:)

Morning all

Good afternoon!!

I reckon you are behind the times, kii.

;)

Michael V said:

I reckon you are behind the times, kii.

;)

Yeah….but I like having you people around to tell me about the future :P

:)

Bon soir!

It’s OK kii, we are just testing the days for you first. Of course, that also means you get used days, but at least you know they are not going to kill you…..

Thanks for that perspective, buffy :)

Good morning assorted forumers!
I’m at work already :)

Divine Angel said:

Good morning assorted forumers!
I’m at work already :)

and been into the sugar.. :)

Chocolate bavarian for breakfast and the girl who went home sick bought me Dark chocolate Cherry Ripes as a Thanks-for-coming-in-early present.

Michael V said:

:)

FINE!!!
BE LIKE THAT!!!

:)

Good Morning

Good Afternoon

Good Evening

Good Gracious, doesn’t time pass quickly?

‘ning nerdz. TDIF.

Morning all.

Morning to all.

It is the finish of a memorable day here. It started with a walk along the deserted beach, very reminiscent of the beach near home. All was good until I dropped the camera face down in the wet sand. Exit one camera.

So, lunch of mussels along the promenade, then off to the local supermarket to purchase a cheap replacement camera. Done. Then madly assemble the new camera that fortunately had some charge in the battery, before being dropped off in the woods with some general directions to head around the edge of the lake to find the house of my hostess. An hour of walking and photographing mushrooms was the plan.

Needless to say, things didn’t quite go as planned, and I got hopelessly lost. Eventually, I followed my ears to a nearby road and found a man hunting mushrooms. He had no English. Fortunately, I knew how to say “I am hopelessly fucking lost” in French (and sign language). He guided me to his small van that was loaded with garlic (clearly he had a garlic stall somewhere) and we proceeded to find my destination in a combination of broken French and signing.

20 minutes later, house found! Woohoo! Note on the gatepost saying ‘gone to look for you, stay here’. So, I stay there for about 10 minutes when along comes a bloke about my age on a motorised skateboard. He stops at the house. Do you speak English? No. Ok, how to explain that I am not a burglar, as he first thought and that my hostess and my friend are off looking for me. More broken French, a phone call, and all is good. The searchers return. They have been out in the woods yelling ‘cooooo eeeeee’

A couple of whiskeys and back to the hotel for dinner. That involved one of the most brilliantly presented desserts I have ever seen, and eaten. I was sorely tempted to go back to my room to grab the new camera to take a picture. It was a pistachio pie with a green filling presented on a purple glass plate like some sort of space panorama. White flecks of icing sugar formed a stellar panorama across the plate. A pile of red pomegranate ice-cream beset with a filigree of caramilsed sugar accompanied the pie. This was a very ordinary French restaurant in the off season. Australian restaurants would do well to emulate this kind of effort.

Back to the hotel room, tired but happy.

:-)

morrie said:

Morning to all.

It is the finish of a memorable day here. It started with a walk along the deserted beach, very reminiscent of the beach near home. All was good until I dropped the camera face down in the wet sand. Exit one camera.

So, lunch of mussels along the promenade, then off to the local supermarket to purchase a cheap replacement camera. Done. Then madly assemble the new camera that fortunately had some charge in the battery, before being dropped off in the woods with some general directions to head around the edge of the lake to find the house of my hostess. An hour of walking and photographing mushrooms was the plan.

Needless to say, things didn’t quite go as planned, and I got hopelessly lost. Eventually, I followed my ears to a nearby road and found a man hunting mushrooms. He had no English. Fortunately, I knew how to say “I am hopelessly fucking lost” in French (and sign language). He guided me to his small van that was loaded with garlic (clearly he had a garlic stall somewhere) and we proceeded to find my destination in a combination of broken French and signing.

20 minutes later, house found! Woohoo! Note on the gatepost saying ‘gone to look for you, stay here’. So, I stay there for about 10 minutes when along comes a bloke about my age on a motorised skateboard. He stops at the house. Do you speak English? No. Ok, how to explain that I am not a burglar, as he first thought and that my hostess and my friend are off looking for me. More broken French, a phone call, and all is good. The searchers return. They have been out in the woods yelling ‘cooooo eeeeee’

A couple of whiskeys and back to the hotel for dinner. That involved one of the most brilliantly presented desserts I have ever seen, and eaten. I was sorely tempted to go back to my room to grab the new camera to take a picture. It was a pistachio pie with a green filling presented on a purple glass plate like some sort of space panorama. White flecks of icing sugar formed a stellar panorama across the plate. A pile of red pomegranate ice-cream beset with a filigree of caramilsed sugar accompanied the pie. This was a very ordinary French restaurant in the off season. Australian restaurants would do well to emulate this kind of effort.

