Drowsily doing it our own Unique way…
We’ve received feedback recently that too much digression takes place on posts and distracts from the essence of the post itself.
Bridget and Aussie are guilty as charged! 
So, here’s our Cheese Board to cater for any fancy to digress a little!
Yesssss!!! Lets Digress all you like…
This post is a chat room! Just how kewl is that?
Do stop by AC & BJ’s for a chat (or a gossip!), share an anecdote or a joke, spit a dummy, let your hair down, put your feet up and have a laugh - all while sipping French champagne or Aussie beer.. On the house!
The only Rule is all things said here are to be taken with a ‘grain de sel’ and shot of Tequila and a smile…..
Logic optional. Sense of humour essential.
Naked Twister Anyone?
Bonjour et bienvenue messieurs dames! (hello and welcome ladies and gents!)
Amusez vous bien!(Enjoy Yourself)
HA!
We’re live! Kewl!
Hey, you put both chicks up! :)) Where’s the one that says eat fish ha ha?
I couldnt find it… but its a turkey…..
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Check the Forum
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What is that ‘B’ doing hanging out there by itself in the first line Chook? Edit please!!
Right, Dubai folks, heard about the new traffic rules?
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/08/03/02/10194135.html
sorted… and I foundthe other…. hehehehe.. every good chat room needs a little turkey
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Ouch - as if driving couldn’t be made any easier!
Do we smell a post BJ?
Hmm.. not sure Jem, the driving issue has been tackled a few times at Flowers already. Let’s see response here, and then maybe :))
No Chook what is happening with the new traffic rules…lol
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Hope you like when you get back….bloody work… how inconvenient…..
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Love it Chook :))
Basically the Traffic Dept. is saying I have to sell my car and turn into a full time pedestrian :(((
I can’t believe no one has stopped by AC&BJ’s since this morning except for Angie! Where is everyone? Allo? Allo? Y’a quelqu’un?
Mike, I have great news: I’ve found the book yooooooo-hooooo! Well, kind of. It’ll still take 4 days to reach me, currently traveling from one Magruby’s branch to another and transiting in its warehouse along the way! But at least we’re making progress! What chapter will have you reached by the time i get it?!
Why do you have to sell your car… where you a naughty chook?
Or is it something to do with being an expat????
chook no wheels…. arghhhh!!!!
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Naaahhh! I meant, the rules are so rigid, you might as well stop driving altogether!! You get fined for over speeding, you get fined for racing, you get fined for opening a door on the wrong side of a taxi!! Christ on a bike! Next they’ll say you ain’t allowed to put on your lip stick while flashing some snail driver out of the fast lane ha!
Where is everyone today? Gareth! Gary! Mike! Jo! Lib! Emma! Jem! Where are you all gone to??
Anyone’s going to Celine Dion’s concert on Wednesday btw?
Heh well done Bridget, prob about chapter 4. Phew for a moment there I thought I was going to be reading it on my own!
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Ha! Now, there’s a thought
Nah, a deal’s a deal mate! (I STILL haven’t got the book though…)
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL……… too funny!!
I’ll pop in again… just have to get to the forum… yummy… champagne……..
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Glad it gave you a laugh Angie, that’s the idea :))
I should no more clutter your posts with my digressions now.. hopefully!
welcome Ange…
feel free to wonder around make yourself at home…..
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Hi all… well it’s nice to see some more flower smellers joining in on the cheese board party… some more champa’s please
I also like the idea of a girls only forum… hmmm… the mind is ticking on that one!
How are chook and chook going then?
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Going strong Angie :))
he he, all of us female minds are indeed ticking on that one
Doing great Ange….
Topping your glass…
Might grab myself a stubbie
lol
hmm Kikoda huh?
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Hello - on my lunch break - GO! Smell the FLowers on one screen and an Excel Spreadsheet on another. No Champagne - only coffee
You two make me laugh - in a nice way!
Anon is Emma French by the way gang,
Now about that champagne….
Oh and AC -Naked twister, we’ve a left foot on blue and a right hand on yellow…
This could get messy and you two chooks are having a ball here.
