Author Topic: for all Geordies out there! (Read 21482 times)

Ceri · « **Reply #40 on:** October 24, 2003, 10:16:13 »

b_l - wasn't it a fantastic thunderstorm - sheet lightening and everything - I'm a real sucker for a thunderstorm, but my neighbour is terrified of them - she sat in my house the other night whimpering slightly - mind you, forget expensive phobia therapy - a couple of bottles of wine later, she seemed to have forgotten all about it!

tim · « **Reply #41 on:** October 24, 2003, 13:32:05 »

thanks again -
but I don't think my gin mix would have helped?

But are these good enough for a 'brownie' point? Camera shake, I'm afraid, after trying to break through the frozen ground! - Tim

busy_lizzie · « **Reply #42 on:** October 24, 2003, 13:43:42 »

Wow :o :o!! Tim, What impressive leeks!! Certainly would have been worth a prize at the Leek Show at the Monkseaton Arms a few months ago. How did you get the leaves to look so fabulously glossy and green ??? busy_lizzie.

tim · « **Reply #43 on:** October 24, 2003, 14:27:55 »

because the flash went off by mistake!

Had the soil not been so brick hard, they would have stayed down at their 10" planting depth, and then we would have had a bit more blanchy bit - Tim

jethro · « **Reply #44 on:** October 24, 2003, 16:47:59 »

Nice leeks bonny lad, hope they taste as good as they look ;D . Word of warning don't eat any leeks grown up on our site as i know what goes into them :-X . Radioactive dust would be healthier ??? some of the mixtures would strip paint off the doors.
Also did you know that the reason the 'toon' play in black and white is because that was the uniform the soldiers wore when fighting for the king, or so somebody told me, so don't shoot the messanger if it's wrong, he also said a 'true' geordie was born within spitting distance of the Tyne, take some doing here in Stanley it's 11 miles from it ???

busy_lizzie · « **Reply #45 on:** October 24, 2003, 16:58:46 »

Cerig, I didn't enjoy the thunder storm, always get one of those hair tingling, headachey feelings, but not quite fearful enough to lock myself in a cupboard scenario or turn to drink. My husband loves them and always wants to go outside in the midst of them. When the children were little he always wanted to take them outside and sit on the lean too shed that was off a small bedroom, to have a birdseye view, which used to terrify me, :o :o though they were only too willing. busy_lizzie

Dusty · « **Reply #46 on:** October 24, 2003, 19:03:14 »

I love thunder and lightening - when I was young my nana would tell my brother and I stories so that we would not be frightened - tommy thunder and lenny lightening - when the thunder roared that was tommy talking and when we had lightening that was lenny replying - and the game was to make up stories about what was being said. As you don't know who I am I can confess that I tell my dogs these stories now so that they will not be frightened of the t & l, of course they don't understand - but they also know that because I am being silly there is nothing to be scared of. Or perhaps it is just that old habit/memories die hard :D

MagpieDi · « **Reply #47 on:** October 24, 2003, 20:31:31 »

Hi Jethro
Have just sent an E mail to the boardroom at St James's Park re the 'toon' colours! ;) ;D
My brother works with the 'men in high places' there!! Will be interesting to see if any of the Shepherd clan have any idea!! Very much doubt it tho'!!! ;D

Ceri · « **Reply #48 on:** October 24, 2003, 20:39:19 »

My husband (brought up in Spitaltongues, calls himself a Geordie, but was born in Hexham, so I call him a pit yacker!) says that the Geordie name is also attributed to George Stephenson, who invented a miner's lamp (like the Davy Lamp Sir Humphrey Davy invented for the Welsh miners) - the lamp was called the Geordie Lamp after Stephenson. Mind you, he'd never heard of Carlin Sunday, so what does he know?!

tim · « **Reply #49 on:** October 24, 2003, 21:53:23 »

the lamp? - you've finally caught up with my 22/10? - Tim

legless · « **Reply #50 on:** October 25, 2003, 12:20:21 »

i missed most of teh thunder and lightning - i was in blyth and it wasn't so good there!

i lived in grange villa on the way to chester le street jethro - interesting place......

its not so cold by the coast, haven't had icy windscreens in cullercoats yet!

