OM mini-meet on Bennachie

Beth wrote (see)

...a course for the over 50's on how to use the Internet... 'f*cking cheek we invented the bloody internet...

Zackley! The first four nodes of the (then) Arpanet went live in December 1969, much of the spadework having been done by 20-something research students - baby boomers like me.

FWIW, I first went online (via a modem half as big as a house) with Pipex before TBL 'invented' HTML - so no web, just email, BBS and Usenet. I've been trolling ever since

Pissing it down now

Back from Car Booting ( would rather go to Markets ), what am I going to do for the rest of the day now ( after I've had a cup of tea).

Skip, will your railcard take you as far as Kyle of Lochalsh , think you need to book space for a bike as its these 2 carrage thingys now so can ony take a couple of bikes ( it wasnt a problem when they had a Proper train )

Correct me if I'm wrong but I take it Twiglegs has morphed into StoneHugging Hippy , must have missed that one, Ere, wheres LiL gone , havent seen him for a while.

 Looking towards Northampton this morning.

What to do now ! mend tv aerial, wash clothes, tidy caravan as I have time to spare, I was thinking of making a quiche lorraine as there was a new cooker/ oven put in here last year, don't think I've made one before, will look on the net for ideas, will have to get a tray from T*sc* as well

edit. dry here so far Skip.

Morning (just get that in quickly before it becomes 'afternoon'). Just having a coffee in front of wet Olympics, then I'll pop down to the gym to pretend I'm on the rowing lake. Big thunderstorms forecast for this afternoon which could be fun!

Skip, the last serious contender for Bennachie Rest Home was a Scottish island with its own helicopter pad and a billiards room.

alexander rae wrote (see)

Skip, will your railcard take you as far as Kyle of Lochalsh ...

Undoubtedly! Then 'over the sea to Skye'.

alexander rae wrote (see)

wheres LiL gone , havent seen him for a while.

True!

Where are you, Tall Paul / Lost In lancashire ???

And where's Kotka Jo?

Indeed Skip. I think Paul had to send email with a bang-path but I missed that. I first connected with demon's tenner-a-month service (KA9Q), before that I was on CIX. You had to download things with ftp and gopher, ahhhh, those were the days! My first program, at school, was written using punch cards and was processed overnight by a college computer. The next morning we had a print out of the results!... tell that to kids today and wouldn't believe you

Still dry here but gradually looking like rain.

Paul rarely posts here, only when I prompt him. Dunno where LiL's gone, maybe found someone to talk to, in RL?!

Ah, Beth, I think your Tall Paul stopped posting on here before Skip became a regular, so he's probably thinking of LiL, who also goes by the name of Tall Paul on occasion. How confusing!

Does he. Argh! Paul overload. 

Easily resolved though by taking one of the Tall Pauls and lopping a few inches off; then we'd just have a Tall Paul and a Paul (or a Short Paul depending how many inches went).

Just back from the gym, 5km on the rowing machine and 4 on the bike. Now an afternoon slobbing in front of the sport!

 A slight passing shower of rain, it was going off by the time I got my camera .

I didnt realise you had to bake the pastry for a quiche blind, ho hum, fixed tv aerial , off for messages before the 24hr shop shuts

edit, why doesnt this thing take messages in brackets any more .

Off to 24 hr shop before it closes, the one in Inverness only shuts for Christmas and new Year, its open 24/7 apart from that , some 24hr shop

They should be selling insurance with wording like that , opps, they do .

Yep, there's a shop in Dorchester that we've known for decades in the family as 'Adams: open 24 hours a day til 8 o'clock' because of its tendency to shut at 8pm!

Thunder and lightening bow , pouring with rain,

dont think my sheets are going to dry much .

We never used to blind bake for Quiche AR. Just rolled the pastry out, lined the tin and put all the filling in and go for it.

 Oh yes, throwing it down now. Well done Murray eh!

You're 10 mins too late Beth, blind baking underway .

sunny here now,

Been sunny here all day, and pretty sunny and dry yesterday too..... so much for the 'rain' weather warnings....

So that's the two party's done, garden done, housework done....... just the ironing then whilst i watch the olympics.....

And, back to walking next weekend! 

Sounds like a good plan Maria , when I went to get messages half a mile away the carpark was dry .

Hope the headache's gone .

Like jacks costume, he must have been overjoyed, I never got anything like that

Edit

I know, I know it's a Hillwalking forum , never done one before, Shortcrust shop pastry in a roll was hard, the rest seemed ok but the tin was too small .

Evening

Hope we get a good winter!

Yeah, me too!

Well, I wouldn't bet anything on what kine of winter season you could get in Scotland .