Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Thu 22 Jun 2017, 21:54
OOPS Nordmann and I forgot to add my addendum and end sentence:
But hey Nordmann I accept your friendly offer...after all: " 'n gegeven paard kijkt men niet in de bek" (a gift horse one don't look in the mouth)
Regards from Paul.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Fri 23 Jun 2017, 13:06
Sorry if I accused you unjustly of being partial to the Iron Lady, Temperance.
PR, you probably know we (in the UK) have the same expression "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth" and I have heard it as "Never look a gift horse in the mouth". Is Audrey HOpburn a play on words on Audrey Hepburn (hops being an ingredient in the making of beer but I don't know how to say "hops" in Flemish/Dutch)?
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Fri 23 Jun 2017, 13:21
I believe if you go into a bar in Belgium and ask for a Scotch, you'll not get whisky but this instead:
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Fri 23 Jun 2017, 21:31
LadyinRetirement wrote:
PR, you probably know we (in the UK) have the same expression "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth" and I have heard it as "Never look a gift horse in the mouth". Is Audrey HOpburn a play on words on Audrey Hepburn (hops being an ingredient in the making of beer but I don't know how to say "hops" in Flemish/Dutch)?
Lady in retirement,
" you probably know we (in the UK) have the same expression "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth" and I have heard it as "Never look a gift horse in the mouth"."
No I didn't know, but I first looked on the internet for the translation of the Dutch expression and I saw that it was literally the same ...
"Is Audrey HOpburn a play on words on Audrey Hepburn (hops being an ingredient in the making of beer but I don't know how to say "hops" in Flemish/Dutch)?"
I think so as the advertisement shows. I find it stupid advertising, a bit the American way. That's the difference between the US and the British... who are in my opinion more subtle...at least in my time ...are the Canadians now going the American way...? But in the same advertisement they said about Audrey HOpburn, that she was born in Belgium...and that seems to be true...what a family story... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Hepburn
Hepburn was born Audrey Kathleen Ruston or Edda Kathleen Hepburn-Ruston[1] on 4 May 1929 at number 48 Rue Keyenveld in Ixelles, a municipality in Brussels, Belgium.[2] Her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston (21 November 1889 – 16 October 1980), was a British subject born in Auschitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary.[3][a] He was the son of Victor John George Ruston, of British and Austrian descent[4] and Anna Wels, of Austrian descent.[5] In 1923-24 Joseph had briefly been an honorary British consul in Samarang in the Dutch East Indies[6] and prior to his marriage to Hepburn's mother he had been married to Cornelia Bisschop, a Dutch heiress.[3][7] Although born with the surname Ruston, he later double-barrelled his name to the more "aristocratic" Hepburn-Ruston, mistakenly believing himself descended from James Hepburn, third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots.[4][7] Hepburn's mother, Ella van Heemstra (12 June 1900 – 26 August 1984), was a Dutch baroness. She was the daughter of Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra, who served as mayor of Arnhem from 1910 to 1920 and as Governor of Dutch Suriname from 1921 to 1928, and Elbrig Willemine Henriette, Baroness van Asbeck (1873–1939).[8] At age nineteen, Ella had married Jonkheer Hendrik Gustaaf Adolf Quarles van Ufford, an oil executive based in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, where they subsequently lived.[9] They had two sons, Jonkheer Arnoud Robert Alexander Quarles van Ufford (1920–1979) and Jonkheer Ian Edgar Bruce Quarles van Ufford (1924–2010), before divorcing in 1925.[7][10] Hepburn's parents were married in Batavia in September 1926.[9] At the time, Ruston worked for a trading company, but soon after the marriage, the couple relocated to Europe, where he began working for a loan company. After a year in London, they moved to Brussels, where he had been assigned to open a branch office.[9][11] After three years spent travelling between Brussels, Arnhem, The Hague and London, the family settled in the suburban Brussels municipality of Linkebeek in 1932.[9][12] Hepburn's early childhood was sheltered and privileged.[9] As a result of her multinational background and travelling with her family due to her father's job,[13][b] she learned to speak five languages: Dutch and English from her parents, and later French, Spanish, and Italian. In the mid-1930s, Hepburn's parents recruited and collected donations for the British Union of Fascists.[14] Joseph left the family abruptly in 1935 and moved to London, where he became more deeply involved in Fascist activity and never visited his daughter abroad.[15] Hepburn later professed that her father's departure was "the most traumatic event of my life".[9][16] That same year, her mother moved with Hepburn to her family's estate in Arnhem. Sometime in 1937, Ella and Hepburn moved to Kent, England, where Hepburn was educated at a small independent school in Elham.[17][18] Hepburn's parents officially divorced in 1938. In the 1960s, Hepburn renewed contact with her father after locating him in Dublin through the Red Cross; although he remained emotionally detached, Hepburn supported him financially until his death.[19]
"hops being an ingredient in the making of beer but I don't know how to say "hops" in Flemish/Dutch)?"
Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Fri 23 Jun 2017, 22:35
If that's pale ale then I must be a 'Silly' Scotchman. It looks more like donker bier to me.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sat 24 Jun 2017, 22:01
Vizzer wrote:
If that's pale ale then I must be a 'Silly' Scotchman. It looks more like donker bier to me.
Vizzer,
I think you are right. I was lurred by the "pale ale" malt in the text... After all I know only three! beers in Belgium The Stella Artois, the Gouden Carolus and if available the German Becks ... And there are hundreds kinds of beer in Belgium
Your mate Paul.
PS: What do you think of my North America in the Seven Years war thread to you?
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sun 25 Jun 2017, 16:34
Why did this article make me think of you, Temp, I wonder...........
Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sun 25 Jun 2017, 22:25
Forgive me, Paul, you must have wondered why on earth I specifically addressed that to you. Of course I meant to say, 'Here's one for you, Nielsen' given the Danish connection so please blame my deteriorating brain cells and not that old British mind-set, All those foreigners are the same.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Mon 26 Jun 2017, 12:57
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Mon 26 Jun 2017, 17:19
Good one Trike.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Wed 28 Jun 2017, 13:48
Here's a close call:
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Wed 28 Jun 2017, 16:12
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Wed 05 Jul 2017, 14:52
This will be in cinemas shortly;
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sun 09 Jul 2017, 13:53
Where is everyone? All on holiday or out enjoying the summer with just MM and I to keep an eye on the old place and open the windows to let in a bit of fresh air?
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sun 09 Jul 2017, 14:04
I rather supposed everyone was otherwise occupied, whether watching Wimbledon, waving rainbow flags at London's Gay Pride or lobbing petrol bombs in Hamburg.
As there's hardly anyone around shall I mop the bar floor? It must be quite a while since the tessarae last saw anything as innocuous at soapy water ....
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sun 09 Jul 2017, 23:57
You could mop the floor, MM, or you could just leave it for us to tramp into with our dirty shoes or, in my case, boots or gumboots. They are forecasting snow just when we are hoping to travel north. (I will be away for five or six days from Wednesday.)
You both forgot that half your various countries are in NZ at the moment or flying back after the Lions tour. Frenchmen have been here too, referreeing not always in accordance with usual practices! I think the Lions and their fans are happier with a drawn series than Kiwis. (Speaking of which I was amazed at the amount of vitriol BBC commenters had towards NZers. I don't think our online newspaper commenters do that generally. Although perhaps it is on line with your newspapers generally - ours are less forceful as a rule.)
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Tue 11 Jul 2017, 19:51
ferval wrote:
Where is everyone? All on holiday or out enjoying the summer with just MM and I to keep an eye on the old place and open the windows to let in a bit of fresh air?
Ferval and MM,
last Wednessday I had a "sepsis" (blood poisening) (life threatening). In clinic they found out that it was due to a bacterium.. They started with antibiotica After a few days they found the specific bacterium culprit so that they could act on the specific target. On the search of the location of the source they found out that it was on the linking channel between the new donor kidney and the urine conductor. It would be due to the "sten" (a kind of a "thread" left in that channel to keep it open till the channel was strong enough) removed the week before. And the antibioticum proscribed then wouldn't have been effectif for me and had to have been another one...
Not a nice experience...
See you later...the first hours out of hospital....
Kind regards to all from Paul.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Tue 11 Jul 2017, 20:06
Paul, you do seem to have "gone through the mill" lately. Sepsis is very, very bad news, but from what you say they caught it quickly and you got good treatment. I do hope you are finally on the mend now, though I expect it will take time to completely recover. You have my sincere sympathy and best wishes for a speedy recovery. At least you are now back home with, I trust, someone to look after you.
