Yamyam

Ah, but if you want total confusion, just come to the UK. If you buy a short and a beer in a pub, you get 25ml of whiskey, but 1 pint of beer. But if you buy them in a supermarket, you buy them both in milli-litres. Eh?!? If you want to buy honey or jam, they often come in 454gram jars, because that's one old pound. We refuel our cars in litres, but then drive them in miles. We can buy 'quarter pounders', with the uncooked weight in grams (112g?) Best of all, my car has 225(mm) x 65 tyres on 15 inch rims, so that's one object with both units on it! Most of what learned at school I do in metric, but the stuff that my Dad taught me takes place in inches. So I lay out printed pages in inches, but when I have to fix the car I use mm. And when a chap came over to quote for some shelves, he measured them as 2m x 4in x 1in. Eek! But as for why computers generally measure in Imperial units, I think that comes from America.

months

I could probably do Good Friday too. But will the shops be open?

Yes, nice ones, Trolldeg

Absolutely. I honestly sometimes think a day without my little one is a day wasted! He turned up this afternoon, talking away a mile a minute, and we've done nothing but talk between then and him falling asleep. What a fantastic experience!

Kim Jong-IL has offered Saddam Hussein asylum in North Korea. If Saddam accepts his offer, Kim's country will then be officially designated as a Hussein asylum.

Ouch! Although it did make me laugh!

Ooh - sounds like a fight

Spade heels?! Would you care to explain....? I have never heard of such a thing!

The ones that look like a block heel from behind, but a stiletto heel from the side. They're quite common as they're easier to walk on than stilettos, but look almost as nice from the side.

Apparently his adventures in nail varnish and sarongs caused shops to run out of those items. I personally would *love* to see all those football-shirted lads in Barratts squeezing themselves into heels. I honestly think I'd laugh myself sick (or until I fell off my heels, whichever happened first)

mild aubergine hornets

Drab (it's a colour, dammit!)

Very funny, Yamyam, very funny.

Glad you liked it. Couldn't resist a chance to tease you

If only that were a power I could use for real...

*zap*

Chris - best invest in a lightning conductor, just in case

I think sizes are quite variable, plus the style has an effect too. I know I've got pairs marked 7UK, 8UK and 9UK, plus anything from EUR40 to EUR43, and they all fit me. Odd, innit?

Eeek I'd have thought that you could just tell your average Customs guy that it's for shaving carrots or something, and they'd believe you

I have two Compaq laptops - lucky me, eh? One's work's, and one is mine. My machine is a new Presario 700, and that's got a great keyboard. Work's Evo keyboard is OK, but the machine has no feet on the back to tilt the keyboard, so not so good. My fave keyboard at the moment is a chunky Digital one, attached to a VT510 terminal. That's the console of my UNIX server, and I sometimes find myself sitting there to bash in text, as it's one of the best keyboards ever. Old IBM keyboards are great! They're nice and solid, and have a great action. I'm typing this on an Advent wireless keyboard, which I've got used to. At first I wasn't so keen, but it's quite heavy, thanks to the radio unit, and it's wireless, so I can stick it on my lap, put my feet on the desk and still type. And I like that! What really grinds my donkey about the laptops is that I have two laptops from the same maker, but the keyboards are completely different! Well, okay, the QWERTY bit is the same, but that's about it! Argh! (ObShoe: Having my feet on the desk means that I can admire this nice pair of 3" spade heels I've got on )

Very nice, Susan. My personal favourite would have to be the River Island pair, but they're all nice!

my garden party

I'm going to disagree with Laurie, and say...

FX: ZAP!

Ouch - what happened there? Anyhow, I quite liked those. I'm not sure I'd wear them myself, but I liked the pics, and I liked the shoes.

(Edit - D'oh - just got the joke in the post title. IRL: slaps self on forehead)

Well, I'll miss you too. Hope you're back with us soon x

Nice - they suit you.

New York

I hid stuff in the attic when I lived at home, or behind the drawer under my bed. Thankfully I left home at 18, and had a car then, too. These days, I have a 'shoe room' opposite my office on the top floor of my house. Who needs to hide? (The only problem is putting everything away before the cleaner or my little one arrive )

Not quite my thing, but nice nonetheless. Hope you're enjoying them, and please accept a :bday: from me!

Well, uh, wow. Go for it at work! What are you going to wear with red shoes?!?

It all seems to be in the confidence you display.

Oh yes. Confidence is all. Once you can fake that, you're sorted