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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: GUEST Date: 11 Feb 02 - 07:10 PM Morty is a bit of a babe, isn't she? |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Snuffy Date: 11 Feb 02 - 07:07 PM Wonderful, wonderful weekend. Many thanks to Dai for arranging it all and staying calm amongst all the Mudcat and domestic hassle. You'll have to stop this, Morty. Homeless kittens at Llanstock; orphan kazoos at Stony; what next? I arrived home with two - I bought one from Steve, thenm won one in the raffle because someone had already snaffled the Rod Shearman CD. But alnww has promised a good(?) home for one of them. BTW, when is the next scheduled performance of AIMKO (Anglo-Irish Mudcat Kazoo Orchestra)? WassaiL! V
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Morticia Date: 11 Feb 02 - 06:53 PM I appear to have come home with two kazoos....now either the little buggers are breeding or I have inadvertantly acquired a hitch-hiker.....anyone missing a small but perfectly formed little metal feller please apply, for restoration of same. |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Cllr Date: 11 Feb 02 - 05:14 PM Just to add my thanks to Dai. It was great to be able to put some names to faces.I look forward to the next one.Cllr |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Diva Date: 11 Feb 02 - 04:41 PM The malt was most pleasant..as for the rest..my lips are sealed Diva |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Micca Date: 11 Feb 02 - 04:35 PM Ah, what a wonderful w/e and many thanks to Dai,(I see why he has the appelation The one and Only) I would also sincerly like to thank the venues, esp. the Crown,and most of all, the participants, give your selves a cheer, I loved Adrians stories!! a true master of his craft,and the many who sang and played and it was good to add to the collection of names and faces,,, (sorry about the Gladiator song Squirelling Fib,) It was a pleasure to meet you and Ella too I Very rarely win anything in raffles, but was pleasently surprised to win 3 in this one, as a group they form a strange but revealing little group and are 1.......A bottle of Single Malt Whisky 2 ......A Genuine metal Kazoo 3 ......A Roll of Duct( Gaffer) Tape Suggestios for possible uses of all 3 items at the same time on a postcard to me please..
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Diva Date: 11 Feb 02 - 04:23 PM I am just home...superb weekend...just such fun to meet up with friends old and new. Next year I will run the how to sleep in a session workshop.......blush Diva |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Gareth Date: 11 Feb 02 - 04:00 PM I Have just E-Mailed the Minutes of the Foundation meeting of the Friends of the Mudcat out to all who's Email addresses I had or could decipher. If anybody who wanted or needed same, and who did not receive it please PM me with your Email address. Gareth |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Dead Horse Date: 11 Feb 02 - 03:46 PM "Liz the Squeak who appears to have lost a co. Does anyone have an idea what the missing letters are from that last word?"
lostomy bag? |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Liz the Squeak Date: 11 Feb 02 - 03:37 PM Well, as promised, here are the winning numbers that weren't collected on Saturday night. You have to imagine a fanfare of kazoos between each one..... 35 70 228 267 277 and I think 177. I say I think, because I'm convinced the owner of this came forward, and chose a prize there and then..... if not, then it's a good job Eric wasn't there to collect his present, it will go in the prize pool. Prizes are: a bottle of bubbly, a bottle of beer, another bottle of beer, a Bert Hansell CD, a tin of Hawick balls and something else. Thanks to everyone who took part, either donating a prize, buying a ticket or being very patient whilst I called out 30 numbers with kazoo accompaniment!! It raised over £100, all profit for Mudcat. The kazoo workshop did actually happen, just not all in the same room at the same time.... they were a major part of the raffle as you've heard, participated in several of the tunes and songs and even shut Micca up! LTS
