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Post by spot51 on Sept 22, 2011 6:42:45 GMT
How's it hangin'?
Another dry day in Cornwall. Had a great day yesterday with the heavy horses down at Treskillard. Seems there are still only 300 or so breedping Suffolk Punch mares in the country so each one is precious. However the horses used by the Amish in USA appear to be pure Suffolks so the genealogists are checking them out with a view to strengthening the bloodline. Be a real boost if it happens.
I love these holiday mornings with my pop iPod. Steve Miller, Bob Marley, MCC, TLC and loads more greats entertaining me - now a bit of Gabrielle. Nice.
Boscastle, Bude and the Alpaca farm at Holsworthy today.
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Post by OneBeat on Sept 22, 2011 6:51:00 GMT
Coo-ee.
Quite mild this morning really, when I looked out the window first thing I thought it was going to be chilly, but it's not.
Not a great game last night, but a good win and it was nice to see Ben Reeves get a game and do ok.
I need tea now.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2011 7:02:48 GMT
It doesn't sound like I missed much last night. The Saints Player commentary was a bit dull so I switched to the Preston commentary and that was worse, although it did amuse me that they were desperately trying to retain listeners by talking up Preston's chances with ten minutes to go when it was obvious there was nothing doing.
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Post by backwatersaint on Sept 22, 2011 8:01:12 GMT
Morning all. Nothing interesting to report. Glad we won last night.
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Post by Batts on Sept 22, 2011 8:01:33 GMT
Morning all. Another win, another day. All getting rather boring this, isn't it?!
Nothing else to add.
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Post by Mandochris on Sept 22, 2011 8:18:20 GMT
Morning. Sunny day. Waiting for doc appointment.
Good to win but it makes it difficult to complain.
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Post by The Rover on Sept 22, 2011 8:33:10 GMT
Morning winners.
It's a bit grey here so I don't have much to add either.
I'm trying to think what I need to pack for China. I hope they have menus written in English.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2011 8:36:10 GMT
Morning winners. It's a bit grey here so I don't have much to add either. I'm trying to think what I need to pack for China. I hope they have menus written in English. G'day Winners West course today. Looks like it should stay dry. Rover, go to your local Chinese and remember the numbers from their menu before you go. Have a good day, y'all |
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Post by channonite on Sept 22, 2011 8:41:39 GMT
Morning.
Got all nostalgic reading spots plans for today. I love Boscastle. Walking out to the cliffs, sitting watching the waves break against the cliffs below. Even better at lunchtime with a decent pastie!
Off to work again today, but at least I have a corporate laptop to make occasional breaks for freedom on here...
Another comfortable win last night, but small crowd. We are almost at the stage where it is time to take the competition seriously.
Europe next year then?!
Right, tea to drink.
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Post by THE BEAST on Sept 22, 2011 8:43:36 GMT
morning all, I am unusually located in Eastleigh today, anybody have any good tips for getting your children to go to sleep (not you Yateley), some reason mine has decided to stop doing something she has successfully managed to do for 7 1/2 years, it's perplexing (and not a little tiring!)
Anyhow, I thought yesterday's game would be dull, however I'm glad we won, anybody who went notice any of the "b" team worth keeping an eye on?
today is Hot Water Music, ein anderen Danke für der Tonemeister
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Post by saintsfan73 on Sept 22, 2011 8:44:38 GMT
Morning winners. It's a bit grey here so I don't have much to add either. I'm trying to think what I need to pack for China. I hope they have menus written in English. Personally I would pack a knife and fork. |
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Post by Furry Frank The Combat Wombat on Sept 22, 2011 8:48:28 GMT
Morning winners. It's a bit grey here so I don't have much to add either. I'm trying to think what I need to pack for China. I hope they have menus written in English. Good morning winners, except Rover, who is clearly Michael Winner for going off to China, you git!  Hectic start to the day, got in late* to a bank-related crisis, so only just settling down. * I seem to be being stalked by an arsonist...on Tuesday, the A22 was shut because of a big fire by the road linky and this morning I got really stuck cos of a big fire by the A23 linky (Purley sits on the junction of the A22 and A23). WTF?!? Glad we ground out the win with the B-team last night, and equally glad to hear that Butters and Dixon aren't completely off the bus. Marmitey toast with my coffee, REM (of course). |
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Post by Batts on Sept 22, 2011 9:07:34 GMT
Morning winners. It's a bit grey here so I don't have much to add either. I'm trying to think what I need to pack for China. I hope they have menus written in English. Rover, in my experience it is better in China if the menu remains in Mandarin... I have in the past come across such delights as 'Cow intestine' and 'Sheep oesophagus'. At least in this country, restaurants like to shroud such tripe in fancy words. Not so in China. Better off just taking a guess from the local menu and just eating what you are given. I like to think of myself as well-travelled, fairly enlightened and certainly open-minded. But the whole eating thing in China is one of the most uncomfortable experiences I have ever had. I was once taken to dinner by a client and they took great delight in not allowing me to choose what the eat, but rather placing a series of the most vile dishes in front of me and not telling me what they were. That night I ate sheep bladder, cow intestine and various other vile offerings. Only at the end did they tell me what I had just eaten. On the same night, my clients taught me a phrase in Mandarin which they had my practising throughout the meal, and at the end they got me to use this phrase on the waitress. So I did so, and the waitress went all coy and embarrassed. Thinking I was saying to her 'thank you for a wonderful meal', it turns out I had actually told her 'I love you'. Please remember, this was a CLIENT (one of them being the CFO for Asia of the biggest Pharmaceutical in the World) that did all of this. Very odd lot, the Chinese. |
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Post by Furry Frank The Combat Wombat on Sept 22, 2011 9:25:18 GMT
Morning winners. It's a bit grey here so I don't have much to add either. I'm trying to think what I need to pack for China. I hope they have menus written in English. Rover, in my experience it is better in China if the menu remains in Mandarin... I have in the past come across such delights as 'Cow intestine' and 'Sheep oesophagus'. At least in this country, restaurants like to shroud such tripe in fancy words. Not so in China. Better off just taking a guess from the local menu and just eating what you are given. I like to think of myself as well-travelled, fairly enlightened and certainly open-minded. But the whole eating thing in China is one of the most uncomfortable experiences I have ever had. I was once taken to dinner by a client and they took great delight in not allowing me to choose what the eat, but rather placing a series of the most vile dishes in front of me and not telling me what they were. That night I ate sheep bladder, cow intestine and various other vile offerings. Only at the end did they tell me what I had just eaten. On the same night, my clients taught me a phrase in Mandarin which they had my practising throughout the meal, and at the end they got me to use this phrase on the waitress. So I did so, and the waitress went all coy and embarrassed. Thinking I was saying to her 'thank you for a wonderful meal', it turns out I had actually told her 'I love you'. Please remember, this was a CLIENT (one of them being the CFO for Asia of the biggest Pharmaceutical in the World) that did all of this. Very odd lot, the Chinese. I've only been to HK, where they're a bit more westernised, but it does seem common everywhere to force foreigners to eat horrible things, it's only in the UK where we're too polite to do it... my worst ever was sheep's eye...  I have noted that many of such things are on sale in Wing Yip, I'm yet to feel brave enough to sample the pig's uterus... |
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