Good morning Buddies 
Overcast, breezy but not to cold 
The sun keeps making an appearance then dashes off again 
Have a super day everyone
Well it ain't Willie Nelson here Moons 
That'll shock the southern viewers.
Hope all are well as usual
Channel hopping over lunch and found a film called "The Quick and the Dead" on the Great Movies Action channel being shown in their western slot. According to the programme guide and the Radio Times it's a 1987 western starring Sam Elliott.
It's clearly not that as the film being shown is a black and white film and is an American WW2 war film. Doesn't have Sam Elliott in. Film of no interest to me, Fairly certain it's the 1953 war film of that name. Leads of that film were Victor French (was in the series "Little House on the Prairie" and later reunited with Michael Landon in "Highway to Heaven") and Majel Barrett (Nurse Christine Chapel in the original Star Trek series and also providing the voice of the computer on later series & films)
@velvet donkey posted:Well it ain't Willie Nelson here Moons
Hope all are well as usual
All's well here and I hope likewise for you
There is some blue sky here but plenty of clouds as well 
@El Loro posted:Channel hopping over lunch and found a film called "The Quick and the Dead" on the Great Movies Action channel being shown in their western slot. According to the programme guide and the Radio Times it's a 1987 western starring Sam Elliott.
It's clearly not that as the film being shown is a black and white film and is an American WW2 war film. Doesn't have Sam Elliott in. Film of no interest to me, Fairly certain it's the 1953 war film of that name. Leads of that film were Victor French (was in the series "Little House on the Prairie" and later reunited with Michael Landon in "Highway to Heaven") and Majel Barrett (Nurse Christine Chapel in the original Star Trek series and also providing the voice of the computer on later series & films)
I shed many a tear over that show 
@El Loro posted:I never saw that series when it was shown, I was living with my parents then and they didn't watch it. I would have been studying for my accountancy exams then
I was in my last years at boarding school..
All us girls would sit in the front row seats of the common room to watch....blubbing
Whilst the boys would jeer at us from the back...heartless lot!
@slimfern posted:I was in my last years at boarding school..
All us girls would sit in the front row seats of the common room to watch....blubbing
Whilst the boys would jeer at us from the back...heartless lot!
I left school at the end of the 5th year choosing not to go in the 6th. A good school but the class I was in had some unpleasant people in. The colour of the uniform was light blue for the 1st to 5th years and dark blue for the 6th, One of the boys decided to mark this by using a knife to slash the blue jackets in the changing room in the last week I was there. He didn't realise that the headmaster had the power to decide who did and who did not go into the 6th. So he was effectively expelled.
@El Loro posted:I left school at the end of the 5th year choosing not to go in the 6th. A good school but the class I was in had some unpleasant people in. The colour of the uniform was light blue for the 1st to 5th years and dark blue for the 6th, One of the boys decided to mark this by using a knife to slash the blue jackets in the changing room in the last week I was there. He didn't realise that the headmaster had the power to decide who did and who did not go into the 6th. So he was effectively expelled.
He sounds a horrid individual El 
We had prefects to sort out those that didn't toe the line...
I was a prefect 
@velvet donkey posted:I was a prefect
The Perfect Prefect 
@velvet donkey posted:That is probably true
Apart from a Honda CB200.
That you rode?
or borrowed 
Pongo's. He had given in by then too.
We got Breakfast in America on first day of release.
@velvet donkey posted:Pongo's. He had given in by then too.
We got Breakfast in America on first day of release.
Supertramp....brilliant album
I have their Anthology
@velvet donkey posted:Pongo's. He had given in by then too.
We got Breakfast in America on first day of release.
We had a large building client in Bristol and would drive there each day down the motorway. The driver obviously loved that album as I listened to that every day for several weeks
It was. The album cover has one of the band reading The Glasgow Herald
Superior outfit Don't think they do Youtube though.
A smiley says El did
night EL slim moonsieee velvet
Good morning everyone it's raining at the moment but we should get some sunny intervals later.
