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31 hours to go! Before I am in Thailand with "Man". For 8 days. Haven't seen him since Jan. 2...YAY!!!
Waaaay busy at work. The big push is on to re-locate our offices, which is a big deal for anybody, but in Hong Kong will cost my little non-profit organization about US$9,000 per month plus 3 months deposit and huge fitting out costs. I've been dealing with a million details night and day for the past 2 weeks. My staff of 12 are eager to help, but things aren't yet ready enough yet for them to be able to.
While I am there, I plan on getting lots of R&R, and lots of love and cuddles for my 50th birthday on Monday as well as Valentine's Day (Yay again)!!!!
Maybe I'll also do some writing...my chapter of Robin awaits, in the idea planning stage...then there's Green-Eyed Monster, HOFDL and LL each needing work right now, and ideas are bubbling...Ye Gods. I seem much better at starting stories than I am at continuing them or finishing them. Huge apologies for being amongst the slowest writers on Earth...hehe
To something completely different! Have you heard that India wants to buy an aircraft carrier, used from Russia?? Just what that region needs. And Thailand has a practically new one, which they can't afford to use. It costs US$200,000 just to fire it up and move away from its mooring. *Giggles*
Oh, and I salute the British Queen! (No, not you, Tim!) 50 years! She was coronated the year I was born. Good planning on somebody's part. Odd tho, really. In the US I'm a Democrat if anything, and in the UK I'd be a republican (with a white cockade as well, awaiting the return of Bonnie Price C. from over the sea...)
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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and have a whale of a thaime.
But (just to be pedantic), if you were born the year Queenie was coronated, you won't be 50 till next year. Sorry.
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Being 9 yrs old at the time I remember the coronation quite clearly. That was in the days before they could do live trans Atlantic TV so I had to wait for the movie to come out. It finally made it to Union Springs Alabama. I was first in line. One queen was definitely drawn to another. I also made a scrapbook of magazine clippings.
Richard
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Congratulations on making it to the middle ages! (Ouch!)
Long time no contact. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!
FYI: her Brittanic Majesty's Daddy died in February 1952 (I was almost 10 years old), but she was crowned (only lesser mortals are coroneted) in June 1953. They chose the only June day on which it had not rained once in London for 100 years. It poured during the state procession, of course! The junk one remembers.
Enjoy your R&R with your Man (double entendre intended) and the very best of luck with your office move.
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Hmmm...but I really DO turn 50 on Feb 11th...so when was She crowned, anyhow? Wasn't it in 1952? I'm sooo confused...well, not really...just wondering, as I pack my suitcase...
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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Hi Steve...sorry I asked the timing question before I read your post...
You're not the only mea culpa guy...I am pretty awful at returning emails, as any number of people will tell you...life gets so busy...
The office location question isn't half sorted, and off I go trying to relax. ARGH....
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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1953. June, if I recall. Took a year plus to organise, presumably.
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Hey dude, the Queen was crowned on June 2nd 1952. Hehehe. Have a good time mate.
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HEY!!!! CHARLIE, me lad!!!!!!
Great to see that you are such a regular lurker on the MB here, dude!!
For those of you who don't know him, Charlie is a friend of mine (no Geezer, either, much younger and better looking than me!!!) who co-authored with me a Chapter 2 to one of Tim's stories, "Face in the Window".
Charlie has been one of my best Net friends for almost 2 years now.
I love ya to bits, dude!! Say hi and a hug to S for me, too!!!
I'll give one of the first smootchies to Man from youse guys...
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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cossie
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Ach, ye wee scunner - ye're a year adrift. Wee Lizzie's faither died in February 1952, but she wisna crooned until 2 June 1953.
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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Hey, David!
Here's to another 50 (at least)!
All the best!
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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Charlie Smith
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My apologies Cossie, you're quite right, I lost a year somewhere there bud.
Charlie S.
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 Yep. That's it. The Coronation Scot! A 4-6-2 streamlined locomotive. Ah nostalgia isn't what it used to be. Of course this one's a model, but I was in a a hurry!
Oh, happy half century. You will soon be in your 51st year!
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Thanks again guys...
Now I'm in Bangkok, after an EXTREMELY relaxing and stress-reducing afternoon, evening, and night with my Man. We're having breakfast at our gay hotel, and I couldn't help checking in on youse guys before we head out shopping and what-not.
Then this afternoon we go down to our house near Pattaya, about 1.5 hours southeast. On the Andaman Sea. Beach tomorrow, if we get out of bed in time.
It's still not my birthday until Monday! I'm still on THIS side of the half-century marker. YAY!!
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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cossie
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The 'Coronation Scot' was a train, not a locomotive! It was the London, Midland and Scottish Railway's flagship express on the West Coast route from London to Glasgow, named to celebrate the Coronation of George VI, the present Queen's father.
The streamlined locomotives used to hall the train were officially designated the 'Princess Coronation' Class, though they were generally known as the 'Duchesses', as ten of them were so named. The first to be built, in 1937, was No. 6220, 'Coronation', but that's not the subject of the model in the photograph, as the nameplate seems to show two longish words. The second is longer than the first, so I'd go for No. 6224, 'Princess Alexandra'.
Now where did I put my anorak ..... ?
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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You left your anorak with a foil wrapped packet of spam sandwiches on Clapham Junction station on platform 16.
Hmm. The Duchess class was not streamlined. Or at least the Duchess of Montrose in my Hornby Dublo 3 rail transet is not!
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cossie
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Most of the class were streamlined, though the streamlined casing was removed in the late 1940s. You are right about Duchess of Montrose, though (I has a Hornby Dublo set, too!). Five of the Duchesses (6230-34; Duchess of Buccleuch / Atholl / Montrose / Sutherland / Abercorn) were never streamlined - I'm not a sufficiently-qualified anorak to tell you why this was so.
I wondered what happened to those spam sandwiches - d'you think they're still edible?
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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Is that said with a lisp?
How could you peeps take the royals seriously with some of these names, I sware!
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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tim
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Spam was NEVER edible. Why on earth do you think it should be edible now?
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cossie
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Don't be thtupid, David. I thaid Atholl, you arthole!
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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