General Chat

Congratulations, Sue, and to all her little helpers too, of course!

Allan

We can all congratulate ourselves - but particularly Sue - on creating a great thread and also a great bunch of friends!

We've done well haven't we. Just think - a year ago we didn't even know each other. Now we're great friends and I'm so so pleased I started this thread and had the pleasure of meeting you all.

Sue xx

Just a little more to add to my previous post. It has been a privilege to 'know' you all - that includes those are not posting any more.
Diane - that includes you - also Barbra and of course, our beautiful Alison - the lady who taught us more about hope than we thought we knew. I'm so glad I knew her.

I'm also glad we got to know Alison - a very special person who touched all our hearts.

Sue xx

CC, it could also be associated with the rain...thay are all going rusty!

Logically, whether you believe in the theory (or should that be postulation?) of Creation or the theory of Evolution, we must all be descended from common ancestors regardless of 'race'

Allan

I just got one number on the lottery tonight Tec, so that isn't going to get us on the cruise

Back to Adam and Eve again Allan,

Linda, That's no good, try harder. Do you think we could work our passage to Australia, I can drive the ship, you can navigate.

CC. You are correct about the basic history of the Celt. It was Huw Edwards who did the series on BBC. We have the visble remains of a huge Roman amphitheatre sp not far from me, and lots of sights of Roman forts in N.Wales.

Berona, It is also my privilege to know you, and everyone on this thread.

Tec

Linda it should be easier the second time around as you know which numbers to pick :0))

CC when I studied history at Secondary School, we learnt all about the various 'invasions' of Europe and then Britain.

It's all a jumble now but i recall (not personally), the Goths, Vizigoths, Vandals, Jutes, Saxons, Picts

Plus all the raids carried out by the Vikings.

Fascinating!

I have a "Complete Atlas of the British Isles" that also deatails the development of the English Language and Dialects, following these various raids and assimilations


Allan

Sorry everyone - I must love you and leave you. Talk soon.

Love to Diane if you're looking in.

Sue xx

Bye Sue,
Enjoy your day.....take care.
Tec

I got side tracked, but it is now late,so I am off to bed as well. Have a good day/sleep well.

Good bye to Sue and Linda

CC The Vikings also settled on the Isle of Man. I spent a couple of holidays there as a boy and the history of the Island always intrigued me.

If they didn't have horns on their helmets did they have bells?

Allan

Adieu CC, Pleasant dreams

Allan

Goodnight Linda, and CC......sleep well.

Allan, They had bells on their toes.

Well I too must away to my bed.

Enjoy your day Allan and Berona,
Sleep well Poms who are still up, including you Diane.

Goodnight

Tec

Goodnight Tec, please pass on my regards to the Duchess

Allan

Well it makes a change for me to be the first Brit up. That is because OH has left very early for his weekly walk with the Ramblers, no wheelie bins involved Allan, so it wouldn't do for you.

It is a lovely sunny start to the day here and the temperature may reach the dizzy heights of 15 degrees.

Good morning to you, Linda!

It makes a nice change to say that.

I love the Rambler song. I'll Google it for you.

Allan

And here it is


Manchester Rambler
(Ewan MacColl)

I've been over Snowdon, I've slept upon Crowdon
I've camped by the Waynestones as well
I've sunbathed on Kinder, been burned to a cinder
And many more things I can tell
My rucksack has oft been me pillow
The heather has oft been me bed
And sooner than part from the mountains
I think I would rather be dead

Ch: I'm a rambler, I'm a rambler from Manchester way
I get all me pleasure the hard moorland way
I may be a wageslave on Monday
But I am a free man on Sunday

The day was just ending and I was descending
Down Grinesbrook just by Upper Tor
When a voice cried "Hey you" in the way keepers do
He'd the worst face that ever I saw
The things that he said were unpleasant
In the teeth of his fury I said
"Sooner than part from the mountains
I think I would rather be dead"

He called me a louse and said "Think of the grouse"
Well i thought, but I still couldn't see
Why all Kinder Scout and the moors roundabout
Couldn't take both the poor grouse and me
He said "All this land is my master's"
At that I stood shaking my head
No man has the right to own mountains
Any more than the deep ocean bed

I once loved a maid, a spot welder by trade
She was fair as the Rowan in bloom
And the bloom of her eye watched the blue Moreland sky
I wooed her from April to June
On the day that we should have been married
I went for a ramble instead
For sooner than part from the mountains
I think I would rather be dead

So I'll walk where I will over mountain and hill
And I'll lie where the bracken is deep
I belong to the mountains, the clear running fountains
Where the grey rocks lie ragged and steep
I've seen the white hare in the gullys
And the curlew fly high overhead
And sooner than part from the mountains
I think I would rather be dead.

Allan

Apparently, the song was written before there was free access to the Moors etc and Ewan MacColl became the first to demand such access.

Allan