Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[boldie]

Is it Charlotte Church?

can't be, it's still standing upright

[RioRodent]

The file name under the pic gives it away... it's in Mystery... that's Gloucestershire I believe!

[TightEnd]

Does the church in question have a very interesting ecclesiastical novelty concerning it?

part of a diocese in two countries perhaps?

[Dingdell]

Does the church in question have a very interesting ecclesiastical novelty concerning it?

part of a diocese in two countries perhaps?

Cheat - insider knowledge - saw you handing Tikay £2 last night at Luton. 

[TightEnd]

Monmouth perhaps...just popped down there this morning to recce and whilst I didn't discover the actual church, the vibes strongly suggested to me I was in the right part of the country

[Dingdell]

Monmouth perhaps...just popped down there this morning to recce and whilst I didn't discover the actual church, the vibes strongly suggested to me I was in the right part of the country

You really do go that extra mile to win - I never realised you were so competitive. Could never have thought that having seen you play poker . . . . . 

[Snatiramas]

Ah don't be fooled by the calm affable bloke who is sitting there concentrating............he is really a volcanic mess of emotion and nastiness using nfarious means to have all your chips......you have been warned all you players in BB5

[tikay]

Tighty is DISQUALIFIED. Inside knowledge, one suspects.

The Church is St Peters, in Dixton Lane, which is a hamlet just outside Monmouth.

The list of "resident" Clergy or Vicars goes back to 1165, so Laz was spot on with his suggestion.

Each & every Vicar of St Peter Church, going right back to 1165, includes their full name, EXCEPT in one rather odd entry which read.....

"1535, William, (alien)".

How very odd. Wonder what that means?


The Church is magnificent, unchanged, seemingly, since built, & with a wondrously beautiful landscaped graveyard, with the headstones, many of them over 100 years old, all laying at different angles due to settlement. The grass is neatly trimmed, but the ground is not flat, it's beautifully random.

The range of specimen trees is awesome, all of them many hundreds of years old, & includes yews, weeping willows & several we could not identify. It had clearly been deigned & planted with care, as no two identical specimens of trees sat adjacent each other, & they "framed" the Church beautifully when viewed from the opposite river bank. (See google images). An oddity - there were no oak trees. Any clues why? (I have no idea, so don't expect an answer from me!)

A set of steps leads down to the River Wye, across which the Congregation from the opposite bank were or are ferried.

The Diocese is strange too - it sits in two Countries, Wales & England, the Church is in Wales, the river is the Boundary with England, & Parishioners on the opposite bank are in the same Diocese but a different Country.

And there you have half the reason I love going to Cardiff, because every time I pas this place, I pop in & gaze in awe at it's splendour. It's barely 100 yards off the main drag, but it's perfectly peaceful, & the Wye flows past serenely.

The whole thing is outstanding beautuiful, & it's probable that there are a thousand such unbelievably beautiful scenes across the British Isles.

We are incredibly lucky to live in the UK, there is no place on earth even one tenth as beautiful.

[tikay]

In Sunday's £250 Freezeout in Cardiff, Ed Aris, one of the splendidly mannered & handsome sons of "Doc" Aris, calmly sat playing the comp......smoking a cigarette! Or so it seemed.

It cetainly LOOKED like a ciggie, in a cigarette holder, & he sat there puffing away, inhaling happily, then apparently exhaling clouds of ciggie smoke.

Challenged, he claimed it was an "Electric Cigarette" (patent presumably pending). It cost £65, & can be smoked for as long as he wishes, it contains nicotine, but it was "lit" as such. He alleged that the "smoke" we could clearly see was in fact water vapour, which the device absorbd from the air & somehow heated up to appear as steam, or imitation smoke.

He also claimed the device could be "smoked" anywhere, & had been cleared for use on Civil Aircraft!

Not everyone believed him.

Do you think he was telling the truth, or do you think it was a ruse? I must add that Ed Aris is not the sort of lad who'd break any laws intentionally or knowingly, he's a lovely lad, & his Dad has every reason to be proud of him.

Electric Cigarettes indeed......

[tikay]

Had THE most awful Cash Game Session at Luton last night, won 1 hand in 6 hours, & lost a bloody fortune. Ouch.

Recovery mission is at Brighton tonight, where I shall be mainly busting Flushy's balls.

[Bongo]

Well they do exist:

http://itn.co.uk/news/e0e99b44f601b34e049843d6af0eb621.html

[tikay]

Well they do exist:

http://itn.co.uk/news/e0e99b44f601b34e049843d6af0eb621.html

That's the thing!

[lazaroonie]

Tighty is DISQUALIFIED. Inside knowledge, one suspects.

The Church is St Peters, in Dixton Lane, which is a hamlet just outside Monmouth.

The list of "resident" Clergy or Vicars goes back to 1165, so Laz was spot on with his suggestion.

Each & every Vicar of St Peter Church, going right back to 1165, includes their full name, EXCEPT in one rather odd entry which read.....

"1535, William, (alien)".

How very odd. Wonder what that means?


The Church is magnificent, unchanged, seemingly, since built, & with a wondrously beautiful landscaped graveyard, with the headstones, many of them over 100 years old, all laying at different angles due to settlement. The grass is neatly trimmed, but the ground is not flat, it's beautifully random.

