Vince1159 Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 19 minutes ago, LaurieS said: Fun apart Vince I love Guernsey We'll have to split it then 'cause i love Jersey... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 19 minutes ago, Vince1159 said: You've been watching Emmerfail again ain'cha... Edit: Sorry Wez,meant to quote Laurie... Most definitely not Vince, never watch ITV, can't speak for Laurie though. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaurieS Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 1 hour ago, Wez said: Getting on the ferry on the start of my holibob, didn't even have to queue to get on either - result! Obviously going to Guernsey Wez ! 😁 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince1159 Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 (edited) 5 minutes ago, LaurieS said: Obviously going to Guernsey Wez ! 😁 For a minuite i thought Condor had been given a new name,'holibob's got a certain ring to it... Edited June 8, 2018 by Vince1159 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaurieS Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 (edited) 13 hours ago, Vince1159 said: For a minuite i thought Condor had been given a new name,'holibob's got a certain ring to it... So funny Vince. In fits here. Even Hobnob. Edited June 9, 2018 by LaurieS 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 19 hours ago, LaurieS said: Obviously going to Guernsey Wez ! 😁 No St Malo. Close though. 18 hours ago, Vince1159 said: holibob's got a certain ring to it... Yes it does doesn't it, the kids started referring to it like that many years ago, like a lot of family things it stuck! I've heard it used more widely since so we can't claim credit for it. Laurie and Vince, had I not had my head down snoozing I would have given you a wave as I passed by! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaurieS Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 1 hour ago, Wez said: No St Malo. Close though. Yes it does doesn't it, the kids started referring to it like that many years ago, like a lot of family things it stuck! I've heard it used more widely since so we can't claim credit for it. Laurie and Vince, had I not had my head down snoozing I would have given you a wave as I passed by! Enjoy your frog legs and snails while there Wez. Do some nice langoustine. Superb Muscadet as they keep all the good bottles themselves in France. 20 miles to the east of St Malo is the town of Dinan. If you get a chance visit. Great old places with thin streets. Also down the hill is Port de Dinan on the canal. Great atmosphere with little shops restaurants. The hill with cobbles back up to the town is crowded (no cars) with restaurants pizza artisan places fantastic area. When boating which used to spend holidays there. People are so friendly. Ah yes ! Thoughts of yesterday when out 4 kids were tiddlers. My eldest son when in France, about 12, used to snack on snails. Now prepares them himself (but not from the garden). Have a great trip Wes. Laurie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 (edited) Laurie, I know Dinan, we stayed there for a couple of nights a couple of years back, we went to the market and bought some great patisserie, lovely pork loin chops for dinner and a poulet roti with some baguette for lunch - bliss! As for Muscadet, it's my intention to liberate the country of as much wine as I can reasonably stash in my self propelled home on wheels without breaking any laws. The sainted and beloved Mrs Wez is partial to a drop of Muscadet so that will be making its way into the stash. One thing we've only discovered this trip is rillettes de poulet roti, basically take a roasted chicken and reduce it into a small pot as a form of coarse paté. Lovely and no doubt very fattening when thickly smeared onto baguette but gorgeous nonetheless! Some of it will definitely be making its way back across the Channel! This stuff makes me happy! Edited June 9, 2018 by Wez 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaurieS Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 1 hour ago, Wez said: Laurie, I know Dinan, we stayed there for a couple of nights a couple of years back, we went to the market and bought some great patisserie, lovely pork loin chops for dinner and a poulet roti with some baguette for lunch - bliss! As for Muscadet, it's my intention to liberate the country of as much wine as I can reasonably stash in my self propelled home on wheels without breaking any laws. The sainted and beloved Mrs Wez is partial to a drop of Muscadet so that will be making its way into the stash. One thing we've only discovered this trip is rillettes de poulet roti, basically take a roasted chicken and reduce it into a small pot as a form of coarse paté. Lovely and no doubt very fattening when thickly smeared onto baguette but gorgeous nonetheless! Some of it will definitely be making its way back across the Channel! This stuff makes me happy! Just heaven Wez. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince1159 Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 On 6/8/2018 at 9:45 PM, LaurieS said: Even Hobnob. That sounds like a good name for the Liability 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted June 16, 2018 Share Posted June 16, 2018 I got a video message from my two year old granddaughter today. She says 'See pin rrrrrrrrrr' complete with hand movements. It transpires she was at an airshow in Dunajska Streda with her dad today and was describing a Yak 18 flypast. Loved her engine noise. