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Post by Alvamiga on Apr 14, 2013 8:02:31 GMT
;D
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2013 8:56:37 GMT
I didn't get it either.
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Post by tangent on Apr 14, 2013 14:18:01 GMT
Nor me.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Apr 14, 2013 22:16:50 GMT
(I wish I got that joke ) James Last was a popular German band leader ... who also recorded with the same musicians as Manuel and his Music of the Mountains ... search on Youtube ..,
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Post by madmadeline on Apr 14, 2013 23:17:21 GMT
Ah. Well good, then!
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Apr 15, 2013 12:01:12 GMT
Some of the music is really ... er ... memorable ... or at any rate it haunts you for a while ...
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Post by madmadeline on Apr 15, 2013 12:45:07 GMT
*chuckles* er...memorable is the best kind of memorable!
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Post by Shake on Apr 15, 2013 23:12:14 GMT
Maybe they were state workers. Over here on construction jobs, there always seems to be several folks just standing around.
My FIL always says every job needs a foreman, but that would only explain one of them.
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Post by madmadeline on Apr 15, 2013 23:13:00 GMT
As long as they look pretty supervising!
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Apr 16, 2013 8:20:30 GMT
I have been struggling with the right choice of gender for a title like Mr. Pretty Supervisor ... even in railway German it would be a challenge ... someone get Kaylee over here!
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Post by madmadeline on Apr 16, 2013 11:38:29 GMT
gender neutral, maybe? Ze?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2013 15:35:09 GMT
I have been struggling with the right choice of gender for a title like Mr. Pretty Supervisor ... even in railway German it would be a challenge ... someone get Kaylee over here! Huh?
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on May 8, 2013 10:48:01 GMT
I went to the Cavia rescue trust's treatment centre last night to see my little piggies, they are both fully recovered now and have hair again (it had to be removed as part of the treatment for their ailment) it was good to see them healthy.
Bumble-Willem has stopped fitting - though there were a couple of days when they feared they might loose him. Sadly, they will not be able to return to the presbytery because it is not possible to guarantee that the fungal spores have been cleared from their former home.
They will be staying at the Cavia retirement centre for the time being as the person who runs that has plenty of room. The elderly piggies in the other groups don't seem to mind having the youngsters around. It's nice there and I can go and see them if I want.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on May 15, 2013 14:10:18 GMT
It is accomplished. The presbytery has been sold and I am in the throes of trying to decide which of three possible houses to buy as a replacement. Whichever it is, it will be in the Glorious Mordorian City of Barradurbury and it had better be quick or I shall be homeless!
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Post by Kye on May 15, 2013 15:42:34 GMT
Good for you! Happy hunting.
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Post by tangent on May 15, 2013 17:17:57 GMT
Well done.
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Post by madmadeline on May 15, 2013 18:15:29 GMT
*cheers*
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on May 16, 2013 17:56:22 GMT
The only sad part will be demolishing the garden tramway ... I have a suspicion that it will turn out to have been the best one ...
*pauses for solemn moment*
... but it will have a successor and who knows - that might be even better!
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Post by Kye on May 17, 2013 11:29:49 GMT
You can get your piggies back.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on May 17, 2013 19:10:46 GMT
Subject to a new hutch etc., it is a possibility!
I was at the archive again and had an exciting moment. I have touched a letter written by Abraham Lincoln and two from Theodore Roosevelt as well ... Dr. Qulang, under-Primate of All Mordor went to the US in 1918 where he was surprisingly well received and as a keepsake he was given a presidential pardon that Lincoln had written (complete with a paper seal and all) ... it was quite moving really.
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Post by westsands410 on Jun 1, 2013 10:05:38 GMT
New tramway, new hutch, exciting!
*waves*
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jun 4, 2013 19:38:13 GMT
Waves back!
Had the removal contractor come to do an estimate this morning ...
... can you hear my bank account weeping in horror ....
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Post by JoeP on Jun 4, 2013 21:31:25 GMT
Waves from Whitehaven!
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Post by westsands410 on Jun 5, 2013 17:21:18 GMT
*Waves from south Oxfordshire*
I had removal quotes a fortnight ago, Fr G., and they were eye-watering. Fortunately, I'm not paying.
P.S. Will the removal company move a garden tramway?
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jun 6, 2013 20:07:43 GMT
They will move the elements - I shall demolish the line at the end of the month then put the track into 1.2m lengths and bubble wrap them for the contractor to handle. I haven't decided whether to try and recover the ballast, probably will because the new garden is 40m. and I don't have enough track for a single line the whole way to the other end - will need to cut costs a bit!
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jun 7, 2013 18:10:50 GMT
Oh good heavens what a week. Apart from all the stuff about moving house ... which is a very large kind of 'apart'. Desparately difficult funeral this afternoon, young man who had recently returned from a year away in detox and then died almost straight away under 'circumstances unknown'. Cemetery Chapel full of stunned twenty somethings with no inner resources to cope. Did best to help them cope ...
The other big thing this week was preparing my draft text for Annual Review at the university: sent it off in the middle of the week, 60 000 words of deathly prose. Sorry; that should be deathless prose ... we'll see what the supervision panel look like after they have waded through it. I am very pleased really, in a quiet way because the end of this month is the half-way point in the time I am allowed and the target range is 90 to 100 thousand words, so in that sense I am well ahead of where I should be.
I shall be spending more time on it in the next eighteen months than in the past, all being well and pending approval from the bishop for my little scheme.
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Post by JoeP on Jun 7, 2013 19:35:32 GMT
Oh dear. Kye was "looking forward" to some funerals on her return to Montreal ...
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jun 9, 2013 12:14:17 GMT
There is a lot of job satisfaction in taking a funeral well, so that it serves the family, but I can't say 'looking forward' is quite the right way to put it!
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Post by westsands410 on Jun 9, 2013 13:40:16 GMT
I've only taken one - my grandmother's - and I wasn't looking forward to it one little bit. It wasn't quite as difficult as envisaged, which was a minor relief.
The removals company can't have to manage the move of many railways, I'd imagine, Fr G. - but it's good news that the new garden has plenty of track space!
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jun 9, 2013 21:05:33 GMT
... with space left over for a nice big shed for the Austrian narrow gauge as well ...
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