Door-to-door piligrim
Scatterbunny
there wasn't enough time to prepare for it, I went back to my plan to
leave from Canterbury. I tried to organise something with the
"Canterbury Tales" experience - just a press launch in their ghastly
waxwork visitor 'attraction'. But they didn't even reply.
Roodness!
So I began to think I'll just set off from London: get a piligrim's
blessin in Westminster cathedral, do a photo opportunity at Whizz-Kidz
offices nearby, and walk to Newhaven to get the ferry.
Then... <whoosh> Hooray! All your interest in rabit's destination,
sparked off by that TV programme, got me thinkin and readin. An I
found out somethin. The plannin for yer rabit chaplin's departure for
the long long walk have taken a new turn today.
I discovered - while followin up a query that one of you raised - that
there's a replica of the great door of Compostela cathedral (Portal de
la Gloria) in the V&A museum. So I am askin them if I can do my
rabit press launch there! Walk from the replica door of Santiago
cathedral in London; then, 1300 miles later, walk through yer achule
door in Spain. A door-to-door piligrimage! Nice catchy headline.
So rabit's ritied to the V&A to ask em if he can set off from there on
Monday 12th May, then walk to the Catholic cathedral to get a
piligrim's blessin, then go to the Whizz-Kidz offices: and all that is
within a one hour walk. Look at the pictures on the blog and see if
you can tell wich is the reel Portal de la Gloria.
Scatterbunny
> Neither of those fool me. Gloria's front door is white uPVC with some
> tarnished brash fittings. The bottom panel has a crack in it where the
> great dane scratched it and the number 6 has slipped so that it's hatrd
> to tell whether it's a 6 or a 9 without looking at the other numbers in
> the street.
Ho ho! I think you should copy and pasty that comment on the blogue!
> Good luck with the V&A. Here's hoping they aren't as r00d.
Nothinwould surprise a rabit now. Everbody's rood to rabits.
~..~
( ' ) Enuff of yer roodness. Just point me to the choclate rabits
please.
Scatterbunny
> Via Heathrow?
No, I don't think I'll be guidied too much by your strange sense of
direction, Sheel.... I think I'll prolly just zizz the old paws in a
southerly direction and see wot happens.
~..~
( ' )
Scatterbunny
> But it's open to plebs
Is it? I don't know how yer portant rabit quite fits into the pleb
arrangements. <shudder> Do they have a diffrent door with a
disinfectant trough to walk through?
~..~
( ' )
Scatterbunny
> there's a replica of the great door of Compostela cathedral (Portal de
> la Gloria) in the V&A museum. So I am askin them if I can do my
> rabit press launch there!
You're goin to love this, it's priceless! I cannot do my pilgrim
press launch in the V&A Museum, dressed in pilgrim gear and with my
pack on my back, because bags have to be left in the cloakroom before
enterin the museum.
"Surely you could make an exception for a charity press launch?"
"No, terribly sorry, but in these days of heightened security..."
La mouette
"Scatterbunny" <rabbi...@googlemail.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
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!
?
!!
greebo
How about you asking them to provide you with a replica bag to go with
their replica door?
--
greebs
Scatterbunny
> How about you asking them to provide you with a replica bag to go with
> their replica door?
Unfortunately, all replica luggage has been issued to BA refugees
arrivin in various parts of the world two days late after bein
'processed' in Heathrow Terminal 5. BAA humbug!
~..~
( ' )
Scatterbunny
> !
>
> ?
>
> !!
Exactemente. C'est pas grave. Je suis un lappin triste mais
philosophe.
~..~
( ~ ) Le lappin qui rit.
dennis@fake
Scatterbunny
> Awwwwwww, don't be sad, Hunnybin. You can launch yourself from my front
> door complete with trappins if you like.
<Blodwyn across the road peeks out from behind the net curtains> Ooh
there's posh! She's got trappins on her front door. She'll be takin
her holidays in a caravan by the damp sand dunes in Porthcawl next.
<sighs> Drinkin Bacardi Breezers in a deckchair in the drizzle. Just
like the film stars.
~..~
( ' )
Scatterbunny
> Well they had to call it terminal didn't they?
ROFLZP
\ /
( .'.)
~ ~
greebo
>Bev burbled:
>> Sheel warbled...
>>> Or even from Terminal 5.
>>>
>>He'll be lucky to launch himself complete with anythin from there from
>>the sound of it.
>
>Just imagine the embarrassment there is going to be when we 'host' the
>Olympics.
