Early Risers.

[Barry O]

Walked to boggle hole along the beach after the conclusion of the egg fling

Lots of water running down the cliffs and boggle hole was awash. It is very chilly with ice showers every few minutes.

Tea and wads ready for the hordes.

 

Cakes this year include:

Chocolate corn flake cakes

Cherry and coconut chews,

Cherry biscuits,

Sweet potato and white chocolate cake,

lemon drizzle cake

Sticky ginger cake

Ginger cake

And my own creation banana, pineapple and coconut loaf

 

Of course I will be good and not have any...

 

Baz

[JohnDMJ]

Pssss  what  have those people who are telling the eggy jokes gone  no why  I thought the thread was going to retun to normal today   since when has this thread been normal

   spose yer right it's never been normal   glad you agree now shut up and go back to sleep  OK     zzzzz   

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Brian    

 

What is 'normal'?

[TheQ]

Afternoon Awl, if I get to the end of this, it will be the second time of writing, as this tablet decided to do a full reset, of own volition.

 

A night of reasonable sleep was had, although I was a little late in rising. After Ben's morning patrol where he chased lots of non white rabbits, and the odd phesant. I set off for the sailing club, being first to arrive, but only just, as two 4x4s arrived as I unlocked the gate on the bridge.

 

Handy that, as four 1 gallon containers of distilled water are awkward to carry. I was informed the club has a new rowing dinghy, for the use of those moored across the river. So I loaded that up and rowed across, a much better boat that is, and more stable for climbing out of onto the motorboat.

 

I checked the motorboat, bilge dry, then topped up the 24 batteries, only a gallon and a half were used this time, probably due to the cold weather we've had. Then I washed down the solar panels, and generally cleaned up the decks. Plenty of evidence of birds but none of eggs..

 

Returning To the club I was passed by the pontoon, one dory towing, one pushing. The pontoon lives on Black Horse Broad from Easter till the end of October and is used to run the racing on the broad. The first race on the broad is today, traditionally tomorrow should be a down river race but the weather doesn't look hopeful.

 

After a bacon butty, eggs not required, it was time for home, SWMBO had decided we were going to "the late one" a 11am car boot that is advertised as Fridays, Sundays and Mondays, however when we got there the grounds were empty. Most odd..

 

So we went on to a village craft and food show, not very big but it did have a real ale and cider stand .

After that Ben the Border Collie was taken to the beach, which he enjoyed, lots of people walking their dogs were down there, Ben had a great time charging around.

 

The temperature is dropping, time to wind the stove up more..

Edited April 1, 2018 by TheQ

[The Stationmaster]

Afternoon all.  

 

Running a bit late for no more apparent reason than popping out for the 'papers (a local Asian run shop does open on Easter Sunday, the supermarkets don't of course) then a succession of domestic tasks plus herself occupying the 'puter when i was actually available from other things to sit at it.  Anyway here eventually - Rick to note the rain promised for the Exeter are and a good chunk of the Cowley Bridge catchment area is of the pale yellow variety but a darker yellow warning exists a bit further north which presumably means - like here - that two day's worth of it will be descending.  Mrs Stationmaster has decided that we won't be going out tomorrow, thank goodness as any of our likely destinations are well within the yellow band, and that we have sufficient rations available to survive; the offspring are being more adventurous as they are off to watch footie and no doubt don't wish to lose the value of the tickets whatever weather we are suffering here.

 

The sacrificia(?)l Easter lamb shoulder is in the oven for this evening with the usual accompaniments all ready to be cooked, I might even be tempted to a glass of alcohol if the red wine(?) laddo has personally imported from Croatia has an attractive bouquet - it would be my first alcohol of the month --- tehehe --- and I need the practice for when we are shipboard in a few weeks time.   I can be bothered to scranmble around for any egg jokes or even to poach them from somebody else.

 

Have a good day one and all and i hope that things are going as well as they can for Tony and Aditi on what must be a difficult day for them. 