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaurieS Posted June 16, 2018 Share Posted June 16, 2018 (edited) Loved an early, on Friday evening, dinner put on for me as father (Father's day) of my 2 daughters. Senior Daughter, Karen, produced curries a chicken, lamb Rogan Josh and Dal with all the bits and pieces. Wrecked my diet but I forgive them. Then both daughters Karen & Sarah produced a hamper of goodies. Olives, preserved artichoke, gherkins, bottle cider, special salad dressing, biscuits etc etc. A hamper for the pampered. Just loved it as they had taken time for their Dad. Junior son could not be there as he lives with his wife in London. Senior son, unfortunately, has a phobia about leaving his house. But I know they will ring tomorrow and we will have a good laugh as they take the mick. Just family you cannot beat it. Hard bringing up a family of four but the benefits outway the outlay a million times. I love them more than I can possibly express. Laurie Edited June 16, 2018 by LaurieS 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatfingers Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 A day at the seaside! Regards. Steve 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaurieS Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 (edited) 50 minutes ago, fatfingers said: A day at the seaside! Regards. Steve My luck is in then as I live by the sea Steve. Not all good fortune when wind hits us from a 3000 mile fetch though. But no wind and I cycle along the promenade and back over an hour. Every day is different as Jersey has one of the highest and lowest tide levels. The ozone smell is just another part of that pleasure. A verse from Seaside Golf Ah! Seaweed smells from sandy caves And thyme and mist in whiffs, In-coming tide, Atlantic waves Slapping the sunny cliffs, Lark song and sea sounds in the air And splendour, splendour everywhere. - John Betjeman Edited June 18, 2018 by LaurieS 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince1159 Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 (edited) You're spot on there Laurie,nothing like the smell of salt water/seaweed apart maybe the smell you get that tells you there's a thunderstorm on the way (aviation fuel as well but that's nothing to do with nature)..... Edited June 18, 2018 by Vince1159 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 I'll see your seaweed (often) and raise you burnt kerosene and hamburgers. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 5 hours ago, Vince1159 said: (aviation fuel as well In the the early eighties after a nasty accident,I spent a fair amount of time in a rehabilitation centre in Harrogate. After a month I was fairly mobile so I used to disappear after lunch. Other residents noticed this and asked. where I went and I told them that I had an audio-aromatherapy session every afternoon. RAF Leeming..You can't beat the sound and smell of a Tornado F3 on full burner . Soon there was a full car every day. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhoenixII Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 Been there, done that and jumped like hell (not advisable when driving!) when a pair went over my head, glad they'd 'cleaned up' otherwise it would have been a groove in the roof! Great wasn't it! Sadly only Tonka's coming in or out now are on flatbed trailers..........RTP Glad you didn't join the 'peacenik' on her lonely vigil at RAF Menwith Hill 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 The news that my daughter got a 2.1 for her degree. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullbasket Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 Next Saturday, sitting in a Costa Coffee shop, somewhere in deepest darkest Essex, waiting for my 6 year old Grandson to come walking in. He doesn't know that Granddad will be sitting there at one of the tables. The look on his face will be priceless. John. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatfingers Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 A bloody good curry! Regsrds Steve 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaurieS Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 1 minute ago, fatfingers said: A bloody good curry! Regsrds Steve Personally, I liked mine cooked. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RACETRACK Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 I realise i've reached middle age I now enjoy a pipe full of condor...... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 59 minutes ago, RACETRACK said: I realise i've reached middle age I now enjoy a pipe full of condor...... You do realise they are a threatened species, and you must have a b......... big pipe! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaurieS Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 39 minutes ago, RACETRACK said: I realise i've reached middle age I now enjoy a pipe full of condor...... I can smell it. Not that I am a smoker. My Grandad, who is a Shetlander (now with the great I am in the sky) used to smoke Condor the hard stuff. It came in a block and he would sit there carving it into his palm. He would then rub it between his palms before stuffing it into his pipe. I hate cigarette smoke but that Condor from his pipe permeated the whole of my Grand parent's house and I loved it. He was an engineer in Hull. His work was on the large fishing boats around at that time just after WW11. The information I gleaned from the family conversation when I was a youngster found that he also chewed the stuff. When in the ship's bottom. Grandma, actually Gran, would not have allowed it in the house. Another beauty. When he died Gran and mum had a clear out of his clothes. When they got to his overcoat they searched the pockets. By chance they noticed a bulge in the lining. The old devil had had inbuilt a secret pocket in the lining. In there Gran found a pile of pound notes. Obviously, Gran was a high spender in my Grandad's view and he had taken a defensive attitude. Just love it.. Laurie 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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