So how was it for you?
We've not had New Year yet, but the thread should run for a day or two, so there will be room for your reflections on tomorrow night's excitement as well.
My Christmas three-night break at the Ramada Plaza in Southport went well.
I've stayed there a few times and can report the food and general cleanliness/ambience of the place has improved over my last visit.
The rooms have also been spruced up a little bit.
Staying on neutral ground means less chance of family fall-outs which were limited to one tetchy exchange with my endearing mother.
Southport is a good location for my rehab hobbles because the surrounding area is flat.
Some twinges from the hip during the journey there, it's about 150 miles which is probably too far seven weeks after the operation.
But no pain on the way back, which indicates recovery progress is still being made.
Ate well, but too much, although I was pleased with the bar bill which was a modest £70 for the three of us for three nights.
Had a run out to Blackpool in my brother's dreadful Auris selectamatic.
It performed more acceptably than last time, thanks to use of the sport button which goes some way to making it drivable in traffic.
I'm not bothered about New Year, so plan to watch a bit of telly and go to bed when I feel like it.
The Jools Holland programme is a temptation, but last year's was a disappointment, so may give that a miss.
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>>bar bill which was a modest £70 for the three of us for three nights.
Not too many hangovers, then? Glad to hear the peg is recovering well.
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I avoided xmas = totally.
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Christmas I like, New Year I find a depressing bore with nothing to get excited about. The date changes -Wow! That's all, nothing else will.
Up at 5:30 Saturday and Sunday so it'll take more than Jools Holland or whatever crap they have on to keep me up till midnight New Years eve.
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Keep you up to midnight?
Never go to bed before around 1.00 am myself - best time of the day to get things done like reading, photo editing, watching a good film film.
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I don't work to a set bed time or getting up time. What I do though is go to bed 6 hours before I need / want to get up. Works for me. That way I get 12 hours to work or travel to / from it and 6 hours of free time in 24. Makes weekends longer too. Result all round.
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>> What I do though is go to bed 6 hours before I need / want to get up.
For me, any less than 7 hours and it's a siesta.
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Well the recyling box has gone out, inside it contains Three empty prosecco bottle, three whites, 1 red, two rose, 15 becks, 5 buds, 1 bottle port (ok it was opened 4 months ago, just took a late pounding) 20 full fat coke, 10 coke Zero.
Quite a pleasant xmas.
Off down southampton way tomorrow for new year in a pub and some sailing.
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I bottle of very nice Champagne (a wedding gift) - a bottle of Rose, couple of whites. Three Bottles of Leffe Blonde and a six pack of a supermarket Dutch beer. Not bad between four. Eaten too much though.
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You people make me realise what an embarrassingly depraved bunch of soaks we must be here, with our two or three or four wheelie bins, including a big one, overflowing with bottles of every description. Of course the steady beer drinkers - I am not one - account for a lot of this. And we are I suppose talking about a dozen or so people on average, with visitors and toing and froing... but some of the young don't consume all that much (children don't come into it of course).
Some twenty or thirty years ago I filled in the spaces between the brick pillars of the rear wall of a rough pergola built by a local handyman with wine bottles set in pug. The result is a 'bottle wall' about 8 by 20 feet. Looks good inside (bottle bottoms) when floodlighted outside.
My memory is that the bottles were only a few weeks' intake. And we are mostly still alive!
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I meant to add: the debrief that interests me most is BBD's account of his months being probed and tested by aliens in their spaceship.
I suppose we will have to wait for the UN and US government to finish with him, but I am all agog. I am pleased that they have let him go. I hope they didn't leave anything out during the molecular reassembly process.
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Well, I spent Christmas with guests but no hot water.
We got the heating back but had to boil kettles to wash up after Christmas dinner and that wasn't funny. I could say it was funny, I could say I well remember having to do that all the time to get hot water but it did make things difficult to deal with.
The heating engineer should have returned on Christmas Eve to sort it out but he didn't and refused to answer his phone, he promised to be here on Wednesday but didn't turn up and refused to answer his phone....