[trisonic]

Oh, dear, you must think I’m cracking up over here......

 

Wife gave me a large bag of Gourmet Licorice Alsorts....”Gourmet”?

 

Best, Pete.

[AndyB]

These egg puns are clearly an eggsistenshell threat to our sanity. 

[Coombe Barton]

Apparently, according to our correspondent, Quakers do it eggsperientially.

[AndyB]

Which sanity?

 

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That's it. I'm throwing the sanity towel in. 

[Gwiwer]

These puns have left me eggasperated.

 

Just popped out, as we are staying barely a minute’s wet Cornish stroll from Lostwithiel station, and obtained a respectable ghost-train image using the ND1000 filter. When I get back and can offload the camera to the computer I can share.

 

It’s near-freezing. It’s pouring. There is that tantalizing smell, which I love, of real fires in the air and there is smoke rising from chimneys above thick-walled granite cottages whose slate roofs are dripping randomly onto the roadway below.

 

SWMBO celebrates her birthday today. We have baked cup-cakes topped with blackberry gin icing, chocolate mini-eggs and a number of candles not precisely matching her age.

 

We have one more night here before returning to the Hill of Strawberries. The break has been beneficial, quiet and relaxing.

 

Our thoughts remain with Tony, Aditi, Debs and others in their times of need.

[New Haven Neil]

Hmm, Frisians and Manxmen sound very similar - best not to call a Manxie English!  We have a fair amount of bi-lingual signage here, and one small Primary school that teaches in Manx - the kids go on to perform badly in their early secondary schooling (they try to hide that), so why I ask, just to support an effectively dead language. Teach it yes, but otherwise....hmmm.   I have never heard a word of conversational Manx in 16 years here!  Good morning/afternoon sort of greetings often are, indeed I will use them myself (ooh, integrated!), but conversation is just not heard.

 

Fastyr Mie!

[BoD]

Which sanity?

 

I'm sorry but there's no sanity clause.

[TheQ]

Did someone mention santa Claus?

 

267 days to go

[Barry O]

Tea and wads done...60 visitors in 2 hours. Haven't gone to the BBC yet..ate our steak in the cottage as were late finishing tea and wads.

 

Now do we climb the hill or stay in???

 

And, from an old work mate from Barrow, the question is "Are you normal?"

 

Up to everyone what normal means to them.

 

Pete does the liquorice all sorts have those jelly buttons covered in red or blue coatings? They were my favourites.

 

Baz

[jamie92208]

I once worked in the liquorice capital of England, namely Pontefract.  In fact the Haribo factory was right at the back of the nick and we shared an approach road so if you wanted to get out in a hurry you might meet a 32 ton artic tanker full of sugar reversing into it's offloading dock which was just past the van gates that served the cell area.   The smell of liquorice was actually quite nice over the town.  However the last fields of the stuff had gone in IIIRC the 70's and all the current lot is imported.

 

Jamie

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. All these egg jokes have scrambled my brain. Went down to the bus museum this afternoon with my surrogate grandson and his dad. I must be getting old as although the lad had never seen a side gangway low height double decker before and was quite intrigued by it neither had his dad. I did go down there to find out if they are running their model railway exhibition about May as usual only to find out that it had been cancelled due to the organiser having a new job and not having the time. I hope things go well as they can do in the circumstances for Tony and Aditi and best wishes to Debs.

[NGT6 1315]

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That's it. I'm throwing the sanity towel in.

 

Batten down the hatch after you did, will you?

 

E‘ning all. Unwinding with a bit of STTNG playing till something approaching my usual bedtime. A pleasant time was had over lunch, though Easter eggs ( ) were exchanged indoors only. Of course, Annika and her cousin got most!

 

Thinking of the ailing, absent and grieving tonight.

 

Cheers...

[Barry O]

Night to most.  After our exploits today including a wind and rain swept walk to boggle hole and back I find my eyelids demanding inspection.

