I will post my usual question now.

Who is doing what over the weekend? I am building a BBQ as I am having a BBQ next weekend.

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

Answers

sORRY ABOUT THIS .... flying to new york from Gatwick this afternoon ... getting cab from newark to laguardia .. meet wor lass at airport , fly to washington 2030 , meet Ciara and the rest of the US mags at The rock for free drink promotion by S+ N ... saturday have swim in 50 meter poll at hotel , go and see the whitehouse and congress , meet lads n lasses in irish times opposite grand union station at 3.00 , get hammered ... go to stadium .. WATCH THE LADS WIN ... go out in washington and paint the toon red . Sunday fly to New york at 8.30 .. go to wor lass' apartment at central park .. go to Greenwich village do some shopping .. dim sum for lunch , chill out in central park ... meet some mates for dinner sunday night at midtown italian .... Monday out on boat near staten island and loadsa shopping . Apart from that nowt much really !

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

So a quiet weekend for you then Sting? Yes, alright, I am green with envy!(:o)

As for me - out for dinner tonight. Saturday, entertaining at home and trying my hand at some Mexican cusine. (I shall not be letting my husband slice the chillies!!!!) Sunday - gardening for a change! (:o)

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

>> go out in washington and paint the toon red

errrr.... black and white please!!!

Sat:
My other half's works summer do: Golf in the afternoon followed by a dinner dance. I may have a half glass of light ale shandy :-))
Sun:
sit in front of box and watch the real golfers at St. Andrews

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

Work :((

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

Awwww poor Gav working all weekend? :o(

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

Yup....ALL weekend :(( and I'm only getting standard rate for over-time :((

I might just throw myself out of the nearest window...

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

So no booze for you then? Me I have 48 bottles of lager to get through if this hot weather continues :o)

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

Nowt flash, then, Sting?

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

Nahh usual Dougs yer knaa :-)) Sorry not trying to sound pretentious just dead excited , about seeing Me lass and me football team , the two most important things in the world . Not necessarily in that order : - ))

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

Saturday: Lords to watch flanneled fools fix a game. Loadza booze
Sunday: Brockenhurst - Swiss restaurant to celebrate daughter getting a degree despite all the temptations of Bournemouth
All weekend - gloat over season tickets WHICH HAVE ARRIVED!! (PraisebetoRik)

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

HAVE FUN, STING!!!

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

Im off to Washington , see yers n have a canny w/e ... me n Ciara will update ya after match . Cyaaa : -)))

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

Hope the sun dies down. Spending six and a half hours on Sunday in a train from Newcastle to Cardiff for a week's conference, the fourteenth international congress on plant lipids. Well someone has to do it. I'll be without my 'puter for a week and miss all the reports from the USA matches :-(( Still next year I have conferences in California (Lake Tahoe-June) and Brisbane (August) so may get to meet some overseas BBSers.

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

True - that must mean that you are eating in our favourite local restaurant - The Thatched Cottage! Actually, it`s my hubbies favourite, but it runs a very close second to the Chewton Glen for me.

Hope you enjoy it as much as we do - and well done to your daughter too! It`s a shame you are just down for a flying visit - we could have met up for a noggin! Next time perhaps?(:o)

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

True,

Watch out for Swiss food mate....it's SHIT! bloody gurkins and dodgy mustard sauces on everything.....they're all germans in disguise anyway....

Galaxy,

The Chewton Glen eh.....very posh.....I once nearly stayed there....

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

Come out in sympathy with Gav, overtime Sat/Sun nights, grandsons 1st birthday party Sat, 11 kids, 11 adults, reading goal machine (Shearer) for second time, backed up by Bill Shankleys "Its more important than that", Prep registrations to sign players for next season, friendly on Monday night, accept entries for kids 5 a sides for fun week, sort out quiz for fun week, await Ciara`s reports, collect autographed Celtic Ball, Aberdeen ball(free to good home), wash press my Robert Di Baggio Shirt for raffle prize,organise refs for invitation senior tournament I am running, push the tickets for "The Searchers" on local media, Tuesday in overtime ,safety meeting, 2pm to Aberdeen appointment with specialist, no mention of gardening, washing the car. boozy nights, rounds of golf, he will be pleased that I am taking things easy ---like!!!!

