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Oh, what a beautiful day ...

Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 6:34 pm
by ubergeekian
Well, my two weeks booked off work to wander round the Clyde in Jumblie were a complete washout as a result of domestic complications and rotten weather. But today dawned blue and sunny down here in Galloway, so at lunchtime The Boy and I escaped to Loch Ken.

We had the Hunter ready to go in ten minutes then a cracking beat down the loch, keel up, ran her onto the shore of an island, went ashore for a picnic, I read while he explored, back on the boat for a zizz, the first two chapters of "Great Northern?", more island exploration and another cracking sail back up the loch to the pontoon, still in brilliant sunshine. We've got a meeting to go to this evening, then it's back to the Hunter to sleep.

OK, it's not a long distance adventure and we saw no porpoises but, frankly, sailing days don't get much better than this.

<sighs contentedly>

Re: Oh, what a beautiful day ...

Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 7:51 pm
by DaveS
I read Great Northern for the first time 3 or 4 years ago. The baddie is not only a despicable egg collector but, ultimate horror, he drives a mobo! :)

Re: Oh, what a beautiful day ...

Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 6:27 am
by claymore
I've just had a despicable egg c/o Virgin Trains - at least, I think it was egg.....

Re: Oh, what a beautiful day ...

Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 5:57 pm
by wully
I've just had a excrement day at work so am drinking beer on my own in an Aberdeen pub. I'm fairly certain something stronger is required.

Re: Oh, what a beautiful day ...

Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 7:30 pm
by claymore
Jodrell?

Re: Oh, what a beautiful day ...

Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 7:52 pm
by wully
Very clever Webby, why can't I say 5hit?

Dogrel

Re: Oh, what a beautiful day ...

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:45 am
by sahona
Well, it's lovely here in Ardfern. Not sure where or when we'll go next.

Re: Oh, what a beautiful day ...

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 12:06 pm
by wully
sahona wrote:Well, it's lovely here in Ardfern. Not sure where or when we'll go next.
If you're hanging around with time on yer hands, nip up and mow my lawn will you? It'll be like a jungle by the time I get back.

Re: Oh, what a beautiful day ...

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:20 pm
by claymore
Bill
Have you introduced oor fine craft to each other?
We may be able to get a pup out of em.

Am in the Lagoon - happy for you to go alongside - the mooring will hold us both

Re: Oh, what a beautiful day ...

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 8:18 pm
by Arghiro
wully wrote:Very clever Webby, why can't I say 5hit?

Dogrel
It's an Anglo-saxon filter, for some reason there are those who think that the French, Greek or Latin words are better than saxon or old English. Personally I think the whole concept is a pile of shit.

Re: Oh, what a beautiful day ...

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:12 pm
by claymore
Just lost me here - French, Greek, Latin, Anglo Saxon

All of them in that pile?

Re: Oh, what a beautiful day ...

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:35 pm
by Booby Trapper
claymore wrote:Bill
Have you introduced oor fine craft to each other?
We may be able to get a pup out of em.

Am in the Lagoon - happy for you to go alongside - the mooring will hold us both
What would the collective noun be for such a pair.

Re: Oh, what a beautiful day ...

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 8:17 am
by claymore
A Magnificence of Claymores?

Re: Oh, what a beautiful day ...

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:16 am
by ash
Booby Trapper wrote:
claymore wrote:Bill
Have you introduced oor fine craft to each other?
We may be able to get a pup out of em.

Am in the Lagoon - happy for you to go alongside - the mooring will hold us both
What would the collective noun be for such a pair.
A Clutch of Claymores

Ash

Re: Oh, what a beautiful day ...

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 1:01 pm
by claymore
Oi
you leave my crutch alone