the recovery

[byegad]

Yes, but then who is going to take me on a recuperative joliday to the Carry Bean?

Hope you noted how we diplomatically ignored your greed and self centred outlook until now. Just in time to ruin your crimble.

 

[markg0vbr]

Hope you noted how we diplomatically ignored your greed and self centred outlook until now. Just in time to ruin your crimble.

the obvious concern for my well being is hart warming; besides if it is good enough for the local clowncillors, to go on "fact finding trips" all over the place all expenses paid, i think a personal assistant/nurse should be allowed to lay on a sun drenched beach for 3 to 5 weeks.

you have paper money! i am still the guardian of the family groats, danegilt and lead pigs.

i did not go for a ride today as the rain was so pesistant i think breathing would have been hardlaying on my back

i am presently researching compresd air driven engines for use with velomobiles; there is a very good rotary design the full size one is only 6kg plus air bottle, a motor to give 20% assist to a trike rider would be about .5 to 1kg and could run on as little as 10psi so a air tank would not have to be overly heavy to give reasonable range.
eliminating costly battery's that need replacing after 2 to 3 years of use, the carbon foot print of the air engine would be a lot less than a electric system, it would take seconds to refill the air tank from a compressor rather than 6 to 8 hours for batters.
i need a test pilot to have a go when the first concept velo is up and running.

the negotiations on chaining the contents of the vending mechines on the second floor; talks have stalled again and both sides have agreed to start talks again on the return after xmas, the lack of progress has been firmly blamed on the lack of hobnobs and fecundity of kitkat.
all is still on track for world domination expect a press release over the new year

 

[markg0vbr]

Your Grandson is 60 ??

you are talking about a man of 97 and dose not look a day over 400.

 

[markg0vbr]

i think i have descoverd why the frogs are becoming extinct it is not the fungus! they are just so tasty you know you should stop at one leg but you cant; any way they would just hop around in circles all the time and that would be cruelty.

 

[byegad]

I could power on of those without a separate reservoir! Just need some John Smith's and beans for tea the day before the ride.

As for ancestral funds, we still have the Ox-Hides my ancestors carried back from Mycenae. Apparently we were a cast of warrior nomads a sort of gun for hire, long before the gonne was invented. Sadly a few decades back HSBC refused to store them in their Vaults, something about Foot in Mouth disease. So we have them in the coal house where they don't stink the house out. Mad Byegad The Slightly Bad, sometime in the 1700s took up piracy following a successful hijack of the Humber Ferry, so we also have Pieces of Eight, Pieces of Nine and Pieces of Ten, inflation was very bad in the mid part of the century!

Speicher hasn't replied so maybe she's sold her body to a Sugar Daddy and gone to Carry Bean wherever it wants to go. Either that or she's in the under-stair cupboard sobbing broken heartedly because I pointed out her selfishness in wanting Cosmo to take her for a jolly holi' in warmer parts.

 

[byegad]

i think i have descoverd why the frogs are becoming extinct it is not the fungus! they are just so tasty you know you should stop at one leg but you cant; any way they would just hop around in circles all the time and that would be cruelty.

This puts the lie to your story of woe regarding your 'poorly' leg. We now know that the dreaded West Riding Cannibals have reappeared after more than 100 years of obscurity. Tell the truth lad, you were cooked on Ilkley Moor, weren't you? Speak up. Where has't tha' been?

 

[byegad]

This is my last post before inebriation the festive spirits sets in Happy Crimbo to all our readers and 'May the Farce' be with you.​

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Cheers everybody.​

 

[Speicher]

The turkey is in the oven, the cat is asleep under the tree. Parcels are wrapped, and one may be unwrapped later.

Merrie Christmas to every peeps.

 

[markg0vbr]

being a traditionalist i am following the how to guide pasted down through the family written by my slightly dubious ancestor on my mothers side, Izicue xackeryer, Anglo-Saxon celebrations were all new to him so he went at them in methodical manner .
to this day we traditionally put the sprouts on to simmer in mid October, we have bits of sheep* with a gefüllter Fisch (gefilte fish) on a bed of sauerkraut and the centre piece is a goose stuffed with pigeon and rabbit.**

tomorrow i may have a not stand up in the afternoon , with a small glass of stout, followed by a rousing game of hide the remote control, mince pie wrap around and new sock fondling.



