Knockholt 2009 dates

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 07:17 PM

Mary has a little lamb
She also had a duck
She put them on the mantlepiece
To see if they would fall off

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: GUEST,Pete the Hat
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 06:21 PM

Mary had a little Sheep.
And with this sheep,
She went to sleep.
The sheep turned out to be a Ram.
And Mary Had.......A little Lamb.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: fisheye
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 05:24 AM

We may be going to Mr.M's folk club at Robin Hood Bay over the Xmas holidays. Perhaps I could ask if he has any tips re our Sheep problem at Knockholt. I did ask Mr.Nelson (Willie), but he suggested Long Horns...I did not think they would go down well with the campers.
So other that Pigs I think we are lumbered.

Fisheye

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 05:23 PM

More sheep ? Martin Carthy seems to be into young ones
Looking for Lambs

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 07:58 AM

Horray at last my Mandolin sounds like a Mandolin thanks to Keith Ferris of folkmob.
even the Cat noticed the differemce instead of fleeing in sheer terror at the sound of the mandolin he sat down and look up enquiringly at me has if to say ! MEOW THATS BETTER.

UPON CLOSER INSPECTION OF THE DEVICE WE FOUND THAT THE TUNING METHOD i WAS USEING WAS CORRECT,( Sorry to the Edjit in the shop I take aback calling you that,) and indeed the instument was not far out, The trouble was the Bridge was completely skee wiff and the line of the strings along the neck of the Mandolin was completely out of line.
PRACTICALLY HAS IT WAS IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO TUNE.

cONSIDERING THE CHAP IN THE SHOP TOLD me that the instument had been set up i again take abaxk calling him a Ejit and replace it with The Deciving Edjit in the shop.

Richard Bridge you were right a few threads back I quote.

Thats if they know how to do a set up?


now I can really go to it with the Mando0lin and pratish like mad.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 19 Nov 08 - 07:25 PM

More sheep

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 07:37 PM

No I am tuning the Guitar E.The thin 1 to the Mandolin Es,Thin ones By my guitar tuner. I then tune the Mandolin As to the A on Guitar Tuner.
Then Mandolin Ds to D on guitar tuner AND FINALLY I tune the mandolin Gs The Thick ones to the G on the guitar tuner. I aint doing nothing on the 5th or 7th, Any way thanks for concern but getting Keith Ferris tuition Re the above Par-larva Wed at folkmob. Once I know how to tune it properly I will be away.

The bridge is also ajastable by raising and lowering little wheels but I aint touching them has it was set up prior to me recieving it 2nd time.
Thanks again folks, I only go on the internet aT WORK
AND CAUSE i do shift work I am on rest days for the next 4 days be back on Internet Sunday.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: GUEST,woodsie
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 06:57 PM

He's tuning the G string to the top E on guitar ( that'sand then upwards for the rest - thats why they're breaking - highly strung as Pete says.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: GUEST,woodsie
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 06:53 PM

Yes you are right. It exactly the same but Pete is having probs so lets see him thurs. hic ...

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 05:54 PM

There is also the sheep screensaver - in fact since I last looked there seem to be many. I will make a list when I get time.

Woodsie. isn't what Pete said

Thin to thick EADG

the same as wot ewe said

Thick to thin GDAE???

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: GUEST,Charlie Watts,
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 05:23 PM

Hey my friend Mick Jagger said

"Hey you get off My Cloud"

Knockholt camper RB said.
Hey Macloud. Get off my EWE

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: GUEST,Pete the hat
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 05:09 PM

This thread has gone Sheep, Bloody Mad.""
I Think we should all go and have our brains tested.


Mooooooooooooooooooooove Said the Cow
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalocks Said the sheep.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 03:48 PM

busting a gut on the sheep software. excellent

looking forward to hearing the new song. composers forward please.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: GUEST,Girl Friday sans cookie
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 03:21 PM

Now a poem by Steve O'Kane for Trevor... sheep related.

There once was a rather large Leopard,
who said to a very small shepherd;
"I'm partial to Spam,
but I'd rather have Lamb,
not to play with...
but salted and peppered".

The shepherd said "don't be too hasty;
I know that my Lamb's rather tasty,
but it's mostly all fat;
(that's not good for a cat,)
think of what it might do to your waisty"

The leopard, (whose first name was Trevor)
said "Don't you start tryin' to be clever,
I can eat all I wish;
put it there on my dish,
and I'll still be as light as a fevver!"

Well, the Leopard he carried on eating,
(despite the accompanying bleating!)
at the Roadkill Cafe
he was munching all day;
(a belch was his favourite greeting)

He'd roll up a fag with some 'baccy,
it might have been normal... or whacky,
but it all made his blood,
somewhat sticky...(like mud)
.....(...and it's hard to pump blood when it's tacky.)

So one day his heart said "I'm tired.
this isn't the reason I'm hired!"
I don't mind a job
but it's making me sob..
I could rest if the bugger expired!"

So by way of a delicate warning,
the heart had a rest-break next morning;
when the Leopard came to,
he was there in the zoo
in the birthday suit spots he was born in!

The vets say he ought to get better,
but he must heed their words to the letter,
so to help him to sleep, he no longer counts sheep!

but he cheats,
and counts cheeses like Feta!

Tune anyone?

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: GUEST,Girl Friday sans cookie
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 03:18 PM

Just came across this
Sheep Software

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: GUEST,Pete the hat
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 01:49 PM

Thanks very much Melodeonboy.

I really had no idea ,tuning of the Mandolin is my objective at the moment. I aint seen me Cat since Tuesday. Cheers Mate.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: Girl Friday
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 12:47 PM

Steve O'Kane has just asked me to put a poem on the mudcat about trev so have put it on the tdl thread.

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: melodeonboy
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 03:46 AM

"but who [plays the blues on a Mandolin?"

Yank Rachell and Ry Cooder come to mind, Pete. The mandolin was a very significant instrument in the earlier days of blues. Here's an extract from a mandolin blues website:


"Although little-heard on commercial recordings after the 1940s, the mandolin played a significant role in the history of blues, with its first use probably dating back as far as that of the more familiar guitar. Throughout the '20s and '30s, the distinctive sound of this little instrument could be heard throughout the South and showed up on several recordings. A number of musicians continued to play and perform blues on the mandolin into the '60s . Today there is raising a new interest in the Mandolin Blues with some very cool mandolin players ( well actually guitar players with cool mandolin skills )."

Good luck with it, mate!

Subject: RE: Knockholt 2009 dates
From: GUEST,Pete The Hat
Date: 17 Nov 08 - 05:35 PM

Im Tone Deaf I cannot do anything like that by ear. Whats all this about the 7th Woodsie.
I dont doubt you, but the chap in the shop[ said tune it to your guitar tuner? I tune him to me guitar tuner when I catch up with him the bloody edjit. nothing stright forward. I take it to the club on Wednesday and see if someone can show me first hand the tuning. The chords and the notes are no problem changes are easy .well apart from A and E. but who [plays the blues on a Mandolin?
Thanks Woodsie. Par-larva

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 ...

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,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: 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: 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: 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: GUEST,woodsie
Date: 17 Nov 08 - 11:59 AM

Or even The pink Fairies "Pigs Of Uranus"

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: VirginiaTam
Date: 17 Nov 08 - 10:12 AM

Wow! Did you have Laugh In here in UK?

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: 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,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: 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: 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: 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 - 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 - 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 - 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 14 Nov 08 - 12:53 PM

Well that is better than the inflatable one. Snerk.

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: 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: 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: 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).