Snooze server problems.
Sid.
Try to post and get an error message from the server...Phone tech
support at ISP.... Ready now for several beers but they say they will
investigate tomorrow.
Regards,
Sid,
I hate posting through google, it insists on showing my real e-mail
addy.
Tom Gough
Use a spam-trap account? Or stop caring. My real e-mail is above, and
I'm OK. Anyone who wants to track me down can. They just *don't*.
Sid.
"jane" <jan...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:B91D893A.24DD9%jan...@earthlink.net...
> X-No-Archive: yes
> on 05/30/02 2:32 PM, Sid. told the world off:
>
> > I hate posting through google, it insists on showing my real e-mail
> > addy.
>
> you know it makes sense.
>
> jane
> --
> "You know, you can't get away from your emotional garbage.
> Even if you moved to Alpha Centauri it would be right
> there behind you in an inter-galactic U-Haul." -- Eric
>
But if I used yahoo, I wouldn't be able to send myself mail because of my
kill list......Oh, never mind.
Regards,
Sid.
mwillia at mweb dot co dot za
Geep
<jan...@earthlink.net> writes
>X-No-Archive: yes
>on 05/30/02 6:49 PM, Tom Gough told the world off:
>
>> Anyone who wants to track me down can. They just *don't*.
>
>to you yet? just wait ...
Hmm. I've posted to Usenet using the address ja...@binnsroad.net on
*one* occasion, and it attracts spam. Abstrads.
--
Geep
Ben Newsam
writes
>Hmm. I've posted to Usenet using the address ja...@binnsroad.net on
>*one* occasion, and it attracts spam. Abstrads.
Indeed. I hope SBJ sues you for impersonation when he gets old enough!
<g>
--
Ben
Geep
<Ha...@ihateclowns.com> writes
>-> begin quote Geep <ge...@binnsroad.net> on Sat, 1 Jun 2002 08:33:21
>+0100:
>>
>>Hmm. I've posted to Usenet using the address ja...@binnsroad.net on
>>*one* occasion, and it attracts spam. Abstrads.
>
Obyybpxf. :-)
>
>My lilith at ihateclowns addy is attracting more spam now than it did
>when I used it as a posting addy. :-/ Causing havoc with my mailbox it
>is. All that Korean (presumably) spam. Then some right chatty efforts
>in some Clan or other make matters worse by taunting me with news of
>rideouts and so on... *sigh*
Heh. Fun, innit? I'm tempted to reject any e-mail with a subject
beginning [
>
>Surprisingly though, the Halla addy is not such a spam magnet. Weird,
>innit? Still, I might change to another addy cos I want to - Halla @
>ikillclowns.com, anyone? <g>
I really should update my from and reply to addresses, but, TBH, it
doesn't bother me too much whilst I'm using a broadband connection. If
we ever need to go back to pay-per-minute I'll be seriously cvffrq bss,
though.
--
Geep
Viva
>Date: 6/1/02
>My lilith at ihateclowns addy is attracting more spam now than it did
>when I used it as a posting addy. :-/ Causing havoc with my mailbox it
>is. All that Korean (presumably) spam. Then some right chatty efforts
>in some Clan or other make matters worse by taunting me with news of
>rideouts and so on... *sigh*
I keep hearing about all of this Korean/Chinese spam...but I receive not a
one...or much of anything else - well, maybe two yesterday about insurance and
greeting cards. Could <gasp> AOL actually be filtering them out?
Viva...automatically deletes anything not from family or friends...and
sometimes even from them if they changed their addy..
zol
"Viva" wrote in message >
> I keep hearing about all of this Korean/Chinese spam...but I receive not a
> one...or much of anything else - well, maybe two yesterday about insurance
and
> greeting cards. Could <gasp> AOL actually be filtering them out?
>
for MailWasher, and that filtering thingie that my ISP finally decided to
install.
Somehow one of my cousins has gotten my regular e-mail address, and she is
sending me all of the "foreward this to 10 people and see the dancing
cow/tweety bird/punchline to the joke" e-mails. She now has a place in the
deleted items bin, next to the odd peoce of Korean spam that slips through.]
zol
Mike Fleming
writes:
> Heh. Fun, innit? I'm tempted to reject any e-mail with a subject
> beginning [
Which isn't a good idea if you're on any Yahoo mailing lists.