He rolled up yesterday morning and rang the doorbell, and proceeded to tell me my doorbell didn't work (which I knew).
I had promised myself that I would stay calm when he arrived and not get angry.....telling me about my doorbell put an end to that.
He now is fully aware of the inconvenienced it caused me by him not being able to correctly diagnose the problem a full week before Christmas.
Apart from that, a good time was had by all:)
Pat
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He rolled up yesterday morning and rang the doorbell, and proceeded to tell me my doorbell didn't work (which I knew)
He really didn't know who he was messing with....did he ?
Grim without hot-water though. :-(
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Yes, indeed, when our boiler failed one had go to one's club for a wash. Most inconvenient what?
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The new washing machine heats its own water, although I suppose there would have been a few breakages.
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>> He rolled up yesterday morning and rang the doorbell, and proceeded to tell me my
>> doorbell didn't work (which I knew)
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>> He really didn't know who he was messing with....did he ?
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>> Grim without hot-water though. :-(
Plenty of hot air tho.
ooppps - that will get me in trouble.
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>> Well the recyling box has gone out, inside it contains ............>>
We had to use the reserve overspill spare recycling boxes as one couldn't handle it all :-)
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Recycling boxes proves there's nothing new under the sun.
It's just like putting the empty bottles back in the crate for the collection as we used to, but without the shilling or two against your next 24 bottles of Mackeson.
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>>It's just like putting the empty bottles back in the crate for the collection as we used to, but without the shilling or two against your next 24 bottles of Mackeson<<
Yep! - I can remember being so poor we took a load of empties back to the offie and used the money to buy one portion of fish n' chips for the 2 of us.
(get the violins out!)
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>>Recycling boxes proves there's nothing new under the sun.
I was into an unusual recycling job many years ago.
Part of my Saturday job working in a Chemist was dealing with empty medicine bottles that customers dutifully returned.
A quick rinse and a bottle brush sorted out most of them but hydrochloric acid did the rest.
Elf n safety - Wot that?
We were also well trained to make up standard mixtures like Kaolin & Morph.
My how things have changed
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>> We were also well trained to make up standard mixtures like Kaolin & Morph.
>> My how things have changed
I'd forgotten that stuff; came near to being addicted for a while.
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Morphine was the nuclear option painkiller offered by the nurses when I was in hospital for the hip replacement.
Happily, I only felt the need to imbibe once.
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Great stuff when you need it, boring, constipating and addicting (as well as potentially lethal in overdose) when you don't. I never caught on to the 'recreational' use of opiates although naturally I wanted to find out what all the fuss was about. Could never see the real point though.
They used to prescribe k&m for the Bombay trots. Junkies used to pour off the m and leave the k in the bottle.
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Had it recommended for the trots but found it relieved other anxieties too. Fortunately a few breaks from availability and the distraction of meeting Mrs B to be got me off it.
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...Had it recommended for the trots but found it relieved other anxieties too. Fortunately a few breaks from availability and the distraction of meeting Mrs B to be got me off it...
Some story there in fewer than forty words.
Glad I only had one go in hospital now.
To be fair, I don't think the nurses would have let me get too keen on it.
And the word 'morphine' rings alarm bells from my experience at court.
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The original Dr Collis Brown's Tincture / Chlorodyne was another popular medicine.
IIRC it contained Codeine Morphine and Cocaine.
It got tamed down but is still available but no longer the attraction it was.
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>> Morphine was the nuclear option painkiller offered by the nurses when I was in hospital
>> for the hip replacement.
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I used to, on the chemists "butchers bike with shop logo on it) , deliver weekly a significant supply of Morphine to an old dear. She was also into recycling the old glass containers ( not always empty) so I could return them to the shop.
Boots medicine bottles did not get recycled as they had the Boots logo in the glass.
IIRC medicine bottles came in sizes up to 16 /20 oz. Get that lot down you and do not come back for more!
