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I have just got back from a lovely weekend in Gloucestershire. However this morning at 5.45.a.m. the fire alarm sounded in the hotel so we had to get out quick (I have never put a pair of trousers on so fast in my life). When we got outside I noticed that almost all the women had grabbed their handbags including me.
If your house was on fire what would you grab?
I think I would go for my laptop it has lots of photographs on it as well as writing material.
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Whenever we have a fire drill at work (usually the coldest wettest day of the year) I stand there freezing to death and everyone else has handbags and coats.
So is it only at school that you should leave everything behind? When I was at school we didn't really have anything of value on us - bans on mobile phones were only just coming in... and my mobile was like a brick!
My cats would be the first thing.
Then laptop and camera (if I could).... and my 'Much Ado About Nothing' programme signed by David Tennant.
What? It's David Tennant! ;)
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BUT if I was away from home, my handbag would be an easy choice!
One needs to get one's money's worth, don'tchaknow.
made at Ewenny pottery in South Wales.
[quote=Carol]my insulin and blood glucose monitor [/quote]
Mine are usually in my handbag anyway.
I'd need the second handbag to keep mine in Chippy :) they'd fill the small handbag I'm using at the moment...
Save Mum first of course.
and if they have a man handy they'd like grabbing, I'm sure I could assist quite well there too
"huffs on hands and rubs them together"
Or, you're saving the dog for laters?
Hmmm.
I saw someone pick up a crash helmet in a crowded pub and vomit into it and put it back. I didn't hang around to see what happened when the biker put it on.
he is sitting in a chair in full view I am ashamed to say I never
gave him a second thought after all these years.
Him and the cat then.
Ha ha ha ha
Strap yourself to it, then wait for the fireman to rescue you (and it).
They should use it as a clip on "Sorry I've got no head" where Marcus Brigstocke and some other chappie dress up as women and speak in shrill voices then complain that they have to pay "a thousand pounds?" when really they don't
:)
And I, sad git that I am, one snowy Christmas Eve many many years ago, just as the shops were closing, saw an unwanted toy Eeyore in a shop's bargain box. He'd one eye missing and nobody wanted him and it was Christmas. I carried the box into the shop and said I'd like Eeyore. I was nearly in tears, he was the only toy left. And the nice Indian man helped me scrabble around at the bottom of the box and we found Eeyore's eye and Mr Indian Man stuck it on for me and didn't even charge for my little donkey, so I went home and added him to my collection ....
I have him still.
But I'd chuck out all the livestock, grab my bag and car keys and diary
Not the Indian Man, stupid, the bloomin' donkey!
We get earthquakes here... luckily only mild mostly but there have been a few which have driven everybody out side in the early hours clutching children, mobile phones and cigarettes.
It is always me who goes back in to make pots of tea... well you can't have a disaster without a cuppa... can you?..x
As to what I write, the answer to that would be: not much. But when I do manage it, I mostly paddle in the waves of fantasy, sci-fi and horror. That is, nothing too hardcore, but enough to land them in the genre.
Thanks, I'll make sure to yell loudly if need be!