Subject: {[ГДАБВК]} works for me in Agent.
--
Mike Fleming
Ben Newsam
<urban_...@antisocial.com> writes
>a chain
>letter stating that I can share in Bill Gates' fortune... just forward
>this to as many people as you want and get $245 per address, then get
>$243 for everyone they forward it to, & $241 for everyone they forward
>it to... allegedly Microsqoosh is gonna track this thing and send a
>check in 2 weeks...
I have had the same ridiculous chain letter forwarded to me from several
people that I actually do know, and who definitely should know better.
One of them is MD of quite a large company.
--
Ben
Tom Gough
Use filters? In any case, it doesn't attract much spam for me.
Geep
<b...@microser.demon.co.uk> writes
He will if I keep all the spam until he can read! :-)
--
Geep
Geep
<jan...@earthlink.net> writes
>X-No-Archive: yes
>on 06/1/02 5:30 AM, Geep told the world off:
>
>> Heh. Fun, innit? I'm tempted to reject any e-mail with a subject
>> beginning [
>
>lists ... as i am ... even own a couple <g>
Erm, whoops, yes indeed <g>
--
Geep
Geep
<{mike}@tauzero.co.uk> writes
>In article <i9zUa3KE...@ntlworld.com>, Geep <ge...@binnsroad.net>
>writes:
>
>> Heh. Fun, innit? I'm tempted to reject any e-mail with a subject
>> beginning [
>
>Which isn't a good idea if you're on any Yahoo mailing lists.
Um, yeah, forgot about them. Tsk.
>
>Subject: {[ГДАБВК]} works for me in Agent.
>
I really must get my head around TP's filtering capabilities, one of
these days.
--
Geep
Geep
<Ha...@ihateclowns.com> writes
>-> begin quote Geep <ge...@binnsroad.net> on Sat, 1 Jun 2002 10:30:44
>+0100:
>
>>Heh. Fun, innit? I'm tempted to reject any e-mail with a subject
>>beginning [
>
>systems, so maybe they will get their act together and block it from
>*their* end.
Turnpike is extremely good at rejection rules - the only problem is me,
who is too idle to do anything about it ;-)
>>
>>I really should update my from and reply to addresses, but, TBH, it
>>doesn't bother me too much whilst I'm using a broadband connection. If
>>we ever need to go back to pay-per-minute I'll be seriously cvffrq bss,
>>though.
>
>Hehehe. Storing up trubble, hmm?
>
>How's life this weather anyway? Not seen you in a while.
Excellent, thanks - and busy, busy, busy. Lots of stories to tell,
soon, hopefully.
--
Geep
Ben Newsam
writes
>I really must get my head around TP's filtering capabilities, one of
>these days.
I am currently wrestling with these atm, and it is making my head hurt.
I tried doing rules to get rid of "[]", so I set up a special folder to
accept them, thinking I could change the rule to Reject later. A
Turnpike Custom rule didn't work, although it should have done:
"/\[\]/s". So then I tried the Non-custom stuff, ie used the dialog to
"Accept subject line containing '[]'". That worked. So then I simply
changed it to Reject, and all the mails turn up in my Inbox. Huh.
--
Ben
Geep
<b...@microser.demon.co.uk> writes
Heh - where is John Hall, when you need him? :-)
--
Geep
theBlob
>>From: Halla Ha...@ihateclowns.com
>>Date: 6/1/02
>
>>My lilith at ihateclowns addy is attracting more spam now than it did
>>when I used it as a posting addy. :-/ Causing havoc with my mailbox it
>>is. All that Korean (presumably) spam. Then some right chatty efforts
>>in some Clan or other make matters worse by taunting me with news of
>>rideouts and so on... *sigh*
>
>I keep hearing about all of this Korean/Chinese spam...but I receive not a
>one...or much of anything else - well, maybe two yesterday about insurance and
>greeting cards. Could <gasp> AOL actually be filtering them out?
thing i used to get all the time from .cn .kr were port scans until i stopped
bothering to log them
firewallBlob (well i guess i'm still getting em, i just don't know about it)
theBlob
well wrap your laughing gear around this, arrived when i got the puter back up
maybe your MD would be keen
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
From: "peter" <pete...@worldemail.com>
Subject: From: Peter
FROM : PETER MUTUMBA
ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST.
