(Tuesday) With Jammie Dodgers of course. Or milk and Lieutenant Spoonierunning's coffee and walnut cake. Must try and get out for run today now broom handle and dustsheet curtains are up.
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or... - Couch to 5K
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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MarkyDGraduate
Hi Doz! In that case I prescribe a _flask_ of tea and 'A Suitable Boy' by Vikram Seth. That should improve matters.
I really hope that you got out for a run today, great for improving our spirits.
And just in case you were thinking of promoting me to Cultural Attache, I really enjoyed Metallica at Glasto (on TV, there was too much mud for me to consider attending).
That's probably the longest book on my book case too. Flask of tea? Now your talking! 
Come, come! Even if you find War and Peace too much like heavy going there surely must be space for The Count of Monte Cristo or The Three Musketeers. make space next time you're on the injury couch.
I do prefer The Golden Gate, once you've got the hang of the poetry element. Yorkshire Tea (and water) is the other essential. None of these poncey (sp?) infusions or tisanes. Cultural Attaché, there's a thought. I was pondering Drum Major but NCO MarkyD (Drum Major) doesn't have a good ring to it. Metallica also proves a bit of a problem in the 'cultural' designation. Orff, yes; Metallica, mmm?
AncientMumGraduate
Go for it Dozz. Domestic responsibilities surely need delegating to an AdC! ( not volunteering btw, have more than enough domestic responsibilities of my own!)
Happy running Sir
If there was one he/she/it would have been doing the 'curtains' in the first place.
lizziebeth57Graduate
If I may be so bold as to talk plainly to my superior and hope I am not risking my position as supplier of supplies, Get your shoes on and get out for a run, pronto
Well get you! All bossy so early in the morning. I blame the football. Can we start having matches that end after ninety mins. Does pumpkin patrolling count as exercise?
It's not the football. It's the pain of foam rollering, means I am on a short fuse! Pumpkin patrolling is of course one of the best forms of exercise - but you have to run there and back and use any largish pumpkins as weights 
Sunny here in Edinburgh so off to patrol my garden and allotment before getting down to some work. Have a great day.
Foam roller-ing? As in those things to make tress-y hair? I only have four plants out this year - hoping for bumper crop like in '12.
misswobbleGraduate
I am with you on the broom handle curtain rails. I have done this many time and find Bettaware cobweb getters are very useful in this regard. I did remove the fluffy bit off the end first mind you, I'm not a complete slob.
A must for all telly-based Wimbledon viewers is a ten gallon teapot and ten pound box o'chocolates
Will watch out for Bettaware catalogue for future reference.
Right, get your trail running shoes on (or walking boots) and run or walk up Pen y Ghent in the Yorkshire Dales. When you have done that, pop into the cafe of the same name and order a pint of tea. That should be enough!
There's a prospect! No time today but it's not far so will have to give the walk option a go soon.
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Please, take me with you...
It's been a long time since I saw Pan y ghent, let alone the cafe, but I have very fond memories....
Only if we can go to Dalby Forest the next day and play on Go Ape! Such fun!
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Can I bring the Scouts with me? We did something like that in France with the little blighters, and they had a great time....until they got stuck above a lake on a zip wire.
Totally unreliable!
Better drowned than duffers.
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'If not duffers' won't drown.'
'What's that mean?'
'I think it means yes.'
Excellent book and film adaptation.
The stage play was an excellent production. Went child-less, looked odd, surrounded by children appearing very confused by parents' sudden insistence they read the books.
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Never seen the stage version, but I know the story creates a certain amount of sniggering from children now. It's only a girl's name!!
Being called any number of names from books of yore could be equally snigger-y, of course. We have surely all read Famous Five.
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Not to mention the deliberately named characters in Captain Pugwash!!
I've always had a problem with these double entendres. Surely Ryan cannot have been so sleazy as far back as the fifties.
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No, he wasn't. It is an urban myth and came about from a now defunct newspaper suggesting alternative names. It, and the Guardian, were sucessfully sued by the creator for it.
The cabin boy was Jim (not Roger), there is no master Bates, but a master Mates and so on.
Your childhood memories can be fondly remembered secure in the knowledge that someone wasn't being silly.
Reassuring.
dozzer19Graduate
Yes, have you you seen the size of their 480 tea bag pack!
misswobbleGraduate
Yorkshire tea afficionado here too but I only drink the GOLD label as I is posh donchyer know. Yorkshire brack is the best thing out to guzzle with your cuppa! I am Derbyshire mind you so I shouldn't shout too loud about it as I don't know if it's officially allowed. Don't tell anyone will you. Ta ever so
GOLD! V fancy! You don't live in God's own county though.
dozzer19Graduate
Cor, yes!
dozzer19Graduate
Yes, Tressy was on the premises over in Isengard. Parachuting Action Man was more fun - he didn't last longer than a few lobs out of the window though. If Tressy had asked she may have been allowed to take part in the free-fall but she was too busy having her hair done. Now pull out of back string talking Action Man he was the ultimate.
Bazza1234Graduate
I didn't know that tea was grown in Yorkshire ??
Don't get clever with us. Your name still isn't down for the triathlon? Are you too pro now? Surely you fancy the challenge. We may up it to an Ironman for next year.
No point in me going in a Triathlon -- I can't swim!!!
