Missy
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[quote user="Benjamin"]La Patronne is the female version but I often use it when talking to a particular French friend and he understands I mean the boss or the missus.
There is a second meaning to Le Patron (according to my dictionary) and that means a pattern or stencil.
[/quote]10/10 Très bien [:D]
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Sad that Ernie is so particular about his number plate [:D] but then that is his pleasure so be it. My pleasure is a glass of Pastis before a meal (as and when I can) and I know it is just as sad!...
I am more sad for the disappearance of the old number plate system... I will no longer know where from are the people travelling . I won't know where I am when driving along the roads of France. [:(]
As kids my parents used to make us recite the entire list of départements so when travelling we knew where the cars came from. They also made us do mental arithmetic with the numbers. In the end the long journeys to go on holiday became a bit of a school ground and a bummer to the forthcoming supposed to be happy holiday....
Parents, they do... Sorry Mr Larkin I have forgotten your poem about parents.....
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[quote user="Bugbear"]
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I don't look when its underwear day.........................[:D][:D]
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Is there an underwear day... [8-)]
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Howzat for pampered pooches :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7071715.stm
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Sorry Weedon to have upset you [:$]
My FIL (RIP) used to be infuriated about the Archers. He would rush to switch the radio off at the first note of the tune and would storm away exclaming that should the government sound the '4 minutes warning' at that time of the day, no one would take a blind bit of notice as the Archers was being broadcasted.
So take heed our terrorist enemies : The Archers is broadcasted everyday (except Saturday) around 1.30pm and 7pmUK time and omnibus session on Sunday mornings.
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[quote user="woolybanana"]
Culture did not begin with corrie my dear[:P]
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Thank you for small mercies that corrie [+o(] is not culture! who ever thought of the script should have been strangled at birth, along with the script writers for the Archers, Emmerdale, EastEnders, neighbours, home&away, and the legion of other soaps suds on offer....
[quote user="woolybanana"]
But remember to get back to the purpose of the exercise, that with age comes care and expertise and finesse and consideration, once the wasteful hot juices of earely adulthood have been spilled.
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Maybe we should compare notes .... [:D]
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[quote user="woolybanana"]
You wanna listen to a woolybanana mating call? I tell you what I do Steve, you do know how to whistle don't you Steve. You just put your lips together and blow. Or, you go to the deepest palces in the Southern Atlantic where the winds blow unchained for 10000 miles and you listen, and you listen, then if you are very lucky one day, better one night, you will hear a distant and haunting call of the s pe r m whale calling a mate, which fills the air with a desperate and lost passion of the remaining few, his great fear being that he is the last. And if he is lucky, a thousand, thousand miles away, she will hear and respond, and the air will quicker and cripsen with her call, and they will rush together across the lonely empty spaces to be together in some quiet place where they, perhaps the last of their breed can plight their troth one last time. ....
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dya meen like zat : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XusuUFFrRo8
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I once went to a special evening for some charity som'it or other. Black tie penguin outfit for men and gowns/evening dress for ladies that kind of evening
Anyway after a lovely meal and a few drinks, before the jollities and the dancing started I went to the girlies room. I came out with my evening dress stucked in to my knickers and no one [:(] NOT EVEN my husband told me about it [:@] [:'(]
It was not until we were home and I undress to go to bed that I realised why there had been a little draught around my behind all evening whilst I was dancing away.... [:$]
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[quote user="woolybanana"]
.... I just want a lady up to my standards- who is not a thief, is free , is lovely, and please, please, can cook a crumble, and can heal a broken soul. Oh, and is not related to Dick Smith and who is not too Brit. And who understands the world before Harold Wilson or the 'Winds of Change'.
So, difficult to find then.
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Are they so difficult to find ?.... [:D]
I too am missing things in life like a man who is home. I so long for the warm hug when I come home from work and all that inconsequential silly talk. If that man could wine and dine me on special occasions, travel the world and travel the mind, doesn't see life through the bottom of a pint glass or a bottle of scotch, so much better. Age indifferent but I'd prefer someone mature like a good bottle of wine and a good cheese ...
I certainly am not a Brit, I am an excellent cook and will indulge your passion for crumble (proper custard with it?) Not a thief, unfortunately not quite free but could be arranged. Standards can always be learnt/adapted to the situation. I can put on a nurse's outfit to mend the soul, whilst we're at it we could mend each others souls. I may not fully understand the world before Harold but I am still living in the shadow of De Gaulle so willing to bend the frame of mind...
