Monday, January 11, 2010
Some Vulgarity in Dorking! Surely not!
Last Monday, when we were last in the shop, seems an age ago.
The shop has been shut for 4 full days - so obviously almost no sales during the last week.
Since last Monday we have been absorbed in matters of the weather.
There is still a lot of snow about, but apart from the very first part of our journey, we were driving on roads cleared of snow and ice.
However, we did arrive late at the shop - just got all behind.
I don't think we actually let anybody down.
The first job, once in the shop was to check the water supply.
Fortunately, Monika had already been in and heaters were on.
Bill crawled under the sink in our little kitchen and turned on the stopcock.
I apologise for using such words!
It seems that a mail I sent for Roger and Sue using the word stopcock was blocked by Sue's school because it was bordering on pornographic!
Oh hell I am at it again!
I am hoping that by combining the two parts of the word (as I see that perhaps they should be) my Email might get past the decency police.
Roger thought it was funny - but at the same time, a little worrying that children have to be protected from potential vulgarity in this way.
Children have always and will always seek out ways to be vulgar and utter rude words. And of course I was being neither vulgar or rude!
At risk of offending Southbroom School I will tell you a joke that as a 6 year old I thought was very funny.
A woman had a dog that went missing. The dog had, for some reason, been named Tits. The woman, desperately seeking her dog was asking people she met "Have you seen my Tits?"
Collapse into childish giggles!
Sorry, Southbroom School - this is what 6 year old children do!
Anyway - back to the stopcock.
The water supply was turned on and we found no problems in either the kitchen or the loo in the shed out the back.
We were in business.
It has been a pleasant day - quite a lot of chatting between ourselves - and Terry and Emma who came in.
There was lots of chatting too with customers - no, I change that word, for customers buy things and few of them did today.
By the way, Terry - if I don't see you before I hope that your forthcoming hospital operation on your knee goes well. I am sure we can look after any Thursdays you might have been down to do.
And I thank both Terry and Emma for buying 4 things from my sale.
I forgot to take my camera today. But there will still be a blog posting about the antiques centre. I think I shall use old Dorking postcards and hopefully some present day images from web sites to create a little something about the town.
We shut up shop about a quarter of an hour early and the drive home was completely trouble free.
The Met office website now suggests that we will get a little snow during tomorrow and maybe some heavy snow during Tuesday night.
The temperature will remain just below zero.
I see that on Friday they expect us to be bathing (not literally of course!) in the balmy temperature of plus 5!
The shop has been shut for 4 full days - so obviously almost no sales during the last week.
Since last Monday we have been absorbed in matters of the weather.
There is still a lot of snow about, but apart from the very first part of our journey, we were driving on roads cleared of snow and ice.
However, we did arrive late at the shop - just got all behind.
I don't think we actually let anybody down.
The first job, once in the shop was to check the water supply.
Fortunately, Monika had already been in and heaters were on.
Bill crawled under the sink in our little kitchen and turned on the stopcock.
I apologise for using such words!
It seems that a mail I sent for Roger and Sue using the word stopcock was blocked by Sue's school because it was bordering on pornographic!
Oh hell I am at it again!
I am hoping that by combining the two parts of the word (as I see that perhaps they should be) my Email might get past the decency police.
Roger thought it was funny - but at the same time, a little worrying that children have to be protected from potential vulgarity in this way.
Children have always and will always seek out ways to be vulgar and utter rude words. And of course I was being neither vulgar or rude!
At risk of offending Southbroom School I will tell you a joke that as a 6 year old I thought was very funny.
A woman had a dog that went missing. The dog had, for some reason, been named Tits. The woman, desperately seeking her dog was asking people she met "Have you seen my Tits?"
Collapse into childish giggles!
Sorry, Southbroom School - this is what 6 year old children do!
Anyway - back to the stopcock.
The water supply was turned on and we found no problems in either the kitchen or the loo in the shed out the back.
We were in business.
It has been a pleasant day - quite a lot of chatting between ourselves - and Terry and Emma who came in.
There was lots of chatting too with customers - no, I change that word, for customers buy things and few of them did today.
By the way, Terry - if I don't see you before I hope that your forthcoming hospital operation on your knee goes well. I am sure we can look after any Thursdays you might have been down to do.
And I thank both Terry and Emma for buying 4 things from my sale.
I forgot to take my camera today. But there will still be a blog posting about the antiques centre. I think I shall use old Dorking postcards and hopefully some present day images from web sites to create a little something about the town.
We shut up shop about a quarter of an hour early and the drive home was completely trouble free.
The Met office website now suggests that we will get a little snow during tomorrow and maybe some heavy snow during Tuesday night.
The temperature will remain just below zero.
I see that on Friday they expect us to be bathing (not literally of course!) in the balmy temperature of plus 5!
