THE BRITISH THREAD II

I'm off to Asda and B&M Bargains - I love that shop.

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I have lost both parents, my only two other brothers and my only family is cousins somewhere I know not where (apart from 5 kids and two divorces).....and so many friends...about 40 dead I think without stopping to add them up...I am sure you understand....and I have more than a beginners knowledge of Probate in Oz.
No, I shouldnt. But I apologise if I caused any hurt. (note my sig) Sometimes my own calouses affect my sensitive nature.
I thank you for showing more grace and good manners than I...it is a quality I always meant to get around to learning. Maybe I still will someday...Again, my apologies for any hurt, you certainly did nothing to justify it on my part, but I am always intolerably flippant. It is a survival mechanism.

And me. Lets not forget the innocent and gentlemanly like myself.
The best form of birth control is to have one...if that doesnt stop you from having others then you are doomed.

Good everning from sunny Doncaster in Merry old England. I'm excited. I've seen a bumble bee, a squirrel and a castle. sadly no hedgehogs yet.
We visited Pevril castle at Castleton. lovely place if a bit touristy, very quaint village. Drove myself through Sheffield which i consider a bit of an achievment.
England seems a little like my part of Australia except squished up.
Had unpasturised cheese for lunch.
Met Chris who lives on a boat on the river here and had a tour of his boat.
York tomorrow

Hoping a hedge hog crosses your path. Say hello to the little guy from me, if you see one.

When I was a kid there were always hedgehogs around except in winter. I've fed some from my fingers.

I understand with the destruction of the hedgerows that there are fewer of the little guys around.

They are not little guys. They are like rats with spikes on their backs.

Yes, but there are lots of animals larger than hedge hogs. Even a rat isn't as pig as a house cat.

Actually POM, women are a bit like hedgehogs when you think about it.

Anyone watch The Normans last night?

What did you think?

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I saw the last 25 minutes whilst I was drying off on mi king size after mi daily soak. It was the usual type of history programme but exceptional for the miniscule nature of the budget. What I mean by usual is that the programme fulfilled the usual requirements which are--

1-To fill in the time in the TV schedules.

2- To retain as much of the programme's budget for salaries and expenses as possible.

3- To promote ticket sales etc at the sites where the original tapestry (it's not actually a proper tapestry) is exhibited in Normandy or the one where a Victorian copy is on display in Berkshire.

4- To allow the audience, which is basically sat on its arse in rest mode, to imagine they have learned some history so they can show off on various internet sites or in pub conversations and thus pose as intellectuals.

5- To enhance Prof Hudson's reputation as a skilled communicator and explicator of complex events with a few brush strokes designed to conceal the maidenly blushes involved in the generation of large armies.

It was a bit like covering the last few years in the UK with the tale of how Mr Blair was replaced by Mr Brown and his subsequent replacement by the Coalition of desperate office seekers.

So...

Did you like it then?

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It's minuscule, Spendy.

Germans put mustard on their sausages- two kinds of mustard, and umpteen kinds of sausages.

And Austrians. Went up in the cablecar this morning, fabby panorama of the Halps.
Might have some Schnitzl this evening. Well done Smorgs, can`t be too careful with an accent wall.

It made me laugh. The empty field scene at the end was really amusing. I felt a little twinge of pity for the 200 mile march from York in 4 days of Harold's army. And I did wonder what the womenfolk were up to while these things were going on. The days were just as long for them as they were for the soldiers. And, indeed, as our days are.

Its no good disliking The Normans Spendi...they provided you with half of your kulcha by force of arms. Otherwise you would just be Anglo-Saxon-Celtic-Romano-Jute-Norwegian/Danish-Britons. And THAT would have been boring. As it is, you can now claim your Upper Class Twits are the way they are because of rape and other trauma inflicted by the Norman Upper Class invaders on the upper class that existed at the time. So it is no good being howwid to The Normans....

Each kind of sausages needs a mustard (out of this two main mustards, which have a couple of 'sub mustards' each).

Well, we saw a couple of Bavarian, Austrian, Liechtenstein and Swiss Alps this week, too. And had a dramatic ship trip during a thunder storm on the Lake of Constance last Sunday night.

Sounds good, Walter. Donnerwetter auf den Bodensee? Once we had a similar experience sailing from Regensburg on the River of Danube. Folks standing on the jetty got absolutely soaked, in seconds. But we were under cover, on board.

Today, Goldegg in Pongau which is quite near Kitzbühl, and not too far from the Dachstein group of mountains, lovely scenery. But the weather is a bit iffy, coolish and breezy, with a promise of sunnier days over the weekend.

It had been a night tour along the Swiss coastline, watching the fireworks on the Swiss National Holiday (no joke: the tickets included the Swiss firework tax).

It was a real storm, storm warning lights and the blue lights of police and fire-brigade boats everywhere (plus the lightning and the fireworks). And was a bit dangerous, too, since quite a lot of tress were floating in the lake (we got hit at least twice, though there were crew members as outlooks and all searchlights were used

Started the decorating with Eunice today, glossed the skirting and picture rail (it's an old fashioned house) Eunice calls it my slag-pad (cheeky cow, and she's got no room to talk seeing as she shagged **** ***** in 2002), she did the ceiling (I can't do heights). Did polyfilling, sanding and everything... and all on fags, crumpets, tea and chocolate eclaires. It's the thinking woman's diet!

Papering tomorrow.

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