Monday, October 29, 2007

Isn't Blogging Weird.....?

So....

I take a teeny weeny blogging break during which I explore my long-standing confusion about my sexuality, decide to split from my husband, take a lesbian lover, tell my adolescent son that his mother is gay and move house. And what happens? I watch my technorati rating plummet to barrel scraping levels.

You really are a fickle lot :)

105 Random Musings:

Absolute Vanilla (and Atyllah) said...

Nah, I refuse to believe that! Seriously? Well, Ms M, I'm still here - you be and do what you gotta be and do. Live your own truth. And by the way, welcome back!
xx

Paul said...

Blogs become so predictable and there's only so much you can do to spice up an ordinary, hum-drum life and the minutiae of day-to-day living.
Little wonder that ratings plummet as readers become bored with the same old, same old.
Let's just hope that your break has shaken you out of your lethargic conformity and given you some fresh ideas and insights.
How about a piece on macrame or crochet or agas or how terrible life is up north and how you can't get a decent latte or fresh bagel.
:o)

Good to have you back. Hope you have All found a way forward.

sheepish said...

Sorry what's a Technorati rating and does it matter? I appear to be still here aswell. Or maybe I'm just a figment of your/my imagination.

Charlotte said...

Yes, me too. I'm here. Fie Technorati and boo sucks to them.

Dandelion said...

We're all still here, Ms M! We've been missing you.

The technorati rating plummets because you've had fewer new posts for perople to read and comment and link to, that's all. Don't take it personal, you'll be back at the top of the heap before you know it.

An Unreliable Witness said...

Yes, I have discovered that to shoot up the Technorati rankings, you have to write a post slagging off bloggers, blogging and the blogosphere in general. Works a treat. Just a tip for future reference there ...

Political Umpire said...

Well I'm still here, and I don't understand those Technorati things either. I have never managed to get a site meter to work, they all say I have precisely no visitors. This I would be quite prepared to accept (and am sure the number isn't much more than a couple of dozen), but for the fact that comments kept appearing when the site meter said no one was visiting. So who knows.

Anyway, I don't bother with them since I go with the view that it is better to write for yourself, and have no public, than write for the public and have no self.

Keep writing anyway, Ms B, I like reading what you say ..

Böbø said...

Look at your Google Analytics viewing figures. They'll be much less fickle.

And try and jus up your life a bit.

PS: Here's a Technorati Rank Explained in Depth link. but it looks a bit Strayish to me.

trousers said...

If a rating of 47 is barrel scraping, then I need to climb a good way higher to be able to see the bottom of the barrel from way down below.....

Don't blame us loyal visitors, blame Technorati ;-)

Who-me? said...

Well, to be honest, I obviously started reading your blog hoping to have the theories of Malow's Heirarchy of Needs and Schrodinger's cat as a famous illustration of the principle in quantum theory of superposition explained!!?! But No! Instead, I seem to be completely enthralled in a down to earth blog about life's comforts, discomforts, highs, lows, loves and losses.

Surely life experiences is what blogging is about?
xx

That's so pants said...

Well Ms M

I'm aghast, and quite glad I never joined Technorati.

xxx

Pants

Ms Melancholy said...

Hey absolute vanilla, finally managed to add your new blog to my roll, so welcome back to you too honey!

Hi Paul, yes indeedy! I really must up my game if I am to keep folks interested. Now, what were you saying about life up in t't't'north? I hear we are getting an Archer's reject up in Harrogate - that should surely give me some blog fodder for a while.

Hey Sheepish, the answer is no, it really doesn't matter at all! I am clearly feeling a little needy at the moment!

Hi Charlotte, fab! Where is your blog though???

Hi Dandelion, good to see you back here! I almost posted about the government's recent CBT splurge again, but I decided to sew myself to the carpet instead, you'll be pleased to hear.

Hey Mr Witness, thank you so much for visiting, and thanks for the tip. Watch this space...!

Hey Pumpy, remember the good old days, before you had a baby and before I took a lesbian lover? sigh

Thanks Bobo, still getting 5 readers a day so I feel hugely reassured!

Hey trousers, have I told you lately that I love you?

Hi again who-me?, cheers for that! My brain is locked out of clever things for the time being.... but I never understood Schrodinger's cat anyway. Do you?

