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Yorkshire Lad wrote:

lizzytysh wrote:Just reverse their 83 and you've got your 38.

A LOT of dogs!


Lizzy very observant as usual and what a strange coincidence . I am trying to work out if there is any significance to it !
YL


Lizzy
It took me a while but I've worked it out . They have been married a lot longer than us !
Phil

It's gotta make you wonder if they've managed that by doing things the reverse of what you do ... "the significance"?


~ Lizzy

phil......i know i have previously mentioned this here and elsewhere the subject of the LOCAL yorkshire wines i see on offer in the bar of the west yorkshire playhouse...on my last visit i took a photo of the wines on the bar (see below) and have been doing some research and much to my astonishment discovered that it's not some yorkshire trickery but there does indeed exist a thriving yorkshire wine growing industry.. the wines on sale at the theatre are from the leventhorpe vineyard just outside leeds city centre...so bugger me you tykes not only grow blackpuddings but grapes as wel!!!!!!!

...whatever next.....derbyshire champagne?

http://www.sugarvine.com/leeds/feature_ ... ?story=173

....however i still have not found any evidence of the mythical yorkshire tea plantations

lizzytysh wrote:It's gotta make you wonder if they've managed that by doing things the reverse of what you do ... "the significance"?


~ Lizzy

Lizzy if your theory is true then I can only conclude that theirs' is a traditional marriage where the wife does all the cooking cleaning and housework because the opposite is the case here . Jean sits on the sofa drinking cans of lager watching football while I toil away ! It's a hard life but someone has to do it .

Ken
We not only grow blackpudding and grapes side by side but we have developed a new plant that is a cross between the two . We call it a "grapudding ". The skin is a bit tough but once you bite through it the juice of the fruit is blood red and delicious The only problem is a bunch of them weigh a ton
Happy days
Phil

Yorkshire Lad wrote:

lizzytysh wrote:It's gotta make you wonder if they've managed that by doing things the reverse of what you do ... "the significance"?


~ Lizzy

Lizzy if your theory is true then I can only conclude that theirs' is a traditional marriage where the wife does all the cooking cleaning and housework because the opposite is the case here . Jean sits on the sofa drinking cans of lager watching football while I toil away ! It's a hard life but someone has to do it .

That reminds me - the other day I was spreadeagled on the sofa with a can of lager watching the football on the TV and pondering my future and I said to Liz;
"If ever there's a situation with me that something bad happens and I am comatose and there is no hope I want you to cut off all liquids into my body and then switch off my life support system"

She grabbed my lager and threw it out the window then, with great force, put her foot through the TV screen.

Maybe she misunderstood me....

Pete

... or maybe not, Pete . "When will they ever learn... ohhhhhh, when will theyyyyyyy ever learn... "

And, Phil, I typed my entire response to you yesterday afternoon and when I clicked Submit, it all disappeared... I wasn't logged in, yet had been able to reach a Reply screen. Go figger . I just abandoned it for the day and went to the Royal Manor Vineyard to buy a bottle and listen to some live music, instead. I toasted you and your dishpan hands, of course... the least I could do given the distance.

Anyway, it really doesn't seem that the ultra traditional scenario you describe is what got that couple to 83. The one you describe in your own life, however, does lend some understanding as to why you seemed so keen to leave Jean abandoned to those sweat shops a while back.

Now, in your response to denise's comment:

denise knowles wrote:Now come on yorkshire lad, everyone know's it is alway's the WOMAN who is giver, and the MAN who dose all the taking. You may not realise, but you could have just started WORLD WAR THREE with that remark.lol:

The approach you've described below may be working against you:

Sorry Denise
You are quite right because when my lovely Jean read the post she GAVE me a big whack across the back of my head and I sat there and TOOK it !
YL

The next time you're confronted with a behavioural choice, you might want to try standing up and taking it. That successful couple has been around sufficiently long to have been the originators of the well-known phrase:
"Stand up and take it like a man."

And while we're speaking of all this, I could never really buy your bags filled with gold explanation for the sweet shape of your legs. From what I've read here, there seems to be a lack of corroborating evidence. The cache of gold story does hold more appeal to a man, though, I must agree, but I'm more inclined to weigh in on their being your body's adaptation to maybe, at one time, having tried my suggestion and, as the situations continued to arise, fatigue set in and you tried to get by with half-standing; and, as Jean smacked you back into sitting to make her point that these were but half-hearted efforts and unacceptable, you finally just gave up and remained sitting.

You can't just half-step on this stuff, Phil. Who knows how many additional marital years you could secure by changing this one seemingly minor choice. Stand up and take it like a man, Phil, and please let me know how it goes.


At your wedded bliss service,
Lizzy

........can somebody tell me is this the 'just when i climbed this whole mountain (wales 2009)' thread or is my computer playing up?

ta ken

Ha ha ha Ken, you are a gas man!

You know how it is with mountains, lots of little nook , crannies, paths that lead to other places and paths that lead to nowhere.

I think, I come from one of the nooks an crannies, because I have sneaked into this Thread, and I love reading whats you all up to, If I had known about your mountian climb, I would have loved to have joined in, ( even though it probley would have killed me. ) I look on this as a real life soap opera. Thanks for putting smiles on my chops.
P.S Yorkshire lad, Please tell me where I can find the wonderful cusine of grappudding from. it sounds MMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmm yuk

tinderella wrote:Ken, you are a gas man!

I was going to say that Ken should be able to fix a dodgy old boiler if he is a gas man, but instead I will tell a(nother) terrible joke, that I just really like:



what shoud you do if you see a spaceman?



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park in it, man!

denise knowles wrote: P.S Yorkshire lad, Please tell me where I can find the wonderful cusine of grappudding from. it sounds MMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmm yuk

Denise
The fruit of the "grapudding" is very much like this thread in that it is a unique and rare phenonomon which should be experienced by as many people as possible . The people that first found this wonderful fruit guarded its precious secret with their lives determined that only they should enjoy the experience. However as time went by most of these people realised that the fruit of the "grapudding " should be available to anyone who happened to stumble across it .
This made that community very popular among the rest of the world because they were seen as a kind and tolerant tribe willing to share their good fortune of having come across such an amazing discovery .
So in answer to your question Denise I would say that the best place to look for the "grapudding " is in a place that has a temperate climate with tolerant conditions but also in an open position allowing it to grow along side other types of fruit with differing but equally interesting tastes
YL

I have give myself splinters, scratching my head, trying to come up with a witty retort, but I failed. Thanks for the reply anyway. P.S Does it mean I can't but them at Atherton market.

denise knowles wrote: P.S Does it mean I can't but them at Atherton market.

Please be my guest and butt whoever you please at Atherton market though I dont think you will find any grapudding there and you might get arrested for assault
Cheers
YL

Just notice what I had written, at least I made myself laugh, it took me 5mins to understand your reply, I thought it were you that were losing it, not me.

Very funny as usual Phil... I wish my brain worked like yours. Its great to have you here Denise, you are keeping our thread alive and well. Sometimes it falls asleep for a little while but Spring is here and then Summer so lets hope there will be lots more fun to read.

It is very hard to come up with witty replies when you see the quality of the wit on this thread but I always say there are creators and appreciators, we both need each other