Ye of little faith.

Fugu is Japanese for what we call "Blowfish".

The Fugu is considered ugly by most in it's normal state, but when threatened it inflates itself into a spikey ball. Considered a delicacy by the Japanese, but if prepared improperly can lead to death.

Kind of like me.

I have faith... just not in Google!

I did wonder if it would be one of those inflatable sumo suits people wear to mock-wrestle at fetes etc.

Sounds vile.

But I guess that's why you had a G+T after your extremely early dinner.

Tom

How would an inflatable sumo suit protect me from a group hug?

Nope. Is yum. Early dinners happen when you have breakfast with your Small Person at 5.30 am.

Let's don't. I'm sure the last thing she wants is this group hug....

I didn't think it through. Maybe everyone would ricochet off?

Sounds like there is a need for Americans Anonymous nowadays.

Sigh... had a window seat in physics, did we? Just imagine... BlueAngel shows up and hurls herself at me... The sumo suit is mostly air, BlueAngel otoh.... Think of p=mv Think of playing billiards with a pingpong ball on the table.

With the fugu suit normal women would be repulsed. On the off chance that not all of the women here on EF are normal, I still have the instant inflation defense.

I am nothing if not cautious.

Physics... would that be one of those Science-y words? It all sounds like witchcraft to me...

Wouldn't a ping pong ball ricochet?

It's possible I'm thinking pinball. Which means I now have Baba O'Riley in my head. There is no room for your Physicks in there.

Well, if BlueAngel has a very large mass, and I have a very small mass, who do you think would be playing the role of the ping pong ball in this one act tragedy?

Oh wow I thought this happens only in Toronto, Detroit or Chicago

My kids love our swiss neighbours. They throw away great stuff all the time. Today we picked up umbrellas, honey, craft stuff, a rucksack and some cushions. We've got a couple of cupboards, tables, chairs, some picture frames, and even skis off the street since we've been here. We even got some rubbish labels too since some people are paying to get this great stuff taken off there hands!

If Billy Boy Wigglestick were alive today, he'd be writing Coronation Street, or as it's known in my house, 'Corelanus'. Reckon Edgar Allan Poe would write Eastenders though.

I think that our inability to remain anonymous is part of what makes us American, unfortunately.

Daniel Day Lewis? I hear he's very Method...


Ouchy?

Noticed you skipped the bit about:

Personally I believe this could only result in a mutually agreeable, sizzling HOT sushi combination...

I sense a trap.

Midgets get fed early, and sent off to bed.

Adults get fed after 8 (or 9, or 10)!

Tom

Highly unlikely.

...is mostly tits and belly, so at least you'd have a soft landing.

Good job too because I'd probably snap you like a wafer thin mint.

...like Monroe and Arthur Miller taken to a new extreme.

Just playing catch up ZuriRollt. I've had the builders in demolishing and laying new foundations, so my head is a mush of circular saws and pneumatic drills. Time to embrace the silence. But if Kedi doesn't wind her neck in, I have a digger in the back garden that she can borrow for that hole she's making for herself. I can't believe that 2 flights, 900 miles and 4 builders demolishing part of my house later, she's still papping on. Beggar's belief!

But whilst you're here ZuriRollt... The new kitchen will have high gloss white units and oak worktops. Would you go for matt or gloss white tiles? And what about the flooring? I could extend the existing terracotta tiled floor, or go for oak, or something completely different?