Hi lovely Pants, ignore me, I'm just being needy again. Never a good trait in a therapist really, but then I have always eschewed the 'therapist as perfect' model of therapy. As you can probably guess. Hope the packing is going well. Bugger of a job, isn't it?

Calamity Jane said...

Well that post should start bringing them back in again ...

Ms Melancholy said...

Hi C-J :)

Political Umpire said...

I must admit, Ms M, that I miss the times when you wrote "darling Pumpie, you will always be special". I hope that that still holds after your damascan conversion.

A relative of mine went on a similar path to you a few years ago, but kept her husband. This is not, I think, a male fantasy for him, as I think he is relegated to separate quarters when new partner is home (she is in the travel industry so away a lot of the time). I have never visited their place (they live overseas) but my sister has, and said after the initial surprise, shall we say, one thinks nothing of the situation as everyone is so laid back and the house functions much as any other.

Caroline said...

Have you moved house???
How did that happen????

Gosh! I know nothing.

I miss you.

*sob*

xxxxx

Misssy M said...

Gosh at least you've got the excuse of being away. My comments have plummeted ever since I put photos of myself dressed as a dead French Queen up. Who have I upset and why????

trousers said...

You hadn't, ms m (after all, you haven't been blogging lately according to this post), but you have now.

You know what?

I love you too :)

x

That's so pants said...

Hi Ms M

Re packing - don't know, haven't started but will take your word for it.

xxx

Pants

Ms Melancholy said...

Well Pumpy, that really is a story and a half. I shan't be suggesting that to my husband....I just can't quite picture it all somehow, but good luck to them if it works.

Hi lovely Cas, haven't quite moved yet honey...I was exaggerating for comic affect. But I will be moving very shortly and I promise you are invited round for a cup of tea and a cuddle x

Hi Misssy M, perhaps all your French readers??? It's a mystery....

Hey trousers, :-)

Hi Pants, trust me, it is. I suggest you just freecycle the entire contents of your house and start again in Oz.

anticant said...

Are the Technorati the blogging equivalent of the Glitterati?

And now you've made the "switch", please don't become one of those bossy women [gay, straight or bi] who relegate their husbands to back rooms. You should have enough savvy to be aware that there's more than one kind of back room - and you never know!

Joking apart, I had a couple of gay friends who for many years shared their home with the wife of one of them, and the menage a trois worked very well. In fact, she quite often found herself acting as honest broker when they had a row.....

Political Umpire said...

I see your old friend Ulrika Johnnson is up the duff with what will be child number four with father number four. Now _that's_ confusing ...

NMJ said...

Ms M, Don't you worry, mine's been plummeting too - Technorati's always buggering about, changing things, it's probably sth to do with that! x

Boris said...

I'm here and I always read your blogs even if they are usually way over my head intelectually (good job I'm so damn fine looking!)

Please can I also say to Paul that I live up north and it's not that bad. But what are bagels and lattes?

Love to you Ms M

Ms Melancholy said...

Hey anticant, I can totally reassure that you my soon to be ex-husband will be living in a lovely house with his daughter....promise no funny business going on here!

Hi again Pumpy, the woman has no shame...but then, who am I to talk?

Hi lovely nmj, I am sooooo needy, aren't I??? I think I may just delete the bloody thing!

Hi Boris, I was trying hard to think of something really intellectual to say, but that part of my brain appears to be asleep for the time being. I can confirm, however, that you are indeed very handsome x

Paul said...

"I am sooooo needy, aren't I??? I think I may just delete the bloody thing!"

With all that's going on in your life at the moment, you'd be a pretty cold fish if you didn't feel a little needy.
And surely we all have a "needy" side or we'd sail through life always alone.
Everyone needs some type of re-assurance in the path they choose -far better to seek that reassurance from people, rather than things, or to make yourself so cold to the world that you become a desert island - "entire unto itself".

Ario said...

Sorry, I actually thought I had you linked. Done. So it's 47 + 1 now... Oh well... It's a start ;)

But, Ms Therapist, is communicating need not just a healthy sign of emotional awareness in a person? Good luck with everything, though. Being a child of divorced parents I know how hard this time can be.

Take care,

Ario

Janejill said...

