Wordsworth60

@SimplySu wrote:

@Wordsworth60 wrote:

@SimplySu wrote:

. . . . . I’m a bemoaning curmudgeon.

Actually Su, if you said it slowly and softly, you could make it sound quite dirty . . . . .

Gi’s yer number, I’m on me tea break . . . . .

I’m rather offended by the implication that a mere tea break would be time enough indeed to enjoy a conversation…

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@eve wrote:

Got a mother of an edake now! :?

I’ve got the father and it’s Darth Vader . . . .

8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

@Terry wrote:

@rubyred wrote:

It WAS and Is a great little passage :) Maybe, I am easily Pleased but it made me chuckle.

/Rita Fairclough. Weatherfield.

A good writer is like a good taxi driver in that he’ll get you from A to B as smoothly as possible without emergency braking and going off on an inappropriate route. I just think Wordsworth should…

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@SimplySu wrote:

. . . . . I’m a bemoaning curmudgeon.

Actually Su, if you said it slowly and softly, you could make it sound quite dirty . . . . .

Gi’s yer number, I’m on me tea break . . . . .

@eve wrote:

. . . . .. We do not speak , today,in the same way that Shakespeare did.

I blame that Dr Johnson wiv his new-fangled dictionary!

Wot a boundah! Forsooth!

@kent f OBE wrote:

Words!! behave :lol:

Google Talvin Singh….hes a friend

Seriously?

That man is dynamite!!!!

I must get some tabla for him to autograph!!!

@Wordsworth60 wrote:

@kent f OBE wrote:

@Wordsworth60 wrote:

@kent f OBE wrote:

Who’s sns? is it the next step from sms? :lol:

Actually I had bongos, but put them in room 101

Now I play a djembe

I have a tabla but it’s not going with your bongos no way!!

glad to hear it, really love that “duuwuum” sound the players get when they change…

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@kent f OBE wrote:

@Wordsworth60 wrote:

@kent f OBE wrote:

Who’s sns? is it the next step from sms? :lol:

Actually I had bongos, but put them in room 101

Now I play a djembe

I have a tabla but it’s not going with your bongos no way!!

glad to hear it, really love that “duuwuum” sound the players get when they change pitch.

@anc wrote:

@Wordsworth60 wrote:

@Terry wrote:

We seem to speak the same language, but I could do with a translator.

And yet some say we’re both from Mars . . . . . . .

No we aren’t, we’re in ‘no-where land’! :lol:

Have to say though, that my two have been highly educated, one has finished uni, the other is in her second year, and when they text…

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@kent f OBE wrote:

Who’s sns? is it the next step from sms? :lol:

Actually I had bongos, but put them in room 101

Now I play a djembe

@kent f OBE wrote:

@anc wrote:

erm, excuse me, but, I am at liberty to ignore silly remarks and wryly comment back, and peeps don’t ‘get it’ :roll: ! That annoys me, so there you go, that is back to thread!

Have ya got bongo’s wordsy?! :lol: :lol: :lol: 8)

I’m not sure if that was directed at me Anc but I was referring to Terry’s other…

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@anc wrote:

I’ve never heard of ‘grammer’ known as ‘grandma’! :oops: :lol:

It’s a reference to variations on the old joke:

Boy walks into a shop “Gimme summa that quick”

Shopkeeper: “Young man! Where’s your grammar?”

Boy: “She’s outside waiting, that’s why you have to be quick!”

The one rule to remember

From below or above me

Is no matter who’s speaking

All grandmas are lovely

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

@sceptical guy wrote:

Words, I am so going to get my vengeance lol

In fact, both bits are bliddly cold.

But he perished in the South lol

. . . . Summons the clans for his protection . . . . .

@sceptical guy wrote:

Right, wordy, vengeance for Capt Scott lol

This is partly thwarted by your recognition that William Wallace didn’t get to Derby (I think twas York, though that is memory – I have a long memory lol).

The Jacobites got there because they wanted the Young Pretendeer on the British throne. They were aiming for London, not…

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@Wordsworth60 wrote:

@Wordsworth60 wrote:

(Starts reading up on the background to the Highland Clearances)

Nope, goes back further . . . . . .

OK Derby, nothing to do with Wallace, but the Jacobites did get there in 1745 . . . . Still not sure why they went so far from home.

@Wordsworth60 wrote:

(Starts reading up on the background to the Highland Clearances)

Nope, goes back further . . . . . .

(Starts reading up on the background to the Highland Clearances)

@rubyred wrote:

I love being Scottish :)

You can’t beat a bit of Hibernian magic.

I do still wonder what the Hell William Wallace was doing in Bloody Derby . . . .

@rubyred wrote:

@Wordsworth60 wrote:

@rubyred wrote:

@Wordsworth60 wrote:

@rubyred wrote:

/sulks.

Ruby, Dundee remains rightly proud, regardles LLs of whether he was upside down or not.

LOL !!! that was actually pretty damm funny !

he was not though. he went off to cold parts. ! in a ship built here.

As if Dundee doesn’t get cold enough . . . .…

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