Wooly if you want we could meet somewhere ... [kiss]
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PS : I promise I am not related to Dick !
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[quote user="Chris Head"]
That'll be Creusois foreplay Missy?
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Really ? .... The gentleman will be pleased to know as we were a fair distance away from La Creuse that day but France nevertheless [:$][:D]
Now... if a Creusois offers me this kind of welcome, well ... I'll have to go and experience it for myself [:-))] [;-)] [:D]
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Not long ago, when I was in France, I visited this man and after a glass of wine over idle conversation and a lovely lunch as I was about to take my leave, no warning about the next move but 2 big warm hands were holding my face and a big snog I received ! [:$]
Yup!! the bounder he kissed me ... [:$] no handkiss either ....
... and do you know what ? .... Oooh! It was deeeevine ! [:D]
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[quote user="Jonzjob"]
[IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Trespasserssign.jpg[/IMG]
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I knew I'd seen that sign somewhere around here...
Big posters stuck on the door to the kids bedrooms! Daughter has taken hers to Uni for her room. At least her housemates know their places [:D]
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... to be back in France where I was 2 weeks ago today [:D] It was just the most wonderful day [:D] [:$]
Otherwise seing my children doing well in their lives. After the struggles it kind of puts the cherry atop the cake.
Woops! I forgot that 25 years ago today, I was giving birth to my son : a 9lbs 8oz bundle of joy [:D] That was another very happy day in my life (and also when my daughter was born) Unfortunately [:(] Son&Heir is not at home today to celebrate (not until Xmas!) but deep down in some mine somewhere in Bongobongoland.
Never mind [:D] I shall have a glass of bubbly all on my own to wish him a Happy Bathday!! [:D] Cheers son![:D]
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He will not go for help EVER, even kicking and screeming. People this far are way above help seeking. FULLSTOP
She can leave him ... not that very easy, especially if there are children involved ... at least she could 'emigrate' to another part of the house she shares with him ... There must be a spare bedroom where she can make a sanctuary for herself ... Physical/verbal abuse she could curb by threatening to call the police and to go as far as taking the blower off the hook ready to dial.... It works on some, sometime ...
Is she able to get a job? That job could be a saving grace to think straight about the next move, save money for herself, straighten her own finances ... A heck of a boost to self confidence ... It shifts the attention seeking that the abuser/drinker craves as she will no longer be able as much as before to stand around waiting for his 'tantrums' to happen ...
My best wishes to this lady ...[:)]
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>>>>Rugby Six Nations 2008 - www.londonticketshop.co.uk - Tickets Available For All Games At the 2008 Six Nations Championship<<<<<Ah well !... that was the World Cup... Let's be adult and get over it! [:P][:D] Now on to the next competiton as above...I am a wee little worried [8-)] 'coz that (which I have copied and pasted here) was sitting in my mailbox just above the notification that someone had posted a response on this thread...Do they have a giant team of little gremlins at Google which spends all of its waking hours reading people's emails and stick some appropriate advertising?....Had the same happening about 3 weeks ago when emailing my Parisian bruv that I would be landing on his sofa soon and I was bombarded by Eurostar advertising next to our correspondance... [8-)] ... Sort of makes you wonder a bit ?....Anyway that is digressing from the thread... On to the 6 Nations! Allez les Bleus [:D]
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[quote user="Gardian"]
..... I have now assumed Welsh nationality on the basis of having visited Merthyr Tydfil once or twice on business. .... [/quote]
So now that you have assumed Welsh nationality [:D] and given last night's performance are you thinking of buying a house in Wales or are you only going to claim an expat status [;-)] [:D]
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... decided to take matters in her own 2 hands. That chimney of hers needed a good rodding! and she was going to get it done!. Jules Camembert, her husband, was to busy serving these 'punaises de sacristie' as she called that posse of elderlly women that came to the shop. None of them aspired to or gave any desire of elegance, sophistication, lust and glamour to anyone except Jules. He emberlicoted them good and fine with his shmarmy/shmootzy lethario manners. He was after their purse! Yvette was livid at that sight and in one of them moods not unlike a werewolf mood at full moon. Armed with a saucisson sec, a baguette, a bottle of piquette, she quickly marched over to Ramon l'espagnol. His parents came over as refugees from the bad days of Spain. He was a bit twp and didn't learn much in school but was good at climbing high up and awkward places like chimneys, so he set up as the ramoneur du village. As he saw Yvette Camembert approaching at a furious space, he decided .....
