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skyewalker

14th August 2019, 11:40
I visited my doctrix who referred me to an orthopaedic surgeoness. At the hospital, the ward brother and all the other nursing staff were very kind and professional.
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jigjag

14th August 2019, 11:50
SW

I love it - clever. If you met a midhusband, hope he was good too
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skyewalker

14th August 2019, 12:35
Ha ha!
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grunger

14th August 2019, 13:24
I had a leaking tap this morning but the plumbress fixed it. The painter and decorator is coming tomorrow but he said he would send his assistant today to strip the wallpaper off the walls. A young woman has just arrived.

"Are you the stripper?", I asked, but she was horrified. "No, I am the strippress" she said.
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malone

14th August 2019, 19:58
Skyewalker - wonderful stuff, a great fun read! Mind you, the terms used are exactly the things I'd like to see abolished - female terms for male roles.

Jigjag

I think some words, terms are fine until we suit down and think about them. I don't really like the idea of someone 'waiting' on me, that seems slightly feudal! 'Serving' me isn't much better, of course, but at least there's no problem with the gender there. I struggle with actresses being 'actors', I think it'll be another few generations before that becomes normal.
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chrise

15th August 2019, 08:11
Amazon offer in my Inbox this morning - books 2, 3 and 4 of "The Dublin Trilogy" (by Caimh McDonnell).

Well, I suppose that they would be Irish!
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malone

15th August 2019, 13:48
Grunger

Your domestic tale really plumbed the depths... but I enjoyed it very much!

Chrise

I liked your Amazon tale too.
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orson

15th August 2019, 16:50
I heard on the radio today that something was "light miles" away. Eh? I replayed it on the internet to make sure I hadn't misheard.

Also, I remember a CD called The Only Classical CD You'll Ever Need Vol 2.
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malone

15th August 2019, 17:04
Orson, I think I might have bought the CD - I'd have chuckled every time I looked at it, played it.

The 'light miles' was … gobbledygook really!
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chrise

15th August 2019, 17:10
Worse even than using "light years" to mean "a very long time"!
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