The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

[TheGreenGoblin]

Thank you, TGG, I needed that. Shame about the haircuts, though! In return, let me offer you Albert Lee's overdubs for Dave Edmund's version of Sweet Little Lisa. Watch Edmund's and Nick Lowe's expressions. Hands of a master.

Thanks Magnus Not heard that one before... RIP Albert Lee... I was about to kill the poor bugger off. Alive and kicking...

[k3k3]

PN, I like your lamb to sheep story, nicely written.

[G-CPTN]

What I like to see is when timid young lambs gang up with others and start to explore further away from their mothers and test the security of the fences, becoming gangs of miscreant teenagers.

[Ex-Ascot]

Morning folks, twas a twice monthly town day. Pretty succesful. First booze shop visit in two months they seemed to have just had a delivery.

Water pump which was drinking oil burst into flames this morning. No idea why. Engineer says cheaper to buy a new one than for him to repair. He is going to source one and come and fit it over the weekend.

Hope the foot recovers Magnus.

[Ibbie]

Streaming of funeral went well.

First streamed one I've been to. Not the same as being there though.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Streaming of funeral went well.

First streamed one I've been to. Not the same as being there though.

My better half is "attending" the streamed funeral of her best friend's mom on Friday. The deceased lady is Welsh and there will be a lot of weeping in Swansea and Cardiff at this strange, unhappy time. I guess it is tough for the bereaved families involved.

I have never been sure of funerals myself, and am apt to leave instructions and funds for a private burial without all the misery, expense etc. of a full formal funeral with sufficient additional money for a good drunken party for those who might have been silly to have known, and perhaps, liked me!

[Pontius Navigator]

What I like to see is when timid young lambs gang up with others and start to explore further away from their mothers and test the security of the fences, becoming gangs of miscreant teenagers.

Last spring, just that. There was an obvious in-crowd with followers. They would race down the fence line. The followers would eventually join them, then they would run back.

Two years ago one of the sheep was the wrong side of the fence. Don't know how but it had been killed and over the weeks the bones were picked clean and the carcase eventually collapsed and the wool was absorbed into the undergrowth. Given the ground it would not have been pikeys.

[Pontius Navigator]

TGG, watch Finding Alice. The funeral affair was quite funny, especially choosing a coffin.

[Undried Plum]

Somewhat reluctantly the lamb retreated and became a sheep.

That happens In Scotland too, as well as on other Atlantic rocks.

We saw that happen in a cell of the wonkily designed squiggly bit of Catalan architecture in what is actually called the Watergate of the Canongate and Holyrood (I didn't make that Watergate name up, btw).

I thought Politico wrote a rather good piece. Scroll down to the SALMOND VS. STURGEON bit.

[Pontius Navigator]

Forty of 45 towns in Sunak’s “Towns Fund” were represented by Tory MPs.

Or to quote Tony Bliar, so I am informed, 'what has Lincolnshire ever done for me?'

[TheGreenGoblin]

TGG, watch Finding Alice. The funeral affair was quite funny, especially choosing a coffin.

Not seen it, but will on your say so PN.

[ian16th]

Forty of 45 towns in Sunak’s “Towns Fund” were represented by Tory MPs.

Or to quote Tony Bliar, so I am informed, 'what has Lincolnshire ever done for me?'

Well there were 3 Teesside constituencies that returned Tory MP's in the hope of a better life!

This can be considered a reward for seeing sense.

I also sent Politico a congratulatory e-mail for spelling Teesside correctly, once, out of 3 attempts!

[TheGreenGoblin]

There goes the afternoon... "House themed coffin..."..

Talking of undertakers, our local one has contrived to go bankrupt in the middle of the contagion and has been replaced by a green grocer who is delivering in about 10 minutes. More bloody useful than the undertaker anyway!

[Undried Plum]

What is Scottishness about?

I'd say it's about cohesiveness, not adheredness to any tribe.

I'd say that it's about teamwork with fellow islanders.

Teamwork. With, not against.

That's what made Scotland great in the United Kingdom. That, in great part, made the United Kingdom great in its creation of the British Empire.

We Scots should be proud to be British, for that is what we are, and that is, partly, what Great Britain, now decreasingly so, once was.

[Magnus]

Thanks Magnus Not heard that one before... RIP Albert Lee... I was about to kill the poor bugger off. Alive and kicking...

Rather annoying, isn't he? Problem is, I've met him couple of times, he's absolutely charming and delighted to chat about guitars. Difficult bloke to dislike. He's given up the Telecaster for an Ernie Ball MusicMan. These chaps, however haven't. Encountered the Hellecasters yet?

[TheGreenGoblin]

Thanks Magnus Not heard that one before... RIP Albert Lee... I was about to kill the poor bugger off. Alive and kicking...

Rather annoying, isn't he? Problem is, I've met him couple of times, he's absolutely charming and delighted to chat about guitars. Difficult bloke to dislike. He's given up the Telecaster for an Ernie Ball MusicMan. These chaps, however haven't. Encountered the Hellecasters yet?

No Magnus I hadn't but from the very opening bars of that video, I know I am going to like them...

[PHXPhlyer]

Not so much into guitars and players of.
Confused him with Alvin Lee of Ten Years After, who I saw in 1974 IIRC.

PP

[ricardian]

What is Scottishness about?
I'd say it's about cohesiveness, not adheredness to any tribe.
I'd say that it's about teamwork with fellow islanders.
Teamwork. With, not against.
That's what made Scotland great in the United Kingdom. That, in great part, made the United Kingdom great in its creation of the British Empire.
We Scots should be proud to be British, for that is what we are, and that is, partly, what Great Britain, now decreasingly so, once was.

Orkney & Shetland have been Liberal/Libdem for years. The SNP don't like it but have just provided some extra cash for the inter-island ferries because there's an election in a couple of months. The Western Isles vote SNP and get lots of help.
On the subject of bars on windows, etc I realised that I have no idea where the house keys are. There's the front door, the back door and the patio doors, all unsecured as are all the windows. And the car sits outside the house, unlocked and with the keys in the ignition (don't tell the insurers!).

[Pontius Navigator]

Ricardian. At school in Cumberland in the 50s everyone kept their keys in the same place - in the front door lock outside.

No one had anything worth stealing I guess.

[Undried Plum]

What is Scottishness about?
I'd say it's about cohesiveness, not adheredness to any tribe.
I'd say that it's about teamwork with fellow islanders.
Teamwork. With, not against.
That's what made Scotland great in the United Kingdom. That, in great part, made the United Kingdom great in its creation of the British Empire.
We Scots should be proud to be British, for that is what we are, and that is, partly, what Great Britain, now decreasingly so, once was.

Orkney & Shetland have been Liberal/Libdem for years. The SNP don't like it but have just provided some extra cash for the inter-island ferries because there's an election in a couple of months. The Western Isles vote SNP

Neither Orkney, nor Shetland, while recognising that they are different from eachother, are Scottish in any way, nor have they ever been Scottish.

I'm unsurprised that both Councils, separately, have indicated that they each want to make closer ties to the United Kingdom than to the separatist SNumPty 'government' which claims jurisdiction over them.