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  • Anna

    Originally posted by Flay View Post
    That was awful, ammy <cringe>
    Yes, it was awfully brilliant Ams! Made me laugh out loud.
    Thickest mist again this morn but dry, brightness faded to grey cloud so not bad. Lovely clear starry night. Can we ban all talk of Christmas though until nearer the time, I'm getting tired of the shops having displays of nothing but mince pies, stollen, Christmas puds, crackers, tins of Quality Street and boxes of festive biscuits.

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    • Serial_Apologist
      Full Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 37636

      Originally posted by Anna View Post
      Yes, it was awfully brilliant Ams! Made me laugh out loud.
      Thickest mist again this morn but dry, brightness faded to grey cloud so not bad. Lovely clear starry night. Can we ban all talk of Christmas though until nearer the time, I'm getting tired of the shops having displays of nothing but mince pies, stollen, Christmas puds, crackers, tins of Quality Street and boxes of festive biscuits.
      Very little of which has happened here, as yet, much to my surprise. Maybe they're planning a subtler promo campaign for London, nearer the time...

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      • Anna

        Thankfully the dreaded Halloween seems to be very muted here .... awful American invention that seems to be dying out with the police pouncing on over age trick and treaters, aka, demanding money with menaces, but I like roast pumpkin!

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        • Serial_Apologist
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 37636

          Whereas London on the 31st gets invaded by all the witches and gremlins forever lurking out in Essex and Kent!

          Originally posted by Anna View Post
          but I like roast pumpkin!
          I loved that afterthought, Anna - had me in stitches!

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          • salymap
            Late member
            • Nov 2010
            • 5969

            I see some of my nice little English cousins [actually 1st cousin's grandchildren] are dressed up in strange clothes for Halloween since they have lived in the US for their father's job- about three years.
            Pumpkins as big as a house and all the trimmings. Ah well, when in Rome .......
            It looks as though they will stay there now,sad in a way.

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            • mangerton
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 3346

              Originally posted by Anna View Post
              Thankfully the dreaded Halloween seems to be very muted here .... awful American invention that seems to be dying out with the police pouncing on over age trick and treaters, aka, demanding money with menaces, but I like roast pumpkin!
              I don't know much about how, or whether, Hallowe'en used to be celebrated in England and Wales, but it was in Scotland. We had turnip (ie swede) lanterns, treacle scones, nuts, dookin' for apples, and guising - aka galoshins in some parts of the country. We would dress up, blacken our faces with burnt cork, and visit friends and neighbours. We would do a recitation or sing a song. We would then get a reward of sweets, nuts, or apples. We would have scorned to go around demanding money with menaces.

              I find it very sad that these dreadful Americanised, pumpkin-infested, goings-on have now overtaken our traditional Hallowe'en.

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26524

                Originally posted by amateur51 View Post

                That reply would be a dry-cycling anti-depressant I guess
                Originally posted by Flay View Post
                That was awful, ammy <cringe>

                Originally posted by Anna View Post
                Yes, it was awfully brilliant Ams! Made me laugh out loud.
                I didn't get it....





                .....I was so lucky with the weather - torrential all afternoon, I decided I'd just go for it and get soaked, then wash and dry everything on arrival... But the rain had backed off to light drizzle as I set out... I was damp rather than wet on arrival.

                I was listening to Albéniz's 'IBERIA' en route - the "Jerez" movement gave me an urge - stopped off at Waitrose en route and am now munching jamón serrano with some delicious chilled old Amontillado....

                TGIF & Home sweet Home
                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                • BBMmk2
                  Late Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 20908

                  Sounds great, Caliban!!

                  Weather yesterd atrocious! Rained nearly all day! that rather fine rain, which gets you really wet!!

                  Half term now for two weeks!!
                  Don’t cry for me
                  I go where music was born

                  J S Bach 1685-1750

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                  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                    Gone fishin'
                    • Sep 2011
                    • 30163

                    Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                    Weather yesterd atrocious! Rained nearly all day! that rather fine rain, which gets you really wet!!
                    Sorry to hear this: it was a perfect Autumn's day in the Pennines yesterday - dry, sunshine, 14 degrees: lovely! <smugemoticon>

                    Half term now for two weeks!!
                    <smugemoticon> wiped from silly face! Enjoy the break, Bbm.
                    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                    • BBMmk2
                      Late Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 20908

                      Moving house Ferney!!
                      Don’t cry for me
                      I go where music was born

                      J S Bach 1685-1750

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                      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                        Gone fishin'
                        • Sep 2011
                        • 30163

                        Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                        Moving house Ferney!!
                        Oh, Lor'! Well; enjoy the ... err ... return to work?! (, indeed!)
                        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                        • Anna

                          Best wishes to BBM for a smooth move. The thought of which fills me with dread at sorting out all the hoarded items I have. A quite giddying 16.5° achieved today in The Principality, I anticipate a Lurid Sunset streaked with turquoise and gold.

                          Off-topic, I have an elderly gentleman friend who delights in reciting poetry to me (well, it's something you do on the No. 4 bus innit?) and he had a lovely, (actually terribly sentimental poem), but he couldn't remember the author. A bit of goofling this morning reveals it's Samuel Rogers (1763-1855) How lovely is that, to discover something new when least expected?

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                          • EdgeleyRob
                            Guest
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 12180

                            Originally posted by Anna View Post
                            Best wishes to BBM for a smooth move. The thought of which fills me with dread at sorting out all the hoarded items I have.
                            All those cds to pack too,nightmare!
                            Good luck BBM

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                            • salymap
                              Late member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 5969

                              I've drawn the curtains and put the light on at just after 4pm. The hour goes back a week today, when this would be 3pm [I think] I like daylight, this is miserable and still raining hard. Moan, moan.

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                              • Serial_Apologist
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 37636

                                Originally posted by salymap View Post
                                I've drawn the curtains and put the light on at just after 4pm. The hour goes back a week today, when this would be 3pm [I think] I like daylight, this is miserable and still raining hard. Moan, moan.
                                Make the most of tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesday would be my advice, given that temperatures will be where they should have been at the start of the month, because by the end of the week they will be nearer to December values. At least that gives us all a chance to acclimatise ouselves in good time for Christmas.

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