I posted this on the Coronoavirus etc thread but think it ought to be here:
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Did you want your message posted here as well, gradus?
I'm being taken out to supper, Will I or Nill I, on Wednesday. Would have been happy to have put it off for the present but didn't have the option …It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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... we have a table for two booked on Wednesday for lunch at what used to be our favourite restrong. It'll be interesting to see what the experience is like...
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Apologies for starting but not finishing. I realised that I didn't know how to transfer a message from one thread to another after copying/deleting it and then got called away so couldn't re-type it ... but you get the gist. We enjoyed a cappuccino and cake at Campsea Ashe railway station cafe in deepest Suffolk today and I imagined others may have celebrated similarly in their locale.Originally posted by vinteuil View PostComment
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Went to our favourite Indian restaurant, last evening. Wonderful to be out and about again!Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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Have a pre-birthday meal booked for June 4, a handy fortnight away in which to see how things are going. All participants have now had two doses of the vaccine so my feeling would be on the optimistic side."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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We went out with another couple Saturday night. I picked the restaurant, a Caribbean/Mexican place that for several years been developing and expanding their outdoor patio area. The spacing was fine, and we all had been jabbed, and hadn’t been with this couple for a year. It turned out that they previously hadn’t a good opinion of the restaurant, but they both revised it after a wonderful meal. It felt so normal to be in a space where people were laughing, eating and drinking, and we all caught up.
It turned out that the restaurant had never closed, except for the initial few weeks in 2020. They had brought in the heaters in cold weather. This was technically illegal, as there were several official shut downs, but as a Municipal Attorney (my son) explained to me, many communities, that rely on the tax revenue from eateries, simply didn’t enforce the codes. I note wryly that this particular restaurant is owned by the Mayor of the suburb that we were inComment
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Well, here I am at the Station Buffet, Barter Books in Alnwick. It is a pleasure to be sat down inside again! No books purchased, but on OS map and 3 CDs, including one by Ibrahim Ferrer and Chepin y su Orquestra Oriental, which sounds intriguing.
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Now to my meal...
...yum!
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... aha! we shall be in the Alnwick area over the next week or so - one to add to the listOriginally posted by Old Grumpy View PostWell, here I am at the Station Buffet, Barter Books in Alnwick. It is a pleasure to be sat down inside again! No books purchased, but on OS map and 3 CDs, including one by Ibrahim Ferrer and Chepin y su Orquestra Oriental, which sounds intriguing..
Now to my meal...
...yum!
OG
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Don’t forget both your passports vintsOriginally posted by vinteuil View Post... aha! we shall be in the Alnwick area over the next week or so - one to add to the list
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A mint ice-cream cone & 1/2 a packet of Jaffa cakes in my car outside Aldi (windows open) ... got to get the other 7 melting ices back for the wife now ...Comment
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... well, I need to obtain my exit-visa to get beyond the M25 (not sure whether we can get these at King's Cross?) - and the visa for Newcastle and points north. We are equipping ourselves with the appropriate phrase books and dixonaries. I have already learned that Cambois is pronounced Camuss...Originally posted by antongould View Post
(I think I already knew that in them parts they choose to pronounce Newcaaaarsle "New-cassle" !! ... )
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Excellent vints you seem to have become a native in 17 minutes ....Originally posted by vinteuil View PostComment
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