RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted June 2, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 2, 2020 I once new a Dawn Moon. She married a Hamilton but that didn't help much as he was a junior RN officer so she was henceforth known as Emma. 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 The treacle pitch reminds me of The Putty Footballs, which are a very useful analogy for projects to be completed within a bureaucratic organisation, which I was taught be a wonderful ex-REME And ex-MOD Colonel, who sadly passed away from the dreaded last week. His theory was that every job was a large putty football, and if you ran onto the pitch, full of vim and vigour, and gave it a really hard kick in the direction of goal, you would get a broken ankle, and the ball would roll forward about a foot. If, on the other hand, you kept about ten balls in play, sauntered on and gave each a light tap every day, you would come away relaxed, yet after about a fortnight would be seen to score goal after goal, apparently without effort. RIP HT. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted June 2, 2020 Author Share Posted June 2, 2020 The Achingverse and the Disc World appear to have collided, via Treacle Mining. I blame myself entirely. 3 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted June 2, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 2, 2020 13 minutes ago, Edwardian said: The Achingverse and the Disc World appear to have collided, via Treacle Mining. I blame myself entirely. Treacle mining has a long and proud history in the world of model railways, the Sabden Treacle Mines first having been discovered by the Manchester MRS in the vicinity of Grandsmoor Castle in the 1950s (or even earlier). 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 We've had largely unremarkable names in the family, the most of their times being my grandmothers, one a Florence, the other a Myrtle, while an aunt rejoiced in Zena... My brother, on the other hand, broke free and gave his three girls some fanciful secondary names including Aurora, Azura, Celesta, Electra and Stella. Thankfully their first names are perfectly usable! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 57 minutes ago, Edwardian said: The Achingverse and the Disc World appear to have collided, via Treacle Mining. I blame myself entirely. Thewe's nothing to be ashamed of, they're both fantastical with a core of common sense! Treacle mining is sensible, unlike the Jam Butty mines of Knotty Ash... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagonman Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 At the risk of allowing boring reality to creep in, I would point out that mining – digging holes in the ground in search of specific minerals – has a long history in Norfolk. https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/grimes-graves-prehistoric-flint-mine/ 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted June 2, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 2, 2020 13 minutes ago, wagonman said: At the risk of allowing boring reality to creep in, I would point out that mining – digging holes in the ground in search of specific minerals – has a long history in Norfolk. https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/grimes-graves-prehistoric-flint-mine/ Very good! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ianathompson Posted June 2, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 2, 2020 3 hours ago, Compound2632 said: Amateur sport in Edwardian Norfolk, No. 163: The Treacle Miners' Cricket Club, founded 1878. As a working men's side, this doubled up with the association football club, providing Saturday afternoon recreation for the mining community throughout the year. The football club never achieved any significant success - the closest it came to a moment of triumph was a 4-2 defeat to the Achingham Railway Works team in the semi-final of the 1889 West Norfolk Cup. The ground was adjacent to the mine's spoil heap, a notorious source of soil pollution to this day, with traces of unrefined viscous material leaching far and wide. Visiting teams came in fear of the notorious sticky wicket. Probably closer to reality than you think. There was a West Norfolk cricket league until recently. I forget the name of the old King's Lynn and District or the North West Norfolk league cups but there was sometning similar to a West Norfolk cup in football. Coal on the outfield. Seen that on Miners Welfare grounds in the West Riding. Ravensthorpe (now gone) and Calder Grove come to mind. Ian T 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted June 2, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 2, 2020 I reckon you should have a Norfolk Dumplin' mine.. https://www.countrylife.co.uk/food-drink/make-norfolk-dumplings-176900 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted June 2, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 2, 2020 My wife's mother's maiden name was George. Her Uncle was Don George so all the family called him Joe including his mother. My father's second name was his mother's maiden name but few realised it as her family name was Guy. I feel sorry for those whose parents thought it funny to give a name that would casue problems. A boy at school was called Richard Head so naturally everyone called him Dick 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ianathompson Posted June 2, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 2, 2020 My parents always said that they wanted to include my mother's maiden name into my Christian names. As it started with R and they also chose I and A for the other names it gives some intesting combinations. RIAT, IART OR IRAT. I suppose that they could have gone for ARIT or AIRT but they had given up by then. Ian T Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 A cheap trick that serves offspring well in later life, or causes them endless embarrassment, is to make their first name that of a status Lord, Lady, Sir, Doctor, Reverend, etc. Not a new idea, of course. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted June 2, 2020 Author Share Posted June 2, 2020 24 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: A cheap trick that serves offspring well in later life, or causes them endless embarrassment, is to make their first name that of a status Lord, Lady, Sir, Doctor, Reverend, etc. Not a new idea, of course. Or "Lawn", as in Tennyson 1 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted June 2, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 2, 2020 47 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: A cheap trick that serves offspring well in later life, or causes them endless embarrassment, is to make their first name that of a status Lord, Lady, Sir, Doctor, Reverend, etc. Not a new idea, of course. I never heard that Duke Ellington or Count Basie suffered any such embarrassment. I've not come across a jazzman called Viscount or The Honorable, though. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted June 2, 2020 Author Share Posted June 2, 2020 56 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: I never heard that Duke Ellington or Count Basie suffered any such embarrassment. I've not come across a jazzman called Viscount or The Honorable, though. Somewhere on the Disc they'll be a Marquis Marsalis or a Chevalier Bechet 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brack Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 2 hours ago, Nearholmer said: A cheap trick that serves offspring well in later life, or causes them endless embarrassment, is to make their first name that of a status Lord, Lady, Sir, Doctor, Reverend, etc. Not a new idea, of course. King C Gillette did ok. And named his son king as well. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 10 hours ago, Nearholmer said: My youngest ended-up being IRE by a similar process, and she does quite often display ire, especially when asked to go to bed at a sensible time, which she regards as a serious affront. We may have Genes to share, as I have one of those..... delightful as she is in so many other ways. Julian 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 (edited) 5 hours ago, Nearholmer said: A cheap trick that serves offspring well in later life, or causes them endless embarrassment, is to make their first name that of a status Lord, Lady, Sir, Doctor, Reverend, etc. Not a new idea, of course. My other half youtube follows a "plant based vegan and mama of 10" called Taina Licciardo-Toivola who seems to do nothing but travel around with her spooky looking offspring and husband all dressed in cultish white and post videos about it . Their childrens names are Leonardo, Cleopatra, Jerusalem, D'Artangnan, Shakespeare, Romeo, Nefertiti, King James, Aphrodite and Omega. (Omega is hopefully the last one they are having otherwise he runs the risk of severe identity isssues) I work for a defence establishment and when bored go through the corporate name and address book looking for people with surnames that are also ranks in order to find Sergeant Sergeants, Corporal Majors and so on. A huge highlight was back in the early '90's when I got to send an email to a Major Look. Edited June 2, 2020 by monkeysarefun 2 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 16 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said: I work for a defence establishment and when bored go through the corporate name and address book looking for people with surnames Should your fellow Australians be comforted by this, or worried that you took your attention off the radar screen? 2 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 9 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: Should your fellow Australians be comforted by this, or worried that you took your attention off the radar screen? No worries, Aus, NZ, have banned Covid imports, so no incoming a/c. No wonder the attention wanders from a blank radar screen. I spent 2 privileged years working with a Sgt Sergeant, who was so very good, that he very shortly after, became Flt Lt Sergeant. {There are a couple of stories there, but they will have to wait.} Julian 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
webbcompound Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 Of course nothing beat Major Major Major Major in Catch22 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianusa Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 9 hours ago, Hroth said: Aurora, Azura, Celesta, Electra and Stella. These might be good new car names. Oldsmobile Aurora Hundai Azura (There was a Hundai Azera; nearly bought one!) Buick Electra There was a GW 'Stella' loco class. Close? Brian. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ChrisN Posted June 2, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 2, 2020 When I started in the health service a lot of our patients had been born at or before the beginning of 20th century. Their parents obviously had very limited imagination as we had numerous, Willian Williams/Williamson, Thomas Thomas/Thompson, David Davison, Richard Richardson, Jack Jackson, Robert Roberts/Robertson, Edward Edwards and John Johnson. As time went on this type of name seemed to vanish. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted June 2, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 2, 2020 There really was a Buick Electra model. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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