Early Risers.

[Simon G]

Sweet Chariot

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-31147766

 

But the Warwick university Rugby Club were singing this in 1970, with gestures.

 

 

We were certainly singing it in 1967/8 at my Rugby club (with gestures) There is of course one you should leave out if children are present!

I was certainly singing it in the early/mid 70s at Brunel Univeristy Rugby Club, with the aforementioned gesture as well.

[45156]

Morning All

 

Fully caught up, and first, good to hear that Jock is on the mend.  Presumably nightcap duty will be starting up again soon?

 

Andrew,  online Doc appointments are a revelation, and my practice has used them for a few years now, but still the main thrust of their appointment system is still "ring on the day" and its effectiveness or not was the subject of a heated debate between practice management and the patient's group.  I raised a point about the online system and a shortcoming which largely affected patients with chronic ailments whereby blood test and review appointments are booked well in advance, and using the online system only two appointments could be booked at one time, so if you needed another it couldn't be done online.  I got a phone call and e-mail within 24 hours to say it was resolved by allowing a third appointment.  They have also increased the number of phone lines to 10, and deputed admin staff to take appointment calls in the morning - all in all, a practice that does try to put patients first.

 

Weather is warm(ish) here and I've got a number of domestic tasks on this morning, including making the dinner (chicken leftover Korma sauced by Aldi) - just hope that their sauce mix is as good as many of their other products - I'm slowly coming round to the idea of getting as much shopping there as I can, as their stuff is much cheaper, and normally just as good quality - albeit that their range is a bit restricted - eg I can only eat fruit in juice, and they don't do any.

 

Best get on now, try to get back later.

 

Regards to All

Stewart

[NGT6 1315]

On the way to and from the doc, I noticed a gaggle of police and CSI staff on the railway line to Halle. Judging by the information in the Deutsche Bahn online timetable, it stands to reason that someone trespassed with fatal consequences...

[trisonic]

Whilst sitting here the past hour or so I've been observing a neighbour a few doors down across the road jet washing..........his car.......his van.......his block paving parking area........the pavement.......the road.........the front of his bl##dy house!  He seems to do this at least once a week. Is it just me or does anyone else think this is rather strange behaviour?

Park your car outside his house and see if he cleans that too?

 

Best, Pete.

[The Stationmaster]

Morning all,

 

Early Parkside kits were something of a disaster area, not at all easy to put together.  Coopercraft was superb when it really was Coopercraft and before it went to its present owner - judging by the amount of flash on recent production I reckon somer of the tools have not only had their day but a week as well;  all a bit ofa  shame as the bloke who owns these various names now seems quite a pleasant chap, just lacking in business application I think.

 

Good to hear KJock's on the mend, commiserations to other sufferers - seems the 97 percentile (in UK numbers) is getting hit quite hard by various bugs this winter.

 

And yes, cleaning paviors - I don't powerwash mine but I do clean the gaps between them a couple of times a year to get rid of the moss.

 

Have a good day one and all.

 

PS I bet that bloke wishes he'd charged Gordon a bit more for those exhibition stands ... tehehe

[Happy Hippo]

 I managed to drop my wife's new unread gossip mag in the sink last week (don't ask). Unreadable, it's now fit only for the bin 

My personal opinion of these magazines is that they do not need to be dropped into the sink to make them fit for the bin.

 

Worse still, because they are printed on shiny paper, they are not suitable for cutting up into squares for onward use in ty bach!

 

Another grey damp day in not so sunny Shropshire.

 

Thu-Sun will see me at the British Shooting Show.

 

That it falls over both Valentine's day/night and the Obergrumpenfurer's birthday does call for a little bit of tact and diplomacy.

 

A suitable meal out before I depart, and a lavish present seems to sway things in my favour.

 

Besides, as I was able to remind her, she is going to be away on my birthday as well.

 

However, I cannot see myself getting a present of suitable lavishness such as a sound fitted 'King' or another new rifle (I got one two years ago).

[bbishop]

I was certainly singing it in the early/mid 70s at Brunel Univeristy Rugby Club, with the aforementioned gesture as well.

 

Ok Simon, I would have been playing for The City University team from 1971 / 74.  Probably the 2nd team, probably hooker (or loose head).  There was one game at your ground where the incompetent referee sent off three players for fighting, whilst I was happily getting away with a lot of illegal activity in the scrums.

