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  • teamsaint
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 25200

    Originally posted by greenilex View Post
    Southampton Water just perfect this morning when the dog and I took the ferry across to Hythe: sunshine, gentle breeze, friendly fellow passengers and the prospect of a picnic on the Holbury road.

    Slightly choppier on the way back, and we were pleasantly worn out.



    It doesn’t get any better than a ride down Southampton water on a sunny morning. Pity the IOW ferries are so expensive .
    I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

    I am not a number, I am a free man.

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    • Serial_Apologist
      Full Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 37625

      Originally posted by greenilex View Post
      Southampton Water just perfect this morning when the dog and I took the ferry across to Hythe: sunshine, gentle breeze, friendly fellow passengers and the prospect of a picnic on the Holbury road.

      Slightly choppier on the way back, and we were pleasantly worn out.
      Hot dogs?

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      • greenilex
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 1626

        Hot diggetty.

        As for IOW ferries, the one I use is Lymington - Yarmouth which was reasonable when I last looked.

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        • BBMmk2
          Late Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 20908

          Originally posted by greenilex View Post
          Hot diggetty.

          As for IOW ferries, the one I use is Lymington - Yarmouth which was reasonable when I last looked.
          We will be having a hoilday in IOW in June/July. Looking forward to that. Hope to see some family there too.Strong family ties there still.My late Dad was born in sandown.

          Sunny here today. Going for a CT Scan later!
          Don’t cry for me
          I go where music was born

          J S Bach 1685-1750

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          • greenilex
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 1626

            Hope the news is good for your scan, bbm.

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            • BBMmk2
              Late Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 20908

              Originally posted by greenilex View Post
              Hope the news is good for your scan, bbm.

              Thanks greenilex! Unfortunately, had to cancel due to me not being all that well today. On anteb's.
              Don’t cry for me
              I go where music was born

              J S Bach 1685-1750

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              • greenilex
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 1626

                Live yoghurt is the thing, then, to replace digestive flora.

                We are gradually seeing the odd brief spell of sunshine. Still chilly.

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                • BBMmk2
                  Late Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 20908

                  Originally posted by greenilex View Post
                  Live yoghurt is the thing, then, to replace digestive flora.

                  We are gradually seeing the odd brief spell of sunshine. Still chilly.
                  Actimel is good for people on antebiotics!


                  Was raining earlier today, niot now though but I think more or less going to be like that!
                  Don’t cry for me
                  I go where music was born

                  J S Bach 1685-1750

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                  • DracoM
                    Host
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 12962

                    Romping westerly, rain, grey. Brrr.

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                    • Serial_Apologist
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2010
                      • 37625

                      Rain tonight and tomorrow morning down here, I would think. But for now it actually feels quite like spring, and comfortable enough to go out without coat.

                      I won't get my coat!

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                      • BBMmk2
                        Late Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 20908

                        Raining! Grr! Jamming session today as well!
                        Don’t cry for me
                        I go where music was born

                        J S Bach 1685-1750

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                        • Anastasius
                          Full Member
                          • Mar 2015
                          • 1842

                          Only just started taking a look at this thread. We moved last year from sunny Herefordshire to darkest, dankest, wettest, coldest Northumberland. Worst decision of our life. On the bright side the people are fabulous and the scenery breathtaking. But according to locals, last year was the wettest for a very long time and so far this year has been the coldest. We really did not do our homework. The saddest thing is that my wife is a keen gardener and had one of the most spectacular collections of rare peonies and irises. A collection that, TBH, put the National Collection to shame. Most have rotted and many irreplaceable and she is bereft.

                          However, every cloud has a silver lining and I take great pleasure in telling Yorkshiremen that they are nothing but softie Southerners.

                          Blue sky today though. Is that spring or have we just had summer ?
                          Fewer Smart things. More smart people.

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                          • Serial_Apologist
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 37625

                            Originally posted by Anastasius View Post
                            Only just started taking a look at this thread. We moved last year from sunny Herefordshire to darkest, dankest, wettest, coldest Northumberland. Worst decision of our life. On the bright side the people are fabulous and the scenery breathtaking. But according to locals, last year was the wettest for a very long time and so far this year has been the coldest. We really did not do our homework. The saddest thing is that my wife is a keen gardener and had one of the most spectacular collections of rare peonies and irises. A collection that, TBH, put the National Collection to shame. Most have rotted and many irreplaceable and she is bereft.

                            However, every cloud has a silver lining and I take great pleasure in telling Yorkshiremen that they are nothing but softie Southerners.

                            Blue sky today though. Is that spring or have we just had summer ?
                            Well at least you have blue sky today - which is more than we do!

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                            • vinteuil
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 12798

                              Originally posted by Anastasius View Post
                              ... We moved last year from sunny Herefordshire to darkest, dankest, wettest, coldest Northumberland. Worst decision of our life. ... We really did not do our homework...
                              ... I have pondered before on these threads as to why early Homo sapiens, as they moved out of Africa, once they reached, say, the Dordogne (plenty of caves, loads of nuts and berries, not too many French people around yet... ) - ever bothered to advance further north. Certainly by the time they reached the Chilterns they must have thought, what's the point of pushing on further? And yet some went on to the god-forsaken zones north of the river Aire - and, now we learn - even up to Northumberland!

                              Really, there are times when I doubt the sanity of my fellow humans...


                              .

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26524

                                Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                                ... I have pondered before on these threads as to why early Homo sapiens, as they moved out of Africa, once they reached, say, the Dordogne (plenty of caves, loads of nuts and berries, not too many French people around yet... ) - ever bothered to advance further north. Certainly by the time they reached the Chilterns they must have thought, what's the point of pushing on further? And yet some went on to the god-forsaken zones north of the river Aire - and, now we learn - even up to Northumberland!

                                Really, there are times when I doubt the sanity of my fellow humans...


                                .


                                "L'enfer c'est les autres" was presumably the governing principle, long before J-PS put it into words - finding places with no other buggers anywhere close...
                                "...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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