Thunderbird Club

[Stealth57]

714…. lemons….rorers…..yep, we’re fossils…

Star Wars on a purple microdot.

 

[TBird1958]

Star Wars on a purple microdot.

I was crutches first time I saw it - rolled my right ankle playing basket ball.

 

[Stealth57]

I was crutches first time I saw it - rolled my right ankle playing basket ball.

Amazing what sticks in our memories.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

First morning in Dublin the plan is to drop my bag at the hotel (I’ll be before check in time), go to see Molly Molone and rub her tit for good luck. She is a statue btw and evidently it is the thing to do?
She is the character in the old song:

In Dublin's fair city
Where the girls are so pretty
I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone
As she wheeled her wheelbarrow
Through streets broad and narrow
Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh!"
Alive, alive, oh
Alive, alive, oh
Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh"
^ we learnt that in primary school.

Then to find - it’s not very far - the Phil Lynott statue. Then find Sheehan’s Hotel for lunch and a pint or two to celebrate the dear departed ancestors. They have a trad music band so I’ll check when that’s on and if I can make it.

I should be able to go back and check in by then.

Wish I’d known about Phil’s statue when we were there. Too bad you can’t hit Belfast, too. Will you be visiting the Trinity College library?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Not particularly. But it seemed a good day trip. I’m told the Castle is a good one to see. Old Churches and Cathedrals are always interesting and beautiful buildings and everyone tells me Thomas Beckett was murdered there. I am interested in Greenwich, I read a book about the setting of longitude, but entry is not included so I’ll just catch the boat from there.

As a side note, both Canterbury & Greenwich are suburb names in Sydney.

Yes, a good song to sing along with. It feels like it has an association with Sydney but it doesn’t.
Although in the art of the early Colonial days here, women were drawn in a similar fashion either on the docks in Ireland/England or in Sydney. Some excavations in “The Rocks” (first area of Sydney Town) they found a lot of cockle shells. Not too surprising seeing that the place has water and unknown animals in the bush. Too early for much farming at that stage. The local Aboriginals would also have eaten cockles, oysters and other seafood of course.

Canterbury is wonderful. Or was when we were there donkey’s years ago.

 

[GonePlaid]

I do it just because. No breaks, even after multiple restrings. Pretty dang awesome.

Me too also.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Yeah, haven't heard anyone talk about that in decades. I knew a guy who used to....... Never mind...

I’ve got stories.

 

[GonePlaid]

Not long ago I tried their half rounds.
Pretty much dead sounding right out of the package.
Crossed right off my list.

Many mango seasons ago, I tried their half rounds. liked 'em a lot. Tried a set ~5 years ago. Nope.

 

[GonePlaid]

The short answer is No!
The long answer is No!

Don't do it!

Or video if ya do.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Two by two (straps) Tuesday

 

[GonePlaid]

There's a thought. I need to get the van painted before I do that, though. It's going to rust, and I don't want to buy another gasoline powered van. Electric vans don't go far enough yet. Or I need to retire and not need to go to remote sites.

If my Transit Connect was available as a hybrid, maybe. Anything all electric? No effing way.

 

[GonePlaid]

Reverse two for Tuesday. I kinda like have a contrast color on the lower bout, it emphasizes the sexy shape even more.
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Like this?

 

[GonePlaid]

Not much in London. It’s my realignment zone after the flights.
A few days wandering around plus a day trip to Canterbury - Leeds Castle, Canterbury Cathedral, Dover, jump on a boat at Greenwich back up the Thames to near Westminster.

Then train to Paris for a few days then the train to Mum’s ancestral village in Brittany for a few days.

Train back to London, then next morning fly over to Dublin. 4 days there, I’ve booked a Guinness Storehouse experience thing, the one with the extra pint.
Then I have another 5 or 6 days to float around Ireland, then back home Dublin>London>Singapore>Sydney.

Jeez! I might go to Orlando(145 miles) this weekend.

 

[RedVee]

While there in Ireland, head north and check on my forest and let me know they are taking goo care of the place.
Slieve Gullion Forest Park: The Official Tourism Website

I have a one foot square piece of land and a tree in an area they are reestablishing a forest up near where they filmed G of T. Got me a Squire title.

I used to telll people that’s where I wanted to be buried… but vertically so I could fit in the plot. They usually didn’t get it.


PS: is Slieve your new Nick name Donnie?

 

[GonePlaid]

If I follow you, you are saying a smoking amp isn't a good thing?

Special EFX.

 

[GonePlaid]

Dodgers taking on Will’s Mariners. Not the usual seats we have, but it’s a nice evening. Go Dodgers!
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I was a fan of your team(they used to train in FL)until they changed their name.

 

[RedVee]

Wish I’d known about Phil’s statue when we were there. Too bad you can’t hit Belfast, too. Will you be visiting the Trinity College library?

Yes, I plan to, and see the Book of Kells there. Though I’m told the queue can make it a near unbearable wait

 

[SturmUndDrang]

Anybody here know what's going on with the Last Bass Outpost? Seems like it's been down for about a week now. Hope it's getting fixed.

 

[dagrev]

714…. lemons….rorers…..yep, we’re fossils…

More terms haven't heard in decades. You're right. Fossils...

 

[dagrev]

I’ve got stories.

The good thing is we lived through it!