Posts posted by Vic Patterson
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These are two I have, not sure where they came from, my father in law Bill Dagless used to live in #2, I believe it was the first window to the right of the lady by the arch.
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17 minutes ago, lilbill15 said:
Yup @Vic Patterson, I agree entirely; as long as it stays at Blyth- I think Blyth is sneaking in Bedlington’s backdoor 😳😱! Xx
I bet that is what's they said in Sleekburn too, I don't think its the ordinary people who are behind it.
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1. What would you expect to find in a pluvial region? High precipitation
2. Where is Rupert Bear’s home town? Nutwood
3. What is the surname of boxing brothers Leon and Michael? Spinks
4. From which country does the wine Johannisberger come? Germany
5. A nectarine is a cross between a peach and which other fruit? Plum
6. In what year did Salman Rushdie go into hiding? 1989
7. There are two Cleopatra’s Needles. One is in London, where is the other? New York City
8. Who sang the theme song to the Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me? Marvin Hamlisch
9. Who in literature was haunted by the ghost of Banquo? Macbeth
10. Into which sea or ocean does the Mekong river flow? South China Sea.
11. Which European prime minister was assassinated in February 1986? Olof Palme
12. What were The Kinks dedicated followers of in 1966? Fashion
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1 hour ago, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:
I kept my old PC with Windows Vista as that is the machine I have the software that I use when 'clarting' with the photos.
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Same here! but as of last week it doesn't recognize me and won't let me log into my Toshiba Satellite Vista, "The user Profile Service failed the logon, User profile cannot be loaded" It was my favourite computer as we spoke the same language ! most of my most important (but older) information is on it, I have most of the information on an external drive but my newer Windows and Apple just cooperate! 🙄
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1. In which English county is Much Wenlock. Shropshire
2. How wide apart are the ‘tramlines’ in tennis. 35ft
3. How many syllables are there in a haiku. 17
4. Who is the patron saint of tax collectors. Matthew
5. Which organization has the motto ‘Courtesy and Care’.Automobile Association.
6. For which country did David Campese play rugby union. Australia
7. From which language does the word ‘shampoo’ originate. Indian
8. What is a chuckwalla. Lizzard
9. What did Shakespeare describe as ‘Green-eyed monster’.Jealousy.
10. Which scientist, who produced the Laws of Motion, was born on Christmas day 1642. Isaac Newton
11. Bilbo Baggins appears in which book. The Hobbit,
12. What is Britain’s most remote inhabited island. Fair Isle
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1. Which Japanese word (English spelling please) translates as ‘Empty Orchestra’?karaoke
2. Who could only play one tune – Over The Hills And Far Away?Tom, the Piper's Son
3. Off which group of islands would you find Bishop Rock lighthouse?Isles of Scilly
4. Which English monarch had a horse called White Surrey?King Richard III
5. Who missed the last penalty in the 1994 football World Cup?Roberto Baggio
6. What are the three ingredients of a Harvey Wallbanger cocktail?Vodka, Galliano and orange juice.
7. Which British architect designed the Cenotaph?Sir Edwin Lutyens
8. How many months have twenty eight days? 12
9. The Star of Africa is what type of gem?Diamond
10. Apart from Newcastle United which other team is nicknamed The Magpies?The Collingwood Football Club Brian will know this one.
11. What sort of creature is a Hairstreak?Butterfly
12. What is the name and profession of the hedgehog character created by Beatrix Potter?Washerwoman
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1. Of which instrument was the sackbut a forerunner? Trombone
2. Which Riviera fishing village was an independent republic from the 15th to the 17th century? Genoa
3. What are young grouse or partridge called? Poult
4. Who invented the steam turbine in 1884? Charles Parsons
5. What is your philtrum? The groove between the nose and upper lip.
6. Arch, whorl and loops are all part of what? Fingerprints
7. Which fruit was discovered by Christopher Columbus in Guadeloupe in 1493? Pineapple
8. Which spice is made from the outer covering of the nutmeg? Mace
9. What did goalkeeper Gordon Banks reputedly put on his hands to improve his grip? Chewing gum.
10. What are auctioned at Tattersalls? Horses
11. What record was a chart-topping hit for Showaddywaddy in 1975? Sweet Music and Three Steps to Heaven.
12. What is the smallest independent state in the world? Vatican City
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6 hours ago, Canny lass said:
It must have some relevance for the area if it's nothing to do with just Easter. Any idea what?
