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"Alan Harding" |
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01 Jun 2006 02:53:51 AM |
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Pinch and a punch |
For the first of the month. Happy June, everyone.
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The opinions given above may be mine. They might also
just be what I feel like saying right now, okay?
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| User: "Contrarian" |
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| Title: Re: Pinch and a punch |
01 Jun 2006 05:37:03 PM |
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Alan Harding <Alan@harding.demon.co.uk> wrote:
For the first of the month. Happy June, everyone.
Happy June and beyond.
(? a pinch and a punch?)
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but the edge is still Out there. Or maybe it's In... HST (1967)
when i got to the edge , i built a deck % (2005)
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| User: "Alan Harding" |
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| Title: Re: Pinch and a punch |
01 Jun 2006 06:02:19 PM |
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In message <j_Jfg.1690$5J6.314@newsread1.mlpsca01.us.to.verio.net>,
Contrarian <adrba65@gmail.com> writes
Alan Harding <Alan@harding.demon.co.uk> wrote:
For the first of the month. Happy June, everyone.
Happy June and beyond.
(? a pinch and a punch?)
Apparently it's a widely known folk custom I only learned of when my
wife and I moved in together.
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The opinions given above may be mine. They might also
just be what I feel like saying right now, okay?
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| User: "Whiskers" |
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| Title: Re: Pinch and a punch |
01 Jun 2006 07:04:05 PM |
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On 2006-06-01, Alan Harding <Alan@harding.demon.co.uk> wrote:
In message <j_Jfg.1690$5J6.314@newsread1.mlpsca01.us.to.verio.net>,
Contrarian <adrba65@gmail.com> writes
Alan Harding <Alan@harding.demon.co.uk> wrote:
For the first of the month. Happy June, everyone.
Happy June and beyond.
(? a pinch and a punch?)
Apparently it's a widely known folk custom I only learned of when my
wife and I moved in together.
It was all the rage at the infant school to which I was consigned on my
fifth birhday.
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-- ^^^^^^^^^^
-- Whiskers
-- ~~~~~~~~~~
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| User: "Alan Harding" |
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| Title: Re: Pinch and a punch |
01 Jun 2006 09:11:31 PM |
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In message <20060602000405.1E36.20.NOFFLE@ID-107770.user.individuL.net>,
Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> writes
On 2006-06-01, Alan Harding <Alan@harding.demon.co.uk> wrote:
In message <j_Jfg.1690$5J6.314@newsread1.mlpsca01.us.to.verio.net>,
Contrarian <adrba65@gmail.com> writes
Alan Harding <Alan@harding.demon.co.uk> wrote:
For the first of the month. Happy June, everyone.
Happy June and beyond.
(? a pinch and a punch?)
Apparently it's a widely known folk custom I only learned of when my
wife and I moved in together.
It was all the rage at the infant school to which I was consigned on my
fifth birhday.
Urgh! Fancy starting off with the bumps.
--
The opinions given above may be mine. They might also
just be what I feel like saying right now, okay?
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| User: "Whiskers" |
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| Title: Re: Pinch and a punch |
02 Jun 2006 08:04:31 AM |
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On 2006-06-02, Alan Harding <Alan@harding.demon.co.uk> wrote:
In message <20060602000405.1E36.20.NOFFLE@ID-107770.user.individuL.net>,
Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> writes
On 2006-06-01, Alan Harding <Alan@harding.demon.co.uk> wrote:
In message <j_Jfg.1690$5J6.314@newsread1.mlpsca01.us.to.verio.net>,
Contrarian <adrba65@gmail.com> writes
Alan Harding <Alan@harding.demon.co.uk> wrote:
For the first of the month. Happy June, everyone.
Happy June and beyond.
(? a pinch and a punch?)
Apparently it's a widely known folk custom I only learned of when my
wife and I moved in together.
It was all the rage at the infant school to which I was consigned on my
fifth birhday.
Urgh! Fancy starting off with the bumps.
It went downhill from there.
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-- ^^^^^^^^^^
-- Whiskers
-- ~~~~~~~~~~
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| User: "Alan Harding" |
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| Title: Re: Pinch and a punch |
02 Jun 2006 12:38:28 PM |
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In message <vjp5l3-tju.ln1@ID-107770.user.individual.net>, Whiskers
<catwheezel@operamail.com> writes
On 2006-06-02, Alan Harding <Alan@harding.demon.co.uk> wrote:
In message <20060602000405.1E36.20.NOFFLE@ID-107770.user.individuL.net>,
Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> writes
On 2006-06-01, Alan Harding <Alan@harding.demon.co.uk> wrote:
In message <j_Jfg.1690$5J6.314@newsread1.mlpsca01.us.to.verio.net>,
Contrarian <adrba65@gmail.com> writes
Alan Harding <Alan@harding.demon.co.uk> wrote:
For the first of the month. Happy June, everyone.