Back to the hotel room, tired but happy.

:-)

Pistachio pie eh.. sounds yummy

Good morning Holidayers. We have 13 degrees and going for low twenties (I think)

I would just like to say……I don’t think this is a holiday, morrie, I think it would be better classed as an adventure.

:)

Morning all.

Imagine that – Posting about a holiday on the Holiday Forum.

:-)

Brisbane, 7:23am EST: 20.5 C 75% RH. Fine, very light breeze. Three octas light cloud.

Morning all… :D

Morning everyone

10 degrees here in St Helens, a really lovely seaside town in the North East of Tas :)

I’m with Buffy Morrie, an adventure for sure but I’m loving that dessert :D

Another day of new sights and sounds for us as we make our way to Launceston. A cheese factory is high on our list today.. still haven’t managed to see a Tassie Devil but still looking :)

good morning to you all. They say we are to get 37˚C today.. 18˚C atthe moment

I am hanging for a decent cup of tea this morning, not even a miserly tea bag in our overnight accommodation.

Spider Lily said:

I am hanging for a decent cup of tea this morning, not even a miserly tea bag in our overnight accommodation.

seems an extreme punishment for wanting real tea.

roughbarked said:

All growed up already!

Spider Lily said:

I am hanging for a decent cup of tea this morning, not even a miserly tea bag in our overnight accommodation.

There doesn’t appear to be a decent teabag in this whole country. The pissweak brew that results from the teabags here has to be seen to be believed.

morrie said:

roughbarked said:

All growed up already!

Yep, shooting up like a beanstalk. :)

Spider Lily said:

I am hanging for a decent cup of tea this morning, not even a miserly tea bag in our overnight accommodation.

Found them! (they were hidden under the sugar)

morrie said:

Spider Lily said:

I am hanging for a decent cup of tea this morning, not even a miserly tea bag in our overnight accommodation.

There doesn’t appear to be a decent teabag in this whole country. The pissweak brew that results from the teabags here has to be seen to be believed.

Asterix aand Obelix always reckond that the British sat around drinking warm water.

roughbarked said:

morrie said:

Spider Lily said:

I am hanging for a decent cup of tea this morning, not even a miserly tea bag in our overnight accommodation.

There doesn’t appear to be a decent teabag in this whole country. The pissweak brew that results from the teabags here has to be seen to be believed.

Asterix aand Obelix always reckond that the British sat around drinking warm water.

The gall!

roughbarked said:

Asterix aand Obelix always reckond that the British sat around drinking warm water.

That was until Getafix added some medicinal leaves he had obtained from China.

morrie said:

roughbarked said:

morrie said:

There doesn’t appear to be a decent teabag in this whole country. The pissweak brew that results from the teabags here has to be seen to be believed.

Asterix aand Obelix always reckond that the British sat around drinking warm water.

The gall!

:)

At least when I get to Dad’s I can have a nice pot of leaf tea..

I mentioned the other day that I keep meaning to travel with a couple of items

Tea and tea infuser

Cracked pepper

The only really decent tea I ever drink is from chinese resteraunts.. no milk/sugar .. just green tea..

it must react with MSG to create orgasms in my mouth

just wondering.. can you get sane pepper?

morrie said:

Asterix aand Obelix always reckond that the British sat around drinking warm water.

Uh, I thought they were talking about the beer?

Rule 303 said:

morrie said:

Asterix aand Obelix always reckond that the British sat around drinking warm water.

Uh, I thought they were talking about the beer?

in dainty cups?

roughbarked said:

great shot roughy ;) real character shot

Dropbear said:

roughbarked said:

great shot roughy ;) real character shot

I have to admit it.. My daughter learned a lot from my endless slide shows. Yes.. credit goes to HB for the photo.

>> Surprise package << Colin Salmon is a big star

Strictly Come Dancing’s Colin Salmon was doing a photoshoot for Hello! magazine. The photographer looked up from his camera and asked Colin if he could take out whatever was in his pockets, as it was causing quite a lump in his trousers. “I haven’t got anything in my pockets”, answered Colin. Cue much childish sniggering.

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Is celeb sperm-bank web hoax Fame Daddy a C4 spoof show, currently filming in Teddington? Someone claiming to be on set says “website owner is worst actor ever”.
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A couple were caught having sex during a London Film Festival screening. (the horror)
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>> Age concern << Who says romance is dead Seemingly every hoary old rumour surrounding Jimmy Savile and a host of ancient radio and TV presenters are now making it into the tabloids, as they attempt to make us all forget that they actually spent the past forty years sucking up to Savile. Still, it’s definitely interesting to note just how much has changed in the entertainment industry since the 1970s. Someone involved with N Dubz tours tells us how many steps were put in place to try to make sure girl fans couldn’t get close to the band without their ID, and therefore age checked, to make sure they were over 16. And “encounters” were generally filmed to ensure everything could be shown to be consensual, if needed.

