The Fridays Tour

[srw]

Blow the wind southerly, southerly, southerly,
Blow the wind south o'er the bonny blue sea;
Blow the wind southerly, southerly, southerly,
Blow bonnie breeze, my lover to me.

I offer line two in evidence. On the other hand a ship sailing into Newcastle is likely to have been fishing somewhere further south.

I don't remember the North Sea off Northumberland being particularly bonny or blue...

(Am I guilty of taking things too literally?)

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I offer line two in evidence. On the other hand a ship sailing into Newcastle is likely to have been fishing somewhere further south.

I don't remember the North Sea off Northumberland being particularly bonny or blue...

(Am I guilty of taking things too literally?)

Fishing? From Newcastle? Why no, bonny lad.

More likely she's warbling on about a collier taking sea coals to London and comin' hyem.

 

[srw]

"Ye shall have a little fishy, on a little dishy, whan the boot comes hoom."

Apologies for the accent - after 38 years down south it's a bit rusty.

 

[clarion]

Well, it ain't fishing, cause the lyrics also mention a barque.

 

[StuAff]

light and lissome is best, like your good self, Gregster!

I did think about taking the Trek for this, could have gone for rack & panniers then, and it's got mudguards too, but it's going to be the Viner and really big but lightly packed rucksack..

 

[ianrauk]

I did think about taking the Trek for this, could have gone for rack & panniers then, and it's got mudguards too, but it's going to be the Viner and really big but lightly packed rucksack..

 

[dellzeqq]

Stu

concentrate

 

[StuAff]

Sorry, that won't fit.....

 

[GrumpyGregry]

"Ye shall have a little fishy, on a little dishy, whan the boot comes hoom."

Apologies for the accent - after 38 years down south it's a bit rusty.

Northumberland isn't Newcastle!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

light and lissome is best, like your good self, Gregster!

weight wise there is naff all to choose between the two...

 

[mmmmartin]

hyem.

remind me to witter on at great length when pissed about what a lovely language Norwegian is, and how it almost identical to English, with just a different accent, and how many of the words are the same.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

remind me to witter on at great length when pissed about what a lovely language Norwegian is, and how it almost identical to English, with just a different accent, and how many of the words are the same.

I'm told the resemblance between Norwegian and pitmatic is even more marked.

 

[rvw]

Ply her with enough cider and our very own contralto may be willing to serenade us atop a Northumbrian hill.

(And would it be excessively pedantic to point out that a wind that blows southerly may actually be a wind from the north?)

southerly - definition of southerly by the Free Online Dictionary ...

www.thefreedictionary.com/southerly
south·er·ly (s r-l ). adj. 1. Situated toward the south. 2. Coming or being from the south: southerly winds. n. pl. south·er·lies. A storm or wind coming from the south.

I should probably request the cider after the serenade rather than before - buy me enough and I won't sing it again...

 

[srw]

Well, it ain't fishing, cause the lyrics also mention a barque.

William Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine defined "bark", as "a general name given to small ships: it is however peculiarly appropriated by seamen to those which carry three masts without a mizen top-sail. Our northern mariners, who are trained in the coal-trade, apply this distinction to a broad-sterned ship, which carries no ornamental figure on the stem or prow."[2]

....says wikipedia. Yes - stand down one and all - Kathleen can hymn us.

 

[StuartG]

And here's the same anthem after two scoopfuls of sugar and a jerrycan of syrup ... Yuk!