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[Zippy]

The Zipmogs are very happy that the heating is on

[BrowneIssue]

got to nip out to post office also

Why is that?

What are you expecting?

Is it something big?

Is it something good?

[BrowneIssue]

Moonring

Happy bumbeams!

[Zippy]

Although they have been trying o catch birds today. They are so thick they don't realise that they have to be outside where the birds are.

[BrowneIssue]

I can't recall whether it's an urban myth, but I once heard a story about a chap that ate a massive packet of bombay mix to accompany his beer, and it swelled up into a mass that had to be surgically removed from his stomach.

Research to confirm the authenticity of this is left as an exercise for the reader.

Nah. I don't believe it.

Can you imagine it happening to you?

Nor me.

[FiveTimes]

DD1 made a clock at school - she brought it home yesterday - it looks good.

Just put 1 AA battery in and it works.... then number 8 fell off !!!

[FiveTimes]

Why is that?

What are you expecting?

Is it something big?

Is it something good?

Post 2 letters.

1 to Oz (New baby card) and the other is sending on some re-directed post

[FiveTimes]

someone has broken cover

[BrowneIssue]

Bravo

Thank you.

That's a lot more eloquent than my response the last time some yoofs tried to hassle me. Again they were showing off to some girls, but chose to do so when my kids were present. I wasn't impressed.

Pathetic, isn't it?

I was a little tulip as a teenager. I wrecked stuff, broke stuff, pinched stuff, burned stuff but would never have dreamed of hurting an individual.

Except for

OK. I was a little bastard.

But we didn't go out in gangs to terrorise people nor beat strangers up. Just some other little gits that needed some 'education'.

[BrowneIssue]

I need to pop to John Lewis to dump an old TV as part of a trade-in against a new one for my parents,

It is wrong to swap your parents in part-exchange for a new TV.