Lb8535
Justified & Ancient
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Easy for you to say.Wé Gárdena in géardagum þéodcyninga þrym gefrúnon hú ðá æþelingas ellen fremedon.
maximus otter
Easy for you to say.Wé Gárdena in géardagum þéodcyninga þrym gefrúnon hú ðá æþelingas ellen fremedon.
maximus otter
I'm especially fond (in English) of;Wé Gárdena in géardagum þéodcyninga þrym gefrúnon hú ðá æþelingas ellen fremedon.
maximus otter
Insert vomit emoji , the one with that mask on its face , the green one and all the other similar ones .So spiders taste like biscuits, got it.
I love this one.It's been very warm and sunny here in the wilds of North Yorkshire. I had idly thought about trying to find a pair of sunglasses, but had lacked sufficient arsedness to start turning out drawers and bags.
On Friday night I was sitting in bed reading (why, yes, the Fortean Times, as you ask!) and a large rucksack fell from the top of my wardrobe right in front of me. I am proud to announce that I didn't even jump, I just said 'that was annoying', left the bag where it was and went to sleep.
Next morning on getting up, what should I find had fallen out of the bag onto the floor beside my bed, but a pair of sunglasses... and yes, I did say 'thank you'.
One down, six to go.Ugh all the stories of crickets and spiders makes my skin crawl , reminds me of when I had a dream of eating biscuits and I woke up and it was an EFFING SPIDER in my mouth, I shit you not. God I feel sick everytime I think about it hahaha .
Squashed-fly biscuits, presumably.So spiders taste like biscuits, got it.
...arsedness...
Just beat me to it. I've lacked sufficient arsedness on many an occasion recently. When questioned I can now come up with a descriptive text for failing to proceed and refer people to Catseye for the meaning thereof.Thank you for coining my new fave word.
maximus otter
Very easy to say! Unlike modern English, Old English is very predictable and easy to pronounce if you know a few rules. ;o) But I was really lucky enough to spend three years of my life learning that at uni, as well as Old Norse, which is of course, a brilliant life skill I have used for practically 30 seconds of my subsequent life. But was fun.Easy for you to say.
Once, when camping, I had this vivid dream there was a toad on my head and I grabbed it (still asleep) and chucked it across the tent. The next morning there was, indeed, a toad in the tent (and live - he hadn't croaked. Shall I get my coat?)Ugh all the stories of crickets and spiders makes my skin crawl , reminds me of when I had a dream of eating biscuits and I woke up and it was an EFFING SPIDER in my mouth, I shit you not. God I feel sick everytime I think about it hahaha .
Once, when camping, I had this vivid dream there was a toad on my head and I grabbed it (still asleep) and chucked it across the tent. The next morning there was, indeed, a toad in the tent (and live - he hadn't croaked. Shall I get my coat?)
What got me was, how did I know, when asleep and in the dark, that it was a toad not a frog?
The dog was right next to me too and he never ate it.
What got me was, how did I know, when asleep and in the dark, that it was a toad not a frog?
I dunno. It could have been a newt for all I knew. At least s/he was unharmed. I'm an old hippy - I'd be mortified to do toad tossing if I was conscious.They feel quite different. Not that I make a habit of throwing either but...
Slow worm? Even then... 33% chance of being right.Well it had to be one or t'other. Lucky guess.
I'd be mortified to do toad tossing if I was conscious.
Very easy to say! Unlike modern English, Old English is very predictable and easy to pronounce if you know a few rules. ;o) But I was really lucky enough to spend three years of my life learning that at uni, as well as Old Norse, which is of course, a brilliant life skill I have used for practically 30 seconds of my subsequent life. But was fun.
I piss off Viking and Anglo Saxon re-enactors all the time by correcting their pronunciations of their own names...
I can help you here...I built a tree-house for the Coalettes in one of our apple trees. I made the basic platform from round fence poles square-lashed (well 'Japanese' square-lashed) to the three main members of the tree. When I took it down about 6 years later, the original square lashing had been enveloped almost completely by the bark of the tree, a response to the tree's growth and the rope's restriction on it. I got all the rope out OK and like the above it was that blue stuff, which ages far more slowly than you might think. So in your example, if the rope was not exposed to much direct sunlight, a decade would be enough to produce what you've got there.Out walking the other week I found this piece of rope with both ends embedded in a tree trunk. It looked quite new and was stuck firmly as I gave it a pull and it wouldn't budge. Later, I saw a piece of black plastic tape about 3/4" wide similarly stuck in another tree but didn't take a photo of that. Well it is 'Minor Strangeness', after all.
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Once, when camping, I had this vivid dream there was a toad on my head and I grabbed it (still asleep) and chucked it across the tent. The next morning there was, indeed, a toad in the tent (and live - he hadn't croaked. Shall I get my coat?)
What got me was, how did I know, when asleep and in the dark, that it was a toad not a frog?
The dog was right next to me too and he never ate it.
After a while we started to smell smoke. The fire had started smoking up again. Dont know why it randomly started.
Just a slight correction, @escargot - carbon monoxide poisoningThere might have been some smouldering embers under the ash. You just can't trust fires to be out!
Reminds me of the news story about the disposable barbecue taken into a tent after it was supposedly extinguished, but it wasn't, and someone died of carbon dioxide poisoning.
Are you on antibiotics?I've been getting little electric shocks off all the metal appliances in my kitchen, all day today (including the stainless steel sink).
I can only assume it is static electricity somehow related to the brand new acrylic jumper I'm wearing?
I've had 'static' problems when on antibiotics, so thought I'd ask.No antibiotics, but I'm on thyroid medicine, betablockers and 'losartan'(which I believe is mainly potassium), for blood pressure.