Wow!!!! It doesn't mean fizzy does it??

No- it seems to be just "a drink containing that fruit".







Anyhow- I am off to bed, as we are making our way up to London after an early lunch. (ie. no lie-in until after lunch! )

Goodnight pcf, well done for today, see you tomorrow!

Signing off now.

Night Night all

Goodnight Dawn

Wouldn't that make orange juice also orangeade when actually orangeade is something completely different!

Mmmmmm


Just checked today's top 10 posters and it's B-C followed by ........ Moi!! Then Solari!!!!!!

How did THAT happen

Does it work on a 24h loop????

Yes, it does Dawn

Will it work if John tries to log on to the Forum from his laptop? Give it a try, John and get off my computer.

It's funny how much things can change in a day or two, isn't it?

There are 4 extra grown-ups in my house this morning! Which means I'm going to have to get showered and dressed before breakfast because they are scarily posh...but I'm absolutely starving... I think I'll make a dash for the kitchen now.(But obviously will proceed with caution armed with ventolin )

If you're going to send an iffy email to me purporting to be from the Alliance and Leicester, you could at least spell 'Leicester' correctly...

GooooOOOOOd evening Madam! We need to take your monies from the vault so that they can be pressed and steamed... may I have your bank account details please?

Our lazy morning has comfortably leaked into the afternoon!

So has my procrastination...

I feel weird today, I think it's my brain craving caffeine

After chatting with a friend over dinner tonight, I discovered that she can play clarinet and steel drums. I've known her 7 years and didn't know she was remotely musical (she gave up before I met her and apparently has the odd tinker with the clarinet).

She's put thoughts into my head. I might buy a Clarinet.... She's going to dig hers out and show me later in the week

....and so another unsuspecting Forumite falls victim to the multi-instrument addiction.....

*someone*... ahem... was trying to persuade me to try recorder but I'm having none of it.

I still like the idea of Xylophone tbh but I'll see.

I tried to warn him...

All I need is to find a handbell group as well and I'll be saturated with musical goodness

I think you're smitten by the xylophone already.

Plink Plonk! Finding a teacher may be a little difficult, and as Patrick Moore has popped his clogs, I've got no chance of ever being taught by the master himself

I'll take a wander round some music shops next weekend. I'm expecting a bit of extra cash in the next few weeks so can actually afford to get a new toy sometime soon if I *really* want one

Time will tell

I thought he was still with us.

He once said that he checked the obits page every day, and if he wasn't there, he carried on as usual.

I'm sure I read on the BBC a while ago that he was no longer with us? I'll be happy if he still is!

EDIT: Hrm lots of stories of ill health which might explain my confusion.

Perhaps he has gone then...although I know there have been a number of fake reports about his death. He is/was 86.

He gave an interview in June this year apparently.

I'll be happy too..I like him!

EDIT: Yes, I believe he needed a pacemaker a while ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/skyatni...rickmoore.shtml

Looks like he's still about - no mention of anything untoward! I'd use barry's yay icon if it didn't grate on me

Poor Batty!

Night all, I'm off to bed

Shleepy shleep in cosy warm duvets and cushy pillows aaaahhhhhh

Definitely still with us, but no longer playing his xylophone due to arthritis/hand problems. So he might not be the best teacher out there! (Plus, you'll have to travel to him, he doesn't travel much any more. The Sky at Night is filmed at his house now).

Useful fact: Patrick Moore once played the piano to accompany Albert Einstein on violin. This was just at a gathering somewhere, not formal, and not anything that got recorded.

Wow! I'd love to've seen/heard that

Wow!

Patrick Moore has always been close to the top of my list of people I'd most like to meet, but as he doesn't get around much anymore, I'm doubting that's likely now

would you like lessons?

I was going to phone/text you, to ask about that

I might need a hand shopping if I decide that's the way I want to go.. I'll see how I like the sound of Gemma's clari! I'll give you a shout later in the week if that's ok, but any shopping won't be until around the 25th!

That's fine : See what you think of the clari first, and if positive, then we'll worry about getting hold of a clarinet.

I've been listening to various stuff on youtube already I think I'll like what I hear

I feel like I've been covertly subverted, somehow.. I still might get a smaller Xylophone to play with in a few months' time regardless...

Clarinet really is a cool choice of instrument Solari. Not that I'm biased or anything of course


Go for it!!! And you won't go far wrong with Barry to guide you

I'm bugging him for info at the moment, only one reservation from the research I've done!

Ugh my face is still numb 3 hours after my dentist visit... she definitely made sure I wouldn't feel anything... for the next week and a half, by the looks of it!

That's quite amusing.

To be, or not to be: that is the question.

Is that there are no reasons why you should do something, a good enough reason for why you shouldn't?

You should do things purely because you want to. There's no sane reason for jumping out of a perfectly functional plane but I did it 3 times, for example

Ooh, is it fun? I've always wanted to... I'm a wee bit of an adrenaline junkie, if a little bit of a chicken adrenaline junkie. I've only ever really been skiing... and paragliding... but I love rollercoasters! Especially detonator at Thorpe Park. The best ride EVER. Or saw. But detonator is amazing, because you feel like you're actuallygoing to die, and you literally can't stop yourself screaming, but then you hit the bottom and get a headrush and think "phoar, I didn't die!"

I'm thinking of doing bungee jumping for my birthday this year... if I'm allowed to

What's skydiving like?

You're right, Detonator is the best ride for the initial "shock" at TP IMO. The rest of them just don't do that much for me.



I think someone else mentioned a while ago (tamsin?) that if you're at risk of retinal detachment, you shouldn't do it.



Wonderful, liberating, headrushing... the closest you can get to flying (well unless you get a wingsuit).

What's retinal detachment? The bit in your eye comes off from something? Ahh well, I don't think that would happen to me. I'm pretty healthy, apart from a dodgy kidney, missing teeth, eczema and blackouts. They would be ok, wouldn't they?

I'd love to go skydiving, my aunt went. I'm not old enough yet but aparently you can do indoor skydiving over an air chute... hmmm

Sort of. If you have regular blackouts, they might not like you doing it.



Airkix in Milton Keynes is one place you can go

Isn't skydiving the opposite of flying? If you were flying you wouldn't be in danger of splattering yourself on the ground.

Once you hit terminal velocity (well, close to it), it doesn't feel like you are falling anymore, hence "close to flying"

This is closer to flying, actually.. scary though!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4U6T_BB1N8

Nahh, it just happens really if I get excited and stand up too fast, heehee.

I'm off to the airkix website

http://www.airkix.com/

Cheaper than a tandem, too I'm tempted to do some time in there before I get around to doing AFF.

What's a tandem?