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- Wed Jan 09, 2019 8:31 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Email scam
- Replies: 22
- Views: 19895
Re: Email scam
To my shame, I've been scammed a couple of times recently. Both happened when I was ill, and in a hurry. Obviously my brain isn't working well when I'm ill, and being in a hurry may mean you don't pick up on warning bells. I tell myself I'll be more careful in future, but I'm getting on a bit and do...
- Fri Jul 20, 2018 3:44 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: More Space Geek Stuff
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6374
Re: More Space Geek Stuff
Faskinating! Thanks for the post!
- Fri Jul 20, 2018 3:34 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Help with being patient
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20155
Re: Help with being patient
Maybe some of you remember Berti, who had problems with her hearing implant? She stayed with us a year or so ago, in the UK, and left some books and wool for me to post to her in the Netherlands. I posted them pretty promptly, and let her know that they had been sent. After a month she asked me was ...
- Wed May 23, 2018 7:18 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Name this boat
- Replies: 47
- Views: 35580
Re: Name this boat
My grandfather, who emigrated from Scotland to practice psychiatry in Newfoundland in the 50s, used to tell a story of a colleague struggling to take a medical history from an elderly patient in a remote outport. "Have you ever had any episodes of serious illness, Mrs Tobin?" "Eppy w...
- Sat May 05, 2018 5:18 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: The pleasures of Spring
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6844
Re: The pleasures of Spring
Stingin'.
- Wed May 02, 2018 9:56 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Double-headed Quaver(or eighth note)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5340
Re: Double-headed Quaver(or eighth note)
That seems to be the explanation! Double-stopping on the A and E strings. Thank you!Mr.Gumby wrote:I have seen it used when the fiddle plays two Es, E string and pinkie on the A string, together. That may or may not be intended here.
- Wed May 02, 2018 7:01 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Double-headed Quaver(or eighth note)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5340
Double-headed Quaver(or eighth note)
One of my friends has a question on FB (you've heard of FB, right?) about a double-headed quaver or two (eighth notes, for youse Merkins) that turned up in some Swedish fiddle music. Both the heads are on the same spacing in the save, so they'd be playing the same note. Co-incidentally, there's a sh...
- Mon Apr 23, 2018 8:08 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Suggestions for a week in and near Northern Ireland.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6117
Re: Suggestions for a week in and near Northern Ireland.
There's a chap I know who used to live in Carrickfergus. He is a photographer, and found himself a bit limited there. He's moved to Glastonbury, and he's opened a business there. I have some of his work up on my walls.
http://www.kevpearson.com/dawn-workshop
http://www.kevpearson.com/dawn-workshop
- Sun Apr 22, 2018 3:27 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Suggestions for a week in and near Northern Ireland.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6117
Re: Suggestions for a week in and near Northern Ireland.
The Antrim Coast Road is something worth travelling. It's one of the "Famine Relief" works - and you can see why. You would not be naturally inclined to build a road along the coast in that position. But the views are stunning. I have a soft spot for the Ards Peninsula. It's very Protestan...
- Mon Apr 16, 2018 10:03 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Pandybats. Turkeys and Red Hands.
- Replies: 8
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- Fri Apr 13, 2018 7:15 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Cocktails
- Replies: 56
- Views: 73949
Re: Cocktails
It's a bit tangential, but I had to mention Gladly, the cross-eyed bear.
- Sat Apr 07, 2018 3:42 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Craic
- Replies: 108
- Views: 97399
Re: Craic
Cue Plant jokes!benhall.1 wrote:"Vervain" = "verbena". Same root.
Or do we stem that tide? Turn over a new leaf?
- Thu Apr 05, 2018 5:55 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Craic
- Replies: 108
- Views: 97399
Re: Craic
I've been a computer programmer for thirty years. My job title says "Senior Analyst Programmer". I've been with the same company for most of that time, but it has been bought and re-bought and changed names. Now there are only three of us from the original company, and the present company ...
- Wed Apr 04, 2018 6:11 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Craic
- Replies: 108
- Views: 97399
Re: Craic
Things in Oldham, Manchester, UK are a little busy right now. I still find time to do a few things on the harp though. Nothing special. "Mr Sandman, bring me a dream" comes out well, especially the intro bit. For those liking something a bit more trad, I do "Miss Bowls' Minuet" a...
- Wed Feb 28, 2018 8:45 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Cocktails
- Replies: 56
- Views: 73949
Re: Cocktails
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daiquiri Daiquari for me. Some places make it with cream. I can't do that since I turned vegan. There is such a thing as vegan cream, but let us draw a veil over such things. :cry: Nobody has mentioned a hot toddy - AKA whisky punch! It's said that the Jacobites in ret...