Benylin came in Winchester bottles ( IIRC about 2.5 litres) so needed decanting.
Benylin is one product that is still around.
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>>Dr J Collis Brown's Tincture<<
We used to down that by the bottle load in the 60's + Romilar (Dextromethorphan) another one was called Dimeril cough linctus or something (none of this blimmin alcohol marlarky)
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2 straight days of torrential rain over here has put the skids on many people's NYE celebrations. There's 12,000 people in town for an outdoors rock concert - the muddy grounds resemble Glastonbury at its worst..!
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Well at least the earthquakes bring new meaning to the phrase rock and roll!
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Christmas and Boxing Day off and then straight back into the thick of it with the worst weather I've ever flown in. 50mph crosswinds, 170mph headwinds, heavy rain, severe icing, severe turbulence, windshear, aquaplaning, thunderstorms... all in three days!
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More or less! Anything north of Birmingham is pretty much Scotland to you Southerners. :-)
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Hope you didn't get to close to the one in front?
It looked like it from where I was sitting ;)
Pat
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>> Christmas and Boxing Day off and then straight back into the thick of it
>> with the worst weather I've ever flown in.
>> 50mph crosswinds, 170mph headwinds, heavy rain, severe icing, severe turbulence, >>windshear, aquaplaning, thunderstorms... all in three days!
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I bet that reduced the onboard catering task :-)
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Just out of curiousity FF, would a passenger plane like wot you fly be capable of "stunt flying" or would bits fall off? I guess someone must've tried it? not that I'm suggesting you slip in a furtive barrel roll over Stockport you understand but I've always wondered. Used to live next to what was RAF Turnhouse as a kid and would get to see all manner of their aircraft doing things which are no doubt banned now but never seen anything "big" with side windows misbehaving.
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Excellent. I like the old guy !
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Like to see him try that in a fly by wire airbus...
Computer he say NON!
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Pilot to Head Trolley Dolly - "Have you finished serving the meals yet?"
HTD to pilot - "Yep, they're all tucking in now, wine served too."
Pilot to HTD - "OK, quietly tell our guys to strap in, I've just checked my lottery numbers and I've won. Gonna try something..."
:-)
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In the sixties, some sort of turboprop, Vanguard perhaps but can't remember, landing at Belfast: the aircraft rose up over the edge of the plateau where the airport is and approached the runway so sideways that one could see it out of the side windows. There must have been a huge side wind. The aircraft landed heavily on one of its main bogies and oscillated with a quite violent lateral movement most of the way down the runway.
Hairiest-feeling landing I have ever experienced. Rough old Ilyushins on desert airstrips never felt half as frightening. It's at such moments that pilots earn their money I reckon.
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>>50mph crosswinds, 170mph headwinds, heavy rain, severe icing, severe turbulence, windshear, aquaplaning, thunderstorms... all in three days!
I ope they fit them busses with winter tyres then!
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I agree with RR. Absolutely love Christmas, and had one of the best in recent memory this year. I simply cannot get excited about New Year's Eve though.
Even when I did go out drinking / partying regularly, I always found NYE to be anti climactic, overpriced, and generally disappointing.
As with the last four years, I plan to be fast asleep at midnight.
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NYE is not the same when you have young children. We have a few friends coming over with their youngsters - few drinks, some food, and we will see how the kids bear up.
When they all get tired / irritable then that will be the end of our evening - be it before or after midnight (my moneys on about 10)
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I will be working as usual, and having a few little stickies as usual to keep my spirits up. My lifestyle at the moment is horribly perverse, even more so than usual. I get up after 11 and usually go to bed up to an hour after Pat has got up in the morning. It's awful, unhealthy and anti-social. My nearest and dearest are very tolerant though, bless them.
Midnight for me is thus the equivalent of 4.30-8.30 pm for a normal citizen. About when I begin to feel normal for a few hours. No doubt I will engage in some social life and clamour, but then that too is more frequent than peace at this time of year. Just hope I don't make myself queasy by having more than a few sips of shampoo or getting tempted by the Hine... too much grape for the usual grain intake to shrug off. That would be foolish with the deadline on Tuesday and a knotty and irritating passage to get through.