Ik hoop dat je snel beter wordt ... I hope that's correct, my French is better than my Flemish. But whatever, I hope you get well soon.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Tue 11 Jul 2017, 22:49
Paul, I have been too abashed to post anything for a while after managing to ruin Caro's Hereford thread last week, but I saw your post above and felt I must add my good wishes to those of MM. As he says, sepsis is awful - do take care of yourself.
I do not understand what MM has posted in Flemish, but I'm sure I agree with it!
Kindest regards,
Temp (going back under my stone now).
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Wed 12 Jul 2017, 10:04
Oh Paul, that must have been really unpleasant and very worrying. Let's hope the anti-bi's have done their stuff seeing off the wee buggers and that your recycled kidney flourishes in its new home.
Temp, just put that stone on the rockery and come out into the sunshine. Surely it's better that we are blethering away about something, even if the threads do meander a bit, than this place just being enveloped in silence? Anyway, I think of us as the (A)Bash(ed) Street Kids, forever frustrating our long-suffering teacher.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Wed 12 Jul 2017, 10:21
ferval wrote:
Temp, just put that stone on the rockery and come out into the sunshine. Surely it's better that we are blethering away about something, even if the threads do meander a bit, than this place just being enveloped in silence? Anyway, I think of us as the (A)Bash(ed) Street Kids, forever frustrating our long-suffering teacher.
"Abashed Street Kids" - that's very good, ferval!
I like my stone - it's cool and comfortable under it.
Talking of stones, things at Res His do seem a bit rocky at the moment don't they, but then we've been here before and there has always been a dramatic recovery. Bit like England really. The Financial Times in a terribly gloomy article about all the Brexit crap comments that "Always Look On The Bright Side of Life" is the UK's alternative national anthem. Let us remind ourselves of the wise words sung to Brian at a bit of a low point in his remarkable life:
Cheer up, Brian. You know what they say. Some things in life are bad, They can really make you mad. Other things just make you swear and curse. When you're chewing on life's gristle, Don't grumble, give a whistle! And this'll help things turn out for the best And
Always look on the bright side of life!
Always look on the bright side of life If life seems jolly rotten, There's something you've forgotten! And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing,
When you're feeling in the dumps, Don't be silly chumps, Just purse your lips and whistle -- that's the thing! And always look on the bright side of life
Come on!
Always look on the bright side of life...
EDIT: Talking of whistling - believe Boris has just said something about how the EU can go whistle if they think we're going to stump up billions to get out. Oh dear, not the most tactful remark for the Foreign Secretary to have made at this delicate point in the negotiations - I wonder how they will translate this into franglais? "Un billion pour le divorce settlement? Sacré bleu, il faut qu'lls sont joking. Le EU peut aller siffler."
Or something like that.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Wed 12 Jul 2017, 14:19
I know that no-one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition, but really I find it hard to believe that even they would put His Catholic Majesty on the rack ... and yet it's either that or we have to accept that Queen Liz is shrinking. Even with her hat she barely comes up to El Rey's nipples.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Wed 12 Jul 2017, 16:13
Meles meles wrote:
Paul, you do seem to have "gone through the mill" lately. Sepsis is very, very bad news, but from what you say they caught it quickly and you got good treatment. I do hope you are finally on the mend now, though I expect it will take time to completely recover. You have my sincere sympathy and best wishes for a speedy recovery. At least you are now back home with, I trust, someone to look after you.
Ik hoop dat je snel beter wordt ... I hope that's correct, my French is better than my Flemish. But whatever, I hope you get well soon.
Thank you for the wishes Meles meles. And I am well after all now, only the first three days while they hadn't yet localized the specific bacteria. In fact : the "gram negative staphilocoque"... But I can't "do" for the first time not my usual "very active"...
