I love bananas infact im eating one right now love the show Chris.
alwys positive on a morning and this my day off time is an abstract concept for jsut one day.

Have good day Fiona

Good morning,
Your nice and early this morning Chris .Yes I to like banana's,infact going to have a fruit lunch including the yellow fruit.

Hope everyone is well on this nice sunny bright Wendesay ,me I thought it was Wednesday yesterday,Oh well!!!.

Have a good day all.

Bids.xxx.

I love bananas.

But they have to be slightly green. One speck of brown and they are too ripe for me.

I took one with me for my lunch yesterday but didn't get around to eating it, so it is back in the fruit bowl!

Its a lot brighter here this morning, with some real air to breathe at last.

Bids, I was a day out too, it isn't Thursday today is it? It feels like it should be.

MTF.xx

Mtf,Glad I'm not the only one .By the way all is OK .

Bids.xxx.

Morning all

Chris, love the show and like bananas because they are good for you.

Hope everyone has a good day.

Beautiful sunny morning here.

csn. xx

MTF -Keep the over ripe bananas in the freezer and you can use them later to make banana bread! They look horrible when you defrost them but they are perfect for baking.

There - that's my public service announcement for the day.

So glad things are ok Bids.

Morning CSN and Portybelle.

Great tip btw, thanks had never thought of that.

Mind you Mr Mobs will eat them, even when they have turned totally brown and mushy, ewwwww!

MTF.xx

Christoff yes indeed bananas are good for you; contain lots a potassium which as my aul Granny used to say, Keeps Your Blood i' Good Order.

Mind you. Said sadist used to make us gargle wit salty water, feed us cod liver oil an' buff us to within an inch of our lives wit carbolic an' a live hedgehog, so maybe eschew the things on them grounds.

An' another thing. They contain an enzyme which stimulates the appetite; so the value of their being a slow-release complex carbohydrate is off-set by the urge to consume a whole spotted dick an' custard within 30 minutes. Achtung on that one, my friend.

However. The true value of a banana is in the skin. When viewed in full aerial flight as projected by some eejit who's just slipped on the thing.

Hooray for the banana is what I say.

Clodagh.xx

PS. Llandudno has just bin' postponed to Sunday in favour of the State Visit of the Warfarin Nurse.

I know my place.

Clodagh.xx

PS. Chris. Punk started in '76. Oh yes. Trust me I've still got the scars.

Bananas are good but why do they make your teeth all furry! Where does the fur come from?

Morning CLP & ALL...

Bingo Star 'ere...

CLP - Hope the golf went well yesterday & all had a great time!!!!
Stoke Park where I believe the Justin Rose Charity event was being held looks such an amazing course!!!!!!
Yer lucky it wasn't near Liverpool with all the rain we've had up here!!!!

Banana's.... Am the same... always try to eat one a day & always have... but whatta coincidence... I INDEED ate two yesterday as I returned to the gym after being ill over the weekend with either tonsilitis or glandular fever!!!!!
Needed a bit of extra boost!!!!!!

A take it CLP yer had an extra one because of the playing the golf... talking of which... here's part 2 of me Wentworth day out..... I'll bang it on in a minute!!!!

Bye!

Bingo Star’s BIG Day Out At Wentworth:

Part 2:

So off I walked towards the club house where CLP & Max Clifford had disappeared to.
I love Wentworth, it’s basically a golfing playground for the wealthy!!!
At the rear of the clubhouse is the most beautiful small garden complete with the most bright aqua blue outdoor swimming pool surrounded by hedges & exotic looking plants.
Above that there’s a terrace where people sit to socialise.
And looking out as the clubhouse sits on a hill there’s a great view of the lower practice chipping areas, the adjacent golf course (not the main one) and behind that a large pond with two big fountains!!!
It really is a beautiful area… and you’d never realise your so close to London & Heathrow!!!

As I walked past the terrace there was a lot of people eating, drinking & chatting!!!
I couldn’t spot anyone famous but they all looked like wealthy people & I could tell many must have a lot to do with the top golfers… Maybe managers, coaches… promoters etc!!!
I felt a little out of place walking past… me with nothing but my small bag with my home made sandwiches & refilled Sanisbury’s water bottle!!!!
I did have a ‘brand new’ bottle of Lucozade though!!!! (needed it for all the miles that I’d walk later on around the course).
Not many spectators wander around the back of the club house but me being me… I had been on a mission to see CLP’s Ferrari Enzo!!!! Much more important than any golf!!! LOL!!!

