Early Risers.

[Coombe Barton]

1 minute ago, Compound2632 said:

It was a technical college (of sorts).

 

We'd better gloss over that, then.

[Tony_S]

My very nice sister in law, Emma said when she meets other Emma’s of a similar age they are frequently Emma Louise or Emma Jane. She has Louise, as her older sister is Sarah Jane. 
There were certain quite ordinary names not on the list when we were selecting baby names. Not because of the name but because they had belonged to really horrible students.  
Wr called our dog Robbie as it was similar to the first part of his pedigree name. Matthew wanted to call him “Dave”. The veterinary nurse was very pleased as she said that Dave’s are always naughty.  
Tony
 

[Grizz]

8 hours ago, polybear said:

 

Grizz, you're p1ssed.  C'mon, don't let the side down.  Reputation n' all that.....

Guilty as charged Poly!!! .....and it is probably fair to say that it IS occasionally my reputation.....when off duty.  
Today’s theme is more Harveys Old Ale and a range of Single Malt Whisky chasers, accompanied by a variety of delicious food. We are about to start cooking Æbleskiver......OMG they are soooooooo good. These are Danish round pancakes, with icing sugar and jam, cooked in an Æbleskiver pan.

 

Glædelig Jul (Merry Christmas) Poly 

[New Haven Neil]

Oh gosh they look nice......and banned to a hungry diabetic!

 

Evening folks, no early check in due to being unable to get out of bed after an atrocious night.  After that it was  over to the western reaches of Fraggle Rock to Peel, to have lunch with John (Trackshack's ex-owner) and his new partner, which was very convivial. 

 

It is very windy indeed here now, still dry though, but that is set to change.  

[Compound2632]

5 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

My very nice sister in law, Emma said when she meets other Emma’s of a similar age they are frequently Emma Louise or Emma Jane. She has Louise, as her older sister is Sarah Jane. 
There were certain quite ordinary names not on the list when we were selecting baby names. Not because of the name but because they had belonged to really horrible students. 

 

When my elder son started primary school, mid-2000s, if you stood in the playground at home time and shouted "Jane", a full one-third of the mothers would respond. Very handy when you couldn't remember someone's name - one-in-three chance of being right - almost as good as the Matts. Very many of them had two daughters, the elder called Sophie and the younger, Emily.

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Despite oversleeping a bit of eyelid inspection has taken place. The sore foot is a little better helped by the application of voltarol cream. Just eaten the last of the stollen, I started it Christmas eve and it was not expected to last through to the end of Christmas day but it made it to Boxing day but has now expired.

[New Haven Neil]

I spoketh too soon - raining like shot blasting on the windows now.  Euuww.

[polybear]

2 hours ago, Chris116 said:

You could be a VERY BUSY Bear with those three to keep happy!

 

It's a tough job, but some Bear's gotta do it....

Paws off, Grizz

 

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

NO! Absolutely NOT! A valet should not be pneumatically endowed.... 

p.s. And I thought that you were a respectable bear...

 

Who's fantasy is this??

 

56 minutes ago, BoD said:

I had a computer science class with no Matts.  It was un-four-Matt-ed.

 

Nooooo....I surrender......

[Gwiwer]

1 hour ago, Coombe Barton said:

What happened in the Art class?

It was glossed over 

[PhilJ W]

[BokStein]

I've seen better 'jokes' in Christmas crackers!

 

(Mind you, to be fair, I've also seen worse! )

 

Edited December 26, 2020 by BokStein

[TheQ]

I think you'd need a primer for all the different names in my classes at school. Though they were all common names, no coats with same name.   My brother and sisters have blends of previous generations names, I've never met anyone with my first name nor am I likely to which sometimes leaves me with dis temper.

[Gwiwer]

2 hours ago, Coombe Barton said:

What happened in the Art class?

The truth - for what it might now be worth - is that our grammar school art teacher, who was a potter first, a retired CCF officer second, golfer third and anything else much farther down the list, suffered my presence a half-dozen times 

 

After which he opened the door and bid me leave with the helpful and supportive advice (as one might expect of a teacher) that “Boy - you’re a ham-fisted clot with a pencil; God help you if you ever picked up a paintbrush. Never darken my doorway again”. 
 