What about the bathroom door? How old did you say your lovely soon-to-be-ex is? :-)

Boris said...

I got a stroke, la la la la la!!!

Cheers

Daisy-Winifred said...

'take a lesbian lover' indeed....hope the taking is fun, cough. Trust the goddess of cardboard and packing peanuts is gentle on you and you don't get lost on the way to your new home and there's room on the settee for all who need cuddles and for those who'll demand them - you're the expert sure you'll be able to tell the difference and if not a wet nose will give you prompts no doubt. Good life and living.

Imagine said...

Hmm. Well, maybe everybody was just kinda thinking about things since last we read your blog. God knows I have been.

Graffiti said...

It was 11 days

Graffiti

Arabella said...

Excuse me! Fickle?
Post a picture of a fluffy kitten if you have to go away. That should keep the stats up. Aww!

Liz said...

My technorati rating has dropped as well...I don't get those things. What does it matter as long as you're enjoying what you're writing?

You've had a lot of changes in your life. Looking forward to reading more about your journey.

Anonymous said...

All I was doing was some late night work on a presentation which included the phrase 'butter no parsnip'...

So I turned to Google to find out the origin of the phrase. Two clicks later here I am...enthralled to find real life in this blog.

I'll have to get signed or whatever so I can keep track.

Good luck Ms Melancholy - perhaps the new shape of your life will lift your emotions?

Absolute Vanilla (and Atyllah) said...

Ms M??? Where are you? Are you okay? This is starting to look like another blogging break...

Ms Melancholy said...

Hi folks....yes this is looking seriously like another blogging break.

Blame BT and their inability to provide me with an internet connection in my new home.

Normal service will be resumed shortly.....

Prozacville said...

That's cos they only click when they're bored...or have got nothing to blog about.

Replace they with I/we/he/she etc. if you like.

Nick said...

So goodness knows what else has happened during your current blogging break - you now have two lesbian lovers, you've won the lottery, you've been struck by lightning and you're completely recovered from the facelift. I've probably left a few things out....

Rodhie D. Sapinoso said...

Found your blog via the Charlotte Otter website...
Keep up the great writing!

trousers said...

I'm missing you ms m.

Liz said...

You come back and get me all curious about what's happening with you, so please write more.

And can I just say I don't understand technorati rankings at all. I write more posts and have more people reading my blog and commenting than ever...and the ranking goes down! LOL!

That's so pants said...

Hi Ms M

Are you coming back anytime soon?

xxx

Pants

Ad said...

Chin up, Ms M.

Avagudun

Milf Gone Wild said...

oh god Ms M I do so admire you living for your passions. Good luck my dear.

lavenderblue said...

Ms M.
where are you .........
hope you are happy xx

Francesca said...

Wow!

Good for you! I am sure it must be a challenging time, but congrats to you on choosing happiness! I hope all is going well...

Damn! I need to keep up with bloggers. Look at what happens when I go missing!!!

rivergirlie said...

don't sweat it - now you've mentioned the 'l' word you'll be up there at the top.

violainvilnius said...

but other than that, live has been plodding on as normal?

Dandelion said...

Is there anybody there? said the traveller, knocking on the moonlit door...

trousers said...

I'm still missing you ms m!

lavenderblue said...

OK.
Where the Fuck are you ?
erm..Happy Christmas / New Year 'n'all.xx

Who-me? said...

Please hurry up and come back Ms M

Caroline said...

are we there yet?

I am beginning to worry that you have been eaten.
x

Böbø said...

How can three bloggers in one house produce so few posts for such an eternity! And that's no exaggeration!

PatientGuard said...

I've been in the background of the background as a Service User watching everyone's madness and experiments on Users across the UK , so hell, your experiments are really cool tea and ice to furnace eyes like mine .....

All I can say to you is "TASTIC TASTIC !"

I am too blacky burned by life to be fanning about but you are "TASTIC" Ms Melancholy ...Yes "TASTIC"

And I would give you half of my Service Users revolutionary cake any day - if I had one...

I am the Bone Ranger Kemacholy...!

Just thought I would throw that in being cakeless and all that ...

PatientGuard said...

If Missy Melancholy does not say hello soon, I will become narcissistically disturbed and re-activated into feeling a voided non-self

In fact my screeeeam is rising ....