"Ik hoop dat je snel beter wordt" Completely correct...all you points... "I hope that you quickly better become"
"snel" is a Germanic word as in the German "schnell" "become" in Dutch can "bekomen" have the meaning of "turn into" for instance the Dutch "worden"
Kind regards from you friend Paul...and regards to your relations in Belgium...I remember that you talked about your mother in law? standing in her living room where played the Brabançonne and she very moved...? Union fait la force (Unity makes strength) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_makes_strength
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Wed 12 Jul 2017, 16:41
ferval wrote:
Oh Paul, that must have been really unpleasant and very worrying. Let's hope the anti-bi's have done their stuff seeing off the wee buggers and that your recycled kidney flourishes in its new home.
Temp, just put that stone on the rockery and come out into the sunshine. Surely it's better that we are blethering away about something, even if the threads do meander a bit, than this place just being enveloped in silence? Anyway, I think of us as the (A)Bash(ed) Street Kids, forever frustrating our long-suffering teacher.
Ferval and Temperance thank you very much for the wishes....And Temp come from under your rock...I for instance has nothing seen of rocky times overhere...or perhaps I am a bit "thick skinned" through years of factory life and later the troubles from hiring....and these seven days in clinic have learned me again to be very humble and to think about the relativity of these "small" troubles in comparison with the "real" stuff....seen that much "misery" again among patients...even a nearly "heart attack" due to relations with his son (he was 74 as me) and kidney blocking because of allergy to the "contrast fluid" given during heart treatment...and the guy next to me also a lot of big "personal" problems....we don't know how happy we are...and that in our Western Belgium and Britain (even before as after the Brexit...
Kind regards from your friend Paul.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Wed 12 Jul 2017, 17:08
PaulRyckier wrote:
Meles meles wrote:
Paul, you do seem to have "gone through the mill" lately. Sepsis is very, very bad news, but from what you say they caught it quickly and you got good treatment. I do hope you are finally on the mend now, though I expect it will take time to completely recover. You have my sincere sympathy and best wishes for a speedy recovery. At least you are now back home with, I trust, someone to look after you.
Ik hoop dat je snel beter wordt ... I hope that's correct, my French is better than my Flemish. But whatever, I hope you get well soon.
Thank you for the wishes Meles meles. And I am well after all now, only the first three days while they hadn't yet localized the specific bacteria. In fact : the "gram negative staphilocoque"... But I can't "do" for the first time not my usual "very active"...
"Ik hoop dat je snel beter wordt" Completely correct...all you points... "I hope that you quickly better become"
"snel" is a Germanic word as in the German "schnell" "become" in Dutch can "bekomen" have the meaning of "turn into" for instance the Dutch "worden"
Kind regards from you friend Paul...and regards to your relations in Belgium...I remember that you talked about your mother in law? standing in her living room where played the Brabançonne and she very moved...? Union fait la force (Unity makes strength) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_makes_strength
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Wed 12 Jul 2017, 17:17
Meles meles wrote:
I know that no-one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition, but really I find it hard to believe that even they would put His Catholic Majesty on the rack ... and yet it's either that or we have to accept that Queen Liz is shrinking. Even with her hat she barely comes up to El Rey's nipples.
Nice lady left of the tall one, Meles meles.
Beautiful legs...I always look first to the legs...and the thighs...of course I expect also a conform "face"...just pure "aesthetics"...you have to believe...as such I look as well to good looking guys...
Kind regards from your friend Paul.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Thu 13 Jul 2017, 10:23
My sympathies as well Paul. I'm sure everything will be all right.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Thu 13 Jul 2017, 10:31
Like Trike, I can only offer my sympathies, and hope for a speedy recovery.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Thu 13 Jul 2017, 20:00
Nielsen wrote:
Like Trike, I can only offer my sympathies, and hope for a speedy recovery.
Thanks Trike and Nielsen for the empathy...already recovered, but have to be "prudent" now for a while, while a sepsis is a big "shock" to the human constitution...
Kind regards to both from your friend, Paul.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Thu 13 Jul 2017, 20:47
Paul R, sorry you have been unwell. The Bash Street kids and Minnie the Minx and company helped pass the time at primary school during many a rainy playtime (well the comics did).
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Fri 14 Jul 2017, 13:17
Planet of the Apes
Photographer David Slater claims he is bankrupt after being taken to court over the copywright of a selfie:
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sat 15 Jul 2017, 07:22
I was watching yesterday's Bastille Day parade - you know me, always a bit of a sucker for a man in uniform, if you'll pardon the expression - but anyway there were a few interesting additions. The main parade was led by a column of ww1 vehicles alongside their modern equivalents, like this Saint-Chamond tank alongside a modern Leclerc main battle tank.
