Love, like, hate or dislike

[Henry P]

I like double-decker buses

[Maryd.]

Me too.
Trains?

[Henry P]

Like, especially old steam ones run for tourists. The compartments are so atmospheric

[Maryd.]

Aren't they just. We have Puffin Billy here in Melbourne. But it's in the Eastern suburbs. We have been on it with the kids, they loved it.

[Ian The Poet]

Really love the the trains, especially steam trains.
Rivers/riverbanks.

[A.M.Wood]

My hate for filth-ridden inner city rivers knows no bound. Present me with a countryside stream, or something similar, and it'll make me really happy.

Alcohol.

[Maryd.]

I have to admit, I like wine... Sweet red wine. So like.

Coke Cola?

[Ian The Poet]

Hate, rots your guts.
Thunder and lightning.

[Maryd.]

When I was younger I was always afraid of thunder and lightening, but now I am happy when it happens. It is nature after all.

Hail stones?

[Henry P]

I like watching hail fall, always unexpected and dramatic. have you had hail down there?

[Maryd.]

Yes... And it has done quite some damage. The size of golf balls one and cars were damaged... people who were caught in it got hurt. Otherewise the normal downfall is beautiful.

[Henry P]

We never get hail that size. We're a modest little country, without extremes. Big places like Oz and the US get hurricanes, floods, droughts, bush fires, tornados...

[Maryd.]

I know... That is one thing I hate about Australia, the natural disasters and of course the ones that are not so natural... Deliberately lit fires. That is one thing that makes me mad.

[Henry P]

So some pyromaniac gets off on watching his fires burn. Saddo

[Maryd.]

Yes and the bushfire we had a year or so ago, was horrific, lives were lost. My heart goes out to those children without parents. And parents who lost their young. Newborns in fact. I cried watching the news.

[Henry P]

Were the arsonists caught?

[Maryd.]

I don't think so, there were some suspects though... Talk about teens but I don't know what has happened.

[Henry P]

Pathetic creatures

[Maryd.]

If the families of those, that died, had anything to do with those teens, they wouldn't survive a court hearing. They wouldn't make it to jail alive.

[Henry P]

President Obama. Is he coming your way?

[Maryd.]

Like... I don't know. I haven't been watching, reading or listening to the news lately so I wouldn't Have a clue... Is he?

[Henry P]

I think so. I still like him

[Maryd.]

Eggnog?

[Ian The Poet]

Hate it.
Brussel Sprouts.

[Henry P]

can be good, if stir fried or cooked with bacon. Or dressed in parmesan and balsamic vinegar
Artichokes?

[Maryd.]

Hate it.
Brussel Sprouts.

Love brussel sprouts.

...Artichokes?

Not keen on artichokes.

Bok choy?

[Henry P]

Like its texture in stir fries
Satay sauce?

[Maryd.]

Yum
Tiramisu?

[Henry P]

Proper yum
Mascarpone?

[Maryd.]

Yuk.
Bacon and eggs for breakfast?

[Henry P]

Yum. A Proper breakfast
The sound of the saxophone?

[Maryd.]

Lovely.
The sound of the guitar?

[Henry P]

Lovely as well
The piano?

[Maryd.]

Absolutely love the piano.
Violin?

[Henry P]

Like, but I prefer the deeper , warmer cello

[Maryd.]

That's interesting... I like the Violin and the cello.

Trumpet (My son plays it)

[Henry P]

Like if played by Louis Armstrong (and your son)

[Maryd.]

French horn (My daughter plays it)

[Henry P]

Like. there's a great solo on the Beatles' For No One

[Maryd.]

Really I should let my daughter know. She is the only person who plays the French Horn at school, everyone else chose the usual instruments. She had to be different. She is very much her mother's daughter.

[Ian The Poet]

A group of violinists

[Henry P]

like
Modern jazz?

[Ian The Poet]

Like.
Wintery days.

[Henry P]

like if I don't have to go anywhere

[Maryd.]

Friends?

[Henry P]

Love.

[Maryd.]

Romantic companions.?

[Henry P]

love.

[Ian The Poet]

Fruit trees

[Henry P]

love- I grow apples, plums and cherries
Picking fruit?

[Maryd.]

Love picking fruit. Have a great memory of picking plums with my younger cousin. We were told to fill up a bucket fulll, but we half filled the bucket and ate the rest. We were so ill that evening.

[Henry P]

So do I
Hairy men?

[Maryd.]

Doesn't bother me... Never really thought about it.
Hairy women?

