Loughstock lll

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: MudGuard
Date: 14 Jan 05 - 03:27 PM

Thanks Scooby Doo!

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 14 Jan 05 - 04:01 PM

No problem Mudguard,pleased to help.

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 15 Jan 05 - 12:11 PM

Thankyou Dr Fibes. I shall indeed make my way from International airport to Laganside, where upon I trust you'll be arriving. I will telephone you on my mobile communications device.

Terry, thank you for the kind offer offer, but as you can see I'm sorted, so black stuff away!

I can get the bus to Laganside. Andy you sent me a link once to the timetables etc-I think I might still have it. Irespective of events during the preceeding week I am looking forward to this now I have framed myself. Especially since Skarpi is bringing Biork!

Andy, if you look up when the plane passes over the square, I will especially flush the loo just for You! :-)

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: Leadfingers
Date: 15 Jan 05 - 12:20 PM

We will have to make sure we are in Fiddlers Green well before seven then Eric - See you there !! And you can keep away from my fish and chips Andy !!

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: MudGuard
Date: 15 Jan 05 - 01:00 PM

Eric, you must be very old that you still remember the time when the loo on planes was flushed to the outside - for some decades now the flush lands ;-) in a onboard container.

Here is the bus link:
http://www.translink.co.uk/keytables_airbus.asp

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Jan 05 - 01:07 PM

And you can keep away from pish and shits Andy, tanks very much.

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: GUEST,Giok in the blizzard.
Date: 17 Jan 05 - 12:22 PM

Will anybody be bringing a banjo, I have a 5 string that I want to learn, and I'm looking for some lessons. Finger style none of your clever and fast plectrum stuff;~)
Giok

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: MudGuard
Date: 17 Jan 05 - 12:27 PM

AFAIK: Terry (Leadfingers), Helgi (from Skarpi's band)

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 17 Jan 05 - 02:05 PM

Thanks Andy. (Will not use my trusty Swiss Army knife to open inboard container now!)

Kate, will catch soonest possible bus after arrival. I shall wear a guitar in my button hole and be carrying a bunch of plectrums so you shall recognise me.Please apologise to your mum in advance for me.

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 17 Jan 05 - 03:21 PM

I have now booked a hire car and have one spare place. We are picking it up at Belfast International at 1pm on Friday and returning there at noon on Monday.

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: skarpi
Date: 17 Jan 05 - 03:43 PM

Halló all , MudGuard, Helgi has a 4 string banjo, I am
not sure about the banjo on the trip?
All the best Sakrpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: MudGuard
Date: 17 Jan 05 - 03:51 PM

Manitas, of course the cost of the car will be shared.

Btw, how do you intend to get to Stansted? Taxi or Car or Stansted Express?
(I want to know because I take the Express to get to you - and a return ticket is cheaper than 2 single tickets ...)

cu soon, Andy

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 05:13 AM

III WEEKS

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 06:05 AM

Or "lll" weeks in Leadfingers'speak, Giok.

Helga's four-string (tenor presumably) banjo would not be much use to Giok, as it will be very much different from a five-string. That rare and peculiar thing that Leadfingers plays might not do the job either.

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: MudGuard
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 06:15 AM

John, did you drink too much Scotch and count one of the weeks twice?

In III weeks it is 11th February, and Loughstock III will then be in the past ...

Only II weeks!

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 06:24 AM

Tis indeed, and if the 'Cat goes down for any reason, the plan is to meet in Fiddlers Green on Friday afternoon, wearing apppropriate mudcat identification if possible.

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: MudGuard
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 07:05 AM

How are you, Fib?
0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 ...?

Will you not recognize me if I wear no Mudcat identification?

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 07:10 AM

Andy, I could not fail to recognise you!

I'm at about 0.9 these days, and enjoying being a skinny thing - I'm eating huge amounts of food!

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: Leadfingers
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 07:10 AM

We MIGHT have difficulty recognising you if you DONT stand up Andy !
And that 'Rare and peculiar thing' is a standard five string banjo neck on a mandola body , and doesnt work very well for frailing , but still plays just like a banjo , but quieter !!

Take off from Stanstead in almost exactly a fortnight !!