Enjoy your day everyone 
Medieval tiled floor uncovered in Gloucester near where the figurine of Venus was found last September:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...cestershire-60233563
I have been told by my brother that an established crime novelist is intending to write his next detective story around the discovery of that figurine. Wouldn't be fair to say who as he might change his mind but it's not Richard Osman.
@El Loro posted:Medieval tiled floor uncovered in Gloucester near where the figurine of Venus was found last September:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...cestershire-60233563I have been told by my brother that an established crime novelist is intending to write his next detective story around the discovery of that figurine. Wouldn't be fair to say who as he might change his mind but it's not Richard Osman.
Thatâs quite a find El
Are you sure itâs not Richard Osmon or is that a red herring?
@El Loro posted:Medieval tiled floor uncovered in Gloucester near where the figurine of Venus was found last September:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...cestershire-60233563I have been told by my brother that an established crime novelist is intending to write his next detective story around the discovery of that figurine. Wouldn't be fair to say who as he might change his mind but it's not Richard Osman.
Remarkably well preserved
Is the 'Whitefriars' name related to the glass vases etc that we see occasionally on the antique shows do you know El?
We've had our own little unearthing recently here in Devon
https://www.theguardian.com/sc...-devon-building-site
@slimfern posted:Remarkably well preserved
Is the 'Whitefriars' name related to the glass vases etc that we see occasionally on the antique shows do you know El?
We've had our own little unearthing recently here in Devon
https://www.theguardian.com/sc...-devon-building-site
I heard about that unearthing in Devon on the radio
There is a sort of connection regarding the Whitefriars name. One of the main orders of monks was the White Friars. That was a Carmelite order. One of their monasteries was at the site in Gloucester. Another was in the Fleet Street area of London where what is now called "Whitefriars Street" is. A glass company used to have its premises in that street so called itself Whitefriars Glass back in the 17th century.
@El Loro posted:I heard about that unearthing in Devon on the radio
There is a sort of connection regarding the Whitefriars name. One of the main orders of monks was the White Friars. That was a Carmelite order. One of their monasteries was at the site in Gloucester. Another was in the Fleet Street area of London where what is now called "Whitefriars Street" is. A glass company used to have its premises in that street so called itself Whitefriars Glass back in the 17th century.
Thanks El
The original Whitefriars site was located close to the River Thames. This meant that sand, clay, coal and other materials used in the glass making process could easily be transported to the Factory. This useful location had previously been a monastery of the Carmelite Fathers (founded in 1241), whose white habits earned the monks the nickname âWhite Friarsâ.
It's always interesting to learn where a name comes from...although I do find the actual glass pieces rather ghastly
I don't fancy being a monk. That's going back plenty years.
I see that as a feck life and tbh I get their point.
There's still something unsettling in that for me.
Anyway A1 not M6
@velvet donkey posted:I don't fancy being a monk. That's going back plenty years.
I see that as a feck life and tbh I get their point.
There's still something unsettling in that for me.
Anyway A1 not M6
Me neither...especially of the Buddhist kind
Hi Velvet
@El Loro posted:Medieval tiled floor uncovered in Gloucester near where the figurine of Venus was found last September:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...cestershire-60233563I have been told by my brother that an established crime novelist is intending to write his next detective story around the discovery of that figurine. Wouldn't be fair to say who as he might change his mind but it's not Richard Osman.
love the tiled floor amazing
@slimfern posted:Remarkably well preserved
Is the 'Whitefriars' name related to the glass vases etc that we see occasionally on the antique shows do you know El?
We've had our own little unearthing recently here in Devon
https://www.theguardian.com/sc...-devon-building-site
Interesting find Slim
@El Loro posted:I heard about that unearthing in Devon on the radio
There is a sort of connection regarding the Whitefriars name. One of the main orders of monks was the White Friars. That was a Carmelite order. One of their monasteries was at the site in Gloucester. Another was in the Fleet Street area of London where what is now called "Whitefriars Street" is. A glass company used to have its premises in that street so called itself Whitefriars Glass back in the 17th century.
interesting knowing where names originate from ELI like some glass pieces especially Murano glass