Vic Patterson

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

1.         Drove (or litter.)

2.         1,500-metre run.

3.         South Island

4.         Paris.

5.        Kettledrums

6.         Kate Hudson

7.         Brooker, Reid and Fisher

8.         King of Scots Robert the Bruce

9.         Julius Caesar

10.      Cricket

11.      Helium. (lithium, beryllium, and boron)

12.      Apple

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! 🙄

Thank you all so much for your kind thoughts and prayers, it seems no matter how prepared you feel you are it is still a shock, that is when friends and family are so important.

Creating memories is very important, not long ago we called her sister Joyce, their first conversation was of a four year olds  Christmas in Phillips Yard and an "incident" with a dolly that had a celluloid face! Creating and recounting memories is so important. 

We brought her bedridden mom Ruby with us to Canada, in a few years the dry mountain air enabled her to regain some mobility and was able to walk and attend her weekly "Bingo" 19 bonus years. Bonus memories for her grand children!

Thank you again for you appreciated thoughts.

Vic.

It is with great sadness I have to announce the passing away of my wife Dot (Doreen Dagless) Patterson, after a long illness she passed away May 10th in the Grande Cache hospital (Alberta, Canada), peacefully, with her family by her side.

Born June 9th 1944 and raised in Bedlington, Married in St Cuthbert's church September 5th 1962, she raised four children, Andrea, Keith, Angela and Amanda, and then moved to Canada 1976, where the family became larger gaining 10 grand children 7 great grandchildren .

It has been many years since she was able to visit Bedlington but was able to keep in touch with several friends and school friends (Hollymount square, Westridge school), and fondly remembered the reunions 

She was pre deceased by her mom and dad, Ruby and Bill Dagless and her sister Jean Harrison.

Vic Patterson.

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

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

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

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!

1 hour ago, Canny lass said:

I'm a bit late in asking but is it a permanent feature, all year round, or do they just bring it out at Easter? If it's all year round do you know why?

It's permanent CL, nicely located in a park not too far from the highway making it a good rest area for travellers.

I have the same problem on both my reformatted Macbook pro (Safari) and my newish Acer (Windows) I changed to Google Chrome on both and can now get the Bedlington website.

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

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.

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) 

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!)

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.

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

Well done Malcolm, you can look back and see what you have achieved and be very proud of yourself and of the others who helped make these things happen. Many people will enjoy and benefit from these achievements and not be aware of the efforts you went too, but we know!

Thank you.

1.         Oil

2.        Leicestershire

3.        Coracle

4.        Sundew

5.         Paul Gascoigne

6.         None

7.         Mae West

8.         Florence Nightingale

9.        Zinc

10.      Walk on the moon.

11.      Prince Harry

12.      Porsche 550 Spyder 

My wife's grandfather came from Walsingham Norfolk, he was born 1868 but I don't know when they moved to Bedlington, He lived in the "old Hall"

6 hours ago, Pete said:

Happy Birthday Vic, hope you have a great day. Have you still got the snow?

Thank you Pete, a great day.... shovelling snow! well spreading it and breaking up ice, the are rivers opening and lakes still solid, it'll be a while before we see the grass!

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 

1.         The end of suffering

2.        Jane Taylor

3.         Scatterbrook Farm.

4.        Big Daddy,

5.         Wilfred Pickles

6.         Jerusalem

7.         Ambrosia

8.         Blackburn

9.         Apple

10.      Parish church

11.      Trinity College,

12.      International orange.

1.         4

2.         France

3.        Water beetle

4.         The Everly Brothers,

5.         England and France,

6.         Black morello cherry.

7.        Standing Jumps

8.         António de Oliveira Salazar

9.        George Orwell

10.      Existence

11.      Toto

12.      Small intestine

45 minutes ago, Canny lass said:

That's very popular here as well though I've never seen any huts or tents. Kit usually consists of nothing more than a small camping stool and a thermos of coffee (at least they say it only contains coffee) together with the rod and bait. Is the fishing done with a small 9-12 inch rod, Vic, like this one? If so what is the English name for it?

Just called ice fishing rods, lots of types, some stand-alone with pop up flags etc, the tents will be more like kites today! 100km winds all night and more snow forecast in two hours, my drifts are back but the roofs are almost bare!