*best not described but they specificily are bits of what would have been rams.
**i believe he got things a bit mixed up

i am now a practising limpest and after 11 months getting quite good at it .

 

[byegad]

The turkey is in the oven, the cat is asleep under the tree. Parcels are wrapped, and one may be unwrapped later.

Merrie Christmas to every peeps.

Mmmm! Speicher old chapess, Are you sure? I can smell singing fur and isn't that a pool of near freezing liquid under the tree?


Roast cat. Is that a German tradition?

 

[markg0vbr]

xmas trees were coursed by the Germans, Victoria and Albert had a bit to do with it.

there is a problem with the traditional "kids wobbling about on new bikes thing " it is excruciatingly windy!
it is a fantastic event but after 3 to 5 days i have a steady stream of my lads friends coming around to ether put there bikes together correctly or set them up properly.
every thing from brakes not working to front forks back to front! mostly it is setting up the gears and seat hight ect.

 

[n-ick]

Yo and a Ho Ho FestiveCosmiosis,
tha's got into T'spirit of t'occasion.
By bidding early on Ukranian ebay, Spud has secured a small armed ICBM.It looks a bit rusty, but the gyroscope and Sekonda timer seem ok.
We are hoping for delivery in the New Year and have got programming instructions for delivery. Would you like it re-sprayed before delivery?
Hoping that your New Year starts ( and finishes) with a bang.

 

[markg0vbr]

the sprouts could have done with another week of simmering they were a bit aldenta for my liking.

i only stoped using the model rocket motor i was experimenting with because of the noise there was no way i could get away with it mr plod would have had no problem hearing me a mile away plus the 4 feet of flame coming out the back was a bit of a tell-tale. so the icbm might be a bit of over kill

i have yet to have a problem troting the dogs down the road at the side of the trike which i thought i would get for sure.

yesterday while on my ride i came across two horse riders on the main road one look at my big cat and they were all over the place, so i puled over to the right hand side of the road to give them plenty of room; this is when the cars coming toward us decided gosh it would be jolly to floor the gas and go between the trike and the horses one of the cars had a ridiculously loud exhaust fitted as well. the riders did manage to keep the dog meat just under control but it was a close run thing.
the forses of darkness have once again failed in there atempt to save on giving me my gilt edged pension**

there have been some setbacks on the hole world domination thing as i think the naiboure hood watch are on to me, the secret lab* was under covert covert surveillance from number 5's pigeons ,one was definitely watching me as i was trying to split a atom*** this is covered in the first section of the book as you need WOMD's or pretend WOMD's to start on the road to world domination; it is sadly laking on the finer detail as to how to do this though.
i am also lacking man/woman**** power, as yet i have only 4 minions two of which are dogs and two xbox addicts.

*shed painted green
**aparently acording to the tabloids, i will be undeservingly fithy rich when i retire
***i failed in this endeavour, even though i had a very sharp chisel.
****equal opportunity directive amend um 34c paragraph 4, despot ruler union guide lines book one, despotisom for the beginner.

 

[Speicher]

Having roast Turkey and opening pressies on Christmas Eve is a German tradition. Roast cat is probably a Russian tradition, started by my maternal great grandfather, but I find it makes a very big mess, and the neighbours get upset.

 

[byegad]

Well I hope it was a Purrfect meal. Fur enough?

On the subject of German Xmas traditions our best man is a German chap who taught German and French in England for nearly 30 years. After being diagnosed with MS he retired and went home to Germany. He was the life and soul of many an English party and his Xmas and Birthday bashes were great to attend.

He wrote to me after his first Xmas in Germany in 30 years. He'd been invited to a cousin's house where they'd had a traditional meal with one glass of wine and a very small schnapps, before sitting in silence for 3 hours and then going home. He really misses English Xmases even now 15 years later.