Happy June and beyond.
(? a pinch and a punch?)
Apparently it's a widely known folk custom I only learned of when my
wife and I moved in together.
It was all the rage at the infant school to which I was consigned on my
fifth birhday.
Urgh! Fancy starting off with the bumps.
It went downhill from there.
My primary school was great (my mother was the cook). Secondary was
dreadful - I swear it marked me for life.
--
The opinions given above may be mine. They might also
just be what I feel like saying right now, okay?
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| User: "Whiskers" |
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| Title: Re: Pinch and a punch |
02 Jun 2006 04:17:00 PM |
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On 2006-06-02, Alan Harding <Alan@harding.demon.co.uk> wrote:
In message <vjp5l3-tju.ln1@ID-107770.user.individual.net>, Whiskers
<catwheezel@operamail.com> writes
On 2006-06-02, Alan Harding <Alan@harding.demon.co.uk> wrote:
In message <20060602000405.1E36.20.NOFFLE@ID-107770.user.individuL.net>,
Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> writes
On 2006-06-01, Alan Harding <Alan@harding.demon.co.uk> wrote:
In message <j_Jfg.1690$5J6.314@newsread1.mlpsca01.us.to.verio.net>,
Contrarian <adrba65@gmail.com> writes
Alan Harding <Alan@harding.demon.co.uk> wrote:
For the first of the month. Happy June, everyone.
Happy June and beyond.
(? a pinch and a punch?)
Apparently it's a widely known folk custom I only learned of when my
wife and I moved in together.
It was all the rage at the infant school to which I was consigned on my
fifth birhday.
Urgh! Fancy starting off with the bumps.
It went downhill from there.
My primary school was great (my mother was the cook). Secondary was
dreadful - I swear it marked me for life.
School Dinners wiere the worst part of the whole experience. Not only
barely edible, but in the 'waste not want not' thinking of the time, every
child was forced to eat every scrap - staying in after school in the
afternoon to finish, if it wasn't all gone at the end of 'dinner time'.
I still tremble.
We hid the 'food' in our pockets and underwear to dump it into the toilets
(open-air, they were; right around the building and up two flights of stone
stairs to get there, all out-doors of course). Getting caught doing
/that/ was a Very Bad Thing. (That was the Junior School; the Infant
school outdoor toilets didn't have any stairs, but as the school roof
leaked we often had our coats and wellies on all day anyway; you can get
gravy and custard into wellies).
One highlight of Infant school, was the day the headmistress decided that
she would quell all complaints about the food by dining in the dining
room with all the kids. The teachers tried to dissuade her, but they
coudn't get out of it - they all had to join her. She didn't make it to
the pudding; a few minutes after the main course was put in front of her
we all heard a loud strangled choking cough, a thump, and suddenly the
teachers were hurrying all the kids out to play without having to eat any
more of the 'food'.
Yes, the headmistress had tried to eat a school dinner, and died in the
attempt. You have to admire that sort of dedication, I suppose. Sadly,
the meals did not improve one bit. I was a very thin child (but you
wouldn't think so now).
I couldn't face mashed potato at all, anywhere, until after I'd left home
and actually learned how to make it for myself. Something I had to travel
hundreds of miles north to do, and watch Maggie do it from scratch.
Thanks, Maggie.
You start with spuds that haven't got any black or green bits (which is
the first thing they got wrong for the school dinners - they searched the
county to find the blackest and greenest), then you boil them (peeled, if
you're posh, but just cleaned if you want all the vitamins) till starting
to go soft (another thing they got wrong at school), then you drain off
all the water (another error made by the school cooks) before 'bashing'
and adding butter and pepper and other stuff to taste (all alien concepts
at school). Then you serve, fresh and hot and fluffy. Putting the 'mash'
into huge aluminium containers still smelling of Ajax or Brillo and
transporting it in the back of a van for a two-hour journey, is not a part
of the process after all!
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-- Whiskers
-- ~~~~~~~~~~
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| User: "lisa in mass." |
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| Title: Re: Pinch and a punch |
01 Jun 2006 01:11:24 PM |
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Alan Harding wrote...
For the first of the month. Happy June, everyone.
happy june to you, alan. may it be a good one.
-lisa
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| User: "Alan Harding" |
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| Title: Re: Pinch and a punch |
01 Jun 2006 03:28:47 PM |
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In message <Xns97D5905812150mccatsjavanetcom@130.133.1.4>, lisa in mass.
<mccats@rcn.com> writes
Alan Harding wrote...
For the first of the month. Happy June, everyone.
happy june to you, alan. may it be a good one.
I must be due a change, and the change from winter to spring was vile,
and a month's nice hypomania would get me three or four novels finished.
:)
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The opinions given above may be mine. They might also
just be what I feel like saying right now, okay?