I carried on around to the front of the club house, that’s where all the main golfing action was going on!!!
At the front there was hundreds of people, not too many spectators what with it being a practice day, but lots of officials, coaches, caddies, friends & family of the golfers and of course the all important men with the awesome talent of being able to hit a golf ball 300 yards & go around a course in par or less!!!!
Now you may think golf looks easy on tv!!!! A gentle old man’s sport many think!!!
Try hitting a ball yourself & going around a course & you will realise it’s one of most difficult sports to try master & play (and I use the word ‘try’ and master wisely!!!).
It uses so most of the muscles/ limbs in the body - it’s actually very athletic!!!!
In an aerobic sense!!!!
If you played one round of golf & your not used to it… you’d probably come off the course with sore feet, aching ankles & wrists…. Hurting back… sore hands and sunburn on yer head!!!!
And if that wasn’t enough… the next day yer forearm muscles would be killing like a severe workout at the gym…. And what would yer golf score be???
Maybe 40 OVER parr and 7 lost balls during the round!!!!!! (four of which ended up into the drink… aka ponds around the course!!!)
Mind you here with so many spectators around… carrying drinks… yer could end up in someone’s drink!!!!!

My advice to novices…. Stick to triathlons… it easier!!!!! (And aye, at least yer meant ter end up in the drink on part of a triathlon!!!)

As I walked around the front of the clubhouse… I could see Max Clifford having his photo taken with a giant cheque!!!
Must be some charity thing that he’s come for I thought!!!
I looked over to the practice putting green… and there must have been 40 or more golfers practising with their caddies & coaches!!!
These are the best at their sport form all over the world!!!
I went over to watch… see if I could get a few tips by watching them!!!!
Some had all sorts of funny gizmos & aids to help them improve their stroke & lining up to putt the ball into the hole!!!
You would think it would be so hard to bang a little white ball into a four inch hole from 3 feet!!!!

I thought to myself… ahh I could do that… I remember when I was 6 hitting a ball from over fifty yards straight into the hole at New Brighton’s pitch & putt course!!!!!!

I watched for a little while then off to the driving range where there was an even bigger hive of activity!!!
I picked a spot & watched in awe as these dudes effortlessly hit the ball hundreds of yards… perfectly straight every time!!!!
Some faces I recognised… but many I didn’t as there was a complete mix playing at this tournament… some 160 plus from all over the world!!!
Then I saw Ernie Els come out!!!!!
The world number 3 & one of my biggest golfing hero’s!!! (not just because he is big 18 stone & six foot 3!!!)
But because I have watched & admired him for so many years!!!!!
And the coincidence of when I had a lot of weekly golf lessons my coach, without even knowing Ernie was one of my favourite golfers, singled out BIG Ernie as the top pro I should try to copy… as we are a similar height/ build!!!!
Mind you Ernie Els is such a good golfer… I think he is everyone’s favourite!!!!

Up he walked… his nickname is ‘The Big Easy’ as he has such a rhythmic kind of slow action swing yet hits it miles!!!!
Up he walked to his waiting caddie who follows him everywhere… clubs all pristine & ready!!!!
As he walked up he amuses me as he sort of slowly keeps stretching from side to side… he has a laid back persona about him!!!
Nobody would think everyone is staring at him & he’s about to play in one of Europe’s largest golfing tournaments!!!
Then he started hitting balls down the range!!!!
First his wedges… slowly building up his rhythm & striking the balls further down the fairway!!
Then onto his irons… probably 9 iron first!!!
As he swung back in almost effortless slow motion (while most amateurs try & kill the ball to hit it far) then with no effort… down & through the ball!!!!
The balls were taking off… climbing so high… climbing perfectly where he was aiming for… then landing with a charismatic bounce some 180 yards down the range!!!!
No to any who know little about golf… this is amazing!!!
To hit a 9 iron 180yards!!!!
I’m a decent golfer but I’m lucky to hit mine 130 to 150... And that’s pretty good for an amateur!!!!

A few minutes later… out came his driver… the big baby of the golfers bag!!!!!
Smack… again effortless but the ball just kept climbing with every shots…. Right down over 300yards to the end of the range!!!!!!
I can only dream about how to hit a golf ball 350yards!!!!!
I’ve spent hours practising… having lessons, filming the tops pros on my camcorder… buying books… all in the annoyance of trying to copy these top professionals… and all in vain!!!!
The best I can hit it is 240 to 250yards!!!!!
Why do they make it look so easy yet it’s so difficult to get the swing correct I thought???
After years of playing golf myself & trying to get the swing correct… I know it’s all about timing and turning your body weight into the ball… at the same time delaying the wrist action (the late hit in golf jargon) then at the last millisecond uncocking the wrists as the club is about to strike the ball… this is what gives so much power into hitting a golf ball so far!!!!
But what is so difficult for most people to actually do!!!!
It’s just the chosen few who seem able/ lucky enough to be able to do it!!!!!

After ten minutes Ernie walked off… a short time to spend on the range but obviously a sign he was very comfortable with his swing & not much needed to work on - another sing of how laid back & talented he his!!!!!

I spent 30 minutes watching various different golfers around the range, could easily have spent all afternoon there watching some of the best golfers in the world practice their trade!!!!!

My goodness what a great day out I was having & I’d not even been out onto the course yet. I decided the course was the next place to go & watch some of the pro-am action!!!!

