Vignettes and Pets

[Milking Keynes]

Thanks very much, he's a real happy big thing, food, food, food. Never known a dog to appreciate food so much, but not just any old food, has to be cheese omelettes, fresh tuna/salmon/haddock, pasta, kebabs baked potato...the list is endless
He's worth it though.

I am actually dreading sending my Gem to the dog minder this year - like yours, she likes her food and it does not bear any resemblance to dried cereal food - she likes a sophisticated array of chicken, eggs and broccoli! Anyway, he is gorgeous with soulful eyes, your Buddy.

 

[Bobby Chariot]

I am actually dreading sending my Gem to the dog minder this year - like yours, she likes her food and it does not bear any resemblance to dried cereal food - she likes a sophisticated array of chicken, eggs and broccoli! Anyway, he is gorgeous with soulful eyes, your Buddy.

We have bought a dry biscuit sack of food for years, designed for sporting dogs.
Buddy only eats this in the afternoon meal now along with chicken or fish or whatever.
He decided that for breakfast he wanted pasta, omelette, veggies or whatever but no dried food.
Has us on strings

 

[Milking Keynes]

Just had to buy this today - because, you know, sin é Sinéad
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I can highly recommend this book. I wouldn’t call it a memoir or an autobiography - it’s more like vignettes or excerpts from a diary. It is warm, honest, funny, contradictory, frustrating and absorbing. I’m not a fast reader and I read it in two days. In parts it’s very poignant and sad as we see this quest for forgiveness for her childhood abuse but you get the feeling it’s closure she needs and is never going to get. You also get an insight into the music industry and, of course, the famous Dr. Phil episode. The tearing up of the picture of the Pope on SNL is interesting because the actual picture came from her mother’s bedroom wall. She had carried it around for years, on the death of her mother, waiting for the opportunity to tear it up as it represented child abuse by the church, ignored by Pope John Paul and the abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother - while keeping up appearances as a pious catholic - so it was deeply personal as well as brave. It resulted in being treated for decades as a pariah and shunned. She didn’t seem to mind as she was not about money or fame. Just as well, because by 2020 - after four years of not working due to a radical open surgery hysterectomy and resulting breakdown - she had 8k in her bank account.

 

[Hi there]

I can highly recommend this book. I wouldn’t call it a memoir or an autobiography - it’s more like vignettes or excerpts from a diary. It is warm, honest, funny, contradictory, frustrating and absorbing. I’m not a fast reader and I read it in two days. In parts it’s very poignant and sad as we see this quest for forgiveness for her childhood abuse but you get the feeling it’s closure she needs and is never going to get. You also get an insight into the music industry and, of course, the famous Dr. Phil episode. The tearing up of the picture of the Pope on SNL is interesting because the actual picture came from her mother’s bedroom wall. She had carried it around for years, on the death of her mother, waiting for the opportunity to tear it up as it represented child abuse by the church, ignored by Pope John Paul and the abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother - while keeping up appearances as a pious catholic - so it was deeply personal as well as brave. It resulted in being treated for decades as a pariah and shunned. She didn’t seem to mind as she was not about money or fame. Just as well, because by 2020 - after four years of not working due to a radical open surgery hysterectomy and resulting breakdown - she had 8k in her bank account.

Great review @Milking Keynes! Just added to my basket. Can’t wait to read it

 

[Namima]

Morning guys, sending everyone lots of positive vibes and love

 

[Milking Keynes]

Morning guys, sending everyone lots of positive vibes and love
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@Namima - great start to the day! Sending you back lots of love and positivity

 

[Geranium]

Morning guys, sending everyone lots of positive vibes and love
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Bless you, I needed that this morning! All love back at you xx

 

[Oops...]

My morning visitor. Peeping in at the scullery window. Although I am in a major coastal city, we have lots of protected wildlife that visit us on the daily - monkeys, mongoose, ducks, egyptian geese, storks. The monkeys love to peep in to see what's on the menu to swipe lol. The monkeys are able to push door handles down to open the doors - doors have to be locked ! The cats and dogs mostly just ignore the monkeys - although the monkeys love to interfere, very playfully, with Kaiser our German Shepherd. He loves it though !

