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Post by theatreian on Dec 9, 2017 17:03:30 GMT
Well The Mathew all your Christmas money worries are over after your big win!
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Post by theatreian on Dec 9, 2017 17:07:44 GMT
Not sure what the weather is like where you are but had quite bad snow here in the midlands and tomorrow is forecast heavy snow all day so not only will I have to walk to work but we are also likely to miss a nativity play with a live donkey that we were looking forward to going to as it will be impossible to get to in this weather.
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 9, 2017 17:27:26 GMT
I didn't know there was a Maris Lane in Trumpington, let alone that the potatoes are named after it, and I only live about 3 miles away.
I'm on a train to London now rather than tomorrow morning because we're going on a short cruise from Tilbury tomorrow & with the snow forecast my mother's worried in case the trains don't run tomorrow. So I get to spend the night in the Kings Cross Travelodge. Oh joy. I have insisted on going to TCAABR tonight as compensation.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2017 18:09:31 GMT
Not sure what the weather is like where you are but had quite bad snow here in the midlands and tomorrow is forecast heavy snow all day so not only will I have to walk to work but we are also likely to miss a nativity play with a live donkey that we were looking forward to going to as it will be impossible to get to in this weather. Tsk! A little flurry of snow and some folk can't even get to a nativity play with a live donkey...! According to Google maps, the walk from Nazareth to Bethlehem would take 33 hours, which Mary and Joseph did a while back and she was ON the live donkey! (Not sure about the snow, though, although it probably did snow a bit because it was Christmas.) You never know, ian, it might not be as bad as we think...
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Post by Tibidabo on Dec 9, 2017 18:18:41 GMT
Maris Lane is NOT in Cambridge, itβs in Trumpington which is a village outside of the city. According to Google maps, the walk from Nazareth to Bethlehem would take 33 hours, which Mary and Joseph did a while back and she was ON the live donkey! @caiaphas! You are Stephen Fry and I claim my Β£5! How on earth did you survive in the fifties without Google?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2017 18:29:58 GMT
^ Google?!?!? Bloody cheek! I used to work on the potato farm in Maris Lane as a lad, back in the forties. I had to pick them out of the frozen ground with my bare hands which then grew chapped and sore when I was scrubbed by my mum in the tin bath in front of the fire... And I have done the walk myself from Nazareth to Bethlehem when I did a tour of the Holy Land last year. No donkey though, I admit. I took a goat but I kept falling off the bugger. So there. Don't assume we all get our knowledge from t'internet!
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Post by Tibidabo on Dec 9, 2017 21:31:38 GMT
I took a goat but I kept falling off the bugger. ππ±Is that still legal in Israel?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2017 22:27:45 GMT
Christmas choir concert done. Always nice to end the year with. And this year we raised funds for the theatre company Iβm chair of the board for. So that was nice. So was the Christmas-y cake.
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Post by Tibidabo on Dec 9, 2017 23:08:57 GMT
TAXI!!!! (Get your jacket on the way out...)
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Post by viserys on Dec 10, 2017 9:27:24 GMT
Perhaps some of you like to hear that we can now add Belgrade to the places where theatre forum members have met - without buttons or seeing a show together, but with football scarves and seeing a football match together.
Despite my guys (predictably) losing, I had a wonderful time and a moment of feeling like a celebrity when I was escorted to the right stadium entrance by a hunky Serbian bodyguard.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2017 9:45:50 GMT
It's snowing in London (though not as much as everywhere else!) - definitely a day for staying in!
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Post by Tibidabo on Dec 10, 2017 11:04:38 GMT
Well, no dinner for us. The Ocado driver has just called. He's stuck in the snow and waiting for a tow truck. Looks like I won't be going to work tomorrow then in my little car yippady doo dah! sadly.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2017 11:37:01 GMT
I walked to the shops this morning and ended up helping push a Mini up a hill. Ironically, the Mini's driver had stopped to assist someone else on the hill and then found that having stopped he couldn't get moving again.
I've just been clearing the snow from my car. A few years ago the sheer weight of accumulated snow twisted my wipers as it slid off, so I'm taking precautions this time.