Part 3 I’ll bang on tomorrow!!!

RTT. Ah NO, yous are makin' the fatal mistake there of eatin' the banana's nose.

You know its nose. That little nobbly thing at the bottom. Ew pttth ptthh pah. Sets your teeth on edge, like eatin' chalk.

Clodagthhhhhpthh. xx

Good morning Chris! Re: bananas - love them on toast! But, just eating one on its own does not appeal. Funny how we are all different!

Hi to Fiona, Portybelle and RTT: welcome to the blog - please stay and join in!

Hi to everyone else: hope all is well. The weather in Glasgow is hugely depressing!

C xx

AND. Never eat a banana's nose unless yous want to spend the day wit a gob like one a them cushions wit a button in the middle.

C.xx

Plus, re bananas...

How many of you open them the wrong way?

We had some Ugandan students staying with us 2 years ago, who laughed when they saw how we opened our bananas!

The long bit where they are picked should be used to hold the banana by and you should open the other end!

Well I never, but I do now LOL!

Was I the only one doing it wrong??

MTF.xx

I say, I say, I say . . . .

Why are bananas never lonely?



































...Because they hang about in bunches . . . !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ere Chrissie; that photo of you an' me at Leeds that Mary took. You 'adn't just eaten a banana's nose 'ad yous? Hahahahaha how funny is THAT. 'Aven't stopped laffin' at it ever since it popped up on Faceache; the Brother-Outlaw said 'e knows exactly how you feel, 'e pulls that face every time 'e gets put next to my good self. Bloody cheek.

An' as for that close-up, Pip (or was it Scoobs), the GD thought that was hilarious. Me, I'm still workin' on addin' in the B roads an' service-stations. Ew.

Clodagh.xx

What is it wit hairdressers. I quote.

"Oh, hello; can you tell me if Henry has any appointments available today?"

"What time would you like?"

"Any time this morning?"

"'E's not in until Friday."

"Ah, um.. ok. Well that'll do."

"What time would you like?"

"Um.. let me see.. (thinks.) Early, yes, about half nine?"

"'E's only got quarter to five."

Ok.

Bless.

Clodagh Rubbish,
Dept. of Daft Questions,
Wigan Hairdressers' Association.

xx

Morning!

Chrissie & Seza - hope you didn't partake of too many gins last night!

bAG - thanks for the good wishes. Luckily we are not waiting for a big building company just a jumped up solicitor, lol!!

Can't beat banana sandwiches sprinkled with brown sugar.

Lovely sunny day in Cambridgeshire - the sun is shining.

AS x

It's like the executioner in Blackadder.

"And what is your job here, Missus Ploppy?"

"Oh, the prisoners can ask me for whatever they wish for their last meal. As long as it's sausages."

Hahahaha.

And that puts me in mind of the best line ever, by Edmund Blackadder after perusin' the shortlist for a new executioner.

"We shall have to improve on the last one, Baldrick. He was hopeless. Slash, slash, slash.. by the time he'd finished, we didn't need so much a spike as a toast-rack."

Marvellous.

Clodagh.xx

Clodagh: yes, that photo is a belter, isn't it? Looks like I had eaten a BOX of banana noses!

And you are just so right about hairdressers - drives me mad!

MTF: very interesting about how to open a banana ... but I just could not open one at its "bum"!

C xx

Morning all

Bananas, yum, I have at least one a day, firm with no brown bits!

Happy hump day everyone.

Pen xx

Well its bum is better than its nose, Chrissie. Trust me.

And am again reminded of the aul Granny, who, if you pulled a face at a nasty smell, she'd boom out, "Don't be soft. Your nose is too near your bum."

Clodagh.xx

I'm goin' to get that photo made into a set a coasters, Chrissie.

Marvellous.

C.xx

Bananas, with body parts!!

It could only happen on here. LOL.

MTF.xx

Clodagh: coasters, love that idea! You will save yourself a fortune on booze, because no-one will want to lift their glass and see my fizzog!

AS: not a single gin last night - we are all out of tonic. Just had to make do with a beer!

MTF: I know! CLP has no idea what he started this morning!

C xx

Good morning everyone from a pouring wet Ayrshire (yet again).

Unfortunately I only get to hear the show from 7 till just before 8 as I start work at 8, but I have to say this morning I could hardly eat my porridge (sorry Deevs, I know you hate the stuff, but I love it and have a big bowl every morning) because I was laughing so much at Chris during the Odyssey, Use it up, wear it out track, then again in the car on the way to work when he was doing the duet with himself, I just wish I could listen to the whole show every morning!

Hope everyone has a good day.

X

Gail.

p.s. I have a banana roll every day for lunch, today I'm going to peel it from the bum end!

Just thought. Top Tip.

If your avocado is rock 'ard, (nowt worse), pop said missile into a brown paper bag wit a ripe banana an' leave it for a bit. Hey Presto!