Vegreville is predominately settled with Ukrainian immigrants, mainly farmers, and the pysanka being their traditional way of decorating Easter eggs, the area is well known for its heritage preservation, music, dancing, singing etc and like many other small towns they like to advertise their clams to fame by erecting a large symbol, which also happens to be a wind vane! Grande Cache has a Grande Cache!
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1. Second Boer War
2. Thrushcross Grange,
3. The Cannon family
4. Goldie
5. 22
6. Patella
7. Silicon
8. Zephyr
9. Polio
10. Barbra Streisand
11. Yearling
12. Telephone
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5 hours ago, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:
My memory says our mam would boil the ones to be used for japping with the brown outer skins of onions making the egg shell stain a patchy brown.
On half of the eggs to be boiled for japping my dad was allowed to put designs on them by using a candle. He would draw out a pattern, with the candle, on the egg shell and the egg would then be wrapped with the onion skins, secured onto the egg with cord/twine, and then the egg boiled. When the onion skins were removed, after boiling, the wax from the candle had protected the onion skins from staining the pattern that had been drawn with the candle.
We all had one hardboiled egg to paint = competition and the winners egg was kept on display for months, or until one of the loosing children accidently😇 knocked the winning egg over and cracked the shell.
Being the youngest of the 3 lads my head was a place where the other two would crack open a hard boiled egg😬
Yes Alan that is how we decorated most of the eggs, hand painting the rest of them. My dad was quite an artist and he would paint pictures mostly the three crosses etc, he even made "Humpty Dumpy" eggs, plastercine limbs and sitting on a match box, my wife won a wrist watch with one at "the Club" or Grapes!
These are about 35 years old, and come out each year.
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6 hours ago, Canny lass said:
Confused, Vic? What I'm trying to say is that "sack" has never meant wine. In more modern day parlance, wine is a noun and sack is the adjective that describes the wine as being dry. The modern day name would therefore be HONEY DRY FARM. This just doesn't sound right for a farm name. Mind you, neither does Honey Sack Farm.
I'm hoping John can let us see the original of those three handwritten words.
Not really confused, but I never did get past the noun, verb and adjectives rules! but I learned just enough to be understood (usually)
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8 hours ago, Canny lass said:
I think mine was too! However, i did get to taste a Thorntons egg ( a very small piece of) a couple of times in my childhood. My sister worked for Berthe Burns in her 'Tea Rooms in Morpeth and Bertha was very generous at Xmas and Easter when her employees recieved a small box of chocolates (Xmas) or a chocolate egg (Easter) - always from Thorntons.
Chocolate! we used to dye or paint our paste eggs! then exchange them them within the family then have egg japping contest at tea time, (pointy to pointy and blunt to blunt ends!)
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1. Ukrainian Easter egg
2. The Easter Bilby
3. Dairy products
4. Peter Carl Fabergé's
5. Pre-Christian goddess in England, Eostre, who was celebrated at beginning of spring.
6. Fertility and rebirth, Easter eggs symbolize the empty tomb of Jesus, from which Jesus resurrected.
7. Queen Elizabeth I
8. Germany
9. President Hayes
10. Establish Easter Sunday as the Sunday following the second Saturday in April
11. No
12. 40 days
13. 16 oz
14. Pancake Tuesday!
15. Chile
16. April 16
17. Maundy Thursday
18. England
19. Ash Wednesday
20. Spanish
21. Hot cross bunnies!
I used to pass this Pysanka in Vegreville on my way to Saskatoon.
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I can relate to your predicament CL, Although our restrictions generally are not as severe as in many countries, Canada is having the same Covid problems, Politics, 10 Provinces 3 Territories all working separately and with not enough vaccine, all setting different priorities, I've had my first shot but the second one might be four months!,
I look forward to doing the Friday night quiz over BREAKFAST. (the rest of the day can just wait!) thank you for the challenges you set.
1. Domesday Book
2. Cambria (Cymru.)
3. Otter
4. Abdominal abscess.
5. George H. W. Bush
6. Paradine
7. Gum arabic
8. King Hussein of Jordan
9. Eggs
10. Daimler
11. Richard Adams
12. Dennis the Menace
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1. Massachusetts
2. Orion
3. Joseph Carey Merrick
4. Baritone
5. 9
6. UB40
7. Belmopan
8. Cornwall
9. Urdu
10. Parrot
11. Australia
12. Gopher wood
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Happy Birthday Foxy!
in Chat Central
You are not alone! We are also being governed by the same uncaring self interested politicians , I can't name a country that is being run for the interest of the average normal person who elected them!