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ElderlyPerson

I am pleased for you to lead. I think you wanted to do so.

I am simply pointing out that when you thought I had lost interest that that is not correct and I that I am simply waiting for the discussion to start on the day chosen by the person leading the discussion.

I later realised that that might have sounded wrong because for some reason when I wrote it I was thinking it was Sunday and the discussion was not due to start until tomorrow.

As it was already the day that the discussion was due to start, what I posted might have sounded like "get on with it" but it was not intended like that.

BlueBelle

Elderlyperson I think you are a genuine chap who wants to join in and have interesting discussions and maybe don’t get the wit that is often displayed on here and maybe have very distinct interests
Maybe you have Aspergers because you do come across as incredibly precise and seem to take every thing not only at face value but very very seriously
We do take some things seriously on here but there is also a lot of leg pulling and a lot of wit in the things written but not intended as nastiness I have a strong feeling you take everything as said and that’s hard for us to understand you and hard too for you to understand us
I hope you continue to post but maybe try and join in a little bit more lightheartedly

Maybe I have.

www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/what-is-autism/asperger-syndrome

Mollygo

Callistemon

I'm off to play truant now!

Always first on the swings, that's me!
Even the DGC get annoyed

Callistemon I’m impressed that you can move fast enough to beat them to the swings!??

That's why I have to play truant
I have half an hour start (and it's only 200 yards)

Keep your medium eggs at room temperature not in the fridge
Put eggs in a pan of water
Bring to boil
Boil for 3 minutes and 30 seconds using the stop watch on your phone
take straight off the boil and drain and fill with cold water
Eggs straight into egg cups and tops taken off straight away
= Dippy eggs

It helps if you get the egg cups and soldiers ready in the 3 half minutes

Anyone who does not know the meaning of 'soldiers' in this context would be utterly baffled by your post.

Why? They might be waiting for their breakfast

Soft boiled eggs and toastie soldiers, yummy.

JaneJudge

Keep your medium eggs at room temperature not in the fridge
Put eggs in a pan of water
Bring to boil
Boil for 3 minutes and 30 seconds using the stop watch on your phone
take straight off the boil and drain and fill with cold water
Eggs straight into egg cups and tops taken off straight away
= Dippy eggs

It helps if you get the egg cups and soldiers ready in the 3 half minutes

Thank you!

Are you Delia?

Do you not have soldiers for your nursery tea EP?
That is why you had to have runny eggs...

Sunday afternoon tea was always chucky eggs and soldiers but DH did the chucky eggs just right and I did all the rest.

ixion

Do you not have soldiers for your nursery tea EP?
That is why you had to have runny eggs...

I seem to remember boiled egg and soldiers as a breakfast meal, particularly on a Sunday, but I may have misremembered.

My mother used to do differently coloured boiled eggs for Easter Sunday breakfast.

I sure you haven’t misremembered EP I used to have a boiled egg and soldiers either for breakfast or tea and at Easter time
I d draw a face on it

BlueBelle put the empty shell upside down into the egg cup after drawing a face, then bash it with a teaspoon!

Don’t you have to smash the egg shell so that a witch can’t go to sea in it? ?‍♀️
(It is an old superstition - I’m not going mad, well, I might be, but that’s by the by…)

either way the shell has to be broken, maybe the soldiers can do it? I just use a knife
lots of love
Delia

Do you know the story of Columbus and the egg?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_of_Columbus

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Breaking_the_Egg

Is that widely known about?

I had been thinking, following the kind comments by Bluebelle, that maybe I was misunderstanding a comment meant to be lighthearted and humourous, even friendly, as if it were rude and insulting.

So I looked back through the thread to check it out and critically assess it from that perspective and I found that quite a number of posts have been deleted by Gransnet, with reference to the talk guidelines, including at least one of mine.

So I am wondering what I posted that was deemed wrong.

Chewbacca

There's some unkindness on this thread.

There is. It's unnecessary and a bit depressing. And that's without knowing what was said in the deleted posts I missed.

It's an interesting fact that you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

EP sometimes posts are deleted for what seems little reason sometimes HQ reads more into it that there is, and sometimes they are nasty comments, sometimes they sound more nasty than they would in real life
It’s much easier to talk in real life because there’s all sorts of little clues in someone’s face, a raised eyebrow, a smile…. even a smile can tell a thousand stories it could be a sarcastic smile, a genuine smile, a cheeky smile, a shy smile etc etc these can’t be seen in the written word, again the voice can give clues…. questioning, harsh, gentle, comical none of this happens with writing
Don’t worry too much about it whatever they said they are gone now

I see one of mine has be belated as well EP no idea what I said that was viewed badly

Deleted not belated day ?

Thank you.

Actually one of mine was the one which I quoted at 13:16 today. When I posted it I had in mind that today was Sunday and discussion of the book would start tomorrow. If someone reading the original knew it was Monday today the post would look quite stroppy.

One that was deleted was the kindly post to me by Bluebelle but I quoted it at 13:33, so perhaps the fact that I took it on board and added a link might have prevented my reply being deleted.

There are supposedly thousands of people with Asperger's syndrome living entirely lawful lives in the community, not harming anybody, so some people are going to be one of (us/them as the case may be).