Well its a tough job but someones got to do it….
Left wing on red
Drumstick on yellow
lololol
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Well - I didn’t think I was - I did put my name in. Deleted cookies (again) and seeing if it works.
I don’t really want to delete my cookies every time I visit - otherwise not much point in having cookies
I am using IE6 - a sin I know - but I have no choice. My company gives us a standard build - I only get IE7 when they deploy it as part of the build. So - maybe I’m going to have problems.
Anyway - nothing in comparison to the hoops Mike and I jump through to use the same laptop. And I know RYK et al are doing this in their own time, so I’ll put up with it for a bit.
Was that a good digression Bridget/Aussie?
Very good Emma, you are a total sport girl!
Coffee over presto! Hope you get the connection sorted out soon, it’s fun to have you at Flowers! And the more on the cheese board, the merrier!
Waiting for our fellow founder-of-Digression-Club to join in, he’s been gone for ages! ELTON WHERE ARE YOUUUUUUUU!!!!
Last one for now - what cheese would you be?
Me - Brie - Tough exterior, soft in the middle - smells if left for too long
Dont worry Emma we have the Champas on Tap…. Chook has connections….
:0
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This is kewl!
Hi girlies, love it! Sorry I haven’t popped in sooner but been in workshops this week
(Em here by he way)
This is making me think that we should have a girls only forum going!
Hmmm . . . would love some champers but all I have at the moment is a cup of tea.
This has really made me laugh - thank you.
Jim here,
Can you not distract Em from the housework please.
*Sound of a whip cracking*
Spoken like someone who’s been taking care of the house chores while Em was at her conference!!
Em, welcome and great idea about a girls-only forum! There are lotsa stuff Bridget wanna talk about, but with the lads around, she feels a bit shy..
Let’s bounce the idea off RYK! Can you hear us RYK? Give a voice to the girls, man!
seconded….
Can you imagine us sheilas with our own male free forum.. my goodness…..
Pass the chardonney…
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I read that as “with our own male forum”. Now. The images! Ha!
Cracking toast, Gromit…
shouldnt that be cracking post grommit??????
Pass t’cheese lad.
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Welcome lads! Nice to see you at AC&BJ’s!
Arvind, when are you stopping by?
Gary! Come out of hiding!
Elton! Just where are you?!
17 founders???? Have I missed something again?? Doh!
Its a bit like our IT supplier at work…. every time I go on holiday, my boss decides to buy a server (or something) so he now just asks when am i going away rather than trying to sell me something……
Jonathan.
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17 founders what did I miss….
puts a new spin on while you were sleeping….
might become nocturnal…….more…
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You don’t miss a trick do you- see today’s post, fresh on the mat!
got it first in as usual….lol
very sad with Blue…
will be missed….
hmm
we are loosing flowers need more fertilizer….
some pooting mix perhaps…
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LOL Jo! That’s one smart boss you’ve got there mate!
Hi ya all. No I’m not back, my computer is still down so here I am at AC’s place getting my fix!!!!
Now here is a whinge if I ever heard one. BLOODY TELSTRA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Aussie Phone Company) My phone and computer have been down for almost 2 weeks now - yes that’s right nearly 2 weeks and still it is no closer to being fixed. What do we need to do to get good service in this place??? They keep telling me every couple of days yes it will be fixed by the close of business today what a load of baloney that is!!!
Can someone please tell me how to get my computer back (short of plugging it in to AC”S house) so I can get my daily fix?? HELPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!
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that was kellie……
popping to say HIIIIIII!!!!…
Guess what my cat had kiitens yesterday afternoon….
four little things.. very cute…
only problem is we have no idea how as she was kept inside and away from any males… no male got near her… truthfully ask kellie….she had her own room and everything… its a miracle….. thinking of changing her name to Mary….lol
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You GO! girls….
Any more wine for me?
Here you go….
Take your pick Red or White… and heres your tequila….
Where have you been?
We have missed you…
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Chook! I thought that was Champagne and Beer only we served here?! Alright then, we’re diversifying! But the cheese stays French ha!
