UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 26 Apr 04 - 09:18 AM

Wilfried, £2.00 to £2.50 for bitter up to Guiness

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: MudGuard
Date: 26 Apr 04 - 09:24 AM

Wilfried, I guess there are cash machines in Hull - in case you drink more than you can afford...

A pint should be a tiny bit below £3 IIRC.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 26 Apr 04 - 09:31 AM

I wa getting worried that it was going to cost £57.

Is the tour of 'ull going to be in a charabanc pulled be a run-down nag called Punch ?

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Les from Hull
Date: 26 Apr 04 - 10:16 AM

The tour, after its transfer from the South Bank (that's another bank for you jOhn) will be on foot, although with special permission you may be allowed to use both feet.

You will see:
how Hull started the English Civil War (possibly one of the civilest wars in history - after you, mate, no after you!);
the largest church in England (depending on how you measure them);
the daftest street name in the world; and
the smallest window in the known universe (also possibly smaller than some in the unknown universe).

You will also visit sume pubs and drink sume bear9hoi. Actually you can choose between pubs and museums/art gallery. The trick is that the drinkers go to pubs and wait for the culture vultures to catch up.

Hull's Art Gallery and Museums are first class and free - with the exception of the big deep sea fish tank, which you haven't got time for anyway, unless you went there instead. You possibly haven't got enough time for the Arctic Corsair (preserved trawler, unless you head there straight away).

Any road up, for anybody who's arriving independently, meet outside Hull Tourism Office (at the City Hall) at 10.30am. Here's some stuff to be reading in the meantime.

Hull Museums and Gallery

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: MudGuard
Date: 26 Apr 04 - 10:35 AM

Where can I apply for that special permission? I'd like to use both your feet ;-)

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From:
Date: 26 Apr 04 - 10:44 AM

T shirt news. Mrs V, having made the trip today was told that we need the image in a vector file format, made on Corel draw. I managed to get hold of Corel draw 12, but the T shirt bloke said he uses Corel 8

So my question to clever clogs out there;

How do I quickly transfer a JPG into a vector format? Or can I put an MS publisher file into a vector format? Or do I have to re design it all again in Corel Draw. You have 1 hour to come up with the answers if you can. If not i'll try myself.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: MudGuard
Date: 26 Apr 04 - 10:49 AM

I have Corel Draw 8 here and I just tested: it does not open jpg files so I can't simply convert it to a vector format by loading it into Corel and saving as a vector format...

Looks like you have to go the hard way - re-design in Corel...

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 26 Apr 04 - 10:51 AM

On what charge have you indicted yourself, Viking?

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: MudGuard
Date: 26 Apr 04 - 10:59 AM

More testing revealed the following:

Start Corel, File - New
Rightclick in the "Page", choose "Import".
Select JPEG in the list of file types, then select your jpg file.
Some sort of tool appears at the mouse cursor, position it where you want to place the top left corner of image, click.
Now scroll so you can see the bottom right corner of imported image.
Grab the small square with mouse pointer and drag till the image has the wanted size (relative to "page").
Save the image as .cdr

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 26 Apr 04 - 11:05 AM

CorelDraw used to have a "Trace" option to transfer bitmapped files to a vector format - it's one of those processes (like trying to get a MIDI file from a WAV) which is much easier the other way round.

Bitmaps are great for storing photographs ect, but suffer from the fact that as you enlarge them, you loose the fine detail and they get "blocky". Vector graphics consist of the instructions for actually drawing the artwork and describe things like the angles, width, colour, and curves of lines, the fill of enclosed areas (even allowing for graduations of colour etc. They are great for drawn graphic artwork, because they contain all the neccessary details and therefore should remain sharp at most magnifications.

I do have an .EMF file (enhanced windows metafile) of the mudcat logo, but because it's not very well optimised, it's just over 2 meg. I could E-mail it if you want. I'ts large enough for Tee-Shirts.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 26 Apr 04 - 11:20 AM

Incidently, it shouldn't matter if you do have a later version of CorelDraw than the Tee-Shirt guy - just save it in one of the standard vector graphics formats that CorelDraw will export/import.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 26 Apr 04 - 11:40 AM

Thankee, clear as mud, I'll get onto it right now.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Oaklet
Date: 26 Apr 04 - 02:10 PM

Don't let Guset Indignant get a whiff of this - he'll go mad.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: MudGuard
Date: 26 Apr 04 - 02:11 PM

No, that won't be possible.