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

Galaxy, Galaxy, Yes, we've been there a few times. Like Gav I did have serious doubts about Swiss food having lived on Rosti mit alles on climbing trips. But it is a charming place suitable for a lady of your refined sensibilities. We have to sell my daughter's flat to pay for the SEASON TICKETS etc. so we will be down in early September to tart the place up - so a noggin it will be.

Gav - divvnt show yer ignorance man in front of the lasses.

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

Galaxy,

>>> I shall not be letting my husband slice the chillies!!!! <<<

With my wife having persuaded me to become an apprentice cook since I became "self-unemployed", I don't suppose you would care to elaborate on this comment?
No? My guess was correct then? Hmmmhh!

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

Look forward to meeting you True!(:o)

Gav - The Chewton Glen is divine! However, it is also extremely pricey, and though I`d love to say we dine there frequently, it is definately one we save for high days and holidays! (`Save` having a very appropriate double meaning!) (:o)

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

Clarky - you obviously missed the thread where I described the utter chaos created in the kitchen one afternoon not too long ago by my hubbie. He did rather a good job of slicing off the top of one of his fingers with a mandolin. The pain threshhold being particularly enhanced by the fact that he was slicing very hot chillies! Ouch! However, he managed to knock the sliced chillies onto the floor, much to the (shortlived)delight of the semi circle of hopeful, doe-eyed, pooches!

I arrived back in the kitchen, summoned by the plaintiff wailing of my husband, who was bleeding profusely, and rather inconsiderately, all over my kitchen cabinets. Ignoring him completely, I immediately tended to the dogs, several of whom were writhing on the floor, clutching their throats with their front paws, and making omminous gagging and wheezing sounds! Having dealt with the dogs, mopped up the kitchen, and, of course, bandaged my beloved`s shortened digit, I was then severely traumatized myself when the slice of finger couldn`t be found anywhere, and we had to surmise that the dogs had, in fact, had that too!!! Made me feel quite queasy!(:o)

Or put another way, it was just a run of the mill Sunday afternoon in the Sears household! Never dull here!!!!(:o)

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

Air show tomorrow - up at 5 to beat queues. Sunday recovering and patching up ear drums.

Sting - you're a lucky bleeder. Enjoy

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

Oooh! Have fun Josh - I love Air shows! (:o)

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

Hope Sting packed his insect repellant - the disease bearing mozzies are back in force in New York! (:o)

-- Anonymous, July 22, 2000

I seem to recall from my local history reading when I lived in NYS, that tracts of the Bay which includes Manhattan Island were originally mosquito-ridden swamps - as indeed was the marshy area of Washington DC that now includes the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, near the Potomac River.
So, they've now come full circle, but the thought of Manhattan being infested with malaria-carrying mosquitoes in the heat & humidity of July/August isn't at all appealing.
Perhaps North Shields isn't so bad after all!

-- Anonymous, July 22, 2000

Apparently there were 7 deaths last summer in NY due to these little pests. The authorities thought they might die off in the winter cold (nice planning fellas - what was your contingency plan??). It is also carried by birds, so they now think that it might have spread as far sooth as Florida. Doesn't sound very nice - makes the brain swell, and tho I think a few of us on here could do with bigger brains, I think I could do withoot the side effects.

-- Anonymous, July 22, 2000

One of the great compensations of living in this country is that we don't have too many really scary insects. In fact, the thought of living in the same city as a cockroach makes me scream.

-- Anonymous, July 22, 2000

I'm sure I read somewhere that these Yankee mosquitoes originally bred in the small pools of stagnant water that collected inside abandoned car tyres during the hotter months.
I suppose the birds eat the mosquitoes and became infected. Scary stuff.

-- Anonymous, July 22, 2000