Any cheesy preference Fab?
Hi Kellie, welcome back and looks like you’ll be hot desking with chook….
How’s the wine and cheese? Is she looking after you? We picture the Oz soap, neighbours!
Wheres flick?
I think you should go pay the phone company a visit in person Kellie.. and bring AC and Moppet along.. they have a way of making the unreasonable see reason very fast ha!
I think thats a compliment…lol..
she did she put me on the phone to explain what happened and he basically called us liars…. oooooh that go down to well with this aussie chook…
so I gave him all the address of all the companies who attended the accident took out power line…. (problem she has is her phone and her internet is with two different companies… phone through Telstra and the internet through a Western Oz company) so the guy in WA called us liars nice public relations…not… anyway I gave times dates names and phone numbers of the people places involved in this as well as the utilities who were rectifying services including telstrawho is there service provider….. then threatened to seek legal advice for the slander against myself and said I was advising Kellie to do the same if action was not sort to find the problem… the company had been saying that she had been on the internet for the past 2 weeks and that her modem had connected and she had used around 600mb in downloads over that time…. which is funny because Telstra are still trying to fix the actual lines which were fried when the power poles where knocked down and sent a spike through the phone lines…
hmmmm
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Certainly was a compliment Chook! Do keep us posted on the outcome of the saga!!
she was told today no phone until the 11 march at the earliest… and the internet could be weeks away…. if we were closer to the city this would never happen…. she has to still pay for her line rental on the phone line and her internet no connect connection…. and there is nothing she can do… they did offer to down grade her connection speed to give her alesser charge.. at a cost of $20…. You probably heard it over there…
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cheese eh?
I am addicted to the stuff
current favourite is a hard cheese called burner which has chillies in it. ace.
occasionally I will feast on the worlds most famous cheese. dairylea- but in fairness thats a bit of a treat as it costs a bit too much. Its the second best cheese behind ‘cheestrings’.
LOL Dairylee…..
We’ve started adding blue cheese to curry.
Yum.
I’m about to start trying to cook paneer samosa’s
indian food and cheese- does it get much better?
Oh Sacrilege!!!
Nah, YUM!
Yum, paneer Makhani! sounds good. spoils the champagne though:(
BJ we don’t need to ask RYK about the girls only discussion on the forum, we just add it ourselves! It can be discussing whatever we want, and no boys allowed - unless they talk shoes, handbags, boys fashion and other things that we will save for the discussion.
What should we call it:
No boys allowed
Girly’s gossip page . . . .
all ideas welcome!
Good one Em :)) Girls’ Power! This Bridget still can’t access the forum, so you girls will have to start without her. Do get the debates going on the seduction power of red lipsticks and the sex appeal of in-your-face-muscular v/s tall and lean blokes!
btw,
the sound of the whip cracking was my whip getting Jim to polish my shoes (man’s job) and to take the rubbish out (another man’s job!).
As for house work . . . can someone please remind me what that means?
House work…
The concept of cleaning your house
only to have to do it again tomorrow
and the next day and the next….
A pointless job really and one which I for one avoid for as long as possible….
Unfortunately it does eventually scream clean me………
Bugger its calling me know….
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Tell me one around the house that’s not a man’s job huh!
is it lunch time chook #1
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Huh? No, why sweety?
saw the time and thought you might be on your break??? that was all….
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Nah, luckily not limited by such constraints
Anecdote: a woman won 2 tickets to tonite’s Celine Dion concert on a radio programme. She’s taking her cleaning lady with her as she’s a massive Celine’s fan. Just how sweet is that? :))
I thinks it lovely… how thoughtful of her…
I won concert tickets 2 tickets to joan Armitrading and 2 to chris Isaacs…they were on the same night…. so I let me eldest go with his Uncle to Chris Isacc and I went and saw Joan… She was the concert in history even worst than Shakin Stevens….lol
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That is sweet indeed
it gives the bloke a chance to get the bird he’s knocking off in work round for a session.
