DDolfelin Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Did the neighbours look rather grave? This is the same Church with their Mission Statement in the lobby. 3) No graves to be opened without the permission of the incumbent. (true!). 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted February 27, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 27, 2015 Good morning Sue, good morning everybody. Late to report today, as I was wakened by the cries of the whelk gatherers as they poled their punts out into the dawning sky of what has become a very pleasant day. Sun. Nice. Blood donations - I used to donate as often as possible, but diabetes means that is now forbidden. Not because of the blood, but apparently it would be bad for me. And I'm not supposed to eat crisps. Pete - how about following the example of The Hope pub in Carshalton, where in similar circumstances the locals formed a company and bought the pub and now run it as a very successful co-operative exercise. It's been CAMRA London Pub of the Year, and is packed out. http://hopecarshalton.co.uk They even have a Beercam so that you can see what's happening in the cellar. http://www.yourround.co.uk/BeerCam/Carshalton/The-Hope/SM5-2PR.aspx But they don't sell whelks. Have a good day, all. I'm modelling a bit and then a LOT of political. Forgive me, Lord, for I have sinned... Yes The Hope is a very pleasant pub. Must make a trip back there in the near future. Its last Friday of the month here and we are all meant to be going ot Craft Beer Co in Islington but I still dont feel like drinking due to this cold thats been hanging on since last week so I think it will be another no beer day. Might try a few tomrrow down on the coast though. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted February 27, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 27, 2015 I may have mentioned before that when my brother had been granted probate and was sorting out Mum's estate the Probate dept of one financial institution informed that for 'security' they could only deal with the account holder. Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Cracking sunny day with white clouds here in Teignmouth, Bit cool but not too much wind, (apart from occasional indigestion) rain doesn't look very likely but we will see. The crane has been packed away in the station car park so it looks like the sewage reservoir has probably been completed and the huge hole in the ground will be covered over soon. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted February 27, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 27, 2015 Would that be classified as wining? A fellow victim of the sticky shoes did point out that some quite acceptable wines were on sale in the next aisle, and that it was seldom necessary to tread your own in Cakes & Biscuits. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted February 27, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 27, 2015 Morning all A bright, sunny day, but with a bit of a Nor-Westerly you might prefer to do without. Happy Birthday Alan. In an ER community that includes many people with ghastly ailments and conditions, including poor Kelly who is still a young woman, my news is trivial. But it is mine. Since late yesterday I have been drinking Cranberry juice. It's a bit sweet for my taste, if truth be told, but there we are. It is the first layman's (and particularly lay-woman's) defence when a bladder infection strikes. And it has, big time. I think I went to the loo 7 times in the night, with very little reward for spending several minutes each time in so doing. It did not render me full of the joys of much this morning, so my chat with Sherry was short and grumpy. And of course, my GP retired last September. I had done a little research on a replacement, but Sheena's experience in Bonnetable seemed to show there is a capacity issue there. So I had looked at Marolles, a small town slightly further away, but possessed of a brand new health centre. So structured is the place that if you are waiting to see Dr X you sit in the brown chairs, but for Dr Y you sit in the black chairs. Yes, really. How do I know? 'Cos by 0945 today I was there, ready to talk to the admin person about an appointment. Except the General Office was locked. Drs were doctoring, the physio was torturing (it's what they do - MiL was a physio), the dentist was drilling. But the office was closed. So I cluttered off in disillusionment, went and bought some more Cranberry juice, and went home to phone them. And then the lady, having presumably now opened the office, said I lived too far away.... So now I have an appointment this afternoon with another doctor in Bonnetable. Here's hoping. Glad to hear one or two are shaking off the lurgy, just in time for the weekend. Hope yours goes with a swing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium skipepsi Posted February 27, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 27, 2015 (edited) Afternoon all, made a post sent it and it looks like it went to oblivion instead....... sums up my day so far really my mobile phone told me it had no power going from75% to zero in no time when it was charging an important text arrived sent on Wednesday.... Sent two texts on Thursday so I might get an answer next Tuesday... I got to work and started replying to emails only for them to bounce back, IT might have it fixed by Monday I am still feeling carp and thinking POETS day or I should have stayed in bed. Happy Birthday Alan you sound like 60 is the new 40 so many more birthdays to come. edited due to changing Alan's name. Edited February 27, 2015 by skipepsi Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted February 27, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 27, 2015 Its last Friday of the month here Same here. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted February 27, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 27, 2015 Camden is actually the setting where the characters from our English textbooks are supposed to live. The books are, fittingly, titled "Camden Town." I understand they but aren't the most common English textbooks at schools in Saxony at least though the tendency seems to be viewing them as quite challenging. Incidentally, the colleague I was working with today said she had noticed the recently revised edition of a different series from another publisher seem to have adopted bits and pieces from the Camden Town series! Now unwinding with a cuppa. Planning for the Monday English lesson should be quite straightforward as it turned out there was not really a need for me to go as far back to basics as I did today. I do tend to gravitate to the "if in doubt, review and provide input" perspective. Generic congrats and commies as my mind desires some idling now... 