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Post by housesparrow on Aug 21, 2012 7:57:48 GMT
I'll walk that London ring thing. Do you do it one after the other or what? Five miles in the morning, five miles in the afternoon, boozy lunch in the middle. That would be my ideal. How on earth can you manage to walk at all after a boozy lunch? Half a pint of shandy and I'm ready for a lie-down at that time of day. |
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Post by jean on Aug 21, 2012 10:09:04 GMT
All this walking stuff is very interesting - but PLEASE, aubrey, don't stop giving us updates on your recovery!
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Post by aubrey on Aug 21, 2012 11:23:45 GMT
OK. I had mushroom flan yesterday (mushrooms were not allowed during dialysis), and I'll have some more in a couple of minutes.
I've had my first clinic appointment. Looks ok so far.
Still tired. I'm hoping to walk to the park after dinner (it is very close: just under the railway), but I reckon I'll need transport to and back from the hospital for another week or so yet. That means a lot of hanging about, waiting for a cab: I'd rather get the Guy's/St Thomas shuttle bus when I'm able to.
Weyland: thanks for that link.
Right: flan.
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Post by aubrey on Aug 21, 2012 11:26:13 GMT
Can I just say, Mr. E. and I were up in Edinburgh over the weekend (visiting our son) and he took us on a walk yesterday. We did six miles. It was great. We took in Dean Village, which is very Cotswoldy looking. However, today I can hardly move my legs, which is fortunate because we were in the car all day driving back. Aubs, GWD are meeting next month at Blackfriars Pub. Any chance you might be able to make that? I assume that's in Blackfriars? If so, I hope so. In any case, I'll try to make a few posts on there before then - I always find it hard to get into a messageboard: I like to know the undercurrents and relationships of the people there before I go piling in. |
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Post by jean on Aug 21, 2012 12:05:16 GMT
I never managed even the surface of GWD never mind the undercurrents, for some reason.
That's the stuff, aubrey - more updates please, as and when. I hope the mushrooms came up to expectations. Did you remember them correctly?
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Post by Weyland on Aug 21, 2012 12:31:42 GMT
I assume that's in Blackfriars? If so, I hope so. In any case, I'll try to make a few posts on there before then - I always find it hard to get into a messageboard: I like to know the undercurrents and relationships of the people there before I go piling in. Yes. In Blackfriars. Please be there, Aub. Your appreciation would be most cooperated. The GWD Story So Far . . .There are a lot of long-established members, including some historic cliques, mostly from the UK and US. The Geordie clique is high in the hierarchy, of course, though the current boss is a Sri Lankan Cockerney (the previous one being a Geordie from Gateshead who is also a traitorous Mackems fan and lives in Potsdam). There are dissident voices in Hackney and Vancouver, and a band of hit-and-run guerrillas who show no mercy to either the Establishment or the Dissidents (Ev, Sparra, and your 'umble scribe). Riot was a key contributor and Mod, but has flounced big-time, along with her greatest fan -- the bloke who's organising the Meet.) It can be a good laugh. The Meets are good. It would be much better with some more SC veterans on board. You know who you are. [Did I convey a flavour of GWD, Sparra, Ev?] |
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Post by jean on Aug 21, 2012 12:34:19 GMT
You make it sound much more interesting than it's ever looked when I've gone there.
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Post by Weyland on Aug 21, 2012 12:50:35 GMT
You make it sound much more interesting than it's ever looked when I've gone there. It's simple, Jean. You just have to apply yourself, leave the chrysalis stage, and become a Renaissance Person like Sparra and Ev and that bloke. Or something. All I know is that I want Riot to come back to GWD and I want the Usual Suspects from SC to join in over there. It's not much to ask.  |
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Post by Weyland on Aug 21, 2012 12:56:43 GMT
I'll walk that London ring thing. Do you do it one after the other or what? Five miles in the morning, five miles in the afternoon, boozy lunch in the middle. That would be my ideal. How on earth can you manage to walk at all after a boozy lunch? Half a pint of shandy and I'm ready for a lie-down at that time of day.All together now! . . . Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table
David Hume could out consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill
Plato they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle
Hobbes was fond of his dram
And René Descartes was a drunken fart
"I drink, therefore I am"
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker
But a bugger when he's pissed-- Monty Python, "The Philosophers' Song" |
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Post by housesparrow on Aug 21, 2012 14:00:58 GMT
Poor Aubrey. He was looking forward to his solitary walk around London; now half of Stub Crouch is threatening to join him.
