P.Kyle esquire
08-14-2004, 03:21 PM
JF <jf@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in
news:JczFfFDmkyFBFw3i@marage.demon.co.uk:
> X-No-Archive: yes
>
> Helene, David, and her two lads, Jonah and Luka, not forgetting Matilda,
> a belgium shepherd, all arrived in 4-wheel-drive monster with three
> bicycles on the back at 1400 on Sunday and stayed four hours as part of
> their camping tour of the soft south. It was a hot, heavy afternoon,
> threatening rain and never managing it. They are a delightful family.
> The boys spent three hours in the swimming pool [1] before tucking into
> hot baguette pizzas and Italian ice cream. There's a drinks only
> refrigerator near the pool which they enjoyed raiding. Then they went
> into the house and all went strangely quiet because they had discovered
> how to work the TV and two satellite receivers. I heard the steerable
> dish give a couple of whirrs but I don't think they got the hang of
> that.
>
> Dylan and Thomas remained upstairs, emerging onto our bedroom balcony
> now and then in their attempts to sneer Matilda to death. She ignored
> them. A nice, mild-mannered, gentle dog with a taste for cat food. She
> took to following me around.
>
> Helene and David helped out with my surplus VHS tape problem by
> selecting about half a dozen cassettes. That job lot of a thousand tapes
> I bought was an embarrassing mistake -- there wasn't enough room for
> them in the library. Visitors are not allowed to leave without at least
> six tapes. She checked the age classification carefully and took
> Gladiator, Cat Balou and several others whose titles I forget.
>
> Helene is a lovely lady. Very petite and very feisty. Good company.
> She's certainly well tanned -- looks like a Hovis on legs. She has a
> love of horticulture. She and Chris wandered around the garden. Helene
> spotted the datura trees and told us a hilarious story about her 'trip'
> when she one drank some datura tea. I've smoked a small pieces of dried
> datura root by adding them to my pipe tobacco and have had mild
> hallucinations for about an hour but Helene's experience lasted several
> hours and ended with her being chased by giant beetles. Don't eat the
> yellow flowers. She liked the library/cinema, and the new wet room but
> couldn't be persuaded to take a piece of undrillable ironstone-like wall
> tile from the skip as a souvenir.
>
> They left at 1800 -- Dylan's and Thomas's teatime and my god, did we
> come in for some feline abuse for allowing a dog in the place when they
> emerged. Also we gave Helene a can of their Felix for Maltida's evening
> meal case Helene couldn't find a shop open on Sunday evening.
>
> [1] At 27 deg C the pool wasn't as warm as I prefer it. This was due to
> pool heater sitting on the garden table in bits because I'm fitting a
> set of new elements. A tedious, knuckle-skinning task which I've just
> finished.
>
Shut the **** up Nazi.
--
Phil Kyle esq.
http://philkyle2003.reachme.at/
"That's not cheese, it's the product of an unwashed foreskin."
- Craig "I like cheese" Oldfield
news:JczFfFDmkyFBFw3i@marage.demon.co.uk:
> X-No-Archive: yes
>
> Helene, David, and her two lads, Jonah and Luka, not forgetting Matilda,
> a belgium shepherd, all arrived in 4-wheel-drive monster with three
> bicycles on the back at 1400 on Sunday and stayed four hours as part of
> their camping tour of the soft south. It was a hot, heavy afternoon,
> threatening rain and never managing it. They are a delightful family.
> The boys spent three hours in the swimming pool [1] before tucking into
> hot baguette pizzas and Italian ice cream. There's a drinks only
> refrigerator near the pool which they enjoyed raiding. Then they went
> into the house and all went strangely quiet because they had discovered
> how to work the TV and two satellite receivers. I heard the steerable
> dish give a couple of whirrs but I don't think they got the hang of
> that.
>
> Dylan and Thomas remained upstairs, emerging onto our bedroom balcony
> now and then in their attempts to sneer Matilda to death. She ignored
> them. A nice, mild-mannered, gentle dog with a taste for cat food. She
> took to following me around.
>
> Helene and David helped out with my surplus VHS tape problem by
> selecting about half a dozen cassettes. That job lot of a thousand tapes
> I bought was an embarrassing mistake -- there wasn't enough room for
> them in the library. Visitors are not allowed to leave without at least
> six tapes. She checked the age classification carefully and took
> Gladiator, Cat Balou and several others whose titles I forget.
>
> Helene is a lovely lady. Very petite and very feisty. Good company.
> She's certainly well tanned -- looks like a Hovis on legs. She has a
> love of horticulture. She and Chris wandered around the garden. Helene
> spotted the datura trees and told us a hilarious story about her 'trip'
> when she one drank some datura tea. I've smoked a small pieces of dried
> datura root by adding them to my pipe tobacco and have had mild
> hallucinations for about an hour but Helene's experience lasted several
> hours and ended with her being chased by giant beetles. Don't eat the
> yellow flowers. She liked the library/cinema, and the new wet room but
> couldn't be persuaded to take a piece of undrillable ironstone-like wall
> tile from the skip as a souvenir.
>
> They left at 1800 -- Dylan's and Thomas's teatime and my god, did we
> come in for some feline abuse for allowing a dog in the place when they
> emerged. Also we gave Helene a can of their Felix for Maltida's evening
> meal case Helene couldn't find a shop open on Sunday evening.
>
> [1] At 27 deg C the pool wasn't as warm as I prefer it. This was due to
> pool heater sitting on the garden table in bits because I'm fitting a
> set of new elements. A tedious, knuckle-skinning task which I've just
> finished.
>
Shut the **** up Nazi.
--
Phil Kyle esq.
http://philkyle2003.reachme.at/
"That's not cheese, it's the product of an unwashed foreskin."
- Craig "I like cheese" Oldfield