[Henry P]

I could always help them shave

[Maryd.]

Oh, now that could be fun...

[Henry P]

posted this on the wrong thread- but not their heads

[Ian The Poet]

Roses in bloom

[Henry P]

love, especially the perfumed ones

[Maryd.]

Love roses in bloom. I melt when I see them. Can be dangerous when driving though.:)

[Henry P]

really?

[Maryd.]

Yes, sometimes I have a sneak peak in people's gardens, while I am driving and I get distracted.

[Henry P]

Don't crash and hurt yourself for some flowers

[Maryd.]

What one does for passion Henry???

[Henry P]

I like passion

[Maryd.]

What would is your idea of passion, my good sir?

[Henry P]

deep and lasting feelings

[Maryd.]

Yes... True, there is nothing in life that compares to such feelings.

[Henry P]

Let's hope they are directed towards people and not money, objects or status and power

[Maryd.]

Children?

[Henry P]

Love, unless they can't behave themselves

[Maryd.]

Ditto...

[Henry P]

necklaces on men?

[Maryd.]

Dislike... To odd looking.
Same?

[Henry P]

Unless they're pop stars or extraordinary in some way

[Maryd.]

Rabbits as pets?

[Henry P]

Like, but don't cook them

[Maryd.]

Good boy...

Mice as pets?

[Ian The Poet]

Hate.
Dogs poo on pavements.

[Maryd.]

Oh... Hate...

Cats in the house?

[Henry P]

like, as long as they don't scratch furniture
Same?

[Maryd.]

I have one in the house at nights. But she is a pain. She sits in the kittylitter, but always misses... Piw...

[Ian The Poet]

Zoos.

[Henry P]

Like zoos, but not sure the animals do

[Ian The Poet]

Operas. I'm going to one on Thursday (Puccini's Tosca)

[Henry P]

love. I've seen Mozart's Magic Flute and Puccini's La Boheme. The singing is fantastic

[Maryd.]

Never been to an opera... Would love to go one day.

[Henry P]

They must be on in Melbourne sometimes

[Maryd.]

They are, I just never went. I guess people I know have never been either. I didn't want to go alone, so I never went.

[Henry P]

Take your kids or a girlfriend

[Maryd.]

Might wait another year or so for the kids. They are still young minded and their idea of a musical performance is 'Oliver Twist' or 'Annie'.

[Henry P]

nothing wrong with that

[Maryd.]

No, I liked both movies and now Andrew will be playing Oliver at school. Actually it is coming up at the end of july, I'll be going to book the tickets today. I have 12 people coming already.

[Henry P]

So Andrew is Oliver?

[Maryd.]

Yes... I hope he does well. He told me he doesn't think the play is ready though. They have one month to perfect it.

[Henry P]

practice makes perfect

[Maryd.]

Yes, I'll push him a little this month to practice. I have been to relaxed with it... So now it's time to pick up a little.

[Henry P]

You slave-driver, you

[Ian The Poet]

Writing letters. (I love writing them)

[Henry P]

I prefer writing here

[Maryd.]

I prefer to send a special friend a card on their birthday with some poems that are close to my heart and theirs as well.

[Henry P]

poems of love or hate?

[Maryd.]

Love

Sleep or rage?

[Haunted]

sleep

dreams

[Henry P]

Dislike my dreams at the moment, all about bad times in schools

[Maryd.]

Awww, you need one of these:hug: and one of these:cheekkiss:... All better now?

[Henry P]

Much better, my dear

[Ian The Poet]

Nightmares. (I hate them)

[Maryd.]

Hate them too, I can never get back to sleep.

[Ian The Poet]

Birthdays. (It's my 50th today)

[Maryd.]

Oh, happy 50th... Wow, a mile stone... Hope you had a good time. Did you get plenty of presents?

[Henry P]

Yes, Ian. what did you get?

[Ian The Poet]

Some money, I've never really celebrated my big birthdays.

[Henry P]

Why not? You should

[Maryd.]

Let's all Celebrate Ian's birthday....


Happy birthday to you...

[Henry P]

Happy birthday to Ian!
For he's a jolly good fellow and so say all of us

[Maryd.]

Cheer, cheer, clap, clap

Ok now blow out the candles...

[Henry P]

Bake him a cake, Maryd

[Maryd.]

I think I put the cake on another thread

[Henry P]

Yes, but I ate it

[Maryd.]

That's alright, if it were anyone else I would be cross, but since it is you...