Ceri · « **Reply #51 on:** October 25, 2003, 12:56:08 »

Hi Tim - OK, you'd been there, done that! - I've never been the brightest button in the button box obviously!

tim · « **Reply #52 on:** October 25, 2003, 13:19:50 »

- buttons are lovely things!

But, as they say, you have to keep moving, or you get a poppy pinned on you! - Tim

MagpieDi · « **Reply #53 on:** October 25, 2003, 15:33:00 »

For Jethro...straight from the horses mouth...or should it be 'Magpies'!! ;D
Hi Di,

NUFC was founded in 1892 – that’s why there is a section of the ground with bars & food halls for the fans and it is called the 1892 club.

There were two teams Newcastle East & Newcastle West. Both teams prior to 1892 played in strips of black & white of various designs ie black body white sleeves. Both teams merged in 1892 to form Newcastle United and they decided on the black & white stripes. Okay hope this will do. Ttfn Bxx

Brian Hines

Director Offshore Operations

Ceri · « **Reply #54 on:** October 25, 2003, 22:20:10 »

Offshore operations - is that when the team travels, or does NUFC have a call centre in Dhubai??

MagpieDi · « **Reply #55 on:** October 26, 2003, 01:55:29 »

Oops..'spose i should have done some editing......got carried away with the copy and pasting ;D
It wouldn't surprise me Cerig!!!!...the Shepherds have a finger in a lot of pies!!!! ;D ::)
It's just one of their many companies!
I see the bonny lads won today!! Let's hope the crisis is over!!
How are you getting on with your lottie? and your onions? If you can scrounge some Welsh onions from someone, they're brilliant and look good too!! Or I could always bring some up next time I whiz up the A1 !!

Ceri · « **Reply #56 on:** October 26, 2003, 11:19:35 »

Onions and garlic (hopefully) bedded in nicely, bean trenches dug, compost heap slowly growing, couple of bags of lovely clean leaves swept up from my son's nursery school playground, so all set for the winter I hope. I haven't made it to the lottie all week - my mother arrives tomorrow so the last few days have been tidying up - really I need a month. Somebody tell me why a grown up married woman with children still has this desparate urge to tidy madly when parents arrive - what is that all about?!!

legless · « **Reply #57 on:** October 26, 2003, 14:54:17 »

wow good work! i thought about bean trenches today then decided against it for the day!! i had a lovely morning, apart from the showers its been beautiful weather down my plot and i did lots if nice tidying and pruning and laying out beds and mulching jobs.

also during the showers tidied the shed, you can really tell its a girls shed now :D

i know what you mean about the tidying Ceri, my mum and dad are coming at the end of november (to see meatloaf rather than me i think!) and i'm already worrying about tidying in time :D

MagpieDi · « **Reply #58 on:** October 27, 2003, 00:51:25 »

Gosh ...you've both been busy bees!! ;D
I've got about 10ft to prune off my cherry tree and cart round to the village bonfire!! Really looking forward to that job!! ::)
Amazingly enough legless.....I really, really wanted to go to the Meatloaf concert at Sheffield Arena...but couldn't find anyone else keen ! Sad :'( My 15 year old twins think live music is solely for teens!! I've got to the stage where I need to relive my youth before it's too late!!!! ;D

Ceri · « **Reply #59 on:** October 27, 2003, 09:07:57 »

If you read my response to Ozzy in The Basics, Rotavators, its not all that impressive with my 'oatmeal-like' soil.

Now the hard work has been that my house is nice and shiny and ideal home like for my mother's arrival this afternoon (if mum doesn't open the cupboards so all the junk falls out I'll be fine!) Can I keep it up for a whole week? Luckily mum and dad don't stay with me, they bring their caravan up to a small site (behind the delaval pub), otherwise matricide would be the order of the day! Funny, we get on so well over the phone with 200 miles between us!

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Author Topic: for all Geordies out there! (Read 21482 times)

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