I wish it to be known (formally) that since I am known (personally) to Kaiser that I am (frequently) able to offer my services as Keeper of ALL Wildlife in your beautiful paradise garden. I merely need a straw bed in one of your outbuilding and a permit to enjoy.

Thank you so much (bags packed subject to immigration, Covid, quarantine and anything else any politician could possibly imagine or indeed think of to deter me...)

Oh, this made me chortle this morning!

Can I just say a big, huge thank you to all of you for your warm wishes and positive energy and support for Anna during her exams. She only has one left - Classics - in ten days time. So she is pretty much done and got through it unscathed!

YAY! No migraines I take it? Classics? WHAT could be more head-bendingly easy? GO ANNA!

 

[Milking Keynes]

I wish it to be known (formally) that since I am known (personally) to Kaiser that I am (frequently) able to offer my services as Keeper of ALL Wildlife in your beautiful paradise garden. I merely need a straw bed in one of your outbuilding and a permit to enjoy.

Thank you so much (bags packed subject to immigration, Covid, quarantine and anything else any politician could possibly imagine or indeed think of to deter me...)


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Ha! Good morning, @Oops! I know, I am packed and ready to go too! The setting is paradise, so true, and did I spot a pool for us as well?! Bonnets by the pool...

With regard to Anna - Classics - I would say the favourite subjects of both my daughters, believe it or not! They like their Homer and it’s not Mr. Simpson (random fact - I can do a fantastic imitation of Marge “Homer?? Dinner! It’s Thursday - Meatloaf!”)

 

[fedup90210]

Good evening all!!! I'm BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCK!!!! Finished my exams today - it was horrendous, but job done. (Next semester I'm going to tackle things a LOT differently! You'd think I would have learnt after 5 years of studying.
Anyway...I've missed you guys a lot. Haven't read over what you lovely lot have been chatting about since I've been AWOL, but I did see a money in passing.... (@Namima !? Or was it Marcel from Friends that I saw - I don't know...my eyes barely work and I'm sure my head is in a fog).

Love you all. Not just saying that. Mean it. xx

 

[Milking Keynes]

Good evening all!!! I'm BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCK!!!! Finished my exams today - it was horrendous, but job done. (Next semester I'm going to tackle things a LOT differently! You'd think I would have learnt after 5 years of studying.
Anyway...I've missed you guys a lot. Haven't read over what you lovely lot have been chatting about since I've been AWOL, but I did see a money in passing.... (@Namima !? Or was it Marcel from Friends that I saw - I don't know...my eyes barely work and I'm sure my head is in a fog).

Love you all. Not just saying that. Mean it. xx

Welcome back, @fedup90210 and Well Done - you got through it like a trooper! xx We missed you!

 

[Miscanthus]

Oh that sounds too awful! I think just SO many of us have suffered at the hands of Narcissists and never understood it when it was happening. It can have a dehumanising effect that might sometimes last a lifetime. There is a lovely woman called Melanie Tonia Evans in Australia who specialises in treatment. She is a great friend of my friend in NZ who is also a much respected therapist.

I think the Lilibet thing might be a calculated step too far. It’s another signalling device which predictably has not been well received but there is a powerful argument they will use to say they did it as a mark of respect. They didn’t. When she runs for President and fails she may vanish into oblivion. I could imagine she will ultimately embarrass Harry by running off with a younger, penniless man in the future. Just for now the pity card is the only card she sees as viable. Its a bit embarrassing but when you are ‘under the spell’ and have had all the love bombing at the beginning you get drawn in. Then you become wrapped up in narcissism and coercion and you just can’t see it. He is fragile and damaged so the perfect target. He’s been sold a version of someone who doesn’t actually exist. She’s manufactured by her own imagination. There is a woman called Lystra in The Real Housewives of Cheshire who is a completely pneumatic, manufactured version of a human. To the extent where all you can do is cringe and thank Upstairs you are not them...Those production teams have a lot to answer for by trying to normalise distortion.