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: MudGuard
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 07:37 AM

We MIGHT have difficulty recognising you if you DONT stand up Andy !

Terry, just look for a man who is taller sitting than you standing ;-)

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 07:51 AM

Well folks III is nearer than 111 by a factor of CVII.
Giok [silly old bugger]

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: MudGuard
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 08:26 AM

Still too much Scotch in you, John.

Well folks III is nearer than 111 by a factor of CVII.

2 (II) is correct. Therefore III is off by 1. 111 is off by 109. Thus the factor is CIX, not CVII ;-)

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 08:39 AM

111 - 3 = 107

picky picky

Was ist der problem mit der Bayernischer?

Giok ;~)

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: MudGuard
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 08:52 AM

Hm - here in Bavaria, 111 - 3 is 108 and not 107 ;-)

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 09:05 AM

Not in Scotland where we count in Gaelic, that is so that others don't notice when we get it wrong. Anyway just because everybody else says it's 108 does that make me wrong?

Giok [Who has stopped digging now ;~)]

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 05:48 PM

Look for a couple who look like a cruet in an Italian restaurant... a short round salt pot and a tall chunky pepper pot.. .that'll be me and Mudguard... Manitas is the mustard pot, the novelty one with the round stomach and little legs.

LTS

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 06:14 PM

And strange taste in women?
Giok ;~)
[I'll get my coat]

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: MudGuard
Date: 26 Jan 05 - 04:58 PM

How is the weather in or near Portaferry at the moment?

And in London?

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: mooman
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 04:19 AM

It is fair at the moment Andy but will most undoubtedly be inclement by tomorrow week (;>)

Richard

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 04:39 AM

One week today I shall be heading for the ferry from Stranraer. Arrive in Belfast about 17:30, may just park up at the terminal, rather than drive strange roads in the dark and head south in the morning, but I'll play it by ear depending on the weather. Is anybody else going to be around on the Thursday night or are you all arriving on Friday?
Giok

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: mooman
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 04:45 AM

Giok,

We plan to arrive at Portaferry mid-afternoon on the Friday. I think the Icelanders will be overnighting near Belfast on the Thursday from what I gathered.

Richard

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 02:30 PM

1 week tonight alchohol will be taken, I believe [and hope]
Giok

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 05:09 PM

1 week tonight, I will have no child with me... ANYTHING could happen (but probably not that!)

LTS

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: MudGuard
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 05:55 PM

What? Manitas is not coming? ;-)

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Jan 05 - 05:13 PM

No Andy, I said NOT that!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 30 Jan 05 - 02:59 AM

Just a note to Fibula's information page. The AA (www.theaa.co.uk)site *is* recognising Portaferry but you need to set the button for Ireland. The directions seem to be much clearer and more sensible (when checked against a map) than Multimap or Autoroute (which has us launching in a straight line across Strangford Lough!).

As Liz, Mudguard and I arrive at the airport at 12.40 we should have plenty of time to meet you all in the pub at 3pm.

0.00 0.00 A57 Start out at Belfast International Airport,Antrim
Follow signs All Traffic

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1.40 1.40 A57 Killead Roundabout (Junction with A26)
At roundabout take 2nd exit (signposted Belfast) In 3.3 miles over level crossing

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4.90 3.50 A6 Junction with A6
At roundabout take 2nd exit A6

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5.50 0.60 A6 Templepatrick

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6.00 0.50 A57 Junction with A57
At roundabout take 2nd exit A57

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6.70 0.70 M2 Junction with M2
Turn left to join Motorway M2

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16.90 10.20 M3 Junction 1A (A12)
Take right-hand lanes to join M3 (signposted City Airport, Bangor)

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17.30 0.40 M3 Lagan Bridge

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17.50 0.20 A2 Junction with A2 (Queen's Island exit)
Leave motorway (signposted Belfast(E), Newcastle)

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17.70 0.20 A20 Junction with Middlepath Street
Follow signs Newtownards to join A20

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20.60 2.90 A20 Stormont

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21.30 0.70 A20 Knock Golf Club (on left)

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22.00 0.70 A20 Ulster Hospital (AandE) (on left)

