Hi Sue, and welcome!
Sappho, my heart's been thoroughly warmed by your story. Aaaahh! Chiefly of course because I wasn't the one in the hot seat. And Bilko - how did you answer her?
Thank God, it's not just me then :happy: :smug: :happy:
Perhaps we should send in a proposal for a new TV series - "Changing Dungeons", something along those lines? Presented, perhaps, by the feisty Celticity of Jags and the lacy ruff-wearing foppishness of Willxx. Who wants to be Randy Andy?
Ladies, these things surely didn't really happen? I find it hard to believe that anyone could be so beastly. :shock:
Oh trust me BlueEyes, you've a treat in store.
I always feel it's a shame to put it into a margarita, it's so bracing when taken as God intended 8)
I'm actually out of it at present Will, left it behind in the GFZ and SOMEBODY TIDIED IT UP. Bah. My local has it though, if you make it up to the McMunch...
This is going to be tough.
Weird Belgian and Dutch beers are great fun, as anyone who's witnessed me snoring in the GFZ still clutching a bottle of raspberry beer will know. Duvel, at 8.5%, is quite a favourite (and the Sarge thinks Stella is loopy juice, HAH!). But it's still not quite the same as a nice pint of Landlord.
Gin? Has to be Plymouth. Best enjoyed with French vermouth.
Whisky? Highland Park, or Springbank if you're buying.
Brandy? Armagnac please.
And Vin Rose - say a nice Sancerre - is the new Guiness.
The Passionate Swinger To His Love
Come swing with me and be my love
And speak me all the poems you know
So satisfying me up above
And in between, and down below:
Enwrap your mouth around some words
And let’s get metaphysical.
Let luscious lips unleash, like bird’s
Song, sweet thoughts. Better physical-
-ly realised, and engorged with life
By tender teasings of your tongue
Than sleeping, flat, the page’s wife.
And still the night is only young,
And midnight oil may yet burn on,
And rabbit, and your satin glove.
If these delights thy mind turn on
Then swing with me and be my love.
:love: :love: :love: :love: :love:
Damn it, Jags beat me to it with "Perfume"! A fantastic book. In no particular order, some other faves:
PGWodehouse - "Piccadilly Jim"
Flann O'Bryan - "The Third Policeman"
Evelyn Waugh - "Decline and Fall"
Kazuo Ishiguro - "An Artist of the Floating World"
Willans & Searle - "Down with Skool" - the gratest boke ever, as any fule kno
Hi Osmodeo, :welcome: to the forum!
Are you coming to the McMunch?
Amen to what Sappho said about friends and support. She her marvellous self was a pillar of strength to me last week, which was a particularly nasty one. I'll spare the details, but her support really helped me through. So, :rose: :rose: :rose: for you Sappho, you big star!
I'm with Blue on this - what a lovely thread. Thanks Judy and Lucy for sharing - I shall glow contentedly all day. And props to Mr Writer and Mr Sweet Letter for being Decent Chaps in the best SH tradition.
But Lucy, your avatar's delicious!
Don't go changing
That pic beside you
It always turned me on before
And don't imagine
It's too familiar
And don't do it for me no more.
I do look forward
To your postings,
And when I see one, say 'Aha!'
Because you're funny,
Cute, and gorgeous,
And 'cause I love your avatar.
(with apologies to Mr. Joel, and to Mrs Love's late great son Walrus Of.)
I totally agree with so much that's been said. I was amazed when I discovered this site - there's a lot of love in this virtual room, and I'm grateful to you all for helping me through what was rather a rough patch for me. What do I like? The warmth, banter, wit, humour, erudition, give-and-take, absence of taking selves too seriously, and diversity of everyone here - in short, the people. So many times I've been genuinely helpless with laughter, and so many times I've wanted to reach into the screen and hug people. I love how those of you that I've met are even better in real life.
I think those who design and run this site do a truly remarkable job - thank God for people like you, you make the world turn a lot smoother.
I love that Spem In Alium is on the CD (when's it out, by the way?)
I'm hard pushed to think of anything I don't like about the forum. I don't like rudeness and so on, but that's hardly a major feature.
I will confess to being a little disappointed that you used a shortcut for your Morse though Sarge.
Sappho, I LOVE your new avatar - it is your namesake, n'est-ce pas?
Has some other smartypants already spotted this? Have I not been paying attention?
Further to an earlier entry:
And I need you more than want you
And I want you for all ti-i-ime
Excuse me, I've just come.
And how about this one?
It’s that old devil called love again
Gets behind me, and keeps givin’ me that shove again
But it's rain in my eyes, tears in my dreams, and rocks in my heart
It’s that sly old son of a gun again
He keeps telling me that I’m the lucky one again
But I still have that rain
Still have those tears
And those rocks in my heart
'Spose I didn’t stay
Run away, wouldn’t play
The devil what a potion he would brew
He’d follow me around
Build me up, tear me down
Till I’d be so bewildered, I wouldn’t know what to do
Might as well give up that fight again
I know darn well he’ll convince me that he’s right again
When he sings that sorry song
I just got to tag along
With that ole devil called love
Welcome Dylanscy!
I'll pass NO FURTHER COMMENT - all will become painfully clear all too quickly... enjoy...
Hi Manta, and welcome!
There's a Munch on in London on the 28th February, so you might want to come along and meet some of us on a purely social basis there (ahem). Munches are top fun - I'm coming along, even though I live in Scotland. So nerr.
Well this is what happens when I leave the place for a couple of days *grabs a quart of raspberry beer and sits down heavily*. Godfather trilogy on NOW!!!!
Oh, and Artificer - I live about 50 yards from the Corries' studio.
'As much as possible, the site should be reflecting the collective attitudes and personal values of as many site members as possible.
Do you think this is being achieved?? '
Indeed I do, and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the mods for their ongoing devotion to the upkeep of this site. Moreover, I think it's worth bearing in mind that whatever degree to which SH becomes more and more public, ultimately it remains a private site, and thus at the discretion of those who run it to control it. I've seen this argument run on completely different sites, but the fundamental point is the same.