Missy
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[quote user="londoneye"]...... then why do it with such vigour and apparent aggression !![/quote] Usually to indicate that the person left without saying his farewells, or owing monies... certainly in a hurry to get out o' here....
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.... that made for a lot of kisses and so many cheeks! it was beyond his britishness to do so, though.... had there been ladies in the group he would have ventured forth.....
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[quote user="Mel "]
Yes, tired - too much wine last night...
Women - what is your favourite age for a man? [/quote]
Anything between mid-40's to 60's and preferably with a HUMUNGOUS for ever bulging wallet [:D]!
[quote user="Mel "] Others - what is your favourite age for who or whatever? [/quote]
and moi [:$] would LURVE to be in my late 30's again and forever!
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....viewed as a total weird entity. They dared eat that awful green jelly stuff on his brother's best lamb. Mr Brioche's brother married la Colette, of La Grange sur La Lande. She was a darn young pretty milkmaid. She got her knickers in a twist with some foreign chap in the war. One of them Anglais or Américain soldier. All the same to Mr Brioche, they gave la Colette something to be remembered with and his dear brother Ernest took pity on the poor girl......
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Perhaps not. I am good at washing up as Twinks can tell you.... Heck of a treck in the next 5 to 7 hours!... beam me up Scottie!
What is your first grumble about on a Monday morning as you wake/get up?....
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fèves! lightly steamed and a knob of butter on them! Yummy!
Can I come for supper?....
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Are you watching the Eurovision any one?...
Just asking as I missed most of it (Thank you for small mercies!!) but I am just catching up on the rye, sarcastic commentary that only Terry Wogan can get away with... and all the attributing of the votes... UK was languishing at 'nul point' for a very long time until the Irish gave them 7!.... and thanks for that the UK gave 'nul point' to the Irish. At least one knows one's friends....
My amazement is that the eastern block is running away with the points so well done to them! Serbia is the winner.....
I was glad a few years ago that the iron curtain fell, for all these people behind it to join a better world but this evening : I would like this iron curtain to be raised again so that they can keep all that bad taste cheesy TV and stage the contest between themselves!! and pleeeeeze BBC spend our licence money more wisely!.....
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....yacht. Marie loved the sea but could never get there in a month of Sundays as Mr le Maire (no one knew that his real name was Theodopopoulodokis-his dear Mother was a refugee from the big war to end all wars) was sea-sick at the mere mention of a nutshell floating down the garden stream, therefore always put an end to Marie's sailing ambition. She was determined though to go on a sea voyage and yearned for René, the fish&chip man, to take her .....
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... Jules et Antoine, of 'L'Amicale des Cyclistes de Trifouilli-les-Oies', were judging the competition for the best pair of melons. There were all kinds to judge from. Big green ones with juicy red insides which Antoine favoured for the crunch of the black seeds and that they had plenty to hold and get one's teeth into, lovely orangey coloured ones with translucent green insides but really with no taste, little Charentais ones with their green/grey tight outer skin and bright orange sweet juicy slices... Jules loved and drooled over these little Charentais melons. Just right for his handlebar moustache not to get in the way. At the end of the line they were surprised to find Marie of the Mairie with le Maire .......
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she walked off living him begging for emore oysters. She was insensitive to his pleas and went off to Maurice's café where she was to play a tournament of babyfoot with ....
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These were Marcel's, the road sweeper's prize winning entry at the forthcoming local fête, in aid of an extra trombone for the band of L'Amicale des Cyclistes de Trifouilli-les-Oies. He was so proud of his big melons and there had been a fierce competition between him and le Maire for whom had the biggest pair. Le Maire reckoned that his Marie had ....
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[quote user="oliveau"].........quincaillerie, where Jean-Luc the pompier was undertaking his twice-weekly tryst with Mme Sommier, a buxom, middle aged woman who................[/quote]
only had eyes for Mr Letrain Engare. Oh! he looked much more handsome than the pompier and he certainly knew how to ......
