Happy New Year

Happy New Year to you too Aussie!!

Hope you dont have too big of a hangover tomorrow, we are having a *quiet* gathering with some friends....I will probably fall asleep and watch the fireworks on the news tomorrow.

How things have changed

{edited: coz my weather thingie wont work POS!! }

Its currently 102 here and said to get hotter today and tomorrow.

Lexie it's pretty hot here too...I am not going to leave the air conditioning until after dark, then it's party time. We started the celebrations last night...felt a bit delicate this morning but have bounced back ready for the next installment

Happy New Year.

Happy New Year. I hope your New Year is truely blessed.

Happy New Year!

Keep the traditions alive.

Love the pics. I hope everyone enjoyed their New Year celebrations...I sure did. So how did everyone celebrate?????

The East Coast of Oz started the New Year with a sizzling style. Woke up to 46 degree C day, turned on the news which stated was the hottest NYD in the state's history....plus there were 40 bushfires around the state. Thank God the southerly arrived approx 11.00pm last night to cool things off.

Happy NEW YEAR!!!

We went out to eat and then got home in time to pop the cork on the bubbly for the New Year.

Hope everyone has a great new snip year.

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Originally posted by I'd rather be shopping:
Happy NEW YEAR!!!

Hope everyone has a great new snip year.

Not likely!
I forgot that it was National Vasectomy Year!

Hope you all have a great New Year, and keep all your bits intact, where applicable.

We just had our turkey dinner yesterday (were out at Xmas) and next Sunday, off for a pub lunch to the highest pub in England, 80 miles away.

Don’t forget, Mike, snip can also mean “a saucy or impertinent girl”, which would bring an entirely new meaning to things.

Say Aussie, with this being the start of a New Year, any chance of seeing wedding pictures in my near future?

I’d tell you what I did for New Years, but I’m afraid it would put people to sleep – it did me.



P.S. I found this in an etymology link:
Snippy is 1727 with the meaning "parsimonious;" the sense of "fault-finding, sharp" is first recorded 1848.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=snip&searchmode=none

Seems like I had a wee tad too much of that bubbly. Hi Aussie gal. I keep seeing 2005 on your post. I also wanted to say: Have a great Snipe Year!!.
Tis also the fact I am a good with hoof in mouth.

Hi all.....think it is a great idea to stay at home for New Year & have friends over, will try that next, too tiring being a butterfly

Where is the highest pub situated Mike? Interested because Aussie is a pub kind of gal & looking to visit my aunt within next 12 months who lives at Harpenden (wherever that is?). BTW do they have pool tables in pubs over there?

Rick, sorry you did not enjoy festivities. Saw Time Square on TV it looked like it was going off!! Anyway will attempt to do wedding pics on weekend....don't know what you are expecting though

BTW: Shop, have fixed up 2005 for you

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Originally posted by aussie_girl:

Where is the highest pub situated, Mike?

Hi AG
It is 1732ft up on the moors near the county boundaries of North Yorks, Cumbria and Durham - 3 miles from nearest building and nowhere any town.
Here it is!

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Interested because Aussie is a pub kind of gal & looking to visit my aunt within next 12 months who lives at Harpenden (wherever that is?).

Hertfordshire, just North of London suburbs. About 250 miles from Tan Hill!

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BTW do they have pool tables in pubs over there?

Many do - some also have TV with endless ball programme things, dartboards, jukeboxes and all sorts of things for the Sun readers* that inhibit conversation.
Me, I like to sit down with a good drink, good friends and good conversation.
More and more pubs are not allowing smoking, especially those who serve food. So, we can go home without smelling like a bonfire!

*Sun readers - Brit saying. The Sun is the archetypal dumbed down tabloid newspaper - you only need the IQ of a houseplant to read it.

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Sun readers - Brit saying. The Sun is the archetypal dumbed down tabloid newspaper - you only need the IQ of a houseplant to read it.

Not sure, but that MAY be an insult to houseplants!

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Originally posted by Jabbergah:

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Sun readers - Brit saying. The Sun is the archetypal dumbed down tabloid newspaper - you only need the IQ of a houseplant to read it.

Not sure, but that MAY be an insult to houseplants!

So that's why ours never survive for very long!

Thanks Mike for the info....what a fabulous place to go for lunch (Aussie is envious), and in the middle of nowhere would be very peaceful. Do you stay there overnight or live close by? Don't know if my aunt would drive that far for me...but I can always try


I dislike the sound of traffic etc while I am dining. Can never understand why people choose to dine outdoors where car fumes permeate their three course banquet.

I also like communicating with friends while have a few drinks....but am partial to a game of pool occasionally which I find can also be social & fun.

We don't have any of those newspapers here...not that I have noticed anyway. So I could be in for a bit of a light read eh?

Maybe the tabloids are a good source of nutrients for plants – that could be why it’s called The Sun (sounds better than The **it).



Food for thought.

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Originally posted by aussie_girl:
Thanks Mike for the info....what a fabulous place to go for lunch (Aussie is envious), and in the middle of nowhere would be very peaceful. Do you stay there overnight or live close by? Don't know if my aunt would drive that far for me...but I can always try

Hi Aussie
We live 74 miles from Tan Hill, so we just go there and back in the day. About 80 of us (2CVs and Dyanes) meet in a pub in Leeds, then have a lovely convoy up through the Yorkshire Dales to Tan Hill, stopping for a glass of mulled wine in Hawes (Wensleydale - where the cheese is made) and over Buttertubs pass Here and past Keld and thence up to Tan Hill.
You would really have to stay overnight if you were coming from Harpenden.

And they also say that the Daily Star
is for those readers who find the Sun too difficult!

