Early Risers.

[Barry O]

Spent most of today packing the living room up ready for a new carpet to be fitted this coming week. Pah!

 

I have also received a consignment of items for display at Warley by the York Show attendee.

 

Tea will become roast pork, roast potatoes, cauliflower and gravy...yummy!!

 

Smith was not out..  but he didn't  review the appeal. Ball pitched outside off stump, hit outside offstump..played a shot so... Not Out!

 

Baz

[Sidecar Racer]

 So @monkeysarefun day looks like this .

 

 

 

[Peter Kazmierczak]

Watched a really interesting programme on the TV last night about Richard III and the Princes in The Tower. Looks like history might've stitched him up.

 

A pity the late Queen wouldn't allow DNA samples to be taken from the remains. Wonder if Charles will be more amenable?
Somehow I doubt it.
 

[PhilJ W]

2 minutes ago, Peter Kazmierczak said:

Watched a really interesting programme on the TV last night about Richard III and the Princes in The Tower. Looks like history might've stitched him up.

A pity the late Queen wouldn't allow DNA samples to be taken from the remains. Wonder if Charles will be more amenable?
Somehow I doubt it.

There were some doubts about the parentage of his older brother Edward IV, the father of the Princes in the Tower. Henry Tudors claim to the throne was tenuous to say the least and he married Elizabeth daughter of Edward IV to secure his position. 

[NGT6 1315]

Cheers all.

 

Everyone’s ropey chez NGT, it seems. Even Annika had a long nap this afternoon, which she doesn’t normally do at all.

 

We might get the first frost of the season by Wednesday, apparently.

 

Congrats and commies as appropriate. Hope you’re all well!

[The Lurker]

1 hour ago, Tony_S said:

My Mum used a few of those but she was never allowed to forget her “apples don’t grow on trees, you know” or “I’ve only got two pairs of hands”. 

Elder Lurker once, when he was about three, said to me “Mummy’s only got one pair of hands….she’s not a robot you know”

[The Lurker]

57 minutes ago, Peter Kazmierczak said:

Watched a really interesting programme on the TV last night about Richard III and the Princes in The Tower. Looks like history might've stitched him up.

 

A pity the late Queen wouldn't allow DNA samples to be taken from the remains. Wonder if Charles will be more amenable?
Somehow I doubt it.
 

I thought the first series of Blackadder had exploded the myth that Richard III was a tyrannical hunchback years ago ;)

[jamie92208]

Bon Apres midi to you all.  Rather late on parade for various reasons but a great lunch with friends has been had. 

 

Jamie

[Coombe Barton]

50 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

There were some doubts about the parentage of his older brother Edward IV, the father of the Princes in the Tower

There was also the pre-contract of marriage story of Edward IV which questioned the validity of his marriage to  Elizabeth Woodville and hence the legitimacy of both the Princes in the Tower.

[Coombe Barton]

57 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

There were some doubts about the parentage of his older brother Edward IV, the father of the Princes in the Tower. Henry Tudors claim to the throne was tenuous to say the least and he married Elizabeth daughter of Edward IV to secure his position. 

 

1 minute ago, Coombe Barton said:

There was also the pre-contract of marriage story of Edward IV which questioned the validity of his marriage to  Elizabeth Woodville and hence the legitimacy of both the Princes in the Tower.

Under when anyone's going to get to the bottom od who actually was illegitimate, as If Edward V's marriage wasn't legal then Elizabeth of York was also illegitimate.

Everyone's on shaky ground.

 

 

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, Barry O said:

Smith was not out..  but he didn't  review the appeal. Ball pitched outside off stump, hit outside offstump..played a shot so... Not Ou

He looked a bit shocked, I’ve seen some real waste of time reviews but surprised he didn’t . Fortunately hasn’t affected the match too much!

Edited November 19, 2023 by Tony_S

[Hroth]

A number of people have questioned the Tudor version of "Richard the Third and the Princes in the Tower" almost since 1485.  I was going to watch the most recent version but forgot, I'll have to use catch-up!

 

For a simple canter through the pro-Richard view (from an early 1950s viewpoint), the Josephine Tey novel "The Daughter of Time" is an easy read.

