Vlad...

[Vlad]

At first it was only a feeling as if you had remembered something or someone but it passed...then there was a stirring, an odd feeling that something somewhere was happening, a portent ...birds could sense it,  flocks were seen leaving the trees, and there was a mighty murmuration in the skies..animals flocked uneasily together, dogs stayed close to their masters.
Why?....

Vlad the chosen One has risen...

[klondike]

All hail the mighty conker.

I trust all is in order in the House of Vlad

Good to see you back - I had to put up an Open sign because everybody seemed to think the place had shut for Christmas. I don't think I tightened all the screws up but I'm buggered if I'm getting the ladder out again.

[Vlad]

It's a very nice sign, it was the first thing I noticed other than the over flowing toilets. 

[klondike]

Can't get the staff. Scrumpy was doing them but now she's off sick. Mac has got a touch of something or other, Raven is still recovering, I've done something to my leg, Dex vanishes as soon as he spots a mop. It's all a worry.

[Vlad]

Can't get the staff. Scrumpy was doing them but now she's off sick. Mac has got a touch of something or other, Raven is still recovering, I've done something to my leg, Dex vanishes as soon as he spots a mop. It's all a worry.

You have done something to your leg? Varnished it? 
Hopefully the guvvermunt will U-turn on business rates so we can get some loose change in order to employ some staff. It's becoming like a geriatric ward ...

[klondike]

No it's any annoying slightly pulled tendon. Not enough to stop me walking around the house but on a longer outside walk uncomfortable and makes be walk with a limp (careful phrasing before you jump on it). I expected it to get better quickly just with resting it but it has hung around a while. It was my birthday just before Christmas so I'm now a year older, I expect that's it.

[Vlad]

No it's any annoying slightly pulled tendon. Not enough to stop me walking around the house but on a longer outside walk uncomfortable and makes be walk with a limp (careful phrasing before you jump on it). I expected it to get better quickly just with resting it but it has hung around a while. It was my birthday just before Christmas so I'm now a year older, I expect that's it.

I think a Parrot might help, a man about town like your good self can't go far wrong with a parrot.

[klondike]

Funny you should say that.....

[Mups]

You've not still got that same grubby old hat, have you?
Perhaps the ladies on here could knit you a nice new one  for your an Easter Egg.   

Nice parrot. 

[Raven]

My Granddaughter in Dundee City Centre, making friends with a beautiful bird.

[Vlad]

It will all end in tears of course, they are obviously incompatible