once inside their eyes lit up, there are some of the oldest restored cars in the whole world there, beautiful... and also many doodle cars... and record breaking cars like The Bluebird which in its day broke the land speed record.... its just a wonderful mouth opening place...



Mummy said SMILE lmfao...



This is that doodle broad Marlena Detrias (however is bloody spelt) car... it was drop dead gorgious....

Whilst we was in Maine during the summer, me matie Sharkie taught my Jacob how to ride antique Penny Farthings....Sharkie has a passion for antique bikes, especially Penny Farthings, oh that boy just so loved it and the time that Sharkie spent with him..... and one of the main reasons for going to Beaulieu for the day was of course Sharkies Birthday, and I knew there was something very special there that he would LOVE if he was with us that day.....

So Sharkie, this one is especially for you matie......Happy Birthday..



This is only the oldest BIGGEST penny farthing ever made, and this is the ONLY one left in the whole wide world... pretty special aye? :)



Heres the gumpfff that goes with the bike.....



There were many Penny Farthings scattered around the place and one just left against the fire exit lol..... ok, so I climbed over the rope to snap the above picture....but it was for a good course, its me maties birthday trip lol

I took so many many photos of the many bikes, just way to many to post here.....



Boys are so easy to bribe with a promise of a go on the simulator if ya pose infront of that car lol...



True to me word, 2 quid each and a chance to drive a simulator sports car lol... and they thought it would be a doddle lol WRONG :)

We made our way all around the musuem, stopping and looking in wonder at the beautiful cars of a bygone era.. and old double decker buses from when I was a kid... right up to the top new Formula one racing cars of today.... its a great day out, and I promise if I ever get a doodle visitor I will take ya there....



This was a picture on the wall lol I made me boy stand next to it lmfao....

Time for lunch....

We took our own grub but sat outside at the tables of the cafe place that was there, in the sunshine..... the boys did go and order a plate of chips to go with there sarnies... I didnt mind that..... it was such a warm day that inside the building they had their coats on, but outside in the sunshine Jacob just had on a T-Shirt lol crazy right for January......



Proof lmfao...

Whilst they went to order their chips I took a photo of me bag that was on the table LMFAO..... DONT ask me why, I just did..... have camera will snap :)...



This bags just about sums me up lmfao.....

So.....we came out the building with the cars and started to make our way towards Palace House.... remembering about the chickens we had seen from the mono-rail... we scouted about and couldnt for the life of us find where they could be..... we were confronted by a tallish hedge and undergrowth.... if ya listened real carefully ya could hear 'chickens'... so with Jacob and Brad in the lead we scrambled through the undergrowth and squeezed through the hedge and came out the other side smack bang next to a big chicken pen, with the BIGGEST chickens we had ever seen, and what appeared to be someones garden LOL... cos there was a swingset and climbing frame on the lawned area.... the chickens came up to the low fence to greet us, thats when we saw laying in the corner of the pen A DEAD PIDGEON... yuck, it had been pecked by the chickens.... ewwwwwww...

We began giving the chickens bits of what was left of our sarnies, when we heard a rather cross and loud voice...... EXCUSE ME this is private and you have NO RIGHT to be here...... bloody hell, it was only the head gardeners kid, she was about 12...... oh, I said, we were just curious about the chickens that we saw from the mono-rail....... GET OUT she screamed this is private, DONT make me go and get my father....... ok, Mel, think..... we have squeezed through the hedge onto private property and they could well lob out out of the estate and I aint seen Palace house or the Abbey yet LOL....... so I says.... did you know there is a dead pidgeon in your chicken pen and that is highly dangerous and very illegal (I had no clue as to whether either of these statments were true lol)...... where she replied....... there in the corner I said......... well, its still private here and Im going to call my father..........I wouldnt do that I say, and I pull out of me bag me credit card LOL and I says...... holding it up (she was about 25 foot from us and obviously didnt know it was a credit card and not Pidgeon Police ID).... this is a card to say I am a member of 'The Pidgeon Police' and I have a right to investigate all dead pidgeons found in chicken pens, especially those spotted from mono-rails (what the hell was I saying lmfao)..... so if I was you I wouldnt get your father unless you want me to arrest him...... anyways, make sure you take the dead pidgeon out of the pen and I will NOT report you this time...... with that Jacob says.... mum lets just leg it and he and Brad scramble back through the hedge leaving me standing there on me own LMFAO..... so, be warned I say, we will be back to check, and I turn tail and scramble through the hedge to find Jacob and Brad laffing on the other side...... it was just so funny..... but it saved our bacon and we didnt get lobbed out of the estate....