 

Bill

[Tony_S]

Morning all.

5C and dull here.

Tony

[edcayton]

Morning all. Just heard on the news that butter, cheese, and full fat milk are good for us after all. I have long thought that the obesity crisis we are supposed to be having can be laid at the door of supposed experts who change their minds after watching the results of their experiments on the general population. Anyone for a bacon butty?

 

I have looked into this. It seems the bacon butty is only healthy if you omit the bread.

 

Ed

[Happy Hippo]

Ok Simon, I would have been playing for The City University team from 1971 / 74.  Probably the 2nd team, probably hooker (or loose head).  There was one game at your ground where the incompetent referee sent off three players for fighting, whilst I was happily getting away with a lot of illegal activity in the scrums.

 

Bill

Bill,

 

The positions I used to play in.

 

Did you also use my little trick of wearing the same colour socks as the opposition?  So helpful in a 'foot up' incident.

[AndrewC]

Happy Hippo, on 10 Feb 2015 - 11:06, said:

Bill,

 

The positions I used to play in.

 

Did you also use my little trick of wearing the same colour socks as the opposition?  So helpful in a 'foot up' incident.

Someone else that has read the Art of Coarse Rugby.

[34theletterbetweenB&D]

All natural food is good for you: which do you trust more butter from milk which came from a cow, as it has done since the bovine was first domesticated, or margarine from a factory taking feedstock from who knows where? Everything in moderation though, and plenty of variety in the diet.

 

One of my pet pedantries, having grown up in the county. I also carry around a lead-cored clue-stick to apply to anyone who calls it "Worchester sauce".

What you going to do to me who calls it 'Ketjap Ingres'?

 

(Derivation, Dutch on my father's side, and the family were based in Java for the best part of 200 years, and this was the title of this product out there: literally Sauce (ketchup) English. When I came to write this it dawned on me that I had never seen the 'Ingres' part spelt out, so it's my unofficial transliteration. The modern transliteration of the 'Ketjap' now appears to be 'Kecap', as seen on the brand of Kecap Manis currently offered by Waitrose.)

 

Whilst sitting here the past hour or so I've been observing a neighbour a few doors down across the road jet washing..........his car.......his van.......his block paving parking area........the pavement.......the road.........the front of his bl##dy house!  He seems to do this at least once a week. Is it just me or does anyone else think this is rather strange behaviour?

Park your car outside his house and see if he cleans that too?

But don't accept an invitation to go into the house, in case the power wash compulsion extends to a mandatory full system enema...

[bbishop]

Bill,

 

The positions I used to play in.

 

Did you also use my little trick of wearing the same colour socks as the opposition?  So helpful in a 'foot up' incident.

No, plain black boots, never polished only dubbined.  Club socks should have been blue and white hoops, I wore a second pair of dark brown.  No point in the ref seeing something he didn't need to.

 

Why on earth was the Welsh hooker wearing white boots?

 

Bill

[NGT6 1315]

Why on earth was the Welsh hooker wearing white boots?

 

So that dirty-minded guys like us can let their imagination float… 

[grandadbob]

Sadly it seems that "foot up" and feeding the ball in straight have been consigned to the past. Perhaps hookers (and I was one as well) should be renamed as "line out chuckerinerers"

[bbishop]

Sadly it seems that "foot up" and feeding the ball in straight have been consigned to the past. Perhaps hookers (and I was one as well) should be renamed as "line out chuckerinerers"

When I started one was allowed to head the ball back.  The scrum half had to be reminded not to chuck it in point first.

 

Bill

[bbishop]

Quick question for all ER types, most of whom appear to be hookers (although the Station Cat only owns up to being a prop, I'm sure her dad will enlighten us).

 

I have acquired, against my will, a contactless debit card. I have no intention of using it as such; travel in London is by bike or by grumpy (aka freedom) pass and monetary transactions by cheque of by pieces of paper embossed with our sovereign's head. As the debit card lives in my wallet, which lives in my back pocket, how do I avoid it being accessed by various machines adept at extracting value from my account. Do I have to wrap the debit card in lead or would some other material suffice?

 

Bill

[railsquid]

What you going to do to me who calls it 'Ketjap Ingres'?

