General Chat

So it's not one size fits all then with Birthday suits....good to know....wrinkle free??

An all in one yep so cute :-)

My 'onesie' has very few wrinkles, but it does have extra padding :-D :-D :-D :-D

'The great thing about end-of-the-world foretellers is that their pessimism is always laced with optimism. No matter how many times they are wrong about the date of Doomsday, up they pop with another one'. :-S

That has definitely become bland, Dermott - there's been quite a few 'end-of-the-world' predictions lately.

...and I STILL haven't washed my kitchen floor :-(

....I can't see the point, if the end of the world is due....

Oh good reason not to stress over the floor cleaning nice one....

:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

No point now in rushing to spend your one & only old pound coin.

Speaking of the end of the world, a couple of things have happened recently that portend that event, and which have been so traumatic that I am only now able to put them on paper (not on loo paper though) :-D :-D

A couple of weeks ago OH and I attended a seminar regarding River cruises in Europe. This was held in a hotel in the centre of Bunbury.

A few days earlier, OH had been out for a birthday dinner with my daughter to another hotel in the town centre. For some reason I didn't go with them.

On her return OH said that renovations had been carried out, and that I would not like the result.

So, having attended the seminar, and my curiosity having been piqued we went to the newly renovated hotel with the intention of having a drink, and possibly a meal.

Walked in, took one look and walked straight out again. What had once been the most elegant hotel in the town had been turned into a 'trendy' pub with absolutely no character :-| :-| :-|

I have never before entered a pub/hotel without having a drink

The second event was a couple of days ago, when we went to another newly renovated pub. Ordered the drinks; OH was driving so I had a pint of a craft beer called 'Wild Yak'

On a recent trip to Fremantle I was introduce to this beer which has a wondrous 'hoppy' fragrance to it. This was reinforced at another local pub when we went for a meal on my birthday last March.

Back to the present. I took one sip and was nearly sick. Whatever the vile brew in the glass was it certainly wasn't what I was expecting. I suppose that in keeping with the 'Yak' range of beer it could have been heavily carbonated "Yak P**s'.

I couldn't finish it!! :-| :-| :-| :-( :-(

We'd spent $17.00 on a pint and a half of beer which we couldn't drink. :-| :-|

The whole saga of the 'renovated' hotels/pubs is for another post.

I'm still too traumatised to think about it at the moment :-D :-D

IF you have any of the old pounds then the RBL poppy sellers would take them...

true Allan

Trendy doesn't always go hand in hand with functional...

My 'driver' was served with a half pint of Guinness - that was half froth!!!
'Driver' refused it - barman said 'it will settle', which is when, I pointed out, at a quarter of a pint, and we walked out. :-|
I can't understand why English pubs stop serving dark ales/porter in Summer.
They still sell black coffee.

Maggie, with the most recent event I don't know which broke my heart more, the cost of the beer or the fact that I couldn't finish it :-D :-D :-D

Probably a double whammy! :-0

Poor Allan :-(

That could almost be a pun, Caroline, after I'd paid for the drinks ;-) :-D :-D

Except I'm not funny I've been told that at least once on here :-D

Fun is where you find it.

I can hazard a guess as to whom told you that :-D :-D :-D

The poppy - top left - arrived nice and early this year.

It did indeed, Joy.

Someone at GR must have been shamed last year into putting the due date into one of their steam driven computers :-D :-D

Allan I'm sure you would be correct in your guess :-D

I think they're hamster driven.
Poor hamsters.
(why isn't there a 'p' in hamster - they use their cheeks like hampers)