NB. It is not necessary to place said bag into an airing cupboard and forget about it for 3 weeks until your poor beleaguered daughter gets back from Ireland an' goes to get a towel out, whereupon she finds 'erself on 'er back an' grapplin' wit several species of arachnid an' an earwig the size a Darth Vader.

Clodagh Rubbish,
Top Tips Adviser,
Wigan Pest Control.

xx

Morning all from the roller coaster that is my life!

AS managed to stay of the gin last night by going out to dinner with t'girls. We all have children leaving junior school tomorrow (eek)so we were planning the next stage of our friendship over a couple of bottles of Rosé

Well done Gail, that last bit comes out so much easier too.

MTF.xx

Sorry, thought I'd lost that bit of my post then it appeared

It's going to be one of those days!

I've just spoken to (alright, sobbed down the phone to) my solicitor who is now saying we may be all go for the 28th!!!

I've now got to ring back the removal people I cancelled yesterday and see if they can pencil me back in!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Have had my banananannanana today, mostly because I couldn't eat anything else. Feel like I have a huge knot in my middle not sure if it's because of house stuff or leavers assembly this afternoon. Our lovely headmaster is leaving too so it will be hankies at the ready!

Hairdressers!! I've decided mine is phsycic!! She come round to my house and does me and the boys. I've been trying to get hold of her for about two weeks with no reply. Monday I finally gave up and drove into town to call into a random salon and ask them to tame the mess on my head. As I was parking the phone rang and it was, of course, my hairdresser!!!

Result, hair that looks slightly less like a explosion in a spaghetti factory!

Seza xx

Morning Chris and Fellow Bloggers,

I heart bananas and even if I do say so myself make a wicked banana cake!

Clodagh, Thanks for always putting a smile on my face when you post, you have a gift and when the bunkum are you going to write that book?? xx

Seza, Sorry that you are having a rough/emotional time but you did make me chuckle with the vision of your spaghetti factory hair - mine often looks like that. Big hugs to you {{{}}} xx

Hello to everyone else and a big hello if you are a newbie xx

I hate to say it but the sun is shining and it was 20.5 degrees in my car at 8:15am this morning.

AliB
xx

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Hello CLP and Everyone.

Bananas!

They are so versatile. They are the very first fruit that we are all introduced to, mashed. Banana shakes, banana splits, bananas and custard, banoffee pie, and bananas are the easiest fruit to eat. they are so good for us and can also be used for practical jokes.

You are what you eat and I eat bananas!

MM x

AliB: hiya, so glad to hear the weather is beautiful in my beloved Kent.

Seza: good advice from Clodagh (as always). You have a lot on your plate at the moment, but hopefully you will feel a wee bit better after you have cried your eyes out at the school this afternoon!

Gail: be sure to let us know how the banana bum thing works out!

C xx

Howaya Marj. Yes indeedy, unless yous are my mother Renee, (rhymes wit Mussolini), who famously never saw a banana till after the last Unpleasantness, an' thought the Kumquats were the Far-eastern equivalent of Delhi Belly.

Clodagh.xx

Hello CLP & fellow bloggers,

Hope you are all well.I see you are still making them laugh in the aisles Clodagh you little superstar.

Bananas. You should mash them and add to greek yoghurt. Yummy.

Thunder

Ok I shall eschew the ambiguous word.

Seza, I'm feeling for you in that the aul house-moving is extraordinarily stressful in any circumstances so keep the ..er.. the chin up and say Bother it, go 'ave a banana an' look at it as re-booting. Sometimes we have to relinquish control of things and you know what. It's not the nightmare you imagine it to be, and actually it can be a somewhat purging experience. But whilst it's happening it's scary, unsettling and horrible.

And the hair. Mine is like a busted sofa after bein' blasted all round the petrol station by the monsoon en route back from Holyhead yesterday. As I said. Last time I saw rain like that was when the GD an' meself were in Malaysia an' hired that open-top car, thinkin' we were Cool Chicks. Till we arrived back at the hotel like them two in the Arkansas Chugabug in our mobile jacuzzi.

By the crin.

That ok..?

Clodagh.xx

Or spread 'em on your face, Thunder. If yous want to convince your daughter you have a lethal case a scurvy an' can' possibly go to the Trafford Centre.

Hurrah.

Clodagh.xx

Morning Chris and bloggers

I pack a banana in Nics lunch box every morning and every night he ....

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Don't too many bananas give you constipation tho!?

Having a weird day thus far. The newbie in the office is driving me to distration. He's either incredibly thick (with a degree???) or just a lazy toad who can't be faffed to look for stuff when there's someone else there to ask (ie, me). Currently doing a bit extra on reception as the others are in a "meeting" (I think someone may be getting a talking to, to be honest).

Seza, hang in there. It'll all come good and you'll soon be settled.

Howdie doodie to everyone else. I'll be back later, promise!

Deevs
x

Seza - good news about the 28th! Hope the removal men can still fit you in!