 

Sleep well and thoughts are with those who need our friendship and support at this time.

 

Baz

[newbryford]

Thoughts and best wishes to Tony, Aditi, Debs, Simon and those that need or require them.

 

Late edit: HB Mrs Rick

 

Boss duly deposited at MAN airport. Then across a relatively quiet and cockwomble free M62 to Kroy exhibition. (The return was populated by those that have now decided that the longer daylight hours are cause to drive in lane 2 of the motorway when lane one is empty....)

 

I took Mrs NB's car for two reasons - more economical than mine for such a decent distance and it needed a good run to stop the DPF clogging over time.

Before I set off, I was informed that the heater was playing up.

 

Three hours in a car with a barely functional heater wasn't pleasant, so it was straight to the top floor of the Knavesmire stand to try and warm up. 

 

Chris F was spotted in the distance but not able to engage him in conversation. The modelling tokens from my boss were duly used on items that I hadn't budgeted for a couple of days ago.

 

Coming home was even colder, even though it was only for 90 minutes, but that wasn't helped by going to watch a charity ice hockey match at what I think is the second coldest rink in the UK. (Ice pad 2 at Nottingham is top of my list)

 

We are now the proud owners of a large muliphoto frame of some of the Blackburn Hawks that was won in the raffle.

Mrs NB is not too enamoured where myself and Junior NB would like to hang said picture....

 

I am now doing a bit of work at the PC huddled over a fan heater, with a "medicinal" beverage to stave off a cold......

 

There may be a lie-in tomorrow.

 

Have a good one folks if you can.

 

Cheers,

Mick

Edited April 1, 2018 by newbryford

[New Haven Neil]

Thermostat time for the car then!

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone

 

Today started out quite sunny, but we did have a little rain this afternoon, which only lasted for a few minutes.

 

As is the norm for our Sunday morning’s, we had breakfast in bed, which was then followed by a bit of a lie-in. My first task after getting out of bed was to get a couple of Sheila’s sewing projects and frame them for her. Once done they then wanted hanging on the wall of her sewing room and very pleased she is with them too! Once all this activity had been done, it nicely brought along dinnertime.

 

However, by the time we’d eaten our dinner they wasn’t really much time to start anything else, so I just went to the workshop and did a bit of tidying up, as recently, due to rushing to get things out of the way, I’ve been guilty of putting things on any empty bit of workbench I could find, instead of in there proper place. Anyway things are looking much tidier in there now!

 

The evening was then spent with our feet up and a bottle of red, at this rate I’ll be restocking the wine sooner rather than later.

 

Thoughts with Tony and Aditi, Deb’s, Simon and anyone else who’s in need of support.

 

Goodnight all.

[laurenceb]

Thoughs with Tony & Aditi and thouse who are ill.

Birthday greetings for Mrs Rick

Night awl

[The Stationmaster]

Birthday greetings to Mrs Rick

 

G'night all

[Tony_S]

Morning all.

No problems getting to Dublin.

The sergeant from the police who we spoke to the other day met us airside and we had our luggage collected and were taken to the airport police station to meet the two admin staff from the university geography department.

They took us to the hotel and then on to Matthew's house. The room had been cleaned and all his valuables are with the police.

We then met his post grad supervisor and a couple of his friends. Mary his supervisor said we should know that although the news arrived too late for Matthew to know he had been awarded funding by the Irish Research council. So it was all going so well.

Meeting funeral director later on Monday. Returning to Matthew's house to sort out some stuff.

Tony

Edited April 1, 2018 by Tony_S

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[Ozexpatriate]

Tony, I am impressed by the efficiency and consideration with which you have been received in Dublin.

 

May all the necessary procedures continue as smoothly without additional stress above and beyond all you are experiencing in your grieving.

 

Thank your for your consideration in sharing an update with us. I hope it lessens your burdens, even if just a little, to be able to share it with us. It seems clear to me that we are all thinking of you and Aditi at this time. I know that I am.