Tag: humour
member name: HGM Moya Goatley
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July 28, 2006 07:14 PM EDT --
Mimi has had few teeth in her head for many a long year. The dentist visited the home. "If we make you some teeth" she said "will you wear them"? "Don't . . .
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May 20, 2007 01:55 PM EDT --
Pity the spiders
In the great gale of O 7
I've . . .
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May 23, 2006 07:25 PM EDT --
This evening I was sorting through Mimi's things which I had brought home to check before sending them to the charity shop. I discovered that Mimi and I have a lot in common. We are hoarders. . . .
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August 11, 2006 06:34 PM EDT --
I said "Your friends on Gather would love to be able to meet you".
"I'd love to meet them too" she said "I'll be getting my wings soon and I'll go and visit them all". . . .
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September 16, 2006 01:02 PM EDT --
Luckily for me
Mimi talks fluent Haiku,
So I speak for her.
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October 07, 2006 04:50 AM EDT --
White-walled bathroom - splashes of red on the wall, in the hand basin, in the bath, on the towels.
My eyes, with burgeoning doubt stare back at me from the droplet decorated mirror. . . .
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November 26, 2006 07:25 AM EST --
The cocktail shaker
Is ready - and so am I.
Bond, James Bond awaits.
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February 22, 2007 07:50 PM EST --
I've recently started my new Open University course (I passed last year's) and I discovered that a lot of the work is on computer and needs more sopisticated applications than my poor third . . .
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November 16, 2006 10:09 AM EST --
I wanted to die
But I hadn't paid my bills
Or said "I love you".
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November 19, 2006 01:52 PM EST --
Many hours I've spent
Seeking my inner Shakespeare,
Alas! sleeping still.
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August 23, 2007 12:25 PM EDT --
"Great sweat" smiled the man
As he passed by my treadmill.
Compliment indeed!
. . .
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May 03, 2008 07:28 PM EDT --
He pulled the cork from the bottle unmindful of what it contained. The situation called for alcohol. He bent to take glasses from the cupboard, trying to avoid sight of the body that lay on the carpet. . . .
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February 20, 2007 03:58 AM EST --
My slates are slipping
. . .
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February 21, 2007 04:56 PM EST --
For those of you who don't know Mimi, she is my husband's 92 year old aunt. Profoundly deaf and though she does have some sight she has just been registered blind. Her . . .
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May 27, 2008 07:22 PM EDT --
He pulled the cork from the bottle unmindful of what it contained. The situation called for alcohol. He bent to take glasses from the cupboard, trying to avoid sight of the body that lay on the carpet. . . .
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June 06, 2006 08:56 AM EDT --
Parental pride was evident in every word spoken of his twenty month daughter.
"Yes" the listener agreed patiently and not without a little sarcasm "she's obviously very bright. Isn't . . .
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August 16, 2006 07:25 AM EDT --
I have paused, cogitated and battled with what you may think is uncharacteristic shyness and I have made a decision. If you click on www.amazon.co.uk and then search for Moya Goatley or Basket . . .
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February 01, 2008 06:16 PM EST --
I was driving Mimi to the hospital to have a chest x-ray. As she is profoundly deaf such journeys are perforce mostly silent affairs. We drove through the countryside, green fields with a . . .
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May 27, 2006 08:44 PM EDT --
I worked in the British Embassy in Paris. There was about to be an Ambassador's Garden Party to which dignatories such as the Duke of Windsor was invited. (Wallis declined the invitation . . .
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April 12, 2007 03:20 AM EDT --
while I made plans life intervened and said I had to forego Gather for a while. I've dipped in from time to time but not enough to nourish my spirit. I find I have 136 messages and not . . .
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