TEL: 225-05-84-98-77.
DEAR SIR,
PERMIT ME TO INFORM YOU THAT DUE TO THE ECOMMENDATIONS GIVEN TO
ME AS YOUR COUNTRY BEING CONDUCIVE AND ITS PEOPLE VERY TRUSTWORTHY.
I MUST NOT HESISTATE TO CONFIDE IN YOU FOR THIS SINCERE SECRET.
I AM PETER MUTUMBA, THE ONLY CHILD OF LATE MR AND MRS. MUTUMBA.
MY FATHER WAS A VERY WEALTHY COCOA MERCHANT BASED IN ABIDJAN, THE
ECONOMIC CAPITAL OF IVORY COAST BEFORE HE WAS POISONED TO DEATH BY
HIS BUSINESS ASSOCIATES ON ONE OF THEIR OUTINGS TO DISCUSS ON A BUSINESS.
WHEN MY MOTHER DIED ON THE 21ST OCTOBER 1988, MY FATHER TOOK ME SO
SPECIAL BECAUSE I AM MOTHERLESS.
BEFORE THE DEATH OF MY FATHER ON 29TH MARCH 2002 IN A PRIVATE HOSPITAL
HERE IN ABIDJAN, HE SECRETLY CALLED ME ON HIS BEDSIDE AND TOLD ME THAT
HE HAS A SUM OF US$16,500,000 (SIXTEEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND, UNITED
STATES DOLLARS) LEFT IN AN ACCOUNT IN A LOCAL BANK HERE IN ABIDJAN, THAT HE
USED MY NAME AS HIS ONLY SON IN DEPOSIT OF THE FUND. HE ALSO EXPLAINED TO
ME THAT IT WAS BECAUSE OF THIS WEALTH THAT HE WAS POISONED BY HIS BUSINESS
ASSOCIATES. THAT I SHOULD SEEK FOR FOREIGN ASSISTANCE IN YOUR COUNTRY
WHERE I WILL TRANSFER THIS MONEY AND USE IT FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSE, BUT
THAT I SHOULD BE VERY CAREFUL.
SIR, I AM HONOURABLY SEEKING YOUR ASSISTANCE IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:
1)TO PROVIDE A BANK ACCOUNT WHERE THIS MONEY WOULD BE TRANSFERRED TO.
2)TO SERVE AS THE GUARDIAN OF THIS FUND SINCE I AM A BOY OF 19 YEARS.
3)TO MAKE ARRANGEMENT FOR ME TO COME OVER TO YOUR COUNTRY AFTER THE
MONEY HAS BEEN TRANSFERRED.
MOREOVER SIR, I AM WILLING TO OFFER YOU 15% OF THE TOTAL SUM AS AFTER THE
SUCCESSFUL TRANSFER OF THIS FUND TO YOUR ACCOUNT OVERSEAS.
THANKS AND GOD BLESS YOU.
PETER MUTUMBA.
NB: PLEASE YOUR URGENT CALL IS VERY IMPORTANT BEFORE SENDING ME ANY REPLY.
Get your free email address at http://www.worldemail.com
***************************************************************
Worldemail.com DO NOT tolerate *spam* of any kind if this email
is a *spam* please forward it to ab...@worldemail.com
***************************************************************
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
i would have taken him up on it but i am flat out siphoning oil money
out of Nigeria, if anyone else is interested, knock yourself out
and tell Pete i said hi
blob
Humbug
alt.2eggs.sausage.beans.tomatoes.2toast.largetea.cheerslove
m...@here.com (theBlob) wrote:
>In article <6kwTjeIf...@microser.demon.co.uk>, Ben Newsam <b...@microser.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>In message <nv9ifukiefd1t7tgd...@4ax.com>, Urban Hermit
>><urban_...@antisocial.com> writes
>>>a chain
>>>letter stating that I can share in Bill Gates' fortune... just forward
>>>this to as many people as you want and get $245 per address, then get
>>>$243 for everyone they forward it to, & $241 for everyone they forward
>>>it to... allegedly Microsqoosh is gonna track this thing and send a
>>>check in 2 weeks...
>>
>>I have had the same ridiculous chain letter forwarded to me from several
>>people that I actually do know, and who definitely should know better.
>>One of them is MD of quite a large company.