I also can't let Mike get away with all the honours.

Here in Wales we have the highest cafe
and it has Royal Approval!

Prince Charles called it the:
the Highest Slum in Wales!

They do intend to rebuild it - if they can raise the money.

Blwyddwyn Newydd Dda to you all

Paul

Don't forget this one, Camera!
I am not a number!
And this:
Spend a week here
And all those lovely beaches around the West coast......

Hi all....Mike the drive to your destination is so picturesque thanks for sharing.

Hey Paul if Prince Charles approves of "the highest slum in Wales" it's got to be ok. My father was born in England but grew up in Wales and calls himself a definate Welshman. Although I was born in OZ I am entitled to a British passport therefore can stay as long as I like....can see everyone running for cover

BTW check out item 5653887189....you can have a sample of what Oz is really like LOL. I can't believe people are actually bidding on it and their other items.

You have to give them props Aussie.

Great idea!! Although the shipping is a bit high?

My ex once bought me a *star* for my birthday.

HTF can I own a star? HTF do I know 300 other people dont own the same star?

Do I get my money back if the bloody thing drops out of the sky?

Am I liable if it crashes onto someones car?

LOL Lexie....have seen the star thingy and love your questions .

I like how the seller states that if you are not happy with the product we will refund. How do you tell if you are not happy...sniff it and don't like the smell

I like the 2000 sqM property on the moon, just concerned of the high cost in getting building contractors there

Yes, but it would be worth the cost for the view.

You could always try and crack onto Richard Branson, he is heading that way soon.

Maybe thats why they are buying up, then they only have to save the $200 odd k to secure a seat.

Cheap dust, expensive flights.

Hey Lexie I reckon you are onto something there. Location is a bit too dry for Aussie..have'nt seen too many photos of beaches there.

Richard Branson...ummmm no, not my style of man, plus too old, preference would be a home grown one....Brett Lee (yum, yum, yum), second preference...Grant Hackett.

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Originally posted by Bartelby:
HTF can I own a star?

Did you get property rights to it, or was it named after you? I would be more impressed if you also got mineral rights – that could add up.

Since I’m a guy, the following is OK:
There’s something like 5 (or maybe 6 – I keep losing track) billion people on the planet. Supposedly there’s something like 200 billion (give or take) galaxies “out there”, and EACH galaxy has 100 to 200 billion stars (there’s a nerd that works for NASA that counted each one, one at a time), and you know how stars like to have planets. So, that means that if we all got pissed off at all the rest of we, we would each have something like 40 galaxies apiece to walk out in a huff and pout on. I personally would have my hands full with just one galaxy.

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Originally posted by Bartelby:
You could always try and crack onto Richard Branson, he is heading that way soon.

Sex in a non-gravity environment? Has to be worth something.

Well I think the Brits have won the award for low cost stock for sale....check out item 7579657380

She (or he) could have at least put on some makeup.

ROFLMAO @ Rick...good one

The Brits sure do have something about feet, or maybe they just like to advertise it more

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Originally posted by aussie_girl:
ROFLMAO @ Rick...good one

The Brits sure do have something about feet, or maybe they just like to advertise it more

The thing that concerns me is that she (?) has five pairs of them! Before you ask, ye of the Antipodies, us Brits normally just have a right and left.
FWIW, I have never known anyone to have a foot fetish!

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Originally posted by aussie_girl:
Hi all....Mike the drive to your destination is so picturesque thanks for sharing.

There we were at 1732ft above sea level, for a pub lunch on Sunday.

81 miles from home - we all had a coffee and bacon buttie in a pub in Leeds, and set off at 10:00 through the Yorkshire Dales - Airedale, Wensleydale (stopping for a diddle and some mulled wine and cake) then over Buttertubs Pass to Swaledale, getting ever higher and bleaker.
It was a drizzerable day (Mikeism) about 5 degrees C.

Finally, the 1 in 2 point something double hairpin took us up through West Stonesdale and thence to Tan Hill, where there was some snow on the road.
As we were having chilli-con-carne later at home, I had another one in the pub!
There are many nice things in life that you can have more than once in a day!

Then, a quick blast down the A1/M1/M62 at 80 mph home. Amazing what 602cc will do with 4 people up. That's it until January 2007.

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Originally posted by Bartelby:
You have to give them props Aussie.

Great idea!! Although the shipping is a bit high?

My ex once bought me a *star* for my birthday.

HTF can I own a star? HTF do I know 300 other people dont own the same star?

Do I get my money back if the bloody thing drops out of the sky?

Am I liable if it crashes onto someones car?

It won't matter, Lexie. You, the car, the lawyers, the planet and probably the rest of the solar system will cease to be!

Its only a little star Mike, he was a cheap bastard (hence him being an Ex).

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Originally posted by Bartelby:
Its only a little star Mike, he was a cheap bastard (hence him being an Ex).

Hi Lexie
Was the ex a red dwarf, then? Does the current one have a big, erm, star?

Mike, it need not be a star. I could be in our solar system. After all, there’s been recent discoveries of additional debris found in the rings around Uranus.

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Originally posted by Rick:
Mike, it need not be a star. I could be in our solar system. After all, there’s been recent discoveries of additional debris found in the rings around Uranus.

LOL, Rick!

Mike, since you didn’t correct me, should I assume that when dealing with rings, U’reanus would be improper? Must work the same way as “your” and “you’re”.

If this had been a plural, possessive case then I probably would have talked about the planet Ouranus, which entrails the Zodiac Constipations.

Boy, all this discussion about Uranus – puts a slightly different appearance on mooning.

Hey Rick you're on fire.....burning ring of fire, or great balls of fire