Yes, Friends, is your "local" a bit "rammed", especially at weekends? We've all been there, haven't we - and hence the "rammedness" haha!
Well, one local bar has come up with the solution: a nice patio where you can drift outside to with your drinking-companions, at least according to this morning's local Onion News for East Hampshire - check this little "doozy" out for size!
But this morning the Onion story brings a chuckle to the lower part of my face, and to that of my light-to-moderate wife Lois here at our home in leafy, semi-grassy Liphook, Hampshire, not a million miles away from Spears's 'intimate' "drinking-hole" (!).
my light-to-moderate wife Lois and me - a recent picture
Let me put you in the picture at this point!
At 9:30 am we're taking our weekly Sunday morning catch-up zoom call with our 48-year-old daughter Sarah and her 12-year-old twins Lily and Jessica, 9000 miles away in Perth, Western Australia. And we're hearing how husband Francis is busy again out on the patio of their back garden, clearing out piles of unwanted timber - "hiding place for snakes" (yikes!!!) - and also constructing some kind of pergola with dangling vines. I don't pretend to understand the details, but pictures are promised - soon to soonish (!), so watch this space!
[I can't wait! - Ed]
our weekly Sunday morning zoom catch-up call with our 48-year-old daughter
Sarah and her 12-year-old twins Lily and Jessica - husband Francis is outside
on their patio, ensuring that there's 'no hiding place' for poisonous snakes - yikes!!!
Otherwise today, Sunday, is a bit of a quiet day for Lois and me - and no less welcome for that, given the mayhem of the last few days!!!! It rains pretty much non-stop from midday, ending the recent dry spell, and I don't drive Lois to her church's Sunday Morning Meeting. She takes part online, while I try and do something to fix the mess on her online accounts after she got locked out of her phone last week.
What a crazy world we live in!
our local weather today: after a dry spell here in semi-grassy
Liphook, Hampshire, it pretty much rains non-stop from midday today
Also the next fortnightly online meeting of our local U3A "Intermediate Danish for Old Codgers" group is coming up fast, the group that Lois and I joint-manage ("for our sins" (!)), and today I've got all the vocab sheets to key in and email out to our members. Busy busy busy!!!!
Lois and me trying desperately to control another rowdy online
meeting of our local U3A "Intermediate Danish for Old Codgers" group
Luckily there are some top-rated relics tonight for us two ageing "medium-standard-relics" (!) to gawp on on Antiques Roadshow tonight, the series where members of the public bring along family heirlooms from their attics and store cupboards to some local stately home or open-air museum, to have them discussed and valued by experts in the field.
Tonight, the Roadshow, with regular presenter Fiona Bruce, is in South Wales at the wonderful National Waterfront Museum in Swansea.
One visitor brings along mementos and a picture of her great-great-uncle, Reginald Hale, who emigrated to the States in his early 20s, spent 7 or 8 years working over there, but came back to the UK when his father died, and he wanted to be with his mother, so he spent the winter here.
Hale had only intended to stay in the UK short term, however, and in the spring of 1912, he decided to go back and resume his career in the States.
The first opportunity he had to return was on the maiden voyage of the Titanic, and sadly, he was one of the passengers who didn't survive the journey. His body was recovered, however, and the decision was made to bury him at sea.
In all, in his pockets, poor Reg apparently had a total of 16 shillings, a U.S. $10 bill, gloves, a purse and some keys. From these, only one shilling appears to have survived today, but Reg's great-great-niece gets a nice surprise, to put it mildly, when it's valued, together with its "provenance", at several thousand pounds, would you believe!
And that "£10,000 to £15,000" is for
just one of those shillings. This woman believes that the other 15 shilling-bits may have been distributed among the man's large family, and many of them may still be around today, unless the original recipients were foolish enough to "
blow" them on, say, a dozen freshly-baked 1912 veal and ham pies, for example, at a penny a "pop" (!).
some typical Edwardian veal and ham pies at a penny a pop (!)
What a crazy world we live in !!!!
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzz!!!!!
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