Knockholt 2009 dates

Subject: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: GUEST,woodsie
Date: 07 Nov 08 - 09:56 AM

I know it's a long time away but for people who like to plan things in adavance:

SUMMER
Wednesday 17 June - Sunday 21 June

AUTUMN
Wednesday 9 September - Sunday 13

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 07 Nov 08 - 12:57 PM

ARRGGHHH! The Knockholt mocks me. Actually the dates do. We can't camp and can't do weekdays, but may toddle in for a few hours on one of the weekend days. Weather permitting (snerk).

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 07 Nov 08 - 01:40 PM

Must buy diary to put these in.

The weather will be better this year won't it?

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: Mick Woods
Date: 08 Nov 08 - 12:21 PM

Dave Kenningham assures me it will be super!!!

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: Girl Friday
Date: 08 Nov 08 - 12:29 PM

Summer Camp- Hooray I have got it right- singers night on 19th.

Autumn Camp - Friday 11th September is Spindlow's umpteenth birthday, and I've booked Paul Sirman- still if the weather is anything like this year....

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 11 Nov 08 - 05:37 PM

Reefer-ish

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: vectis
Date: 11 Nov 08 - 06:20 PM

I've put the dates in my diary - I may even get there this year.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: Girl Friday
Date: 11 Nov 08 - 06:24 PM

For anyone who visits this thread. It's off topic but... Trevor suffered a bad heart attack on Monday. Swift action at Kings has got him back almost to normal but he has to give up the fags and no driving for a month.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: romany man
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 01:25 PM

i cant write or read can some one remind me.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: Girl Friday
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 05:35 PM

Ask your 'orse.... treacle seemed very intelligent too

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 07:14 PM

KNOCKHOLT SHEEP.THEY SHOULD BE A LESSON TO US ALL. ONE DOES NOT HEAR THEM BLEETING ON ABOUT THE WEATHER.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: GUEST,Pete the hat
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 11:50 PM

Excellent this thread is up and running I have booked the dates off this evening so I have peace of mind I will be there.

                Has I was going over,
                Those wild Knockholt mountains,
                I first met Captain Woodsie
                Drinking pints of Larkens.
               
                I first produced a cigarette,
                And I then produced me Rizla
                I said sit down on that tree stump man,
                and I,ll make us both a R...a.
               
                Witha Oh whata parlarva ana da
                Knock down that Larkens man
                Knock down that Larkens man
                There,s Kronenburg on the Bar

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: GUEST,Pete the Hat
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 12:02 AM

There,s another three verses if anyone wants to add to it.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: GUEST,Pete the Hat
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 12:41 AM

We were in the Tally Ho,
             The landladies name was Jenny.
             I ordered another two Kronenburgs,
             And went to spend a penny
            
             Jenny was a blondie
             who came from Mevergissey.(Thats in Cornwall)
             She said do you wanna come upstairs,
             And see me Cornish Kitty
            
             Witha Oh whata Parlarva ana Da
             Knock down that Kronenburg.
             Knock down that Kronenburg.
             There,s a Whiskey on the bar

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: melodeonboy
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 03:46 AM

Good one, Pete!

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 04:47 PM

I've bought the diary.

Sheep beauty contest 1


Sheep Beauty contest 2

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: naughtyforty
Date: 14 Nov 08 - 04:48 AM

Won't be able to make the June one next year as Issy is making her first holy communion (of all the weekends they could have picked!!) but hope to be there for September!

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 14 Nov 08 - 06:45 AM

Communion, wine, anyone see the connection???


Sheep beauty 3

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 14 Nov 08 - 08:31 AM

RB - I wasn't worried from the 1st two links.

I mean, you could be advising owners on entertainment contracts for their beauty sheep.

But link 3? I just don't wanna know.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: Lady Raffles
Date: 14 Nov 08 - 09:29 AM

Naughtyforty, we didn't have a choice it's always the closest weekend to the 21st (remember??), we only get to choose when that falls on a Wednesday. Anyway you've got me worried now because Louis makes his first communion next year too, but I suppose we could always rush back to Eltham for a few hours and stink the church out with the smell of camp fires it will make a nice change from incense. By the way are you still staying at ours on December 5th (Folkmob party).

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: naughtyforty
Date: 14 Nov 08 - 10:23 AM

I know - the reference to the date was the church not folkmob!!!! Yes please - will give you a ring next week regarding that

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 14 Nov 08 - 12:10 PM

Sheep beauty 4

I hope that link works - I've never used photobucket before.

