tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post4869473024395359512..comments2023-10-12T15:59:35.120+01:00Comments on radiogandy: Soggy Saturday - Restful Daytracyjameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00914991294683176018noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-19039197212525923392008-08-10T20:47:00.000+01:002008-08-10T20:47:00.000+01:00I've just enlarged the picture of the Alvis an...I've just enlarged the picture of the Alvis and can clearly see it is not a Rolls. Thanks to Kevin and others for identification. Even though it's not a Roller I still want one!<BR/><BR/>I like the puffin picture; exhibitions were full of them years ago so give it a go, Helen. Enter it into the N&EMPF Exhibition this year; what have you got to lose?<BR/><BR/>I'm completely lost with the Serif, Firefox, IE7 comments; it's like a foreign language to me. <BR/><BR/>I've always understood <I>cack-handed</I> to describe my non-existent DIY skills not left-handedness. My Irish Uncle Joe, on seeing anyone use their left hand would ask <I>Are you clooty?</I> When I used to play cricket I bowled with my left arm and batted right handed. I throw with my left hand and write with my right hand. I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.<BR/><BR/>Which reminds me of the other old one <I>I used to be a kelptomaniac but now I'm taking something for it.</I><BR/><BR/>Hopefully a late equaliser will boost the confidence at Field Mill; makes a change from conceding them as seemed to happen last season. First silverware of the season to ManU with an understrength side. Looks like the same old, same old in the Premiership this season.<BR/><BR/>The Olympics are failing to ignite me as well. I did hear a radio interview with 'our' gold medal winner in which she said the team tactics to enable her to win were planned far in advance, with discussions starting in 2007 (May, I think). Not quite fitting with the heroic story the meedja like to put across.<BR/><BR/>RobAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-79854539267451017022008-08-10T19:29:00.000+01:002008-08-10T19:29:00.000+01:00From what I can see the alvis hood ornament unlike...From what I can see the alvis hood ornament unlike the rolls royse changed alot, Thay used a Hare,eagle(early and late)and Firefly. Some have them and some dont and even the same model can differ so I have to asume that it was possibly an optional extra.<BR/><BR/>The one on the car is an an early eagle and rare, it certenly looks like a flying lady, if you notice under the ornament it has the red triangle of alvis, Alvis purchased vickers but have sinsed droped the alvis from the name as it was known as alvis vickers. <BR/><BR/>kevin<BR/><BR/>Heres a close up picture of the eagle <BR/><BR/>http://flickr.com/photos/22009880@N06/2683933638/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-66784931353471998252008-08-10T14:38:00.000+01:002008-08-10T14:38:00.000+01:00Jill:I too eat much less meat then in times gone b...Jill:<BR/>I too eat much less meat then in times gone by; largely because Sandra has been a fish-eating vegetarian for some 16 years (since watching a TV documentary about intensive rearing and abattoir methods).<BR/><BR/>The only 'other name for goldfinch' I can find is the Latin ‘carduelis’<BR/><BR/>In contrast, I ONLY have a Sunday paper (apart from local papers) and struggle to read it before the next Sunday.<BR/><BR/>Good to have someone who thinks the same ‘cack-handed’ way as myself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-87362433573820097332008-08-10T11:27:00.000+01:002008-08-10T11:27:00.000+01:00Have just watched GB win their first gold medal - ...Have just watched GB win their first gold medal - a Welsh lady who cycled 75 miles through mountains in what looked like a monsoon. I was intrigued to see that the blond studio presenter (the one who isn't Sue Barker) had a big mauve plastic bucket next to her to catch the drips that were coming through the studio roof!<BR/><BR/>I have never liked barbecues, only one we used to like was a friend who had a gas-fired barbecue which seemed to cook things properly - but no barbecue smell/flavour, so it might as well have been cooked indoors.....<BR/><BR/>At the wedding I got the chap doing the barbecuing (am not calling him a chef) to cut one of the thick sausages in half lengthways, then cook it on both sides on the slightly cooler bit of the grill thing. When I was satisfied it was cooked through and not burnt, R and I shared it with a roll. That was all we ate, and a pudding.<BR/><BR/>Like Bungus, nearly all the meat we eat is British and organic. But we don't eat nearly as much meat as we used to.<BR/><BR/>One of the clues in yesterday's Quick Crossword was 'another name for goldfinch'. I don't know of one, and couldn't find it anywhere. I hope the answer is in Monday's DTel, we don't have a Sunday paper.<BR/><BR/>Liked the puffin and sand-eels picture - years ago when my children were in the Puffin Book Club I knitted them sweaters with puffins on, a real labour of love!<BR/><BR/>I know the expression cack-handed but use it for general awkwardness/clumsiness, not left-handedness. Our oldest son is left-handed in everything, as are his three children, no-one else in family is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-63672239331653792002008-08-10T11:09:00.000+01:002008-08-10T11:09:00.000+01:00I see Kevin beat me to it!I see Kevin beat me to it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-21098104921076233572008-08-10T11:08:00.000+01:002008-08-10T11:08:00.000+01:00Anonymousrob;I felt bad about the Stags at half ti...Anonymousrob;<BR/><BR/>I felt bad about the Stags at half time but they managed a useful draw in the end which must give them some encouragement.