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[mark smyth]

from the BBC re Venus

"Venus is putting on a fine show, shining brilliantly in the west after sunset in the constellation of Gemini, the Twins. Not since May 2004 have we seen such a performance – and it's getting better. Over the month Venus appears to increase in size due to the movement along its orbit which brings it closer to the Earth. This means increasing brightness too."

[Anthony Darby]

Cool pic Mark. Deafening silence fae Aberdeen.

[Maggi Young]

There may be  deafening silence from Aberdeen, but it's been pretty noisy IN Aberdeen! All off to bed now... Fermi's off to London tomorrow, he hasn't had five minutes to himself to do anything with his pix, not even show us them..... you'll see them eventually, I'm sure.
That Bookeroo fellow is putting us to shame with his Southport report on so quick.. but his party can't have been as much fun as ours!
Thanks for sending your plants,  Anthony, you did well... we'll make you wait to hear more!

[Carol Shaw]

Magi
Your and Ian's parties are always the best!

[Maggi Young]

Kind of you to say so, Carol, we do like to spend quality time with our chums... here's a glimpse into last night's party, to give a flavour of the evening......



Fuzzy, out of focus? What can you mean, we  were all sober as flower show judges!

[David Shaw]

Maggie, are you offering a prize for the person who can identify most faces in your picture

[mark smyth]

Anthony you had me looking through previous pages to see what photo you mean and then I realised. It's difficult taking a self portrait to keep folks happy

[Anthony Darby]

The one that Maggi and Fermi had put, not your present pic Mark.

[Maggi Young]

The pic we posted on your behalf, Mark, was of an Abelam mask.... from the Eastern Sepik region of Papua New Guinea... from Ian's collection... we call this mask President Ian 2nd, on account of it's resemblance to the former SRGC President of that ilk.... Ian Bainbridge....see for yourself the uncanny likeness in my next post!

[Maggi Young]

Neither looks like Mark but which is the Abelam Mask and which is President Ian 2nd?
     


What is the difference between the two?

The Abelam mask is used for the Yam harvest ceremonies and the former president is used to all sorts of mickey-taking 

[Anthony Darby]

Ah, PNG is a place I definitely want to visit. I used to correspond with a chap who worked in Wau. He was stopped in his jeep, having dropped off some visiting photographers, and shot by members of a neighboring tribe. Imagine my surprise when I found out that the son of our host in Tuscany last year was one of the photographers, and didn't find out his friend had been shot until he got back, all bedraggled, having waited in vain to be picked up again.

[Maggi Young]

Given that experience of life in PNG, Anthony, I think you should hold off from a visit until the children have left university and bought their first homes... your income will be needed until then... unless you have massive life insurance of course..... why is Vivienne phoning the travel agent?

[David Nicholson]

Just got back home after visiting friends in Norwich:-

Thursday 24th. journeyed up-beautiful day-27C as we hit the M25.
Friday 25th. fine until lunchtime
Saturday 26th-Tuesday 29th, rain, more rain, and yet more rain, and pretty cold too.

If Tony Goode tells me again that East Anglia is too dry I'll eat my very soggy hat

[mark smyth]

-27 in May! 

[David Nicholson]

t'was meant to be a hyphon not a minus. It was +27C and I had a soggy shirt to prove it.