Warning! Miss Aberdeen is a little risque!

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Nov 08 - 12:42 PM

Just shown it to Trevor.... should I have let him get excited ?

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 14 Nov 08 - 12:53 PM

Well that is better than the inflatable one. Snerk.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: naughtyforty
Date: 14 Nov 08 - 01:32 PM

I'm sorry but number four is plain scary!! At least number three was funny!

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 15 Nov 08 - 03:33 AM

Number 4 scary? A woman in a woolly catsuit scary? I think it is quite funny, because it plays on the whole men attracted to sheep thing.

IMHO inflatable sex is scary.

"Warning: Do not display this sheep in the vicinity of curmudgeons, recent heart patients or knockholt attendees. May cause disruption in breathing.

Actually this may be true for links 3 and 4. Oh hell pick a link.
Which one does it for you guys?

Nows your chance to vote.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: fisheye
Date: 15 Nov 08 - 04:21 AM

I am sure there must be a Druid festival that clashes with the church at that time of the year,
or did the church clash with the Druids,,,,mmmmm...
Anyway during these dark dismal days of winter we can participate in exuberant fantasies of the coming 2009 Knockholt season.
However I do warn you all, no two Knockholt camps have every been the same, The unknown factor adds to the excitement, especially when Pete The Hat starts his song writing this early.

fisheye

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 15 Nov 08 - 05:19 AM

I think it is quite funny, because it plays on the whole men attracted to sheep thing.

I meant to say after the line above ... "if you can't get his attention as a mere woman" try wearing this woolly jumper"

That's what I get for trying to do this in dark bedroom on tiny little eeepc keyboard.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: GUEST,Pete the Hat
Date: 15 Nov 08 - 07:04 AM

The latest birth control pill is for men?
Its about the size of a Marble?
You put it in your shoe it makes you limp,
There,s a new one for women too.it weighs 500 weight they put by the bedroom door and no sod can get in.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 15 Nov 08 - 08:42 AM

No, a woolly jumper is a cross between a sheep and a kangaroo - maybe the kangaroo came to Knockholt...

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 15 Nov 08 - 08:55 AM

RB -- You missed the opportunity to ask exactly what I was "doing" in dark bedroom on a tiny eeepc keyboard.

Allusion to Christmas cracker joke lost on me. Is there an Aussie in the room?

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 15 Nov 08 - 11:21 AM

I assumed there were one of two good reasons: -

A) Migraine but unable to resist Mudcat; or
B) Other half asleep and likely to fret if you left the bed.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 16 Nov 08 - 04:01 AM

Near enuff. Lifetime insomniac with head cold from hell. Surfing Mudcat, You Tube, Wikapedia, Cantaria and in general being front pew member of the First Church of Google. And doing some WORK work .... Parish Register handlists... Yawn.

Other half (had cold first) can sleep through my very audible symptoms, but will come looking if gone too long. It is a hangover from Andie's passing. He checks to see that I am OK.

Been up since 3:40 am, now 8:30 am. Think I will risk some cold meds and sleep when he is awake and can make emergency call if I have a reaction.

I still don't get the kangaroo thing?

And still mulling over ways to make next year's Knockholts. I may save up so we can hire a camper van just for the Friday evening thru Sunday bit. 2010, we will have newer car and caravan. Yippeee!

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 16 Nov 08 - 07:03 AM

If I have not got rid of my little old van, and if my noisy daughter does not do princess bit and insist that she will NOT go under canvas, you can borrow that - but I think you have no towbar.

However, the likelihood is that daughter will if coming do the princess bit.

The joke is simple. What do you get if you cross a kangaroo with a sheep? A woolly jumper!

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 16 Nov 08 - 08:02 AM

I get the joke. I just don't undestand what a kangaroo has to do with Knockholt. Think I am trying to read too much into it. Need more meds and sleep, not sheep.

Thanks for the offer of van. But as you said, we have no towbar and we can't make it until Friday evening anyway due to Chris' teaching.

If there is a way I will find it.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 16 Nov 08 - 08:33 AM

No, the sheep are the connection to Knockholt, which is why the kangaroo had to go there to get you a woolly jumper...

Salvador Dali anyone?