>
>well wrap your laughing gear around this, arrived when i got the puter back up
>maybe your MD would be keen
[snip]
I have a similar letter on headed notepaper from the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation, dated 25 January 1997 and signed by Dr Dominic
Akpan. It's a hoot!
BTW, Where's my $7,000?
--
Humbug
Geep
<Ha...@ihateclowns.com> writes
>-> begin quote Geep <ge...@binnsroad.net> on Sun, 2 Jun 2002 07:12:36
>+0100:
>>
>>Excellent, thanks - and busy, busy, busy. Lots of stories to tell,
>>soon, hopefully.
>
>you can if you try, and of course it's the right time of year - the
>days are quite long anyway, so making a couple of them twenty-six
>hours long won't make too much of a difference. ;-)
Heh heh - did I tell you we've been north of the border? Right up there
^, into unknown territories :-)
--
Geep
Geep
<Ha...@ihateclowns.com> writes
>-> begin quote Geep <ge...@binnsroad.net> on Tue, 4 Jun 2002 10:22:28
>+0100:
>>
>>Heh heh - did I tell you we've been north of the border? Right up there
>>^, into unknown territories :-)
>
Ballater, on the Dee - about 40 miles inland from Aberdeen. We quite
liked it. Oh, OK, I'll admit it - we *loved* the place :-)
Everything we'd imagined rural Scotland to be, and then some. Apart
from short breaks in Edinburgh and Glasgow (!), neither of us had been
to Scotland before, and now we're hooked <g>
http://www.binnsroad.co.uk/family/ballater/index.html
--
Geep
Ben Newsam
<Ha...@ihateclowns.com> writes
>Yeah it's an odd country for that. Does that to people. I blame that
>Louis Stevenson one, meself. Before him it was all just empty hills
>and bits of moorland, now it's majestic glens and soaring peaks, or
>some such nonsense. ;-)
Ummmm, no. RLS was an oboldy good writer, but his best writings were
about his life in Embra, or his various travels in Yoorp, nothing to do
with stags at bay or anything like that. About the only time he waxes
lyrical about heather and stuff was in Black Arrow, which is a ghastly
piece of work, IMO.
--
Ben, who is trying to collect the Complete Works of RLS. Respect.
'sbudgie
alt.2eggs.sausage.beans.tomatoes.2toast.largetea.cheerslove and all I
got was this post:
>Jeez. What a pair to confuse. 8-/ Mind you, I did once say 'James
>Whale' when the name I *meant* was 'Barry White'. I'm not very good
>with names. :-/
Aaaaaaarrrrgh! crazy - mental - image - got to - get OUT of my HEAD!
Mebbe you were confuzzling the Whale with the Lurve Walrus?
'sbudgie (clean out my cage to reply)
--
You can't make someone love you.
All you can do is stalk them in the hope that they'll panic and give in.
ICQ# 152921631 MSN IM: as reply address
Ben Newsam
<Ha...@ihateclowns.com> writes
><spots book on shelf> Aha! Scott! I meant Scott! It's all his fault,
>including this!
>
>Jeez. What a pair to confuse. 8-/ Mind you, I did once say 'James
>Whale' when the name I *meant* was 'Barry White'. I'm not very good
>with names. :-/
Don't forget you're talking to the bloke who, in a league quiz match
when asked who had so many children she didn't know what to do, quick as
a flash said "Old Mother Hubbard!". <*Sigh*>
>>Ben, who is trying to collect the Complete Works of RLS. Respect.
>
>Quite.
I particularly like the way he makes it sound as if being born two
hundred years ago is completely normal.
--
Ben
Ben Newsam
<Ha...@ihateclowns.com> writes
<James Whale/Barry White>
>I don't know. I *honestly* don't know. It did lead to some very odd
>images though, as I'm sure you can, er, imagine...
Don't worry about it. My own brain works in exactly the same way. I am
convinced it is Background Processing getting a bit too close to the
surface, to mix a metaphor or two.
--
Ben
Anna
I used to go to Ballater every year until I was a groan up (my ma is fae
Aiberdeen, ye ken?)
