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  • Angle
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 724

    Meanwhile, the warm sun bestows its goodness on Liverpool.

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    • mangerton
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 3346

      Originally posted by Anna View Post
      Now you mention it --- No!
      Disappointing day, more cloud than blue, only just now unbroken sunshine, chill wind this morning and only got to just over 17° (might be a decent sunset?) It really tipped it down for hours yesterday evening but I still think that I'll miss the worst of tomorrow's downpours. (I do a chicken/butter bean dish like Ams will be serving tomorrow but I bung a whole (not chopped and with stalk) red chilli in it for a bit of background heat - today, as I went past the butcher he was putting a tray of freshly cooked ham hocks in the window - couldn't resist, I'll wrap it careful he says, they're just out of the boiler. It was only £2.75, think I'll have it with a cauli cheese, real Autumn food! Then, probably make some pea or lentil and ham soup for tomorrow's lunch)
      Sounds delicious. That's what we call a ham shank or a ham hough (to rhyme with "loch") in these parts. Very popular for making soup here too.

      It also provides the rhyme, "The loch, the loch, the beautiful loch. How I wish I was in it, right up to my hough!" (anon - and I'm not surprised.)

      OT: Still sunny, bright and coolish.

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      • Anna

        Originally posted by mangerton View Post
        .
        it also provides the rhyme, "The loch, the loch, the beautiful loch. How I wish I was in it, right up to my hough!" (anon - and I'm not surprised.)
        I thought I might find some Dylan Thomas about ham or pork, but I DID find, XV11 century, from the Black Book of Carmarthen
        But hear, O little pig! on Thursday
        The Cymry will rejoyce
        In their defence of Cymimawd,
        Furiously cutting and thrusting.
        The Saesons will be slaughtered by our ashen spears,
        And their heads used as footballs.
        I prophesy the unvarnished truth -
        The rising of a child in the secluded South.


        They got that totally wrong then

        As you were ...............
        Last edited by Guest; 14-09-13, 17:21. Reason: speling, as usuzl

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        • eighthobstruction
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 6433

          anna.....bbbb photo now actually in my house waiting for my son to up load.... yep pea soup with ham bone etc Mmmmm....

          ....gorgeous day all day....still golden....

          ....shop bought lemon meringue pie for two (guess I'll make do for one)....i love lemony things....
          bong ching

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          • mangerton
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 3346

            Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post

            ....shop bought lemon meringue pie for two (guess I'll make do for one)....i love lemony things....
            (very old joke for Scots speakers only.....)

            Is that a pie or a meringue?

            Naw, yer right, it's a pie.

            (Hope you enjoyed it, 8thO)

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26527

              Originally posted by mangerton View Post
              (very old joke for Scots speakers only.....)

              Is that a pie or a meringue?

              Naw, yer right, it's a pie.

              (Hope you enjoyed it, 8thO)

              I hope so too. I certainly did! New one on me!
              "...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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              • marthe

                Originally posted by Angle View Post
                Meanwhile, the warm sun bestows its goodness on Liverpool.
                What a lovely way to describe the near-autumnal sunshine. Today the sun has been bestowing its goodness upon Newport, RI while we're in the midst of the annual Boat Show...a big event for the nautically-minded. We've also left our hearts in San Francisco (where the sun is shining today) as the US boat, sponsored by Oracle, finally beat the Kiwis to the finish line in this round of the America's Cup races. The whole thing is high tech beyond belief...a far cry from the graceful 12 metre yachts that once plied the waters of Narragansett Bay.

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                • salymap
                  Late member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 5969

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                  I hope so too. I certainly did! New one on me!

                  I got it at third attempt by putting on my dodgy Scots accent.

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                  • BBMmk2
                    Late Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 20908

                    Certainly quite a busy weekend! We saw three properties yesterday, and I had a band concert in the afternoon! The good news is, that we have found somewhere to live! It's at a place called Southdowns Park, in Haywards Heath. Yes, back to the place hwre I was brought up! Seems to have a magnetic pull! This building is the former psychiatric hospital, called St Francis Hospital. And, guess what? Around this building, are names of the various sections, some of whom were the medical superintendents that have worked there, Including my father, no less, who was the last one. And it's this part of the building, called Wheeler Court(named after him), is where wee are going to move to! I think it's uncanny and hmmm...surreal, even.
                    Don’t cry for me
                    I go where music was born

                    J S Bach 1685-1750

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                    • amateur51

                      Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                      Certainly quite a busy weekend! We saw three properties yesterday, and I had a band concert in the afternoon! The good news is, that we have found somewhere to live! It's at a place called Southdowns Park, in Haywards Heath. Yes, back to the place hwre I was brought up! Seems to have a magnetic pull! This building is the former psychiatric hospital, called St Francis Hospital. And, guess what? Around this building, are names of the various sections, some of whom were the medical superintendents that have worked there, Including my father, no less, who was the last one. And it's this part of the building, called Wheeler Court(named after him), is where wee are going to move to! I think it's uncanny and hmmm...surreal, even.
                      That's great news, Bbm - may you both be very happy at your new address and I hope that it's a long, secure stay this time

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                      • eighthobstruction
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 6433

                        Yes I hope very much the 'revolving door' (a phrase used before the Care in the Community in the 80's closed such places) has well and truly been taken away....good news...
                        Last edited by eighthobstruction; 15-09-13, 10:16.
                        bong ching

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                        • Anna

                          Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                          And it's this part of the building, called Wheeler Court(named after him), is where wee are going to move to! I think it's uncanny and hmmm...surreal, even.
                          I did say, when you first mentioned this, that it was an auspicious sign! I bet your Dad is thrilled and already looking forward to visiting you living in his old place of employment.
                          Ontopic, dry, grey, chilly, windy.

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                          • BBMmk2
                            Late Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 20908

                            Originally posted by Anna View Post
                            I did say, when you first mentioned this, that it was an auspicious sign! I bet your Dad is thrilled and already looking forward to visiting you living in his old place of employment.
                            Ontopic, dry, grey, chilly, windy.
                            Yes, Anna! And there was a black cat on the front window sill in the photo too!
                            Don’t cry for me
                            I go where music was born

                            J S Bach 1685-1750

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                            • salymap
                              Late member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 5969

                              Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                              That's great news, Bbm - may you both be very happy at your new
                              address and I hope that it's a long, secure stay this time



                              Yes. well done. Goodluck and goodhealth in your new/old home.

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                              • DracoM
                                Host
                                • Mar 2007
                                • 12965

                                Stoking a storm up here in Ultima Thule. Batten down the hatches after a sublime autumn day yesterday.......wow!

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