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Abel Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 (edited) Morning, cold but sunny and blue sky, off out to lunch today as I have reached the ripe old age of 60 today, thus younger than some older than others on here . Family due home for the weekend, model railway exhibition to go to and money in hand. Not a bad weekend in prospect. Enjoy your day folks! Happy Birthday Alan... POETS day, and might manage the "E" if I'm lucky. We're attending a wedding today (well, sort of "today" see further for clarification!), the son of our good friends. I have to ask, apparently the latest here with the "young and trendy" is to have evening weddings, this one doesn't even START until 8PM, and the reception is slated for somewhere around 9-9:30PM!!! Whilst I applaud the tenacity of those late night revelers - what about the parents and friends of the parents, all of whom are considering BEDTIME around the time the bash gets going?? We're unlikely to be too taken with the music I know (a "Talking Heads" cover band apparently) but even so <yawn> <yawn>, they need to consider the old farts might not stay awake until the end of the ceremony!! Weather continues the below average trend with a continued -22 with bright sun on waking, but thankfully almost no breeze to speak of, resulting in a wind-chill of only -24 <yay>!! Jemma will be grateful too, she is on "AM Ready" today, meaning 6AM at the airport as a reserve, and just texted me she's doing a Vancouver turn leaving in 30 minutes - at least with no breeze she'll manage the pre-departure walk around without it being too bitter... OK, back to work for me...last Friday of the month here too, whadaya know Edited February 27, 2015 by Ian Abel 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashcombe Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Ian (Abel), my ex husband and I were married in Michigan in 1971 and evening weddings were quite common then; ours was at 7.30 p.m. It seemed that people didn't spend long on honeymoon so being married on a Friday evening enabled couples to make the most of the w/e to celebrate and recover! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lurker Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Funny about foreign language textbooks. My knowledge of French is based on la Famille Bertillion qui s'habite a Nouvillion. M Bertillon est un douanier a Orly aeroport. My knowledge of Roman life revolves around the household of Caecilius in Vesuvius and Cogidubnus Rex in Fishbourne. I did so little German it hasn't stuck though I do remember Bayrisches Tal which I think was a hotel, presumably in a Bavarian valley I imagine that the textbook series are readily identifiable. Certainly the Latin ones are still used by some schools, a mere 35 years later. But then I guess we don't need to update Roamn life for the latest upgrades to the hypocaust system! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railsquid Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 My knowledge of Roman life revolves around the household of Caecilius in Vesuvius and Cogidubnus Rex in Fishbourne. Did the books have orange covers by any chance? Caecilius rings a bell. I think I have one of the books somewhere still... More than I can say about any useful knowledge of Latin. My French was coloured by a series of books called "Tricolor" set in La Rochelle and the German ones were set in the Saarland. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lurker Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Yes, the Latin books did have orange covers. According to Wikipedia, it's the Cambridge latin course. Mrs Lurker did the Tricolor French books. Ours were called Le Francais d'Aujourd'hui Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lurker Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 And of course as Molesworth said about Latin "Latin is a language as dead as dead can be It killed all the Romans and now it's killing me". I did find it useful-ish in combination with French for reading other Romance language texts 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Abel Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Ian (Abel), my ex husband and I were married in Michigan in 1971 and evening weddings were quite common then; ours was at 7.30 p.m. It seemed that people didn't spend long on honeymoon so being married on a Friday evening enabled couples to make the most of the w/e to celebrate and recover! Yikes, well you live and learn In all my years I've not heard of/attended a wedding starting later than about 4:30, so it was new to me...then again maybe I just don't remember <sigh> heck, even the parents of the groom were surprised at the timing, then again they're as old as me and the Mrs. Maybe we'll forget to turn up this evening if we're not careful Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 My knowledge of French is based on la Famille Bertillion qui s'habite a Nouvillion. M Bertillon est un douanier a Orly aeroport. Strange customs those French. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted February 27, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 27, 2015 (edited) A'noon all. Spent the day with Mrs H, physio first to find she only has 40% movement in her digits so far, so a way to go yet, they to the GP for her, for advice on several fronts, lunch out at the MSPCA (like RSPCA but a lot of cats with no tails....) then.....shopping. Ugh. Brownie points earned. Edited February 27, 2015 by New Haven Neil 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted February 27, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 27, 2015 My knowledge of French is based on la Famille Bertillion qui s'habite a Nouvillion. M Bertillon est un douanier a Orly aeroport. I understand this without resorting to a translator. Thus: Bertie's family drive around in a shabby Nova. Bertie is one down in a game of flyball. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted February 27, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 27, 2015 Well the doc turned out to be a fairly straight sort of chap, with not a lot of humour. I began to lose mine a bit when he said I really need prostate surgery sooner rather than later. There was also mention of a hernia, which is nice. He is prepared to defer my referral to a specialist until after the wedding. His dithery wife looks after the admin, is charming. Sherry's after-care skills are going to be honed, I think! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Good Lord, Ian. I understood there were pills to tighten up the waterworks etc.,. Perhaps that was wishful thinking in case I need it myself in the future. I'm sure it will all work out for you even if Ashers has to carry you over the threshold. Good luck mate! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashcombe Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Good Lord, Ian. I understood there were pills to tighten up the waterworks etc.,. Perhaps that was wishful thinking in case I need it myself in the future. I'm sure it will all work out for you even if Ashers has to carry you over the threshold. Good luck mate! .... no point both of us having a hernia!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashcombe Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Well the doc turned out to be a fairly straight sort of chap, with not a lot of humour. I began to lose mine a bit when he said I really need prostate surgery sooner rather than later. There was also mention of a hernia, which is nice. He is prepared to defer my referral to a specialist until after the wedding. His dithery wife looks after the admin, is charming. Sherry's after-care skills are going to be honed, I think! There are several nurses within my family but I'm not one of them! However, I'm willing to try anything once! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 You could learn from your mistakes. (I can hear Ian wincing). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted February 27, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 27, 2015 Just read that Leonard Nimoy's passed away. RIP... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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