It's nice - you go past the little corner shop, and it has a whacking
great "By Royal Appointment" crest on it :)
Anna
Anna
> Yeah it's an odd country for that. Does that to people. I blame that
> Louis Stevenson one, meself. Before him it was all just empty hills
> and bits of moorland, now it's majestic glens and soaring peaks, or
> some such nonsense. ;-)
You know the old "Six Degrees of Separation Thing" - where you are only
six people away from anyone in the world? I'm only 2 away from RLS ...
Robert Louis Stevenson's family (grandfather, uncles, father and
himself) designed and built most of the lighthouses around the Scottish
coast [1] including one on the Flannan Isles (west of Lewis)
My grannie's great uncle was a lighthouse keeper on that lighthouse
until he and the other two keepers disappeared in mysterious
circumstances in 1900 [2]
Anna
[1] There's a brilliant book, called "The Lighthouse Stevensons" all
about it - Ben, if you haven't already read it, get it!
[2] This has been the subject of poetry, and an opera by Peter Maxwell
Davies. If any one is interested, I'll post the story at some point...
'sbudgie
alt.2eggs.sausage.beans.tomatoes.2toast.largetea.cheerslove and all I
got was this post:
>You know the old "Six Degrees of Separation Thing" - where you are only
>six people away from anyone in the world? I'm only 2 away from RLS ...
Ah, but how many degrees are you from Kevin Bacon? <g>
'sbudgie (clean out my cage to reply)
--
If your nose is running and your feet smell, you're probably upside down.
Geep
<Ha...@ihateclowns.com> writes
>-> begin quote Geep <ge...@binnsroad.net> on Tue, 4 Jun 2002 19:31:06
>+0100:
>>
>>Ballater, on the Dee - about 40 miles inland from Aberdeen. We quite
>>liked it. Oh, OK, I'll admit it - we *loved* the place :-)
>>
You should - 'tis a refreshing change from our normal day to day lives.
>
>>Everything we'd imagined rural Scotland to be, and then some.
>
>Gwan then, what did you imagine? :-)
Erm, hills and mountains, with snow in the distance, rivers, wide,
shallow and full of rocks, trees, trees and even more trees <g>
>
>>Apart
>>from short breaks in Edinburgh and Glasgow (!), neither of us had been
>>to Scotland before, and now we're hooked <g>
>
>Yeah it's an odd country for that. Does that to people. I blame that
>Louis Stevenson one, meself. Before him it was all just empty hills
>and bits of moorland, now it's majestic glens and soaring peaks, or
>some such nonsense. ;-)
<grin> I'll not comment, as others have already done so.
>
>>http://www.binnsroad.co.uk/family/ballater/index.html
>
>Nice. You'd like Speyside, too. Lossiemouth, that sort of place.
The sad thing is, I'm looking at an atlas to see where they are.
--
Geep
Geep
<som...@somewhere.com> writes
>Geep <ge...@binnsroad.net> wrote in
>news:1AJB1ZbqdQ$8E...@ntlworld.com:
>>
>> Ballater, on the Dee - about 40 miles inland from Aberdeen.
>> We quite liked it. Oh, OK, I'll admit it - we *loved* the
>> place :-)
>
>this ... *hot water*!
>
Nah, I don't believe that - nothing that far north could ever be
described as hot :-)
--
Geep
Geep
<anna....@knot.virgin.net> writes
>Geep <ge...@binnsroad.net> wrote:
>>
>> Everything we'd imagined rural Scotland to be, and then some. Apart
>> from short breaks in Edinburgh and Glasgow (!), neither of us had been
>> to Scotland before, and now we're hooked <g>
>
>I used to go to Ballater every year until I was a groan up (my ma is fae
>Aiberdeen, ye ken?)
>
>It's nice - you go past the little corner shop, and it has a whacking
>great "By Royal Appointment" crest on it :)
>
to and from Aberdeen. We just enjoyed walking around the village, along
the old railway line, beside the Dee etc. Surprising amount of shops
for a population of about 1500, although no doubt there are more at the
height of the season(s).
--
Geep
Ben Newsam
<anna....@knot.virgin.net> writes
>[1] There's a brilliant book, called "The Lighthouse Stevensons" all
>about it - Ben, if you haven't already read it, get it!
I'll keep an eye out for it. I knew about RLS's father, of course, but I
haven't seen that book.
>[2] This has been the subject of poetry, and an opera by Peter Maxwell
>Davies. If any one is interested, I'll post the story at some point...
