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Curiosity killed ...
Ship's Mug
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
I've never been to an IKEA ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
You do realise I regard comments like this as a challenge?
Administrator at w*rk has been off for over a week now, so currently I'm covering her job and mine. And I've already booked myself get out of jail* tickets in the evenings all this week and all next week.
* I really don't enjoy the Central Line in all its glory at the rush hour, so rather than the pleasures of TfL rail, packed, standing only, followed the Central Line, packed, standing nose to armpit for half an hour, platforms six deep so can't get on the first three trains past, I tend to book something in London, so I just travel in and come back after the rush hours. Or stay at work until the worst of it has past. The Central Line has had a lot of delays recently, which adds to the crowding.
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Gee D
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
There was cheese on one of the pages. Only very recently has cheese been available here from non pasteurised milk and even then that is Australian made from just a couple of cheese makers.
You are right Piglet about nasties getting in. One advantage of being an island miles from anywhere. Did you know we have interstate patrols for food too? Inspectors go through trains approaching state borders and confiscate such food as honey and fruit. So there is a scramble to eat before border.
Not just state boundaries, but intrastate as well. The Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area is protected by a barrier between (from memory) Wagga and Leeton, and similar barriers on other roads in.
The international barriers are essential. Animal diseases rampant in Europe are unknown here, mad cow disease being just one. Plant life has been badly affected by an azalea lover smuggling in from the US a cutting of a favourite flower. As a result, petal blight in azaleas has now spread across at least the eastern states. Quarantine restrictions are enforced, apparently much to the dislike of a US film star, required to remove his dogs brought in without undergoing the necessary period in isolation.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
It is generally accepted that the finest preserved duck products in the whole of foie gras land, and thus the world, are those purveyed by Rayssaguel. (Page is in French but I promise the hosts it isn’t dodgy. Well, except for one’s cholesterol.) Personally I’m not so much hankering after the confit as the magret stuffed with foie gras.
I quite fancy trying the duck sausages - that would be interesting.
Piglet - the Café Rouge offers are sometimes repeated from week to week so worth keeping an eye on. The confit of duck is nice but (in Oxford, anyway) you need to go a couple of doors down the street to Pierre Victoire for a really good one.
There should be more branches of Pierre Victoire around. I've never had a disappointing meal there, and the goulash I had in one of the London branches a few autumns ago can only be described as one of the best meals I've ever had.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Ariel:
... There should be more branches of Pierre Victoire ...
Yea and amen!!! ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
We heard that the chain had gone bust (a long time ago, before we left Belfast) although I believe there's still a branch in Edinburgh (where they originated).
There were two branches in Belfast, and when they closed down, the one up near the university re-opened as a management buy-out under the name Mange Tous. Their principles were the same as PV's - a short fixed-price menu (three or four choices of starter, main course and pudding or cheese) of good, honest French-bistro-style food at delightfully affordable prices - and you could have an excellent three-course lunch for two with a bottle of wine* for about £25. Like you, we never had a duff one.
* We used to order a lovely South African red called Cape Bay Pinotage, and I think we actually drank them dry of it ... ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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...in just one evening?
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LeRoc
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
I've never been to an IKEA
You do realise I regard comments like this as a challenge?
You're going to abduct me into an IKEA? ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Curiosity killed ...
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Well, there is an IKEA near the Neasden Hindu Temple, which I still haven't visited. (Or in Tottenham, Lakeside or Croydon, none of which appeal much, or MK)
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I made the foolish rookie error of going to the Croydon IKEA in half term with a friend who had just moved house.
We made it out in one piece, with everything we'd gone for (and a few things we hadn't) but only just.
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I have an IKEA very close to me. An evening weekday trip can, if I know what I want, easily be completed in 30 minutes, plus travel time. Going at the weekend however triggers this sort of feeling....
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
...in just one evening?
No - we had to work at it for ages.
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Well, by Piglet standards, that was quite a busy day.
W*rk in the morning, then to the Cathedral for the funeral of the lady who used to come to D's recitals, where I sang the Bach/Gounod Ave Maria as the woman who usually does that sort of thing couldn't get off work. It was a bit ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) as I only saw it for the first time on Tuesday, but D. was well pleased, and the Curate and the server both said they thought it sounded fine.
Then, it being Thursday, my usual stint in the Cathedral office producing Sunday's bulletin, and then D. and I went to Pi for a pizza (v. good).
After a spot of dozing off on the sofa with Quite Large Bear, I made a potato salad for the pot-luck at the Cathedral tomorrow evening. It's billed as an "appreciation" for everyone who helped with the Crypt Tea Room in the summer, but we're expected to bring food ...
