euro tour 2010!!!!!!!!!

71step28

hey, lets switch locations! i'd looove to be on the Orkney Isles now, Scottland it is. Never been there, my favorite destination to go sometime BUT you have to do my work then

philthehip

Evening folks, we all had good days?

Brisk.

You know i hope they bring back The Wrong Child tag cos it's fucking awesome.

Plankton

I bought a table tennis table and it arrived today. After a very long time spent on the assembly of it in the garden it decides to rain. :(


Otherwise, it's all good PJ is so close and I scored a BK subscription after I woke up today. So actually, it's pretty sweet!

veddertown

71step28 wrote:

hey, lets switch locations! i'd looove to be on the Orkney Isles now, Scottland it is. Never been there, my favorite destination to go sometime BUT you have to do my work then

It's not the warmest place in the world but I wouldn't swap it for anywhere now after almost 39 years. Winter isn't that cold despite what people say, hardly any snow and it's windy more than anything else. I'll come to Hamburg and do your work while you visit for sure but you must make sure you have good tea bags in the house! Then come back at Christmas and New Year and see the madness of this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVQyFO_l ... re=related ....how we spend our Christmas/New Year days either playing or watching,(sometimes lasts 7 hours). I just watch as it's more fun. Excuse the music!!

71step28

veddertown wrote:

71step28 wrote:

hey, lets switch locations! i'd looove to be on the Orkney Isles now, Scottland it is. Never been there, my favorite destination to go sometime BUT you have to do my work then

It's not the warmest place in the world but I wouldn't swap it for anywhere now after almost 39 years. Winter isn't that cold despite what people say, hardly any snow and it's windy more than anything else. I'll come to Hamburg and do your work while you visit for sure but you must make sure you have good tea bags in the house! Then come back at Christmas and New Year and see the madness of this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVQyFO_l ... re=related ....how we spend our Christmas/New Year days either playing or watching,(sometimes lasts 7 hours). I just watch as it's more fun. Excuse the music!!

hahahah, nice! Whats it all about?!? I saw a "ball(?) and LOTS of man doing ... what?
(i love the bagpipes btw!)

veddertown

71step28 wrote:

veddertown wrote:

71step28 wrote:

hey, lets switch locations! i'd looove to be on the Orkney Isles now, Scottland it is. Never been there, my favorite destination to go sometime BUT you have to do my work then

It's not the warmest place in the world but I wouldn't swap it for anywhere now after almost 39 years. Winter isn't that cold despite what people say, hardly any snow and it's windy more than anything else. I'll come to Hamburg and do your work while you visit for sure but you must make sure you have good tea bags in the house! Then come back at Christmas and New Year and see the madness of this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVQyFO_l ... re=related ....how we spend our Christmas/New Year days either playing or watching,(sometimes lasts 7 hours). I just watch as it's more fun. Excuse the music!!

hahahah, nice! Whats it all about?!? I saw a "ball(?) and LOTS of man doing ... what?
(i love the bagpipes btw!)

The two teams who are determined by birthplace fight over a leather covered cork ball until one can either touch a wall (the same piece of wall that has been used for about 130 years) or the other team get the ball into the water in the harbour usually followed by the players. One player gets awarded the ball at the end but he'll have done this 40 or 50 times in his life before that! Really rough, no proper rules and plenty blood spilled, fractures, concussions etc. Great day out where underage drinking, fighting and general rowdiness gets ignored by the police but it's always fun and never taken advantage of. New Year sometimes between spectators and players gets a crowd of 3 - 4000!

71step28

veddertown wrote:

The two teams who are determined by birthplace fight over a leather covered cork ball until one can either touch a wall (the same piece of wall that has been used for about 130 years) or the other team get the ball into the water in the harbour usually followed by the players. One player gets awarded the ball at the end but he'll have done this 40 or 50 times in his life before that! Really rough, no proper rules and plenty blood spilled, fractures, concussions etc. Great day out where underage drinking, fighting and general rowdiness gets ignored by the police but it's always fun and never taken advantage of. New Year sometimes between spectators and players gets a crowd of 3 - 4000!

great! Thats sounds fun, indeed!! is it only men doing this? No women allowed or are they just too "scared" to join that cluster? i'd be!! But watching it seems a lot of fun as well i think i saw a documentary about something like this a few years back, if not this exactly.
hmmmmmmm......Scottland..... love the landscapes, the Highlands, the fresh air, the sound of the bagpipes, the Kilts, the language (which i dont understand at all ) someday Scottland has to bear me and i fear i won't go back.

veddertown

There has been a few documentaries made on this from various countries. We get people from all over visiting, mainly England/Scotland but exiles from Canada, US, NZ and visitors from as far as Japan come too. No women take part as they were given their own trial game in 1947 but they were way too rough!!

71step28

yeah, once you let women do what they want without any rules, they reveal their true colors

Digital Twilight

71step28 wrote:

yeah, once you let women do what they want without any rules, they reveal their true colors

Your not kidding...

dimitrispearljam

71step28 wrote:

yeah, once you let women do what they want without any rules, they reveal their true colors

God help us if that happens!!! :roll:

71step28

I'm talking about women, not Yvi
but true colors are better than no color at all, right?

dimitrispearljam

71step28 wrote:

I'm talking about women, not Yvi
but true colors are better than no color at all, right?

thats why i do this tour with Yvi the Rainbow and not with women!!!!

Pke

evening lads an lassies

hows the tour planning going everyone all sorted an waiting to go

philthehip

Pke wrote:

evening lads an lassies

hows the tour planning going everyone all sorted an waiting to go

Nearly there now. Just Arras and Belfast trains to book on Friday then we are ready to roll. What about you?

dottles

Ello peeps....been out drinking on a school night, 7 bottles of wine consumed between 5 of us in 4 hours, I think that's pretty good going

How's life round 'ere?

Pke

philthehip wrote:

Pke wrote:

evening lads an lassies

hows the tour planning going everyone all sorted an waiting to go

Nearly there now. Just Arras and Belfast trains to book on Friday then we are ready to roll. What about you?

hiya

still got belfast train , flight from berlin back to stanstead ,will pick up a couple overnights at travellodges when on the move n i think thats about it
all loking good though

dottles

philthehip wrote:

Pke wrote:

evening lads an lassies

hows the tour planning going everyone all sorted an waiting to go

Nearly there now. Just Arras and Belfast trains to book on Friday then we are ready to roll. What about you?

Hurrah!

We're all going on a Pearl Jam summer holiday....
ok...the wine has addled my brain....

veddertown

I've joined in on the wine drinking now. The missus has fallen asleep with her legs on me so I'm trapped until the bottle is finished. Playing songs from the laptop and had loads of slow PJ, Indifference, All Or None, NAIS, All Those Yesterdays but now it's Bonnie "Prince" Billy.