My inner dog is also barking now

WURRRRRF WUUUURRRFFF WUUURRRRFFF

God he cannot spell ! Hang on that's a Corgian slip its something to do with "worth" .... I am glad something has rubbed off from the company of bloggy psychotherapists..I must be "holding" you all warmly within me ....Hahh I'm calmed ...

Meeeoooowww : In comes inner-kitty

.

Political Umpire said...

Ms M, I miss you too. After all, it was Swimmer6ft4 who said on these very pages:

"Wouldn't know anything about [polite conversation], sir, as I hang around blogs like this!" which if I were you would have become the byline for the blog.

zhisou said...

When I had ten days off, I just went to see my Mum - I see now I could have been more ambitous.

Paul said...

I know this Christmas may come with its own difficulties and challenges, but I hope it will also bring peace and happiness to you and your family and partner. Best wishes.

adam brown said...

Hi, this is not so related to your page, but it is the site you asked me 1 month ago about the abs diet. I tried it, worked well. Well here is the site

lavenderblue said...

Happy Christmas,MsM xxx

Absolute Vanilla (and Atyllah) said...

Ms M, have the elves kidnapped you? Do so hope you are okay.

Wishing you a very happy and peaceful Christmas.

THE PERIODIC ENGLISHMAN said...

Hey, Political Umpire - I miss her, too. Do you remember the good old days? *Sigh*. (Happy Christmas, by the way.)

Ms Melancholy - Umpire is getting upset. I think it's probably time you came back and said hello to people. How long do you plan to keep us all waiting? Enough already - let us know you're alive. And a happy Christmas to you, too, obviously.

Festive hugs and warm regards etc....

TPE x

Stray said...

Come on Ms M! Your public is waiting ...

:)

[I can confirm that Ms M is both alive and well, but is currently trapped under a seasonal avalanche of chocolate oranges.]

Caroline said...

*sigh*

And you missed my birthday too! Not so much as a hello ... I cried myself a river ....

(and if that doesn't guilt you back nothing will!)

*sigh*

I fear she has been eaten.

*sob*

xxxx

THE PERIODIC ENGLISHMAN said...

Ah. Yes. My girlfriend is also trapped - flapping like a seal, barking, screeching - as a direct result of a seasonal avalanche of chocolate oranges, Stray. She seems to let this happen to her every year - it's almost like she doesn't want to learn from her mistakes. Sheesh.

Anyway, thanks for the heads up. At least we now know that Ms Melancholy isn't dead or seriously injured or, I don't know, properly ill in the head or something. Phew.

Caroline, you see? Nothing to worry about, sweetheart, it turns out that Ms M is just a greedy piggy and is beached, aghast and flailing, in a shameful chocolatey state of disgrace. I feel almost happy for her.

Happy Christmas to both of you, by the way.

TPE x

(Melancholy - quit eating and try typing already, you despicable monster. x)

lavenderblue said...

Is this a follow up to 'oranges are not the only fruit '?
or something similar.......
and,will she,won't she return to us,
her 'fickle lot' ??

THE PERIODIC ENGLISHMAN said...

It could very well be a follow up to oranges are not the only fruit, Lavenderblue, it could very well be. But it's not. So stop it.

Anyway, I have it on very good authority - straight from my imagination - that Ms M will never ever return to us. I'm starting to doubt Stray (she seems shifty) and feel sure that the chocolate-snaffling Melancholy is now so huge, so "bring me a fork-lift truck I need to get out of my chair", so Texan, Goddammit, that she doesn't even have the strength to clack her podgy fingers on the keyboard. This, I'm sure you'll agree, is absolutely no way to treat her patients. Guests, even.

Anyhoo....I believe we need to think of ways to punish her, Lavenderblue, but then I've always thought that about Melancholy, even from before the time she got huge and rude. It's just a thing and I'm working on it - so back off.

Needless to say, Happy Christmas to you, too.

TPE x

(Hey Melancholy. Put...the pie....down...and come out with your hands above your keyboard.)

lavenderblue said...

TPE
and Happy Hogmanay to you xxx
Consider me 'backed off'.
( Isn't that a horsey phrase ? )

THE PERIODIC ENGLISHMAN said...