He can't go anything he already is... ;-)

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 26 Apr 04 - 07:31 PM

Dave, that tip about the "trace" thingy was a life saver. Cheers

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 26 Apr 04 - 09:15 PM

Thank heaven I didn't order a t-shirt (though it might have saved Dave having to lend me his tent ...). Greg, thanks for letting me camp right on the premises! May I sneak inside if I get frightened at night by owl calls, boogaboos or else? :-)

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Oaklet
Date: 27 Apr 04 - 02:25 AM

Don't worry Susanne, I'll be 4 miles away.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 27 Apr 04 - 05:11 AM

Susanne - if I thought you were likely to get frightened and want to sneak in at night, I would have made sure that you were camped next door to the caravan !

Anyway, Oakley will probably lend you some Guard Whelks - Skipjack is likely to charge you £57 pounds if you need to sneak in.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: MudGuard
Date: 27 Apr 04 - 06:52 AM

Anyway, Oakley will probably lend you some Guard Whelks

As long as they aren't MudGuard Whelks ;-)

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 27 Apr 04 - 06:57 AM

Christ - Whelks over 6 feet long - perhaps an empty shell would be better than the tent !

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 27 Apr 04 - 09:54 AM

I put my fiddle into kennels while I was in Texas last week - it was due to get a new bridge. Went to pick it up today - AND IT'S NOT READY YET! They have solemnly promised I shall have it by Friday morning. I expect it will (genuinely) cost about 57 quid for the new bridge.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Les from Hull
Date: 27 Apr 04 - 09:56 AM

There's a great big bridge over here that nobody uses much.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 27 Apr 04 - 10:10 AM

Well I've used it a couple of times, anyway won't we need it to get to the Cultural tour of 'Ull and how will jOhn get across to the Eurogather without it ?

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: MudGuard
Date: 27 Apr 04 - 10:29 AM

We could ride across the river on whelks ;-)

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 27 Apr 04 - 10:48 AM

Andy, you are being very silly now-whelks don't work on Bank Holidays.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From:
Date: 27 Apr 04 - 10:56 AM

The weather forecast. A gentle change from the hassle of T shirts. Who was it asked for them in the first place? Who volunteered me for the job. I'll tell you the story sometime when you've got hours to spare.

Forecast for Hull

Forecast issued at 4:21 am on Tuesday, April 27, 2004.

Friday,30 April
   Bright or sunny spells

Precipitation Prob=20%

Max 9C (48f) Min 5C (41f)
South-West wind at

8 - 19mph (Force 3 to 5)



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Saturday,01 May
   Bright or sunny spells

Precipitation Prob=30%

Max 8C (46f) Min 3C (37f)
South-West wind at

13 - 19mph (Force 4 to 5)



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Sunday,02 May
   Light rain showers

Precipitation Prob=60%

Max 12C (54f) Min 2C (36f)
East wind at

13 - 25mph (Force 4 to 6)



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Monday,03 May
   Light rain showers

Precipitation Prob=70%

Max 9C (48f) Min 3C (37f)
North-East wind at

13 - 25mph (Force 4 to 6)

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 27 Apr 04 - 11:30 AM

Doesn't sound very warm, and with fairly strong winds veering round E - NE on Sunday/Monday to add a wind-chill factor, I'm glad that we'll have a power hook-up for the heater in the caravan. We usually have more civilised weather down south - it was 22C (about 70F) in London yesterday.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: MudGuard
Date: 27 Apr 04 - 12:54 PM

Linda, as far as I know, only the Monday is a bank holiday.
According to Eric, I will leave Barrow on Sunday late at night.
So I don't care whether whelks work on bank holidays.
Apart from that, for whelks, being ridden by Mudcatters is fun for them, not work ;-)

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 27 Apr 04 - 03:52 PM

Well, the T shirts are a go'er. The design has been re-designed using wire frames, nodes and all the correct things for them to be done and on time. I've worked with a print design artist to turn my design into reality, the guy who owns the firm has been really great. I sat down with him this evening for a couple of hours at the factory. The cost £57.00 each plus a bucket of oil cooled whelks for Mrs V. (Real price not known yet!!) So everyone bring lots of dosh, well those who ordered one.I hope you like them and think they are worth the money you are going to pay!!!!!!!!!

Andy, you better care whether whelks work on Bank holidays or else you'll not get on your flying machine. Whelks are often sub-contracted as baggage handlers!

