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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 12 2006 at 03:04
There's nothing like slipping your feet into a pair of soft slippers on a cold morning... especially if one of the cats has left a dead vole in one of them as a "wake up" present.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2006 at 03:37
Originally posted by mystic fred mystic fred wrote:

     SLIPPERS...??? good grief - haven't worn them since i was ten!!!

much prefer "skinny footing"


Ditto, horrible sweaty things, however I may review my opinion when I get to your age Jim
     
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2006 at 03:50
Slippers are not quite as awful as sandals and socks. Censored

Bob Dylan had it right with: don't wear sandals

Bloody horrible things (so are daps/plimsolls and flip-flops).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2006 at 03:54
Depends where you walk. I wouldn't recommend flip flops in a cow byre.

I love sandals 'though, but not with socks
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2006 at 03:55
It's mainly the sandals with socks that annoys me.  They look silly.  I thought the whole reason for sandals was to get air into your feet?  So wearing socks with them defeats the object. LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2006 at 07:56
Originally posted by Geck0 Geck0 wrote:

horrible things (so are daps/plimsolls and flip-flops)


Oh God, I thought it was only Vicky who called them "daps"; must be a West Country thing...


...like in-breeding.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2006 at 09:59
What is a dap then? and do you need to shag your sister to own one
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2006 at 10:59
no silly - a sheep will do!Tongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2006 at 12:44
You mean stick your feet in a sheep?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2006 at 12:52
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by Geck0 Geck0 wrote:

horrible things (so are daps/plimsolls and flip-flops)


Oh God, I thought it was only Vicky who called them "daps"; must be a West Country thing...


...like in-breeding.

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Yeah, I'm a Gloucestershire boy, and although I haven't really heard the expression since leaving Bourton-On-The-Water 15 years ago, I still refer to Plimsolls as 'daps'... I'm on Vicky's side on that one...Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2006 at 15:03
How about "puddies" then...

mutter mutter bloody yokel dialects mutter grumble

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2006 at 15:06
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

How about "puddies" then...

mutter mutter bloody yokel dialects mutter grumble
 
you've got me there....Confused
 
explain yourself sir!Embarrassed
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2006 at 15:11
Apparently "hands" - as in:

"Oi's got cold puddies 'n' moi zizter don't loike 'em up'er"

...so to speak.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2006 at 16:04
Jim, I dislike the the word dap too, it's such a silly word!

But then plimsoll isn't much better.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2006 at 17:44
Originally posted by Geck0 Geck0 wrote:

Jim, I dislike the the word dap too, it's such a silly word!

But then plimsoll isn't much better.
 
that all depends where you come from... if you're in a primary school in the cotswolds, then daps are cool...Cool
 
yeah, now you've given me the context Jim, 'puddies' are hands, but not an expression I've ever used... I had an ex who always referred to them as 'donnies' ...run that one past the mrs!!LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2006 at 17:57
"Donnies go near me wit' 'em!"

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2006 at 19:26
Settling down with a Stroud boy, I have learnt to use the word "daps", I wear my daps to go shopping, he leaves his daps in the middle of the lounge, if I misbehave I will get a good dapping........ see I have even learnt to use it in context!

I am having Wiltshire panic right now, it's the week before, the week before Christmas. Last year I moved house on the 20th December and Christmas was a hap hazzard affair, this year I have dyed my grey roots early in preparation for the "big day".......... and just realised the thing I knew by the 21st of December last year but have been putting off thinking about............. the box of cake tins that Granny left me didn't somehow move with me........so here I am at twenty past midnight trying to work out where , oh where can I buy a decent 24 cm cake tin from for my Chrimbly Cake....... and where oh where can I buy edible glitter from??? See if I was still in the old country I would know where to get these items from instantly, ......

I guess tomorrow I need to don my daps and pound the streets of Wiltshire and hunt these little things down.......... all so that in 12 days time the kids can pick out the cherries and leave the rest, the beloved can pick off the icing and marzipan and just eat the cake, and I can chow down to my hearts content knowing that I can start the diet in January!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2006 at 19:44
I think that big expansion known as Swindon (that place you hate to visit on your beloved scooter), may sell what you require.  Do not ask me where, as I have no clue.  I am sure somewhere they do though.  There are some cake and party shops in this horrible little town.  For glitter, try The Big Party Shop (or whatever it is called), by Swindon College (Regent's Circus), or maybe Giggles (near to Holmes Music) on Faringdon Road.

As for cake tins, I cannot help you.  If I see any on my travels, I shall PM you.  I'm in town next tuesday.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2006 at 19:58
Ah.........I am having to venture in an hunt 'em down aren't I? I DID venture in last week for my first Christmas Shop............and recieved my FIRST PARKING TICKET!!!!!

I even thought it was a christmas card tied to my handle bars for some reason! Ah well......... the beloved has paid my fine for Christmas!!!

I will venure in....maybe on Friday, there is apparently (thankyou google) and confectioners and sugar craft store in Farringdon road so that should be handy........as I also have to pop into Holmes for some goodies to hide under the tree!!!
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