Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[david3103]

There are other bridges over the Tees which have much to commed them

 - The Newport Bridge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tees_Newport_Bridge which had a central section that could be lifted to a height of 120ft to allow shipping to pass under it.

 - The Infinity footbridge is undeniably striking in appearance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_Bridge

 - the bridges at Yarm, one dating back to 1400 and the other to the birth of the railways (which was conceived in the town) No wiki pages worth looking at, but just look at Yarm on a satellite version of a map and see how the rail viaduct bridges not just the river, but the whole of the town and you'll get an idea of it's scale

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OK stand aside.

I'm awake again.....

[tikay]

OK stand aside.

I'm awake again.....

Don't worry Tom, I've got some interesting stuff on the go now. Technically, all this bridge & concrete stuff belongs on my Diary. Just saying.

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Have you read Gypsy Boy on the run by Micky Walsh, a follow up to Gypsy boy but a different book I take it ?

Bump incase u missed it 

I did miss it.

Yes mond, it is a follow up. I haven't read it yet so I can't comment.


I'm currently reading Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux.


I'm familier with Louis, but I didn't know there was a 3rd Theroux brother.

As a family we, (The McCready siblings) were always taught to look after each other, and I in turn have tried to pass that on to my children. Successfully it seems, they're very close. (which is reassuring for me because I wont always be there for them).

Not so the Theroux's apparently.


Paul Theroux , the Anglophile American travel writer and novelist has been the target of a stinging critical attack by his older brother and fellow author, Alexander, who describes his sibling as "small, surly and spiteful.'' 

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OK stand aside.

I'm awake again.....

Don't worry Tom, I've got some interesting stuff on the go now. Technically, all this bridge & concrete stuff belongs on my Diary. Just saying.

Discerners gonna discern....

[FUN4FRASER]

Tom I know this is not the place normally ...but i cant post/reply on the staking board yet

If there is any left Ill have the rest of you for the monte carlo...just got a feeling for you ( not sexual )

Im there Friday if any spare..regardless  good luck either way

Apologies to the thread

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My thanks to recent contributors BTW. They include, among others:  

Boshi, for his excellent picture links. david3103 for his bridge, Laxie for her constant nagging, Guy for his regular high grade feedback, and not least the omnipotent Geo, for his always fascinating and varied input. (Tonight's hessian being just one small example).

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Tom I know this is not the place normally ...but i cant post/reply on the staking board yet

If there is any left Ill have the rest of you for the monte carlo...just got a feeling for you ( not sexual )

Im there Friday if any spare..regardless  good luck either way

Apologies to the thread

Why thank you Frazer. I'm almost certain to play now, and there may well be some left when some of the others come to their senses.

[FUN4FRASER]

Tom I know this is not the place normally ...but i cant post/reply on the staking board yet

If there is any left Ill have the rest of you for the monte carlo...just got a feeling for you ( not sexual )

Im there Friday if any spare..regardless  good luck either way

Apologies to the thread

Why thank you Fraser. I'm almost certain to play now, and there may well be some left when some of the others come to their senses.

No probs Tom either pm or let me know on this thread what % etc

Cheers Fraser

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My thanks to recent contributors BTW. They include, among others:  

Boshi, for his excellent picture links. david3103 for his bridge, Laxie for her constant nagging, Guy for his regular high grade feedback, and not least the omnipotent Geo, for his always fascinating and varied input. (Tonight's hessian being just one small example).

Sigh. In your absence, I revitalise interest in your moribund Diary with links to pneumatic pumps for cement, & that's the thanks I get.

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Ah, Hessian

fantastic word and a fabric widely used by the military through the years for uniforms, sandbags, camouflage and various other uses.

Did you know the word comes from soldiers of an old Germanic Regiment - the Hessians.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessian_%28soldiers%29

Geo

Something new learned every day! Nope, never heard that before.

We used to use hession for so many different things, because it's cheap, & adaptable. Best of all - here's a memory - when it was "fresh" it had a most wonderful aroma. I think even butchers used it, to wrap carcasses, though that was of a much "finer" grade.

Oh the aroma of fresh Hessian, yeah and once it aged and deterioated or got wet it smelt rank.

Mostly used now by snipers in creating their "Ghillie Suits" and traditionally never washed as it helps them blend in to the aroma of the surroundings as well as the background.

Click to see full-size image.

When we were weighing non-ferrous metals in at the scrap yard, we never used one hessian bag where we could use two.

Hessian is heavy, especially if you wet it. Half a hundredweight of copper wire split between two wet hessian bags would increase in value by enough to buy you a beef dinner with a side dish of stew and a hot pudding at Josie's cafe in Rotherham.

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My thanks to recent contributors BTW. They include, among others:  

Boshi, for his excellent picture links. david3103 for his bridge, Laxie for her constant nagging, Guy for his regular high grade feedback, and not least the omnipotent Geo, for his always fascinating and varied input. (Tonight's hessian being just one small example).

Sigh. In your absence, I revitalise interest in your moribund Diary with links to pneumatic pumps for cement, & that's the thanks I get.

Moribund! Now that's a contribution.

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My thanks to recent contributors BTW. They include, among others:  

Boshi, for his excellent picture links. david3103 for his bridge, Laxie for her constant nagging, Guy for his regular high grade feedback, and not least the omnipotent Geo, for his always fascinating and varied input. (Tonight's hessian being just one small example).

Sigh. In your absence, I revitalise interest in your moribund Diary with links to pneumatic pumps for cement, & that's the thanks I get.

Moribund! Now that's a contribution.

Moribund - on the verge of becoming obsolete.

I wonder if a person can be moribund? If so, guilty as charged.

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My thanks to recent contributors BTW. They include, among others:  

Boshi, for his excellent picture links. david3103 for his bridge, Laxie for her constant nagging, Guy for his regular high grade feedback, and not least the omnipotent Geo, for his always fascinating and varied input. (Tonight's hessian being just one small example).

Sigh. In your absence, I revitalise interest in your moribund Diary with links to pneumatic pumps for cement, & that's the thanks I get.

Moribund! Now that's a contribution.

Moribund - on the verge of becoming obsolete.

I wonder if a person can be moribund? If so, guilty as charged.

So many beautifully descriptive words in the English language. I know zerofive has a thread dedicated to them, but his everyday prose in the excellent 'Degenerate' diary, (Of which I am an avid reader) is absolutely peppered with them.

But of course, Ralphy Boy is the past master.

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I found this list of forgotten words. I think the dates refer to when they were dropped from the OED


Purfled: short-winded, especially in consequence of being too lusty (1808)
   
Squizzle: to let squizzle, to fire a gun (1956)
   
Chaddy: full of chads. The bread is chaddy [if] it has been made of meal not properly sifted to get out the husks, fragments of straw, or gritty particles of the mill-stone. (1830)

Tooth-saw: a fine frame-saw for sawing off portions of the teeth; used by dentists. (1874-77)

Lunting: walking and smoking a pipe (1824)
   
Curglaff: the shock felt in bathing when one first plugnes into the cold water (1808)
   
Scurryfunge: a hasty tidying of the house between the time you see a neighbor and the time she knocks on the door (1882)
   
Flippercanorious: elegant (1934)
   
Irrisory: addicted to laughing or sneezing (1897)
   
Jirging: the noise too dry shoes make when walking (1824)