 

[Coombe Barton]

All the stuff associated with Richard  III came up with Sandy and I were involved with the quincentenary of the Battle celebrations. We visited the excavations on Leicester, Sandy met Philippa Langley when she visited her school, and Richard III's cortege passed through Market Bosworth on our 30th Wedding Anniversary in 2015, so we stood and saw it pass.

She said I knew how to give a girl a good time

[Hroth]

I expect @monkeysarefun will be pleased.... 

🤪

 

[TheQ]

Afternoon Awl,

Drove to the SC via a back road to see what it's like at the moment....

Several stretches of the road are below the fields, so the roads were somewhat wet, 6 inches under water wet. Good job I was in the Landrover.

The water level was somewhat lower at the SC having dropped by a few inches since last week..

 

Somewhat windy it was doubtful we'd start but we did.

A lower than normal fleet of Yeoman that we were in, but  a larger than in the past group of dinghies .

We started 5 minutes ahead of the dinghies / allcomers

Wind south westerly 15 gusting  30, forecast to get up to 38..

 

Course, up to windward to buoy 4, across the top to buoy 3, then down to buoy N ( north), 3 laps.

The start timing wasn't bad, but us not knowing this broad,  we weren't in the ideal position although we had tried to position ourselves near a good sailor that sails there all summer.

 

We got to buoy 4 in 3rd, which wasn't bad, we followed across the top, but as we round 3 the boom hit the flag pole on the top of the buoy!!! The poles are taller here than on our previous sailing area, we'd have cleared them there.

After a quick spin in which we'd lost two places, we followed running down to N., dodging the dinghy starting fleet  during the windward leg we caught up some what rounding just behind boat 4, following around buoy 4 then 3.

On the down wind leg we drew alongside, as we approached bouy N we pulled out wide but the other kept in tight, so we swept in faster, and just to windward of them as we came out from the buoy. Gradually we overtook and held them from tacking until the time was right for us.

 

Tacking up wind we pulled away and by the top buoy had caught up with  boat 3, then followed round buoy 4 and 3, down to N, on rounding N they were slight ahead of us, they held their course till we talked, they then tacked, coming out just above us , trying to hold us from tacking. So we made the long tack trying our hardest to go to windward, our boat being set up for river sailing, it goes to windward well, we slowly drew up to windward of them thereby getting clear to tack for the finish line. 

 

So we came in 3rd a pleasing finish.

 

With increasing wind, we decided not to race further, as did the race winner.

 

Race 2,  only 3 yeoman started, one retired with a broken forestay, another that was late starter, risked pulling up it's spinnaker on the down wind leg a gust of wind from the side and they broached. Large amounts of water on board....

 

Then they started sinking, the bow air tank failed, as they started going down it was obvious the side under seat tanks were failing, the only thing that stopped total submersion was the aft tank. with the two crew perched aft,  two rescue boats came along side and towed her stern first to the quay.

A petrol powered water pump soon got her afloat again, once manual human power lifted her bow so the cockpit combings were above the water...

 

After lunch and a much needed pint it was time for home..

 

 

 

[Tony_S]

35 minutes ago, Hroth said:

I expect @monkeysarefun will be pleased.... 

🤪

 

The triumphalism displayed by some of Aditi’s relatives over previous Indian cricket victories i) made me drop,out of the family WhatsApp groups and ii) caused me to hope,Australia to win today. I would have course liked England to have progressed further but they made that rather unlikely . If it had been the Indian women v Australian women Aditi would have been cheering on the Indians but today she was hoping Australia would win.   I am not to tell her relatives though!

[monkeysarefun]

48 minutes ago, Hroth said:

I expect@monkeysarefunwill be pleased.... 

🤪

 

 

 

No  because I fell asleep when Australia looked looked they were struggling around 3 for 100 or so... 

 

I woke  just then with the TV screen blank expecting an Indian victory.

 

Back to sleep for an hour or so, I shall celebrate then!

Edited November 19, 2023 by monkeysarefun

[New Haven Neil]

Well, after yesterday's exertion of putting all the stuff - and there was an awful lot of it - back into truss-land after Steve had put all the new insulation in, we didn't rush up this morning!  Then it was out to a Hygge..... which apparently is a Chr>>>>mas craft fair with friends at 10, then a slap-up lunch at a pub in Peel.  Stuffed.

 

I see the Poly Bears are out again at Tynwald Mills, although I doubt they will place them in such a way that the kids can do this with them again.....