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 27 Apr 04 - 10:55 PM

Speaking of bringing dosh, just thought I'd mention that my auction contribution(s) will include a box of honest-to-goodness Girl Scout cookies (yes, Virginia, Girl Scout cookies really DO exist!) -- this year's, even! -- hand-carried acrost the puddle from the US of A...

Are they "made with real Girl Scouts"... or is Whelk Scouts the secret ingrediment what makes 'em taste so scrumpshuous? Well, you'll just have to be the highest bidder if you wants to know for sure....

Cheers,

YY

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From:
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 04:17 AM

Andy, do you eat pizza? What kind? I can't pm you 'cos I'm at work.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: MudGuard
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 04:27 AM

Yes, of course I eat pizza (comes from living less than 200km from Italy I guess ;-)

Almost every kind (as long as there are no intestines, mussles, snails, or whelks on it)

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Noreen
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 04:31 AM

Eric, just to help you out a bit:
Andy just loves mushy peas and pickled eggs.

:0)

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: MudGuard
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 04:41 AM

Noreen, if you want to give me hard times, you know how to do that ;-)
No need to involve mushy peas or pickled eggs!

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 05:00 AM

Les is doing a pub/museum tour, i will stick to the pubs, as your not allowed to smoke or take animals into the museums, unless they are blind [blind dogs are especially trained not to shit on the floor].

anyway-i went to the local art gallery last week, to see the modern art exibition, it was rubbish, just a load of cicles, complete crap.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 05:23 AM

Noreen, if you want to give me hard times, you know how to do that ;-)

Noreen knows how to give fellows all sorts of hard things.



Susanne (and Wolfgang) - Iim still waiting for a reply to my PM about whether you require a lift back down south on Monday.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 11:03 AM

What do we do when we get there - ie is there somewhere to go, before the Haven Inn shindig at 7pm ?   Is there anyone we could contact to say we've arrived.

Linda and I expect to get there sometime Friday afternoon with both Susanne and Wolfgang. I believe that Wolfgang has already arranged his lodgings, and Sussane is supposed to be piching her tent at Skipjack's (unless someone is going to offer her a floor to crash down on - she will have sleeping bag and airbed) - so where will be the best place to drop our passengers, before we drive onwards to the caravan site in the Goxhill direction ?

If I end up with some time on my hands before 7pm, I could make up some (standard Mudcat) badges if anyone needs one - PM me quickly if you do - I'm unlikely to log into the net after mid-day tomorrow (Thursday).

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 11:23 AM

Mudguard, my colleague Riccardo (an Italian gentleman from Milano) tells me that Pizzas have got nothing to do with Italy, they're an American invention. He should know?
Johnny :0)

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 11:25 AM

Ole Riccardo gets dead mardy if you tell him Pizza is the Italian national dish - especially if it's whelk flavour.
:0)

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: MudGuard
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 06:19 PM

Eric, how big is Leeds/Bradford Airport?
How big are the chances that we miss each other?
Where should we meet?

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Noreen
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 06:38 PM

Andy, stand on a stool to make sure he doesn't miss you in the crowd....

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 06:39 PM

Oh I thought it was manchester

Only joking.

Leeds Bradford is small, there is little chance that we will miss each other unless you go somewhere you should'nt. When you come out of the arrivals (no customs on internal flights) go to the main exit. If I'm early, I'll find you there, If I'm late I'll find you there.I should be there for 22.00 without a problem. Hope your flight is on time.

Cheers, CU in 22.5 hrs.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: MudGuard
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 06:40 PM

But if HE is in the middle of the crowd, it does not help if I stand on a stool...

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 06:43 PM

I'll be the one shouting "Zind sie Deutsch?" "Wo bist du?"

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Noreen
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 06:47 PM

Oh it does, Andy- stand there and he'll find you :0)

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Noreen
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 07:03 PM

Errr, Eric- to the passengers coming off a flight from Munich???

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 07:18 PM

No, to the passengers coming off a flight from Heathrow! (He's landing Stanstead, running to London H R and then onto Leeds)

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 07:20 PM

David, I will PM you with a secret RV address. Consume the paper afterwards, and stay regular.

Even I'm starting to mildly look forward to this.

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 07:32 PM

Cor, you got home late enough!

Subject: RE: UK: Barrow on Humber Eurogather April 30
From: GUEST,guest old git
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 07:32 PM

will be thinking of you all in whitby