Yay. And a happy Hogmanay to you, too, McBlue. Do you bother going out for it - dancing in the rain, that sort of thing? I used to quite like that when I was in Edinburgh/Scotland (years ago). Nowadays, I should rather die than do such a thing. But still.

Yes, it is a horsey phrase (or it is now, at any rate) - although what sort of a (cruel and twisted) person backs off from a horse? It's a harsh and bitter world, Lavender, a harsh and bitter world. Pity the ponies, they weep.

Hope you're having a lovely evening...

TPE x

(Melancholy - seriously, get a grip. x)

lavenderblue said...

I so wish I was in Edinburgh...TPE
Here in the forsaken Midlands it is a miserable feeling.
I think the expression 'backing' a
horse means to break it in......unless of course you are a punter at the Races.
I am obviously broken, then.

All together now...
MsM,MsM,MsM.............when will we see you again
( cue for a song )

Work your inimitable magic,TPE......xx

and a warm and loving evening to all of us x

Bindi said...

Hi Miss M. Happy New Year. I'd just like to report that I think my mid life crisis is over and I hope you are finding your feet too xx.

(essentially the crisis for me, I think, was a sexual reawakening. its over now because I'm used to it! it took eighteen months).

THE PERIODIC ENGLISHMAN said...

Lavender McBlue - it's no good. Even your singing (and you have a terrific voice, I might add) has failed to coax huge Melancholy out of her super-size seat. We tried, Bluey, we definitely tried.

Listen, don't take it too hard, k? K. I'm well used to being entirely ignored by Ms M, but I do worry that other people might find her shockingly poor manners (and generally less than scrupulous levels of hygiene) a bit of a shock.

To take your mind off things, I suggest you buckle down and concentrate on finding yourself a way out of the Midlands. The Midlands? What were you thinking? I had you down as clever - Scottish, even - but this changes everything. Everything, Ms Blue.

Try to be a better person, okay? Good.

Lovely to talk to you, by the way.

Kind regards and happy stuff...

TPE x

(Melancholy - why? Why would you do this to us? x)

lavenderblue said...

TPE !
Lovely to talk to you too.......
If you can't entice MsM back to us,I do not know who can.
I'm from Edinburgh, and slowly sinking in the Midlands.........
must have a wee dram and smile again.
Here's to you,TPE and the mysterious and missing MsM xxx

lavenderblue said...

and it's nearly here........and where is Ms Melancholy.?........
or should that be Ms Mellowcholy !

Wherever you are
A Very Happy New Year to you
xx

THE PERIODIC ENGLISHMAN said...

McBlue, happy new year. Hope you managed to see in 2008 in a non-Midlandsy fashion. x

Ms Melanchoholic, happy new year. Are you alright, honey? Starting to get mildly worried now. x

Badger said...

I think Ms M is going for the record number of comments before she returns to us. :(

Badger x

lavenderblue said...

TPE - and Happy New Year to You xx

Hmm.....record number of comments ?
I see.
Anyone else up for it ?

Caroline said...

So what is the record????

Oh Ms M.
Badger has been here and Stray ... what have they done with you????

I am almost worried.

I have chocolate orange ...
x

Absolute Vanilla (& Atyllah) said...

Alright, Ms M, now you're starting to frighten us. I have a box of chocolate oranges, a case of chocolate liqueurs, a crate of Moet et Chandon. Will you come out now, please?

THE PERIODIC ENGLISHMAN said...

Actually, I started to get frightened on January 4th at about five past nine in the evening - check the records, Absolute Vanilla. That makes me roughly ten days more caring than you are (although I do notice that you were here on October 29th, of course, which might conceivably cause problems for me if you want to make a fight of this. But still.)

Ms Melancholy, you win. Badgerina says that you want a record number of comments before you'll come back to us. (You see, what I did there was...I took Badger's name and worked with the fact that her profile picture seems to be of a dancing badger. This made me think of ballerinas. So I took the word "ballerina" and mixed it with the word "badger" and came up with "Badgerina". Is it any wonder I've not had sex since 1987?)

But yes, you win. I totally give up. I'm frightened, cold, confused, lonely and lusty. Where the shagging hell are you?

Inappropriate hugs, love, growing concern...

TPE x

(Hey McBlue x)

lavenderblue said...

