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Good news in the UK - what with the recent relaxations of the Covid-19 lockdown, socially distanced beer-gardens are open again!
Doesn't help me though, I'm a cider drinker.... ta-da!
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@Gordon Shumway !! I'm not sure which reading I put into that - possibly (a) due to our generally, and wonderfully abysmal summer weather, or (b) due to our nation's alleged (and I stress alleged, it's all fake news, Bill said with a straight face) predilection for beer-drinking
Hahahaha - either / both readings work LOLOL
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Gordon Shumway said
Ha, that's an understated response. Now I don't know if I have offended!
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ROFL - nah, never @Gordon Shumway , it just brought back memories of a camping holiday, many years ago, when we visited the west-coast sometime mid-September. We went to the local (only) pub in the small village for a couple of beers. Of course the place was filled with the local folks (this is a small place, well off the tourist beaten-track). We got there about 7pm, and the midges were a darned menace, to say the least. Once inside, just chatting and mixing with the locals, I said something like "It's a bit desperate out there with the midges, is this normal for the time of year here or just a particularly bad evening?" One old chap at the table said, "Och aye, the midge is fair bad the-night. Fair bad".
What struck me was the use of the term in the singular. It made me picture one, single, VERY large evil-looking midge. I even coined a term for this new creature - a "midgerigar" (something the size of a budgie). Walking back a few miles to our tent, it was even worse - and yet a new version came to mind - "The Midgerisaur" - something the size of a T-Rex !
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AndrewH - forgot to tell you the Barbers-Hao-P Quartet was crazy! You have no clue - my family has been scared to death that the Grandkids would pick up on that! It's a unbearable image - 6 little kids all running around singing the "Baby Shark" song! ...at the same time! ...all day long!
BillyG - at least you don't have Texas mosquitoes! I was in Texas for several Military Helicopter schools & EVERYTHING'S bigger in Texas! When we lived in the Finger Lakes area of New York, there were "Black Flies". Even a little further up North here in Michigan you'll find we have "Deer Flies" that circle your head waiting to dive-bomb. ALL VAMPIRES!
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cid - no, 1 year after we got out of the AF (Wichita, KS) we moved about 1/2 hour south of Auburn. That was Autumn of 1980.
I had friends that had moved there that knew the Miller Beer Co was going to open a bottling plant soon and were accepting applications. So, my Better Half and I rented a wonderful (huge) old farm house (little orchard, grape vines and barn!), applied for jobs and then waited... and waited...
I was kinda in a hurry to land a job before anyone knew I was pregnant (lol). Long story/short - by the time Miller called to tell me I had the job, it was like 2 days before I was due - so I had to decline! My sunny outlook was shattered when they didn't offer my BH a job - and we both had the same training & leadership skills (& he left a job at Cessna). In Feb our daughter was born in Auburn.
That was a very hard Winter for us - back then it was very hard to get ANY job if you weren't a minority (my BH isn't). Really wish we could've stayed - great friends & it was so beautiful there!
...I remember thinking how wonderful ALL the little back roads were all paved...
Feels like this joke was on me.
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I had just finished playing Boccherini's theme from Master and Commander (thinking maybe I should record this - not sounding too bad!), then I started fooling around playing along with the Midnite Strings Quartet video of "Dead Man's Party"...
LARGE RATTLE FROM INSIDE MORTIMER!!!
IT SCARED ME TO DEATH... INSIDE MY MORTIMER - HELP!
Why ONLY when I played the C string? Was it my sound post? Help! ...was my C string damaged/unraveling? Was it hitting the fingerboard? Help! ...was it my bridge? Was it my chin rest? Shoulder rest? Help! ...no, pleeeze - could my Bass Bar actually become detached?
Well, this is why I posted this in this thread...
A lose Fine Tuner screw (on the D string, no less)!
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