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Fabulous evening yesterday at a local music venue, to see our favourite sax player Snake Davis doing Great Sax Solos (Baker Street, Going Home, Million Love Songs - you get the picture). His band were amazing and he is so talented, but there were only about 40 of us there. Where were you all? ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) It was one of those nights that sends you rushing out in the morning to buy a saxophone ...
Seriously, I think my friend S would have run away to join the band if I hadn't stepped on her foot ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif) She says that in some churches they have banned the sax from worship bands as being too sexy - with some of those solos you could believe it ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
Mrs. S, still humming Baker Street ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S:
Seriously, I think my friend S would have run away to join the band if I hadn't stepped on her foot She says that in some churches they have banned the sax from worship bands as being too sexy - with some of those solos you could believe it
Mrs. S, still humming Baker Street
I'm sure they will deny it, but these are probbly flashbacks to the "Red Shoe Diaries" soft-porn series on Channel 4. This was laden wih elevator-jazz quality saxophone soloes. Every time they hear a sax now it brings back a memory, quite possibly of their unreconstructed, pre-Christian past.
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Gee D
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Who was it said that the saxophone was beer in music?
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LeRoc
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I have to say that a saxophone doesn't necessarily sound good in a cathedral. I like it more in an old jazz café with slightly moulded wood.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Gee D:
Who was it said that the saxophone was beer in music?
It was invented by a Belgian, and they do beer rather well. Not so sure about Belgian music though.
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LeRoc
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Sioni Sais: Not so sure about Belgian music though.
Erm, Jacques Brel? Or for the more modern minded, dEUS (one of my favourite groups).
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
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Sioni Sais: Not so sure about Belgian music though.
Erm, Jacques Brel? Or for the more modern minded, dEUS (one of my favourite groups).
I'll see your Jacques Brel and raise him one Plastic Bertrand.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
... Not so sure about Belgian music though.
There's always Tylman Susato, the bloke who wrote this, who lived in Antwerp.
But like most of you, I've now got Baker Street as an earworm, and a very nice earworm it is too.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Originally posted by Piglet:
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
... Not so sure about Belgian music though.
There's always Tylman Susato, the bloke who wrote this, who lived in Antwerp.
But like most of you, I've now got Baker Street as an earworm, and a very nice earworm it is too.
ROFL!
(you're right, it is a terrific earworm)
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Boogie
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My friend plays in a fabulous saxophone quartet. I'm going to have them play at my 60th birthday bash
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Not so sure about Belgian music though.
Django Reinhardt was born in Belgium if that counts?
Back from my Ikea trip. Even if the furniture or the experience isn't your bag, the café food is reliably tasty.
I now have a fridge full of dill pickled herring, elk salami and cheese. My teacher friend found soft toys of the Big Bad Wolf (with additional tiny Granny) and 3 Little Pigs. Her class is doing Red Riding Hood from the Wolf's point of view so it was a really lucky find. A successful evening's shopping.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
I now have a fridge full of dill pickled herring, elk salami and cheese.
Wow - no idea they did food. I just checked out their website and if ever I'm near one will definitely go and have a look. At present, it'd look like a hike to either Reading or Coventry, though.
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Originally posted by Ariel:
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
I now have a fridge full of dill pickled herring, elk salami and cheese.
Wow - no idea they did food. I just checked out their website and if ever I'm near one will definitely go and have a look. At present, it'd look like a hike to either Reading or Coventry, though.
I've only been in the one near (nearest)to me, but that one has a separate food shop just after the tills. It's mostly deli food, but also aquavit. All the important stuff ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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It's on a day like this I feel good about and optimistic for Newport. I've just spent a few hours at the Newport Food Festival. In addition to time I naturally spent some money and I now have some local cheese and beer plus a small pot of truly outstanding truffle pesto.
With a new shopping and entertainment centre in the middle of town, the new university building there and a local brewery opening a pub in direct competition to Wetherspoons, it's almost enough to give one hope for the place!
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LeRoc is not alone, I have never been to Ikea either, although I have driven past the Neasden one many times on the North Circular. I had always supposed it was just a furniture shop, but recently a colleague's parents were visiting from abroad, and he told me one of the things they wanted to do while in London was go to Ikea.
I would be interested in seeing an elk prior to any encounter with a mincer, but afterwards not so much.
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Elks are big buggers and you wouldn't care to meet one on the road. The meat is gamey but tasty.