Ali - did you have your injections for forthcoming trip of a lifetime?

AS x

morning all from sunny upstate NY. Hope you are all having a good Wednesday...... off to training in a bit......

Howaya Deevs. Now then. There's Intelligence and there's Common Sense. And the two don't neccessarily go hand in hand.

I work with two perfect examples. One is a Cambridge graduate with not the sense she was born with. The other is a chap who was expelled from school at 14 and with whom I'd trust with me life. If I was shipwrecked an' 'ad to choose which one to eat, well.. guess which one is for the chop.

Btw. It won't be ME. The ex-hubby tells me on a regular basis if I was a pigeon I'd 'ave 'ad me neck wrung by now. An' not for makin' stock.

Clodagh.xx

Howaya Bondy!!! Ere... 55 sleeps till the GD an' meself will be hurtlin' over The Pond in your direction, hurrah yippee wa-hey!!!!!

Clodagh.xx

Afternoon,

I can indeed confirm I have a banana every working day, usually at around 10 a.m. but as for the rest of what Deevs said...
I'll even eat then when they are over-ripe and dark looking but not when they are at the smelly and squishy stage!
Don't start me on the intelligence common sense thing - part of the Finance and IT functions where I work are out-sourced, some in India - pernickety (even by my standards!) and totally lacking in common sense doesn't even come close!

Nic

x

woohoo clodag........ where will you be going while you are here?

TTFN off to get trained......

Afternoon,

AS, Yes I did have my injections just got Yellow Fever to go and a course of Malaria tablets to take. I can't believe that in less than two months I'll be there...eek!

Does anyone have a recipe for Courgette Cake? I've looked on the CLP Bloggers page as I think there use to be a recipe there but can't find it. If you do can you email it to me if you are my friend on FB...ta. My Mum rang this morning to say that she was popping down to drop off some courgettes at my flat as they were over run with them. She already gave me four on Saturday so I guess I'm over run with them now too!

Slaters
AliB
xx

Many people have asked why golf courses have eighteen holes.

Hey Chris.

Interesting atke on the 22 hole of golf this morning. I had to check out the actual truth to this and found a webite ( ascottish golf history.net)stating:

The early golf courses all had different numbers of holes.

Leith Links had 5 holes in 1744 when the Honourable Company, as they would come to be known, held the world's first recorded golf competition and they added 2 holes later.

Blackheath followed Leith in having 5 holes and expanding to 7 holes.

Bruntsfield Links also had 5 holes at this time, but, because of space, could only expand to 6 holes in 1818.

Musselburgh Old Course had 7 holes for many years, added an 8th in 1832 and a 9th in 1870.

Montose Links had 7 holes by 1810; 14 holes by 1825; 11 holes by 1849; and 25 holes by 1866, though these were reduced sometime shortly after 1874.

This is the interesting bit though..........

St Andrews (Old Course) had 12 holes by 1764, and probably much earlier. The holes were laid out in a line and 10 holes were played twice - once 'out' and once back 'in', making a 'round' of 22 holes. However, in 1764, the golfers decided to combine the first four holes into two, which produced a round of 18 holes, though it was really 10 holes of which 8 were played twice.

Therefore, when Prestwick was built in 1851 with only 12 holes, it did not look out of place.

By 1857 however, St Andrews had put second holes in the 8 double greens of the Old Course, creating a proper round of 18 holes, and in 1858 the St Andrews club laid down a round of 18 holes for matches between its own members.

I did prefer the more romantic washing away of 4 links hole though

Lee

Ali

I have a recipe for courgette cake but I need to scan it in and email it to you. I'm out of the office all day tomorrow (off to sunny Doncaster for some training, gawd help 'em!) but can get it to you Fri pm hopefully if that's any helpage!?!?

Back in a mo when I've changed hats and desks.

Deevs
x

Bondy we're actually on a 6-day Shopfest in New York City as the GD's 30th. birthday treat; we're staying Downtown but have every intention of coverin' every inch a Manhattan an' some of the airspace as well, no doubt. An' this time we're in trainin'; there'll be no cryin' but heroically still shoppin', nobody doin' their back in an' nobody sleepin' outside the hours of 12 midnight-8am, on pain of the Attack Of The Tin Tray. And natch, last one able to sit upright on the bar stools in MacSorley's wins the prize.

Hurrah can't WAIT. An' I'm not as excited as the GD herself, who's in danger of spontaneously combustin', bless 'er.

Clodagh.xx

Deev,

Fab - ta Chuck, Fri pm would be smashing I can then make it over the weekend.

Ali
x

Blimey Lee. Who knew.

Actually I remember a marvellous tale about the GD when she went off golfin' with the then relatively new Hero Boyfriend. Now, as some of you may be aware, the GD is nowt to do wit me in the sporting arena; I've often thought of gettin' a DNA test to prove who her mother is. As utterly useless as I am at ANYthing that purports to be sport, she is a formidable force on the business end of a hockey stick, a tennis racquet or, to my unbridled delight, a shot-putt. Beat the boys at school at that one, hurrah.