I'll be on holiday for the GWD meet, but all who are going...have a good time.
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Post by jean on Aug 21, 2012 14:29:02 GMT
All I know is that I want Riot to come back to GWD and I want the Usual Suspects from SC to join in over there. It's not much to ask. But over there, you've got to wade through such a lot of dross to get to the quality stuff, whereas here, it's all concentrated...or would be, if anyone ever posted anything. Usually there's nothing to wade through at all. (Poor aubrey, indeed. At least let him have this thread to himself!) |
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Post by aubrey on Aug 21, 2012 14:46:29 GMT
No no, carry on. It's all good.
I've just walked to the park, had a sit down, then walked back. Still a bit shaky, and I've booked the transport for tomorrow.
The mushrooms were better than I remembered (though I have been sneaking the odd half mushroom to flavour scrambled eggs with: the note I was given said Mushrooms, not half of one). Mind you, I'm on steroids, so a rancid monkey fried in clarts would probably taste good to me just now.
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Post by jean on Aug 21, 2012 15:09:39 GMT
(...the note I was given said Mushrooms, not half of one)... What a casuist you are, aubrey! |
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Post by Weyland on Aug 21, 2012 15:09:45 GMT
No Mind you, I'm on steroids, so a rancid monkey fried in clarts would probably taste good to me just now. That's what they live on in British West Hartlepool. |
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Post by riotgrrl on Aug 21, 2012 16:27:37 GMT
I assume that's in Blackfriars? If so, I hope so. In any case, I'll try to make a few posts on there before then - I always find it hard to get into a messageboard: I like to know the undercurrents and relationships of the people there before I go piling in. Yes. In Blackfriars. Please be there, Aub. Your appreciation would be most cooperated. The GWD Story So Far . . .There are a lot of long-established members, including some historic cliques, mostly from the UK and US. The Geordie clique is high in the hierarchy, of course, though the current boss is a Sri Lankan Cockerney (the previous one being a Geordie from Gateshead who is also a traitorous Mackems fan and lives in Potsdam). There are dissident voices in Hackney and Vancouver, and a band of hit-and-run guerrillas who show no mercy to either the Establishment or the Dissidents (Ev, Sparra, and your 'umble scribe). Riot was a key contributor and Mod, but has flounced big-time, along with her greatest fan -- the bloke who's organising the Meet.) It can be a good laugh. The Meets are good. It would be much better with some more SC veterans on board. You know who you are. [Did I convey a flavour of GWD, Sparra, Ev?]Not a chance of me going back. Life is nicer without it. I don't log on to my pc and find acres of personal abuse directed at me by nasty little boys with keyboards. Nobody has called me a fascist for ages. I haven't had to read any pish about how Scotland is 'the same as' Yorkshire constitutionally. To say nothing of the less specific abuse about me and my family. Why would I let these twats back into my life/into my head/ into my online fun-making? I'm not a masochist. Life is nicer without GWD. - - - - Keep getting well Aubrey. We might even have steak and kidney pie tonight in your honour. With mash and beans I think. And brown sauce. |
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Post by riotgrrl on Aug 21, 2012 16:27:56 GMT
I'll walk that London ring thing. Do you do it one after the other or what? Five miles in the morning, five miles in the afternoon, boozy lunch in the middle. That would be my ideal. How on earth can you manage to walk at all after a boozy lunch? Half a pint of shandy and I'm ready for a lie-down at that time of day. Everything in life is slightly better if you're slightly pissed. |
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Post by jean on Aug 21, 2012 16:40:04 GMT
But don't some things become slightly impossible?
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Post by housesparrow on Aug 21, 2012 17:01:29 GMT
I'm feeling filleted after having a tooth out yesterday and have slumped in a chair for most of the afternoon.
Goodness knows how I would react if the dentist had tried to shove in another one!
Take it easy, Aubrey.
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Post by aubrey on Aug 21, 2012 19:00:09 GMT
You have been called a fascist in the past, though?
(Oh, I forgot - teenage girls.)
Actually, the reason I didn't try GWD first thing was that the only thread that seemed immediately interesting was one where I would have been arguing against you, Riot: and I didn't feel that I was ready for that. (Naturally, it was about porn, heh heh.)
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Post by jean on Aug 21, 2012 19:02:01 GMT
Everything in life is slightly better if you're slightly pissed.
'Faith sir, we were carousing till the second cock; and drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things.
MACDUFF
What three things does drink especially provoke?
Porter
Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. Therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him. |
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