Did you like it?

[Henry P]

Delicious, my dear. Which cheese did you use?

[Maryd.]

Just imagine your favourite cheese... Then that is the one.

[Henry P]

Gorgonzola? No.
Mascarpone?

[Maryd.]

Which every you like my good sir.

[Henry P]

Doing exams?

[Maryd.]

Marking or sitting the examx?

[Henry P]

Marking, but I didn't dislike doing exams

[Maryd.]

I found them nerve racking. I tremble under pressure. Something that stems back from my weird childhood. It can actually be noticable. It only ever happens when I am under pressure, nervous or even very excited. It's really weird.

[Henry P]

ironing?

[Maryd.]

It's actually one of lifes choirs that I don't mind doing. Mind you if you know how to fold your clothes up neatly, some clothes should never need ironing.

Washing clothes?

[Henry P]

don't mind. We have a great new washer, a Bosch with a big drum

[Maryd.]

Sounds good, my husband bought our washing machine 4 years ago and bought a 5.5kilo size. Golly I am always washing as the loads are too big for the machine.

[Henry P]

ours is 8 or something

[Maryd.]

I have been doing my homework. The next one I buy will be the new 8.5 ones. One needs a big washing machine, when you have kids.

Dishwasher?

[Henry P]

we have one. me

[Maryd.]

Oh yes, you've mentioned that before. We have one. But once again it is too small and I end up having to wash the dishes as well.

Vacuuming?

[Henry P]

quite like because there's an instant visible result

[Maryd.]

Honestly I hate vacuuming. It is the one job I hate. But I love mopping.

Mopping?

[Henry P]

Quite like if there's an instant result, but not as routine. I'veslipped on wet tiled floors in the kitchen and utility room a few times

[Maryd.]

You must be careful, my good sir... I don't want to see you all broken.

[Henry P]

I've never broken a bone yet

[Maryd.]

No, neither have I.

[Ian The Poet]

Waiting in hospital, especially A&E.

[Maryd.]

(Not sure what A&E is)

But can't stand to waiting in hsopitals.

[Henry P]

Accident and Emergency or Casualty as it was once known

[Maryd.]

Thanks love...

Soccer match's where no one scores?

[Henry P]

Can be good, but the game we just watched wasn't

[Maryd.]

Boring game...

[Henry P]

Many are very defensive or just full of mistakes

[Maryd.]

Especially near the goals.

[Henry P]

It's nerves and haste under pressure, a lackof composure and fast thinking

[Maryd.]

Nature?

[Henry P]

Love nature.

[Maryd.]

Stars

[Ian The Poet]

Love looking at stars trying to find consellations.
Lightning.

[Maryd.]

Lightning scares me, but I love the way it lights up a dark room.

Pidgeons?

[Henry P]

I like watching them

[Maryd.]

My father has a picture of his honeymoon, where he and my mother were smothered in pidgeons. Yes... Very pretty.

[Henry P]

One pooped on my wife in Venice

[Maryd.]

Good one... I love pidgeons...

[Henry P]

It's supposed to bring good luck

[Maryd.]

So they say... All it does is make you smell.

[Henry P]

superstition?

[Maryd.]

Dislike and have never believed it. I once walked under a ladder 4 times because some superstitious old man told me not to, or I'll get 7 years bad luck. Then I turne to him and said there, that makes 28 years.

[Ian The Poet]

Robins

[Henry P]

Love to see them
Post-It notes?

[Maryd.]

Hate them they always go missing... I use an excercise book. Every now and then, people look at the book and see if there is anything for them. It works I never lose notes.

Computers?

[Ian The Poet]

Like when they work properly.
Unisex loos.

[Henry P]

Never been in one, except at home

[Maryd.]

Caravans?

[Henry P]

Dislike, I think, probably because I've only driven behind them and not stayed in them.
what about you?

[Maryd.]

I've never been in a caravan. I've seen them, but never been in one.

[Henry P]

I 've been in a friend's caravan, but there's all the hassle of towing it .You're not thinking of getting one, are you?

[Maryd.]

No... God no, where would we put it? I mean we share a driveway. It isn't pracitical.

[Henry P]

I haven't room either

[Maryd.]

It could be good for travel thought, don't you think?

[Henry P]

Cheaper than hotels, but you have to buy it, maintain it and buy more petrol

[Maryd.]

True that, but imagine the privacy... (she says, as she coughs and giggles)

[Henry P]

people can always gawp through the windows, my dear

[Maryd.]