Any road up, there she is on the golf course wit the boyfriend and 'is rugger-bugger mates. Gets to the third tee or whatever it's called that yous start off from, Bushack. Off goes 'er ball like it's bin' shot outa cannon. Marvellous. The HB is most impressed. However. As they progressed along the fairway thingy, no sign a the GD's ball. Everyone's searchin' for it, in the trees, check the bunkers, nope. No ball. Then somebody chirps up, "I don't suppose anybody's checked the hole?"

Eureka. HURRAH!!

Cost 'er father a FORTUNE in drinks. An' 'e's still mad jealous.

Bless 'er.

Clodagh.xx

Clodagh: just loving all your stories today - you must get that book organised ASAP! Sounds like a wonderful trip you have organised with the GD - I really do pray that some day I will be able to take a trip like that with MsS.

Lee: impressive, or what?! You know your stuff!

C xx

Lee - Most interesting facts there about how the standard 18 hole course was derived!!!!!
Must admit normally after i've played a round of golf & i'm having a round in the 19th hole as they call it aka the bar.... most courses are loft with more than 18 holes after i've played on them!!!!!

It's me many divets... am a 'eavy 'itter unfortunately!!!!!!

Plus it's not easy going around a course in 48 over parr!!!!!!!

More banana talk - Did you know that supermarkets when they buy in their bananas they are normally very under ripe aka green!!!!!
They store them until needed... then an hour or so before putting them out... they soak them with water.... as it ripens them very fast!!!!!
This really annoys me!!!!!
As they may look nice & yellow on the shelf... but it's what makes them go off so fast aka in less than 3 days when yer get them home!!!!!

I personally 'ate... sorry hate... over ripe bananas... can't stand the taste... so a try not to ate aka eat them!!!!!!

A nice just ripe is me favourite!!!!!!!

Just thought i'd share that with all in case yer wonder what tricks the supermarkets are upto to sell more bananas!!!!!!!

It's rip off Britain.... or should it be ripe off!!!!!!

Bye!

Bingo: please, don't get me started with supermarkets/retail stores/restaurants! I have heard stories that would make our hair curl, but I just go with the flow, and hope for the best! Yes, indeed, it's rip-off Britain, but also probably rip-off the world over!

Ooooh, where are those ranty pants when I need them?!

C xx

Afternoon

Just stopping by, very briefly...

I hate bananas!

Hope everyone is well

JG x

now come on JG, tell us how you really feel?!!!!

Tiggs xxx

Hiya all

Just had a quick catch up. sounds like everyone ticking along nicely

have survived the assembly, nearly lost it when the retiring head said he was pleased that our children had been his last year 6 because they were such a fantastic group of kids but held it together.

Bingo, loving the golf diary, sounds like you had an amazing day

Not sure about the banana's in the supermarket fact, they never did that when I was there. Bananas are often wet because they are kept in hot rooms to ripen them in the depot then if they get cold they get covered in condensation.

We did find a massive, ie call in the zoo, spider in one bunch! The lads on produce put in a coleslaw box from the deli til the zoo keeper came to collect it!

Laters!

Seza xx

Hi Tiggs

Love the new baby stuff - beautiful, You are clever!

One of my ladies at work had just knitted some little white hats for someone I know who's having twins. They are just like little fluffy clouds!

Seza xx

JG: #59: I like how you tell it as it is!

Susan: from yesterday's blog, I see you have started your new job! Hope all is going well - no doubt your brain will be "bursting" at the moment, but you'll soon get right into it!

Debs: still thinking of you - hope you are ok.

Hope everyone has a nice evening, I'm just getting ready to swim home now!

C xx

Bananas are not entirely healthy for you. As fruit goes it is quite fatty, and yes, they are high in potassium - which is fine as long as you balance it out with the right intake of calcium.

Tortoises love banana, but generally should only have very very small amounts as it can lead to soft shell syndrome (not easy to say when you've had a few).

In people too much potassium can cause deafness, tiredness, and even mental disorders - hence the saying 'he's gone bananas'. In extreme cases it can cause serious death.

Not such a cheery fruit after all eh?

On another note, look out for me on Top Gear in the coming weeks! No promises but I am currently residing in the residence of Captain Slow.

Quack

PTP

Hi All

Hope you've got your waterwings Chrissie ;-). It's still lovely and sunny here - although it looks as if there could be some clouds overhead.

Bananas - I like them but I am exactly the same as MTF, as soon as there is any black on them they are too ripe (nearly green is better).

Clodagh - brilliant set of stories today - when is the book coming out?????

Welcome to the newbies and ((((hugs))))) to everybody.


Last day of course and EXAM!!!! tomorrow - need to get an early night after some revision.

