P&O Cruisers - What are things like where YOU are?

[grapau27]

1 hour ago, P&O SUE said:

Well as Sarah says it’s very wet and windy here, we did the best thing and went to very nearby Lynmouth for a roast with the most enormous Yorkshire puds! The river was noisily cascading into the sea! 

Nice lunch.

[grapau27]

55 minutes ago, SarahHben said:

That looks delicious, we had a roast but no parsnips. The sticky toffee pudding almost beat me, but I bravely soldiered on



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Looks delicious.

[Eglesbrech]

18 minutes ago, Vampiress88 said:

making? I’d love to be that kinda mum but after the miss polly disaster last year my kids do not want anything I have made. 
 

I need to get some good spooky cooking. Only thing we did was turn hot dogs into fingers and put red sauce on it. Amused them last year not sure it will this time round. 
 

our estate last year was awesome with Halloween and while we went trick or treating we just left a massive bowl on the front pathway for the others to help themselves. 
this is what we will do this year and we will go have a walk around seeing everyone else’s houses and pumpkins 🎃 

 

 

Why make if you can buy, back in the day it was make or nothing so take advantage if you can get off the shelf - one less thing to have to do. 
 

Im old school, I don’t do pumpkins it’s carved turnips instead - they smell amazing when they start to char.

 

There are loads of really easy spooky foods that you can just put together rather than having to actually bake or make as such, just google for ideas. An easy one is white marshmallows with a smarty stuck on with chocolate as the iris then some red gel down the side to look like blood (You can make gel with raspberry or strawberry whizzed  up with icing sugar). The gel is also good drizzled over white chocolate ice lollies to look like blood or use melted chocolate on the lolly / marshmallow to make a spider or spiders web - really quick and easy.

 

 

 

[Presto2]

8 hours ago, AndyMichelle said:

Sorry, just been a bit busy with work, difficult times. 

Just starting to feel the effects from lockdown really and having to plan for whatever is likely to happen next. 

Tough decisions that affects others does not sit comfortably with me, so not really been my usual positive self. 

We are fine though, thank you Avril and Graham for your thoughts. 

Andy & Michelle xx

 

Take care both and thinking of you with those tough decisions. 

[Eddie99]

Hope you’ll have a better week Andy

 

 

 

Here’s some funnies I’ve enjoyed today. Hope they tickle some others here.  I like clever humour

 

Mensa Invitational

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are the winners: 

1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time. 

2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an *****.

 

3. Intaxicaton: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

5. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future. 

6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid 

7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. 
(This one got extra credit.)

11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

12. Decafalon (n): The gruelling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

13. Glibido: All talk and no action. 

14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. 

15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and 
cannot be cast out.

17. Caterpallor (n.): The colour you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating. 

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The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.

And the winners are:

1. Coffee, n. The person upon whom one coughs. 

2. Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained. 

3. Abdicate, v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

4. Esplanade, v. To attempt an explanation while drunk.

5. Willy-nilly, adj. Impotent. 

6. Negligent, adj. Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.

7. Lymph, v. To walk with a lisp.

8. Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavoured mouthwash.

9. Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.

10. Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline.

11. Testicle, n. A humorous question on an exam. 

12. Rectitude, n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists. 

13. Pokemon, n. A Rastafarian proctologist. 

14. Oyster, n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms. 

15. Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

16. Circumvent, n. An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

 

[AndyMichelle]

All this talk of old technology... 

Andy 

[Josy1953]

1 minute ago, AndyMichelle said:

All this talk of old technology... 

Andy 

That is modern compared to the first TV I ever saw, I was 2 years old and visiting my grandad.  It was a very small TV with an appalling black and white picture but grandad was the first person to have one in his road and the house was crowded with neighbours who had come to admire it.  How things have changed, my nieces and nephews all have TVs in every room and think that we are strange because we only have one TV in the house.

[Eddie99]

Weather forecast for the SW looks a lot better tomorrow 

Stormy drama is all very well but you can have too much of it.  Fingers crossed for the holidaymakers

[AnnieC]

3 hours ago, Vampiress88 said:

making? I’d love to be that kinda mum but after the miss polly disaster last year my kids do not want anything I have made. 
 

 

Ah, I was that sort of mum too.

 

One year my daughters' school had some sort of fancy dress competition, so off I shot to the fancy dress shop to hire outfits. The big day arrived, and to my enormous embarrassment one of them won first prize. Just as I was slinking away, the most terrifying woman in the history of alarming PTA committee members approached and tried to appoint me head of costumes for the forthcoming nativity play...