Please do. I have heard snippets of the story, but can't remember the
whole thing.
--
Ben
Ben Newsam
<Ha...@ihateclowns.com> writes
>I blame that for my habit of innocently uttering the most dreadful
>puns. Such as complaining that 'that toilet's bogging', or that 'it's
>a pain, that window'. I have honestly said both of those, and have to
>vet everything I say to avert the ever present danger of saying
>something even more groan-worthy. <g>
We have a Bad Habit in this house, of Spoonerising everything, just in
case it throws out something amusing or rude. So, imagine the surprise I
caused in the local shop last week when I asked for a Ducky Lip Tottery
Licket.
--
Ben
Anna Begins
Ha...@ihateclowns.com says...
> -> begin quote Ben Newsam <b...@microser.demon.co.uk> on Wed, 5 Jun
> 2002 11:04:30 +0100:
> puns. Such as complaining that 'that toilet's bogging', or that 'it's
> a pain, that window'. I have honestly said both of those, and have to
> vet everything I say to avert the ever present danger of saying
> something even more groan-worthy. <g>
>
In another group, I 've just posted "The Three Billy Goats Gruff was my
favourite story when I was a kid" ...
--
Anna
We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we
can find in our travels is an honest friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
theBlob
>Halla <Ha...@ihateclowns.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah it's an odd country for that. Does that to people. I blame that
>> Louis Stevenson one, meself. Before him it was all just empty hills
>> and bits of moorland, now it's majestic glens and soaring peaks, or
>> some such nonsense. ;-)
>
>You know the old "Six Degrees of Separation Thing" - where you are only
>six people away from anyone in the world? I'm only 2 away from RLS ...
>
>
>Robert Louis Stevenson's family (grandfather, uncles, father and
>himself) designed and built most of the lighthouses around the Scottish
>coast [1] including one on the Flannan Isles (west of Lewis)
>
>My grannie's great uncle was a lighthouse keeper on that lighthouse
>until he and the other two keepers disappeared in mysterious
>circumstances in 1900 [2]
>
>Anna
>
>[1] There's a brilliant book, called "The Lighthouse Stevensons" all
>about it - Ben, if you haven't already read it, get it!
apparently there have been several books about them some noted @
http://www.bellrock.org.uk/stevenson.html
>[2] This has been the subject of poetry, and an opera by Peter Maxwell
>Davies. If any one is interested, I'll post the story at some point...
must seek a recording of this out, sounds interesting, ta
and Sir Walter Scott started writing the Waverley novels, of the majestic
glens & etc, after a trip around Scotland with Robert Stevenson, RLS's
grandfather in 1814
blob
Ben Newsam
<anna....@virgin.net> writes
>In another group, I 've just posted "The Three Billy Goats Gruff was my
>favourite story when I was a kid" ...
This is a troll, if ever I heard one.
--
Ben
Anna
> Spey Bay is lovely, if a little crunchy - pebbles, see. And if you
> hang around at the coast long enough you tend to get deafened by
> low-flying aircraft from RAF Lossiemouth (I think - we never found out
> where they fly from, jsut that they are LOUD. :-)
It you sit on the cliffs north of the Bullers of Buchan (they are cool,
cos there's a big puffin colony there, and archwys in the cliffs) you
can see them do target practice in the sea...
>
> The big beach at Lossiemouth is nice and sandy, with fish to catch and
> that jaggy grass to avoid. I wouldn't go paddling in the sea though,
> cos it's blimmin' *cold*.
There's a picture of me on a beach around there, paddling - wearing a
wooly jumper over my swimming cossie!!
>
> I've not been there for years either, but I spent quite a few holidays
> there as a child. Oh, and if you're ever in the area of Portsoy, could
> you tell me if Portsoy Marble is still there, and if so do they still
> have that huge amethyst geode? <g> There used to be a big rock stack
> on the beach there but it has been wearing away for years and must be
> a large boulder by now.
I think it's still there. When I was a little sproglet (about 9) I was
so entranced by my paddling and general faffing about there I got severe
sunburn and heatstroke ... :(
Anna
Anna
> anna....@knot.virgin.net (Anna) went to
> alt.2eggs.sausage.beans.tomatoes.2toast.largetea.cheerslove and all I
> got was this post:
>
> >You know the old "Six Degrees of Separation Thing" - where you are only
> >six people away from anyone in the world? I'm only 2 away from RLS ...