Hei TPE
and wildly innapropriate hugs from me to you x
and where do you suppose MsMellowcholic is ?

lavenderblue said...

ooops -spelling !
Pardon.

THE PERIODIC ENGLISHMAN said...

Well, I'm starting to think that she might have been kidnapped, Bluey. It all adds up, you know - just take a look at the facts:

1) Ms M announces that she's a lesbian.

So okay, it's not exactly the longest of lists and it may not be immediately clear why we should suspect kidnapping on the back of it. But have you got any better ideas? No, didn't think so.

Do you think she actually knows that people are visiting her? Sometimes it can feel unbearable to even contemplate looking at one's own blog - a terrible kind of pressure accumulates (I'm being serious for once) - so there is a chance that she can't bring herself to face the backlog. I just don't know, Blue. Personally, despite what I said in my last visit here (oh, twenty minutes ago or so), I'd never give up on Melancholy. I really like her and I miss her.

I still say she's a properly rubbish host, though. Plus, I've heard that she likes to send her under garments to Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee. I'm not saying the rumours are necessarily true, but I do just seem to have repeated them (or started them - I forget). Oh well, there's nothing I can do about it now.

Why do you not have a blog? Wait. Maybe you do, but you just keep it secret? Anyway, sort something out, okay? Good-o.

Disastrously inappropriate hugs straight back at you, lovely Lavenderblue. x

(Melancholy - you're rubbish. x)

lavenderblue said...

TPE you are magic man...........
Surely Ms Mellowcholic will come back now ?
Maybe she is not missing us at all.....and that would be heartless.
I think that she may be 'in a different place'..surrounded by love and chocolate and wild countryside.
Failing that, she is pissed.

More hugs to you TPE xxx

lavenderblue said...

Why do I have a Dustbin motif under my comments ?
Oh.I feel rejected.

trousers said...

lav, you have a dustbin under your comments now that you're all decked out in blue and have the power to delete your own comments should you so wish.

Meanwhile I heartily second all the periodic (for want of a better shortening of his name) says, implies, doesn't say, and assumes. Specially about the undergarments rumours.

Oh come on Ms M, come back even if just to tell us you won't be blogging anymore (though clearly that would be unacceptable).

anticant said...

Sending undergarments to Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee is a tad classier than throwing your knickers at Tom Jones - or Zola [LB please note!].

C'mon, Ms M, it's YOU who are fickle - not us. Are your lesbian romps so exhausting you've not enough strength left to put finger to keyboard? We're all dying for a kiss-and-tell post from you....

THE PERIODIC ENGLISHMAN said...

If you're making some sly dig about the time I threw my favourite knickers at Tom Jones at Live Aid, Anticant, then I'm not impressed. That's a private matter and I really don't care to have it bandied about in public, willy-nilly. Unless, of course, you were simply making a general point? In which case, double drat, I've maybe just gone and compromised my super-manly image, somewhat. Sheesh. Public discourse is a frigging nightmare.

Trousers - well done. I knew I could rely on you. This Daniels/McGee/undergarments rumour appears to have been true after all. What were the chances? Anticant didn't bat an eyelid and you also seem to accept the likelihood of such a thing. I'm no scientist, Trousers, but I feel pretty sure that this constitutes conclusive proof of Melancholy's guilt. Just a hunch. I wonder what other rumours there are about her? Hmm....

Happy New Year, by the way. x


McBlue - did you see that? Those two guys are starting to say some pretty nasty things about big Melanchoholic. Some cock and bull story about the pint-sized magician, Paul Daniels, his assistant and wife, Ms McGee, and the contents of Ms Melancholy's lady wardrobe.

It's always terrible to see fellow bloggers turn on one of their own. Shocking, really. We can rise above this, Blue, and stay true and faithful to our slovenly hostess. Come, let us tread the path of Jesus.

Blessings, child. x


(Ms Melancholy - Lavenderblue called you a drunk. Just saying. x)

lavenderblue said...

OH !
My oh my,TPE...
I said No such thing...........
and I won't be drawn into knickers.....unless of course you were there to help me.
Do you suppose this is like Room 101 ?MsMellowcholic will return if only to berate us...................xx

THE PERIODIC ENGLISHMAN said...

