Early Risers.

[NGT6 1315]

T-storm discharging itself after a warm and increasingly sticky afternoon, so I'm happy we're back from our round of weekend food purchases!

 

And for the Dutch moments in life:

 

[45156]

Afternoon All

 

Just in case anybody was wondering, here is the second lady in my life, having just been groomed by the first lady in my life.

 

Fully caught up, and have read everybody's contributions since yesterday, but I haven't seen any updates from Tim yet re. Don B - hope all is well.  Generic greetings for any events, illnesses etc.

 

One of the jobs I had to do yesterday in Penrith was to go to the bank, and of course, I forgot in one of my more and more frequent Senior moments, so I had to turn out this morning, and discovered that having got an early bus that the bank opens at ten - and all the world and his brother seemed to be queueing outside when I got there - in fact the queue was so long that I missed the next bus home, which I hoped would mean that I had missed the hoovering session which was promised - but then 30747 decided to pop out to visit a friend, so the job AND that of washing the carpets was still on the agenda for the early afternoon after the saveloy and chips.  So late on parade is the order of the day.

 

Regards to All

Stewart

[Tony_S]

I'm back from eating lunch at Ed's Easy Diner. I have to make sure I don't refer to it as Mr Ed's Diner. Aditi went off to the hairdresser and then after a quick look round the Apple shop I went to Tesco to get the "few" items we "needed".

Stewart, Lily looks very tidy. Robbie has looked tidy but never for very long. His suspicions about what happens after intensive brushing will be confirmed next week. He has a routine visit to the vet for booster vaccinations and some sort of health check.

 

Tony

[shortliner]

http://allthingsaero.com/airshows/video-smokin-hot-video-highlights-from-the-Cameron-airshow  I don't think that planes were intended to fly like some of these!

[The Stationmaster]

Afternoon all,

 

Well some gadeneering has been done - me doing lots of clearing and thoroughly cream crackered, the good Doctor doing weeding and digging of root crops (the last of), and teh management veg patch weeding and sundry other clearing jobs.  Laddo was asked to do a spot of clearing and by the time I'd got back from the shed - 40 ft away - with teh long handled shears he had vanished.  Anyway good progress made and curry making underway n the kitchen, shahi korma this evening.

 

Ian - a simple word of advice, if it's going at a good price then buy it.  If you have any problems with the management (and happen to have not used your own money) you simply need to point out how much you have saved and that it is cheaper now than it will be next year/month/week etc.  When buying stuff out of the rapidly clearing Modelzone shop in Reading, I was accompanied on the first visit as it happens, I just pointed out how much I had saved (it was quite a big number so brought forth praise and approbation).  Now about those two newly arrived Modelzone CCTs and Hornby ex LNER CCTs currently sitting on the dining room table ....... well they're bound to cost more next time round aren't they, and it is my money.

[Ian Abel]

RESULT -   Well, I decided on the "permission" path, and had already used the path Mike suggested, pointing out that it was a GREAT PRICE and added to that I had a Hornby voucher that was about to expire, meaning it was an INCREDIBLE price Purchase approved as I'd i) asked and ii) saved some extra cash :)

 

So, how's getting a second Hornby BR/SR 2-BIL for the princely sum of 39.99 QUID!!!!!! Price ex-VAT and less my voucher discount.

If they weren't charging me 20 QUID postage it'd be a bloody steal, and I'd almost feel bad - I DID SAY "ALMOST" - about buying it from them for that little...  

 

What a great way to start the weekend!

[Oldddudders]

Evening all

 

Job done!

 

 

 

 

[Andrew P]

Evening all

 

Job done!

 

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Congratulations Ian and the lucky lady, whoever she is.

 

Bodge.

Edited September 6, 2014 by Andrew P

[Debs.]

Evening all

 

Job done!

 

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Hence the old expression: "I`ll give you a ring.....later!"

 

It`s gorgeous....`great choice!

[Andrew P]

Didn't go much on the choice of foot wear though, hahhaha

 

Bodge

Edited September 6, 2014 by Andrew P

[Ashcombe]

 

Didn't go much on the choice of foot wear though, hahhaha

 

Bodge

Dressed for comfort - it's what we old ladies do! High heels for special occasions .....!

Edited September 6, 2014 by Ashcombe

[Andrew P]

Dressed for comfort - it's what we old ladies do! High heels for special occasions .....!

In that case all is forgiven, CONGRATULATIONS again.

 

 

Bodge.

[Ian Hargrave]

Evening all

 

Job done!

 

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Evening all

 

Job done!

 

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Warm wishes for future happiness.

[Ian Hargrave]

Morning all... the weekend bekons and we've a weeding (sorry couldn't resist continuing the typo) to attend also.