The range of specimen trees is awesome, all of them many hundreds of years old, & includes yews, weeping willows & several we could not identify. It had clearly been deigned & planted with care, as no two identical specimens of trees sat adjacent each other, & they "framed" the Church beautifully when viewed from the opposite river bank. (See google images). An oddity - there were no oak trees. Any clues why? (I have no idea, so don't expect an answer from me!)

A set of steps leads down to the River Wye, across which the Congregation from the opposite bank were or are ferried.

The Diocese is strange too - it sits in two Countries, Wales & England, the Church is in Wales, the river is the Boundary with England, & Parishioners on the opposite bank are in the same Diocese but a different Country.

And there you have half the reason I love going to Cardiff, because every time I pas this place, I pop in & gaze in awe at it's splendour. It's barely 100 yards off the main drag, but it's perfectly peaceful, & the Wye flows past serenely.

The whole thing is outstanding beautuiful, & it's probable that there are a thousand such unbelievably beautiful scenes across the British Isles.

We are incredibly lucky to live in the UK, there is no place on earth even one tenth as beautiful.

the only part of this church which looks like it has been changed from norman times is the roof - obviously a 900 year old thatched roof couldnt have lasted the pace...

(can you spot the pun ?)

[tikay]

I could not do a thing right in last night's Luton Cash Game, & kept pulling up.

Eventually, one's judgement becomes distorted, & you take un-necessary risks in trying to claw the losses back. I managed to put down trip Aces in Omaha (easily) three times, including this bugger - what would YOU have done?

It's 6 card Hi-Lo & we see a Flop of..... 



I'm holding 

So I have top set, & a massive low draw. I bet, get re-popped, & after some thought, I decide to let go, I could be drawing very thin, if not dead, here. I think it was a correct Pass, but if I held all overcards to my Ace, I may have called. (My oppo claimed, but never showed, a house of sevens).

And so it went on, Pass, Pass, Pass, but I failed the Pass Test on the following flop. (6 card high only).

 

I'm holding 

So I've flopped the straight, have straight re-draws, but no flush draw.

The Betting became visciously strong, (we were three-handed) so I fancied I am facing trips, a nut flush draw, & maybe "same hand". So my logic was if the flush misses, & the Board fails to pair, I scoop a near £2k pot if my straight re-draw comes in, & I get to chop if all the "ifs" miss.

The turn was a beaiutiful blank  , and the river was the horrorttastic 

So short-stack All-in man had flopped trips, & housed up on the end, & Jim McShane, who was indeed holding the same straight as me (minus my re-draws to the straight) was holding the nut flush redraw, so he took the monster side-pot. And I went home with my tail between my legs. 

A Pretty awful decision making process by me, & I got duly spanked for it. But that's what happens (to me, anyway) when I'm having a difficult night - my decision-making goes all awry.

Such is poker.

[tikay]

Tighty is DISQUALIFIED. Inside knowledge, one suspects.

The Church is St Peters, in Dixton Lane, which is a hamlet just outside Monmouth.

The list of "resident" Clergy or Vicars goes back to 1165, so Laz was spot on with his suggestion.

Each & every Vicar of St Peter Church, going right back to 1165, includes their full name, EXCEPT in one rather odd entry which read.....

"1535, William, (alien)".

How very odd. Wonder what that means?


The Church is magnificent, unchanged, seemingly, since built, & with a wondrously beautiful landscaped graveyard, with the headstones, many of them over 100 years old, all laying at different angles due to settlement. The grass is neatly trimmed, but the ground is not flat, it's beautifully random.

The range of specimen trees is awesome, all of them many hundreds of years old, & includes yews, weeping willows & several we could not identify. It had clearly been deigned & planted with care, as no two identical specimens of trees sat adjacent each other, & they "framed" the Church beautifully when viewed from the opposite river bank. (See google images). An oddity - there were no oak trees. Any clues why? (I have no idea, so don't expect an answer from me!)

A set of steps leads down to the River Wye, across which the Congregation from the opposite bank were or are ferried.

The Diocese is strange too - it sits in two Countries, Wales & England, the Church is in Wales, the river is the Boundary with England, & Parishioners on the opposite bank are in the same Diocese but a different Country.

And there you have half the reason I love going to Cardiff, because every time I pas this place, I pop in & gaze in awe at it's splendour. It's barely 100 yards off the main drag, but it's perfectly peaceful, & the Wye flows past serenely.

The whole thing is outstanding beautuiful, & it's probable that there are a thousand such unbelievably beautiful scenes across the British Isles.

We are incredibly lucky to live in the UK, there is no place on earth even one tenth as beautiful.

the only part of this church which looks like it has been changed from norman times is the roof - obviously a 900 year old thatched roof couldnt have lasted the pace...

(can you spot the pun ?)

Boom-boom.......

In fact, contrary to appearances, the roof is NOT thatched, it's stone tiles. Great big thick tiles, too, cut from local stone one assumes. They must have been an inch & a half (37mm) thick, & almost a foot long - imagine how much they must weigh!

And they were covered in moss. Do you know there are all sorts of reference books on Moss, & a whole section in the British Museum devoted to Mosses of the world? It's such beauitiful stuff to touch & feel, one of natures diamonds really.