In/Out Board

[Tarakin]

I'm back again from my vacations.

 

[SweetWitch]

I'm back again from my vacations.

Welcome home, Mr. Invisible.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

You know how hard it is to tell whether an invisible man is around or not? Welcome back, all the same.

 

[oggbashan]

Found this thread at last!

I'm away from tomorrow, Friday 10th Sept until Sunday 19th Sept. Please try to keep the Summer Lovin' support thread troll-free. You'll have to wait for the formal result of the Authors' Hangout Last Place (tm) Contest but all claims will be considered as soon as I return.

Don't do anything I wouldn't do. That leaves everything possible that doesn't frighten the horses.

Og

 

[DesertPirate]

Haven't been around much lately, might be back more.

Taking daughter to Washington, DC to start her Internship at the Holocaust Museum.

 

[oggbashan]

Advance warning: I'm off to Paris, again, early Monday morning.

I'll be back on Tuesday 19 October, just before final submissions can be accepted for the Halloween Contest.

There is an increased security alert for Paris at the moment BUT it is now as high as one level lower than Mainland Britain, so I'm actually going somewhere apparently safer.

Og

 

[oggbashan]

Signing off to go to Paris in the morning.

I'm back Tuesday week.

Don't do anything I wouldn't do - which means "Not in front of the servants and don't frighten the horses".

Og

 

[SweetWitch]

Signing off to go to Paris in the morning.

I'm back Tuesday week.

Don't do anything I wouldn't do - which means "Not in front of the servants and don't frighten the horses".

Og

Safe journey, dear Ogg.

 

[oggbashan]

I seem to be on the move more than most of the AH.

I'm off again tomorrow morning to give the builders a free hand while they remove a chimney. Depending on the weather I'm walking some countryside or doing some historic houses in Hampshire. So far this year we've been to Suffolk, Warwickshire, and Paris as well as a couple of weekends.

Back on Saturday 6th November.

Keep writing those Winter Holiday entries.

Og

 

[SweetWitch]

I seem to be on the move more than most of the AH.

I'm off again tomorrow morning to give the builders a free hand while they remove a chimney. Depending on the weather I'm walking some countryside or doing some historic houses in Hampshire. So far this year we've been to Suffolk, Warwickshire, and Paris as well as a couple of weekends.

Back on Saturday 6th November.

Keep writing those Winter Holiday entries.

Og

Have a safe and enjoyable journey, Og.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I'm here tonight and tomorrow but at Oh Dark Thirty on Thursday I'm taking off for the autumnal deer hunt in Texas. This is "a full freezer aforethought" and if any hatracks occur as well, they are purely incidental. I should be back the following Wednesday. Thanksgiving leg o'venison and New Years sausage, hot damn!

 

[oggbashan]

I'm back from the New Forest.

We saw free-range ponies, donkeys, sheep, pigs and chickens. Even though we should have expected it, ponies walking down a town's main street after dark was unusual, and a serious traffic hazard.

We went to Beaulieu and the National Motor Museum but the most interesting encounters were Lord Montagu and his first (not his current) wife. It shows the size of his estate that Lord Montagu, his divorced wife and his current wife can live there without friction. They have a choice of houses, small stately homes and farms and could have several square miles each. In a crowded country such as England that is rare, even in the aristocracy.

Og

 

[Tarakin]

I'm back from the New Forest. (...)

Og

Welcome back, Og!

 

[trysail]

I'm back from the New Forest.

We saw free-range ponies, donkeys, sheep, pigs and chickens. Even though we should have expected it, ponies walking down a town's main street after dark was unusual, and a serious traffic hazard.

We went to Beaulieu and the National Motor Museum but the most interesting encounters were Lord Montagu and his first (not his current) wife. It shows the size of his estate that Lord Montagu, his divorced wife and his current wife can live there without friction. They have a choice of houses, small stately homes and farms and could have several square miles each. In a crowded country such as England that is rare, even in the aristocracy.

Og

... sounds delightful, Og. The Downs are lovely. I didn't have any idea there were free-range sheep and pigs. Gosport, Portsmouth and Southhampton are old haunts. My walls of my abode have several Geoff Hunt ( illustrator of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin books, as you likely know ) prints it was my good fortune to stumble upon in the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Gosport is, of course, the birthplace of good old Camper and Nicholsons.


