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[Locheelad]

Sorry to hear that Neil - we will drink your share !

Gunners it is - just waiting on the bold boy Mr Hart confirming arrangements etc

Bob

[KOF]

Cheers, Neil.

I wasn't planning on coming up to Dundoo till the afternoon, but... what time and where for the WFA thing? I'll see if I can come up a little earlier.

Cheers

Colin

[George Armstrong Custer]

Black Watch, on 06 December 2011 - 08:10 PM, said:

Not sure how much I will be participating on Saturday, recently had a little trip in an ambulance and an overnight stay in Ninewells. Feeling not so bad now but I doubt if I could handle a heavy session.

Cheers

Neil

Jeezy peeps, I've heard some excuses for getting out of buying a round but that gets full marks for inventiveness, Neil!  

George

[Black Watch]

Its in The Glassite Hall Kof, at the bottom of King street/top of St Andrews St. 2.00 for 2:30 kick off.

Not sure if I'll make the night out but looks like I'm only allowed to go if I take the car . Think its disgraceful my wife is encouraging me to drink and drive.

[jlang]

Hi Neil

Sorry hear about your trip to Ninewells by ambulance.  Great way to avoid the parking charges and another health issue to add to the list earlier.  I should be at the WFA meeting and will have some stuff for you for planning your trip. I'm not sure I'll make the evening do as my wife has pneumonia.  However, if I do there would be two of us avoiding alcohol.  I'm sure the others will make up for it, as usual.

Cheers, Jim

[Locheelad]

Evening all, (said Dixon of Dock Green)

Tied up the arrangements with Pete.

Beers on Saturday night - kicking off The Gunners.

However Pete is also up for a few pints(yes only a few) Friday night.

Meet therefore in The fishermans if you are about Friday at 9.00 but ...... only a few !!

bob

[PMHart]

Hi chums,

Looking forward to a spot of missionary work in Pictish Scotland this weekend - Bryn told me to say that - I don't know what he means myself! My thanks to Bob and Julia who are arranging everything with tip-top efficiency! I hope to be in the Fisherman's Friend from 21.00 on Friday and of course in the Gunners on King Street from 20.00 on Saturday. Have got a great Second World War Leading Torpedoman from HMS Belfast, 1942-1945 to interview for the IWM - he might well have helped finish off the Scharnhorst! Hope to catch up with all my chums and George tells me he wants to take me for a little walk along the banks of the Silvery Tay - doubtless part of his fitness programme in an effort to reduce his gross obesity!

Pete

[dundeesown]

George,Fitness,Not two words that go together.
and who`s the lucky fishermans friend ?     George is that why you hang around the banks o the tay  
see ya setirday.
Gary.

[George Armstrong Custer]

Nobody likes you, Peter.

[jlang]

Pete

Don't be fooled. George reputably has a bad knee, so I expect he exercised his brain and worked out a walk which should involve visiting premises to change money into wine with minimal walking between them.  This also minimises the chances of getting lost or falling over.  The distance walked also depends on which learning curve he is on, the circle (as in going round in) or the u (as in u turns when he forgets the way).  

By the way, for softies from East Finchley, the weather forecast is for temperatures around 0 C with a cooling wind.

Jim

[PMHart]

Hi Jim,
For reasons lost in the mists of time George and I are not allowed to drink wine 'in company' any more! It's girlie lager for him and rough manly bitter for me!

I ought to point out it was snowing in Shap - Cumbria - as I strolled across the fells last Sunday morning (actually just after I strolled!) so I am in training for your far northern climes!

By the way I suspect it is indeed George's wounded knee that has made the great man even greater in stature recently, much akin to his hero Elvis Presley before his last bloated decline and tragic toilet-related death. I feel it is this bitter self-knowledge that has made George so uncharacteristically terse in acknowledging my cheery posts here tonight!

(Fool) Hardy Pete

[George Armstrong Custer]

PMHart, on 07 December 2011 - 11:12 PM, said:

George's wounded knee

Bury My Hart At Wounded Knee could well be the newspaper headlines about what happens on Saturday.....

