The Night Mail

[jamie92208]

7 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

I've always liked the idea of German bingo - acht und achtzig, zwei dicke damen!

Yes I enjoyed listening to those at a dual language bingo session on Lanzagrotty.

 

Jamie

[bbishop]

4 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

Yes I enjoyed listening to those at a dual language bingo session on Lanzagrotty.

 

Jamie

Any news?

[pH]

46 minutes ago, rockershovel said:

Family records often start in the late 1600s. The Roundheads destroyed many Church and Parish records between 1640-60 so before that date, research is difficult. 

Try Irish records before 1922 - though things are apparently getting better.

[Tony_S]

19 minutes ago, pH said:

Try Irish records before 1922 - though things are apparently getting better.

During the 1960s my Mum bought quite a few Val Doonican records. 

[figworthy]

12 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

And there is No CAKE!

 

Rumour has it that hospitals think that cake is a Bad Thing.

 

Adrian

[pH]

3 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

During the 1960s my Mum bought quite a few Val Doonican records. 

Val Doonican was post-1922 😛.

Edited April 25 by pH
Autocorrect!

[Tony_S]

4 minutes ago, figworthy said:

 

Rumour has it that hospitals think that cake is a Bad Thing.

 

Adrian

Perhaps it depends on the cake!  The one we took over to MiL’s on Sunday contained no flour. 

Edited April 25 by Tony_S

[Tony_S]

1 minute ago, pH said:

Val Doonican was post-1922 😛.

That must have been why Mum could get his records.

[Northmoor]

14 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

That must have been why Mum could get his records.

I think that's what's called accessing criminal records.

[Winslow Boy]

16 minutes ago, Northmoor said:

I think that's what's called accessing criminal records.

I thought they just sent them 'abroad' - take your pick of destinations.

[Steamport Southport]

2 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

Yes I enjoyed listening to those at a dual language bingo session on Lanzagrotty.

 

Jamie

 

Fünf­und­fünfzig - Snakes Alive

 

🐍🐍

[J. S. Bach]

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

[jamie92208]

8 hours ago, bbishop said:

Any news?

Thanks Bill, yes I went yesterday afternoon. Nearly 6 hours in theatre and in a lot of pain. However it seems to have gone OK.  I sorted out a couple of things for her re her meds, I'm going again today.  Hopefully things wilbe settling down.

 

Jamiel

[polybear]

9 hours ago, figworthy said:

 

Rumour has it that hospitals think that cake is a Bad Thing.

 

Adrian

 

😱

[TheQ]

Val Donnican lived at Neatishead, that's had a second home, which he kept very quiet, I note that's not noted in his "official history" which suggests the family might still own it, he was often seen in the area. The place is roughly between the RAF radar site, and the RAF radio transmitter site which is a couple of miles further north.

So I'll be going close to it in an hour..

[rockershovel]

11 hours ago, pH said:

Val Doonican was post-1922 😛.

His recordings might have been, but a lot of his material was pure Music Hall - I seem to recall one of his songs being about a character who "won a fortune, and bought himself a goat", and another about "Delaney's donkey". "Five Pound Notes" appear, generically denoting "a large sum of money, not normally seen".

 

Spike Milligan used similar images of Irish rural poverty in "Puckoon"; the two Border Inspectors find they cannot pay for their lodging using a Five Pound note, because no-one locally has seen one before and their landlady refuses it because "we don't take cheques" ... eventually they pay using Ten Shilling notes - which their host happily accepts, thinking "brown, THAT'S the colour of money" 

Edited April 26 by rockershovel

[Dave Hunt]

9 hours ago, Steamport Southport said:

 

Fünf­und­fünfzig - Snakes Alive

 

🐍🐍

Shouldn’t that be zwei und zweizig?

 

Dave

 

(The autocorrect tried to change that to zero and xeroxing 🤣

[Hroth]

25 minutes ago, rockershovel said:

His recordings might have been, but a lot of his material was pure Music Hall - I seem to recall one of his songs being about a character who "won a fortune, and bought himself a goat", and another about "Delaney's donkey". "Five Pound Notes" appear, generically denoting "a large sum of money, not normally seen".

 

Spike Milligan used similar images of Irish rural poverty in "Puckoon"; the two Border Inspectors find they cannot pay for their lodging using a Five Pound note, because no-one locally has seen one before and their landlady refuses it because "we don't take cheques" ... eventually they pay using Ten Shilling notes - which their host happily accepts, thinking "brown, THAT'S the colour of money" 

 

Paddy McGintys Goat.

It ate the note, and despite being stomach pumped, all they got was sixpence...

 

Its a long time since I've heard the song!

 

Edited April 26 by Hroth

[Dave Hunt]

Had an enjoyable and relaxing day yesterday being driven around and forced to drink champagne and eat cake. Due to an effective security screen, no bears or hippos were seen during consumption.

 

Dave

[Dave Hunt]

Jamie, good news about Beth - hopes and prayers for a swift recovery.

 

Dave

[Compound2632]

7 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

forced to drink champagne

 

You would have my father-in-law's sympathy - he doesn't rate the stuff, maintaining that other sparkling wines are better both in terms of price and quality. As an experimental psychologist with a keen interest in the fallibility of human judgement*, he maintains that the senses are tricked by the price and reputation.

 

*His own excepted, I would say, but remember I'm his son-in-law.

Edited April 26 by Compound2632

[Happy Hippo]

16 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

Had an enjoyable and relaxing day yesterday being driven around and forced to drink champagne and eat cake. Due to an effective security screen, no bears or hippos were seen during consumption.

 

Dave

Now I understand why the hospital was so keen for me to be in yesterday having my errant finger nail(s) removed.

[Winslow Boy]

2 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

Now I understand why the hospital was so keen for me to be in yesterday having my errant finger nail(s) removed.

 

Look will you stop trying to get us to play the sympathy card.

 

When it all boils down, it's your own fault. You put your hoof/trotter/? - what precisely do hippos walk on, somewhere it shouldn't have been and your now paying the price.

 

So suck it up and be a big hippo.

 

Yours from Manutopea, still without a shed.

 

P.s - and no Hippos don't walk on water before you suggest it.

[Caley739]

24 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 

You would have my father-in-law's sympathy - he doesn't rate the stuff, maintaining that other sparkling wines are better both in terms of price and quality. As an experimental psychologist with a keen interest in the fallibility of human judgement*, he maintains that the senses are tricked by the price and reputation.

 

*His own excepted, I would say, but remember I'm his son-in-law.

I generally drink Spanish CAVA instead.

[Dave Hunt]

I normally drink Prosecco rather than Champagne but if someone presents me with a bottle of the latter it seems churlish not to get stuck in.

 

Dave