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Work going badly not helped by long noisy dinner. Sloping off to other room in a minute. May take glacé cherries and brandy to improve potentially poor shampoo. Just spoken to daughter already in next year and working (in Tasmania).
A luta continua... urgh. Later, yah?
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We had a nice Christmas at the daughters house.Son in law prepared a nice meal he is a good cook.
New Years Eve quet night in we watch a DVD,problaby Jools Holland and to bed after midnight.
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Jools Holland after the DVD.>:)
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Twenty or more years ago NYE was celebrated; network of midnight telephone calls, SWMBO's 2nd cousin 'first footing' etc. These days I'd rather go to bed at normal time even if I do end up cursing the neighbours firework fusillade.
And, little ones, never be tempted to join the festivities in Trafalgar Sq. I did once. All sort of drinks passed round, worst hangover in a lifetime, trod on somebody's dog and got bitten (missed my skin but wrecked my Levi's). And I still had to walk home to Golders Green.
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On antibiotics at the mo. ( never used to get any illnesses when I smoked ! ) Blinking chest infection now ironically enough.
Anyway, promised the quack I'd not drink on them so I won't. Severely tempted to go out in the car wearing a Christmas cracker hat later though...
:-)
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Christmas dinner was at our house with the in-laws. Dinner started about 5.15 and finished at 10pm!
Boxing Day was eating selection boxes and Turkey & Stuffing after dropping my daughter at work for 6am!
27th was Turkey Tikka Masala
28th was Spag Bol
29th was a party / ceilidh for my dad's 80th birthday with 220 guests - fantastic night and he thoroughly enjoyed it - also raised £1500 for charity in lieu of presents
30th was Chinese carry out
Tonight, heading over to my neighbour's for a few beers and bring in the New Year.
I have had 2 great experiences at New Year:
Most recent was 2 years ago when we were over at the same neighbours, snowing and freezing temperatures. We were outside gathered round the chiminea all wrapped up till 6am and we discovered (via his aldi temp gauge) that at some point during the night the temp hit -12 (whilst we were standing drinking by the fire). Should have realised this when we noticed our bottles of beer were turning to slush puppy!!
The other one was about 18 years ago when a group of us hired a house in the middle of nowhere (Fort Augustus). It was touch and go whether we would be able to get there due to the snow and the fact all the pipes had frozen. But we did, we brought in the bells gathered round a huge roaring fire with some guitars playing and then when we surfaced on New Year's Day we discovered that a further foot or so of snow had fallen. So we were stuck there for 2 days other than taking lovely walks in the snow with only home made soup and alcohol to keep us warm!
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Well, It seems to have arrived judging by all the fireworks.
So a very happy and prosperous 2012 to all our forum tribe and their families.
Ted
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>> Well, It seems to have arrived judging by all the fireworks.
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>> So a very happy and prosperous 2012 to all our forum tribe and their families.
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I second that!
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Happy New Year to all !!
Would've posted earlier but I have this fear of premature congratulation...
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Likewise.
The clamour has died down completely. Small nippers were up until midnight but now it's as silent as the grave up there, not at all as usual. Last night one particular tot was appallingly restless (her sister from the other bunk is away).
I didn't get too drunk or overdo the grape. I am working in blessed peace and have done a chunk. Worries me a bit though that I can work after quite a lot to drink. I used not to be able to. Practice makes perfect of course, but it may not be a good thing.
Those London fireworks looked good to me on the TV. Almost wished I had been in the smoke to see them (from Hampstead Heath perhaps). Has young Boris blown the entire Olympic budget hoping to be Prime Minister in time to pass a special bill for the actual Olympics?
I think we should be told.
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Has been a good NYE, but sadly worse for wear, sort of by accident 20 of my mates all ended up in the same venue, as a result I had a little bit too much to drink.
