Happy New Year!

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

1 hour ago, bamber said:

Happy New Year all!

 

Remember Glastonbury is about smiling and dancing,  it smells of farm and sex.

 

I love the festival and all who attend unconditionally. 

 

I'm glad you popped your head over the parapet.

 

Have a fabulous 2025 bamber.

 

PS - I think you'll find it smells of 'farm and sex and poo*'

 

* Mostly near the long drops, but occasionally, and unfortunately, in a persons own tent. And 'No' I have not done that - not there nor anywhere else for that matter. Ups, apart from a 'situation' I got myself into in Bristol, many moons ago now. I doubt anybody would want to hear the full gory story, so let me just say the knowledge of the working of a toilet cisterns components came in very (very) handy.

[Crazyfool01]

7 hours ago, Pinhead said:

Just seen Crazyfool again on the Coldplay Glasto repise on BBC. The drummer is the son of my tutor in Southampton Uni Archaeology dept, Prof. Tim Champion.

Will watch later today . I put it on record was ill in rubbish timing a few mins before midnight 

[steviewevie]

Happy New Year. Hope this year will be less sh*t.

 

[tarw]

14 hours ago, Superscally said:

Well...Oswestry really...Whittington if we're being precise 😁

I spent the night watching telly down the road in Whitchurch. Hope you had a blast 

[Superscally]

1 hour ago, tarw said:

I spent the night watching telly down the road in Whitchurch. Hope you had a blast 

330 finish, just stirring! My head says telly was a good shout 😄

[charlierc]

12 hours ago, Pinhead said:

HNY peeps. Is that really Bob Geldof on Hogmanay... FFS.

It was something looking at the Hootenanny acts in days of yore and they did seem to once be able to book quite zeitgeist of the time acts. Now, eh.

 

Even if it something to note quite a few people still thought it was done live. Same with Ellis-Bextor on the other side, although hers did kinda look like fun when I saw bits of it.

[CharlotteB]

4 hours ago, tarw said:

I spent the night watching telly down the road in Whitchurch. Hope you had a blast 

 

Used to visit a friend in Whitchurch, and had many a good night in Nantwich 😅...back in the day.

[steviewevie]

[Ayrshire Chris]

Happy and peaceful new year to everyone

 

Wise words from Frank Turner

 

In a world that has decided it’s going to lose its mind

be more kind my friends, try to be more kind

 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

On 1/1/2025 at 1:24 PM, CharlotteB said:

 

Used to visit a friend in Whitchurch, and had many a good night in Nantwich 😅...back in the day.

 

Me and some acquaintances at that time (in my 20's) nearly broke a 70 foot hired barge into two pieces in Nantwich on the Shropshire Union Canal  We somehow managed to open two lock gates at once. The front of this long barge just rode up out of the water and into the air. The rear of the barge submerged into the canal itself ie the engine bit got totally submerged. If it weren't for an observant passerby who knew what we had done springing into action and reversing the process, I reckon we'd have snapped that barge in two. Needless to say the boat hire company was not exactly pleased, as they had to come out and sort the flooded engine out. I don't think they had ever had cause to do this before in the history of their commercial enterprise. 

 

As an aside, one of our group also managed to accidentally drop the boat's engine and door keys into the canal on that trip when trying to pass the keys to another person. We all watched as the only set of keys dropped into the water. and into the muddy silt below. We thought we were f**ked. And then someone said 'get the boat hook and see if we can fish it out'. This suggestion was met with the derision that such an improbable task could be successful deserved. So a lad (Joe Rush - same name but not the founder of the Mutoid Waste company)) got the long poled boat hook, dropped it down into the totally murky water, wiggled the pole about,  lifted the pole back up, and there were the keys on the end of the hook. You'd have more chance of winning the lottery than that happening. Totally bizarre.

[Ayrshire Chris]

4 hours ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

 

Me and some acquaintances at that time (in my 20's) nearly broke a 70 foot hired barge into two pieces in Nantwich on the Shropshire Union Canal  We somehow managed to open two lock gates at once. The front of this long barge just rode up out of the water and into the air. The rear of the barge submerged into the canal itself ie the engine bit got totally submerged. If it weren't for an observant passerby who knew what we had done springing into action and reversing the process, I reckon we'd have snapped that barge in two. Needless to say the boat hire company was not exactly pleased, as they had to come out and sort the flooded engine out. I don't think they had ever had cause to do this before in the history of their commercial enterprise. 

