It's a mildly exotic life I lead...



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Simon Brooke

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Attentive readers may recall a certain Per Löwdin of Upsalla who popped
up on this very froup some weeks ago enquiring where he could find the
best singletrack in the UK. I spent a very pleasant morning showing Per
and his wife - delightful people, both, and better cyclists than I -
around the Dalbeattie red route, and left them with instructions to get
to Kirroughtrie. When I got home I found two Austrian fire dancers in
the back kitchen. There are worse places to live in summer (or, indeed,
at any other time).

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"Simon Brooke" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Attentive readers may recall a certain Per Löwdin of Upsalla who popped
> up on this very froup some weeks ago enquiring where he could find the
> best singletrack in the UK. I spent a very pleasant morning showing Per
> and his wife - delightful people, both, and better cyclists than I -
> around the Dalbeattie red route, and left them with instructions to get
> to Kirroughtrie. When I got home I found two Austrian fire dancers in
> the back kitchen. There are worse places to live in summer (or, indeed,
> at any other time).
>

Huh! I only found pasta and beans in my kitchen!

G.
 
"Simon Brooke" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Attentive readers may recall a certain Per Löwdin of Upsalla who popped
> up on this very froup some weeks ago enquiring where he could find the
> best singletrack in the UK. I spent a very pleasant morning showing Per
> and his wife - delightful people, both, and better cyclists than I -
> around the Dalbeattie red route, and left them with instructions to get
> to Kirroughtrie. When I got home I found two Austrian fire dancers in
> the back kitchen. There are worse places to live in summer (or, indeed,
> at any other time).
>

Huh! I only found pasta and beans in my kitchen!

G.
 
"Graham Dean" <[email protected]> wrote:
| "Simon Brooke" <[email protected]> wrote in message
| news:[email protected]...
| > ... When I got home I found two Austrian fire dancers in
| > the back kitchen. ...
|
| Huh! I only found pasta and beans in my kitchen!

I know which I'd rather find when I got back from a long ride;
I mean, there's not much meat on an Austrian fire dancer.
 
"Graham Dean" <[email protected]> wrote:
| "Simon Brooke" <[email protected]> wrote in message
| news:[email protected]...
| > ... When I got home I found two Austrian fire dancers in
| > the back kitchen. ...
|
| Huh! I only found pasta and beans in my kitchen!

I know which I'd rather find when I got back from a long ride;
I mean, there's not much meat on an Austrian fire dancer.
 
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:53:58 +0100, Simon Brooke
<[email protected]> wrote:

>When I got home I found two Austrian fire dancers in
>the back kitchen.

I did some bloke-style washing up in my kitchen yesterday. You know
how it goes: wash the five items on the draining board, wipe cooker
top, get out Swiss cleaner and clean cooker top, notice doors need
cleaning, dismantle doors, degrease and polish, reassemble cooker,
wash floor...

Guy
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On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:53:58 +0100, Simon Brooke
<[email protected]> wrote:

>When I got home I found two Austrian fire dancers in
>the back kitchen.

I did some bloke-style washing up in my kitchen yesterday. You know
how it goes: wash the five items on the draining board, wipe cooker
top, get out Swiss cleaner and clean cooker top, notice doors need
cleaning, dismantle doors, degrease and polish, reassemble cooker,
wash floor...

Guy
--
May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at CHS, Puget Sound
 
Simon Brooke wrote:

> I found two
> Austrian fire dancers in the back kitchen.

Two whats? What's one of those, then?
 
Simon Brooke wrote:

> I found two
> Austrian fire dancers in the back kitchen.

Two whats? What's one of those, then?
 
in message <[email protected]>, Simonb
('[email protected]') wrote:

> Simon Brooke wrote:
>
>> I found two
>> Austrian fire dancers in the back kitchen.
>
> Two whats? What's one of those, then?

One of these:
<URL:http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/tmp/fire_dancer_2.jpg>
or these:
<URL:http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/tmp/fire_dancer.jpg>
largely depending on gender. Sheesh, don't you people know anything?