>
>How well can we mess that up?
I get a bit annoyed by all this. It is not Britain that can't organise
things properly - it is London!
Newcastle and Gateshead built a Millennium bridge that worked and is
stunning.
London built a Millennium bridge that was too wobbly.
Manchester held the Commonwealth Games in 2002 . The facilities were all
built on time and the Games went smoothly and efficiently.
London has a shambles over the re-building of Wembley Stadium.
London has a shambles over Terminal 5.
Heaven help the Olympic Games!
--
greebs
La mouette
> <sighs> Drinkin Bacardi Breezers in a deckchair in the drizzle.
Such a delightful image !
>
> ~..~
> ( ' )
Unappropriate bunny drawing.
La mouette
Le lapin qui rit jaune, on dirait !
La philosophie est depuis toujours inscrite dans les gčnes des lapins...
d'ailleurs ils parlent français aussi bien que Descartes !
La mouette
"Bev" <b...@youllhavetoask.con> a écrit dans le message de news:
MPG.2258137d8...@news.fireflyuk.net...
>
So let's get this straight... now thanks to his ancestry he's a chaplin
psycho-doctor flossifer pilgrim nurse?
Psycho-doctor flossofer pilgrim nurse and future main actor in a medieval
film.
Scatterbunny
> Was I out?
S'obvious innit? You wos in Porthcawl with the Bacardi Breezers an
the deckchairs...
~..~
( ' )
Scatterbunny
> Just imagine the embarrassment there is going to be when we 'host' the
> Olympics.
>
> How well can we mess that up?
Well, quite frankly, speaking as Lord Coe and justly proud of
everything that New Labour has done for my pockets, I think thre is
too much of this kind of pointless cynicism from you teachers, and
it's about time you got your fingers out and started getting the kids
lined up waving Union Jacks, which is exactly the kind of activity
that once made this country the envy of Hong Kong.
Disgusted Sebastian Coe of Tunbridge Wells
(not a rabit, honest)
greebo
> greebo warbled...
>> Sheel wented:
>> >Bev burbled:
>> >> Sheel warbled...
>> >>> Or even from Terminal 5.
>> >>>
>> >>He'll be lucky to launch himself complete with anythin from there from
>> >>the sound of it.
>> >
>> >Just imagine the embarrassment there is going to be when we 'host' the
>> >Olympics.
>> >
>> >How well can we mess that up?
>>
>> I get a bit annoyed by all this. It is not Britain that can't organise
>> things properly - it is London!
>>
>*is* Lunnon!
Sheel is from America?
--
greebs
Scatterbunny
> Never mind the embarrasment. Think of the expense (though I've
> maintained that all along).
Well, there you go again, carping on about the money and failing to
see the way it benefits all of us here in the Garrick Club drinking
some very fine wines that you couldn't possibly appreciate. The money
is only a fraction of what the country spends on bombing dusty
mountains in far off corners of the globe. If we didn't spend it on
these sort of activities it would only get spent on the poor anyway,
and you wouldn't expect them to tell the difference between a decent
Billecart-Salmon and a boring Bollinger, would you?
Scatterbunny
> Psycho-doctor flossofer pilgrim nurse and future main actor in a medieval
> film.
Sadly not. You may have missed the post when I sadly informed the
Staffroom that there will be no appearance at the rabit Oscar ceremony
this year. The film maker decided that the timing didn't work: I'm
leaving on May 12th and that was too early to get everyting in place.
(You know, rabit make-up team, luxury trailer, rumours of romantic
involvement with Sarkozy's wife, etc) So a rabit pilgrim is walking
from London. There are now problems with that, as I'm not being
allowed in the Victoria and Albert Museum wearing a rucsack, but I'll
get the Spanish ambassador to talk to them about that; he's the
president of a very portant exclusive club rabit belongs to.
~..~
( ' ) Merci pour l'aide avec l'etape de randonee a France!
Scatterbunny
> I get a bit annoyed by all this. It is not Britain that can't organise
> things properly - it is London!
Well, speaking as the best paid person who ever did a few laps of a
running track and then climbed the heights of Olympian pomposity, I
think the trouble with you people from oop north is you don't confine
your outlook to things oop there, and it's quite obvious you know
nothing about the workings of what happens down here as we never see
you in the Garrick Club showing off your money. And incidentally,
most of the problems experienced in the new terminal can be blamed on
the poor computer skills of the slack workers who drift down here from
the benighted north - places like Jarrow that we all know about -
looking for employment but are hard to train and couldn't do a decent
day's work to save their lives.