Although out of the 20 I was still one of the sober ones. No better than a usual Friday night though but the thing I love about alternative Manchester is I have 6 pints out and still got change out of £25 including the NYE ticket and buses there and back. OK it was my dads bus pass and I did have to drive 12 miles to pick him up to gain that pass...
Still as far as NYE goes it was an ok night.
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Watched all of Jools Holland and enjoyed it.
I still think his interviews with the audience don't work very well, but there seemed fewer of those this year.
There was a succession of excellent live acts, one or two were so polished I wondered if they were miming.
I've watched too much X-Factor and had forgotten proper musicians can pick up an instrument or microphone and give a note-perfect performance.
Now looking forward to the arrival of my Vaccines CD.
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>> Watched all of Jools Holland and enjoyed it.
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Caro Emerald.. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
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>> Caro Emerald.. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
Was out last night but we recorded Jools - will catch up later. Did she do 'The Other Woman'? Heard it a few times in Asda last year, really liked it, but it took me ages to find out where it came from.
I did hear a bit of the programme at one point, and it solved another musical mystery:
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=75155&v=t&m=867410
Turns out it was the Tijuana Brass's version of 'work song', which was one of the songs performed last night:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV5h6h83Yf4
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...Caro Emerald.. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!...
Lots of Caro gawping opportunities here:
www.caroemerald.com/gallery/
I thought the lass in the white dress was quite fit.
Can't remember what she was called.
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>> Can't remember what she was called.
Imelda May?
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Yes, that's her.
imeldamay.co.uk/
I think she's more watchable - and listenable - than Caro.
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Caro was disappointingly chunky I thought. Never seen her before. Voice like a linnet of course but clearly a bit too fond of Edam.
Jessie J though...Fit as a butcher's dog.
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I couldn't remember last night why I didn't even glance at Jools Holland. But I remember today.
He's a very good piano player himself, and used to play hardcore blues, jazz and carpkicking rock'n'roll on his show. But for years now he's been playing any old crap, just like an industry jock, Jacobs, Savile, all those disgraceful hucksters of tin pan alley garbaggio pulling the wool over the eyes of young music lovers and killing their nascent sense of rhythm. Half the stuff is just bubblegum for six-year-olds and the rest is strictly come dancing fodder.
Now I find people I think of as friends and comrades twitching and drooling over talentless dollies I have never heard of, butcher's dogs to a girl, drool drool.
I do retain a certain affection for some of you. But comes the revolution many of you will have to go I'm afraid. We won't be able to tolerate compromise in the brave new world. Not that sort of compromise anyway.
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Wearers of white slip-on driving shoes will certainly not be tolerated.
Ruby Turner was good.
Going to take my chav lights down now. If it ever stops raining. Cold comfort I know but at least we're not on a boat in the English Channel like that Zero fellow. Bit of dodgy planning there if you ask me...
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Been out with the dogs for a run (them not us) along Dinas Dinlle beach - no rain here, some blue sky sneaking through. Plenty of afternoon strollers out most with a dog or two in tow. Little 'un's first introduction to the sea. Nice coffee in a beach-side cafe, resisted the flapjack though.
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Just got back from the coast, sailing cancelled - weather crap. Lock in down the pub last night. Much consumed. Thumping hangover still.
Weather on the M27/M3 was shocking - heavily waterlogged. Generally good driving by all tho, good spacing, sensible speeds. The Uniroyal Rain experts are brilliant in such weather, dont envy those behind tho - shifts a lot of water.
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An X1 had parked next to ours - it was immaculately clean and looked somewhat less rural than ours.......must wash it soon.
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>> sailing cancelled - weather crap. Lock in down the pub last night. Much consumed. Thumping hangover still.
Sensible decision, although I was enjoying thoughts of you bellowing in Ahab style in a force 10 gale.