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Post by dippy on Dec 10, 2017 13:38:06 GMT
Was sent home from work early because of the snow! Definitely not complaining about that. Everyone was in a bad mood at work anyway because the snow meant we couldn't do what was scheduled so we were doing something else with no enthusiasm at all. It was lovely to go home a bit after 10 rather than gone 4 this afternoon and everything looked so pretty when I got there at half five this morning. The journey home though did take two hours (for 17 miles). The scariest bit of the journey home was when a massive 4x4 overtook me and sprayed loads of snow all over the windscreen which fast windscreen wipers couldn't get rid of fast enough. I can tell you it's a very horrible feeling knowing there is a car ahead of you and one not far behind and not being able to see a thing. Luckily nothing happened but it was scary.
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 10, 2017 14:02:14 GMT
Made it to Tilbury alright despite the snow so about to cruise off to France. Back on Wednesday if I don't die from hypothermia in Rouen or Le Havre!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2017 14:11:13 GMT
Have enjoyed the snow, and hope not to have to enjoy the snow again for a good year now. The snow is cold. Have also read some Flatland, listened to Robert Palmer, and learned a bit of the Wicked score.
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Post by Elle on Dec 10, 2017 15:22:26 GMT
Holy blast from the past! An ex from 10 years ago contacted me on Facebook just now and wrote a book reminiscing about our relationship. We have had zero contact in all these years. Peeked his profile and he's single again, so that's why... There I was minding my own business, planning my London trip and then he pops up out of nowhere. Never mind back to looking for tickets for Kinky Boots so I don't have to day seat in the snow... I have my priorities straight! π
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Post by lynette on Dec 10, 2017 17:12:12 GMT
Holy blast from the past! An ex from 10 years ago contacted me on Facebook just now and wrote a book reminiscing about our relationship. We have had zero contact in all these years. Peeked his profile and he's single again, so that's why... There I was minding my own business, planning my London trip and then he pops up out of nowhere. Never mind back to looking for tickets for Kinky Boots so I don't have to day seat in the snow... I have my priorities straight! π 'Wrote a book'?
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Post by Elle on Dec 10, 2017 17:36:58 GMT
I meant wrote a very long message. π Kinky Boots ticket done!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2017 17:40:47 GMT
Went for a walk in the woods nearby and wondered if Iβd stepped through a wardrobe...
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Post by Tibidabo on Dec 10, 2017 21:05:34 GMT
Whooop Whoooop! Sob sob, my school's already been declared closed tomorrow.π―π―π―π―π―π―π―ππππππππππππππππππππππππ
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Post by theatreian on Dec 10, 2017 22:09:50 GMT
Didn't make the nativity today and a lovely walk to work with driving snow in my face! Still finished early but another walk to work tomorrow!
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Post by lynette on Dec 10, 2017 22:20:46 GMT
I meant wrote a very long message. π Kinky Boots ticket done! ππππ
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Post by showgirl on Dec 11, 2017 5:06:02 GMT
Think I escaped lightly from yesterday's weather given that my sister and I were returning from a Xmas market trip to the West Country. Sleeting, but not settling, where we stayed, though we could see the snow on the hills and once on the train we soon reached it. Said train ran late, reducing my time to connect at Reading from nearly 20 mins to barely 5, meaning I had to run as best I could despite my injured knee and heavy bag, but it was that or wait 75 minutes for the next train. Then a bus replacement for the last stage, which of course took far longer than the train would have done, but at least I got home OK. My sister got a taxi from her nearest station and had to pay extra as the driver didn't fancy the hill en route to her village.
Given what others here have reported re closures, snowfall and so on, I feel very fortunate so far, but I'll be wearing ice grippers for the walk to my volunteering session today.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2017 7:16:10 GMT
I did find it slightly amusing that the Met Office warning map was covered with "Yellow Snow" warnings. Sure enough, there was some next to a telegraph pole just seconds from my house.
(Strange how the name "telegraph pole" has persisted, given that very few people have ever owned a telegraph.)
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