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...church. Le prêtre, Mr Lecurédéglise, had enough of his housekeeper's shenanigan with all the Henri, Jacque and Marcel of the town. He decided to put an end to it he would blow up her trusted vacuum cleaner!. That machine drove him mad! he could never use it properly for.... ... ... ... [6]
(sorry not fast enough my reply went that of Ali-Cat)
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'Oh Dear!' Mr Livarot the cheesemonger exclaimed. 'What can the matter be?...' he pondered as the fat gendarme walked over to his shop, munching away at one of these butterly yummy croissants that Georgette, the baker's wife....
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Juste un petit brin de muguet!
[IMG]http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r116/Missyesbut/lily-of-the-valley.jpg[/IMG]
Bonne journée et bonne chance à tous !
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>>>I can't believe he did this...............................
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/6600995.stm
If you've never heard of this fool, check this out
http://www.abd.org.uk/brunstrom.htm<<<
Yup he did! and it's not the first time he does such things to rub the public the wrong way... I live in the police authority next door to his patch and boy! there is not one week on the local news when his name doesn't come up with some daft subject or other... This one he certainly went to far! Inviting journalists and showing such clips (without the family's consent) in the firm belief that they will not boratcast what they've seen [8-)] c'mon!! It's like asking kiddies not to eat the sweets at the sweetie shop.
However the message of that meeting was about speed and bikes. Seeing a photo like that one would make me sit up and think... But then I just don't like bikes. OH is trying his very best to make me ride pillion with him on his outings. No thank you, have a nice day, see you this evening. If I need to be bumped off the road, I'd rather have 4 wheels, side impacts, long bonnet in the front etc... to do it for extra stability/protection.... You'd guess right that I drive a Volvo....
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[quote user="cooperlola"]
Nope, you are still a red cross. How odd! Because Megan and that pussy cat certainly aren't!
Edit : Oh this funny software - the **** is p*ssy!
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Whatever you are drinking Coops! sure works fine to see stars!! [:D]
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I was made to learn Latin for 4 years, had no choice in the matter my Father said so! and.... boy! was I a happy bunny when I was 'en seconde' at the Lycée Technique where such niceties as latin and greek was no longer on the curriculum! I swore never to afflict useless subjects/disciplines to my kids as and when I would have some....
When these kids arrived and started secondary school.... what did I do.... [8-)][Www] I send them to a school where they have to learn Latin, French, German and either Italian or Spanish. They muddled through, quickly dropped the last 3 languages when GCSE time came, carried on French (well... French Grandparents would have had a fit otherwise...) and Latin as an extra curricular subject. They found Latin quite uselful in getting their brain round the various rules of grammar in French as well as for vocabulary.
Me?... [:$] I regret being very lazy in Latin class for 4 years and having wasted my time not to make the effort to learn it better as I often look/need the latin origin of a word when translating something just to be able to put the correct word in whatever context I need to translate at the time, especially when I read legal documents...
So everything in the world has its purpose somewhat, somehow, somewhere, somewhen... I know !! no such word as somewhen! but there should be. Na! It says exactly what I want to say this very moment [:D] ....
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[quote user="Anton Redman"]On no account use poof - the politically correct term is ottoman [/quote]
Correct en politique?... Soyons correct en français d'abord [Www]
Chez nous on appelle ce petit meuble un pouffe.....
Ottoman ?... je croyais qu'un ottoman c'était quelqu'un qui venait de Turquie? ... [:D]
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Dogwood I like your pet! I also like your little signature square but is there a way for you to slow it down just a tad... Sorry being a little visually impaired (especially first thing on a Sunday morning!) it goes a little too fast to read properly....
This is a picture of my OH's faithful companion. His name is Ianto
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Last night the both of them went to the pub as they do most Saturday evenings. After a while Ianto decides that his master's drinking lark isn't his cuppa and goes off. Usually 1/2 an hour later he comes back and wanders off again later. Everyone in the village knows him, he is very good with children and much too friendly for his own good. Well ... last night Ianto didn't come back and this morning it's all hell break lose : Phone all the neighbours ... then all the vets in the area in case someone has reported a rogue dog, phone the police in case someone has brought in a stray dog.
