You might be a CH geek if (add your own!)

[gma]

dr.erwin hartmann

As the previous owner of the coin collectin, do we know if he had any CH connections?

[kerrensimmonds]

I don't get the feeling it was a collection of CH coins, Gerrie.We shall have to see if any others from this collection have a CH provenance, when the seller starts to put them up for auction. They are probably floating this one first, to see how well it goes.
Kerren

[Great Plum]

Hmmm,

I think I certainly seem to follow Josh's no.5 - is anyone going to the carol concert next Wednesday?

[Jo]

I will be there, a bit lost and alone, but with camera and pen poised trying to find a new angle for the Feb 2009 Old Blue report

I wouldn't normally step inside a church willingly, but I sort of found myself volunteering, and actually I do quite like a bit of a bellow at the old carols.

[DavebytheSea]

Yes - I am going. Trekking all the way up from Cornwall, no less.

Oh - and Michelle would welcome any strong volunteers to help set up. I will be there from about 1:30/2:00 to give what help I can, but a couple of you with about half a century less of anno domini than me, would be most helpful.

[kerrensimmonds]

Sorry folks... I am having surgery to my half-dead left hand on 8 December and will be out of action for 2-3 weeks thereafter. I wish you all well, especially DBTS assuming the mantle of Adrian as the front man for the Carol Concert. I hope it all goes well and I look forward to reading about it on the Forum after next Wednesday.

[CHAZ]

Safe and speedy recovery then Kerren!

[DavebytheSea]

We will be thinking of you at the concert, Kerren. This will be the first you have missed,

(I, too, have had a hand op this year - dyputrens - and still wear a splint at night.)

[J.R.]

We will be thinking of you at the concert, Kerren. This will be the first you have missed,

(I, too, have had a hand op this year - dyputrens - and still wear a splint at night.)

Thats what I'm waiting to have corrected. I was 'offered' a hospital miles away, with a surgeon I hadn't heard of.

"No thanks ! - I'll wait my turn locally !!"

Marvellous how the NHS can bridge their official waiting-list times !

[kerrensimmonds]

Thanks, all (and by the way I wasn't there last year either, DBTS - it was just after the first (botched) attempt at my local hospital and I was similarly incapacitated).
This time I am going to a specialist hand unit at Queen Victoria Hospital East Grinstead - the man who is doing the op. is supposed to be the UK's top hand surgeon. I'm on the NHS, referred from the local butchery, after my insistent demands over 9 months.
The downside is that it IS a long way from home, but it is only one day and I am blessed with an Old Blue friend who is coming to do the driving and the cooking for a few days.
Will be with you in spirit on Wednesday. Two years ago we talked about podcasting it, but I guess that idea never went any further.

[midget]

I hope all goes well for you, Kerren.

[icomefromalanddownunder]

I will be there, a bit lost and alone, but with camera and pen poised trying to find a new angle for the Feb 2009 Old Blue report

I wouldn't normally step inside a church willingly, but I sort of found myself volunteering, and actually I do quite like a bit of a bellow at the old carols.

Oh Jo

You've become a Pap

Myself, I'd prefer to be a pirate.

Off to find my marbles


In an effort to encourage Munch, Phil and others to submit an article, perhaps those of us of a certain age could contribute to weddings around the World?

Any other ideas to help Jo out/spare her from an unsolicited bolt of lightening?

xxxx

[icomefromalanddownunder]

We will be thinking of you at the concert, Kerren. This will be the first you have missed,

(I, too, have had a hand op this year - dyputrens - and still wear a splint at night.)

Isn't that caused by excessive intake of rough red?
(That's what a previous Supervisor told me after diagnosing it in my left hand. Fortunately mine self-resolved).

Big hugs for Monday Kerren, and very best wishes for a successful outcome and speedy recovery.

xxxxxx

[Jo]

I will be there, a bit lost and alone, but with camera and pen poised trying to find a new angle for the Feb 2009 Old Blue report

I wouldn't normally step inside a church willingly, but I sort of found myself volunteering, and actually I do quite like a bit of a bellow at the old carols.

Oh Jo

You've become a Pap

Myself, I'd prefer to be a pirate.

Off to find my marbles


In an effort to encourage Munch, Phil and others to submit an article, perhaps those of us of a certain age could contribute to weddings around the World?

Any other ideas to help Jo out/spare her from an unsolicited bolt of lightening?

xxxx

A pap...... I hadn't quite thought of it like that The report isn't just a page filler, the purpose is actually to get a report of the carol service, so unless Munch or Phil plan to come.... I suppose "fantasy carol service" might be a novel article but not quite what JH intends, I think

Actually I am secretly looking forward to it. I can't sing, but that doesn't stop me enjoying trying. Normally I only go to church for the usual BMDs and all that promising kind of freaks me out. A carol service is different. And being there with a purpose gives me a pretext to waylay people I don't know and ask them for their thoughts. Oh, plus it will be fun to meet people from the forum, not least my co-pap and our esteemed MC DBTS.

[J.R.]

Isn't that caused by excessive intake of rough red ?

(That's what a previous Supervisor told me after diagnosing it in my left hand. Fortunately mine self-resolved).

Just about eveything you read about this 'syndrome' points to the fact that alcohol can have a serious effect on the situation.

Strangely enough, when I saw the consultant surgeon, the subject of daily/weekly alcohol intake (his or mine), was NEVER raised, so I have my doubts !!