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22.20 0.20 A20 Dundonald

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25.90 3.70 A20 Junction for Scrabo Country Park
At roundabout take 1st exit (signposted Town Centre)

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26.90 1.00 A20 Newtownards
Follow signs Portaferry A20

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32.10 5.20 A20 Mount Stewart Gardens (NT) (on left)

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32.70 0.60 A20 Temple of the Winds (on left)

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34.10 1.40 A20 Greyabbey
Turn right

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37.60 3.50 A20 Kircubbin
In 7.2 miles at roundabout take 1st exit (signposted Ferry)

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45.60 8.00 A20 Arrive at PORTAFERRY


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Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: MudGuard
Date: 30 Jan 05 - 03:22 AM

As Liz, Mudguard and I arrive at the airport at 12.40 we should have plenty of time to meet you all in the pub at 3pm.

That depends on the number of digger-carrying low-bed trucks ... ;-)

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Jan 05 - 05:17 AM

Hey, if I drive, it won't matter how many trucks.... Lead Foot Lizzie is in need of beer and song!

(and possibly some more medication and a weekend away from people, in that room with the nice soft walls....)

LTS

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: MudGuard
Date: 30 Jan 05 - 05:51 AM

Liz, you obviously don't know the road to Portaferry yet. ;-)

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Jan 05 - 06:27 AM

Them's not diggers them's Irish sports cars. Sure have ye's never heard o' the JCB GT?
Giok [I'm in trouble again!]

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 30 Jan 05 - 07:29 AM

To those driving, be a bit steady if you are not over fast at cornering and correctting steering,there are some wicked bends on that road from Newtonards. I really enjoy the drive, limited passing places, quick bends. Mind you, my passengers sometimes take a different view!A week to go.

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: Leadfingers
Date: 30 Jan 05 - 07:36 AM

Looks like we are going to use up all the avalable parking space in Portaferry - and Eric is right about the road !! NOT a road for taking chances on at all!!
I wont be there at three- but I will see you in Fiddlers green probably fivish !

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 30 Jan 05 - 08:03 AM

A word of warning about the M2, Manitas. At the Belfast end it's at least five lanes wide, different lanes leading to different places. Drivers adopt varying degrees of lane discipline (or none) several miles before that. Just don't leave it till the last moment before you strike out for those lanes on the far right!

It's thoughtful that they've mentioned Stormont on your route. It's such a modest little place, you'd surely miss it otherwise.

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Jan 05 - 08:15 AM

Hey, we can do the Queen Elizabeth Bridge at the Dartford end... 3 lanes of M25 type traffic splitting into 8 lanes to get through the toll booths there, and then all merging into 5, of which, 3 don't go the way you want to.....

I reckon if I can do that, I can do anything!

LTS

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 31 Jan 05 - 04:31 AM

Oi, all attendees - don't forget to bring summit for the raffle!

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 31 Jan 05 - 04:39 AM

Well there's meself as the booby prize, will that do?
Giok

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: MudGuard
Date: 31 Jan 05 - 04:41 AM

don't forget to bring summit for the raffle!

Here in Germany, it is not allowed to remove pieces of mountains ;-)

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: Letty
Date: 31 Jan 05 - 06:12 AM

I'm getting a lift up north (and back) from two friends who happen to be driving to Belfast.
Will be spending Friday morning/afternoon in Trinity College Library,
but should be in Portaferry by nightfall. Or at least, before the last Strangford ferry leaves.

So, are we meeting in Fiddlers' Green that night?

Peter, what's the location of the self-catering place (thanks again for booking) and do I need to bring my own bedlinen?

Now, what to bring for the raffle...Hmmm.

Letty

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 31 Jan 05 - 06:31 AM

I'm not entirely sure where we'll be on the Friday evening... Fiddlers will have its own music on then, amd it'd probably be best to go elsewhere. We can always stay in touch through the use of the ubiquitous mobile phones - I'll email my number to you Letty.

Subject: RE: Loughstock lll
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 31 Jan 05 - 11:26 AM

I don't care who knows my mobile ubiquitous has a number and it's 07739 464742, and if you want make an obscene phone call I'd be eternally gratefull.
Giok