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carolbee

monnagran wrote: »

Ivyleaf: I have never been known to underexaggerate in the search for a good story. There have been 'round the island' races held in good yachting weather, or so I'm reliably informed. However there have been some real humdingers. Back in the day Ted Heath's yacht was destroyed, scuttled, wrecked or whatever happens to these overpriced rafts. He was prime minister at the time if I remember rightly.
It's probably like mud at Glastonbury, happens often enough to become folklore.

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Silva: you are very wise. Never mind, the Pilot is going nowhere. See you sometime else, possibly in Ryde?


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I'm on the Isle of Wight at present, near sandown. What a lovely place. Going to watch some of the race tomorrow. Lucky you living here Monnagran.

monnagran

Carolbee. I am and I thank God every day.

We are just along the coast from Sandown and often go along there. Not in the tourist season though.. Enjoy the race. I might wander down the road to watch a bit if it's Not raining.

Hope you enjoy the rest of your break.

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Hard_Up_Hester

Monna, I'm so sorry to hear the news about DIL's mother.

Mila, have a great weekend.

I went to a Quiz and Curry night last night, the wind in the bedroom last night could compete with the Island race easily!

The quiz was great fun though the drive back was a bit hairy as DD2 drove and was having an episode, fortunately DIL was with us and took over behind the wheel. Also some of the characters last night provided me with ammunition for another story.

I'm out again tonight to a colleagues 50th, I'll be fit for nothing on Sunday, still all of DGS's washing is done and on the line. So if I get the rest of the housework done day, tomorrow I can sit and crochet for the day.

I managed to find an interesting book for DD1 for her birthday, a biography of Wilson Keppel and Betty, Joe Keppel is my DD's great, great, great uncle.
I don't expect any of you are old enough to remember them but may remember Morecambe & Wise doing a take off of their famous sand dance with Glenda Jackson taking the part of Betty.

Monna, I have a friend who lives in Blackpool and never goes near the Pleasure Beach because of the grockles.

mardatha

My dad loved Wilson Keppel and Betty and Ifound them on YouTube and loved them

Floss

Hard_Up_Hester wrote: »

...Monna, I have a friend who lives in Blackpool and never goes near the Pleasure Beach because of the grockles.

Neither do we - although that is mainly since Amanda Thompson took over and put a £5 charge on just to walk round :eek: We tend to walk down the South Promenade, where the grockles don't venture cos there's no pubs or tat! We love walking the Prom between the three piers in winter with no visitors!

monnagran

I know where your friend is coming from Hester. Here we are very dependent on grockles for our economy and so welcome them warmly with our fingers crossed behind our backs.

Mila: Hester's post reminded me that at one point somewhere you were asking what a quiz night was. I don't remember if anyone has told you.

A quiz night is where people gather in little teams of 4, 6 or whatever, either pre-arranged or cobbled together on the night, and attempt to answer questions posed by the quiz master. The questions are are divided into various themes, ie ' music' 'history', 'sport', 'books' and suchlike.
The winners are the team that accrue the most correct answers.

There is usually food and drink involved and if held in a church hall the food varies but the drink is tea or coffee. If held in a pub the drink is often pre-dominant and as the evening progresses the atmosphere grows more and more convivial and the result of the quiz grows more and more irrelevant.

The prize can be anything from a box of liquorice all-sorts to an all-expenses-paid holiday for two in the Maldives.
To be honest I've never actually encountered the latter prize but I'm sure that if you move in the right social circles it could happen.

In my experience, mostly of the church hall ilk, the evening is characterised by much laughter, spirited debate over the veracity of answers, bitter accusations of cheating, rancorous verbal exchanges and best friends never speaking to each other for the rest of their lives.

It is huge fun.

So now you know what a quiz evening is and how we brits choose to enjoy ourselves.


Yikes! Look at the time. I've not had breakfast yet.

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Hard_Up_Hester

£5, bloody hell Floss that's ridiculous. Yes the south promenade is great.
Mardatha. There were 10 or 12 different Betty's, the original one became a war correspondent, and one was called Patsy and was the daughter of the original.
That's a very good explanation Monna, I used to love quiz night at the local pub but I stopped going when I found I was competing against Google, people using their phones spoilt it for me.

silvasava

Hester - I too loved Wilson,Keppel & Betty. I saw them at the Theatre Royal in Portsmouth when I was little (along with Doctor Crock and his Crackpots!) Always love the beach and seaside out of season too. Lovely memories of wrapping the boys up in wellies and waterproofs to go wave chasing and puddle jumping and home to a warm casserole smelling home! Aaaaaaargh what am I thinking - it's JULY for goodness sake!

moneyistooshorttomention

:rotfl:at how we are confusing Mila now - as she is probably wondering what "grockles" means.

Explanation - bit of a humorous and/or derogatory word (dependant on who is using it and in what context) for tourists.

I thought it was a West Country word myself - and hadnt realised its travelled beyond our "borders"...

Just wait and see whether Mila gets confused by the fact that several different words get used for the same thing (eg the padded item of seating one uses to sit on in a reception room is called variously settee or sofa, followed by the room it's in might be called lounge/living room/sitting room/drawing room). That's just a few examples.

If you ever travel to Britain and someone invites you for any meal you will need to do a bit of careful questioning to see which meal they mean. If it's breakfast - you're safe = we all mean the first meal of the day. If it's lunch - it's at lunchtime (ie starting 12 noon-1pm). If we call it dinner we could mean either the lunchtime meal or the evening meal. If we call it tea - we might mean either "afternoon tea" (a meal about 4pm - with sandwiches/scones/etc) or "high tea" (a full meal starting sometime between 6pm and 8pm). If you're asked if you want supper - it might mean supper (ie hot milky drink and something like a few biscuits or, possibly, something a tad more filling - eg a sandwich). On the other hand it might be someone calling the evening meal supper.

So if I asked you for a meal it would be either lunch (easy enough) or dinner (I'd mean the evening meal).

Someone else might ask you for dinner or tea (meaning high tea).

One blessing is you'd never be invited to come round for supper (as that's what our "upper class" call the evening meal - and further confuse the issue by things like possibly calling it a "kitchen supper") and when the rest of us say supper we mean that hot milky drink/few biscuits and thats not something we would specifically invite anyone round for.

I do hope you've got a lot of patience at working it all out if you ever visit. Even some of us get confused sometimes and have been known to get invited for dinner and turn up at a puzzled hosts house at lunchtime or go round for tea expecting a hearty meal. Always best to clarify what is meant when given an invite for a meal if you don't know the person very well.

FurryBeastOz

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

One blessing is you'd never be invited to come round for supper (as that's what our "upper class" call the evening meal - and further confuse the issue by things like possibly calling it a "kitchen supper") and when the rest of us say supper we mean that hot milky drink/few biscuits and thats not something we would specifically invite anyone round for.

Wow. Thanks. I've been raised in station. 'Upper class me' 😹
Sorry. You'd be round for supper at mine! But maybe as a furriner that is allowed:rotfl::rotfl: