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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Roger Kettle on September 20, 2010, 09:07:10 PM
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In a couple of weeks, I'll be off for my annual seven days in the Algarve. I must admit that I'm really looking forward to it. It will be, well, a year since my last break so my brain is already starting to think about cold beers and seafood restaurants. My daughter and her boyfriend, Steven Higginson (check his website---buy his paintings) will be with me, my wife and Diamond Lil so it should be a good 'un. The villa we've booked has all the facilities, including both a pool and a pool table. I'm expecting to cover the cost of the holiday by playing young Steven at pool for money.
You lot going anywhere soon?
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Well, Number Two son and nearly d-i-l are going to Egypt on the 30th, and I'll be moving into their house to watch tv. After six days of watching unadulterated crap, my decision NOT to have a tv will be re-confirmed!
On the plus side, I get the pleasure of living in a large house with a garden, dishwasher and somewhere to park the car, instead of my tiny flat!
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Vulch, I'm impressed. You don't have a TV at home? I'm one of those people that have all the singing/dancing/sports/film channels currently available to mankind and....I hardly watch any of them. It's like Linus's security blanket. I need to know it's there if I want it.
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I have an analogue tv that I got from eBay for £20. I can only use it for watching DVDs and the occasional video. My Number Two son has this huge plasma screen and a million channels!
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Happy Hols! - Happy House Sitting!
We don't do holidays. But today I did get my daughter and I some school group tickets to see act 3 of the ballet Sleeping Beauty in the city in November - we will go if the roads are not too bad. I'm only out $20 if the roads are bad.
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I'm off on my annual fishing trip up to Northern Ontario on Thursday. It might only be 5 days there but I've been looking forward to this since April and been grinning like a loon for a week.
I guess the trivia "title" is out, it was shaping up to be a close run one.
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Hope you stay warm and dry Calvin. Say hi to the loons from us. ;D
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Is this a good moment to plug my holiday website (http://www.holidaytrails.co.uk)?
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I'm off to Copenhagen for a week in two weeks time (duty calls again). Any good sights to see there?
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What kind of "duty" do you have in Copenhagen Bill? Are you a drug smuggler or a missionary?
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I'm off to Copenhagen for a week in two weeks time (duty calls again). Any good sights to see there?
The Tivoli gardens are fun. At least, they were the last time I was in Copenhagen, 37 years ago.
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What kind of "duty" do you have in Copenhagen Bill? Are you a drug smuggler or a missionary?
Yet another meeting involving talking about - oops, nearly got in trouble there. No, and No.
according to the last census we had here in the good old UK in 2001, I was registered as a Jedi (just to annoy the system).
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I'm off to Copenhagen for a week in two weeks time (duty calls again). Any good sights to see there?
The Tivoli gardens are fun. At least, they were the last time I was in Copenhagen, 37 years ago.
I will try and see them http://www.visitcopenhagen.com/content/tourist/what_to_see_and_do/events/event_calendar/venue_info?VenueID=6 (http://www.visitcopenhagen.com/content/tourist/what_to_see_and_do/events/event_calendar/venue_info?VenueID=6) while I am there, and let you know.
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Have a lovely time, Roger - sounds good to me! Happy house sitting, Vulch. Hope you find some decent TV programmes. Enjoy Copenhagen, Bill - never been, would love to, though. Have a good time fishing, Calvin. Hope the mozzies aren't too big, or they've all died off by this time of year. ;D
I'm not allowed to have any more holidays for a while. Just had an amazing 5 weeks playing tourist with my sister. Been around Sydney - the harbour, Parramatta, Manly, Watson's Bay, the Rocks, West Head, North Head, Palm Beach, etc, etc, the Blue Mountains, the Hunter Valley and Mudgee. We also had an excellent evening at a concert by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Opera House, with dinner at the Opera Bar before hand. Facebook friends have been bamboozled by the photos, I'm sure, especially of the Harbour Bridge and Opera House, but here are some of the better ones:
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_03GS3Izjqag/TIgm4ey7fNI/AAAAAAAAJ14/DxF3RFWNJs4/s640/sueaustralia20100908015.jpg)
The Three Sisters and Jamieson Valley - Blue Mountains
(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_03GS3Izjqag/TIJAxjYjoFI/AAAAAAAAJgo/YF6wzzowfj8/s640/sueaustralia20100901020.jpg)
Aboriginal hand print stencils - Hands On Rock, Great Dividing Range, NSW
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_03GS3Izjqag/TIXGvDaL0zI/AAAAAAAAJx8/Wal9kxJeqyc/s640/sueaustralia20100906015.jpg)
Climbers on the Harbour Bridge - I may be doing this next year with some friends.
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_03GS3Izjqag/THXUxJoUgWI/AAAAAAAAJVg/YYGLNUPMq60/s640/sueaustralia20100824016.jpg)
A different view of the Opera House
The rest are here:
http://picasaweb.google.com.au/bjjktg/AugustSeptember2010# (http://picasaweb.google.com.au/bjjktg/AugustSeptember2010#)
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Cool photos Joan - whoever thought of putting up the Sydney Opera House was onto a really good idea.
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Wonderful photos, Joan---the Blue Mountains look incredible.
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Great photos Joan :D
Have a lovely holiday Roger and Calvin.
And to our very own OO7, Top Gun, Mission Impossible (Bill) enjoy!
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Aw, c'mon guys. You know it's just another boring NATO meeting. And as for the Bond impression, my number is much longer than that - and my pilot's licence is only for Cessna 150/172, and is way out of date. Nice thought though, Lucy. Thanks :-*
Great pictures, Joan. I would love to visit Australia sometime. The pictures reminded me of the recent series of 'Who do you think you are?' in which Jason Donovan traced his family tree back in Oz. He was not only a descendant of a prisoner (the crimes are too weak to call him a criminal) and an officer transporting said. The latter is said to have blazed the road out of the Sidney area over the mountains into the fertile land beyond, and in record time.
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Haven't seen Jason Donovan's one here yet, Bill. Interesting (and sad) to read about convicts and just how pathetic some of their crimes were. It was a long hard slog getting over the Blue Mountains - if he did it in record time, it propably wasn't that quick. Just looking down at the valleys from above, you can imagine how hard it would have been. They are quite stunning, Roger - it was very clear when we went, so we could see for miles. Sometimes it can be very hazy (from the blue 'mist' they get their name from) and of course, it can be wet, foggy and cloudy so you can't see anything at all. We went to Govett's Leap Lookout which looks out over the Grose Valley and is likened to the Grand Canyon - looks like it a bit, but the vegetation is somewhat different!
You're right, Diane. It caused a lot of cerfuffle when it was being built, but the Opera House certainly put Sydney on the map.
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I think he built the road with a thirty volunteer convicts in six months (and no dynamite), and way ahead of the planned time. It was over the Blue Mountains (if those are the ones from Sydney). The convicts were granted their freedom after the task.
William Cox is the ancestor that built the road, having travelled to Australia with his family and ending up as a pioneer paving the way for the growth of the Australian nation. See the site http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010248b.htm (http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010248b.htm)
Interestingly, I currently live 5 miles from Wimborne, Dorset.
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Ah, I misunderstood. I thought he was one of the men who actually crossed the Blue Mountains, which took a long time because the terrain was so rough. Very interesting about William Cox. I've learned a lot about the history of NSW over the last couple of months! Some I knew and had my memory jogged, but most I didn't know at all.
That's a good site, Bill - I've bookmarked it.
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Copenhagen is currently overcast, with likelihood of rain today. however, we are going on a trip round the city this afternoon, then by boat to a dinner. All in the line of duty, I might add. Yet to see the Tivoli Gardens but am only 20 minutes walk away. Tomorrow is looking good. Still have to buy a Troll for the wifey.
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Hope you get to see Tivoli Gardens, Bill---they are a lot of fun. Having said that, the last time I was there, I was 22 years old and single. My evenings were spent with a Carlsberg lager in hand, trying not to let my jaw drop as hundreds of spectacular Danish girls walked by. This may have coloured my memories.
Anyway, I'm off to Portugal first thing tomorrow morning. Keep the site tidy and I'll talk to you all when I get back at the end of next week.
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Bon Voyage!
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Have a great holiday, Roger. Hope you're taking your sketch book and pen.
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Why, doesn't Roger have a camera?
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Why, doesn't Roger have a camera?
Wot! Roger with something as technical as a digital camera?
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He's probably got a box brownie.
By the way, the Tivoli gardens are closed now (out of season) and only open now for Halloween and Christmas. Even the Little Mermaid has gone on holiday to China until November. All I got to see was a video image of her in Shanghai.
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That's a shame, Bill. >:( I'd be pis... somewhat annoyed if I went all the way to Copenhagen and the Little Mermaid had done a bunk.
Have great hols, Roger. Isn't there a bar or something with a live webcam where Roger's going? Didn't Rob or someone post about it before? Maybe I'm thinking of someone else.
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Isn't there a bar or something with a live webcam where Roger's going? Didn't Rob or someone post about it before? Maybe I'm thinking of someone else.
Yes, I believe it's transmitting live images to the waters' edge at Langeline in Copenhagen as some form of cultural Internet exchange between p*ss artists.
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Isn't there a bar or something with a live webcam where Roger's going? Didn't Rob or someone post about it before? Maybe I'm thinking of someone else.
Yes, I believe it's transmitting live images to the waters' edge at Langeline in Copenhagen as some form of cultural Internet exchange between p*ss artists.
That's what the picture shows - a video screen. However, there was no movement or change of image whilst I was there.
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However, there was no movement or change of image whilst I was there.
I could be wrong, but I think the Little Mermaid is actually a statue, and not real.
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Nooooooo!
Actually, I referred to image, not an actual body.
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Just wondering...did you by any chance have to climb over a bloody big wall to see the site of the Little Mermaid?
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Isn't there a bar or something with a live webcam where Roger's going? Didn't Rob or someone post about it before? Maybe I'm thinking of someone else.
Yes, I believe it's transmitting live images to the waters' edge at Langeline in Copenhagen as some form of cultural Internet exchange between p*ss artists.
;D You've always been able to make me laugh out loud first thing in the morning, TT!
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Sadly, you're not the first woman to have told me that, Joan, but I thank you all the same. ;D
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Just wondering...did you by any chance have to climb over a bloody big wall to see the site of the Little Mermaid?
No. The pathway is at the same level as the start of the rocks, which goes down to sea-level (about 2 metres below). Then the display screen is beside the water's edge, just as in the picture.
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So what did China send in exchange?
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A cup, saucer and some nice plates! ;D
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..0 ;D
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I love women's jokes, and I laughed at that.
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Sadly, you're not the first woman to have told me that, Joan, but I thank you all the same. ;D
Ah, but I bet I'm the first one who was on the other side of the world at the time, TT. ;)
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It's probably safer that way.