Any town with free-range ponies on main street is my kind of town. That is bound to make pub life interesting.

 

[oggbashan]

... sounds delightful, Og. The Downs are lovely. I didn't have any idea there were free-range sheep and pigs. Gosport, Portsmouth and Southhampton are old haunts. My walls of my abode have several Geoff Hunt ( illustrator of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin books, as you likely know ) prints it was my good fortune to stumble upon in the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Gosport is, of course, the birthplace of good old Camper and Nicholsons.


Any town with free-range ponies on main street is my kind of town. That is bound to make pub life interesting.

My first full-time employment was in Portsmouth Dockyard (then not 'Historic' but operational). My original office, for about three weeks before I was displaced by an employee of higher rank, was opposite HMS Victory's bowsprit.

I lived in Southsea until my flat-mate was posted elsewhere and I moved into cheaper lodgings in Gosport, taking the Gosport ferry to work. The ferry had run uninterrupted throughout the war. Within a couple of weeks of my move, the ferry was cancelled because of fog, then icebergs in Portsmouth harbour.

As a dockyard employee I was able to catch a steam pinnace from the Victualling Yard to the Dockyard but most people living in Gosport had to make the long trip by road or rail around the harbour. The steam pinnace, commanded by a Midshipman, didn't have radar but its very young captain wasn't going to be deterred by navigational hazards. He kept out of the deep water as long as he could and then dashed across the navigable channel at maximum speed despite visibility less than the pinnace's length.

Og

PS. The free-range pigs are seasonal. They are only allowed free range when acorns are dropping because acorns are deadly to ponies. The animals are allowed to range under ancient rights for the commoners of the New Forest.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Ah'm ba-yuck. A week in the Texas Hill country yielded a blackbuck (to be made into sausage) an axis doe and a whitetail doe for future dinners, feasts and sharing and a much improved outlook on life. I was getting a bit stressed there. Can you believe being stressed in retirement? Rediculous! However, when you over schedule your life . . .

 

[SweetWitch]

Ah'm ba-yuck. A week in the Texas Hill country yielded a blackbuck (to be made into sausage) an axis doe and a whitetail doe for future dinners, feasts and sharing and a much improved outlook on life. I was getting a bit stressed there. Can you believe being stressed in retirement? Rediculous! However, when you over schedule your life . . .

Welcome back, papa bear. You were missed.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

And awaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy we go, again. Hot Mama and I leave for 12 days amid the Christmas Markets of the Rhine Wednesday noon. We'll be back the evening of Sunday the 12th. Stay lecherous, y'all.

 

[sr71plt]

And awaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy we go, again. Hot Mama and I leave for 12 days amid the Christmas Markets of the Rhine Wednesday noon. We'll be back the evening of Sunday the 12th. Stay lecherous, y'all.

Have fun. I did that for years ago. River cruising. (That's not a Vantage cruise ending up in Prague is it? If so, my sister will be on that one.)

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Have fun. I did that for years ago. River cruising. (That's not a Vantage cruise ending up in Prague is it? If so, my sister will be on that one.)

Nope, it's a GCT ending in Basel. Same idea, though.

 

[sr71plt]

Nope, it's a GCT ending in Basel. Same idea, though.

Let us know how you like GCT. When we went, we went from Nuernberg to Amsterdam. New Years in Cologne.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Let us know how you like GCT. When we went, we went from Nuernberg to Amsterdam. New Years in Cologne.

How do we like GCT? Well, this is our third cruise with them. We did the lower Danube, starting in Budapest and ending in Regensburg and then we did the Rhone north to Paris and then did three days on the Normandy beaches. One incredible experience!

 

[sr71plt]

How do we like GCT? Well, this is our third cruise with them. We did the lower Danube, starting in Budapest and ending in Regensburg and then we did the Rhone north to Paris and then did three days on the Normandy beaches. One incredible experience!

Vantage is expensive, but the groups are smaller, I think--and the price is inclusive of tours.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Vantage is expensive, but the groups are smaller, I think--and the price is inclusive of tours.

Could be. We've been quite happy with GCT. We think they give good value for the money.

 

[SweetWitch]

And awaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy we go, again. Hot Mama and I leave for 12 days amid the Christmas Markets of the Rhine Wednesday noon. We'll be back the evening of Sunday the 12th. Stay lecherous, y'all.

Safe journey, fuzzy.