tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post8326743583020873492..comments2023-10-12T15:59:35.120+01:00Comments on radiogandy: Still stormy - quiet day - Joanna Lumleytracyjameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00914991294683176018noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-30641471632975710042008-09-11T00:29:00.000+01:002008-09-11T00:29:00.000+01:00Joanna Lumley not wearing make-up? Of course she ...Joanna Lumley not wearing make-up? Of course she was, but it was very skilfully applied...it takes a lot of time,make-up and skill to look as un-made up as that.....But I grant you, no wrinkles! We went to the place Longbearyarn (where she landed on a plane) but in the summer - it was cold then, but no snow. Did I not send you a photo of a road sign, saying in ?Norwegian, 'beware of polar bears' which was the nearest we got to seeing one. I thought the lights looked fantastic, three times we have been in areas where they can be seen, but we've never been there at the right time, curse it.<BR/><BR/>Lavateria, came in a packed of Cottage Garden Mix - I got French Marigolds, Pot Marigolds, cosmos, clarkia, straggly Virgnia Stock and two cornflowers - and of course, these two Lavateria. I thought both colours were coming off one stem, but no, they are separate.<BR/><BR/>Great deckchair picture. And the plane - somehow it didn;t look real though. Well, of course, it wasn't.<BR/><BR/>I think most people are judgemental, subconsciously possibly, you see someone who reminds you of someone else, and you remember how that person behaved and you mentally put this new person in the same category as the other one. But my opinions are not set in stone, I am always happy to be proved wrong!<BR/><BR/>Hope the Dr's appointment goes well, and you can go off WOWing with the rest of them.<BR/><BR/>I have been baby-sitting for Poppy (nearly 12) Rudi (6 next week)and Roxy (3 and a half) from 4.00 till nearly midnight, this involved supper, bath and bed. Poppy was invaluable, she cooked a very acceptable meal of pasta with a choice of bolognese sauce or cheese sauce (tin and packet) servied with fresh grated cheese, followed by stewed apples and blackberries and ice-cream she had done. She bathed Rudi and Roxy (I had taken bubblebath to make life easier...) while I washed up, then she put them in bed (top bunks) while I read stories, and then both went to sleep...... When I finally came to go home, car wouldn't start. Tried everything I could think of, rang R who was in bath - he said to ring RAC which I did - about an hour they said. R came over about 20 mins. later, and the b-----car started straight away.....Now I'm going to go and have a bath.......Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-34390795356536858232008-09-10T15:24:00.000+01:002008-09-10T15:24:00.000+01:00No wires or sticks on this one, its a radio contro...No wires or sticks on this one, its a radio control semi scale jet model about 5 ft. wingspan, powered by an axial flow gas turbine, roughly the size of a large cocoa tin,running at approx 190,000 rpm yes 190,000 trust about 20lbs speed up to 200 m.p.h total cost £3,000+ picture taken on a low speed pass, note the extended flaps/airbrakes. These models with retracting undercarriages even have brakes in the wheels. these are real toys for the boys. A vast advance from the balsa and tissue rubber powered models of our youth. look at www.hucknall-mac.org for more model info.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-8530210515024236162008-09-10T00:49:00.000+01:002008-09-10T00:49:00.000+01:00I hope you & Y enjoyed "the cake" as...I hope you & Y enjoyed "the cake" as it was made with a lot of luv, and decorated by "a man of many talents"<BR/>Just love your grans quote, sounds like she wouldn't stand any nonsence.<BR/>How doe's one contribute pictures to the blog?<BR/>Has reg used differential focusing or photoshopped the wire out to the plane?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-56801213480436802982008-09-10T00:23:00.000+01:002008-09-10T00:23:00.000+01:00Tue Diary:Had to turn round this morning on the ne...Tue Diary:<BR/>Had to turn round this morning on the new MARR (Mansfield Ashfield Regeneration Route, otherwise Rainwortrh Bypass)between Nottingham Road and the A38because of what looked like at least a mile long queue which did not seem to be caused by road works or temporary traffic lights. So I was perhaps 10 minutes late arriving at King’s Mill. I didn’t let that stop me doing the right thing and taking some snaps before signing in. <BR/>For once I actually saw the surgeon who cut me.<BR/>“Is it really a year since I operated on you?” were his first words. <BR/>He is really a very nice man – should be in the AA. He is to arrange for me to have a scan and then another consultation but he poked me about the belly a bit and everything seemed to be OK apart from a hernia on my scar which, as I have been totally unaware of it, he felt was best ignored. He did also mention that very little remains of my colon, not even a semi-colon, apparently.