This is the entrance to the house, the Montagu family live in most of it and open just a tiny snippet of it to visitors, with the old orignal kitchens from yonks ago.... and I LOVES me a bit of history especially old houses....



Part of the Abbey where the monks lived.... this part is all intact and restored, where as the actual Abbey was destroyed and is only the ruins on show....



This is the little original chapel that the villages of Beaulieu village use each Sunday, it was very very pretty inside.... ya have to cross the moat from the village to the estate to get to it.....



These are the cloisters where the monks would of walked around and contemplated life.....

And how could I not buy the mug in the picture below lol..... it was in the kitchen gift shop...... usually gift shops in tourist places are well naff, but this one was just lovely..... so I bought it as a memory of the day and the Pidgeon Police, unlike the memories of the day that I will stack on the shelves of me mind, this mug will be stacked on me shelves in me kitchen cupboard :)



Its Fine English Bone China ya know :)

So we went home tired out, knackered beyond belief, but a lovely beautiful day we had......

So Sharkie..... Im glad ya little birthday parcel arrived in time for your special day, and I hope you have enjoyed your birthday treat out via my words and photos..... HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY DEAR FRIEND..... love you...

Enuff Twaddle for a Sunday TeaTime..... did anyone make it down this far? LOL
(all photos were taken on me camera)
x

They Overstepped The Line...... This Is Now All Out War....

Ok....... Anyone that knows me knows that I cant even begin me day without a steaming mug of tea.... I cant begin to even function, let alone speak..... the first thing I do after Ive dragged meself out of bed is to bung the kettle on..... this would take first place over the house burning down...... one day it would be nice to have someone that would actually make me a cuppa tea and bring it upstairs so I could drink it in bed still all snuggled up...... well, we can dream right? lol

I dont drink anything but, as I would call it 'builders tea' thats just bog standard tea, no fruit teas, or Earl Greys or green teas or finely blended posh stuff...... just bog standard builders tea......

When I visited Maine during the summer I even took me own box of T-bags, ya know, just incase LOL......

I usually just buy PG Tips..... its been around since I was a kid, only then, it was proper loose tea and not no new fangled T-bags......

If Im home, which seems to be a lot lately, I must make about 12 cups of tea, not that I drink them all lol I usually make a cup and then find it a 30 minutes later on the side.... cold .... lol - tea is my comfort drink, tea washes away all ailments, all problems, all pains, all heartaches.... well its suppose to lol... but thats all bollocks cos it dont...

Anyways...... When I was a kid, the adverts on the telly for PG Tips Tea had monkeys in them, chimps dressed like people, like a chimps teaparty... these adverts went right into the 1990s - as a nipper I thought these adverts were magical and when real young I thought the chimps actually really talked LMFAO..... oh the innocient child I was....you have to remember we didnt have computers and all this new fangled stuff and playstations etc....



Goodness such memories lol.....

I remember that the chimps roadshow was coming to the church hall in Riders Lane around the corner from where I lived as a child....it was FREE to get in, all ya had to do was save the tea packets, I cant remember how many, but I remember me older sister getting the tea packets out of the bin and hiding them from me mum, until she had enough for me and me brother to go to the church hall and see the chimps for real :)..... me sister was 11 years older then me and me brother was 2 years older, I must of been about 7 at the time.....



I sooooo wanted to see, what I thought, were talking chimps...

