It's a wonderful world if you pause to look around you.

.....bugger! I left the gas ring on. My bacon and eggs will be fried to a cinder.

As a postscript to my above meanderings , I should mention that my views of Utopia, Arcadia, Sylvan Scenes,Paradise ( whatever you wish to cal it ) are now totally obscured as I have now fitted a door on that particular loo and have to content myself by doing the Daily Telegraph crossword !
Gem,you are a little sweetheart too ! xx Openisland. Thank you for your nice remark. Sir Knight ? do you know something about the New years Honours list that I don't ?img src="imagesadultemoticons026.gif"

Indeed it is beautiful Fetch...img src="imagesadultemoticons013.gif" My landscape totally different at the moment but when I travel to new places...I always think we r lucky to have such a beautiful world. I just hope we take care of it for future generations to come :)

Cue for Louis Armstrong, perhaps.....?? :-)

Fancy a nice apple, Sir Fetch? :-)

Fetch,
As wonderful a vista that lay ahead,
For the sake of miss Corelli's dignity, and yours for that matter,
Keep that crapper door firmly shut when you take your morning constitutional...

In fact, scratch that... I see you more as the Grandpa Potts character, disappearing into your out house ready for your next adventure...

This is livin', this is style, this is elegance by the mile
Oh the posh posh traveling life, the traveling life for me
First cabin and captain's table regal company
Whenever I'm bored I travel abroad but ever so properly
Port out, starboard home, posh with a capital P-O-S-H, posh

Always a cabin on the shaded side of the ship - so your IPA didn't get too warm once the sun was below the yard-arm! Chin Chin! [just to mix the metaphor as it were]

Welcu,. Thank you for your contribution from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang..I too would like to pay a little tribute from that, to all the delightful ladies on here " You're my little Chuchi face, my Oochy Coochy, Oochy Woochy, Chuchi Face,every time I look at you I sigh " ( any resemblance to the late Gert Froebe who also played Goldfinger and sang that song with the hilarious Anna Quayle, is purely co-incidental)

Fetch,
Seems you and Openislandcpl make a chuchi, oochy, koochy, woochy pair....

It is a fun place Openisland and I hope one day we will have the chance to perform this little number as a duet.However, if you remember the film, the characters were insulting each other in a veiled way and trying to damage each other also. Perish the thought that I would ever stoop to doing such a thing and I can only request that you be gentle with me !img src="imagesadultemoticons001.gif"

Two fellows got chatting in a bar in Hawaii.The first guy said " I'm a tourist, do do pronounce the name of this place as HAWAII or HAVAII ? " The other chap responded " It's HAVAII " .." Thank you very much " said the first man to which the second man said " Oy Vey !You're velcome already "
( that's the only joke I know about Hawaii ! )

Fetch: I'm beginning to think you have an Oy Vey fetish :-)

shit i'm jealousy Fletch, stuck in a dump in China. yes with good people for company but paradise it isn't ....

China Mersey ? I thought you were in Kings Lynn which is paradise if you happen to have an addiction to Campbells Soup .xx