Well I may not be on for the next couple of days so I'll take this chance of wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and may Santa fill your stockings with everything you want. No doubt we will have the usual rubbish movies on the telly on Christmas day but hopefully I shall be too FTB (full to busting) with food and drink to notice. All the best everyone .....cheers

Like Andrew i shall be signing off for the festive period, i'll be back on Sunday 29th, but i'll be thinking of you all on the day.

My best wishes to all of you and your families.

Andy

Merry Christmas to all members and the new friends I have meet here . i

Its 9:24pm and there's no one in the place. . . Hammocks are freshly washed. Cellar is restocked. Kitchen has been cleaned and scrubbed. Dining room is sparkling and dance floor is polished. Movies rotated. I think some light snacks and "Band of Brothers" series is the ticket.

Right. Then I guess it's time to try Vat 69 for the first time, and keep up with Dix.

Just don't try that thing while getting nostalgic over Dallas. It'll just send you to Lala-land...

I'll pass on that onee and stay with the rum ! Now whats this here in the corner -a new juke box ! Hey does any one have any change ?

Sure...how much do you need Terri...*hands over a handfull of change....* here you go!

Thanks Jan ! any one have any request ?

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich...."Legend of Xanadu" then please.

You got Jan , puts lots of "q"s into the machine . What would you like to eat ? I'm thinking about raspberry glazed pork chops , rice with a broc and cheese sauce and with green beans in a lemon herb coating . For afterwards cheese cake !

Hi Terri
You serve it, I'll eat it

Several for the juke box, The Boxer- Simon & Garunkel, Hey Jude- Beatles, Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen, Victory- Bond oh and movies, how about a Back to the Future night.
Can any body sub me for the juke box, quarters are hard to get here
Large G & T please......

You got it Andrew ! Tonight will be Back to the future 1,2,3 right after that will be Close encounters of a third kind .

Oh! Yey , the nacho's are ready ....oooooooooo that's hot on the fingers ! Ouch

Ooooooh! Lea Thompson! Ooooooh!

Where did my poor youth go....... Hand me the nachos, so I can eat redicoulusly many of them, claim a record and feel like a stupid teenager again.

Terri (and every other Canuck out there), congrats on the junior hockey gold!

But please, next year, when we take on each other in the final again, please keep your hands of our keeper. Please...

Still looking forward to 2010, though. The teenagers really play more catchy than the old men of NHL!

Thanks Tony , but I'm really not a hockey fan at all . Didn't even know they where playing .

That's allright Terri. We can't all be perfect. For myself, I tend to get red cheeks when I eat to much nachos.

Sniff sniff alright who has been cooking and did not clean up the spilt cheese on the burner?

Nachos, salsa, sour cream, cheese mmmmmm. Seeing as we have a juke box and DVD why not a library. I will contribute Faith is the Hunter (Ernest K Gann), Chickenhawk (Bob Mason), The Big Show (Pierre Closterman), Sagittarius Rising, (Cecil Lewis) and the Cannibal Queen (Steven Coonts).

Now that's a good book. Highly recommended addition to the library.

Can i add Bird Song (Sebastion Faulks) and my collection of Neil Gaiman short stories

Andy

You sure can Andy !

I had nothing to do with the burner , I used the oven ! Are you trying to tell me that us Ladies don't know how to clean a kitchen ? Well , OH my GOD ! Wait a minute here , Tony was doing some weird stuff in the kitchen ...............................................

Great! Now your telling me this glob of gook is not cheese!?! . . . AAAGGGHHH!!!

(As opposed to the femine . . .Eeeewww! )

Ok, I admit, kitchens are not my normal habitat. I may have messed up, byt I will do better. Now, do we have a sandblaster and handgrinder here somewhere.....

Use hearing- and eyeprotection around the kitchen for a while, folks!

By the way, I put "the Shepherd" by Frederick Forsyth in the library. Lovely little story! It can also be found as radio theatre http://www.cbc.ca/asithappens/media/archive/shepherd.ram" TARGET="_blank">here so you can listen to it while I repent in the kitchen.

Riiiight....what's going on here then folks?

Ooooh, nothing really. Terri's found an old jukebox, we're building a library and - ehhm - I'm cleaning the kitchen.

Most things are confusing, so it's business as usual, I guess. Welcome back, by the way.... Gone far and long?

Hi Jan Nice for you to drop by ! pours Jan a drink .............. Well so many stories to tell really don't no were to begin !

It's been very busy here of late . drops some "q's " in the juke box .............( I don't hear no cleaning going on in there Tony ! ) Any thing in particular that you would like to hear Jan ?

Walks over to the book case , I'm adding this one ...So were have you been Jan ?
No library is complete with out Mordecai Richler .....Solomon Gursky Was Here