It's hard to say, Blue. I feel there is quite a good chance that I'll be on the end of a serious berating from Melancholy, certainly, but you may just escape her wrath. (Trousers and Anticant are clearly doomed - what with spreading rumours and all. Deary me.) It'll either be that, or she'll ignore me entirely (I think she has felt, in the past, that this approach may discourage me. As if.)

It is slightly alarming, though, that we haven't heard the teeniest squeak from her. At what point, I wonder, should we actually be properly worried? I'm going to wait and see whether she responds to the one hundredth comment left here - a random approach, I know - before bothering her privately. This news will hopefully be enough to prompt a speedy return from the elusive Ms M, all previous correspondence having ended in absolute disaster and despair. Her fault, obviously.

As for the knickers thing, I'm there for you, McBlue. Count on it.

Night night. x

anticant said...

TPE, you seem a 'natural' regular for the Snug over at Anticant's Burrow, where periodic outbreaks of knicker-waving [with LB's sometimes even flying aloft from the flagpole] dent the respectability of this otherwise demure hostelry. One of our Beadle's prime responsibilities is keeping such episodes in check, but he has an uphill battle.

Pop over sometime and join LavvyBlue, Trousers, Zola et al. for a friendly noggin [cyber-drinks are 'on the house'].

anticant said...

And bring Ms Melancholy along with you, if you can locate her!

tpe said...

Oh. Well that's really rather lovely of you, Anticant, thank you.

To recap: I try to pick a ludicrously handsome fight with you and all but accuse you of spreading terrifically warped rumours about mute Melancholy (our absent saviour and mental health professional) - and you respond by asking me round for tea.

You see, this is what I'm talking about. If more people were like you, Anticant, then the world would be a far better place. Just a hunch.

And yes, if I can lay my hands on our shabby hostess, then I'll drag her on over, too. She is a (huggable) disgrace.

Reasonably safe man-hugs and kisses in your esteemed direction...

TPE

(Melancholy - Anticant is trying to steal your patients. Not snitching, just saying. x)

anticant said...

TEA? In the Burrow?? It's all hard stuff in the Snug, I assure you, and when Dame Barbara returns we shall as usual be swimming in pink gins...

anticant said...

Achtung! Ms Melancholy et al. please see new post "Miss Marple Investigates" in Anticant's Burrow!

And will The Periodic Englishman tell us what nationality he is when he is not having an English period?

THE PERIODIC ENGLISHMAN said...

Well, my normal state of being is Scottish, Anticant, but this falls entirely to the wayside when England are playing cricket. In fact, it's not just that I'm actually Scottish, I'm a proud nationalist, too (just not one of the weirdy ones who seem to think this means hating the other guys. All the other guys.)

Grave news on the alcohol front, I'm afraid. I'm tee-total and have been for a few years. However, I feel sure I could tsk tsk disapprovingly from the sidelines. I'm quite good at that. (Sorry about the delay in getting back to you, by the way.)

Melancholy - just a kiss today. x

THE PERIODIC ENGLISHMAN said...

Tea-total, even.

THE PERIODIC ENGLISHMAN said...

No, teetotal. I was right the first time. It's täiskarske in Estonian, apparently, so I'll maybe just stick to that in future. Phew.

(Sorry Melancholy, I seem fiercely determined to make an absolute dick of myself tonight, for some curious reason. x)

Böbø said...

Patience is a virtue and all that, BUT REALLY! Lovely Ms MMMMMmmmmmm, all things in moderation.

Stop being so busy.
I'm missing you.

And someone has to stop TPE and Anticant flirting ... or not.

trousers said...

I see we're over the 100 mark! And Ms M has the sheer temerity (even though I've never looked in a dictionary for the word "temerity" so I don't know with total confidence what it actually means) to call us fickle!

More than 100 comments from her still-loyal followers, and not so much as a peep from her in months!

Is this turning out to be the Blake's 7 of blogging (though there's surely a more appropriate analogy out there somewhere)?

Badger said...

Ms M has promised that she will blog tonight.... she has been tidying her room so we shall see if she does indeed produce tonight.

Badg x

tpe said...

Oh. I hope you're right, Badger, that would be a lovely surprise. Thanks for the update.

(Hey Böbø, hope you're doing okay)

lavenderblue said...

OK !!
MsmellowcholicPLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASe
Come back and love us like we do you .xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx