dolce far niente: you lovely lot

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for KAZ via dinah

staff. . .

friend. . .

hide. . .

with lots of love

XXX

for Vicus

(a breath of fresh air before more girly stuff)

planotexaslurker

why don't you have some fun in your spare time too!!

(the way to make it work is click your cursor on one of the squares and it'll light up a row in the direction that you think the word is. . .) (why is the phrase duly diana in my word search? and why is it that all the longandorjoinedupwords were going diagonal and criss-crossy and making interesting patterns originally and now they are just lined up in rows?) (*humph*)

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ok, so I tried again. . . did it work better? apart from putting the wonderful KAZ in twice, did I forget anything or anyone?

by popular request: as I'm sure you all know

chocolate is as complex as wine with connoisseurs comparing* vintages and defining terroirs. . . (*leaving the rest of us to just eat the stuff, without thinking too much about it)

so, let me indulge you with the Chocolate Library and together we'll educate our palates: the library comprises some exceptional "single estate" chocolate bars using beans from around the world. . . the choice includes Madagascan milk, rich and creamy with red fruit notes; the Quebredon coffee dark, with hints of vanilla, jasmine and coffee; and the salted milk, an exceptional pairing that really brings out the flavour of the chocolate. . . yadda yadda
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of course, the Philistines amongst you could always just pop down to corner shop and buy your own slab of Cadbury's Fruit and Nut. . .
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. . .but if you don't fancy anything that sweet this morning, I've picked a small bunch of flowers to brighten up your desk

(actually, that's quite sweet too, isn't it!)

chain-mail

ha ha ha

I thought that might grab your attention (well, not you. . . and I am only putting this image up since Dave's away this week, so he won't be offended. . .)

so, where was I?

oh yes, chain mail

so, I was sent this chain email, and I thought "but I don't do chains" but I was too chicken to respond to that effect, so I did my best and - lo and behold - various people braver than I wrote back to me (very politely) saying that they don't do chains and I admired their ability to be honest and wondered why I couldn't. . .

. . .and thru some bizarre loop of the internet that is betwist and between us, now it turns out that the person who sent me the chain mail in the first place doesn't really do them either
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so, there we have it
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I'm useless at responding politely and saying "thanks, but that's not for me!"

have a good day, shot!

well, I suppose that's better
than my saying I
hope your birthday lizards!

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XXX

and the winners are

in no particular order:

(small aside from the competition organisation: we didn't have the funds to buy everyone silver trophies so we settled for a variety of smaller cups instead; this was noted in the terms and conditions of the competition, which you would have agreed to at the time of completing your entry)

Ziggi, for ougging, a cup of coffee (so she doesn't have to get up and make one herself):

Mel, for whingull, and her prize is a cup with a lock (so nooone can steal her coffee):

dinah, for ganswant, the kind of cup that will last forever (a little like Old Welsh) (not the cup, the lasting forever):

Planet, for splammis, a cool and trendy kinda cup:

double double, for davist, a cup that looks disposable but actually isn't (hee hee hee - perfect spyware, eh):

shot, for zockbing, a cup he can put in his car so he can charge his phone while he drives:

Dave, for miggly, anyone coming up with a definition like that needs cheering up, so his prize is a cup

oops, sorry, wrong cup. . . Dave's prize is a set of new coffee cups (just in case he should ever have a visitor who drinks coffee)(and now he doesn't have to marry S-Bx on account of the coffee cups alone. . .):

mig, for achotocy, a cup of sunshine! cos she's so bright and cheery:

Christopher, for allhear, a really beautiful cup that he can admire whilst drinking its contents and as such be distracted from paying attention to the person rabbitting on:

and the overall winner is. . .

the overall winner:

shot for Bill

the judges were trying to find sexy/trendy/funky overalls (geddit?) but this was all they could come up with:

COMPETITION TIME! in honour of the catchpa

(don't know what a "catchpa" is! what? you mean you've never tried to save a word ver. . .) so, the spammers finally caught up with me

now much as I know that some of you like direct links to beautiful bodies, you'll all know that I don't like lurkers or those who make a poor contribution to the ongoing debates, here at the sweetness of doing nothing. . . and I much prefer to offer you links to those that I find beautiful. . .
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so, with the word verification turned back on, I thought we'd make the most of it: I'd like you to offer a definition for one (or more) of the following (I've already completed a few, just to inspire you). . .
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. . .wining definitions will receive a prize

achotocy: inspiration interrupted by serial sneezing (mig)

achotocy: rule by those with colds (Christopher)

allhear: medicinal herb recommended for those who rabbit on all the bleeding time and never listen to a bleeding word anyone else ever says (Christopher)

Bill - the brother of Robert (who is your father's brother, of course), who is NOT your father; example: "you simply shake the bottle, pull the tab, and Bill IS your other uncle!" (shot)

bumpreps: (1) things you do to your bottom to get it ready for bikini season; (2) people who promote pregnancy bodies (I,LTV)

cantswer: what you give the teacher when you have no knowledge about the question he just asked you (I,LTV)Davist: a prejudiced person holding a grudge against Dave (OO7 and a half)

excels: what Dave does - need I say more? (I,LTV)

ganswant: the desire to enliven or make more exciting, especially in ref. to social intercourse: “Rudiger droned on about statistical analysis all evening, filling Georgia with ganswant” (shot)

ganswant: noun - ancient Druidic initiation ceremony; from Old Welsh (dinahmow)

hoitions: two or more pretentious or flighty concepts, ideas or beliefs: “instant water packets and roadside pudding bins were just two of Rainer’s many hoitions” (shot)

ingshag: a chimaera - not what you expected (Christopher)

mel: a form of indigestion caused by eating too many llamas (Dave)

miggly: when someone makes you smile and giggle at the same time, you become miggly (I,LTV)

miggly: a sad person who is also grumpy (Dave)

notowism: maritime independence ethic developed from refusal to accept salvage(Christopher)

magneto: a cross between a magnum and a cornetto for the indecisive (ZiggZ)

ougging: hugging someone you really shouldn't (ZiggZ)

poddess: a female pod (Dave)

podess: the godess of female feet (mig) rness: a gaggle of nurses (Mel)

sings: not heard Mel and the lalalalllamamamama song yet?

spackles: the surprise left on the beach by the seagulls that did get the scrap, see also "whingull" below (Mel)
splammis: noun - Greek hotelier in inaccessible mountain areas (dinahmow)

splammis: a dumpy eatery's version of hummous and spam (planet)
thequat: noun - a little-studied branch of quantum physics (dinahmow)

thequat: noun, plural -s; (1) one who studies and analyses the various aspects of g*d and of g*d's attributes and relations to the four known universes; study of divine things in groups of four or religious truth divided into quarters; (2) a mixture or four religions or divine things; (3) a book, esp. a Bible, containing the same text repeated four times (shot)