Missy

[quote user="Cathy"] ... Miss Missy, of should I say Mlle Missy - you are now the French mistress to the Academy.  I suspect that you will be bsuy, especially with Colonel Head. ..... [/quote]   Oooo that's OK. He looks the kind of a man (phwoah weeh! these biceps!) who can cope with my daily lessons and all the homework I will be setting out [:D]

[quote user="Chris Head"]  .....    Missy; I think you're mistaking the type of establishment, it's a school not a knocking shop![:D]     .....   [/quote] No it isn't a knocking shop, one wouldn't dare think such a thing! It is going to be the very best finishing school in the land!  Looks like Colonel Head is not well appointed with the curriculum of a bespoke finishing school for girls. I will have to get to work at once and show him what one teaches in these esteemed establishments for young ladies... [Www] [:D]

[quote user="woolybanana"]Am I invited?[6][/quote]   Are you making sure to get invited by posting a request twice ?...[:D] I think New Year's parties should be the kind of parties where one is allowed to gatecrash and not wait for an invitation.   The best New Year's party I have ever been to was in Paris for the 1999-2000. Bottle of champagne in the handbag [:-))] [:$] well... everyone else had the same idea!! Walking around the city from one little street party to the next one, down the Champs Elysées and on through the night then at 00:00:00 seeing the Eiffel Tower exploding in fireworks. All the tourists and strangers hugging and kissing Good Luck for the New Year! Absolutely magical!!  I would do it again if I had the right company.....

La nouvelle année or le nouvel an ... 'nouveau an' is a little difficult on a French ear. Just one of these verbal permutation or exception thing....

Looks like the position of French Mistress has still not been filled in as yet... May I be the French Mistress... I have a PGCE in French Mistressing and my pillow talk is excellent I am told and these girls will need thorough teaching in the art of pillow talk if they are to get a few suitors and / or a decent husband. It is also an excellent opportunity to be taught several other languages as part the lessons. Are there any male members of staff or any male on the board of governors with suitable sons. Just that I would need some props and material to show these girls on how to be 'ingénues'... [6] [:D] 

[quote user="Cathy"] My tootsies are SO cold.  How do I keep them warm?   [/quote]   In bed I use a hotwater bottle to keep my toes warm. During the day, if not at work, I usually wear 2 pairs of socks on : one pair of thin little summer cotton ones and over that a pair of thick woollen socks going all the way over my knees which my Mother knitted for her grandson when he visited Tibet a few years back. He was very glad of them then but since these socks languished in his chest of drawer so they are now on my feet and my little toes are as warm as toast. [:D] It helps too if I have a little walk about or some kind of exercise. You'd think it is mad but I run up and down my stairs a dozen times or so non-stop, cheaper than the gym which is 5 miles away from here and also as most time it is raining outside and dark that I don't fancy a walk across the fields as I would do in the summer. At work the central heating is full on (I am not paying the bill!) so toes are OK in normal footwear. 

On Christmas Eve as kids we were made to polish our very best pair of shoes and put it by the Xmas tree. Then with our parents we would go and visit our grandparents and have meal with them as we were too young to stay up very late for the 'Réveillon' . Often we stayed the night at their house and next morning they would drive us back home and spend the day with us. Our joy [:D] to find to find that Father Xmas had come during the night... Under each pair of shoes would be a tall pile of presents and the shoes were stuffed full of almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts and satsumas. Our parents in the meanwhile had been doing the 'Réveillon' with neighbours and friends of course and couldn't tell us what Father Xmas looked like.... Still a mystery...[;-)]  

[quote user="Russethouse"] I read Trevor Rees Jones book earlier this year, .... [/quote]   Why hasn't he been called to testify at this current inquest?.... the only survivor of the accident...   Sorry this is digressing from the subject....

[quote user="Russethouse"] Isn't the truth that they should have been prosecuted for negligence ? [/quote]   Yes first and foremost they should be prosecuted for their own negligence ... They are 'educated' people, not seemingly short of a bob or two and SHOULD have had a babysitter on the premises whilst they went out. If the babysitter had malecious intent and did the dirty then their conscience is absolutely clear, they can rally the public behind them as they have done so so far, the poublic will happily follow and it is the babysitter's misfortune to answer the police. Are they hoping that little Maddie will re-appear like that Austrian girl who was kidnapped and managed to get out after so many years locked up ...   