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 16 Nov 08 - 10:29 AM

Actually that sounds quite good. Salvador Dali cocktail

4 cl Xellent Swiss Vodka
2 cl Karibso White Peach Liqueur
1.5 cl Cinnamon syrup
1.5 cl fresh lime juice
6 cl Grapefruit juice
6 cl Cranberry juice

I need to learn to drink whiskey.   That we have. Gotta be better than ephedrine laced paracetamol.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: Girl Friday
Date: 16 Nov 08 - 11:52 AM

Latest on recovering heart patient. I have just scoured the internet for, and printed the leaflet that he imagined he'd brought home from the hospital. He's busy reading it. He's eating less rubbish and more fruit. Sleeping a bit during the day, but going to bed earlier and getting up by 8 am. He musn't go outside in wet and windy weather, so today he's a couch potato refining his aimlessly mooching about indoors skills. Before I saw the dos and dont's I got him to unscrew a jar of pasta sauce. He mustn't do that. He's watching Coronation Street, we haven't watched soaps for about 3 years. Half an hour of Corrie later and he's looking for something else to do. Time for tea.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: GUEST,Pete the Hat
Date: 16 Nov 08 - 03:32 PM

Knockholt Insomniac,s.
If you cant sleep try counting sheep.

I have got a boxful of Display Rockets(Standard Fireworks) left over from me brothers firework party. I will bring them to Knockholt and set them off on the Friday night. I am trying to rig up a launching contraption whereby they will all go up together. I have got 7 4ft lenths of copper pipe so far.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 16 Nov 08 - 05:49 PM

If you tie them all to a blanket we could arrange for: -

LAMBS IN SPACE!!!

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: GUEST,Girl Friday
Date: 17 Nov 08 - 10:04 AM

Brilliant ! So what other sketches / characters in Rowan and Martin's Laugh In did you like ?

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 17 Nov 08 - 10:12 AM

Wow! Did you have Laugh In here in UK?

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 17 Nov 08 - 11:31 AM

It was a long time ago. The lovely Aimi MacDonald was young! (did she ever get to be a rich lady?)

I more sort of had "PIGS IN SPACE" from the Muppets in mind... not Lamb Chop.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: GUEST,woodsie
Date: 17 Nov 08 - 11:59 AM

Or even The pink Fairies "Pigs Of Uranus"

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 17 Nov 08 - 12:58 PM

Pigs In Space!!!! Woot for Link Hogthrob! Loved the Muppet show and most famous curmudgeons Statler and Waldorf. Favourite character Swedish Chef (didn't google once have a Swedish chef translator).

Don't remember much about Laugh In except being yelled at for sneaking down to basement (family room) when I was supposed to be in bed, to watch it. I remember the characters but not the actual jokes. Judy Carne, Goldie Hawn, Artie Johnson, Joanne Worley, Ruth Buzzy, Henry Gibson, Gary Owen and of course Rowan and Martin, there was big goofy blonde guy too. Remember Fickle Finger of Fate and I had a button/badge that said "You bet your sweet bippie" which I had to hide from my Dad. Not appropriate for a 9 to 10 year old to be sporting.

Ahhh memories.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: Girl Friday
Date: 17 Nov 08 - 01:35 PM

Of course it was Muppets not Laugh In.... but in Laugh In I remember the running jokes like the German soldier hiding behind an aspidestra "Very Interesting....but stupid"... after a sketch or a joke. Goldie Hawn either was very young or she had loads of facelifts through her film career, or , most likely, both. I was around 16 and able to watch with my parents. We all loved it ! Never worked out what a bippie actually was! There was another Pig Soap in the Muppets, a hospital drama.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: fisheye
Date: 17 Nov 08 - 01:50 PM

I have heard sheep stuffed with ferrets is quite nice, but not sure where to put the rockets. I suppose kangaroos could have been sheep with rockets attached. I will have to consult my Darwins Theory Manual. Laughing is part of the Knockholt code so every body should practice before they come ( you also do not need words or an instrument to perform)

Fisheye

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: GUEST,Pete the Hat
Date: 17 Nov 08 - 04:25 PM

Help
Iam tuning my Mandolin to the same tuning has a guitar Ie My old fashioned guitar tuner. When Needle reaches center. Thats thenright pitch and Tuned.

But useing only strings E.Thin top E,Then A D G. It sounds in tune but to highly strung what am I doing wrong. The Cat starts growling when I play it am I tuning to high? Shall I knock it down a abit.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 17 Nov 08 - 04:26 PM

But wellies help (well they did September gone...)

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: GUEST,woodsie
Date: 17 Nov 08 - 05:14 PM

No wonder your strings were breaking! The tuning should be G D A E from thick to thin. So, tune the bottom (thickest) string to G then play it on 7th fret and tune the next string to that and so on ...