Moan, moan, moan----get it off your chest or have a chat

[SueG]

Phah - or noises like that! - I've finally had to admit my car is sick so I've got a week of using public transport to get around - what I hadn't bargained for is that tomorrow I've got a glass jewellery course starting in Sunderland (About 30 miles from where I live) and my total travel time there and back is going to be about five and a half hours (if all runs on time) - so I am going to need a GOOD book and some iron rations to keep me going  
Still I want to do the course, it's with a tutor I've worked with quite a lot now and I want to make the most of it while continuing education courses are running, also as it is at the National Glass Centre I get to use all the serious big equipment (cutters and grinders and sand blasting stuff) and maybe even a chance to do some glass blowing so it's worth the journey. You get (sorry, I get) even more dirty than when I'm gardening so may get some funny looks on the bus on the way home. Without the car though I can't stop at the brilliant fishmongers on the way there and have something nice for tea. Hey ho, just have to attack the freezer.
Enjoy the wedding
Sue

[David Shaw]

Just for clarity, Maggie, my Danny Williams was one time right half and then manager fo that great English team, Rotherham United. Greatest claim to fame - finalists in the very first League Cup final. They came second

[David Nicholson]

David N. your link may be to a  man who sang Moon River, but the rest of us are speaking about ANDY Williams, not Danny.... the american crooner who had a TV show and was instrumental in the early career of the Osmonds!!   http://www.andywilliams.com/

He performed on stage at the Moon River Theatre, Branson Missouri, as recently as the 27th October!!
NO! I take that back, he is performing all the time... two shows today!

Danny Williams had the best version in my view, take a listen at . I used to watch the Andy Williams Show on black and white TV occasionally. I do believe though that anyone guilty of being instrumental in the career of the Osmans should be taken out and shot! By the way, even then I regarded anything that wasn't R & B, R & R, just plain Blues, or Trad Jazz as simply 'wallpaper' music.

[David Nicholson]

My 15 year old Flymow mower having come to the end of it's working life and the fact that I now have much less lawn area than I used to have meant I needed to look for a smaller mower. I did so, and at B & Q I found a small Flymo called the HoverVack. The name put me off to start with because I thought that perhaps it was only useful for sucking up leaves etc. But having read the details on the box and a chat with a staff member at B & Q  both of whom reassured me that it was indeed a mower with a grass collection facility.

If you are looking for a new mower then give this one a miss-it's diabolical. Yes, it collects clippings, BUT the problem is it's lousy at clipping them in the first place. What isn't made clear on the box is that the machine doesn't have a steel cutting blade but simply two rotating plastic arms. I could get a better quality cut by walking up and down the lawn with a pair of scissors

The best part of £50 wasted.

[Paul T]

Can't you take it back because it is useless?

Sue,

Bummer about the public transport, and such aweful timing.  Glad you can read while travelling.... I get car sick if I try that.  Would be dreadful to have to travel that long while bored to tears, although a good set of headphones will help pass the time (providing they're attached to a cd player or something (just in case anyone wants to jump in and make any smart alec remarks about someone wearing headphones just by themselves!!  )

[Lesley Cox]

David N. your link may be to a  man who sang Moon River, but the rest of us are speaking about ANDY Williams, not Danny.... the american crooner who had a TV show and was instrumental in the early career of the Osmonds!!   http://www.andywilliams.com/

For that alone, he should have been shot!

[Lesley Cox]

I see David (N) you got your shot in before mine. I hope we both hit the mark

[David Nicholson]

I see David (N) you got your shot in before mine. I hope we both hit the mark

great minds Lesley, great minds......

[mark smyth]

here is something not to moan about. I just noticed this.

Most Online Ever (at the same time): 794 (October 23, 2007, 04:48:54 PM)

[Paul T]

Mark,

I noticed it a few days ago.  Was somewhat stunned (to put it mildly).  Just goes to show how many different people actually read our meanderings, and yet can never be bothered to contribute!!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Or did the counter go mad ? 

[Maggi Young]

I don't know, Luc... I was online at the time and it was very busy, showing many pages worth of guests viewing different things..... I wondered if more folks than usual had come to the Forum because they were looking for the  latest Bulb Log, though it was only Tuesday ??!!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

"Fascinating" as Dr Spock used to say... 

[mark smyth]

"Fascinating" he will say again as Star Trek is coming back to the big screen

[Paul T]

Mark,

Yep, and Leonard Nimoy is in it as well...... and isn't William Shatner peeved that HE isn't in it!!    Has his nose right royally put out apparently.    Says they'll lose out because he won't bring his legion of fans in to watch it.  Did anyone like Kirk anyway?