Planes, Trains and Automobiles...
Posted: Tuesday, 10 April 2007 |
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Quite hilarious, Hermit. # By the way, is it the custom (in the UK? on the islands?) to roll the painted boiled eggs down hill? Is it a communal/village thing, or does each kid (or kids in a family) just do it with the grown ups watching and helping? Here, we end up eating the eggs, or feeding them (at least I do, anyway) to the dogs. # Too bad we don't have Father Ted programming here.
mjc from NM,USA
Aah ye will, ye will, ye will, ye will..... It gives a whole new meaning to necking, I will never think of it in the same light again. In fact, I think I'll move to winchin' instead!
Flying Cat from The Hutch
Can you translate: "So they chapped the door a peedie while..." What is "chapped the door"? I've heard it before but dinnae ken what it's aboot! (Being American and all...)
Michelle Therese from Mainland Orkney oan the fairm
"chapping the door" just is Scots for knocking on the door. ;) If ye chap something, ye are knocking on it. mjc, if ye can get hold o` any Father Ted I can thoroughly recommend it, it`ll have ye in stitches. Each family tends tae roll their ain eggs, me being heathen doesnae have that much tae dae wi` it beyond recognising the egg as a symbol o` birth and fertility along wi` that other Oestre symbol, the bunny...me lassie was nice enough tae buy her auld mam a lovely chocolate rabbit this year.... och FC, it`s been mony a year since I was winchin` (or wenching, if ye are Scots) but necking has always meant kissing tae me...although I mean something very different wi` necking me cockerels!
Hermit from never kissed a chicken
Hermit, I am relieved to hear that you do not winch with your cockerels, though doubtless the cockerels do their own winching in their short alloted time before frying pan (the ordinary kind, not the fabulously expensive one at the Stromness chippy). As to necking, please stay a mile away from Murdo John. Don't open if he comes a'chapping the door!! he is bad news: Annie B. will vouch for that.
mjc from NM,USA
Egg rolling is a pleasant Easter thing for the children, next month on Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire, they will have the annual Double Gloucester cheese rolling competition. Men, it usually only the men who are daft enough, roll the cheese down the hill running after it. The hill is steep 1 in 2/3 or steeper; once you start there is no stopping and you have to finish with your cheese, a full size Double Gloucester. There are always a few broken limbs and the crowds who come to watch love it. Not sure what the cheese tastes like afterward.
Lerwick Trevor from Lerwick, thinking about coq-au-vin
Hermit, with reference to your comment on Moo's blog, I am all for good strong heathen women (not just the Norski and the Celts: I am rather catholic in that regard, eh?!) necking and wenching, not to mention the culinary arts activities(soup, roasts, bread). Keep the man happy, I say (though I am not sure what the benefits of doing so are ...).
mjc from NM,USA
How do you sell your hides, Hermit? If you had a web you could stick it to the side of your blog as a link, with relevant email and phone information on the website. Might generate some custom orders. The blog does not have to be fancy, though it may be. IT has one, and LT mentioned that he had one (when he was angling for a date with Carol. Kidding folks, no need to blush!!). Others may too, but I have not checked. Think about it.
mjc from NM,USA
And then there's Clap McCollie, which is either an exhortation to pat the dug, or.....a rather unfortunate Irishman. Mustn't forget Phil McCann....
Flying Cat from hurling things in Glockamorra
That would be an ecumenical matter as Father Jack Hackett (from Father Ted)would say ...... Get the DVDs if you can mjc - EVEN better than Midsomer Murders!
Annie B from the usual
Oh steady on there AnnieB. They're like chalk and cheese. Sometimes you want one, and sometimes, the other.....and we wouldn't want mjc to choke on his giant bowl of popcorn....would we?
Flying Cat from a balanced view
I once had the pleasure of having a cup of tea ('ah go on' etc) in father Ted's house. The building they used for the outside shots is a farmhouse in County Clare, near The Burren. Went to visit with friends who live near by. If I can find the photo I'll post it!
Stromness Dragon from where dreams and reality meet, begorrah
Should I rely on you folks and splurge on the whole Holy Trilogy (slightly cheaper than buying one series at a time)? Not to worry about choking on the popcorn: wife is there to do the Heimlich maneuver, but then she might decide to grab the chance of her lifetime, eh, and let me go blue in the face!? About being better than Midsomer Murders - I dunno. Not many shows have four murders on average per episode. And oi loik me moorders (does this sound like cockney? No? Yet it's meant to be!!).
mjc from NM,USA
I think it may be Yorkney mjc! Obviously you are of a more slender acreage than mpu.....fpu might have slight logistical problems with the Heimlich man....dammit I can't get the English spelling now you've planted the American one...ouevre? Find the photo Dragon for goodness sake, or I'll have to restrain fpu from barging through your door and begging to see it!
Flying Cat from a linguistic coil
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