Happy Birthday Joce

[Moo]

Golly gosh.
Ye turns yer back for one minute and nearly misses A Very Important Event.

Phew! Just in time!
Many, many happy returns, Joce.

You must now ring Chris at work and direct him to this thread so that he can see the cornucopia of PPUK good wishes. He will immediately realise that he must come home with something suitably glorious, because we will all want a full report tomorrow and will put a curse on him if he disappoints us.

 

[ilona73]

Happy birthday
I hope you have a wonderful day filled with surprises and nice gifts to enjoy.
xxx

 

[Nigel Watts]

Ilona - so nice to see you back.

 

[LadyArowana]

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Repeat twice ...........

Hippo birdie 2 ewe Joce

 

[FamilyWiggs]

I must admit Lady A, when I saw that first photo I thought you were embarking on a suicide mission - until I saw the others. Very droll!

 

[Penners]

Must think of dear Penners blood pressure

*Bluster* *Splutter*.....

Will you lot stop talking about me as though I were absent?

OK, it so happens that I was in fact absent for sufficient time to miss the phleeting photo (curses - an old man doesn't get many pleasures).

Anyway, to the business in hand:

Tum-ti tum tum tee tum
Tum-ti tum tum tee tum
Happy birthday dear Jo-oce
Happy birthday tooooo yooooooo

You should have heard that live. It was either heavenly, or like nothing on earth - I'm not sure which.

By the way, Your Ladyship, it took me a full three minutes, but.... excellent!!

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Actually - I count 7 sheep in that photo.

I only point this out to save Penners the trouble...

 

[Penners]

As if I'd be that petty..... :roll:








Well, OK. Yes, I probably would.

 

[JoceAndChris]

Oh, you're all just LOVELY. Thankyou. I've had a super day with Chris; drooling over 3 and a half grand chests in Stamford, and cockerels in Corby Glen, and getting massaged in Maggy Thatcher's old house, and we're now off to get gloriously drunk on champers.

Try to behave in my absence- difficult I know. xxxxxx

 

[Gareth Hughes]

O go on! You persuaded me to post my most ridiculous photo (the whole picture including my kind and indulgent parents is now on my FB).

(The remainder of this photograph is available only on production of a note signed by the local vicar, the chairman of the Watch Committee, and the Director of the PPUKE Department of Moral Hygiene, all of whom enjoyed it very much indeed and are currently having a lie down)

[edited to add an Oxford comma, which seems appropriate]

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Gareth,

Will 50 quid in used notes do?

 

[Nigel Watts]

Or a large quantity of Godiva chocolates perhaps?

 

[JoceAndChris]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I'm so glad someone is looking after my morals and decorum; I seem to have mislaid them years ago!

I like the cropped version Gareth - it's a lot more demure than what The Times did to purify the image, which was to paint bizarre snaking tendrils of hair over the offensive sections.

Or a large quantity of Godiva chocolates perhaps?

I'm definitely open to this kind of bribery.

 

[LadyArowana]

I like the cropped version Gareth - it's a lot more demure than what The Times did to purify the image, which was to paint bizarre snaking tendrils of hair over the offensive sections.

I'm sure your sections are never offensive Joce! Anyone who is willing to expose even the smallest amount of flesh to the elements deserves huge credit, I feel at risk of hypothermia in London even wrapped in many layers and with the heating on. My mood was not improved when Lord A informed me that it was "very hot today" in Singapore. I have made a mental note to play a game of hunter and baby seal with him when I get home. Anyone care to recommend the best form of insulation ....... for people :lol: ?

 

[Penners]

I have made a mental note to play a game of hunter and baby seal with him .....Anyone care to recommend the best form of insulation ....... for people ?

 

[LadyArowana]

:lol: :lol: :lol: I was thinking of thermal insulation for me, not PPE for Lord A. I do notice that the suit seems to leave a rather important area unprotected, not an issue with an honourable opponent, but against an angry lady with a club it might be a weakness.

 

[Penners]

Ah - there is/was a well-designed solution to that problem.

http://tinyurl.com/ydqjnzl

 

[Gareth Hughes]

I like the cropped version Gareth - it's a lot more demure than what The Times did to purify the image, which was to paint bizarre snaking tendrils of hair over the offensive sections.

Like this?

 

[JoceAndChris]

What on earth have you done there? Have you been decapitating me? (thought I felt some twinges earlier) The background reminds me of that terrifying M R James story you posted.

I think you've hit on my perfect narcissistic wallpaper though, great for all the undecorated cupboards I plan to turn into wardrobes.

Ah - there is/was a well-designed solution to that problem.

http://tinyurl.com/ydqjnzl

Thanks dear Mr P, those images were just what I needed to cheer my woebegone hungover state this morning!

I feel at risk of hypothermia in London even wrapped in many layers and with the heating on.

You, cold, in London? Get the skinny jeans on and get down the clubs of Leicester Square, plenty of volunteer insulators there if I remember correctly!

 

[Moo]

Oh, dear, Joce - you've got Gareth so over-excited that he's been at the photoshop again. Do be more careful, gal.