 

As an aside, one of our group also managed to accidentally drop the boat's engine and door keys into the canal on that trip when trying to pass the keys to another person. We all watched as the only set of keys dropped into the water. and into the muddy silt below. We thought we were f**ked. And then someone said 'get the boat hook and see if we can fish it out'. This suggestion was met with the derision that such an improbable task could be successful deserved. So a lad (Joe Rush - same name but not the founder of the Mutoid Waste company)) got the long poled boat hook, dropped it down into the totally murky water, wiggled the pole about,  lifted the pole back up, and there were the keys on the end of the hook. You'd have more chance of winning the lottery than that happening. Totally bizarre.

Carry on up the canal😉

[SPW]

On 12/31/2024 at 8:55 PM, Punksnotdead said:

NYE same as every other year for me - I stay in with a few drinks and play my favourite 10 albums of the year - currently on my number 4 (The Cure) - Fontaines DC, Waxahatchee and Bright Eyes still to come.

 

Happy 2025 to everyone on here. 

That's a nice idea. I did this on one of the days between Christmas and NY (my favourite new albums pictured).

 

A belated response but I am not a great fan of NYE (too much reflection on top of festering on the days between Christmas and NY when I have too much time to think). But was at friends and coincidentally took a few cans of Brothers cider and the Coldplay set came on their TV after the fireworks etc. I was ready for home/bed at midnight as had stayed in Mcr the night before for the football with too little sleep. But we were half watching the set with friends asking what it was like and it cheered me up reflecting on how great a week we'd had. My wife is not one for showing too much emotion but said how she'd had a tear or two at Paul Heaton and I reflected on that Fri dream of LCD Soundsystem and Fontaines DC. 

Edited Thursday at 09:31 PM by SPW

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

1 hour ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

Carry on up the canal😉

 

Ooh err Misses - get you with your double entendres! 

 

That said, it was indeed like a 'Carry On' film - from start to finish. It was also the first time that I saw a kingfisher in the flesh, so to speak. It was early one morning with sun shining through the trees on the embankments of the canal. We were going a rapid 4mph at the time. I was at the front of the large, just looking ahead, when I saw the kingfisher. It was swooping down towards the water of the canal, and then swooping upwards and away from the water. It did this in a rhythmic cycle in front of me for some time. I was transfixed by its beauty and grace. I can still visualise it right now, from all those decades ago.

 

Just for your info, the next time I saw a kingfisher was at Sarehole Mill.

 

https://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/sarehole-mill/highlights/middle-earth

 

Talk about being at a loose end! 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Just now, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

 

Ooh err Misses - get you with your double entendres! 

 

That said, it was indeed like a 'Carry On' film - from start to finish. It was also the first time that I saw a kingfisher in the flesh, so to speak. It was early one morning with sun shining through the trees on the embankments of the canal. We were going a rapid 4mph at the time. I was at the front of the large, just looking ahead, when I saw the kingfisher. It was swooping down towards the water of the canal, and then swooping upwards and away from the water. It did this in a rhythmic cycle in front of me for some time. I was transfixed by its beauty and grace. I can still visualise it right now, from all those decades ago.

 

Just for your info, the next time I saw a kingfisher was at Sarehole Mill.

 

https://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/sarehole-mill/highlights/middle-earth

 

Talk about being at a loose end! 

 

Is there anything anybody wants to know!? You know, about anything? lol

 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

You know what a tumbleweed thinks, don't you?

 

No, nor me neither,

 

 

[Ayrshire Chris]

16 hours ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

You know what a tumbleweed thinks, don't you?

 

No, nor me neither,

 

 

A lightweight organic mass whose direction is dictated by external forces outwith its control

 

An allegory for life as a human being I reckon.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

2 hours ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

A lightweight organic mass whose direction is dictated by external forces outwith its control

 

An allegory for life as a human being I reckon.

 

Marvelously defined.