 

Oooh, I'll have to look that up in the Big Book of Worcester Sauce Naming Transgressions.... Ah yes... Cardinal Fang! FETCH THE COMFY CHAIR!

 

 

(Derivation, Dutch on my father's side, and the family were based in Java for the best part of 200 years, and this was the title of this product out there: literally Sauce (ketchup) English. When I came to write this it dawned on me that I had never seen the 'Ingres' part spelt out, so it's my unofficial transliteration. The modern transliteration of the 'Ketjap' now appears to be 'Kecap', as seen on the brand of Kecap Manis currently offered by Waitrose.)

 

 

And no doubt there are Chinese people permanently annoyed by the use of the word "Ketchup" to describe a sugary tomato-based sauce

[railsquid]

Quick question for all ER types, most of whom appear to be hookers

 

It's the high heels and basque stockings which give me away, isn't it?

[AndrewC]

bbishop, on 10 Feb 2015 - 12:14, said:bbishop, on 10 Feb 2015 - 12:14, said:

Quick question for all ER types, most of whom appear to be hookers (although the Station Cat only owns up to being a prop, I'm sure her dad will enlighten us).

 

I have acquired, against my will, a contactless debit card. I have no intention of using it as such; travel in London is by bike or by grumpy (aka freedom) pass and monetary transactions by cheque of by pieces of paper embossed with our sovereign's head. As the debit card lives in my wallet, which lives in my back pocket, how do I avoid it being accessed by various machines adept at extracting value from my account. Do I have to wrap the debit card in lead or would some other material suffice?

 

Bill

Phil of this parish recently picked up a shielded wallet. My solution is simpler. Contact the bank and request a non-contactless card. If you are a Natwest customer these are blue instead of the usual purple. None of my cards have pay wave chips in them after attending a security conference where one chap wandered through the audience and flashed up people's names and partly redacted card data on the big screen.

 

On the subject of hookers, I see that Hobgoblin brewery (Marsden's really) have come out with a beer called "Toothless Hooker". My first thought was that Wayne Rooney will be disappointed.

Edited February 10, 2015 by AndrewC

[The Lurker]

Bill

 

you need to wave the card somewhere near the relevant machine, hence TFL reminding all to "tap" in and out. It's called something like Near Field Technology but someone who is up on it will give you the exact phrase.

 

But from personal experience, my oyster card (used for occasional tube and bus journeys) has never been debited when using my SE season ticket. And neither has my bank card, which has been contactless for some time

[45156]

Just had a visit from three electricians in two vans to have a look at the errant street light outside, and I asked if the light was fixed, to be told that it needed a dig, which would be booked today, and as a result they couldn't do the job today.  Went out half an hour later, and they were still there, and one was using a Stihl diamond cutter to make a hole in the tarmac of the pavement, then they dug down and fixed what they said needed specialist equipment?  We now have a hole in the road, and a barrier round it, as the contractor has to attend anyway to backfill the hole and make good the tarmac.  We'll see if the light comes on tonight.

[Jock67B]

Afternoon all,

Out fairly early for me this morning as 'the boss' had a hair appointment - she has a superb hairdresser who went self-employed a year or so ago and works from home, charging less than the salon did which I of course applaud. I did remember the relevant comment on how lovely she looked on return to the car, therefore retaining the meagre quantity of brownie points that I am clinging on to! I like the arrangement as said hairdresser lives next to a nice 'green' area and so I take Archie for a walk whilst the clipping is in progress - two birds with one stone?

As I have mentioned before, I have serious concerns about disposing of my large book and record collection so as not to leave the burden for Joanna. Quite a few of the books are valuable so when I feel a bit better, I intend preparing lists and photos with a view to specialist auction disposal. The paperbacks are in the main worth little however and so I contacted various charities, starting with cancer ones obviously. To my surprise, the only one to show real interest, and immediately arranged for collection of twenty odd boxes at a specific time, were PDSA and so they have 'won' them for their shops! Both grandsons who live in Clacton are attending this evening to get said boxes down from the loft as, much to my disgust, I can no longer cope with such a task! How lucky we are to have such helpful supportive family around as we get older - I suppose a lot depends on how you sow the seeds!

Soon be at the hump already - hope the remainder of the week lives up to expectation,

Kind regards,

Jock.

[Ohmisterporter]

Jock, is there a connection between hump and sowing the seeds?

[martin_wynne]

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