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Ferret Date: 11 Feb 02 - 03:22 PM Just a quick thanks you to all who came to stony Stratford for a grate weekend. And a special thanks to Dai for all the hard work. See you got on the cat then adrian_o, welcome aboard. All the best ferret |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: adrian_o_stories Date: 11 Feb 02 - 02:46 PM Sher it was only fantastic to meet you all at the weekend ,what a wonderful crowd of people. Hope it wont be too long till we meet again down the line. Glad you liked the stories alan (CD out in a couple of weeks -plug)Thank you all for two very enjoyable evenings. Hope youre getting this , having a problem at this end at the moment,didnt uncle Paddy send me the Irish VIRUS (comes with de instructions how to delete all your own files ) adrian_o_stories@hotmail.com |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 11 Feb 02 - 02:38 PM Lost for words? |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: adrian_o_stories Date: 11 Feb 02 - 02:26 PM |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Gareth Date: 11 Feb 02 - 02:24 PM Hmmmm! The Sheep don't complain about my snoring !!! Gareth |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Manitas_at_home Date: 11 Feb 02 - 02:00 PM Guest, that could be what's known as Skitt's Law. Invariably any post complaining about grammar, spelling or punctuation will contain at least one such error. However, only personal pronouns are capitalised and a pen name is impersonal. That's my excuse, anyway. |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: The_one_and_only_Dai Date: 11 Feb 02 - 11:56 AM Who's Tim? ;-) |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Steve Parkes Date: 11 Feb 02 - 11:55 AM It's a shame the kazoo workshop was cancelled, although I appreciate how important the Friends of Mudcat meeting was that replaced it; I was looking forward to presenting an interim report on my on-going research into kazoo history. Maybe if I get tim to type it up, I'll post it--if anyone's interested? Steve |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: GUEST Date: 11 Feb 02 - 07:54 AM I'm sorry manitas. I will try harder in future. I think that your name should start with a capital M. |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: manitas_at_work Date: 11 Feb 02 - 07:45 AM Dai, Thank you for the wonderful weekend. Steve, If you're going to have a guitar with your name carved into it don't wonder why people know who you are. Guest, When complaining about misuse of punctuation please remember to start your sentences with capitals and end them with full stops.
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: GUEST Date: 11 Feb 02 - 07:26 AM Dave, Your additional verse has already been post. See this thread |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: alanww Date: 11 Feb 02 - 06:52 AM Gee thanks, Dai ... What a wonderful weekend you arranged (but a pity you couldn't take more part in it). I particularly enjoyed meeting friends old and new - and the singing, music and drinking was bloody good too. Special mention must go to The Crown, which was very welcoming (even when they hadn't expected us on Sunday lunchtime) and beer was pretty good aswell. There were so many highlights! But my top two must be the stories of the guest Irish guy (now what was his name?), which were brilliant, as was his delivery and the singing of South Australia at breakneck speed with Kay (Mrs Dead Horse) dancing Appalation on the stage. Well done again, Dai! "Row on, row on another day" ... at Stony Stratford next year! |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: GUEST,brid widder Date: 11 Feb 02 - 06:41 AM What a super weekend...thanks Dai..the chilli was brilli...thanks too to Giok & Gareth for getting me there & back...Giok what was the name of that wonderful concoction in your flask..comiserations to those who couldn´t be there...see you all next time.. |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Dave Bryant Date: 11 Feb 02 - 06:16 AM Apostrophe's (!) are popping up all over - it must have been something in the beer over the weekend. I promised Morticia the final verse to "The Old Dun Cow". As far as I know it was written by Pete Twitchett who used to run the Croydon Folk Club, in days of yore, when it was at "The Waddon". I might as well post it so that anyone else who wants it (Vectis ?) can pick it up. I'll also PM it to Dick Greenhaus to see if he can add it to the DT version. Then all of a sudden, in the firemen rushed, And they saved us one by one. But when they came to save the booze, they found it had all gone. And when the fire was reported, in the papers the next day. They said they found no booze at all - It must have all boiled away ! The fire really did happen many years ago at "The Dun Cow" in The Old Kent Road. It was feared that several drinkers had perished in the fire, until they were found floating in the cellar, which was Half full of water, all in advance states of intoxication. PS. Linda (she'll be using the handle "Smudge" by the way) wants to know how much it's going to cost her to keep the photos out of the "Sunday Sport" etc. - and was Micca really taking a movie ? |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Steve Parkes Date: 11 Feb 02 - 05:32 AM My sister-in-law found a good way to stop my bro snoring. Debbie was complaining to hers-i-l Polly about Neil's nightly nasal nuke attacks, and Polly said her mum had told her to tie a bit of string around Wayne's willy (I kid you not), and it really worked. Well, on Deb's last birthday, Neil and Wayne went out to celebrate (Deb had to look after the kids); Neil came back stocious in the small hours, staggered up to bed leaving his clothes on the stairs, and hit the pillow snorting like a Black 5 going up Shap. Deb was contemplating murder, but remembered what Polly had told her. She couldn't find any string, but spotted the ribbon of one of her pressies, and tied it on as directed. It worked! Next morning, as Neil groped his way into the bathroom for the usual offices, Debbie called out, "Where the [expletive deleted] did you get to last night?" A bemused voice replied, "I dunno--but I won a prize!" |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: GUEST Date: 11 Feb 02 - 05:30 AM Fib, I have to say you look 'most babesome' in McGrath's photos... |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Fibula Mattock Date: 11 Feb 02 - 05:21 AM |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Ella who is Sooze Date: 11 Feb 02 - 05:02 AM nae problem, there were some terrific tankards though wuzn't there! I'd like the chichua (or however you damn well spell it) lyrics PLEASE! Yes, me and Fib were slightly concerned we'd have to utilise our black belt skills (Fibs are archaeology black belt skills) and mine are graphic design black belt skills. But it was all nice and relaxed... Ella |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Fibula Mattock Date: 11 Feb 02 - 04:54 AM Herga Kitty - thanks for posting those lyrics in the other thread by the way! Ella - thanks for the lift. See - it was okay, they weren't the axe-wielding internet psychos we feared they might be, and the beards could've been a lot scarier! Now, time I got back to work, if I can stop humming "I'm glad, glad, very very glad, glad I'm a gladiator...". |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: GUEST,awww blast I'm cookieless too Date: 11 Feb 02 - 04:42 AM That last one was me... sorry.. off to fix me cookie Ella |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: GUEST Date: 11 Feb 02 - 04:40 AM Well, really enjoyed meeting everyone at the gathering, was a really nice gathering. Only sorry I couldn't stay awake longer -the rigours of end of financial year publishing rush and all the extra work I'm doing as a graphic designer, has really wiped out my energy. Top class awards to Jude who got Gareth to stop snoring, and even more top class awards to Dai for organising it all. Had a lovely time, thank you all Ella... aka Suze |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: GUEST Date: 11 Feb 02 - 04:27 AM fishnets doesn't have an apostrophe either... |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Dave Bryant Date: 11 Feb 02 - 04:23 AM Well done Dai and everyone who made Stony such a fun weekend. York House is a great venue - let's have another event - when everyone has recovered from this one ! Thank you Jude for the words of Linda's song and the loan of the whip - well it was a good excuse to get her wearing the basque and fishnet's. Dave |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: GUEST Date: 11 Feb 02 - 04:07 AM [co]okie |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Steve Parkes Date: 11 Feb 02 - 03:46 AM Sory about the thread creep here, but Liz obviously ran out of subject space when she posted as GUEST,Liz the Squeak who appears to have lost a co. Does anyone have an idea what the missing letters are from that last word? Steve |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: The_one_and_only_Dai Date: 11 Feb 02 - 03:35 AM Thanks to everybody for making a great weekend - you're all very charitable. I'm quite impressed that the chilli actually got eaten, well done lads, no ill effects I hope. Thanks to Steve and Lindy at The Crown, now a great pub under their leadership, for hosting the impromptu session on Sunday, well done catters for taking the initiative there. Sorry I couldn't make it, really... Anyway, it was great to meet you all at last, what a splendid bunch of people. Except for alan, who would insist on trying to teach my offspring how to play the concertina... ;-) I suspe3ct I'll never hear the