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Midge gave me a day off yesterday but I'd better get back to work or she will be trying to take over the business!

Heat wave weather's here again

And I am sweltering hot

I've had to take my tie off

And happy I am not

I have my lighter jacket on

Don't want to take that off

For nearly eighty years now

I've dressed up like a toff

I'm getting rather breathless though

I should not wear a vest

I feel uncomfy without it

But I suppose it's best

You might well think this funny

But it's getting rather bad

The problem is as you may see

I've turned into my Dad!

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HungryHufflepuff profile image
HungryHufflepuff

My dad used to wear a tie for the longest time until he became known as Tie Man then he decided he needed to dress more casually! 👔

No warm weather here, of course. It's still 2-electric-blanket conditions here ⛄

in reply toHungryHufflepuff

I've a feeling I'll be envying you before this day is out. 😣

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Izb1 in reply toHungryHufflepuff

How do you manage HH with no warm weather, I couldnt stand to have no warmth from the day or sunshine to cheer me, its hard enough living in Manchester , the so called rainy city. Am hoping you take a good vit d supplement and thank goodness for electric blankets x

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HungryHufflepuff in reply toIzb1

Having moved from a place with hot sunny weather for much of the year, eating outside and growing veg and herbs, it’s still a shock to the system and I haven’t got used to the wet and windy weather here, where nothing in the way of veg etc grows. I do now take a good Vitamin D as of a few weeks ago, it’s one that 2Greys recommended, with I think K2 as well. Or was that the dog from Doctor Who?!

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Izb1 in reply toHungryHufflepuff

That must have been a culture shock to your system. How long have you been there? Hopefully things will settle for you. Funny when I lived in Hong Kong I longed for the cold weather, until we moved to Germany in the January and perhaps one of the colder winters, I was only there a few weeks when I started yearning for the hot weather ha! Keep up with the vits x

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HungryHufflepuff in reply toIzb1

I’ve been here 6 years now, longing for some sunshine after yet another very wet and very grey day 🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧💧💦

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Izb1 in reply toHungryHufflepuff

Aaaw hope it heads your way today, it was glorious here yesterday and is forecast for the same today x

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sassy59

It’s going to be a hot one here Don. You keep those wonderful poems coming and enjoy your day. Xxxx😘💖

in reply tosassy59

I'm so glad you didn't respond with a rhyme this time. You were giving me an inferiority complex! 😉😘

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sassy59 in reply to

Never!! Xxx 😘💖😘💖

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Hacienda

Morning Don & Midge. When I lived in a little Spanish Village, and everyone sat in the village Square, The Elderly Gentlemen would be in their Smart Attire regardless of the Heat, it is "Old World & Traditions" I would not like to see that Change. All Children would be left with them while young parents went about their way's and come back to pick them up in the knowledge that they were well Looked after, The gentlemen were never asked to "Child Sit " it was The "Norm" & acceptable, Some Traditions never Stop. Respect for all Our Well Turned out Older Gents. xxxx C.

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Yatzy

Yes, you’re sounding like my Dad, Don. He was very partial to his tie and jacket! Only ever saw him without when operating a sit-on lawn mower he had.

As he got much older, he spent a short respite time in a care home, to give my Mum a break. I called to collect him at last, and he was wearing a polo shirt and tank top, neither of them his own!! How could they be!! Staff had decided it was summer and used the clothes kitty box.

He’d lost all his personality! He didn’t know what to do with his bare white arms! My dad had disappeared!!

I reached into his case and helped him change back into his shirt, tie and eventually his jacket. He looked five years younger, very much happier, and most relieved to be going home!! And never went there again!!

Stick with your familiars, Don. Or we’ll never recognise you! Although occasionally there was big news at home....’Its so hot, your Dad has taken his vest off!!’ Wow, we knew we’d got a heatwave then....!!

Have a comfortable day ☀️☀️☀️ xx

in reply toYatzy

What a great response. Your father had a very understanding daughter. 😉

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Yatzy in reply to

You’ve made me ‘well up’ now! I did at the time too....! 😀

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skischool in reply toYatzy

I seem to remember my dad wearing a tank top jumper all the time and i believe there is even a picture of him with it on sitting on a camel somewhere in Egypt and not even sweating,so now i know where i got my heat resilience from lol,also he loved to wear a bow tie normally bright red being a mad professor type person.Happy Days :) x

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Yatzy in reply toskischool

Ha! These old Dad’s! I’m impressed yours got up on a camel- that wouldn’t have happened with mine...not an Egyptian holiday!! The war took him to the Med, but my Mum wasn’t keen on another excursion.

No wonder yours was game for a tank top and bow tie too....:-) Well done, Skis senior!! xx

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skischool in reply toYatzy

Dad was not an intrepid traveller and prefered tinkering with his scientific stuff in his garden shed,sometimes if good we were ushered in to act as guinea pigs in his experiments and we must have been the only kids in the street to have been gassed by homemade chloroform lol :) xx

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Yatzy in reply toskischool

Crikey! Quite an entrepreneur then! How come he was up on a camel in Egypt?? Sounds intrepid for the era to me :-) xx

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skischool in reply toYatzy

I think they had a cruise on the Nile in their short retirement before sadly they both passed away in their very early seventies and Mum would definitely have arranged it as Dad's idea of a holiday was a timeshare they had in Powys in wales. :) xx

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Yatzy in reply toskischool

Sounds like my fella! What a shame their lives ended though just as they were really getting going. I bet you miss them both, that was really too early to go :-! xx

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skischool in reply toYatzy

Very much so but like everything you only really appreciate them when they are gone and they were the nicest of people.:) xx

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Yatzy in reply toskischool

I bet! You’ve inherited their kindness. I know that :-) xx

Izb1 profile image
Izb1

Always a different line Don to keep us amused but so relevant. My Dad thought dressing casual was replacing his jacket with a tank top and that was wool ha! x

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SquirrelsHolt

Morning Mr.D and my lovely dad always wore his white vest and a shirt with tie(weekdays), so it seems like the expected dress code for all "toffs",lol😂

Thank you for this morning's chuckle,hope it's not going to be ridiculously hot this weekend - I will just melt!💞

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