Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Generali

ivyleaf wrote: »

I've seen that quite a few times, great fun :rotfl:

The BiL's mate watched it a few months ago so I'm two degrees of separation from having seen it.

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Generali

We had a great day today after a slightly ropy one yesterday.

Up early (for a Sunday) for brekkie crumpets. Then The Girl and I made lunches for the Generalissimos and me (Mrs Generali had to study today) and lots of snacky bits to nibble on.

First stop was the Guide Dogs for the Blind fair at Western Sydney Parklands which was great. They had loads of guide dog puppies which were just lovely and loads of fun. There were bouncy castles and a coffee place and stalls and stuff. It was quite small so we got round there pretty quickly.

Then off to the city to use my Maritime Museum pass that I get free through work. There was a really interesting exhibition about Shackleton, what an amazing group of men! What I hadn't appreciated was that Shackleton was resented when he got back as WW1 was being waged in his absence and what had seemed like a brave mission when they set out was now seen as being wasteful and foolhardy.

Then on to the main attraction. Horrible Histories had put on a Pirates exhibition for kids. It was blimmin' brilliant. There were a couple of air powered cannons for kids to fire foam rubber balls at each other from two ships and a 'stamp on the rat' thing where rats were projected onto the floor and if you stamped on them they went splat! There was hardly any supervision provided or needed. The kids killed rats and fired cannon at each other to their hearts' content.

There were a few educational bits around the place too. There were some bits of 'ship' that had crawl spaces with bits of history on them and some knots to be tied and a bloke with a (fake) flintlock and cutlass that the kids got to play with.

Then home for Normandy Pork (pork, apple and mirepoix cooked in cider and cream) with spuds and veggies and two tired out Generalissimos are now zedding.

michaels

Not normally someone who has time for philosophy and all that Frenchie naval gazing but I found this interesting:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35667355

I have a strong dislike of people who change the past to make it palatable for current mores right down to Spielburg editing out guns on the DVD version of ET.....

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Not normally someone who has time for philosophy and all that Frenchie naval gazing but I found this interesting:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35667355

I have a strong dislike of people who change the past to make it palatable for current mores right down to Spielburg editing out guns on the DVD version of ET.....

As I see it, the statue's just a lump of carved stuff.... it's part of the history of the place. If you visited it'd be "something old" to point at and say "ooh look, something old, wonder who that is".

It's not as if they're marched out every morning to salute it and sing a song dedicated to his ideals and values.

All old stuff that's just sitting around should just be left because ... well, it's old stuff.

I bet most would never have even noticed its existence if some over-privileged twonk with a large sense of entitlement hadn't woken up one morning and decided to make a fuss just because they were bored.

kabayiri

Wemberlee
Had to suffer a Train load of city fans
Stadium is looking great
Hope the NP massive is well
Come on the reds!

Spirit_2

last night we watched a film on TV. Invictus, it was the title that attracted me as that was the poem that inspired me when I had my stroke I have posted before about this. The film was a story about Nelson Mandela and the Springboks. A Mandela line in the film completely floored me; " when I was on Robben Island,it was that poem that made me stand up when I wanted to lie down".

That was my experience exactly.



Today we had bacon sandwiches for breakfast, OH rodded the drains (yuk) I drove (with L plates) to Southsea, we walked along the seafront, had coffee and walked back again. Sunny but freezing by the sea.

This afternoon OH cut the grass, and spoke with breeders who have litters of puppies due. By the time they are ready to leave their mothers we will be ready to have one.

Walking without a dog is all wrong.

ukmaggie45

We've had such a lovely sky here this evening. As it got later the south easterly wind dropped, and there were reflections of lights in the river... Should have taken photos earlier, but there you go! Here's the best of the ones I took later.

Evening reflections on the Mersey7 by Maggie, on Flickr

Spirit_2

So we have been chatting about dogs names.
We have had Sedge and Fen, and adopted Ben.

It got us talking about other animal's names. DD has a friend with a lion head rabbit called Richard ( geddit?) I have always said if we got a pet goat it would be called Caspar. My friend who is a vet had a rescued Bat called Baseball.

We are no further forward. It would be easier to name a baby.

Spirit_2

Lovely photo Maggie.

GDB2222

My son had a soft toy donkey when he was little called Donkey Ho Tay (geddit). Not as good as Rabbit the Lionheart, though.