And this little Renault FT on its transporter, which was dwarfed by a modern tank transporter.
The WW1 theme was supposedly to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the US entry into the war, and so to honour the principal guest Donald Trump ... and perhaps also to rub it in that in 1917 the US was 3 years late, though I doubt the Trump picked up on that subtle dig.
There was also much amusement on the TV news the evening before when Macron's motorcade consisted of just two Renault Espace cars and a couple of motorcycle outriders, while Trump's was of twelve enormous stretch limos.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sat 15 Jul 2017, 10:51
Whereas over here, we are much more interested in the ongoing analysis of Trump's handshakes and his comments that Madame Macron is in good shape (for and old bag)
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sun 16 Jul 2017, 07:14
A propos of nothing really, but while trying to find a picture of that old tank in the Bastille Day parade I came across the following one. France produced some truely collosal tanks during WW1. The St-Chamond tank above is longer and heavier than the modern Leclerc battle tank next to it, although the track length is shorter meaning that the St-Chamond overhangs its wheelbase by a lot at both front and rear. Big though the St-Chamond was it was dwarfed by the Char 2C, which was I think the largest tank built by France in WW1, though I don't think it was developed in time to see any combat.
I was also struck by the apparant difficulty in steering (presumably only achieved by braking one track or the other), and so while the modern tanks all glided along straight and steady, the St-Chamond tank wound its way down the Champs-Elysées, jerkily weaving from side to side like a drunken sailor. And the noise! No point in developing stealth technology then as you could hear it miles away.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sun 16 Jul 2017, 20:16
Meles meles wrote:
A propos of nothing really, but while trying to find a picture of that old tank in the Bastille Day parade I came across the following one. France produced some truely collosal tanks during WW1. The St-Chamond tank above is longer and heavier than the modern Leclerc battle tank next to it, although the track length is shorter meaning that the St-Chamond overhangs its wheelbase by a lot at both front and rear. Big though the St-Chamond was it was dwarfed by the Char 2C, which was I think the largest tank built by France in WW1, though I don't think it was developed in time to see any combat.
I was also struck by the apparant difficulty in steering (presumably only achieved by braking one track or the other), and so while the modern tanks all glided along straight and steady, the St-Chamond tank wound its way down the Champs-Elysées, jerkily weaving from side to side like a drunken sailor. And the noise! No point in developing stealth technology then as you could hear it miles away.
Meles meles,
yes tanks...I discussed them in depth not for the WWI (but I studied them for WWI too) but for the threads on several fora (Passion Histoire and the Forum Le Monde en Guerre (WWII))
about WWII in France 1940: "A strange defeat". On the old BBC they were very agressive against the coward French...And I retaliated:"Defending the French in their 1940 defeat".... I had the honour to discuss tanks with a French specialist, who wrote also in English on a weaponry forum... The French had more tanks than Germany in 1940 but they were deployed wrongly as did the Belgians and the Germans had already radio connection. The same in aviation deployed wrongly and more pointed to strategical combat (with those types of planes) tahn to close air support as the Germans did. In fact the Germans applied the modern warfare, while the French still stayed in the old WWI startegy and defensive positions as the Belgians did (learned from the French).
Although they laughed with the socalled obsolete WWI material, these 75 mm cannons in the "18 days campaign" May 1940 Belgium have the best resisted the invasion of Nazi Germany, more than the planes and tanks...
Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Tue 18 Jul 2017, 15:39
Had rather hoped there would be an official welcome back for Priscilla - perhaps followed by a dazzling display of fireworks and wit - but no.
So I'm offering this - I know nothing about port, but this looks suitably classy. I like the box. Can I have it when you've all finished the posh booze?
Hope the picture shows up OK.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Wed 19 Jul 2017, 21:24
PaulRyckier wrote:
..... about WWII in France 1940: "A strange defeat". On the old BBC they were very agressive against the coward French...And I retaliated:"Defending the French in their 1940 defeat".... I had the honour to discuss tanks with a French specialist, who wrote also in English on a weaponry forum... The French had more tanks than Germany in 1940 but they were deployed wrongly as did the Belgians and the Germans had already radio connection. The same in aviation deployed wrongly and more pointed to strategical combat (with those types of planes) tahn to close air support as the Germans did. In fact the Germans applied the modern warfare, while the French still stayed in the old WWI startegy and defensive positions as the Belgians did (learned from the French).
