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Re: Leonard Cohen Walking Weekend, or Isn't It A Long Way Down?
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 1:01 am
by tinderella
Rob, what does efc stand for? I was thinking everton football club but I am sure that is not correct. Btw, I feel like a right eejit, cos I see that you ARE from wales... sorry sorry.
Re: Leonard Cohen Walking Weekend, or Isn't It A Long Way Down?
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 12:44 pm
by efc
tinderella wrote:Rob, what does efc stand for? I was thinking everton football club but I am sure that is not correct. Btw, I feel like a right eejit, cos I see that you ARE from wales... sorry sorry.
You're spot on Tinders - efc does indeed stand for Everton FC. Everton has always had a good following in N Wales
And you're certainly not an eejit! I'm not one for bio details on message boards, which doesn't help
Re: Leonard Cohen Walking Weekend, or Isn't It A Long Way Down?
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:38 pm
by Henning
Only a month to go. It's time to concentrate on the walking tour now.
There's a chance that a last minute Aussie will join the gang.
H.
P.S. - I will now scan this thread again and delete all postings that deal with negative aspects of strange accents. It didn't lead anywhere.
Re: Leonard Cohen Walking Weekend, or Isn't It A Long Way Down?
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 1:55 am
by Evie B
Byron wrote:Many years ago ( over 40 to be a little bit more precise ) my best friend and I used to spend our weekends during Summers at Benlech on the isle of Anglesey. We jumped into his car after work on Friday afternoons and taking our camping equipment, we set off on what were the old 'A' roads to wend our way through Conway's old town and all other towns on the route, arriving after a 2 hour drive at least.
Did you go past The Little Chef at Queensferry? I remember that being quite a landmark on the way to Wales, we always stopped there for a snack. We lived in Birkenhead and my friend had a caravan - where escapes me now - so we used to go off there at weekends also.
Evie B
Re: Leonard Cohen Walking Weekend, or Isn't It A Long Way Down?
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 7:33 pm
by Diane
Finally the time is coming around, and four weeks tomorrow we arrive in a stunningly beautiful area of Wales to walk, eat and drink with a bunch of LC fans. Sounds good eh? (Care to join us, Evie?):-)
Re: Leonard Cohen Walking Weekend, or Isn't It A Long Way Down?
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 7:55 pm
by Byron
Evie B wrote:Byron wrote:Many years ago ( over 40 to be a little bit more precise ) my best friend and I used to spend our weekends during Summers at Benlech on the isle of Anglesey. We jumped into his car after work on Friday afternoons and taking our camping equipment, we set off on what were the old 'A' roads to wend our way through Conway's old town and all other towns on the route, arriving after a 2 hour drive at least.
Did you go past The Little Chef at Queensferry? I remember that being quite a landmark on the way to Wales, we always stopped there for a snack. We lived in Birkenhead and my friend had a caravan - where escapes me now - so we used to go off there at weekends also.
Evie B
My best friend was from B'head too. But I don't remember the Little Thief at Queensferry though. Probably because by the time we reached Queensferry we were as high as kites on some 'good stuff,' or we were as pissed as ..seholes. Come to think of it, I can't remember very much at all about the journeys there and back.
Perhaps we didn't go to Anglesey and it was all a wonderful hazy dream-like rememberance. Nah, we did go. I've got the photos to prove it.
I particularly like the photo of me holding up a board with my name and a number on it. Strewth, what a weekend that was!!! That's when I first bumped into Albert ----------------------------------->>
We were sharing a small, cold room in a brick building with high windows. Not Larkin's
High Windows either.
Albert had been travelling round with
The American High Wire and Cat Herding Circus, but he'd fallen on hard times.
Hard Times was the name of the Circus Ring Master's pet cat. Albert and the cat used to do a turn in which they were the forerunners of today's Cage Fighters. Anyway, the Ring Master had told Albert to throw the bout and let Hard Times win, but Albert demanded 2 jars of best Mongolian Yaks Honey and the Ring Master only offered him a jar of Tescos Value Brand !!! The rest as they say "is history."
Re: Leonard Cohen Walking Weekend, or Isn't It A Long Way Down?
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:04 pm
by Evie B
Hi Diane, it would have been great if I could have come on the weekend, I am looking forward so much to meeting Cohenites at some opportunity, to be able to natter on about Leonard with like-minded people sounds like some sort of heaven. Not sure I could have coped with the walks though, I think my limit is about 4-5 miles these days.
The reason I can't come is that I will be in Lindos, Rhodes where my son is getting married on 10th Sept, we travel out on the 5th and back on the 12th so the dates overlap.
I would have loved to have been in Hydra but I couldn't quite bring myself to do the trip on my own and didn't have anyone to travel with. Maybe I will be able to come to the next meet up. It was very kind of you to suggest I come, thanks.
Re: Leonard Cohen Walking Weekend, or Isn't It A Long Way Down?