<BR/>I look forward eagerly to the time when my treatment is finished and (I quote from Corrie) I can once more ‘go out and paint the town magnolia’. <BR/>From King’s Mill to Lidl to buy gutter mesh (nothing to do with either ‘gutter the futter…’ or ‘sausage & mesh’) and the Bargain Shop to buy a variety of individual sponge puds (also on their shelves were Vesta Curries, Meltis New Berry Fruits and Payne’s Poppets – it was like a trip back in time).<BR/>On the way home we stopped at a pub, the Bold Forester, on Sutton Road that didn’t use to exist and I cannot think what the building was previously used for (on the corner of the side road across from Remploy-that-was). When I was in hospital, Sandra and Alan had called in there for a bite to eat on a couple of occasions, between afternoon and evening visiting, and said how pleasant and reasonable it was (it has a covered smoking area with heating -and TV!). I had never been before. <BR/>We each had a cup of decent coffee at a reasonable price in pleasant surroundings and, it being nearly 2.00 pm and each of us only having had a (real) muffin for breakfast, then decided to have lunch. <BR/>A very acceptable looking menu included a choice of several dishes at 2 for £8. Sandra had a good portion of fish, which she said was excellent, and chips and I had sausages (3) and mash which was more than adequate. Another coffee and a half of IPA and home for 3.00.<BR/>I thought that <BR/>(a) if you (and Yvonne) should be looking for a competitively priced meal in Mansfield you might be interested, and <BR/>(b) when we resume meeting in Mansfield it would be an acceptable alternative to Wetherspoon’s (better ambience but dearer coffee [c £1.25] and beer [c £2.50]). <BR/>I will send more details by email.<BR/><BR/>Most joyous story on Monday was of the 3 year old girl who disappeared down the lidless manhole of a storm drain while alliteratively paddling in a puddle on a playing field. Thankfully, her father had the presence of mind to run 70 metres to the river, arriving just in time to go in shoulder deep and pick her up, not breathing, from the outfall. She started breathing again as he struggled with her over his shoulder to the bank and she looked right as rain (!) on the Telly in the evening. <BR/><BR/>Big cats are topical again in Yorkshire. The film may be deceptive, sizewise. No-one has thought to give them 50p pieces.<BR/><BR/>I rather liked a Country & Western ditty heard on TV a few nights ago (possibly in the excellent film biopic of the late 1930’s World Heavyweight Champion James J Braddock’s life ‘The Cinderella Man, viz: <BR/>“Drop kick me, Jesus, through the goalposts of life.”<BR/><BR/>Blog comment:<BR/>The weather we encountered today (Tue) was worse than anything we saw on Sunday or Monday although not as fierce as the downpour when we went to MacArthur Glen not so long ago.<BR/><BR/>The model aircraft is, as you say, indistinguishable from the real thing (you can’t see the stick it is on the end of, can you?) except, possibly, that it lacks any sense of movement. A fine photo anyway.<BR/><BR/>I have to go along with your view of dancers. Apart from Fred Astaire, Mick Jagger, and one or two others (a few jivers from the 50s for instance) only young people of European descent look good doing it.<BR/><BR/>I like the deck chairs.<BR/><BR/>As Lavetera is the Tree Mallow I am pretty sure you are right and, yes, it dies after seven years so needs propagating by cuttings before that time if you want to keep it going. <BR/><BR/>It isn’t just Joanna Lumley’s looks though, is it? She’s a great flirt. <BR/><BR/>My dad also used to say "A bit of pain is good for you”. Apart from beer he also drank other bitter potions, eg, wormwood tea. And one of HIS father’s favourite quotes (biblical I believe) was “Take hyssop for thy stomach’s sake.” (Google: “The leaves and flowering tops are antiseptic, antitussive, astringent, carminative, diaphoretic, emmenagogue, expectorant, pectoral, sedative, stimulant, stomachic, tonic and vasodilator… A tea made from the leaves is used in the treatment of flatulence, stomach-aches, upper respiratory tract infections, coughs in children etc.”)<BR/><BR/>You seem to be running with the hare and hunting with the hounds when it comes to avoiding offending your contributors.<BR/>But of course I don’t really think that Jill prejudges people. My comment was a bit of mischief although, as you acknowledge, it makes a serious point.<BR/><BR/>I have too much respect for Rob to get drawn into any coarse comment on what he chooses to take on his honeymoon.<BR/><BR/>I too am an Alan Coren fan although I am not all that taken by the quotation (not pithy enough, for him). His daughter seems to be a feisty lass too – spends most of her time in casinos playing poker but finds time to write a sharp column in the Observer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com