Comments on: Doormats or good mates? http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=3556 Thes - Old English for "this", neuter of thes, of West Germanic origin: Mediolanum - old name for Milan: Lif - Old English for "life", of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lijf, German Leib 'body' Fri, 16 Nov 2018 07:21:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Andy http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=3556#comment-3775 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:40:13 +0000 http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=3556#comment-3775 I know – but you know how much self-doubt I have :-)
It was fantastic. More tomorrow.

]]> By: Andy http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=3556#comment-3774 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:39:39 +0000 http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=3556#comment-3774 Good story, D. I love ‘mad as a box of frogs’ and must think of some way of using it sometime. Actually, it was all perfect really. And the dogs had someone with them, so that was good.

]]> By: Lola http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=3556#comment-3765 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:48:21 +0000 http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=3556#comment-3765 It’s not terrible, Andy. It’s YOUR place after all!
Anyway, how did it go?

]]> By: D http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=3556#comment-3763 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:08:19 +0000 http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=3556#comment-3763 I have a friend. That in itself is sure to raise an eyebrow or two… Anyway, I extended an Olive branch to this friend in a time of need and invited him to stay – if he paid rent – at the house I was staying in. Lovely bloke, but mad as a box of frogs. His idea of a fulfilling weekend was to install himself on the sofa and, at full volume within a darkened lounge, watch back to back star trek re-runs whilst eating his way through a kilogram of crushed biscuits (on offer at the local supermarket).

I tried to remind myself many times during the four months he stayed that I was doing him a favour, but in the the end, I had to quite sternly ask him to leave as “circumstances had changed” (he had definitely overstayed his welcome)

A friend to you should recognise or know the importance you place on your inner sanctum of privacy… If they don’t, perhaps they don’t know you so well? Or maybe they’re just as mad as a box of frogs.

]]> By: Andy http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=3556#comment-3678 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:34:25 +0000 http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=3556#comment-3678 Thanks Gail. I’m sure it will all be fine. As you say, at least someone will be here with the dogs.

]]> By: Gail http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=3556#comment-3675 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:35:00 +0000 http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=3556#comment-3675 HI ANDY – enjoy your weekend away. ANd I think it is good that someone is with the dogs rather than just to let them out – but also, I , like you, do not like anyone staying at our house when we are home and when we are not home. I think it is a privacy thing, whatever,. Any-who, :-), – let it all go and just enjoy the freedom with no worries.
Love you lots
Gail
peace……

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