Puzzles

[David Nicholson]

It didn't worry the Bookies too much.

[Anthony Darby]

If I'd backed that horse it would have come in last! It's not that I'm not superstitious, as that's bad luck, it's just that when my ship comes in I'll be at the airport!

[tonyg]

It didn't worry the Bookies too much.

A nice quiet day at the office - I gave you a dozen well fancied options and none was a winner 
Pity I had to be stuck indoors on such a nice day though

[Lesley Cox]

If I'd backed that horse it would have come in last! It's not that I'm not superstitious, as that's bad luck, it's just that when my ship comes in I'll be at the airport!

That's certainly not bad luck Anthony, that (very) bad management.

[Ragged Robin]

It didn't worry the Bookies too much.

A nice quiet day at the office - I gave you a dozen well fancied options and none was a winner 
Pity I had to be stuck indoors on such a nice day though

Nowadays it's risky even to hedge your bets!

[tonyg]

Another fabulous spring day here and I am stuck at work again (yes, most of my forum time is at work).... the hedge (and the grass) will be growing lustily in the garden. 
Hope the sun shines for you too!

[Maggi Young]

So, was it your wives that you were glad were not also stuck in the gondola ?

[Anthony Darby]

It didn't worry the Bookies too much.

One of my friends had a fiver to win on Mon Mome!

[tonyg]

So, was it your wives that you were glad were not also stuck in the gondola ?

Maggi - you know me too well! 
They would both have been deeply unhappy which would have disturbed our quiet contemplation of the meaning of life.

[Maggi Young]

Maggi - you know me too well! 
They would both have been deeply unhappy which would have disturbed our quiet contemplation of the meaning of life.

 By which you mean you settled down to wait and fell asleep? 

[tonyg]

It didn't worry the Bookies too much.

One of my friends had a fiver to win on Mon Mome!

One of our customers had £100 on it "because my little girl calls me Mom-Mom" ... for the uninitiated Mon Mome won the Grand National (UKs most famous horse race) at odds of 100/1.

[tonyg]

Maggi - you know me too well! 
They would both have been deeply unhappy which would have disturbed our quiet contemplation of the meaning of life.

 By which you mean you settled down to wait and fell asleep? 

Apart from the sleep bit (far too cold) you're about right.
My friends wife once had a bad experience going up the Schilthorn by cablecar.  (There's a very big drop at half-way)  They had to walk down ..... 
On that occasion we split up and I had the unexpected pleasure of meeting SRGC members Peter & Beryl Bland whilst exploring below the summit.  A bit un-nerving when you hear the voice of an old acquaintance from above in a foreign land.  I had no idea they were in the area!!

[Maggi Young]

I thought you'd be used to the fact that you really can't go to any mountain without meeting,( or at least spotting, kneeling in the distance, cameras at full blast )   at least half the members of the SRGC and AGS !!   They're everywhere!!

[tonyg]

Ah but I enjoy my own company and have tried to visit a few places off the beaten track.  I did once make it through a whole week without meeting anyone whose first language was english  

But on a family trip we met someone who lives just a few miles from here in Norwich.  The freaky coincidence was that she identified me as a native Londoner and it turned out that I'd spent 6 years in the same class at school as her brother!!!!

[Ragged Robin]

Good fortune or fate?  On searching for a Swiss Alpine Gardening Club to join I drew a blank and then came across Alan's website which intrigued me and captured my imagination with his wonderful photographs of Alpine plants.  A happy connection led to joining the SRGC and opens up a whole new world of gardening and challenges that I could not have imagined possible.  So here's to SRGC and the Members - on the internet or mountain top it's always a pleasure for like minds to meet - the puzzling thing is why it took me so long to make the link!