last of that from Will, hehehe... Bob at York House would love to see us all again, but maybe not as soon as April, eh susanne? Thanks to everybody. More Beer next time...? |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Steve Parkes Date: 11 Feb 02 - 03:32 AM JJ, taht poic almost qualifies for "The Man Who Sang 'The Wild Rover' At The Crown", but not quite the right amont of horreur in the expressions. Steve |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Steve Parkes Date: 11 Feb 02 - 03:24 AM What fun! Mrs P now thinks Mudcatters are a bunch of self-indulgent beer-swiling aging hippies. Damnn--I hoped she wouldn't find out! I still haven't worked out who many of you were (although everyone seemed to know who I was, to my great puzzlement). I'll scrutinise the photo's ... I'm sorry I couldn't make it on Sunday, but at least I managed to sing while going about my domestic chores. Steve P.S. There is an apostrophe in "photo's", since it's short for "photographss", so Yah Boo Sucks, Guest! |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: GUEST,JJ Date: 11 Feb 02 - 03:08 AM Thanks a lot for the photos, Kevin. DSCF0011.JPG (bottom right) is certainly one for a caption competition! JJ |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 10 Feb 02 - 09:49 PM "Some locals friendly." Well, I certainly didn't run across any who weren't.
Nice place. Don't forget to remind us of the Stony Stratford mini-festival in June. It's clearly a place with a good local music scene.
And I liked the way in the Sunday session in the Bull all the different types of music hung in together (even if the bar was so crowded that most of the Mudcat singers slipped off for an extra session down the road.) |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: vectis Date: 10 Feb 02 - 09:40 PM A good venue, great company, The Crown extremely welcoming. Some locals friendly. See you all again soon. Thanks Dai for organising it for us. Regards Vectis |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 10 Feb 02 - 09:28 PM I've put a file of the pictures up on a website - no captions, no cropping or processing, What You See Is What You Get - 21 pictures in all: Here is the file index |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Lanfranc Date: 10 Feb 02 - 06:50 PM All the photos I took are disappointingly useless for blackmail purposes. Pity, I was going to donate half the proceeds to Mudcat! Saturday was great, sorry I missed Sunday. Well done, Dai and all! York House was a great venue - those who repaired to pubs only did so out of habit! Will post the piccies of the friends of blue clickies as soon as I figure out how. Any of my raffle tickets, Liz? They're upstairs, but I seem to recall they were in the 190s. Alan |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Gareth Date: 10 Feb 02 - 06:13 PM Oi ! Guest - if you criticise my English, I'll Critisise your Welsh ! Gareth |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Susanne (skw) Date: 10 Feb 02 - 05:34 PM Must have been some party, going by the thread title! Dai, would you mind putting it on again around 17 April, please? I'd definitely be taking part. Susanne (gwe) (= green with envy) |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 10 Feb 02 - 04:49 PM I've got some pictures, too, and I'll stick them in a day or two. |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: GUEST Date: 10 Feb 02 - 04:45 PM There isn't an apostrophe in photos |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Gareth Date: 10 Feb 02 - 04:36 PM Yes I have photo's - The negatives will be for sale, those who think they were compromised may make me an offer! More on the "Friends of the Mudcat" when my brain returns to working order ! (Acute alchol poisening) Gareth
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: GUEST,Julie B at home Date: 10 Feb 02 - 04:27 PM …Wow - what a lovely weekend. The impromptu Sunday afternoon singaround in the Crown (started by overflow refugees from a packed Vaults Bar at The Bull) finally wound up at around 4.30pm. I reached home half an hour later only to find that my other half, Nick, had discovered the hidden bucket of Maltesers (one of my raffle wins); needless to say, the supply is now severely depleted. Never mind; at least I still have my premium haggis to look forward to! Really nice to meet everyone Julie B |
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Subject: RE: After Stony Stratfird From: Herga Kitty Date: 10 Feb 02 - 04:24 PM Thanks Dai! The kazoos were quite overwhelming..... Kitty PS yes it was great to put names to faces |
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