[quote user="krusty"] ho ho ho ....what was that about dangly ? [IMG]http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q172/stebo999/X_MAS_GI__1_.jpg[/IMG] [/quote]   I know someone who looks just like him (minus the beard) [6][;-)][:$] 

[quote user="Geordie girl"]Ugh some poor womans got to wake up next to him[/quote]   When you are desperate[6] ! He don't look too bad really, for his age I think he is well kept.[Www] How many of us are so well kept at possibly a quarter of his age if not an eon of it? Be honest... I would shave his beard though 'coz I don't like beards. I am too ticklish [:-))] [:D]  

[quote user="sweet 17"] [quote user="woolybanana"]And how naive of me to assume that everyone could count in French.[6][/quote] I can't count too well in English either!  ... [/quote]   Count in your own Mothertongue and don't be ashamed of it....  then you are sure that you have not been short changed or short changing some one. I do it all the time. Shopkeepers here are bemused that all these years on, I haven't mastered their ein, dei, tre, pedwar, pwmp, chwer, saith... drat! can't remember what come next and by then I sure would have been diddle out of a penny or two so when the money falls on the counter it's un, deux, trois etc... whether they like it or not!    na[:P] I do the same thing at work. Before meetings I have to rehearse how to say BIG numbers in English. Very often it comes out in French and the boss is sort of [Www] and I know that no one understood the figures... What do they care the balance sheet is correct anyhow [:D]

>>4 - The 'Direction Departementale des Services Veterinaires' will need to be involved to check health and safety rules are complied with<< Wotsit got to do with the vets.... I thought it was B&B for 2 legged things not 4 legged ones.... Mental note to self for next trip to France : no hotels or B&B in Quillan (Aude) [6] [Www]  

Mine's a golden Scottish tea ... Ooo so smooth when it goes down. Don't need much to revive you [:D]

'I am only going out for a half, be back in 1/2hour'  =  he'll come home splathered and won't half remember where & who he is... 'I'll service/repair the car before the MOT' = Get on with it girl and book it in yourself at the garage.... 'I need a brown drinking voucher, I'll reimburse you promise' = he is too skintflint and mean to get a couple of £10 from the ATM outside to pay for his round... 'I am inviting a few friends for drinks Saturday afternoon, you don't mind do you?' = Girl! get out of the house, get a weekend break way as the blokes are in for a footie/booze session.  'I am taking you out this evening, you deserve it!' = All his mates are there too and the place is a dive so forget about it. Act out some terrible tummy ache/monster headache for not going that you can watch your favorite film on DVD. [:D][:P]  

[quote user="ErnieY"] Call me the total thicky or put it down to being a dinosaur who's completely out of touch with what constitutes maths (or Arithmetic) these days but if I read those sums literally and as I was taught at school I get radically different answers [:-))] Allow me to dissect it step by step in my nieve neanderthal fashion: D =  40 - 12 divided by 6 + 4  Answer 34     OR  D = 40 - 12 divided by 6 + 4 Answer 42 40 - 12 = 28      divided by 6 = 4.6666      plus 4      Answer = 8.6666 Even if one puts ( ) around the 6 + 4 it still doesn't work. 40 - 12 = 28      divided by (6 + 4) (or 10)      Answer = 2.8  I find it hard to believe that the sum has been faithfully reproduced because without brackets it cannot logically be worked to give the answer 42 viz: and as Katies daughter says,   40-(12/6)+4=42    are the kids really taught without brackets !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got bored so haven't even looked at the second sum [:P] PS: Never ever heard of BODMAS, sounds like a resort in Turkey to me, is it nice there [:$] [/quote]   Ernie ... the fatest milkman in the West! (sorry but my father -French!- loves his Benny Hill and would sing it in the bathroom. The only English he does know!) Anyway I had the same answers as you.  But then who am I ... me who sat for 2 hours at her BEPC mathématiques (in antiquity time so many moons ago) to only put her number, the date, the title of each question to be answered with enough room for the purpose...... then stared at the clock to get out of that room the fastest possible way I could !!!    as to Bodmas ... on first reading I read Body Mass.. then thought that 's wrong so double take.... Bodmas... thought it was a place in Wales [:D] 