<BR/><BR/>Pleased to discover that you continue to enjoy your work (could there be a hint of Scunthorpe Utd there?).<BR/>And thanks for being so understanding about the invitation. I do like to reply formally if at all possible.<BR/><BR/>I don’t recall any ‘keggy-handers’ being forced to write ‘normally’ in my time, although a generation earlier …<BR/><BR/>Jill:<BR/>Like your RC wedding, the one I went to, about 30 years ago was also followed by a two hour wait before eating (at Barney’s near Walesby, which later went down market to become the predecessor of the Ma Hubbard chain). In our case the delay was because everyone present had to be photographed. But, when we eventually ate, the food was good and plentiful – and hot. I recall that every table, for four or six, got a whole large cauliflower with cheese sauce, for instance.<BR/>Although the bride and groom now live in Mapperley, and we are out of touch apart from Xmas cards, we were invited to their Silver Wedding party and to Rod’s 50th Birthday Bash (this year, so I was unable to attend).<BR/>I think RG is right about the advisability of precooking meats for a barbecue especially when it is for large numbers who all want to eat at once (I will here state that barbeque is a modern abomination of a spelling, almost certainly imported from across the Atlantic).<BR/>I forgot to comment on the mass-produced chicken issue yesterday. I have been doing almost everything possible to avoid eating chucky meat for years now, unless known to be free-range. I also try pretty hard to only buy British beef and pork meat and products.<BR/><BR/>Saturday blog:<BR/>You have starlings, we don’t (although next door, with a large stretch of open lawn, do). But we have collared doves and wood pigeons which require similar precautions to allow the poor little sparrows and blackbirds to feed. I presume your cage, like mine, is homemade.<BR/>And the picture of the extremely attractive sea parrot lends irony to the comment about starlings being greedy.<BR/><BR/>Anonymous Kevin:<BR/>Thanks for the classic car identification.<BR/>I agree with Rob that the radiator mascot of the classic car looks like the Spirit of Ecstasy but haven’t all Rolls had the distinctive angular top above the radiator grill? I think it could be a Silver Eagle which was the name given to an Alvis marque. Perhaps Kevin will clarify?<BR/><BR/>Kitsch, you say? <BR/>I haven’t watched much of the Olympics so far but, from what I did see, I’d say the opening ceremony was the most impressive ever. <BR/>The Chinese would, of course, be expected to be good at fireworks and the ‘birdsnest’ and some of the other buildings are stunning. Pity about the smog.<BR/><BR/>I know the Turner ‘orange dot’ story but I thought the picture so un-Turner like that you appeared to be stretching things a bit. But it makes for comment, hey?<BR/><BR/>I sympathise with your plight over transferring files and programmes but I would say that Serif and Gizoo are bit like the Netto of the computer world; not the best but very often good value. And, if you complain, I’d be surprised if they don’t offer a refund. <BR/><BR/>Firefox has crept back under the wire, but I never deliberately use it. I have no idea what IE7 is, so I won’t bother.<BR/><BR/>Pleased you have cleared up Manx Pete’s Tangle of the Isles.<BR/><BR/>If I hadn’t read about it before I would have expected Litheram’s dog, from the sound of the name, to be something out of the Kama Sutra.<BR/><BR/>To me, in Mansfield, 'cack-handed' always meant generally clumsy and inept (although I don’t doubt the derivation). ‘Keggy-handed’ meant left-handed. <BR/>I had a friend, a good sportsman who, on NS, became a RAF PE Instructor and then a PE Teacher, who was a wholely a right-footed centre-forward; batted left handed at cricket and bowled right-handed; played golf left-handed and tennis right-handed; etc…<BR/>I am familiar with ‘gawping’ and recall the act of creeping through the bushes to watch couples making love ‘al fresco’ (something in which I never indulged - the watching, that is) being known as ‘piking’.<BR/>One of my father’s favourite words (possibly from Ruddington via Hucknall) was “clarty”; used to describe something like mutton fat which sticks to the roof of the mouth. <BR/>One Mansfield saying which I have never ‘fathomed’ is <BR/>“In ‘is eye’oles”, <BR/>indicating that someone is highly delighted. I have found no one who has been able to explain this (inc google).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-53592731349074017922008-08-10T11:00:00.000+01:002008-08-10T11:00:00.000+01:00Just to add A little more information alvis wemt o...Just to add A little more information alvis wemt on to make tanks and still do and is coventry based i believe.<BR/>The hood ornament is a Silver Eagle mascot altho the Hare mascot was more popular http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Alvis_TA14_Tickford_DHC_front.jpg<BR/><BR/>KevinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-84409231266290706042008-08-09T22:22:00.000+01:002008-08-09T22:22:00.000+01:00Took Me awhile to track this down as i was rather ...Took Me awhile to track this down as i was rather intregued what type of car this was,Anyway the emblem narrowed it down for me and I can confirm its an alvis. I am pretty sure its a Alvis TA14 Drophead Coupe. <BR/><BR/>http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C44882<BR/><BR/>KevinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com