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Piglet
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SS, that food festival looks yummy! There are a couple of culinary shows here - the provincial liquor corporation has a wine show this weekend, but tickets are rather expensive - we went about 10 years ago and they were $30 per head then. Also, if you can't get there before the Saturday afternoon, a lot of the interesting stuff has already gone.
I'm just back from the annual Blessing of the Animals service (lots of noise, lots of cute wee (and not-so-wee) dogs, a few cats and a bearded dragon called George). Now messing about on here while the bread-machine does its magic on a batch of French sticks.
eta: Uncle Pete's right - elks and moose are much better in casseroles than on the bonnet of your car.
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Ariel
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I really can't remember whether I've had an elk steak or not (or where I could possibly have had this outside Scandinavia). I have the impression it's quite like venison and there's some kind of association with a sour cream sauce, but it may just be that I read about it somewhere and the memory has stuck.
Otherwise, a beautiful day, again with no sign of this thick fog that's supposed to be blanketing the country. Banbury has its annual Canal Day today so I may go and look at that later - lots of narrowboats and barges all decorated, the mayor and council arriving by water, markets, music, food and events. Likely to be packed out, though (trans.= towpaths jammed solid with people, dogs and children with balloons if last year is anything to go by).
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Enjoy the Canal day Ariel. My father used to paint roses and castles for a living and I've been to more of those sort of days than I care to remember. My dad being a socialable chap always invited people on board where my mum had to provide refreshments for large crowds at the drop of a hat.
Yesterday my husband and I spent three hours in town looking at baskets for our shower (we're having our bathroom re-done). Prices ranegd from £10.00 to £150.00. I'm not sure who'd spent that on a bit of wire. We went for a mid-priced one in the end. We also went to our circle dancing class where I met a lady with a hearing dog. Her hearing loss wasn't as severe as mine, but as she lives on her own, I can see how useful a dog would be. My husband pointed out he is my human version, I'd certainly be lost without him to point out when I've misheard or not heard at all.
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The Canal Day was more interesting than I thought it was going to be. The theme this year was rainbow colours so there were flags, balloons, umbrellas, even the trees were decorated with strings of rainbow-coloured flowers. There were crafts and food markets and lots of stalls. I've seen a woman playing the saw as if it was a musical instrument (it sounds quite eerie - thin, wailing and high-pitched), and the town mayor was invited to have a go himself!
I also actually got to go inside a narrowboat for the first time - this is something I've wanted to do ever since I saw these boats. Very, er, compact but what fun it could be. I'm really tempted to think about a holiday on one, apparently you can do these if you're on your own as there are stretches of water that don't involve locks. I might think about that next year.
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LeRoc
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We had a Harvest Lunch at church. It was rather nice.
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I'm really tempted to think about a holiday on one, apparently you can do these if you're on your own as there are stretches of water that don't involve locks. I might think about that next year.
We used to have a 56' narrowboat called 'Jamm Butty'. It spent most of its time in black paint with 'Black Pig' painted on the side. We had it coach painted beautifully a few months before we sold it.
We used to pack up two toddlers, the dog and the cat and spend our weekend on it. Great fun!
They are very expensive indeed to hire - in fact, that's why we bought one. Mr Boogs bought a shell and kitted it out himself
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Ariel
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Yes, having just looked further into it I see the cheapest is about £700 for three nights (so that's that out of the window), but I suppose that goes with, essentially, renting a fantasy.
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LeRoc
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I see a lot of narrowboats here, they are beautiful.
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Yes, having just looked further into it I see the cheapest is about £700 for three nights (so that's that out of the window), but I suppose that goes with, essentially, renting a fantasy.
They are very expensive to keep. Moorings, licences, having their bottoms done every couple of years in dry dock etc.
But they do appreciate in value if you look after them well. We paid off the mortgage when we sold ours.
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But a narrow boat sleeps quite a few people, so if you fill it, the price per person per night is not so bad in comparison with other things. The cost is why it's always been a dream for me too. I would love to take a narrowboat holiday.
(There's always booking a group from the Ship to fill one, just to try it out?)
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Ariel
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Depends on the size of the boat: the one I was on had room (just) for a double bed, which could also have been two singles, and that was it. I don't know where a family could have stowed the kids.
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Ariel: Depends on the size of the boat: the one I was on had room (just) for a double bed, which could also have been two singles, and that was it. I don't know where a family could have stowed the kids.
Under the bed, on the roof, in a towed rubber boat ... where's your imagination?
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My dad had a 70ft boat called Ellington. It was painted black, brown and beige to celebrate his other great love, jazz.