I sailed in a race round Dublin Bay once with a hangover. I was 18 I think. I was accompanying my late Irish uncle and a rich car dealer friend of his whose yawl we were in. It was rough, I had never been in a sailing boat before so was pretty hopeless especially when I started being sick, and they just jeered at me in a robust manner, chomping salami sandwiches and smoking stogies. We came last in the race I think but they didn't blame me or even care much. But not one of my most triumphant memories...
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>> >> sailing cancelled - weather crap. Lock in down the pub last night. Much consumed.
>> Thumping hangover still.
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>> Sensible decision, although I was enjoying thoughts of you bellowing in Ahab style in a
>> force 10 gale.
I was hoping for a quick blast of cold air - usually cures me. instead the long slow lingering death....
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>>long slow lingering death....
Sounds like Fifi should have a long walk tonight! Bet the pub was fun. not been "locked in" in years. When I lived in darkest Somerset the Butcombe bitter was a double edged sword. very easy to drink and didn't seem to be very strong but the next day...
Just been chatting to my Bavarian neighbour who's just returned from a German Christmas. Weather there much as here. No snow. I can remember a regular annual trip to Glenshee for a day's skiing on New Years Day when we were in Scotland. Probably wouldn't have been on today even if we'd been within reach. Naff all to do round here either mind. No hills, no sea, boring.
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>> >>long slow lingering death....
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>> Sounds like Fifi should have a long walk tonight!
She got that this morning along the Hampshire Coast. Two glasses of crisp cold Pinot Grigio seems to have halted the long slow decline to death, pretty sure some over ripe brie and a few snorts of port later will prevent my meeting with Charon.
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>> Happy New Year to all !!
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>> Would've posted earlier but I have this fear of premature congratulation...
Ah - an upstanding citizen!
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Been fine all day and attempting to update my website again! I say attempt as I end up writing a lot of information and decide to scrap it. The best thing about being in my 30th year is I get hammered on NYE, know when to stop and feel fine today. Where as some of younger mates no doubt will be very ill today.
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We didn't do anything really. TTQ made a vegetable curry, which was very good.
Neither of us had a drink all evening.
Usual crappy night on the telly......she, being a keen cook, was looking forward to a documentary about the cost of pies in the West Indies. She'd mis-read the Radio Times, it turned out to be Pie Rates of the Caribbean...silly moo.
I got bored half an hour into it and nodded off. Also, it was one of those films largely made in the dark to save having to fork out on sets and scenery. Prog of ' bloopers ' came on so I went and tidied the kitchen and washed up. She went to bed at 2200 and I made a cup of tea and cranked up the Internet to come on here and have a look at some YouTube stuff. Too many fireworks to go to bed so stayed up 'til about 0100.
Got up at 1000 to find no paper delivered and only 2 teabags left. Drove to the shop to rectify the situation and called to get some cash from the hole in the wall at me mate Ali's post office. Had an hour with him, exchanging a little light racial abuse, then spent the afternoon in the model railway room sorting a few glitches and giving the new loco a taste of the whip !
Neighbours in for a meal tonight...might have a small sweet sherry. How the other half live.
Ted
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Christmas now back in it's bag in the loft until December 2012. Tree outside for binmen to collect tomorrow.
Small quantity of glass in recycling bin but I took most to tip on 29th. We had 11 for lunch on 27th and 14 on 28th so plenty wine bottles + BIL was drinking bottles of ale (red gives him migraine).
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Went to bed at 20:30 after a luvly home made fish pie and a few bottles of Sancerre.
Rudely awakened by stay ups letting off fireworks, then swmbo daughter phoning at 9am to say she had arrived home (Seychelles) on time and was on the beach eating lunch...today's fish catch grilled, dipping in & out of the sea, playing scrabble & volleyball..not at the same time.Driving across the M62 in awful weather to the airport yesterday confirmed the main reason why she no longer lives in the UK. Meanwhile today I took the dog for a very wet 3 hour walk over Haworth Moor, took down the tree and all Xmas decs, now in the loft ready for later this year.
So glad to be back at work tomorrow. Hooray.
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>>So glad to be back at work tomorrow. Hooray.