Well said. Totally agree with everything.
Catching up on reading this thread now my event is over! Please excuse me!

 

[Namima]

Well said. Totally agree with everything.
Catching up on reading this thread now my event is over! Please excuse me!

How did your event go @Miscanthus and how is the "naughty" toe ?

Welcome back @fedup90210 we missed you and @Oops...

 

[Miscanthus]

How did your event go @Miscanthus and how is the "naughty" toe ?

Welcome back @fedup90210 we missed you and @Oops...

My event was good thank you! Not as many people as we'd hoped but circumstances aren't really normal yet.
The toe is taking some getting used to. I've got a 'special' shoe that takes the weight off my toes but it's thrown my posture out and my back and hip hurt! It's better than crutches though...I thought I might injure other people with those!
It's the first time I've ever broken anything so feeling very sorry for myself!

 

[Namima]

Morning peeps !!!

@Geranium ... I was thinking of you this morning after seeing your post on Lydia's thread re apologies. You have such a soft, kind heart. Hope you are feeling well today. xoxoxo

 

[Geranium]

Morning peeps !!!

@Geranium ... I was thinking of you this morning after seeing your post on Lydia's thread re apologies. You have such a soft, kind heart. Hope you are feeling well today. xoxoxo

Thank you!
I’m ok. Hoping to get away for a little break next week.

hope everyone is doing well xx

 

[Oops...]

Just to let you all know that I am manifesting Namima’s monkeys to appear in my garden. I will keep you all posted.

Send monkeys
Send monkeys
Send monkeys - NOW!

 

[Milking Keynes]

Just to let you all know that I am manifesting Namima’s monkeys to appear in my garden. I will keep you all posted.

Send monkeys
Send monkeys
Send monkeys - NOW!

I’m helping you. I’m singing Daydream Believer as loud as I can! #manifestingfor@oops

 

[Geranium]

I’m helping you. I’m singing Daydream Believer as loud as I can! #manifestingfor@oops

Ha ha! I actually met Davy Jones from the Monkees. I was about 17 and he was doing panto in Liverpool. I can’t remember how or why but me and my boyfriend ended up going out for a drink with him. He asked me what I wanted and trying to be very grown up I asked for a gin and tonic. I was so naive I didn’t realise the tonic came separately and took a huge nervous gulp of neat gin and nearly died! He was so sweet and apologised for not adding my tonic in himself. It’s a lovely memory of a really nice guy.
The gin was a double and I ended up drinking it all, I floated home that night! Start of a lifetime love affair with gin ha ha!

 

[Milking Keynes]

Ha ha! I actually met Davy Jones from the Monkees. I was about 17 and he was doing panto in Liverpool. I can’t remember how or why but me and my boyfriend ended up going out for a drink with him. He asked me what I wanted and trying to be very grown up I asked for a gin and tonic. I was so naive I didn’t realise the tonic came separately and took a huge nervous gulp of neat gin and nearly died! He was so sweet and apologised for not adding my tonic in himself. It’s a lovely memory of a really nice guy.
The gin was a double and I ended up drinking it all, I floated home that night! Start of a lifetime love affair with gin ha ha!

Wonderful story! I love when celebrities turn out to be as nice as you hoped they would. I actually had my first gin & tonic last night - as I had, a little like you, a situation where I overindulged aged 15. I took glugs of gin believing that it would have an immediate effect. Unsurprisingly, before too long I was pretty bombed and had to be held upright by a few friends outside Wesley disco. I have stayed away from gin ever since.

Last night, though, my friend made me a G&T- Boyle’s Gin, Fever Tree Elderflower Tonic, Ice & very ripe Orange Slice. Well, I never, what a delicious surprise! Dangerously delish. I can finally put that awful memory to bed!