 

Funeral service last evening was a wonderful celebration, and the honored guest will have enjoyed his favourite music - musicians and choir in excellent form.

 

Dilemma - is it best to ask permission or forgiveness??? I'm needing (well, not really, there's no NEED) to purchase a second 2-BIL unit, and Hornby STILL have one for sale and it's such a good deal!!! Do I buy it and ask forgiveness, or ask if I can/should first?? What do most of ER do? I do note that Pete (75C) probably charges off and gets things   , and I often do too, especially when my PayPal is overflowiing from sales income - this time it's hard cash that the CFO will see directly/immediately if I purchase     <sigh>

 

Woke up to 13 sunny and low humidity, day is expected to be "perfect" if you like low 20s and fall-like delight... which I do, and will make the wedding all the more enjoyable.

 

Expecting some modelling time too, unless I'm lynched for the 2-BIL proposal  so should be a good start to the weekend - enjoy it everyone.

Let boldness be your friend.Explain that Bill ( and his twin 2-BIL ) are old school friends who need a home or......tough it out  with stoicism until the storm subsides,keeping a firm check on any controversial response that might slip your tongue in response to wrath and indignation.It is sometimes called "having a thick skin".

I always remember the example of the composer Dimitri Schostakovich who frequently got up the nose of one J.Stalin.....and we all know where that could lead.One one occasion,desperate for his own survival,he published a piece entitled "A commposer responds to just criticism" i.e.he crawled. End result.....he survived and outlived Stalin......the ciggies getting him in the end.

This is,of course not to be taken that your circumstances are in any way similar to his.Usual disclaimers apply.

[Simon G]

Congratulations Ian & Sherry.  Gorgeous ring!

 

Now cream crackered after a full 6 hours at our Open Day.  There is nothing quite like approx. 6/7 year olds to wear you out with can we have the Growler on now, then the Gronk, then Thomas etc etc etc.  Hopefully we will get some new members out of it.  Back for more tomorrow.  On returning home, the weather was so nice, I had to spend an hour digging weeds out of the vegetable/fruit patches.  I sort of enjoy doing it when it is so nice outside.

[petethemole]

Congratulations to Ian and Sherry.

 

The patient perked up after some toast for lunch, spent the afternoon playing Civilisation and has just consumed macaroni cheese and broccoli, so all seems to be well. 

 

Supplies procured including MRJ.

 

Have a good evening,

 

Pete

[grandadbob]

Many congratulations Sherry & Ian and best wishes for every happiness in the future.

[Coombe Barton]

Many congratulations, Ian and Sherry.

[PhilJ W]

I did pop over to Gravesend today (£2 return on the ferry with my grumpy card) purchased 2 jars each of home made pickles and marmalade, stopped for lunch, fish, chips and peas £3 + 80p for a mug of tea with free refill(s). Coming back across on the ferry I wished I'd taken a camera with me, passing downriver was a fully rigged sailing ship, a Dutch vessel named Stad Amsterdam, a wonderful sight. Also going downriver about 20 minutes earlier was a work barge, one of those with the extendable legs, carrying a large crane. I wonder if it was going to Dawlish? As I only saw the upper works, I was about 100 yards from the river I was unable to get any details. 

[Tony_S]

Aditi told me that there is a gathering of tall ships at Greenwich tomorrow.

[AndrewC]

Tony, the Tall Ships is on all weekend in Greenwich and Woolwich. Don't even attempt to drive.

[Jock67B]

Sherry and Ian,

Took an early peek on the iPad and I'm glad I did - the ring looks lovely but of course the beautiful setting (Sherry) really makes it! Absolutely made up to watch the flowering of your relationship and I'm sure it will go from strength to strength.

Hearty congratulations,

Kind regards,

Jock.

[PhilJ W]

Regrettably the ferry doesn't run on Sundays, there is a regular riverboat sailing from Gravesend to Greenwich, the MV Princess Pocahontas, the next sailing is Wednesday, I'm not sure that the tall ships will still be there then.

[Coombe Barton]

Back from the weeding.

 

Not quite as we'd feared, but the catering was sandwiches and tea. There's a hog roast tonight but the volume of the music went up and we departed (along with 84 year old great aunt with diabetes so we had emergency supplies.). Sandwiches are what we have every day as an office lunch, so no culinary delights there, and the bread was quite dry. The cheese was a mild cheddar - maybe. (Get the picture?). So when we'd decamped to home it was steak, pepper sauce and asparagus, which filled the hole. 

 

The vicar had a curious voice in that when he got excited it ended up as a squeak. The organist struggled with time and the right number of notes in that time, as well as using the correct number of fingers being used to play the said notes. (Think Eric Morecambe and Andre Previn). Mendelssohn would have struggled to recognise his own composition at the end.

