AngelBabe

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Don’t Stop Believing Journey lyrics

You’ve heard the expressions “stinking drunk” and “stinko” (“stinking” has been used in English to express disgust since the 15th century). No creature alive is stinkier than a skunk. Because “skunk” rhymes with “drunk,” the two words are a natural match.
The term “drunk as a skunk” is, as you guessed, simply a good example of our love of…[Read more]

PAY ON THE NAIL……..In the Middle Ages ‘nails’ were flat-topped columns in markets. When a buyer and a seller agreed a deal money was placed on the nail for all to see.

zebra Crossing

Keep it going Angelbabe some of us love reading it

thanks Blosom will do

Wonder where “talking out of your arse” originated from. Laughing

ive oftened wondered that myself :D

MAD AS A HATTER…Some people say the phrase comes from the fact that in the 18th and 19th centuries hat makers used mercury nitrate in their work. Exposure to this chemical does indeed send you mad. .

However according to some people the origin of this phrase is much older. Hatter is a corruption of the Saxon word ‘atter’, which meant adder or…[Read more]

enjoying my cupppa tea on my morning off

@Melody wrote:

Angel I enjoyed your post.

Thanks and keep them coming :)

thanks Melody

@(f)politics? wrote:

I’m enjoying this thread thanks AB :D/ and hows ted ? :lol:

glad ya enjoying it ted is good thnx :wink: :D

@jen_jen wrote:

Well reading here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12634535 which has more info, it would seem to be a miracle of modern healthcare techniques. The baby isn’t showing any signs of brain damage and looks healthy and happy, as does her mother :D

Whenever people say things like “maybe they should have left it alone” or “nature should…

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not looking for any thoughts in particular jen
i was just wondering if ppl thought it was a miracle
or if thought docs should have left alone
im unsure how i feel to be honest
i was just interested in what others thought

ON TENTERHOOKS…..After it was woven wool was pounded in a mixture of clay and water to clean and thicken it. This was called fulling. Afterwards the wool was stretched on a frame called a tenter to dry. It was hung on tenterhooks. So if you were very tense, like stretched cloth, you were on tenterhooks.

gates

getting a nice surprise in the post today and a couple of texts of me sister :)

Chalk and cheese (different as) – two entirely opposed articles or people
To understand this comparison you need to think of a white, young cheese rather than a mature yellow one, and freshly gathered chalk, rather than something prepared for the blackboard. They can look very similar, but their taste and value are very different. The image is an…[Read more]

why when work calls me last min to ask me to go in can i not say no :shock: :D oh well another boring afternoon of meetings tomz :D

Welsh rarebit

Ingredients

25g/1oz butter
25g/1oz flour
150ml/5fl oz milk
175g/6oz cheddar cheese, grated
150ml/5fl oz brown ale
1 tsp English mustard
2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
salt and pepper
2 egg yolks
slices of toast

Preparation method

Make a roux with the butter and flour, and leave to cool.
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@WakeUpDeadIsGodlike wrote:

Pie. chips, peas and gravy.

Stick the oven on and put chips in at around 200 for 30 mins (ignore the packet, they are soggy as fuck if you put them on for 20)

Go upstairs and play Xbox for 20 mins.

Back down and open the tin of marrowfat peas and stick them in the microwave for 3 mins.

Stick the kettle on and have a…

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Baby Grower

Hmmmm Very Good question indeed

My dad worked in the forces when i was born out in RAF Wegburg west germany
and my mum was half welsh half German
my dad white british

so i lived the first 4/5 years of my life in germany then moved back to the uk for a while then back to german finaly returned to the uk when i was about 9 i think
my mum was very…[Read more]