Laters

mtd ffb xxx

mtd: how could I forget to wish you well? Hope everything goes ok for you tomorrow! Will you be able to have a very small glass of red before retiring this evening? And, yes, I have my waterwings at the ready! Honestly, the rain is coming down in lumps here!

xx

All this talk of bananas today, I went out and bought some (just right in terms of ripeness) and was just eating one believing that I was being healthy, but then started to read Punky's post *64 and saw that if I eat too many, that the potassium could cause serious death!! Yikes! What's that and how does it differ???

;o)

Hope everyone is well.

Beany
x

thanks Seza
that lot are flying over the pond to my sisters niece

Tiggs xx

Beany I'm wit YOU, mate.

Ah NO. THAT'll be why I wake up every mornin' lookin' like next door's tortoise. Shan't be botherin' wit that wrinkle cream after all, then. Just stop eatin' bananas.

Any road punky. I'd keep a bit a chilli sauce in for your soft shell tortoise. Yum. Mm mm. Mind you. A word to the wise. Avoid eatin' soft shell anythin' the night before a 15-hour flight back from Singapore.

Clodagh.xx

Hello Again Bloggers.

As you are now my friends I will share with all of you the secret of my banana trick>>>

Take a needle and thread, sew through the five sections of the banana then pull both ends of the thread through the banana. Do this in sections down the length of the banana.

Place the banana in partners/childs lunchbox and they will be amazed to peel open a ready sliced banana!

MM x

Marjie I'm glad yous didn't pass that on before Doctor Killmore got a grip a my leg. I did think 'e was bein' a bit meticulous.

Clodagh.xx

Hello everyone - not had a chance to catch up GD has hogged puter all day

Chris - wanted to let you know that you can write a nice letter to someone in biro onto a banana - one of our bloggers has tried it - havent you evil twin! LOL

Anyway, Wedding yesterday was very lovely and the weather held (important as it was outside) I made a dignified exit at 6pm - good job as the brides father found it great fun running me around in my wheelchair going "vrrrrmmmmm"!

Anyhoo - you will be pleased to know that I am able to start reducing the pill meds enough to have the odd chards meds instead

catch you tomorrow dear readers!
debs
x

Hi Debs

Glad to hear you can reduce the pain meds, hope you start to feel lots better soon

Looking forward to seeing you again, soon as we can

Sarah xx

Oh dear, did I break it again?

The screwdriver's here somewhere

hang on...............

That's it Seza - I'm back!

Just had dinner and now back in the room in time for Celeb Masterchef. Mind you it will probably be the only one I get to watch until it's repeated in Saturday Kitchen.

Of course - 'cooking doesn't get any tougher than this......'

mtd ffb xxx

MTD Good luck with your test tomorrow. Have you enjoyed the course? Is it a new direction for you or adding to your "skill set" as they say?

Seza xx

Adding - I already have the foundation certificate, this is the intermediate certificate in software test analysis - most employers of test analysts ask for foundation as a minimum so this should look good on the CV.... I need to think about taking the practitioner exam after that, but that can wait for a while.....

btw I need good vibes between 2 and 3 tomorrow afternoon. Thanks all....

mtd ffb xxx

Woohoo! Big storm here!

Not keen on more rain, but hey-ho!

Mr JG has gone into to hiding, really scared of storms and I'm fighting with the dog to make him stay inside...

Well, have already fed Mr JG his fish finger sangers ...

But OMG, have never seen rain like this in this country...

JG x

Evening CLP from a rather soggy Edinburgh,

All I have to say is that bananas are the devils work: yuck, yuck, YUCK!!!!

Hope everyone is ok, hugs to those who need them, and for those who don't!

Rx

If there is one thing I love to do is watch a storm, I don't particularly like being out in one, but a storm at night is beautiful.

Your dog is unusual in wanting to go outside JG - our dog used to find the smallest place to hide from storms and fireworks, one night during a storm we were woken up by an unusual alarm type sound. The storm itself hadn't woken us, the dog had been round the OH's side of the bed and knocked the receiver off the phone.....

mtd ffb xxx

MTD, Good luck tomorrow!

My old dog used to hide with Mr JG, but this one is just weird full-stop!!

He likes fireworks too...he's grumpy from being kept in! Won't even go upstairs to keep Mr JG company..

Well, my tea's ready, so will go and dish up...

JG x

Woo-hoo JG how fab was THAT. Great big bolt a lightnin' right overhead an' CRASH bang wallop. Marvellous. I LOVE a good thunderstorm.

Mind you it sends Renee a bit nuts. She's not so fond. Thinks she's goin' to get zapped by lightnin'. I've told 'er stay off the golf course an' don't sit beneath any trees wit the colander on 'er head an' she'll be fine, but she's not entirely convinced. Apparently 'im down the road, you know, Missus Whatsiname's son who keeps them whippets an' got into trouble for smokin' with the vicar's daughter an' settin' fire to the vicarage curtains; yes you know 'im, 'is father ran off with the woman from the post office who used to do the Amateur Dramatics, you know, she fell into the orchestra pit an' broke 'er front teeth, mind you it did 'er a favour; before that she could eat an orange through a chicken-wire fence, she was no oil-paintin' anyway, what 'e ever saw in 'er, mind you she kept that caravan spotless.. anyway 'e got 'it by lightnin' twice. That's why 'e squints like a basket a whelks.