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Rufus Hound likes chocolate orange flavoured vodka.
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>> In a flap << Dita makes an entrance

Deep_Stoat writes, “No Pierce Brosnan, but Dita von Teese was at Radiohead’s aftershow party in Paris.

“And full marks to the person who shouted, ‘I’ve seen her flaps’ a little too loudly as she walked in”.

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Radio 4’s Jeni Murray in Virgin Trains’ first class, with two small airdogs, tutting at how busy the carriage was as “normally the dogs get their own seat”.
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>> Fair dealing << RIP Newsweek magazine Vanity Fair is rather good today on Newsweek’s print closure: “Pairing stock images and incendiary statements at random and slapping them on the cover did not, in the end, turn out to be a business-saving publishing model.”

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In the film Pitch Perfect, watch the Don Faison flashback scene. There, over Don’s shoulder, you will see Har Mar Superstar.
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>> Something about Mary << Dustin gets a double shot

Celtiagirl writes: “Dustin Hoffman, generally agreed to be a low maintenance star, arrives for a morning meeting. Everyone orders coffee, except for Hoffman who asks for a bloody Mary, with two shots. One of his people scuttles off and places a drink by his side. Hoffman takes one sip, says a polite ‘excuse me’ to the room, then hairdryers the assistant. ‘Do you think I’m stupid? What the f**k is this? Did you think I would not notice? I’ve flown in from another country, where right now it’s 7pm. So give me my f**king drink, with my two f**king shots.’ He got his f**king drink.”

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Football commentator Martin Tyler lives in a house called Squirrels Leap.
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>> Cym on you Celtics << Dane Bowers’ perfect club Following on from the news that Dane Bowers has signed for Cwmbran Celtic FC, we’ve been told a little more about the etymology of the club’s name. The ‘cwm’ in Cwmbran relates to the Welsh-Celtic word for ‘valley’. It’s also believed to be the origins of the word ‘quim’. And, if certain lines of linguistic thinking are to be believed,‘c*nt’ and ‘Queen’ too. Perhaps Dane’s signing is not so surprising after all.

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>> Turkey shoot << Bernard Matthews’ avian actors “Friend-of-a-friend was working on a film where they needed a baby ostrich, but given these were out of season they got a couple of baby turkeys from a local farm and dyed them to look right. Everyone agreed that after the shoot they would send them to a petting zoo, or something, as now they were stars it would be cruel to send them back to be slaughtered. “23 frustrating, fruitless takes later, they were shipped back to Bernard Matthews. If only you could do the same with actors.”

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The sheep in Downton Abbey are not just any old sheep. They’re specially trained not to react in typically ovine panic to cars/human beings/everything.
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>> Hmmms << Cage, Lance, Savile Back in August BBC announced that Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson were reuniting for a new series of Bottom, 18 years after it last aired. Ade Edmondson now says it’s off.

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Old Jokes Home:
Jimmy Savile’s family have had his gravestone and the flowers around it removed as a mark of respect.

That just leaves a small hole and no bush. It’s what he would have wanted.

(should be called red card jokes home)

Breakfast: 2 pork & garlic sausages, warm buttered pide. Cup of tea.

Yay we made it to Launceston :)

Settled in our room and having a nice drop of Tas Sav Blanc :D

Guess FNDC is open…. (unless someone has already called it)

Morning.

:)

Brisbane: 19.7 C, 71% RH. Light haze. Still, fine.

Going for a motorcycle ride this morning with a friend to the Border Ranges district.

Michael V said:

Morning.

:)

Brisbane: 19.7 C, 71% RH. Light haze. Still, fine.

Going for a motorcycle ride this morning with a friend to the Border Ranges district.

Lovely area that. My daughter used to live there.
Enjoy the ride.

Greetings to the MV.

We have sunshine but there were clouds earlier.

I intend to, morrie. Thanks. :)

Good morning Holidayers. We had 5 degrees at 6.30am (dogs’ breakfast time). I’ve been for about an 8km bike ride, but at the half way mark my legs said “turn around! turn around! or we won’t take you all the way back!!”

Going to eat some fish fingers for breakfast, then go to the practice to clean the window on the main street, do some stock checking (reps coming in a couple of weeks) and tidy up some paperwork. Then I will try to stay away for the rest of my annual leave. I doubt that I can do it.

Good Morning people

An expected top of maybe 17 degrees today, 10 at present..

Going to the Seahorse Park today and a must call into the 9th Island cellar door :D

Spider Lily said:

Good Morning people

An expected top of maybe 17 degrees today, 10 at present..

Going to the Seahorse Park today and a must call into the 9th Island cellar door :D

Good plan :-)