Monday, October 19, 2009

Give 'em an Inch ...

It's amazing what a bit of assertive complaining can do; Mersey Ferrys PLC fixed their wonky boat ...






So that next time the Birkenhead Boys Pole Dancing Troupe were crossing the tideway for an away fixture, any hint of optical disillusion was banished.

23 comments:

saneshane said...

shouldn't have done that -
deep pockets AND long arms .. your round first for those attending the northern social then?

DarceysDad said...

Nah, Shane. With a physique like that, we'll stick him in a tuxedo and he can work the door!

tincanman said...

TY, did you, ahem, make all of me proportionally longer? Just seems my pants hang really low.

You coming to the social Shane?

Good idea on working the door DsD. If any ne'er do wells approach, I'll write them a terse email.

saneshane said...

nope tinny,
can't make it.. I had planned to have a break, Ms sane is off for half term so takes over child care.. but I needed to get us into the new house first... that's not going to happen by Saturday!

i'll be there in spirit(s)

tincanman said...

we'll recycle something in your honour

goneforeign said...

Shane: Where's the new house, come to that where's the old one. I know you're somewhere near Snetterton, right?

Shoey said...

I suspect trickery. Can Tin & TFD please stand back to back so we can sort this out once & for all?

treefrogdemon said...

Not very easily...

Exodus said...

Tin - is the car pooling still on for Saturday?

Exodus said...

Tin - is the car pooling still on for Saturday?

tincanman said...

yup.
you want to email me address and i'll reply with a time

saneshane said...

GF
we live on the outskirts of Norwich at the moment near the UEA (moved here for Ru to go back and do a masters) I'm not concentrating at the moment because i'm watching the football team lose to Leeds.

We're moving further up towards North Walsham.. an old farm workers place with greenhouses that used to be a little nursery.

Unfortunately the survey man didn't notice the obvious rot in the roof and drainage going under the walls.. but we are rebuilding it all and the space is just fantastic.. if I'm done by Christmas I'll be dead chuffed

(yeah.. Norwich just equalized)

BloodyParadise said...

@shay-shay-shayne
Sounds like a good move - greenhouses?! Good soil?!
Start the garden first! Plant the fruit tree, asap!
Believe me. We did it the other way round, and learnt. Camp out in the house that extra month - but get the garden going straight away! Come spring/summer you'll be glad you did.

TatankaYotanka said...

Oooh, if you're planting fruit I recommend these guys ... always had great bare root stuff from them.

saneshane said...

the greenhouses have been reinforced/re-glazed where broken/ painted, to survive winter and the soil is being observed and prepped...
(once the leaves are off the fruit trees I can sort that out.. I grew up in orchards)

It was only the little bit of land that drew us to the place.. luckily because the house is crumbling.. and the football team make stupid mistakes!

But it is so right to get the soil sorted first -

Mnemonic said...

Next time I'm in Felmingham, I'll come over to say hello! (My brother lives in Felmingham and was a professor at UEA.)

saneshane said...

Very similar amount of grounds as Felmingham Hall.... he he.. but yep just down the road.

pop over when you're up - I'll have some gallows humor with your brother about the football! - didn't you go to the interesting first game this season with him? - (don't answer that- tonights game has been yet another 'interesting occurrence')

Mnemonic said...

They actually lived in the East Wing of Felmingham Hall while they were househunting. My niece, who is petite, needed a stepladder to get into her fourposter bed there.

Abahachi said...

How far towards North Walsham? My brother and his family are in that neck of the woods - slightly further west - and we cycled through there earlier this year.

saneshane said...

Closest village is Worstead.. at this rate a 'spill gathering could come East (of England) if everyone visits their brothers at the same time!

(everyone else needs to convince their brothers to move to Norfolk and we are sorted - THIS MESSAGE needs to bypass Tracy and her husband big time!)

goneforeign said...

Shane: I made a film about Walsham le Willows in the 60's. Plus I once triangulated Akenfield to be right in that area, Akenfield's fictional but the village where Ron Blythe lived who's name escapes me was right there, spent a pleasant day with him once.

treefrogdemon said...

Small world department, gf: the village where Ronald Blythe lives is Wormingford, and I used to live there.

TatankaYotanka said...

Scottish trip slight return ... I finished reading Roger Deakin's 'Waterlog' during my recent holiday, having started with 'Wildwood' and 'Notes From Walnut Tree Farm' when they came out. Roger D was pals with Ronald Blythe and documents a couple of meetings and walks with RB in those books. If you liked Akenfield you'll like these too.