[Adawn47]

2 hours ago, Josy1953 said:

That is modern compared to the first TV I ever saw, I was 2 years old and visiting my grandad.  It was a very small TV with an appalling black and white picture but grandad was the first person to have one in his road and the house was crowded with neighbours who had come to admire it.  How things have changed, my nieces and nephews all have TVs in every room and think that we are strange because we only have one TV in the house.

My grandma had a TV with tiny screen, there was more cabinet than screen. I remember that we would watch Charlie Chan and his honourable number one son. My first foray into crime drama. I was 8.

Avril

Edited October 4, 2020 by Adawn47

[Adawn47]

2 hours ago, AndyMichelle said:

All this talk of old technology... 

Andy 

That was like our very first TV when we got married. 

Avril

[wowzz]

Just got back from our Devon holiday,  via a stopover in Bath to meet family. Trip computer shows an average speed of 72 mph, once we left Bath so shows how law abiding I have been!  

[brian1]

Fancied a Ruby Saturday.We normally have chicken but had a load of king prawns in the freezer.Onion barjis,KP Madras,coconut pilau rice and garlic mushrooms all homemade except for the Pataks paste.

[Bloodaxe]

On 9/21/2020 at 10:18 PM, Bloodaxe said:

 

My Grandson is doing well thank you, we spent some time with him in the garden at the weekend.

We have to keep our distance has he will have to continue to be shielded for a while.

 

My Grandson has returned to school for the first time today, we are keeping our fingers crossed that all will continue to go well for him from now on.

Thanks to you all once again for your kind thoughts at this time.

[AnnieC]

1 hour ago, Bloodaxe said:

 

My Grandson has returned to school for the first time today, we are keeping our fingers crossed that all will continue to go well for him from now on.

Thanks to you all once again for your kind thoughts at this time.

Excellent to have some good news for a change - thank you for letting us know.

 

Very best wishes to him and hope all goes well.

[indiana123]

39 minutes ago, AnnieC said:

 

My Grandson has returned to school for the first time today, we are keeping our fingers crossed that all will continue to go well for him from now on.

 

 

 

Aaaaw  brings back memories.  The start of his great adventure. They seem so titchy/tiny standing there in their little uniforms.

 

Lots of good wishes to him.

 

[grapau27]

2 hours ago, Bloodaxe said:

 

My Grandson has returned to school for the first time today, we are keeping our fingers crossed that all will continue to go well for him from now on.

Thanks to you all once again for your kind thoughts at this time.

Good to hear your news.

Let's hope he has no more problems.

Graham.

[Adawn47]

2 hours ago, Bloodaxe said:

 

My Grandson has returned to school for the first time today, we are keeping our fingers crossed that all will continue to go well for him from now on.

Thanks to you all once again for your kind thoughts at this time.

I'm so pleased for him. He must be really excited now that he can go back to school. A big relief for you all.

Avril

[Josy1953]

3 hours ago, Bloodaxe said:

 

My Grandson has returned to school for the first time today, we are keeping our fingers crossed that all will continue to go well for him from now on.

Thanks to you all once again for your kind thoughts at this time.

Great news  😀

[Harry Peterson]

Good morning everybody.  Michael Spicer's been busy again:

 

 

[AnnieC]

Thanks, Harry.

 

Difficult to pick a favourite amongst his stuff, but 'Boris and the Bus' and 'Boris and the kipper' take some beating.🤣

Edited October 6, 2020 by AnnieC

[Harry Peterson]

5 minutes ago, AnnieC said:

Thanks, Harry.

 

Difficult to pick a favourite amongst his stuff, but 'Boris and the Bus' and 'Boris and the kipper' take some beating.🤣

Hadn’t seen Boris and the kipper. Thanks - have now!  With you on Boris and the bus too.

 

Hilarious - but seriously scary that we’re facing the biggest crisis since 1939 without any effective leadership.

[AnnieC]

17 minutes ago, Harry Peterson said:

Hadn’t seen Boris and the kipper. Thanks - have now!  With you on Boris and the bus too.

 

Hilarious - but seriously scary that we’re facing the biggest crisis since 1939 without any effective leadership.

Have you seen the Dalai Lama one? 

 

 

 

[grapau27]

Nice sunny morning 54°F.

I have taken Pauline's Renault Captur in for its first service and currently sitting in McDonald's next door with a coffee and Bacon/cheese flatbread.

[Adawn47]

2 hours ago, Harry Peterson said:

Good morning everybody.  Michael Spicer's been busy again:

 

 

I hadn't see these before until they were posted on here. I love them and I think he's hilarious.

Avril