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My sister once wanted to get a piano to the top of a 3 storey town house. She laid a load of good food and booze out on the top floor and invited the rugby team round.
Needn't have bothered with the food, really.
I think maybe you don't always understand humour ...
Did it have a sofa on it? ;-)
I'll just have the camomile tea, thanks
LOL!
Any advance?
Mary
OK, sit down and I'll explain a piano's construction.
You got that line from Eliza, Mary. Admit it. Douglas de Lacey
Overstrung ~= highly strung ~= anxious valium = sedative
Of course you need to take it easy around corners as well if it's under- damped.
I can't, honestly, do you mean Eliza Acton? She didn't discuss pianos did she?
Mary
I've never heard that correlation!
~= anxious
I've heard of that but haven't had experience. Never needed it, even when turning a piano on its side to get it round the corner when one of us was inside the room with an ever-filling bladder.
Gosh, it's amazing what details are remembered after forty years!
It wasn't.
Until the toddler lifted the lid and walked on the hammers. It was never the same after that.
The piano went out of tune too.
Mary
The message from John Cartmell contains these words:
URDirkGentlyAICM£5
Had a job last week, guy had bought a wardrobe from an ad in the local paper. Couldn't get it up the stairs. Called me in to take it apart & reassemble it upstairs.
It wasn't flatpack! Removed the handrail from the wall and that gave us enough space - just.
Replaced handrail, filled in numerous gouges in walls from previous attempts by him & his mate.
Long may they build large wardrobes & small staircases!
And you would have got the money - but I'm afraid the £ symbol isn't allowed on usenet. Sorry about that! ;-)
I have sometimes wondered if Mary *is* Eliza, actually. With some modifications which are perhaps better not spelled out...
I remember installing a slate-bed snooker table upstairs - and the stairs had a 360 degree turn in it!
[OK - half-size table]
Oh go on! Better out than in :-)
I'd like to know which Eliza you mean and if she's the same as Douglas's.
Mary
She is the same, I'm sure. So I'll leave him to explain. Or Google will help.
Damn and blast! DirkGently?! There was I wondering how Mary could possibly not have understood overstrung and valium and now I'm lost too!
-- Holly, in France, who should be doing the mumsy bit and cooking the pancakes in the special fried-eggs and pancakes only pan....... Gite to let in Dordogne, now with pool.
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