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Tea and warmed danish (with added almonds for Spacey) served now!

Afternoon Keaydian - see Bunny replenished the Guiness, so thought you would be in before 4!

Hello all, Socco is back again after a terrible experience for a person of my sensibilities. I had to get into the Cafe through the ladies loo again, that new lock system will have to go, but this time I found the loo was occupied by a fairly substantial 'lady'. Regrettably I was held captive for 36 hours, well you can't blame her, I am quite attractive after all!

I have only just escaped and need a quiet period of recuperation, about 15 minutes should do the trick. If you see an embarassed looking 18 stone amazon around the place, you can expect that I will be something like 100 miles away in around 30 seconds flat. She did offer the excuse that she had over indulged the sherry trifle a tad, just about believeable.

It is good to back amongst friends again.

Hello!

Hello!

Oh dear, I'm talking to myself again.

Evening Socs, what a terrible experience ;-)

Good to see you survived and I hope your feeling better.

Yes, better now thank you Spacie. Good that it is the weekend again, time to rest and recuperate

Socco, substantial 'lady' who requires 36 hours of your attentions, even as a young man I would have faltered with those requirements. Must keep well away from the ladies loo, don't think I would survive the 'ordeal'....front door only for me :0)

Better have a pint of Guinness whilst I'm in here as Bunny as gone to so much trouble to renew the supplies.

Hello Opto.

I've just downloaded IE7 Beta 2 from Microsoft, seems to be working OK, bit different to IE6, but then it should be.

Hi Socco, my system is running well, not going to try anything different until it gets past the beta stage.
Have a Guinness :-)

Morning all, well we do seem to be getting a lot of rain considering we are in the worst drought for years....

We are of to Ashford to have a look at some bamboo flooring, what an exciting day ;-)

Spacie
Bamboo flooring sounds interestimg, what form does it take?

I like it!

Bamboo Flooring

Socs thats the stuff, its very nice and very hard but there are several finishes, we cant decide which one to go for. Probably the lighter stuff but the samples we have are about 2 inches square and that not enough to tell what it will be like in a house.

Apparently the ashford place has metre square samples !

It certainly does look very nice as an alternative to wood. I love bamboo and have a couple in my garden, but only small ones. Would like a big one, about 20ft, but could not run to the 100ft monsters that can be obtained.

Morning you two :-)

Wait long enough spaceman and socs will have grown your floor for you :-)

Rather grey here this morning in Inveresk.

Kettle on, croissants served :-)

Socs, I like the plants a lot as well, plan to grow some when we move to Norfolk as we have a biggish garden there (about 1.3 acre) I understand that its best grown inside a large container buried in the ground, this stops its spreading too far. Not that I know anything about gardens other than mowing ;-)

Morning jj, sorry I ate all the croissants, they were yummy.

Spaceman .. having dug a bamboo out, the container is a good idea .. they get out of control in no time! Your Norfolk garden sounds great - when is the move?

OK, off in to Edinburgh before the mob arrives.

Have a good day all :-)

Enjoy your time in Edinburgh JJ, say hello to the castle for me.

Hello all. I've just returned from shopping and resolved my access problem.

I was walking along the Cheltenham Promenade when I observed someone begging. He stood out because of his unusual technique, a variation on the "got any loose change for a cuppa, governor?" The variation was that he would grasp one ankle of the person he was addressing and suspend them upside down whilst shaking them vigorously. Hardly ever failed to produce a few coins. The fact that the beggar was close on 7ft tall and 25 stone, give or take a pound or two, also helped.

I realised that the giant was familiar and queried why he had fallen on hard times. Apparently, family circumstances had been bad and he had little aid from his friends and family. We had met a long time ago in the everglades when I had observed him sitting by the waters edge eating a sandwich. As luck would have it, he was attacked by an alligator and was having a difficult time of it, so being the perfect gentleman that I am, I immediately rushed to his aid and offered to hold the sandwich for him. After he vanquished the alligator, he still wears the alligator shoes today, he expressed undying loyalty to me. We lost touch when he was sent away to places various in the service of his country.

So that is how I found him, and he solved my access problem by ignoring that fact that the door was locked and walking straight though it, without a perceptable pause. I'll get it fixed immediately.

I thought he would be ideal as a general factotem for the Coffee Shop, he costs little to run, needing only food and a place to sleep. I've set him up in the old garden shed and he is happy as a pig in the proverbial. Treat him kindly, he is a gentle giant, but has been trained to terminate with extreme prejudice, with the minimum of force naturally.

His name is Hannibal Napoleon Prudence but he hates pretentious names so please just call him Pru. By the way, he is a committed vegetarian and teetotaller so the Bunny and Lamby are safe and so are the stocks of booze.

So much for the story, now, tea please Pru and a few biccies if we have any, thank you.

Just back from shopping for flooring, didnt buy anything quality wasnt right.

Welcome to the coffee house Pru, good to have you arround hopefully you can keep the place in order when no-one else is arround. your welcome to stay in the shed but please dont use the hammock as its not big enough for you.