Phoning the police is real fun [:@] in this area! Our local police station in this little town is virtually shutdown, only a copper or two at the weekend, sent from the next nearest police station 20 miles away, to deal with drunken lager louts after closing time. We are on the border to 2 counties and to 2 police authorities and the nearest 24/7 maned police station is certainly a good 50 to 70 miles away in another police authority... Anyway OH has now taken his scrambler and gone accross the fields on the farm and is going to have a look on the neighbouring farms and up and down all the little lanes... just in case...
I hope Ianto comes back before the end of the day or this household will be subject to a month long of mourning!...[:'(]
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[quote user="opas"]I asked my eldest girl about this last night.........she says it is used when something is finished ,ie the conversation /subject has been dealt with or that the person is going.[/quote]
Correct.
You want to finish a particular subject of conversation or want to leave impatiently, you slap your left forearm about half way and your left palm hand sort of curls towards your chest and you say :
'Allez hop! on s'barre' for leaving the place and if there are more than one of you who want to leave impatiently
or 'Allez hop! j'm'barre' if it's only you that wants to leave
or 'Allez hop! réglé' if the subject of the converstaion must be finished here and now .....
Very colloquial and not to be used in polite company/conversation......
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[quote user="Monika"]
I too have recently been considering this aspect of my life in France. Many French people have told me that superficial friendliness is typical of the South, and people will be all over you at first, but just out of nosiness (or curiosity, that sounds less harsh!). Once they know what they want to know, you won't see them again.
My english sister in law who lives in Canada complains about exactly the same thing, that all friendships with Canadiens are superficial and a friend of mine (also english) says exactly the same thing about the Americans.
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I can say the same for living in Wales... I wouldn't say it is a place that I would have chosen as a No1 must-place to live in, I just didn't have a choice on this subject. After 25+ years I have not got very much to show for it in terms of firm friends that would be there should I fall on hard time. It is mostly daily acquaintances. As to the language!... You think you have problem with mastering French!
Doesn't matter where in the world you live, you will have this problem of one day finding that the world doesn't come up to what you thought would be a 'new' challenging hunky-dory start/renewal. Life is what you make of it.... so I am repeatedly told by my MIL! ...
Pour moi cette maxime : Ne jamais plaindre un verre à moitié vide, mais vider le verre à moitié plein est celle que j'adopte! and boy! is life a laugh when you have this concept fixed in your head [:D]
'Enjoy Purgatory! Heaven is so dull!' that's from one of my children.....
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[quote user="not quite the boy craig"]
I can only see 9 seconds what do I do to get it all? [/quote]
I had the same prob. Had to keep clicking on the start button until all 3 minutes of the film!... which took the fun out of it a little ...
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[quote user="Logan"]
Le Pen dislikes non-French, so British fit that description.
Sarko admires the British and capitalist work ethics.
Royal is wet and likes Tony Blair.
The rest don't matter.
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Le Pen ... well... he certainly is not on my Xmas card list.
Sarko may admire the British but under his proposals for immigration, you could be in the same classification as those that have an excess of sun tan.
As to Ségo, how can she be credible to run 'la République Française' with such grandeur in her name.
Don't dismiss Bayrou yet..... his job is to upset the cart and that is an important job...
The others ! ... I believe that one of them has had to retire from the race already, as he ran out of spondoolicks to pay for the posters of his campaign!...
Anyway we just have to wait.... The end of May can't be here soon enough for me, at least the radio schedule will be back to normal...
I wish we had the same right here to elect the next Prime Minister instead of having him catching the keys of No 10, when 'our' Ton' goes out! The thing is wholly undemocratic [:(] to my way of thinking. It's like 'our' Jacques throwing the keys of the Elysée to Sarko. No self-respecting French would allow that, so they have 'les Présidentielles' to democratically elect, fulfilling their good republican duty and give the keys to Sarko [;-)]
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Sardines! only if the most gorgeous man in the house has the same idea!
What kind of a party would you want for your 50th?....