I went into a lady’s hair salon by mistake.
I always knew you were a Renaissance Man, AD. Love the beanie hat - or is it a night cap?
It’s a tea cosy.
A maiden aunt knitted it for me at Christmas. I haven’t the heart to tell her that tea pots went out in the last century.
A Self Portrait no less ---------- 1496
If tea pots went out in the last century, how come I’m still using one?
Oooo tea pots takes me back to the Mad Hatters Tea Party…
Fluttering around up here … who’s playing ??
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I’m not waiting for the white rabbit, he’s always late & theres hair in the teapot, bloody dormouse, as for the March hare, no comment, if Johnny Depp’s playing, I’m in !!! xx
Oh! I am Mad for that Hatter to!!
Is it a hair or a hare in the tea pot??
March where??
Where we off??
I vote down that yellow brick road looks good Tracey no??
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Ooooo loved Dorothy’s shoes, not sure about her outfit though, hate gingham. Think the Hare was obnoxious & the dormouse thought he was a tea bag. Lewis Carroll actually did not mean to write mad hatter, he mean’t mad as a hatter, cos hatters used to be off their heads on glue, useless bit of info, but works very well I think, never know, it might come up 1 day on the chase? xx
Well you have perfectly displayed there just why you would be a brilliant phone a friend!
It is only useless until that question comes up which co incidentally prior to this conversation I would have got stuck on!
Save me a trip to Google… what is a hatter please? is it a man that would wear more than one hat??
Ha! I detest gingham to - they’re trying to creep it back into fashion funnily enough even in ‘Alice’ bands !
Hopefully Durer Towers will not conform to the masses and knock out some gingham socks anytime soon or hats for that matter !!
In fact AD we are banning gingham…
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& Dorothy, too nicey, nicey for my liking, (not her shoes though) them monkeys better be banned as well, what will you dunk in your tea if they get hold of the bananas? A hatter is indeed someone who wears too many hats, this is because he’s sniffed too much glue & forgot the other ones. As for Alice bands, sure I’ve still got some in my hair from school, I am rather a good resemblance to Cousin It, hair is a bit unruly, although it isn’t me that has put hair in the teapot, that’s defo the hairy tea bag xx
AD, didn’t Columbus invent the tea bag, or was it Typhoo? xx
YUK! Hairy tea bag !! I don’t think I could drink a tea with a hairy tea bag in it for a million!!
You’re absolutely right we don’t want those monkeys A and foremost because they may nab my 'nanas and B because they were frightening - I am sure they were flying monkeys on roller skates no? Scary stuff !
Ha! Tracey I am sure between likening yourself to cousin it and the child catcher from Chitty you are doing yourself a dis-service !!
Do you remember the tea bag commercial with the monkeys on? I loved that, sorry the mention of monkeys and tea bags bought it straight back xx
& the Johnny Vegas one “Munkey” !! xx
Show off!
Correction of useless fact: hatters went mad because of the mercury used in curing felt. I don’t know what the felt was suffering from.
Some more useless facts (either more facts that are useless or facts that are more useless - you decide).
PG tips adverts used live chimpanzees for many years till the ads were deemed exploitative. Monkeys have never been used to advertise tea, afaik. Chimpanzees are apes, as if you didn’t know. The PG tips chimps lived at Twycross Zoo, where the public could watch them having tea parties.
Tea was made popular in England by Charles II’s wife, Catherine of Braganza. The Portuguese had been drinking tea for some time before it caught on over here, thanks to their trade links with the Far East.
Each side of your body is controlled by the opposite side of your brain. MS seems to be affecting my left side more than my right. This gives me a stronger reason for not being in my right mind.
Great.
That’s gingham, hairy teabags, flying monkeys and Dorothy all banned from the IoD. Although “Adventures in Wonderland” and “Wizard of Oz” seem to have been mixed up. Not to worry, Alice and Dorothy were probably twins separated at birth and brought up in different countries. We know this because they were both a bit dippy and had hallucinations. Nowadays they take the THC out of cannabis oil specifically to prevent this sort of behaviour.
Just for the record, I think the madness of hatters was caused by mercury poisoning and not glue sniffing. Coincidentally mercury poisoning produces some neurological problems similar to MS, which is why a lot of people have had their amalgam fillings replaced.
In these more enlightened times we now know that MS is caused by a lack of Vitamin Cake and rioja, chardonnay or gin. Tell your neurologist that you read it here first. They will be impressed by your grasp of current research on the subject.
Yep, lt was ‘Mercury’ in the making of hats etc that turned them mad. AND still some people have amalgum fillings.
History of the World: Part Four
Europe
In Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time. Voltare invented electricity and also wrote a book called Candy. Gravity was invented by Isaac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the autumn, when the apples are falling off the trees.
Bach was the most famous composer in the world, and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was very large. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died.
France was a very serious state. The French Revolution was accomplished before it happened. The Marseillaise was the theme song of the French Revolution, and it catapulted into Napoleon. During the Napoleonic Wars the crowned heads of Europe were trembling in their shoes. Then the Spanish Gorillas came down from the hills and nipped at Napoleon’s flanks. Napoleon became ill with bladder problems and was very tense and unrestrained. He wanted an heir to inherit his power, but since Josephine was a baroness, she couldn’t bear children.
The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years. Her reclining years and finally the end of her life were exemplatory of a great personality. Her death was the final event which ended her reign.
The nineteenth century was a time of many great inventions and thoughts. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to steam up. Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men. Samuel Morse invented a code of telepathy. Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species. Madman Curie discovered radium. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx brothers.