Heh heh ! Sort of know what you mean Legacylad. I have never looked forward so much to a few days off as I had to these. I was royally knackered and the early signs are that January will be manic from the get go. However, if I don't move soon I'll need to buy some flight socks to avoid deep vein thrombosis !
:-)
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I'm pleased to be back tomorrow, particularly as I've got an easy week ahead. Not as pleased as the dogs however, normally enthusiastic for walkies they've been out so many time in the last week they've started looking at me in horror when I pick the leads up.
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i start a few months paid work on Tuesday !
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Crickey ! Steady on RP !
Will it involve shaving every day and so on ?
Sheesh !
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Nah, doing what I was doing before as a volunteer, they've long accepted the dishevelled ex-professional with the unpolished shoes
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Phew, that's a relief. Wonder if it'll inspire the Surrey Sloth to get his finger out and start contributing to the economic recovery again?!
:-)
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I should coco, I know how to retire. Tho having said that I go for my uniform fitting in Feb.
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>> Tho having said that I go for my uniform fitting in Feb.
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Lets guess - The Fat Comtroller so that no questions are asked when videoing?
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I think zeds uniform is 5 ring related. I am going for uniform fitting/training in Feb too, though I don't have the exact date yet.
I will be a driver, T3, whatever that means, for the football events at Old Trafford. Might even get to drive an F30 3 series before DP - official transport for London 2012.
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>>I think zeds uniform is 5 ring related.
One ring more than a captain ?
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>> One ring more than a captain ?
Rear-Admiral at least one would hope. Although come to think of it some petty and warrant officers can have a lot of rather skinny and grubby sleeve rings... Chief engine-room artificer on a destroyer perhaps, Like Pyecroft in the Kipling story Steam Tactics... He's a slightly thuggish muscular modernist in the Zeddo mould...
Er, :o} sort of thing
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>>zeds uniform
Car park attendant?
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>> Car park attendant?
I could but dream of such jopbsworth power in my hand.
PMR radio team at Wembley Arena
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Personal Mobile Radio, the walkie talkies the officials carry.
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...Personal Mobile Radio, the walkie talkies the officials carry...
You might have posted this earlier, but what's your job, or don't you know yet?
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No eye deer, Just that I am on the PMR team, at Wembley Arena
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>> Well at least the earthquakes bring new meaning to the phrase rock and roll!
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Got a report earlier this evening from Christchurch that they have been getting more after shocks.
Edit :- Now in the press
www.stuff.co.nz/national/6207076/Quake-swarm-rattles-Christchurch
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The nagging fear that has bit gnawing at the pit of my stomach over the entire xmas festivities has come to fruition.
The new fake Xmas tree, once liberated, refuses to go back in the box.
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Surprisingly, and despite dire predictions ours did....still don't believe it !
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Dunno why y'all putting your trees and deco's away, the twelth night isn't until Thursday!
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>> the twelth night isn't until Thursday!
Friday the 6th I think you'll find (unless you're still looking at a 2011 calendar?)
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"The Twelfth Night of Christmas is always on the evening of 5 January, but the Twelfth Day can either precede or follow the Twelfth Night according to which Christian tradition is followed.[1] Twelfth Night is followed by the Feast of the Epiphany on 6 January. In some traditions, the first day of Epiphany (6 January) and the twelfth day of Christmas overlap"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_days_of_Christmas
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>> "The Twelfth Night of Christmas is always on the evening of 5 January
I stand corrected. No wonder I always have back luck ;o(
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Dunno why y'all putting your trees and deco's away, the twelth night isn't until Thursday!
Cos we're pagans Dog.
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>> Dunno why y'all putting your trees and deco's away, the twelth night isn't until Thursday!
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I'm back at work tomorrow and the schools go back on Wednesday.
Done yesterday it was a job out of the way. And Mrs B said it nust be done.
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>>And Mrs B said it must be done<<
Needs must when the ... !
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>> The new fake Xmas tree, once liberated, refuses to go back in the box.