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:04 pm
by Byron
For
Little Thief, substitute
Happy Eater. and I still can't remember it.
Re: Leonard Cohen Walking Weekend, or Isn't It A Long Way Down?
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:21 pm
by Byron
A little known fact is that Queensferry got its name hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years ago, in the middle of the 19th century, when Oscar Wildething used to live on the eastern bank, and every Saturday night after a boozie lock-in, in his local pub, 'The Oddfellows Arms,' he used to 'punt' his best friends backwards and forwards across the River Dee.
Apologies herewith to anyone offended on behalf of:
Queensferry
Historical Facts
The Oddfellows Arms
River Dee
Birkenhead
The Little Chef
Alan Larkin
Albert
The American Hire Wire and Cat Herding Circus
Ring Masters
Hard Times ( Dickens, they are now illegal, think about it )
Cage Fighters ( Kattie Price )
Mongolia
Tescos
Oscar Whatsisname
Happy Eaters
Re: Leonard Cohen Walking Weekend, or Isn't It A Long Way Down?
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:17 am
by Evie B
After careful consideration, I have decided that I would like to take offence on behalf of Mongolia. It is very warming and comforting on my walls - some would say even sensitive - and doesn't deserve to be dragged into your seven drunken nights on the Dee with Wildething being punted from pillar to post.
You sniffin' or smokin' these days, Byron?
Evie B
Re: Leonard Cohen Walking Weekend, or Isn't It A Long Way Down?
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:49 am
by Byron
Look at him ! Look deeply into his eye. Can't you see the pain, the angst, the chronic melancholia of a poor demented soul, harried from pillar to post ?? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> Can't you see his sorrows --->
Evie B wrote:After careful consideration, I have decided that I would like to take offence on behalf of Mongolia. It is very warming and comforting on my walls - some would say even sensitive - and doesn't deserve to be dragged into your seven drunken nights on the Dee with Wildething being punted from pillar to post.
You sniffin' or smokin' these days, Byron?
Evie B
I find it extremely disturbing that you have singled out Mongolia which some would say is far and away the furthest from most choices that would be found on a colour Ring in a Circus.
Clearly, you regard the decision you have made to be one which shows how behoved you are to internal choices within a domestic setting.
I have already apologised and still you carry on with this segregation of Mongolia from Albert and Hard Times. Since when have you paid any attention to the well being of teddy bears and flocks of moggies? As for your aside about 'thing' and his being 'punted' from pillar to post, you'll see that it was he who was doing the 'punting.' Or have you 'decided' to muddy the waters of the River Dee in order to further your own ends?
I've tried to be as fur as I can be with your remarks, even to the extent of balancing each side to this issue, but you must realise that as far as the differences between us go, on the one hand I have pulled out all the stops and a few oddly shaped gobstoppers, and on the other hand I have four fingers and a ffumb!!!
"Matron !! they're havin' another go at me memorabilias and me next tablet isn't due till midnight."
Re: Leonard Cohen Walking Weekend, or Isn't It A Long Way Down?
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:46 am
by Evie B
Gobstoppers are not allowed on this forum, they breach Elfin Safety regulations on several level playing fields.
My moggies have always been well treated and live a protected existence, Iams very careful about their health and welfare state. Unlike your nobble self who dragged one's poor bear into Cambridge and chained it, yes chained it, to a pillar.
I'll bet my whole packet of Prozac that you took turns at punting, you and the thing, and Albert probably contributed in his own way.
Re: Leonard Cohen Walking Weekend, or Isn't It A Long Way Down?
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:36 pm
by Byron
Evie B, you're like a wire haired fox terrier with a rag doll. But unlike Frankie Vallie, you won't see the goodness that I'm trying to imbue into this threadbare issue. And now you've even entered poor Albert into the shenanigans of historical Cambridge. The only bear market place he enjoys is in the City, and he's getting precious little fun there at the moment. Talk about squeeze a bear when he's down!! So please take those chains from his heart and set him free. He what hurt nobody. He'd give you his last spoon of honey if you asked him.
( mind you he'd have to be well 'bladdered' to do that, and get well clear before he woke up )
There are families in this country who are desperate for the comfort that a moggy would bring, but alas and alack it seems they cannot enjoy the pleasure of a well fed mouseketeer, and there's you with a house full of them. Just how selfish can you be ? But fear not, dear reader, I mentioned her. The RSPCA are now hot on the tail. ( Royal Society for the Prevention of Cat Addicts ) Remember the old adage Evie B, "all rhodes lead to purrrdition."
Re: Leonard Cohen Walking Weekend, or Isn't It A Long Way Down?
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:46 pm
by kwills
Now you're just being catty!
Re: Leonard Cohen Walking Weekend, or Isn't It A Long Way Down?
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:20 pm
by Byron
kwills wrote:Now you're just being catty!