[jlang]

Ah, does George have h(e)art  problems?

[George Armstrong Custer]

Heart's ok, but Hart can be a problem after about six pints.

George

[Ian Robertson]

Locheelad, on 06 December 2011 - 08:21 PM, said:

Sorry to hear that Neil - we will drink your share !



Bob

Christ Bob, there's only going to be 6 or so of us there; nae way we'll manage ALL Neil's share!
BTW just to confirm I'll be there at 8.30P.M. sharp!
I'll not be at the talk tomorrow (apparently it is only some geezer blathering on about boats or something) as I'll be at the magnificent stadium that is Dens park to see the Dark Blue Dandies give these queens from the south a damned good thrashing!

[George Armstrong Custer]

Well tonight's test run went OK - Bob was limbering up well to take advantage of an abstemious night by Neil tomorrow night.

BTW, I have a tie with teddy bears floating under bunches of balloons, which more than once has been mistaken for a Dundee FC tie. Must be the balloons.

George

[Ian Robertson]

George, what you have is the DFC (ex)Board of Directors, Callum Melville/Bob Brannen edition of the tie. Like them the balloons are full of gas, puncture quite easily and in stormy circumstances have the tendency to drift off at a great rate of knots leaving carnage far behind!
Ian

[KOF]

I'm just setting off to drive to Dundee.

I'll see you chaps at Gunners!


Cheers

Colin (KOF)

[George Armstrong Custer]

Well that's me just in from Saturday night - many thanks to Ian for the overnight accommodation in the Ferry! What a great night last night, really enjoyed the company - quite like old times. Colin from the Borders was quite dreddful enough to immediately become one of the gang. Nice to see Neil totally disregarding his doctor's orders - I hope he's still with us this morning, or I'll feel a twinge of guilt for egging him on. And Hart will be on his train headed south by now - so all is well with the world. Hopefully we'll arrange another night in the not too distant future.

George

[KOF]

And that's me home now too.

A grand night out and good to meet the lads and put some faces to the avatars.

Also, Gunners is a fabby pub. 70 shilling AND Tartan Special on tap! Fantastic!

As a wise man once said, !I'll be back!"

Cheers

Colin (KOF)

[dundeesown]

Another great night lads and it was nice to meet you Colin.(thanks for J.D.)
Gary

[Locheelad]

Great stuff yesterday.

Pete was brill, Man utd are back on form and all the mince pies at the meeting were scoffed.

Great turn out for Pete at the meeting.

As usual my apols for going home earlyish but i cant handle multi pints these days and had a big day on today like going to buy a christmas tree at Birkhill.Sheer nonsense but heh i do what i'm told

Dont know - maybe a few pints over christmas ?

Bob

[jlang]

Hi

A great  talk yesterday by Pete and it's good he been asked back again, and accepted.   Hope all last nights Ferryites are OK today.

Jim

[jlang]

Hi George,

This week's St Andrews Citizen has a bit about 25 years ago.  "....more than 800 people flocked to see a13-minute silent film of St Andrews in the late 1910s and early 1920s... The film came from the Scottish Film Archive and was made up of newsreel clippings... showing scenes of Douglas Haig being installed as rector of the university."  have you seen it?

Jim

[PMHart]

Hi chums,

I'm really grateful to Bob and Julia for organising what - for me - was a great weekend! Wonderful hosts and Polly likes the bottle of whisky kindly donated by the branch! Hooray! But also a special word for George Webster with regard to his wonderfully evocative vote of thanks at the end of the Tayside WFA meeting. I was almost in tears at his moving words of both tribute and homage to my goodself from my trusty water-carrier! I could see it was causing him actual physical pain but he stuck to it manfully!

Not forgetting also the two great nights in the pubs of lovely Broughty Ferry - good to see so many of you Taysiders last night. Colin by the way is a superhero!

Pete