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un converteur catalytique! ou pot catalytique
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That security lark is really a lark innit?!...
OK it is needed but I wish the people manning it had some common sense....
Son&Heir has arrived back last Friday, on his work leave from Yerevan, Armenia, via Manchester airport and brought us back some caviar in glass jars and very nice it was too. Nowt was said to him when he went through security in any airport he's been through on the journey. He wants to return with the said jars (now empty of caviar! yummy that was!) filled up with chilly jam I have made this afternoon... Wonder howzat gonna go through... Pretty explosive chillies are [:D] !!
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Marginal rate of taxation...?...
Whatever you need to have taxed or is being taxed will have a very small rate imposed on it, possibly in the order of 0.xx % of a given sum....
That kind of thinking, I think! .....
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You are lucky to have 2 digits, 2 letters and the department number because apart from the department number the rest of the plate is a serial number allocated by the registration office at the préfecture. It started in that format when they first registered cars way back in the fog of time. 2 digits from 10 to 99, 2 letters from AA to ZZ. Except for the letter I and O which could be mistaken for 1 or 0. Then they ran out of digits so added one to make it 3 digits from 100 to 999, 2 letters (as previous) + dept number. Then to 4 digits, 2 letters + dept number etc...etc... In and around large conurbation, Paris is in mind, they are now to 3 (if not 4) digits, 3 letters + dept number....
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.... trouble was the whole village stank of goat but there was not a single goat in sight. That goaty smell was because there was no proper washing facilities in the people's home. These new incomers from that far away Anglosaxon land battled with Marie and Le Maire at the Mairie to have une fosse sceptique installed and them new fangled indoor ponds to wash in. All that the native could help them with was a bidet for which they knew not how to use.........
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[quote user="Petite M"]
Hope Ive done this right, here goes...
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This almost reminds me of my father doing his round in the village (in 79) on his way to the boulangerie for his bread and stopping by to say hello to everyone!! [:D]
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.....was in a fermentation vat. He stumbled by mistake into the local brewery. How? He who was an avowed tea totaller and had signed the oath of allegiance to the Temperance League. Never mind he thought.....
Alchohol
in The Complete France Post Bag
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[quote user="raindog"] "One couple split after the wife discovered that her OH had been secretly and systematically drinking his way through their entire savings"
Blimey, that's some secret drinking binge.
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Do you want secret binge?...
Mother, son, grandson and great-grandson of a family close to me have drank themselves through quite a fortune. All the drinking was done in the woodshed.
Mother pawned all the family jewels and other antiques to fund her gin. Drank to forget that her husband was a bully. Died aged 65.
Son drank the proceeds of the sale of a 300 acres farm, the sale of a 2000acres farm in Africa and the best part of his shares portfolio. Drank to forget that his father and his wife were bullies. Died aged 64.
Grandson drank the housekeeping money and whatever money the wife made running a very successful B&B. In the space of 10 years, drank the proceeds of the sale of 2 houses(3bedrooms with 2 acres of land each). Drinks to forget an unfortunate childhood at the hand of a bullying mother (still alive), despite the most idyllic place to have been brought up in Africa, and drinks to compensate being bored stiff with nothing really tangible to do in his life. Now aged 56.... It took the wife the best part of 10 years into the marriage to see that things weren't quite right. Despite her efforts to curb the drinking with the help of others (family and friends and least of all the youngest of the 2 children) she remains in the marriage but only just. She has given up (so have the friends and family) the battle to curb the drink and has quite a separate life from him inside the house and you certainly never see them together outside. She finds solace in going out to work, her colleagues, her daughter, her very small circle of friends and her twice a year holiday in France (as her family is from there). She is desperate to just walk out of the place and is saving like mad to afford somewhere else to live.
Great grandson learnt to drink at the tender age of 10! looking for/following his father. Despite his mother's warnings, love and support. University was just one long binge. How he got his BSc, his MSc and a job is a mystery. Works abroad in the most desolate of places between Russia and Iran, very good job earning very good money but as there is nothing to do after work and no female company other than russian floozies with a dose and a yearning for a oneway ticket to UK ... drinks himself senseless .... Now aged 25...
Secret binge?... Genetic programming?... Woodsheditis?... What ever you want to call it...