Good morning early birds!

[waterboatman]

A lot milder here in Gloucestershire this morning. Just as well 'cos we are polishing our skills on the new bit of canal again today, ready for Friday. It's a 'new' (i.e. restored) bit of canal requiring different boat handling skills. Just a matter of fine tuning today. Then we are ready for Friday. It may well be on the national news Friday evening!

Have a happy day everyone.

[WELSHYORKIE]

Oh and the fact that Steak and Kidney didn't bring O'Gara on util it was too late - he should have been on 10 or 15 minutes sooner to keep Wales pinned down.

[albaqwerty]

Morning Ummm xx

Many thanks Nora, have C&P'd it.

[TheOtherHalf]

Morning all. Absolutely freezing here. The part thaw has frozen over now and its like a skating rink out there. Nearly went down just putting the bins out.!!
Take care eveyone

[albaqwerty]

Morning TOH.

I'm away to kick-start the day. Take care folks xxxx

[Noraq]

Hi toh..same here bitter cold and hard frost...roads like ice. yuk.

Welshy...O'Gara is a good kicker..Sexton is just as good..It made no difference. We had it and we lost it.....We were inferior on the day. =)

[Noraq]

Have a happy one Albs xx

[Zhukov]

Good morning Noraq and Welshie..glad to hear the Rugby was exciting :-)

..ahem..back to Pubs;-)..i"m ok with getting to together with friendly folk here..with one or two caveats..

..and recommending favourite haunts would be an interesting thread..

..please allow me to relate a recent personal AB"contact,Boaty..which i am now tickled by..although i was "mortified"at the time..

Crosswords "section"got me using AB more often..and one Sunday a.m. a slightly tricky clue gave the Answer - Etonian - i remarked to the other guy who answered - Eton share a School song with our "alma mater" -

He was ..surprised,and delighted.. er,Boaty i"m a bit "fuzzy"with things IT..computers.. to be fair to the other ABer,he had given hints,which i suppose a regular tinternet user would"ve twigged...but O no,not I.. ;-)He had said he was friends from childhood,with Howard Jacobson,another OB..i took a brief glance at a link..and,in "conversation",i recalled he had lived/still lived in Tennessee...somewhere in my tiny mind;-)i made some feeble attempt at levity,along the lines of..."Yeaaww..so did you get to ride a Horse around town..er..pardner! ;0)"..

Imagine the look on my mug,when a simple Google...revealed him to be,a Gentleman,enjoying retirement from - "Emeritus Professor,University of Tennessee,at Knoxville,Tenn... F.R.S.A.

Needless to say,as a fellow OB,he was both succinct and gracious in his reply..


Here"s two more OB"s done good - I hope you enjoy this! :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk2xaeXnxlM

[Zacs-Master]

Morning all. Minus 4 here in the wilds of Dentdale. Sun justvrising over the flanks of Whernside. It's gonna be a beaut.

[paddywak]

Good morning ladies and gentlemen, not a bad morning here at least it's just above freezing

[Zhukov]

morning,ummmm..

[rowanwitch]

The Plough in Harborne is very good for food... and beer wise new discovery Post office Vaults New Street no food 8 ales, and a nice german wiessbeere, and some decent ciders currently 50 bottled beers but they are aiming to run a list of 200 tried Beowulf Brewery 'Grendel' Winter Ale... I think it was the nicest beer I've ever had (and I've tried a few)... and at 5.8% a vicious little monnster for all her rich flavours...

Wish I didn't have to work...

[Zhukov]

The only caveats i"ve come up with so far...1 please not to show up,as a "Coach Party",and2 not to perform any activity that might frighten the Horses!..

[Zhukov]

morning,rowan..yes the Beowulf,sounds like"One for the way home" :-)

[rowanwitch]

Have to say we did a little run round 5 of the many bars with real ale in Birmingham city centre and the Grendel was the first one I tried they were down hill from there. The Methane in the Old Joint Stock wasn't bad... planning to go back and sample their pies they looked delicious

[Zhukov]

Interesting,rowan,thanks..

They serve some fine Ales at the Anchor Inn.down Digbeth way.. :-)

[rowanwitch]

The Digbeth crawl is for another Day