The time got nearer and nearer to the date when the chimps would arrive, I remember the excitement (how pathetic lol)..... I remember me sister telling me NOT to say anything to me mum, cos she knew that I would NOT be allowed to go...... I never did lies as a kid, but this wasnt a lie right? it was a secret, not a lie, and oh there were so many secrets whilst growing up.....

The day came, me sister gave me brother Paul and me the tea packets and told us to scarper along to the church hall..... see, me mum wouldnt of wondered where we was going on a Saturday morning, cos we would usually bugger off out for the day from early till late on a Saturday, yep hard to think that at 7 and 9 we was out all day and no one would know or even care where we were LOL....



Jebus I was sooooo excited lol...

Well we did go and we queued with what seemed like hundreds of kids...... ok, well life was different back then and this was a BIG thing lol...... queued what seemed like hours, I knew it was a long time cos we had to wait til the second show.... when we eventually got to the front of the queue clutching our empty teabags in our hands the woman on the door went to take them from us and said we needed 5 bags each...... OH NO..... we only had 4 each...... how could this be..... I remember as if yesterday standing in front of the lady saying we only had 4 each and her saying, well love ya need 5 each or you cant come in..... OH NO.... CANT GO IN TO SEE THE CHIMPS.... weeks and weeks of secret keeping to be told that we needed 5 bags each......

Ya know what me brother did....... he took one of the bags off me to make up his 5 and left me standing there with only 3 in me hands looking at the woman.... and he WENT IN, the little sod took me bag and sussed and sorted himself out and went in without me...... and the lady wouldnt let me in no matter how hard I pleaded lol..... bloody jobsworth that she was......

So, I never got to see the chimps, the magical talking chimps that I thought they were...... I remember climbing over the drainage pipes across the steam and sitting there for the rest of the day on me own while all me friends AND me brother were laughing at the chimps...... I never got to see them, but I learnt a valueable lesson that day...... 'those that wanteth something so bad, has to nick the bags out of someones hands to get their own way - it was, sod everyone else, just get what ya want yaself' - well I learnt it, but I never could do it, Ive always put others first, and if me brother had asked I would of given him the bags without a bat of an eyelid......

Anyways...... where is this post leading....

They dont do the chimp adverts on the telly no more with live chimps, but instead of live chimps they have this soft toy sort of knitted chimp that sits and sips tea and interacts with some famous comedian.....and its just called MONKEY... over the years PG Tips have had other sorts of advertising but this knitted monkey has got to be about the funniest....... and every so often they give little ones away FREE if ya buy a big box of teabags....... and the saddo that I am....... I have bought some of the boxes to get the FREE funny monkey........ I have two...... one about 7 inches big and it usually sits on the side in the kitchen AND the one from last month which is about 5 inches and has sucker cups and its stuck on the window in me car..... I LOVES these 2 monkeys..... oh shut up.... I know Im mental but still.......

But, over the weekend I noticed that both of me monkeys were nowhere to be seen...... I wondered if the minded nippers had got hold of them and lost them, so I asked me lads...... loads of smiles and shaking of the heads and words of NOPE aint seen ya silly monkeys.......

So, it was a mystery.... UNTIL this morning when I got up........ someone is gonna pay BIG TIME......



Look what SOMEONE had done to big monkey..... they had hung him by his feet from the pot rack.... he must of been hanging there ALL NIGHT on his own, poor thing..... oh they think they are sooooo funny..... we will see who has the last laff....



Just look what they had done with little monkey with the suckers, they had taken him out of me car and only imprisoned him in the cupboard with the nippers cups....

Oh I can do real good 'paybacks'....... all I can say is, my lads had ALL better beware, cos no one has fessed up, so it looks like I will have to get even with them all :)....

Ya can take me money, you can borrow me heart BUT - DONT MESS WITH ME MONKEYS....

IF YA CANT GET MAD - GET EVEN....... This is now War... :)

To much Twaddle for a nippy Monday....

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