General Chat

Will do Christine .It is a shame he builds these boats and then doesn't have the confidence to sail them always lets someone else do it. Funny the first one he built gave to a realtive they took it to their lake it got to the middle and sank. It hadn't been tested before it went in . Now everone is tested won't make that mistake again. They got it back though. Germaine x Morning Dave

Make that a very quick hoover Kal, you've other work to do, with your new found info.! :))

Nive bacon butty would go down nice please. Davex

One mega bacon butty for Dave here, enjoy!!

Bacon Butty on it's way David :)

Good morning Paul an all, Just about to feed the rabble bacon butties.... ;))

Ha! you won't be hungry today David! :)) Kal, perhaps you don't really need to hoover after all! :))

Morning Em, we have butties here, you could take some home, will you be wanting one for Ian, or is he still in Newcastle? :)

Morning Christine.... Ian is still in Newcastle... last i heard he was very tipsy indeed (last night) lol

Morning Em!! hugs Kal, I've sent you a message :-)

Oh, errm. nevermind Em, you can tell him you was well looked after here! :))

thanks Paul, I just like to know these things. One of our fav programmes is Time Team (talking of burial mounds)... anyway got verbal diahorrhea (sp) today so I will keep myself quiet and just watch you all eating....yum yum kippers, but I feel sick at the moment....

Morning Paul :)) Christine.. i will.. when he eventually rolls home! lol

Oh dear Sally, you do look about green, (shan't mention kippers!) :)) I like that Time Team, very interesting :)

Sally!! sick? Morning? you don't know something we don't do you??? please don't be too quiet, it's not all food here, it's the chat we all come to fill up on really (-:

Well, better get these crocks and pots washed, have cleared a few tables....

here's another request Gwynne..I'll name the singer, you'll know the song I think, relevant to lovely blue skies outside here.. It's by Daniel Boone in 72

I have to go but I hope you don't mind if I leave you with the lyrics of a song that is very appropriate today - Hope everyone has a good day. 1) Well, how do you do young Willie McBride? Do you mind if I sit hear down by your graveside, And rest for a while ‘neath the warm summer sun. I’ve been working all day and I’m nearly done. I can see by your gravestone you were only nineteen when you joined the great fallen in nineteen sixteen. Well I hope you died quick, and I hope you died clean, Oh Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene? Chorus: Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly, did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down? Did the bands play the last post and chorus? Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest? 2.) And did you leave a wife or sweetheart behind In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined, Although you died back in nineteen sixteen In some faithful heart are you forever nineteen? Or are you a stranger without even a name Enclosed now forever behind a glass frame In an old photograph torn, battered and stained And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame. Chorus: Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly, did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down? Did the bands play the last post and chorus? Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest? 3.) Now see how the sun shines o’er the green field of France There’s a warm summer breeze makes the red poppies dance, And see how the sun shines from under the clouds There’s no gas or barbed wire, there’s no guns firing now. But here in this graveyard it’s still no-man’s land The countless white crosses in mute witness stand To man’s blind difference to his fellow man To a whole generation who were butchered and damned. Chorus: Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly, did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down? Did the bands play the last post and chorus? Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest? 4.) Now young Willie McBride, I can’t help wonder why Do all those who lie here know why did they die. And did they believe when they answered the call Did they really believe that this war would end wars. Well the sorrow, the suffering, the glory the pain, The killing, the dying they were all done in vain For young Willie McBride it all happened again And again and again and again and again. Chorus: Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly, did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down? Did the bands play the last post and chorus? Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest? by Eric Bogle

Thankyou Gwynne, Yes, a day for Rememberance today..... take care Gwynne, hope your head feels better soon :) right, kitchens clean and tidy...

Bye everyone. What a lovely song Gwynne. So sad So true. Germaine x