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[zara_backdog]

I found that a couple of pints made it far easier to get the boat into a lock.

And that could easily be a euphemism for something smutty, the precise details of which are left as an exercise for the reader.

Oh eh ....Have you every tried the locks at Hatton ?

[voodooflux]

My vote goes to the Bombay Behemoth. Truly a work of genius!

Excellent! That's my new favourite website

[BrowneIssue]

Home insurance sorted, with £50 cashback from Quidco that I plan to invest in the ailing pub industry - I like to do my bit.

Your self-sacrifice does you credit, sir.

Perhaps this government could learn from your example. It might just be that all those people on benefits putting their money over the counter of pubs is actually keeping the country going. Local employment, buying British, all UK-sourced materials, very little waste products, very low pollution, generally short journeys for delivery, getting the unemployed out of the house and socialising.

Making them stay at home lying on the sofa eating junk food and watching Jeremy Kyle can't possibly be as good for them.

Go on, somebody prove me wrong.

[BrowneIssue]

The sky here is still grey. Everywhere is damp. My hair is curly.

[BrowneIssue]

I have a teddy bear clipped to my collar.

That's what comes from being at home during the day.

[BrowneIssue]

You can't be far off now, shirley? Got as far as December yet?

No. Only November.

I'm still reading about Xmas shopping and the Xmas party posts haven't even started.

[BrowneIssue]

I have a teddy bear clipped to my collar.

I say 'clipped' but he's got magnetic paws and that is how he is stuck on - with my collar between his paws.

He is a very lucky teddy bear. I do not normally allow magnets in the office. They have too much magic.

[voodooflux]

Oh eh ....Have you every tried the locks at Hatton ?

Yep, and the Tardebigge Flight a few times. Last time I did a splendid job of the first lock there, where you turn a corner and it is upon you.

Pretty much slid it in without touching the sides (Fnarr fnarr!)

[voodooflux]

Quietly gets the chainsaw out to chop down another tree...

Make it a biggun

[BrowneIssue]

Ahh - druken people, locks and a canal - as we have a canal at the bottom of the garden this gives us endless fun in the summer months. Even more so if we go to the local and see them operating the drawbridge

Aha! A gongooozler, huh?

Just so long as you nod and say hello.

Gongoozlers that just stare at you and do not respond remind me too much of A Brave New World. You actually get people who will just stare at you even when you go up to them and say "Want to have a go with the windlass?" as if they are watching 3D telly. I fell like slapping them: "Hello! Anybody in there?"