Paul, this evening I was watching a couple of DVDs of the 1970s British ITV series "World at War' and at the beginning of episode 3: 'France Falls May-June 1940', there is a short interview with General André Beaufre, who in 1940 was a colonel attached to the French High Command. He says, in English, about the state of French defences in 1940, something that I've always thought was a very sharp observation, (my transcription and my emphasis):
"It was very deep decay, probably caused by an excess of effort in the First World War. We suffered from an illness - which is not peculiar to the French - the illness of having been victorious and believing that we'd been right and very clever. A victory is a very dangerous opportunity."
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sun 23 Jul 2017, 17:00
Hittite jar from Karkamesh, 3700BP.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sun 23 Jul 2017, 19:14
It appears almost spherical ... does it have a slightly flattened bottom or was it intended to always be held and passed on hand to hand around the table? I'm assuming of course that it originally held wine.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sun 23 Jul 2017, 19:40
It seems to be spherical and about 30cm tall. It's said to have held sherbert or sharbat which is basically a sweet fruit drink, I've had the hisbiscus one, called karkade, in Egypt. Very pleasant over lots of ice and a large vodka.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sun 23 Jul 2017, 20:06
ferval wrote:
It seems to be spherical and about 30cm tall. It's said to have held sherbert or sharbat which is basically a sweet fruit drink, I've had the hisbiscus one, called karkade, in Egypt. Very pleasant over lots of ice and a large vodka.
Ferval can it be that it was destinated to be put in a kind of a "holder"?
Kind regards, Paul.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sun 23 Jul 2017, 21:07
I would think so, Paul, it would need one as I'm sure they didn't want it to coggle. It's an altogether awkward design to handle, a silly wee handle, quite heavy I'd think and a very narrow neck, it reminds me of Philippe Stark's stuff - looks good but utterly impractical and ridiculously expensive.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sun 23 Jul 2017, 22:21
Like Philippe Stark's stuff .... or Eva Solo's:
which does of course also needs a stand,
I actually have an even more useless "designer" decanter: one with a pointy bottom like an amphora ... which I've never used and which just sits, on its stand, on top of the sideboard, looking pretty and accumulating dust.
Islanddawn Censura
Posts : 2163 Join date : 2012-01-05 Location : Greece
Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Mon 24 Jul 2017, 04:49
The simplicity is gorgeous though, but yes it looks more decorative than practical for everyday use.
PaulRyckier Censura
Posts : 4902 Join date : 2012-01-01 Location : Belgium
Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sun 30 Jul 2017, 11:26
I hope that there happened nothing seriously to Nordmann, I sent a private message to him and hadn't no answer till now (as usual before in the few cases that I contacted him).
We had Caro overhere with a stroke, before Tasneem Khan, and the passing away of Erik Lindsay last year mentioned on the jiglu board, We had last year the dead of an Allain D on the forum Passion Histoire, a notorious contributor, bourgmestre of a French town...one might not to be pesimistic, but I wish that nothing happened to Nordmann...there in the far away Norway and obviously alone...
Or it has to be that he is offended by all our last "drivel" and is lurking now from outside, as I suppose Priscilla is doing too, until the time comes he enters again...
I hope it is the second case and in the other case I am hoping that he recovers...
NORDMANN if you read this let something hear from you
Kind regards from Paul.
Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sun 30 Jul 2017, 14:41
I think - and hope - that nordmann is simply having a great time on his hols somewhere, Paul.
That said, I too worry that various comments on the Hereford ley lines thread have offended him. I for one was very tactless there, but did apologise.
Olive branches (Pooh Sticks) and all that...
Like you, I hope the man is not ill.
ferval Censura
Posts : 2602 Join date : 2011-12-27
Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sun 30 Jul 2017, 17:35
Yes, me too. I fear I may have been a tad intemperate but these days I take it as one of the privileges of age to be, well, frank and that can spillover into rudeness. I apologise if I have crossed the line.
I do hope we see the Boss back soon, I hope he realises how much he is missed.