Today I'm happy about......

[Bruce Rioja]

Drinking Goldschläger leaves gold in your biz too. I've been saving it up for a while now

That just made me smile. I've not heard that word in about 20 years. I'm going to make it my mission to resurrect it.

Anyone comes past me on a bicycle today and I'm going to tell them to 'Get off and milk it'.

Tell him the back wheel's following the front. Then, when he glances round sing:

''Made you look, made you stare,
Made the barber cut your hair.
Cut it long, cut it short,
Cut it with a knife and fork.''

"All join on if you want to play Army"

A mate of mine who's a teacher rejoices in the fact that kids still to this day stick their tongues into their bottom lips and stroke their chins, proclaiming "Ooooh, chinny" when they suspect that a fellow is being economic with the truth!

[thebish]

Today i am happy about beating thebish at facebook scrabble. It was only by 1 point, but such a rare occasion needs to be celebrated!!!

it's obviously coz u is a genius!

[thebish]

Today i am happy about beating thebish at facebook scrabble. It was only by 1 point, but such a rare occasion needs to be celebrated!!!

Very well done. He always whacks me by 100 points (though I don't know where he gets half his words from )

hmmm... not sure my words are any more obscure than yours!!

I still haven't ever come close to the obscurity scale of "RENDZINA"* for 115pts!! My obscure words are only two letters long - and that's because the game seems to allow just about ANY combination of two letters!

(Bruce-the-soil-scientist tells me it's a calcareous soil over chalk limestone! Doesn't everyone know that? )

[Gary the Enfield]

Today i am happy about beating thebish at facebook scrabble. It was only by 1 point, but such a rare occasion needs to be celebrated!!!

Very well done. He always whacks me by 100 points (though I don't know where he gets half his words from )

hmmm... not sure my words are any more obscure than yours!!

I still haven't ever come close to the obscurity scale of "RENDZINA"* for 115pts!! My obscure words are only two letters long - and that's because the game seems to allow just about ANY combination of two letters!

(Bruce-the-soil-scientist tells me it's a calcareous soil over chalk limestone! Doesn't everyone know that? )

Sounds like Greek Fire-water.

[bobo the clown]

I still haven't ever come close to the obscurity scale of "RENDZINA"* for 115pts!!
over chalk limestone! Doesn't everyone know that? :wink: )[/i]

I did !!

[Bruce Rioja]

Today i am happy about beating thebish at facebook scrabble. It was only by 1 point, but such a rare occasion needs to be celebrated!!!

Very well done. He always whacks me by 100 points (though I don't know where he gets half his words from )

hmmm... not sure my words are any more obscure than yours!!

I still haven't ever come close to the obscurity scale of "RENDZINA"* for 115pts!! My obscure words are only two letters long - and that's because the game seems to allow just about ANY combination of two letters!

(Bruce-the-soil-scientist tells me it's a calcareous soil over chalk limestone! Doesn't everyone know that? )

If you put my real name into Google it brings up some soil scientist from Cheshire. It's all in the name

[Gooner Girl]

I still haven't ever come close to the obscurity scale of "RENDZINA"* for 115pts!!
over chalk limestone! Doesn't everyone know that? :wink: )[/i]

I did !!

I'll play scrabble with you if you don't beat me?!

[Wandering Willy]

If you put my real name into Google it brings up some soil scientist from Cheshire. It's all in the name

You mean farmer?

[Zulus Thousand of em]

If you put my real name into Google it brings up some soil scientist from Cheshire. It's all in the name

You mean farmer?

I thought it was a euphemism for something a lot more exotic.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Today i am happy about beating thebish at facebook scrabble. It was only by 1 point, but such a rare occasion needs to be celebrated!!!

Very well done. He always whacks me by 100 points (though I don't know where he gets half his words from )

hmmm... not sure my words are any more obscure than yours!!

I still haven't ever come close to the obscurity scale of "RENDZINA"* for 115pts!! My obscure words are only two letters long - and that's because the game seems to allow just about ANY combination of two letters!

(Bruce-the-soil-scientist tells me it's a calcareous soil over chalk limestone! Doesn't everyone know that? )

If you put my real name into Google it brings up some soil scientist from Cheshire. It's all in the name

That was certainly true when I did it a few years back. However, it now appears to be - er - buried under others of the same name (including you Bruce).

[Beefheart]

Thought I had 50 quid worth of vouchers awarded to me from work, check my account and theres 100 in there! Someone must have given me some before I left in July. Slightly annoyed I found this out after buying the Soprano's box set on Saturday, will have to blow it all on other useless stuff on Amazon now!

[jimbo]

Living in Llandudno at the moment. Had yesterday afternoon off, and headed to the hills for a walk, and just about to do the same again. Beautiful

[Bruce Rioja]

Living in Llandudno at the moment. Had yesterday afternoon off, and headed to the hills for a walk, and just about to do the same again. Beautiful

Envious, mate. It's been perfect walking weather all week (and is due to piss down all weekend).

What a place to be walking, too!

[TANGODANCER]

Added this little fella to our growing collection of garden visitors. Male bulfinch (females have a mustard coloured front). Now got a host of goldfinches, two greenfinches, Robin, pair of blackbirds, bluetits, a coal tit and the normal sparrows and dunnocks.

[thebish]

Added this little fella to our growing collection of garden visitors. Male bulfinch (females have a mustard coloured front). Now got a host of goldfinches, two greenfinches, Robin, pair of blackbirds, bluetits, a coal tit and the normal sparrows and dunnocks.

nice one tango - never seen one of those in my garden - not at all common!!

I snapped this one up in Hartlepool:


mr bullfinch by revnev, on Flickr

and his missus:


mrs bullfinch by revnev, on Flickr

[TANGODANCER]

Nice pics Bish. Mine isn't my photography as I'll never get close enough and I looked it up after the wife spotted it through the window. Got a great view through binocs though and the colours are gorgeous. Not seen its mrs yet though and the wife spends a bomb on birdeseed. She has got quite knowlegable is a keen watcher.

[thebish]

Nice pics Bish. Mine isn't my photography as I'll never get close enough and I looked it up after the wife spotted it through the window. Got a great view through binocs though and the colours are gorgeous. Not seen its mrs yet though and the wife spends a bomb on birdeseed. She has got quite knowlegable is a keen watcher.

the female will only be plainly obvious when you see them together.. they don't have mustard-coloured fronts - just paler versions of the male... you might have seen her and not realised...

[Little Green Man]

Meh, I saw three of those rose-tinted feckers in a buddleia tree on the way to work the other day. With three from the female persuasion as company.

Actually it was quite a sight, especially as I was stood right underneath them and they seemed completely unconcerned that I was there (which, oddly enough, is not unlike the reception that I tend to get at work).

[The Axman]

Nice pics Bish. Mine isn't my photography as I'll never get close enough and I looked it up after the wife spotted it through the window. Got a great view through binocs though and the colours are gorgeous. Not seen its mrs yet though and the wife spends a bomb on birdeseed. She has got quite knowlegable is a keen watcher.

the female will only be plainly obvious when you see them together.. they don't have mustard-coloured fronts - just paler versions of the male... you might have seen her and not realised...

Bit like Bangkok, except there you need to swap the genders around and they do have mustard coloured fronts!

[Gary the Enfield]

Added this little fella to our growing collection of garden visitors. Male bulfinch (females have a mustard coloured front). Now got a host of goldfinches, two greenfinches, Robin, pair of blackbirds, bluetits, a coal tit and the normal sparrows and dunnocks.

Nice TD. Just to let you know I believe the collective noun is a Charm of Goldfinches.