And that was the sum total of my formal education in art. Six 40-minute classes in 1968 during which I probably received five minutes of individual attention in total. I never touched pencils, paints nor other artistic materials again until I began building Penhayle Bay in earnest over 40 years later. 
 

I still receive fairly regular enquiries as to “where did you get you backscenes” to which the answer is “from a selection of paintbrushes, a leap of faith and no idea of what I was doing.” 
 

I reckon I came out evens at least. 

[simontaylor484]

As a newcomer i have not met any of our esteemed company  yet.

 

When our eldest was christened my wife invited her cousin who brought her young son called Taylor 

 

 Oh yes confusion reigned.

 

Andre Rieu i think is like marmite had fun watching Steve n Seagulls the Finnish bluegrass cover band new videos on you tube earlier.

 

[pH]

7 hours ago, The Stationmaster said:

... the North West Passage and the hunt for Franklin's lost expedition...

Mike, if you’re interested in the Franklin expedition, you might like this book:

 

Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot - Ken McGoogan

https://www.amazon.com/Fatal-Passage-Story-Arctic-Forgot/dp/0786711566

 

Rae was a very accomplished Arctic explorer who was the first European to learn of the fate of the Franklin expedition from Inuit. He made public the evidence of possible cannibalism and was shunned as a result, largely through the efforts of Franklin’s widow.

 

 

 

[J. S. Bach]

1 hour ago, BokStein said:

I've seen better 'jokes' in Christmas crackers!

(Mind you, to be fair, I've also seen worse! )

Or in fortune cookies.

[Tony_S]

23 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said:

As a newcomer i have not met any of our esteemed company  yet.

Not long after I joined RMWeb there was an exhibition at Romford. Of course those exhibiting said to say hello. Some others said we should meet. One of the most prolific posters at that time used the name “Fatso”. He said it would be easy to recognise him as he would be in a wheelchair.  Just try finding a form of words to identify which chap in a wheelchair was Fatso without getting thrown out of the exhibition. I think RMWeb badges become popular afterwards. 

[iL Dottore]

2 hours ago, polybear said:

...Who's fantasy is this??...

From your frequent references to Ms Lusardi, Ms Quattro and Ms Kendal - yours, I believe!

The young ladies who I admired from afar when I was but a student learning my way around the human body, included Ms Helena Bonham-Carter, Ms Sean Young (Bladerunner) and Ms Jodie Foster (beauty and brains - a great combination).

iD

[Coombe Barton]

... a vibrating thing for when you need a vibrating thing to do the thing that vibrating things do ...

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2020/12/26/sounds-of-the-season-wren-day/

[New Haven Neil]

Hunt the Wren is a very strong tradition here, and was followed today due to the rather better CV19 situation here.

 

In other news, the anchors have been deployed, but I think Fraggle Rock is drifting southwards in this wind.  It is officially not nice out here.

[brianusa]

12 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

The heyday of great Christmas specials is long past, nowadays all we have are unfunny so-called comedians desperately trying to “out-woke” one another, “celebrity” hosted programmes aimed at an audience with a mental age of 3 and recycled films that weren’t all that great on first viewing, let alone the hundreth...

How true!, even US TV had marvellous variety specials with big names and were actually entertaining and something to look forward to.  Sadly most of the big names have died off leaving so called specials in the realm of one song wonders who will be forgotten next year.  PBS is our only sane network these days who show some decent shows, albeit a lot of repeats of repeats.  Of course, theres always FOX, famous for its female presenters with short skirts and blonde hair and for being a Trump mouthpiece!

    Brian.

[brianusa]

5 hours ago, Andrew P said:

So close but no Cigar, Sorry John. I still have my Badge I think John, nice one of you both.

 

It would be so much easier if real names were used instead of nicknames.

   Brian.

[AndyB]

33 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

Hunt the Wren is a very strong tradition here, and was followed today due to the rather better CV19 situation here.

 

 

I'm a few pages behind.

Did you move to Dartmouth? 

[New Haven Neil]

5 minutes ago, AndyB said:

 

I'm a few pages behind.

Did you move to Dartmouth? 

 

You've lost me there!

[pH]

9 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

You've lost me there!

What well-known establishment is located in Dartmouth?