Scatterbunny
> So let's get this straight... now thanks to his ancestry he's a chaplin
> psycho-doctor flossifer pilgrim nurse?
Distinguished portant French incestry, it seems. <rabit zizzes paws
in time to humming the Marsellaise>
> I'll need more crayons.
The best quality. Sheel will pay. If that's a portrait of the
portant rabit, can it be in a very ornate gold frame please?
~..~
( ' )
La mouette
"Scatterbunny" <rabbi...@googlemail.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
087a6c02-8040-4083...@d21g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> La Mouette worrytyed:
>
>> Psycho-doctor flossofer pilgrim nurse and future main actor in a medieval
>> film.
>
> Sadly not. You may have missed the post when I sadly informed the
> Staffroom that there will be no appearance at the rabit Oscar ceremony
> this year.
Oh! missed that! what a shame!
> (You know, rabit make-up team, luxury trailer, rumours of romantic
> involvement with Sarkozy's wife,
lol !
> etc)
double lol!
So a rabit pilgrim is walking
> from London. There are now problems with that, as I'm not being
> allowed in the Victoria and Albert Museum wearing a rucsack, but I'll
> get the Spanish ambassador to talk to them about that; he's the
> president of a very portant exclusive club rabit belongs to.
Spanish ambassador! how glam!
>
> ~..~
> ( ' ) Merci pour l'aide avec l'etape de randonee a France!
You are very welcome.
La mouette
> Bev worrytried:
>
>> So let's get this straight... now thanks to his ancestry he's a chaplin
>> psycho-doctor flossifer pilgrim nurse?
>
> Distinguished portant French incestry, it seems. <rabit zizzes paws
> in time to humming the Marsellaise>
Hum. Is there any sound track on the bunny blog ?
Scatterbunny
> Hum. Is there any sound track on the bunny blog ?
Gizzachance! I'm only just got the blogue peroperly set up. There is
a video link on it, in tribute to a well-loved old priest who served
the pilgrims for many years, and the soundtrack on that short clip is
lovely. I'm hoping to put Michael Nyman's sound track from 'The
Piano' on it but I'm a bit hesitant about the copyright implications.
Anyone know?
http://www.whizz-kidz-pilgrim.blogspot.com
~..~
( ' ) A rabit (...nothing to do with the Olympic Committee. Yet.)
Scatterbunny
> Spanish ambassador! how glam!
Careful now....! <sigh> There is no truth in any these rumours...
~..~
( ' ) ... no romantic involvement between the ex-filmstar pilgrim
rabit and the Spanish ambassador.
Lord...@googlemail.com
> That can't be right. Them oop Norf wouldn't have any pooter skills, poor
> or otherwise, cos pooters need lectrics and surge protection and all
> that.
I'm sorry, but I have to take exception to this kind of nonsense. My
researchers tell me you live in Wales and that is clearly why you
mention surge protection. Here in London we don't know anything about
surge protection as we have excellent infrastructure paid for by those
people who pay taxes. I don't pay taxes, of course, because I have
vast off-shore investments. I must make it perfectly clear that the
plans for overspend on the Olympics shouldn't be under-estimated:
surge protection is quite pointless here.
Once again, you defend the ignorance of these oop north johnnies, but
let me tell you they have no excuse for being ignorant because New
Labour has introduced all these wonderful academies as another way of
lining my pocket. As a Tory, I find that gratifying because they take
all the stick while we make the money. Anything else you wanted to be
informed about before I get back to my Veuve Cliquot?
--
Sebastian, Lord Coat of Umbradge
greebo
>How much free publicity is Heathrow
>getting out of this. And don't go telling me it is bad publicity.
That's true. We northern folk have never heard of Heathrow before. It
sounds a nice place to take our holidays. Are the seats comfortable?
--
greebs
greebo
>Here in London we don't know anything about
>surge protection
That is clearly true. Look at what happened yesterday - they had a surge
of luggage going along a conveyor belt and the whole of the South East
ground to a halt. That would never had happened if they had had proper
built-in surge protection for luggage spikes.
--
greebs
greebo
>The staff have just started using walkie-talkies at my school
Beats shouting across the staff room?
--
greebs
greebo
> greebo warbled...
>> That is clearly true. Look at what happened yesterday - they had a surge
>> of luggage going along a conveyor belt and the whole of the South East
>> ground to a halt. That would never had happened if they had had proper
>> built-in surge protection for luggage spikes.
