BS: Happy Birthday Manitas!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Manitas!
From: lady penelope
Date: 30 May 02 - 01:37 PM

That's quite enough about snigging........unless I get some too!

Happy birthday Paul, I hadn't a clue it was your incremental this week! Hope you had a nice one!

TTFN M'Lady P.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Manitas!
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 30 May 02 - 04:31 AM

Happy Birthday Paul, you never know - perhaps Liz would enjoyed being snigged now and again !

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Manitas!
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 30 May 02 - 02:16 AM

Thanks all for the birthday wishes especially to SharonA for your birthday as well.

Actually I did some snigging at the party I was at on Saturday night. We were comparing versions of the Butcher Boy and I realised I knew a version.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Manitas!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 May 02 - 12:33 AM

Kitty is right, Manitas hasn't snigged for years.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Manitas!
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 29 May 02 - 06:44 PM

appy barfday, from another bit of Yorkshire-see you up 'ere sumtime.

cheers.

Eric

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Manitas!
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 29 May 02 - 05:40 PM

Micca

I'm not sure I do snig - it was Manitas who started this by adding a post below mine on the "Singing at Chippenham 31May - 3June 2002" thread:

From: Manitas_at_home Date: 27-May-02 - 05:23 PM

I'll be there but none of this sniging lark

so I thought there might be a connection.......

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Manitas!
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 May 02 - 04:13 PM

Manitas, have a great day....and keep a grip on your oakapples.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Manitas!
From: MMario
Date: 29 May 02 - 04:01 PM

no-no! I should have added a *grin*! I didn't know the connection between oakapples and Charles - or that it was even celebrated at all.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Manitas!
From: CarolC
Date: 29 May 02 - 03:56 PM

Happy Birthday Manitas.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Manitas!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 May 02 - 03:47 PM

Sorry to dumb down, but not everyone is familiar with the British names for these things.

See also the 29th May thread. I can't do blickies, God knows I've tried, but they just won't do it for me.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Manitas!
From: MMario
Date: 29 May 02 - 03:42 PM

I already *knew* what an oak apple is and how it is formed (also that it is used to make ink, and to dye cloth). Had heard the story of Charles in the oak - but didn't realize when it was or that the anniversary was marked.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Manitas!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 May 02 - 03:33 PM

Anniversary of the day Charles II hid in the oak tree from the Roundhead troops, thus enabling him to live a bit longer with his head and re-establish the monarchy. We got him in the end though.

Celebrated by the wearing of a sprig of oak leaves with or without oak apple. An oak apple is the hard round ball left by the gall wasp which lays it's eggs in the bark, the wasp larvae lives in this gall until it pupates and flies away out of the tiny hole it makes for the purpose.

Bet you wish you hadn't asked now....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Manitas!
From: MMario
Date: 29 May 02 - 03:04 PM

Happy d'day Manitas!

I gott ask....Oakapple day?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Manitas!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 May 02 - 02:44 PM

Yep same from Scotland too, ol' lead fingers.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Manitas!
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 29 May 02 - 01:56 PM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY from Yorkshire

cat x

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Manitas!
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 May 02 - 12:43 PM

Sheesh! That'll teach me to check the whole calendar! Sorry I didn't know you had one the same day as THE FAIR ONE!

Happy Birthday! Does this mean you are a MOG like the rest of them, now?*BG*

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Manitas!
From: Morticia
Date: 29 May 02 - 10:58 AM

What ho,sharkie....many happy's.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Manitas!
From: SharonA
Date: 29 May 02 - 09:34 AM

...and from across the "pond", happy birthday to you, Paul.

Gee whiz, just how many Mudcatters have a birthday today?! Seems us Geminis are thick as thieves 'round here. And what better time of year to be born, I ask you!!

Sharon (fellow Gemini)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Manitas!
From: Cappuccino
Date: 29 May 02 - 07:20 AM

Many happies from the Oxfordshire side.

- Ian B

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Manitas!
From: GUEST,micca at work.
Date: 29 May 02 - 04:37 AM

Happy Birthday , Paul, hope Chippenham is "dry" in the weather sense of the word, just dont do geoff the Ducks Custard juggling trick, it seems to bring on the rain faster than cricket!!!! Kitty, I didnt know you sniged!! learn something every day,

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Manitas!
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 29 May 02 - 02:30 AM

Many happy returns!

See you at the weekend somewhere between your music sessions and my sniging sessions....

Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Manitas!
From: mouldy
Date: 29 May 02 - 02:29 AM

And from me too. Have a great day.

Hope you'll be fit for work tomorrow!

(Speaking of monarchists: someone in our village has decked their house with Union Flag bunting already!)

Andrea

Subject: Happy Birthday Manitas!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 May 02 - 12:27 AM

And I bet you thought I hadn't got you a card!!

Have a happy day,

Love Liz

By the way, Happy Oakapple day to all you monarchists out there.....

LTS