>
> Ah, but how many degrees are you from Kevin Bacon? <g>
er... my best friend at the time saw "Footloose" six times?
<g>
Anna
Mike Fleming
m...@here.com (theBlob) writes:
> and Sir Walter Scott started writing the Waverley novels, of the majestic
> glens & etc, after a trip around Scotland with Robert Stevenson, RLS's
> grandfather in 1814
When did he stop being RLS's grandfather?
--
Mike Fleming
theBlob
he stopped being active in the position in 1850, four months and one day
before the job even existed, neat huh? i believe he took turns year and
year about with the Reverend Doctor Lewis Balfour (the provider of RLS's
other name, who did get to be official in the job) and retains the title of
grandfather emeritus to this day
could you move your foot, i think i dropped a comma, ta
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Geep
<Ha...@ihateclowns.com> writes
>-> begin quote Geep <ge...@binnsroad.net> on Wed, 5 Jun 2002 22:06:13
>+0100:
>>
>>Erm, hills and mountains, with snow in the distance, rivers, wide,
>>shallow and full of rocks, trees, trees and even more trees <g>
>
Both - loads of 'em! We noticed that virtually every house had a stack
of logs outside, which seems reasonable. Certainly most of the
out-of-the-way places didn't have mains gas, but does no-one burn coal?
I suppose logs are cheaper.
>>
>>The sad thing is, I'm looking at an atlas to see where they are.
>
>Hehe. Moray Firth, innit? That bit at the top of Scotland that's kinda
>round the corner and north of Aberdeen, out towards Inverness sorta
>way - oh here:
>
>http://makeashorterlink.com/?G1FF23001
>
>Spey Bay is lovely, if a little crunchy - pebbles, see. And if you
>hang around at the coast long enough you tend to get deafened by
>low-flying aircraft from RAF Lossiemouth (I think - we never found out
>where they fly from, jsut that they are LOUD. :-)
Heh heh - yes, we did wonder if we'd see any low flying jets while
there, but didn't. Musta been a day off - or perhaps they were all
flying over to bomb Argentina in preparation for a certain game <g>
>
>The big beach at Lossiemouth is nice and sandy, with fish to catch and
>that jaggy grass to avoid. I wouldn't go paddling in the sea though,
>cos it's blimmin' *cold*.
Looking at my atlas, certain areas of the coast up there have yellow
colouring which is supposed to indicate sand. Burghead Bay is sandy,
apparently, as is the coast around Nairn. We're *very* tempted to go
back for a week or so, later this year.
>
>I've not been there for years either, but I spent quite a few holidays
>there as a child. Oh, and if you're ever in the area of Portsoy, could
>you tell me if Portsoy Marble is still there, and if so do they still
>have that huge amethyst geode? <g> There used to be a big rock stack
>on the beach there but it has been wearing away for years and must be
>a large boulder by now.
Hang on ... <flips through atlas> ... Ah! Goddit. Right, will do.
We'll make a special trip, and take a piccie or two as evidence :-)
--
Geep
Humbug
alt.2eggs.sausage.beans.tomatoes.2toast.largetea.cheerslove Sn!pe
<snip...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Anna Begins wrote in message
><MPG.176895a9f...@news.CIS.DFN.DE>:
>
>>In another group, I 've just posted "The Three Billy Goats Gruff was my
>>favourite story when I was a kid" ...
>
>Oh, Baa...
Bah!
--
Humbug
Geep
<Ha...@ihateclowns.com> writes
>-> begin quote Geep <ge...@binnsroad.net> on Sun, 9 Jun 2002 09:13:46
>+0100:
>
>>I suppose logs are cheaper.
>
>source of flammable materials. ;-)
Heh heh. :-)~~~
>
>[Moray Firth area]
>
>If you get good weather it's a glorious part of the world. Quite
>miserable in the rain. And of course the closer to the Spey you get
>the more brands of midge repellent you should have. :-/ It's not even
>that you get bitten to death, it's that you are constantly surrounded
>by a cloud of small black flies that get into your eyes and so on.
>Grr.
Oh! I fort that was the west coast, not the east? Or is it anywhere
north? Just the coast, or inland, too?