No darling, that's what drapes are for.

[Henry P]

Doh! I'm not so clever after all

[Maryd.]

You're clever, I just think you like to tease me with this, playing dumb thing... Yes?

[Henry P]

No that time. I just plain forgot about the existence of curtains in my desire to amuse

[Maryd.]

You're so cute... You crack me up.

[Henry P]

I like that

[Maryd.]

I like that too.

After our little chats I can't help feeling happy again.

[Henry P]

Same here

[Maryd.]

Like I have been given hope and new life to look forward to.

[Henry P]

Exactly the way I feel

[Maryd.]

Sometimes when I am having a bad day and I know you would be asleep, I pop on and leave a message and I feel happier.

[Henry P]

I'm on here throughout the day, my dear

[Maryd.]

You see, I can always rely on you... Mwah.

[Henry P]

Thanks, my dear

[Maryd.]

Using chopsticks?

[Henry P]

Like, but I prefer to cheat by having them tied together with elastic

[Maryd.]

I detest them... Well that's not true, I just can't use them, I am hopeless.

[Henry P]

Ask for the beginners' version next time

[Maryd.]

Thanks, but I'll use a fork... Unless you will offer to teach me.:)

[Henry P]

We could learn together

[Maryd.]

Yes, it would be fun... Is there a manual, we could learn from, I mean do they come with instructions.

[Henry P]

No, there's a knack, I think

[Maryd.]

Oh, have you mastered it.

[Henry P]

No, hardly

[Maryd.]

Spend another year mastering it and when I come to England we'll go to a Chinese restaurant and you can teach me...:)

[Henry P]

that's a deal

[Maryd.]

Do you like Mexican food?

[Henry P]

Like, if it's not too spicy hot

[Maryd.]

Yes me too.

Stew?

[Ian The Poet]

Love stew.
Apple crumble.

[Maryd.]

Yes... Love... especially drenched in custard... Yum.

Chocolate mousse?

[Henry P]

Love
Broad beans?

[Maryd.]

Yummo...

Cooked spinach?

[Henry P]

Yum- having both today
Frankfurters?

[Maryd.]

Yuk... Used to like them when I was younger, but not anymore.

Hot milk?

[Henry P]

I like cold milk with biscuits or cakees, but hot milk is yuk. i hate milk or cream in soups or sauces as well

[Maryd.]

Thick Icing?

[Henry P]

dislike
marzipan?

[Maryd.]

Dislike.
Dark chocolate?

[Henry P]

love
White chocolate?

[Maryd.]

Drool over white chocolate.

Normal chocolate?

[Ike]

Like Dark better.

Tofu?

[Maryd.]

Like

Blancmange?

[Ian The Poet]

Love.
Jelly &icecream?

[Maryd.]

Yummo...

Plain custard

[Henry P]

yum
cheese on toast?

[Maryd.]

Yum

Ham on toast?

[Henry P]

yum
old men in shorts?

[Maryd.]

Oops, looks like we went a bit astray on this thread.

Old men in shorts... Not a good look. Unless they have good legs. Hahahahahaha

[Henry P]

Not the one I saw jogging in Y fronts today then

[Ian The Poet]

Nude sunbathing.

[Henry P]

dislike
Feet?

[Maryd.]

Dislike... They aren't the prettiest feature of the body...

[Henry P]

no, they're strange. How big are yours? mine are 9 and a half English size

[Maryd.]

Mine are 7 and a half... 8 in sandles. 7 and a half is usually average for an Aussie woman.

[Henry P]

sounds as if your shoe sizes are different in Oz

[Maryd.]

Yes... I believe they are, I hear the Eurpean sizes are completely different, but I don't know how different, as I have never bought anything overseas before.

[Henry P]

7 is about 5 in England apparently

[Maryd.]

Is that good?

[Henry P]

it's good if it's you, my dear

[Maryd.]

You are quite the charmer... You know just what to say and just the right time. Mwah my dear.

[Henry P]

I wasn't so good at that when I was younger

[Maryd.]

Making up for lost time, right?

[Henry P]

Kind of

[Maryd.]

Elaborate.

[Henry P]

I'm much more confident and experienced and wiser now than when I was young

[Maryd.]

I bet!!!!!

[Henry P]

A pity I'm falling apart though

[Maryd.]

Good, then at least I am not the only one.

[Henry P]

There arte many of us in a process of gradual deterioration

[Maryd.]

Pif... That happened years ago... I'm just picking up the pieces now.