Flawed theory - The chick ain’t married ha!
got him….lol
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SO it should read
’spinster with no friends pays for domestic to suffer celine dion’
In for a quick drink
I saw Scottie today… it’s the first time since that nasty dog incident a couple of weeks ago. He is doing great and I had a little cuddle with him. I think us humans were more traumatized than he was. His puncture marks are a terrible reminder though and no news on where that dog has got to I’m afraid… I will be more than happy never to see him again!
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Nice to know lil Scottie is well, thanks for sharing Angie, you’ve taken to the spirit of the cheese board very well!
Gary will be pleased about Scottie’s news
great news about scottie - get him on the treadmill and he can surely have a rematch.
unless he’s chicken?
Hi Ange, yep we do seem to be missing each other, so heh I dropped into the cheesboard to see you.
It’s busy in here.
Whose round is it, I fancy a drink.
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Mike help yourself to one of these its all on the house….
Aussie Beer or Champas…. lol…
There is lovely cheese platter over by the bar….
Feel free to look around…..
Oh Ange I am glad he is good… such horrible thing to happen… but at least there is a happy ending to it… at least if they find the other dog it can be sorted….
dont forget to grab a drink ange sit back and relax….
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Ta AC I’ll have a Aussie Beer. Grab a drink yourself and watch this with me …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luVjkTEIoJc
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LOL Mike… I love it… Aussie… where are you… have you seen this yet? You will love it. Ahhhh the good old trekkies.
cheers Mike… I’ll drink to that one
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I love it… the dance scene is just hiilarious…
Thanks mike…
One more Beer I think and then I it might start making sence..
you know you have had enough grog when Monty Python starts to make sence… hehehehe…
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LOL mike, we like!
Easy on those olives - WAY too much garlic BJ
Is it me or are canadians re-training as pharmacists as the de-forestation means fewer jobs for lumberjacks? Whatever the ecological or social reasons, i just wish they’s stop sending me emails. I don’t want them and I don’t need them ha ha!!
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Perhaps this will help them on there way…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zey8567bcg
Grab a beer and watch this …lol
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LOL - I work all night and I sleep all day!
lol
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thought you might like……. I smell another aussies revenge coming…
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Okie Dokie was wondering what had happened to your car to get so much trouble….lol.. you arent alloweed to put your lippy on while drinving in the fast lane, or talk and text on your phone, or fix your hair, or paint your nails while driving down here… down right uncivilised it is….
Perhaps we scared them off….The Guys anyways… Jo had to travelfor a conference thingey…. perhaps the guys are lurking around back just wanting for the chance to jump out and scare us….
Not going to see Celine …. But Don McClean is is coming on the 26 March…. oh how I wish I was going to that concert… in Hobart….
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hmmm brie….Apricot rum and walnut, yumm!
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Kewl thread Emma, Bridget likes!
Can Mike confirm that Em is a Brie?
Mike! Mike! Where are you?
Bridget would be an Ossau Iraty A.O.C. As this is very French, I’m not sure you’ve heard of it? It’s only produced in the South West of France, in the Basque country.
Its characteristics: very complex but smooth flavours; creamy, not bitter, not overly sweet. Perhaps slightly nutty (
) with a gentleness and ability to please. Finishes rich and smooth… but takes months to age to that condition ha! 
nah that the one shot on tequila…. for the laugh….
only champas and Beer on tap…..
lol
camonbere I cant spell it but I sure can just eat it….
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lol…..
More Champas…. over here….lol
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And cheers to you Ange
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Hi I am back!!!!!!!! And yes I am back on my own computer with my own internet connection. As you are aware I was told 11th march for phone to come back - well with a few swear words and with the threat of them paying for my phone bill they have fixed it! Yes what was supposedly a 2 man job for a whole day became about 1 hours work and voila - a working phone!! It sort of happened by magic. So as you can imagine I was straight on the phone to Telstra thanking them and also asking for compo. Another story no-one can help me yet!! Watch this space!!
Cooooooool & welcome back Kellie,
RIPPER to have you back in the garden, us flowers need more Aussies!