Welcome to my world.

Clodagh.xx

Clodagh, i'll stick with the windows you give us onto your world thanks

JG I don't want to tempt fate but we could really do with a bit of rain here, looked like the sahara out there! A storm would be good too, it's very stuffy here

Seza xx

Is everybody else having probs with FB tonight? It keeps hanging for me.... grrrrr. Don't they know I have a farm to tend and a frontier to do whatever you do with frontiers to????

mtd ffb xxx

Clodagh, have you been talking to my MiL?? She rang to say she was going out on Friday, but would be back by four...

Me: Well I work until 5pm, so the earliest I'll get there is 5.30pm!

Then she tells me about all the various people I have never heard of that are going on this outing with her... Oh well!

I know she is doing us a favour by stopping here, and for some reason she thinks it's a holiday, so bless her!

JG x

Seza, please help yourself to our rain! We have more than enough to share!!

It was a real cracker wasn't it Clodagh? Dog loved it, he watched from the conservatory, and was just dying to get back out there...
as he is now! Stupid dog!

JG x

We should get 'em together, JG. I bet your MiL knows Missus Whatsiname an' 'er son wit the whippets an' acne. Is she on Warfarin? If so they could 'ave blood-swappin' parties an' frighten each other to death outdo-in' ech other wit the Operation Stories. Missus Whatsit 'ad one a them Outside Body Things in the operatin' theatre you know. Saw a big white light comin' right at 'er, oh yes. Till the nurse realised she was stood on the lever of that hydraulic trolley thing. An' as for Gladys Grimshaw. Never bin' the same since she went out for a fag in 'er 'ospital gown an' walked right past that big fan just as the 342 bus went past.

Actually let's not. The thought is givin' me a migraine.

Clodagh.xx

I wonder if Biggles is out there too.

Isn't it funny how some dogs just love 'stuff' going on.

Sorry for late entrance, I got back early, but have been having a 'critter' discussion on fb.

MTF.xx

Another 2 fat ladies post!!

MTF.xx

Present company excepted of course, yikes!!

MTF.xx

That'll be Renee an' JG's MiL, MTF. Like Les Dawson an' Roy Barraclough.

xx

Actually, she's not on anything, despite needing to be...

She won't go to the GP, and her son, Mr JG's the same, he's been sent home from work today as he keeps being sick...apparantly he's been like this for over a week, but didn't think to mention it until now!

It's not food poisoning, actually from what he's said, it's his hayfever/asthma, but he is refusing to take his tablets!

Have told him to go to his GP, or take his tablets, but got met with a "Pooh-Bear stare"!! :((

Oh well, you can only do what you can do....

I need my bed now, so, night all!

JG x

Hi MTF, and Clodagh, you describe them perfectly! LOL

JG x

MTF, hope you removed all of it!

csn. xx

Legs an all CSN!

MTF.xx

Clodagh, sounds like you have quite the action packed time planned....... just don't look up and stare at the tall buildings and you'll be fine....LOL

MTF, they are horrible blood suckers!

csn. xx

Ah tanks, Bondy. We've been several times before actually, but we just can't get enough of the place. No matter how much time you spend in NYC, you always have to leave something out To Do Next Time; I always return with the aul batteries charged.

As for the tall buildings, it's to my eternal regret that the GD never did the Twin Towers. Her first visit was Christmas 2000, and having got waylaid in Century 21, that was one thing we were Going To Do Next Time. Obviously it never happened.... but what an experience it was, standing on the glass platform on the 110th. floor, looking straight down at the pollen-like specks that were the yellow taxis beneath. Made all the hairs at the back of your neck stand up. The buildings were slightly naff, seventies-style, not as interesting as the Empire State but the view from the top was infinitely more breathtaking. It seems hard to believe that the horror that was 9/11 was almost 9 years ago; how the world has changed since then. Somebody once described the post-9/11 skyline as 'A sad sight; New York City missing its two front teeth.' And indeed it is, even to this day.

Ah well. Best get off to the scratcher for me 55th sleep, hurrah!!

Clodagh.xx

Clodagh, I had dinner at the windows of the world restaurant (on top of the twin towers) and stayed at the hotel across the road from them less than a year before the whole thing happened. New York is New York, and where the skyline has changed the city is still the city...... lots to do, etc. etc. etc.......

Ah Bondy, so you must've been there when I was? Ah, we could've passed on the street bless us!! You mighta noticed me hangin' about Battery Park in the basque an' leather mini-skirt....That wasn't YOU in the fire engine was it???

Yeah, right..

Clodagh.xx