He and my mum spent the summer months on it goiing from the North-West to London, selling my dad's stuff on the way. Having spent every holiday as a child on hired boats, I'm afraid it's not really my thing. My son loves them though, and spending time on my dad's boat was one of his happiest childhood memories. I get really pissed off that dad died when my son was 10. I can see the two of them spending the summers on the boat and getting up to no good.
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I don't think I'd be much good at narrow-boats - I always found caravans a bit claustrophobic, and I'm too fond of my creature comforts.
In other news, D. booked our flights back to Blighty the other day - we're crossing the Pond overnight on Sunday 1st November and we'll be over for nearly three weeks.
Piglet, getting excited at the prospect of meeting her new (and seriously cute) great-nephew
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We spent a very pleasant weekend in foie gras land.
It turns out that the Argentine restaurant has closed ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif) so cruelty to ducks ended up back on the menu after all. Mmmmmmm foie gras
Apart from that we checked that everything is ok with the house and pootered. The markets in small French towns are amazing. The farmers turn up directly with their produce and it’s about half the price of what you pay in Paris.
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Had a nice long weekend getting a bit of a tan in late September/early October.
Was a bit surprised when I was walking to suddenly find a reasonably large cross planted on a hilltop in Kent. Turns out I'd stumbled across a christian retreat centre that was sat on the North Downs Way. So far, I've done about 60 miles of the route.
Other thing I'm mulling over is that someone on Twitter royally p***ed me off a few weeks ago, so I blocked them. They've now twigged and asked why (having contacted me via another medium). How long do I let them stew?
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Hard to tell, Sipech - perhaps it should be in proportion to your p*ssed-offness. I don't do Twitter - I didn't realise that a tweeter would be aware that one of their tweetees had blocked them.
I've only once un-friended (and blocked) someone from Facebook. It was someone I don't know IRL who was being obnoxiously offensive about the choir* of which another FB friend (who I do know IRL) is the choirmaster. I didn't fancy the possibility that the RL friend might see this bloke's vitriol, especially if it had "friends with Piglet" written beside it.
* which happens to be one of the best choirs on the planet
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Fun morning with no trains and a rail replacement coach blasting out Radio One. I escaped from this into a rail replacement taxi blasting out Radio Jack instead. By the time we got to our destination an hour later my ears were aching and the fare meter had clocked up something like £120, luckily the railway company were footing the bill.
Still, at least it wasn't as bad as the time I was squashed into a rail replacement taxi with five other people and a taxi driver who admitted to having been up all night, yawned hugely at intervals while telling us he felt shattered and played Punjabi rock music loudly for the entire journey to keep himself awake.
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Originally posted by Sipech:
Other thing I'm mulling over is that someone on Twitter royally p***ed me off a few weeks ago, so I blocked them. They've now twigged and asked why (having contacted me via another medium). How long do I let them stew?
The short answer is, until you want them back in your life.
The long answer is, do you want them back in your life? Is further dialogue likely to lead to reconciliation and an apology, or is it more likely just to give the other party a chance to indignantly justify themselves?
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We went on several narrow oat holidays, organised by a good friend from uni. P would make bread on board, and persuade the female crew (latterly, we were taking 2 boat fills) that it was a bit of a treat to knead the dough - we weren't so sure. We tended to start early, breakfast was on the move, so we'd be travelling down the cut trailing the smell of frying bacon. We would've moor up till dusk, which is how we managed '2 week" cruises in a week, and still had time for some sightseeing.
One of the cruises WA on the Llangollen, including the Pontcysillte aqueduct. P's wife is a botanist, and so was fascinated by some of he ferns growing on the aqueduct columns - my friend T and I kept well inside!
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Originally posted by Sipech:
Other thing I'm mulling over is that someone on Twitter royally p***ed me off a few weeks ago, so I blocked them. They've now twigged and asked why (having contacted me via another medium). How long do I let them stew?
The short answer is, until you want them back in your life.
The long answer is, do you want them back in your life? Is further dialogue likely to lead to reconciliation and an apology, or is it more likely just to give the other party a chance to indignantly justify themselves?
If they don't know you have read the message, let 'em stew.
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We went on a couple of narrow boat holidays when I was a child, they were quite fun and I only fell in the canal once. My sister spent a couple of summers when she was at uni working on a hotel narrowboat - that might be an option if you're on your own.
I've de friended someone on FB and she didn't notice for several months - eventually I added her back but since we live on different continents these days I'm not sure why I bothered.
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