--
Geep
Ken
wrote:
>[5] http://makeashorterlink.com/?G59A12111 As you can see, not very
>sheltered. ;-) You walk through a bit of the forest, where all is
>still and so on, and then get slapped about a bit by a *fairly* brisk
>wind. The picnic area is prone to wasps, too, as are most picnic
>areas. Funny though, looking at how close Forres (where I spent a few
>holidays) is to Findhorn, we never visited there. They have a caravan
>site, and of course a Community.
You've found me! Bottom center grid, lower left corner...
...and the forest too!
--
Ken
A friend hears the song in my heart and
sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Source Unknown
Geep
<Ha...@ihateclowns.com> writes
>-> begin quote Geep <ge...@binnsroad.net> on Sun, 16 Jun 2002 09:14:00
>+0100:
<Bitey stingy things>
>>
>>Oh! I fort that was the west coast, not the east?
>
>Well, I've never been bitten quite as much up by the Spey as I am on
>the West Coast, but it does become tiresome to scrape dead flies off
>yer suncream all the time. :-/ I don't know whether they are the same
>midges or not.
Presumably not the same ones if they're on you, dead ... <g>
>
>>Or is it anywhere
>>north? Just the coast, or inland, too?
>
>It's also a good area for whisky of course, if you like Speyside
>whiskies. You can see where the colour comes from, the Spey is a very
>peaty river.
Um, I don't like whiskey. Or whisky. Peat or otherwise. Blended or
not. Single malt. Any malt. Sorry :-)
>
>My goodness, but there are loads of places to visit round there! All
>lovely, too. Just don't walk down Inverness main street at night. ;-/
>A friend of mine, whose family live in Boat of Garten, tells me that
>she would much rather wander round Glasgow late at night than venture
>through Inverness.
Really??? I thought Inverness was a sophisticated, posh sort of city,
not that I've ever been there.
>
>[1] And not much else. Some of those plantations are dull, dull, dull.
>And dreary. And depressing. Nothing grows under the trees, until they
>are almost ready for felling, and even then there's only a few sickly
>things[2]. When they are felled the bracken rushes to cover
>everything, and bracken is a *pain* for harbouring bugs, and holding
>onto rain so that your legs get soaked walking through it.
Oh yuk. Waders required for on shore walking. I hate wet legs - causes
punssrq ovgf.
>
>[2] And the silence in the middle of the trees is really eerie. You
>can occasionally hear birds crashing about, but there is not much
>else. The pine needles muffle everything anyway.[3] Mind you, if you
>stay somewhere with a real fire, pine cones are always good fun to
>burn and they smell quite good. ;-)
Hmm. You're the second person to mention burning pine cones recently.
I've got loads of 'em, for decoration stuff, not burning. Have to try
lighting one.
>
>[3] Of course they might have changed planting policy in the last few
>years and created pleasant airy woodlands, but I doubt it. :-/ None of
>the above applies to the bits of the Caledonian Forest that you my
>encounter in that region, BTW, just to those big fir plantations that
>all seem to be owned by Abba.
Oh, them. Yes, there seem to be loads of other trees in the proper
forests - silver birch, copper beech etc. Can't say I've ever visited a
proper plantation. One day.
>
>[4] Roseisle springs to mind here.[5][7] Now *there's* a place where
>kites are shredded and light footballs head out to sea, never again to
>be seen. ;-)
Gawd! Just had a look at the map - it does all look just a tad 'open'
up there <g>
>
>[5] http://makeashorterlink.com/?G59A12111 As you can see, not very
>sheltered. ;-) You walk through a bit of the forest, where all is
>still and so on, and then get slapped about a bit by a *fairly* brisk
>wind. The picnic area is prone to wasps, too, as are most picnic
>areas. Funny though, looking at how close Forres (where I spent a few
>holidays) is to Findhorn, we never visited there. They have a caravan
>site, and of course a Community.
Hmm. Interesting places nearby. Is that *the* Gordonstoun? He wasn't
too far from Mummy, there, when she were on 'er hols. Oh, and Elgin -
where the marbles come from, I suppose. Oh! Dallas - no wonder Sue
Ellen always looked cold, sitting on that patio ...
>
>[7] Help! The footnotes are out of control! I can't stop
>them![8][9][10]
>
>[8] Aa
>
>[9] rg
>
>[10] h!
Heh heh
--
Geep