Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

blondie95 wrote:a dictionary! yes I am now the proud owner of a dictionary! watch out correct spelling here I come!

Does it have an instruction page on page one, and a 'help' page on page two ?

Amongst other things, I got a genuine Chelsea Stadium jacket ! (photo's by request on receipt of a £10 postal order. NO cheques. NO credit cards !)

The Devon and Cornwall Constabulary gave me a speeding ticket.

DavebytheSea wrote:The Devon and Cornwall Constabulary gave me a speeding ticket.

Oh poor you , although it brings to mind the episode of Hamish McBeth, when Hamish was issued with a speed camera and, having no cars to shoot, was checking out the speed of the local sheep.

I regularly joke that my cars are too ancient and decrepit to speed, yet received a ticket from a day when I was visiting my son on The Gold Coast. Had left my car with my daughter, and the ticket was completely my fault because she was en route to feed my cats, and if I hadn't been away the ticket wouldn't have been issued.

Hmmmmm.

icomefromalanddownunder wrote:I regularly joke that my cars are too ancient and decrepit to speed, yet received a ticket from a day when I was visiting my son on The Gold Coast. Had left my car with my daughter, and the ticket was completely my fault because she was en route to feed my cats, and if I hadn't been away the ticket wouldn't have been issued.

Hmmmmm.

It was not the Devon and Cornwall but I think Avon who came up with the most stupid ticket I have heard of. 80 mph for a historic steam road roller!

What is more, faced with the fact that it was a physical impossibility for the steam road roller to travel at 80 mph they took the owner to court for not paying the fine.

It turned out that somebody in a modern car had used false plates and in such cases the owner of the correct vehicle is liable (and gets the points on his licence) even if the police know the facts.

In this case it was reported that the court let the owner off the fine (but there was no mention of the points and costs so I presume the police forced him to accept / pay them).

sejintenej wrote:It was not the Devon and Cornwall but I think Avon who came up with the most stupid ticket I have heard of. 80 mph for a historic steam road roller!

We're really going off thread but I got a ticket for overtaking on a motorway in Holland, just outside the Hague.
There had been a sign on the side of the road saying no overtaking, but since it was a 2 lane motorway with nothing obstructing either lane, I assumed it was an old sign. Since I was in the outside lane and going faster than the inside lane, I just kept going.
Apparently there were some workman on the side of the road who had gone off for lunch, and the problem was that the verge could not be used, hence the no overtaking sign.
Dutch logic I suppose.
Since I got the fine through the post in Dutch, which is easier to understand spoken than written, it took me ages to work out what had happened.

blondie95 wrote:It was in actual fact from my bf's parents! I also got an atlas from the bf as I am forever watching tele and wandering just where some places are when mentioned!
It was not pink Hannoir-that would have been even better

I wonder as I wander......

I received ( as opposed to got...) a sexy selection of underwear ( from my Mother...) and a Canon digital camera from Lou & Andrew !

I also enjoyed being run over by a snowboarder and have a torn anterior ligament in my left knee to show for it ....

On the up side, discussions are advancing promisingly in the job stakes, and it looks like almost a sure thing that I will be moving to Leigh-on-Sea!

B.

Euterpe13 wrote:I also enjoyed being run over by a snowboarder and have a torn anterior ligament in my left knee to show for it ....

Golly! Is there snow in Barcelona?

No DBTS, dear - Pas de la Casa, Andorra ... although not much snow there either - hence the ice and the accident !

( do you think that Amy wanders off as soon as a destination is mentioned on TV ? Must make it hard to plan meals .... )

As the approaching inadequacies of old age increasingly limit my more active preoccupations, one of my remaining joys is to read with delighted amazement some of Amy's postings here; she has the happy knack of murdering the English language in a manner rivalled only by our illustrious deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott.

Go it Amy - you may get the top job yet!

I dont mean to murder the english language, that was done by the americans!

But im glad it amuses you all!

Euterpe13 wrote:No DBTS, dear - Pas de la Casa, Andorra ... although not much snow there either - hence the ice and the accident !

How, oh how could you? That place is straight out of Blazing Saddles with Louis Armstrong and his band as you come round the hillside and pretend buildings ready to entice the stupid sheriff (if you'ver seen the fillum! Surely every other resort is better?

I know it well - cut price and cut everything centre where the skislope ices right into the middle of town, you eat on the left, dance in the centre and sleep on the right (as you look uphill). One of my neighbours owns/runs a hotel there - a multimillionaire! Last but one time I was there a policewoman insisted I crossed the road; the woman behind me copped it - a snowfall off the roof - and went, unconscious to (I presume) hospital.

Next you'll be saying that you drove up the road from Ripoll. It's all straights - 10 to 30 yards long with hairpins in between and rockfalls on the road for 30Km

After that even Leigh is paradise!

No wonder you got injured -though not even I would wish it on you - get it right soon

David

David, thati is very sectarian of you - for your information, every other year at Christmas/ New Year, we have had abundant snow, the 30.000 kms of Grandvalira to ski over ( well, maybe not that big, but you do have to watch end-of-day skiiing, or you never get back to the station !), totally acceptable prices in bars and restos ( although accomodation is ridiculous, but then skiiing is a rich person's sport ) , a wonderful french restaurant for New Year's Eve which has a carte to choose from, rather that a set, overpriced menu, and all that only 185 kms from Barcelona..... so stop piffling !

If it were not for the bl******y snowboarders, everything would have been fine !

bisoux
B

Euterpe13 wrote:David, thati is very sectarian of you - for your information, every other year at Christmas/ New Year, we have had abundant snow, so stop piffling !

If it were not for the bl******y snowboarders, everything would have been fine !

bisoux
B

Now that is a first and it has taken umpteen years to acheive it. I've been called thisist and thatist but to acheive the pinnacle of being sectarian is something I thought I would die without acheiving. Thank you.

As for Pas de la Case, certainly you can eat well without paying a fortune, all accommodation in ski resorts tends to be expensive (though I would argue that Pas de la Case is not as bad as many), certainly you have umpteen kilometres of piste (almost as many as Ax les Thermes on the French side) which go over the shoulder and link up with ? Soldeu.

For me Pas is soul-less - a concrete edifice without characher dumped on the hillside like an oversized cowpat in the middle of a pristine field. Go over the hill to Soldeu and all the other towns down towards Andorra la Velha and they have beautiful architecture, churches etc and suit the environment. They also have good skiing.

Snowboarders - sorry, I have no experience. I'm dangerous enough on skis without trying to damage people with a board.

Get better soon

bisoux

David

All I got for Christmas / Hannukah (going back to the topic in hand) was a load of BATH stuff - which as some of you know is totally USELESS for me as baths are out of my league - I have a shower in a wet room - and this was from my SON & his rather dim girlfriend....... They suggested before Xmas when they realised the boo boo they had made, was I got aome sort of expensive contratption to dunk me in and out of the bath - I don't like lying in my own scum, so their gifts are being recycled along with some other rather not me ones... what I wanted ...
DIGITAL CAMERA (only £33 in Agro) & Have been going on about it for months - obviously I need to start hinting now..... oh and my price has gone up! I now want the £99.99 one!
During that period I also got... A large bill for my car as it broke down on the way back from Leeds bringing daughter home from Uni, another large bill as said daughter managed to blow up the washing machine, and finally had to let my babies go to their new home (see http://journals.aol.co.uk/judicomber/cats-in-care/ )

well that's over for another year.....

Nice to see you back Jude!