>>
>come back from the baggage handlers?
No - luggage spikes are what help you to force your way through the
dense crowds to get to your gate on time.
--
greebs
greebo
>a disclaimer statin that if anyone feels that any part of your sight
>infringes copyright
You mean, like if he sees the same things that I see?
--
greebs
Bryn Evans
> Sheel warbled...
>> greebo burbled:
>>
>>>Sheel wented:
>>>>The staff have just started using walkie-talkies at my school
>>>
>>>Beats shouting across the staff room?
>>
>> It's for the teacher at the gate to yell, 'Taxi for Dylan and Wayne'
>> to the teacher at the door.
>>
> It seems a lot of expense just to announce a ride for Dylan and Wayne.
What was wrong with the long lenght of string and the bell code ?
--
Bryn - I blame the Teachers -
Bryn Evans
> On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:49:50 -0000, Bev wrote:
> <><
>>But greebs, you know that to someone from Sheeel's borin county Britain
>>*is* Lunnon!
> And can we be certain that the disorganisation at terminal 5 wasn't
> really brilliantly organised? How much free publicity is Heathrow
> getting out of this. And don't go telling me it is bad publicity.
> The majority of the people in this country seem to be addicted to
> flying, the silly fools, and all their silly heads will be able to
> remember will be "Heathrow... new terminal... mmmmm!". The business
> about the mixed up baggage will be forgotten within days. It's all a
> publicity stunt.
Didn't you read in the 'Register' that it was all quite deliberate,
so that people used to Terminals 1 to 4 would not feel uncomfortable!
Bryn Evans
> "Scatterbunny" <rabbi...@googlemail.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
> de984b02-172c-45ae...@i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>> La mouette worrytried:
>>
>>> !
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>> !!
>>
>> Exactemente. C'est pas grave. Je suis un lappin triste mais
>> philosophe.
>>
>> ~..~
>> ( ~ ) Le lappin qui rit.
> Le lapin qui rit jaune, on dirait !
> La philosophie est depuis toujours inscrite dans les gènes des lapins...
> d'ailleurs ils parlent français aussi bien que Descartes !
Ah bien! Attende des Cartes et non les satnav mauvaise!
Bryn Evans
> La Mouette worrytyed:
>> Psycho-doctor flossofer pilgrim nurse and future main actor in a medieval
>> film.
> Sadly not. You may have missed the post when I sadly informed the
> Staffroom that there will be no appearance at the rabit Oscar ceremony
> this year. The film maker decided that the timing didn't work: I'm
> leaving on May 12th and that was too early to get everyting in place.
> (You know, rabit make-up team, luxury trailer, rumours of romantic
> involvement with Sarkozy's wife, etc) So a rabit pilgrim is walking
> from London. There are now problems with that, as I'm not being
> allowed in the Victoria and Albert Museum wearing a rucsack, but I'll
> get the Spanish ambassador to talk to them about that; he's the
> president of a very portant exclusive club rabit belongs to.
> ~..~
> ( ' ) Merci pour l'aide avec l'etape de randonee a France!
How did you application to use the tunnel as a burrow go ?
greebo
>Liz burbled:
>
>>I didn't realise you were young and tender, Sheel.
>
><blush>
>
>>I
>>hope you get over it soon.
>
>So do my neighbours. I'm keeping them awake at night.
>
Tell them they should lock their door so that you can't get in.
--
greebs
Scatterbunny
> That's wot I thort but the bunny said so and he is a very portant rabit
Hang on! A 'bunny' didn't say nuffin. It was Lord Coat... <huff>
Cheek!
~..~
( ' )
dennis@fake
Scatterbunny
> Do modern pilgrims use satnav?
Good question. Rabits already done the research on it. It weighs
much less than a full set of walking maps to walk across France. On
the other hand, I'm going down a route few people use, so it won't be
organised on the satnav programming. In the CSJ* office last week the
Secretary told me that only about six piligrims a year walk all the
way from England through France to Santiago. Some of the route is
waymarked, but the problem is finding food and even a boulangerie in
the countryside these days, as everyone drives to distant hypermarches
for everything these days.
Wot happens to little old peasants wot hasn't got a Citroen 2CV...?
"Ooh la la: we have besoin de another tin of chatfood. I'll just walk
cinquante kilometres a Bordeaux, mon amour."
"D'accord. See you la semaine prochaine, dear."
~..~
( ' )
(*Confraternity of St James, the official organisation for English
piligrims. The Spanish ambasssador is the President of the CSJ.)