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as long as it's only MAYBE

with most of the 'beers' they sell in the UK, i don't think people could tell if you had or not anyway.

which reminds me:
why is american beer like sex in a canoe?
they're both f*cking close to water!

well it rather tickled me the first time i heard it.

I heard a story about a bloke in a pub in Chichester who went for a wee and left a note saying "I've spat in this" and when he returned someone had addedd "so have I".

I hoard far too much (apparently!)

Great Plum wrote:I hoard far too much (apparently!)

how can one appear to hoard ? Or do you chuck things away when no-one is looking and keep boxes full of nothing to maintain a pretence ?
( it's Friday and I am entitled to be silly...)

Euterpe13 wrote:

Great Plum wrote:I hoard far too much (apparently!)

how can one appear to hoard ? Or do you chuck things away when no-one is looking and keep boxes full of nothing to maintain a pretence ?
( it's Friday and I am entitled to be silly...)

I think the future Mrs Plum has been saying things to him, that aren't always sweet nothings!!

Katharine wrote:

Euterpe13 wrote:

Great Plum wrote:I hoard far too much (apparently!)

how can one appear to hoard ? Or do you chuck things away when no-one is looking and keep boxes full of nothing to maintain a pretence ?
( it's Friday and I am entitled to be silly...)

I think the future Mrs Plum has been saying things to him, that aren't always sweet nothings!!

Quite possibly, and I am in complete denial that I hoard!

yes , dear, of course - now go and have a nice lie-down

I hoard (neatly ), too. Maybe this is a CH trait after all?

FrogBoxed wrote:I hoard (neatly ), too. Maybe this is a CH trait after all?

I'm trying to think why we should hoard? I do it too, it gave me great pleasure this morning to use something priced in Malaysian Ringgit - we left Malaysia 10 years ago this month!

I've no idea, why we do it. Maybe a CH education teaches us to re-use things? (Possible since most of the mattresses and socks were as old as the school! )

Maybe because we had few personal possessions there it helped to give us an identity outwith that of pupil? Or made our personal space (physically and in our head) less institutional? And you couldn't just nip out anywhere to get things. I'm sure a psychologist would say that it was the sudden and violent removal of the mother figure that produces the need for comfort objects. In their turn, the hoarded items become the nipple we suckle from. Then again, maybe they wouldn't say that at all! I'm a complete shocker for keeping things that are useless. We've just moved house so now is the great opportunity to chuck loads out. But what if we need ...

We hoard for my step-daughters! When we moved here 21 years ago we were "requested" to bring boxes of stuff that they didn't have room for. Now aged 47 and 43 they still "might need it some time". When the time comes for a nursing home, I can imagine a little room piled to the ceiling with boxes of what I know to be rubbish. There won't be any room for all my own hoarding. I still have my CH stoking darning mushroom-Can't remember the last time I darned anything.

That reminds me - I must go and take a look in my parents loft whilst I`m staying for a couple of days - I may not be an OB , but I`m a hoarder of sorts - they still have all my old school exercise books!!

midget wrote: I still have my CH darning mushroom

How many people would recognise one for what it is nowadays? I had a very high tech plastic one which had a torch inside it so that the mushroom top became translucent - it was confiscated as Miss Jenkins thought it really was a torch for nefarious activities!!!