 

The speeches were read. Not well read. And originality was not part of the plot.

 

However the decor was themed (cricket - the groom's the captain of the local team) and the colours matched and were subdued. Almost Arts and Craft - not the stylistic movement, the local craft show sponsored by Hobbycraft.

 

If you wish to get a flavour think Curate's egg.

 

When we escaped were on the way home we called our son who said that his wedding would be a simple affair and a 'do' back at his house - for about seven people, including them. Suits us.

 

It's over.

 

[EDIT] all this took a year in the planning. One wonders at the expenditure of effort.

 

Dickens - Great Expectations - a quote. Maybe this is how weddings should be organised.

 

... When we had fortified ourselves with the rum and milk and biscuits, and were going out for the walk with that training preparation on us, I was considerably surprised to see Wemmick take up a fishing-rod, and put it over his shoulder. "Why, we are not going fishing!" said I. "No," returned Wemmick, "but I like to walk with one."

 

I thought this odd; however, I said nothing, and we set off. We went towards Camberwell Green, and when we were thereabouts, Wemmick said suddenly,--

 

"Halloa! Here's a church!"

 

There was nothing very surprising in that; but again, I was rather surprised, when he said, as if he were animated by a brilliant idea,--

 

"Let's go in!"

 

We went in, Wemmick leaving his fishing-rod in the porch, and looked all round. In the mean time, Wemmick was diving into his coat-pockets, and getting something out of paper there.

 

"Halloa!" said he. "Here's a couple of pair of gloves! Let's put 'em on!"

 

As the gloves were white kid gloves, and as the post-office was widened to its utmost extent, I now began to have my strong suspicions. They were strengthened into certainty when I beheld the Aged enter at a side door, escorting a lady

 

"Halloa!" said Wemmick. "Here's Miss Skiffins! Let's have a wedding."

 

That discreet damsel was attired as usual, except that she was now engaged in substituting for her green kid gloves a pair of white. The Aged was likewise occupied in preparing a similar sacrifice for the altar of . The old gentleman, however, experienced so much difficulty in getting his gloves on, that Wemmick found it necessary to put him with his back against a pillar, and then to get behind the pillar himself and pull away at them, while I for my part held the old gentleman round the waist, that he might present and equal and safe resistance. By dint of this ingenious scheme, his gloves were got on to perfection.

 

The clerk and clergyman then appearing, we were ranged in order at those fatal rails. True to his notion of seeming to do it all without preparation, I heard Wemmick say to himself, as he took something out of his waistcoat-pocket before the service began, "Halloa! Here's a ring!"

 

I acted in the capacity of backer, or best-man, to the bridegroom; while a little limp pew-opener in a soft bonnet like a baby's, made a feint of being the friend of Miss Skiffins. The responsibility of giving the lady away devolved upon the Aged, which led to the clergyman's being unintentionally scandalized, and it happened thus. When he said, "Who giveth this woman to be married to this man?" the old gentlemen, not in the least knowing what point of the ceremony we had arrived at, stood most amiably beaming at the ten commandments. Upon which, the clergyman said again, "WHO giveth this woman to be married to this man?" The old gentleman being still in a state of most estimable unconsciousness, the bridegroom cried out in his accustomed voice, "Now Aged P. you know; who giveth?" To which the Aged replied with great briskness, before saying that he gave, "All right, John, all right, my boy!" And the clergyman came to so gloomy a pause upon it, that I had doubts for the moment whether we should get completely married that day.

 

It was completely done, however, and when we were going out of church Wemmick took the cover off the font, and put his white gloves in it, and put the cover on again. Mrs. Wemmick, more heedful of the future, put her white gloves in her pocket and assumed her green. "Now, Mr. Pip," said Wemmick, triumphantly shouldering the fishing-rod as we came out, "let me ask you whether anybody would suppose this to be a wedding-party!"

 

Breakfast had been ordered at a pleasant little tavern, a mile or so away upon the rising ground beyond the green; and there was a bagatelle board in the room, in case we should desire to unbend our minds after the solemnity. It was pleasant to observe that Mrs. Wemmick no longer unwound Wemmick's arm when it adapted itself to her figure, but sat in a high-backed chair against the wall, like a violoncello in its case, and submitted to be embraced as that melodious instrument might have done. ...

Edited September 6, 2014 by Coombe Barton

[Tony_S]

Tony, the Tall Ships is on all weekend in Greenwich and Woolwich. Don't even attempt to drive.

We won't be going. I've seen a lot of ships recently! My association with water tomorrow will probably be restricted to washing Aditi's car.