We've been burning wicker men again, you know.
<URL:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4712613.stm>

--
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/ /___||___\____
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//____\__||___|_// \|: C++ IS an object oriented programming language.
\__/ ~~~~~~~~~ \__/ Citroen 2cv6 IS a four door family saloon.
 
in message <[email protected]>, Simonb
('[email protected]') wrote:

> Simon Brooke wrote:
>
>> I found two
>> Austrian fire dancers in the back kitchen.
>
> Two whats? What's one of those, then?

One of these:
<URL:http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/tmp/fire_dancer_2.jpg>
or these:
<URL:http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/tmp/fire_dancer.jpg>
largely depending on gender. Sheesh, don't you people know anything?

We've been burning wicker men again, you know.
<URL:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4712613.stm>

--
[email protected] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
.::;===r==\
/ /___||___\____
//==\- ||- | /__\( MS Windows IS an operating environment.
//____\__||___|_// \|: C++ IS an object oriented programming language.
\__/ ~~~~~~~~~ \__/ Citroen 2cv6 IS a four door family saloon.
 
Simonb wondered of fire dancers:
>>Two whats? What's one of those, then?

and Simon Brooke clarified:
> One of these:
> <URL:http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/tmp/fire_dancer_2.jpg>
> or these:
> <URL:http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/tmp/fire_dancer.jpg>
> largely depending on gender. Sheesh, don't you people know anything?

Eeeughh! Burn the filthy poimonger!
<URL:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/lap/lap.htm>

--
Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address)
<URL:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/>
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine
 
Simonb wondered of fire dancers:
>>Two whats? What's one of those, then?

and Simon Brooke clarified:
> One of these:
> <URL:http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/tmp/fire_dancer_2.jpg>
> or these:
> <URL:http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/tmp/fire_dancer.jpg>
> largely depending on gender. Sheesh, don't you people know anything?

Eeeughh! Burn the filthy poimonger!
<URL:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/lap/lap.htm>

--
Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address)
<URL:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/>
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine
 
Simon Brooke wrote:
> We've been burning wicker men again, you know.
> <URL:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4712613.stm>

Were you present? Did you get to witness the Alabama 3 in full
splendour? If I'd known, I'd have come back up north sooner and attended!

Jon
 
Simon Brooke wrote:
> We've been burning wicker men again, you know.
> <URL:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4712613.stm>

Were you present? Did you get to witness the Alabama 3 in full
splendour? If I'd known, I'd have come back up north sooner and attended!

Jon
 
Simon Brooke wrote:
> We've been burning wicker men again, you know.
> <URL:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4712613.stm>

Were you present? Did you get to witness the Alabama 3 in full
splendour? If I'd known, I'd have come back up north sooner and attended!

Jon
 
in message <[email protected]>, Jon Senior
<jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOT_co_DOT_uk> ('') wrote:

> Simon Brooke wrote:
>> We've been burning wicker men again, you know.
>> <URL:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4712613.stm>
>
> Were you present? Did you get to witness the Alabama 3 in full
> splendour? If I'd known, I'd have come back up north sooner and
> attended!

No, I didn't go this year. I was actually the person who put the torch to
the first wickerman of the present series, though, back in 2002. It's
only three miles up the road.

--
[email protected] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; ... exposing the violence incoherent in the system...
 
in message <[email protected]>, Jon Senior
<jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOT_co_DOT_uk> ('') wrote:

> Simon Brooke wrote:
>> We've been burning wicker men again, you know.
>> <URL:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4712613.stm>
>
> Were you present? Did you get to witness the Alabama 3 in full
> splendour? If I'd known, I'd have come back up north sooner and
> attended!

No, I didn't go this year. I was actually the person who put the torch to
the first wickerman of the present series, though, back in 2002. It's
only three miles up the road.

--
[email protected] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; ... exposing the violence incoherent in the system...
 
in message <[email protected]>, Jon Senior
<jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOT_co_DOT_uk> ('') wrote:

> Simon Brooke wrote:
>> We've been burning wicker men again, you know.
>> <URL:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4712613.stm>
>
> Were you present? Did you get to witness the Alabama 3 in full
> splendour? If I'd known, I'd have come back up north sooner and
> attended!

No, I didn't go this year. I was actually the person who put the torch to
the first wickerman of the present series, though, back in 2002. It's
only three miles up the road.

--
[email protected] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; ... exposing the violence incoherent in the system...
 
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