 

[DaveF]

Since I wrote at coffee time I've done the e mails, including one lengthy letter to a friend after which I got lunch - pulled pork, potatoes and veg, nice and simple.

 

Then I did the housework instead of tomorrow morning because of my GP appointment.  I received a text from the surgery at about noon reminding me of my appointment tomorrow at 09.40, I checked with "My appointments" on the surgery website and it is correct, a telephone appointment at that time.  I also had a look at "My Record" to see the notes made by the GP during my phone call last week so I know what the GP is expecting to ask me about.  I have now typed up a copy of all the points I intend to discuss with him.  Most of them are Yes/No answers so it shouldn't take too long plus things like possible blood tests/examination, do I take the medication long term, stop it or change to another and so on.

 

Then I went across the road for a quick chat about gardens with a neighbour, it started to rain so it was a shortish conversation but useful.

 

By now it was time for a cup of tea followed by a jigsaw session.  Progress is very slow but it takes my mind off other things as I have to concentrate hard.

 

Next will be a cheese roll, apple and yoghurt followed by more jigsaw/TV/book/music until bedtime.  Once again it may not sound much but it has been a pleasant day - if only my waterworks would behave properly.

 

David

[Hroth]

3 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

Well, after yesterday's exertion of putting all the stuff - and there was an awful lot of it - back into truss-land after Steve had put all the new insulation in, we didn't rush up this morning!  Then it was out to a Hygge..... which apparently is a Chr>>>>mas craft fair with friends at 10, then a slap-up lunch at a pub in Peel.  Stuffed.

 

I see the Poly Bears are out again at Tynwald Mills, although I doubt they will place them in such a way that the kids can do this with them again.....

 

 

It doesn't look good from that angle, perhaps there's a little more of a gap from the side?  I hope so!

 

 

[Tony_S]

5 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

It doesn't look good from that angle, perhaps there's a little more of a gap from the side?  I hope so!

 

 

According to various TV documentaries the male bear would have killed the cubs first. Mummy bears seem to avoid marauding males when they have cubs. 

[New Haven Neil]

23 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

It doesn't look good from that angle, perhaps there's a little more of a gap from the side?  I hope so!

 

 

 

There was when the staff set them out, then the kids 'adjusted' the, err, stance.  It made the local news.

[monkeysarefun]

4 hours ago, Barry O said:

Obviously you know nothing about howcrhevgamebis played in the North. It's sometimes like umpiring a battle (without bodily contact).

 

Ask youngest Herbert! He opens the batting for an unpaid Bradford Premier League team (Pudsey Congs).. its nowhere being genteel!

 

Baz

 

Have I been misinformed? You  need to have a word with your telly writers!  From watching anything English,  cricket there is  always village green,  gentle summer evening, some old blokes watching from a bench outside the pub, birds singing, polite clapping.

 

Of course then someone opens the kitbag to find the body of the groundsman with a stump through his forehead  and Ms Marple, those Midsummer Murder guys, Father Brown, et al descend to solve it.

 

Come to think of it it never seems to rain in England either.

 

[monkeysarefun]

2 hours ago, Tony_S said:

He looked a bit shocked, I’ve seen some real waste of time reviews but surprised he didn’t . Fortunately hasn’t affected the match too much!

I wonder how much that massive pro- Indian crowd messed with his head? Certainly was the strangest game I've seen crowd wise. You could literally hear a pin drop whenever  India lost a wicket or Australia got a boundary.  On the plus side there was no booing etc but nor was there even polite clapping.

 

I fell asleep early into the Oz innings when it looked like we were up against it so It'll be interesting to replay it to see how the crowd went as the game progressed increasingly in Australia's favour. 

Edited November 19, 2023 by monkeysarefun

[Winslow Boy]

8 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

The Top 20 Happiest Countries in the World for 2023

Finland

Denmark

Iceland

Israel

The Netherlands

Sweden

Norway

Switzerland

Luxembourg

New Zealand*

Austria

Australia

Canada

Ireland

United States

Germany

Belgium

Czechia

United Kingdom

Lithuania

 

 

*New Zealand are mainly that happy cos they can now move to Australia to live and work without needing a Visa.

 

 

 

You'll only that high up the list because we keep letting you win at cricket.

 

Tiddlywinks anyone?