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| User: "%" |
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| Title: Re: Pinch and a punch |
01 Jun 2006 04:25:03 PM |
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"Alan Harding" <Alan@harding.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:pSXjQlV$30fEFw2E@harding.demon.co.uk...
In message <Xns97D5905812150mccatsjavanetcom@130.133.1.4>, lisa in mass.
<mccats@rcn.com> writes
Alan Harding wrote...
For the first of the month. Happy June, everyone.
happy june to you, alan. may it be a good one.
I must be due a change, and the change from winter to spring was vile,
and a month's nice hypomania would get me three or four novels finished.
:)
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The opinions given above may be mine. They might also
just be what I feel like saying right now, okay?
this is the time when you should be here with the 20 hours of daylight
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| User: "Alan Harding" |
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| Title: Re: Pinch and a punch |
01 Jun 2006 05:02:02 PM |
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In message <9vqdncO6csSoxuLZnZ2dnUVZ_tidnZ2d@giganews.com>, %
<persent@gmail.com> writes
"Alan Harding" <Alan@harding.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:pSXjQlV$30fEFw2E@harding.demon.co.uk...
In message <Xns97D5905812150mccatsjavanetcom@130.133.1.4>, lisa in mass.
<mccats@rcn.com> writes
Alan Harding wrote...
For the first of the month. Happy June, everyone.
happy june to you, alan. may it be a good one.
I must be due a change, and the change from winter to spring was vile,
and a month's nice hypomania would get me three or four novels finished.
:)
this is the time when you should be here with the 20 hours of daylight
Only seventeen hours between sunrise and sunset, but pre-dawn and dusk
stretch daylight another couple of hours.
--
The opinions given above may be mine. They might also
just be what I feel like saying right now, okay?
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| User: "%" |
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| Title: Re: Pinch and a punch |
01 Jun 2006 05:59:04 PM |
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"Alan Harding" <Alan@harding.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:8PO2HTraP2fEFwVR@harding.demon.co.uk...
In message <9vqdncO6csSoxuLZnZ2dnUVZ_tidnZ2d@giganews.com>, %
<persent@gmail.com> writes
"Alan Harding" <Alan@harding.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:pSXjQlV$30fEFw2E@harding.demon.co.uk...
In message <Xns97D5905812150mccatsjavanetcom@130.133.1.4>, lisa in
mass.
<mccats@rcn.com> writes
Alan Harding wrote...
For the first of the month. Happy June, everyone.
happy june to you, alan. may it be a good one.
I must be due a change, and the change from winter to spring was vile,
and a month's nice hypomania would get me three or four novels
finished.
:)
this is the time when you should be here with the 20 hours of daylight
Only seventeen hours between sunrise and sunset, but pre-dawn and dusk
stretch daylight another couple of hours.
--
The opinions given above may be mine. They might also
just be what I feel like saying right now, okay?
then i get 22 , you can see it go down as its coming up ,
ooooups sorry , that could be an unintended visual
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| User: "" |
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01 Jun 2006 06:05:34 PM |
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Alan Harding wrote:
For the first of the month. Happy June, everyone.
--
The opinions given above may be mine. They might also
just be what I feel like saying right now, okay?
I'm always grateful when it's the first of the month, even if time
is artificial... It always seems like it could be the start of new
patterns, new beginnings... I'm happy that I usually remeber to say
"rabbit rabbit" the first thing in the morning every 1st of the
month...
-"jordie"
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| User: "Violet" |
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01 Jun 2006 04:28:10 AM |
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Alan Harding wrote:
For the first of the month. Happy June, everyone.
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The opinions given above may be mine. They might also
just be what I feel like saying right now, okay?
Hi Alan, I'm still posting in the UK but I don't think you use that
site, pop in & post sometime, it's fairly tame & lots off folk from
Scotland. They call shite, shite there & call minging shite .....- LOL
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| User: "eoygeo" |
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01 Jun 2006 04:55:26 AM |
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Violet wrote:
Alan Harding wrote:
For the first of the month. Happy June, everyone.
--
The opinions given above may be mine. They might also
just be what I feel like saying right now, okay?
Hi Alan, I'm still posting in the UK but I don't think you use that
site, pop in & post sometime, it's fairly tame & lots off folk from
Scotland. They call shite, shite there & call minging shite .....- LOL
I am going to a Sauna, a Onsen.
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| User: "David" |
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01 Jun 2006 06:58:15 AM |
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Better get the loch ness.
Alan Harding wrote:
For the first of the month. Happy June, everyone.
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The opinions given above may be mine. They might also
just be what I feel like saying right now, okay?
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| User: "Bacon" |
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01 Jun 2006 07:04:28 AM |
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On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 08:53:51 +0100, Alan Harding
<Alan@harding.demon.co.uk> wrote:
For the first of the month. Happy June, everyone.
Rent's due, thanks for the reminder.
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