Come, come. The rules say technical swimming is not necessary. Just some sort of flail in water. Corporal scruttons (phys ed div) is doing lessons on this eve and Ferd splashing ones through the week. Any chance?
dozzer19Graduate
Hey, no-one said stereotyping was the way forwards. Still are strange though.
dozzer19Graduate
Your A M might be a bit past it now. I do remember a Jeep. I think Tressy had a wardrobe? Or was that Sindy?
dozzer19Graduate
I dream of 5k but it seems so far distant.
dozzer19Graduate
Oh yes, the horse!
dozzer19Graduate
I can't do 5k in a row even if I slow to a walk. Then again I've not tried continuing at walking pace after 30 mins running. Maybe that's next step.
misswobbleGraduate
Oh scuse me haim sure (Wobbles off backwards out the door in a genuflucting kinda way, tugging forelocks at same time)
Nah I live near Yorksheer, and they let me in to the bit at the bottom sometimes as my niece lives theer.
Accent is improving. I assume it's the Derbyshire bit with Chatsworth and Bakewell pudding in so that's ok.
dozzer19Graduate
Right, am going to take up new training programme Couch to 3miles. Henceforth known as C23M
dozzer19Graduate
Cripes, Paul sounds a bit butch to have made it into our treasure trove.
dozzer19Graduate
But pops she's going to bring Bakewell pudding! Let deliveries take place!
dozzer19Graduate
More achievable. Can track distance more easily from home.
dozzer19Graduate
Not to mention Darren, Wayne and Kevin.
dozzer19Graduate
Will be advertised tomorrow.
dozzer19Graduate
You are aging us.
dozzer19Graduate
Shotgun the latter.
dozzer19Graduate
Duffers drown, pops. I'm not drowning.
Swallows and Amazons reference, Dozz?
That's right, well spotted.
shivashinnGraduate
I seem to be the only English girl who doesn't drink tea and I'm from Yorkshire too. I just can't stand the stuff but I don't do coffee either. It acually shocks the French over here when I say I don't drink tea.
Well as long as it's Vimto that's ok with us.
Do like Vimto but haven't had any for the 20 years I've lived in France.
I'm sure they must have a equally strange alternative.
Are you joining our triathlon? Only 90 mins exercise needed?
What is this triathon ? I might be up for it.
Thirty mins running, walking and biking. £1 to any charity. Any day/s in last two weeks of July. Full details will be going up again soon. Join us.
Well, I am french and I don't drink wine, and that usually shock the british!
Where's my latest argot?
c'est pas le Perou
It's not exactly South America. Best I can manage.
C'est une somme modeste.
Ça ne rapporte pas beaucoup.
Ce n'est pas grand chose.
Right oh, will try to commit to memory.
Where are you in France, I'm in Nancy.
Few years ago, we tried to settle in Saint-Die, but it did not work out. I'm now based in Sweden!
St-Die dans les vosges lol yep know it well not to far away
That's right, and Nancy is on the uk run from St Die, so we went through a few times. But my memory of it is getting monumentally lost for a few hours when looking for a van hire place.
agedsnailspaceGraduate
Oh, I so agree with you! Definitely the coffee and walnut cake rather than the Jammie Dodgers though (I was more of a ginger nut or bourbon myself). Jammie Dodgers always felt more Dandy than Beano... Thanks to a large stone taking a chunk out of my windscreen I had a chance of a lie in this morning, unexpectedly, so took the chance to nip out for an interval session instead. Very invigorating. Much more motivating than dust sheets with our without broom handles!
Now now, Captain poppypug (ents and haberdashery div) is the pretentious one around here.
dozzer19Graduate
Captain poppypug (ents and haberdashery div), adding cute to the sentence renders him soppy not savage.
dozzer19Graduate
The same I assume foe Doug, King of Pups and Rocksta.
dozzer19Graduate
I changed his name to Corporal Sparkly (electrics div).
dozzer19Graduate
Aah, a bloke budgie.
dozzer19Graduate
Stylish!
AncientMumGraduate
Poppy, didn't know you're a Yorkshire lass too. There are loads of us on here ( or do we just make lots of noise? )
God's own county!
dozzer19Graduate
Ha ha!
shivashinnGraduate
So sorry 
please forgive me
dozzer19Graduate
Yes, do join!
dozzer19Graduate
Or Julian's auntie.
dozzer19Graduate
Night pop and pups and fish and bird
agedsnailspaceGraduate
You beat me to it, Captain! I will retire quietly, put in my place, with my hurt mug of builders strength tea (avec un petit nuage du lait) with my little finger delicately held aloft...
Clara29Graduate
Long book: have you read A Fine Balance by R Mistry...? It's fabulous! Plenty of time for tea too....
Will make a note of that one.
Sorry posted twice - the first one temporarily disappeared! I am definitely more of a reader than a runner as a general rule. Only in week2 of the programme and not finding it easy!
Clara29Graduate
If you haven't already read it, try A Fine balance by r Mistry: fabulous tale and plenty of time for tea!
dozzer19Graduate
Pops!!! I just saw us on the Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony! Yeah! We have arrived!
dozzer19Graduate
Pops if you could see my running you may take those words back. I really don't know how to get faster without ending up incapable of standing. I don't know if it's the breathing, the running style or what. Poss I will do the whole C25K again from the beginning to work on faster short bursts to start with and work up again.
dozzer19Graduate
I'm going to win you know!
dozzer19Graduate
Sometimes non-stop anyway
dozzer19Graduate
Drat! You beat me! I should have called Alistair not Jonny.
dozzer19Graduate
As you would say - Pah!
dozzer19Graduate
Yup. I got silver anyway.
dozzer19Graduate
Grr! Do Rocksta and Doug, King of Pugs drink a lot of tea then? Am in Isengard. Must return to Smallville so Night pop and pups and bird
moonmarGraduate
I really enjoy these posts, but I haven't a clue what you are all on about
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