[quote user="Frenchie"] Last one from me tonight.. Brian Adams and Barbara Streisand    I finally found someone   [/quote]   I wish I had... [:(]  

When you arrive in Paris get yourself a 'Pariscope'. It costs about 40cents, on sale at the newspaper kiosks you will bump into as you walk along the city. It has anything and everything you would want to do in Paris. Eat, drink, party/dance the night away, shops, things to do, cinemas, exhibitions, museums, promenades in Paris, etc.... etc... etc... It comes out every Wednesday. In French most of it but quite easy to understand. There is a small English section at the back... and it fits nicely into an average size handbag! what more could a girl want!

Absolutely fabulous journey! ....says she the bike widdow who just loathes bikes, living in a house full of the damned leathers and biking gear, with a garage occupied by 4 bikes!! How could they do any better than their last big journey accross Siberia etc...On this African trip, I am slightly worried that on the next leg of the journey (somewhere in Malawi) Ewan's wife is supposed to join them on the road. It may shift the balance of the banter between all these men on the road and slow the bikers down. Definitely a journey to be enjoyed with no women as far as that lot is concerned... What's next ?... Will they attempt from Alaska to Terra del Fuego?....

Soup as a starter or main course. (Today it's my lunch box offering for the office) 6 parsnips peeled and chopped 1 small pack of potato gnocchi 1 noisette de beurre et une larme d'huile d'olive 2 or 3 fresh finely chopped chillies (depending on how hhhhotttt you like it..) ground kaffir lime leaves ground galangal or ginger salt and pepper In a pan warm the oil and butter until just sort of noisette colour, put parsnips in, lid on pan and shake a little from time to time. Parsnips should be just golden by now. Lid off, put in the chillies, galangal (or ginger), kaffir lime leaves, salt and pepper. Stir well. Pour one pint of water, lid on pan and return to boil/simmer for 15 minutes. Whiz up with a stick blender. It will have the consistency of thick runny mash so add a little bit of water but not too much. Put the potato gnocchi in to warm through. Eat with a peshwari naan (my favourite!) or crusty bread. If you need to transport the soup in one of these microwavable dishes, don't add extra liquid to it until you are ready to warm it up and eat....  Enjoy!. That kind of quantity should make enough for 3 to 4 persons.

[quote user="TWINKLE"] .... Oh well - he called me Mademoiselle[:$] [/quote]   Beware Twinks... Them men coming all charming to you wiv a bottle and calling you Mademoiselle ... they're after som'it [:D]

[quote user="woolybanana"]Happiness is ... simply being touched.[/quote] Wooly dear [:D] I do know how you feel [:'(]... Truly... my heart does. [:D] As that Welsh song says :  'We'll keep a welcome in the hillside.... And with a love that never fails,We'll kiss away each hour of hiraeth When you come home again to Wales' Today happiness for me was to find an old school friend whom I had lost all contact with for the last 30 years [:$] only to find out that she was once married to John Burton-Race... Many years ago, I worked (for a very, very short while) at Raymond Blanc's tiny restaurant called 'Les Quatres Saisons' then situated on Banbury Road in Oxford, when he first started out on his own. From little acorn certainly mighty oak grew... Ooooh I am such a name dropper... [:D] 

Try saindoux. If not at the supermarket ask at any good charcutier. A charcutier specialises in porc meat and by products..

Cheaper alternative to the fat balls from the pet shops Get a pound of lard, melt it down in one of these aluminium dish from the chinese take away or any old soup/tomato tins.  Put any of the seed from your garden shrubs or the seeds you got from the pet shop, also all your bread and toast crumbs, apple cores, roughly chopped walnuts or any other nuts (but your OH's![:$][:D]) Put dish on bird table when the 'cake' has gone cold and hard. Put it such way that rain water doesn't collect in it. I do my bird 'cakes' in tins, just half full and lay the tin down. This way it makes a little shelter for the bird whilst pecking at it.  

I've p.m.ed him too a couple of days ago and no answers. I think he is lying low for a while to get the renovations on his new place going which is more important than us that he has a roof over his head. We just have to be patient and give him some space...  [:)]