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Every year I just wind a length of string around the larger branches so that they finish up as sort of slim cone shape and in then the box and off to the loft.
Garsons Farm at Esher had 10 foot jobs for £330 at the weekend. 50% off but I think they might take an offer!
That would be a real challenge. My six foot version is heavy enough with all the steel in it .
I wonder what its big dady would weigh ?
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>> The new fake Xmas tree, once liberated, refuses to go back in the box.
Try putting the bottom in first.
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>> >> The new fake Xmas tree, once liberated, refuses to go back in the box.
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>> Try putting the bottom in first.
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I now have an image of a small cardboard coffin with a pair of legs hanging out of one end. :-)
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Where is the bottom? It disassembles into 56 different parts.
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Meant to do it Sunday, but was a little fragile - beach walk was a better option.
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Zero, think you might have the same tree as me! Other than the top section, does every individual branch un hook off?
A pain in the neck, we usually go real but this was a hand me down from my sister and the real was about thirty or forty quid last year so took the cheap option!
Last edited by: VxFan on Tue 3 Jan 12 at 11:53
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>> The new fake Xmas tree, once liberated, refuses to go back in the box.
How about a bin liner or bigger box?
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It was nice getting all the Xmas decs back in the loft yesterday. Swmbo can now concentrate on the 1k miles she'll be doing visiting customers this week in her crappy Insignia.
Roll on Easter...talking of which my local Coop now have the Cadbury's cream eggs on display I kid you not.
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>> my local Coop now have the Cadbury's cream eggs on display I kid you not.
So have Tesco, along with the choc bunnies, and other Easter bumf.
Last edited by: VxFan on Mon 2 Jan 12 at 21:46
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I know they had them in their Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyndrobwlllantysiliogogococh branch the day after Boxing Day....)it's a big shop, has to be to accommodate the signage.
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IIRC Boxing Day is the traditional release date for Creme Eggs.
The other Easter stuff really should wait 'til March.
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They were selling hot Cross buns in Tesco just before Christmas, they obviously have their Christian festivals confused.
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On the food distribution side, the Christmas delivery rush starts mid August and the first Easter Eggs start to move on December 1st.
Pat
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>> Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyndrobwlllantysiliogogococh
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I was talking to a Russian at work about address data and giving some extreme examples of addresses in the UK. This place came up, he thought I was making it up until I showed him on Google maps (other maps are available).
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Early marketing, entirely made up for the benefit of the tourists in Victorian times - still traded upon these days ! Funnily enough I spoke to a Russian in a cafe in Bala - who could pronounce his new home village of Cerrigydrudion perfectly. Nice icebreakers bikes, you meet all sorts>>!
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Not that much there really, a bit of a nothing place in terms of tourism, but the column is just a few minutes walk away which is a must, although a bit scary climbing up it!.
Taken some fantastic pictures when I was up there though.
Far better places in North Wales to visit though!
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I like the A55 eastbound....especially when the ' England ' signs come up.
Pug...Just read in the Railway Magazine that the mothballed branch to Amlwch from Gaerwen looks like being re-opened as a heritage railway.
Something for you to do in nicer weather.
Ted
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There was a good programme on the local telly about it a couple of years ago - Been to the site of the old junction in Gaerwen... I believe that most of the trackbed and track is in tact.
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I would love it that was to re-open is a part of Anglesey I know well (the east coast). Although I am not sure what route that took, did it go via the east coast or was it all inland until it reached Amlwch?
I am kind of glad that Anglesey is a bit more remote, keeps the riff raff from Manchester and Liverpool out, otherwise turns there would just turn into another Rhyl.
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Trough the middle via Llangefni - which in a word is a dump.
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Right well, that's it then for another year, for me anyway.
Gone colder here now and the sodding boiler packed in this evening. Better go to work to keep warm. Every cloud I suppose...Must remember to leave "her" the plumber's number.
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Water great start to the year, I gas you'll be firing up the log burner.
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Christmas/New Year debrief - Clk Sec
