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[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Thanks Alice. :)

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

BTW. We're short Terri at the moment. Her router is stuffed, therefore, no internet access.

[happy]

Welcome back Margaret!

Looking forward to hearing/seeing about your trip!

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Thanks happy.

It was a good trip. So good I'm not sure where to start, to be honest.

[happy]

that is always a problem for me also

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Might have to scour our threads and drop tales in the appropriate threads.

[Andy]

Look forward to hearing all about it!

[happy]

Finally - we have appliances!!!!

There is still some finish work to do and a couple of the cabinet doors were not quite the right size, so they had to be redone, but we can start moving stuff back into the kitchen, and more importantly - it usable :)

I'll post some pics tomorrow or Friday if anyone is interested :D

[May]

Very interested!!! Looking forward to the photos!
Thanks Happy 😊

[Allison]

Post away, Happy :)

[Ace]

This course is starting today (29May). I waited so long for it and now we are about to cross to Bermuda and the Azores so I will have to wait for next time.

England in the time of Richard III
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/e...?

[Alice]

Good for you Ace! I was planning to read The Sunne in Splendour some time this year.

I'm nearing the end of Azincourt. Think I like it but not love it.

Edit: Sorry Ace - I misread your post. Good that you're sailing to yet another beautiful place! There'll be other courses...

[Simona]

Wow Ace Azores are a stunning place! How is your wanderer life going?

[Ace]

Thanks Alice and Simona we are very lucky to be sailing around.
The lifestyle is great. We have been learning our boat mostly amongst the travel. We started in Cape Town and have travelled through to Namibia, St Helena (British), Fernando De Noronha (Brazil), French Guiana, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada and the Grenadines, St Lucia, Martinique (French), Nevis and St Kitts and are now in St Maarten (Dutch).

The Americas Cup is on at the moment in Bermuda so I hope we can find somewhere to anchor! I'm really looking forward to the Azores archipelago but its a looong voyage. Then we will plan more routes and rest a bit.

[May]

Hey, Ace... I'll be in St Maarten next Saturday!!! How long will you be there??

[Ace]

May wrote: "Hey, Ace... I'll be in St Maarten next Saturday!!! How long will you be there??"

We are *planning to leave on Wednesday.

*things never go to plan, so I will let you know if something else happens to delay our departure.

[Renata]

Wow Ace - what a wonderful tour. I love St. Maarten. I hope both you and May enjoy it - Bermuda also! How fabulous - I salute you!

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Terri's still having router issues. She hopes to be back online soon.

[Bobby]

Heading for Turks-Caicos on Monday and then Yucatan on the 17th.

[May]

Awesome!! Photos, please!!

[Andy]

Margaret wrote: "Terri's still having router issues. She hopes to be back online soon."

tell her to put more steers on the wheel ;)

[Veronica]

Alice wrote: "Good for you Ace! I was planning to read The Sunne in Splendour some time this year."

I almost bought that one this past weekend but decided to wait until I get another email from Barnes & Noble giving me 20% off. With my membership I'll also get an additional 10% off.

[Ace]

Veronica wrote: "Alice wrote: "Good for you Ace! I was planning to read The Sunne in Splendour some time this year."

I almost bought that one this past weekend but decided to wait until I get another..."

I've also been meaning to read this!

[happy]

It was the first Penman I read - it is very good.

[Alice]

And very long :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I'm back online. Well, I was back online a few days back, but the wifi was painfully slow and dropping out. Still is. I'm enduring it to try and touch base here.
Hoping to have it sorted by early next week.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Ace, have you had to be in open water where pirates are a threat yet?

Congrats happy on getting appliances in and being able to use them.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Welcome back.

[Tamara]

Terri wrote: "I'm back online. Well, I was back online a few days back, but the wifi was painfully slow and dropping out. Still is. I'm enduring it to try and touch base here.
Hoping to have it sorted by early n..."

Welcome back, Terri.

[May]

Good to hear from you!!

[Jane]

Ditto!

[Alice]

Welcome back Terri!

[Allison]

happy wrote: "It was the first Penman I read - it is very good."

Mine too! One of my rare 5 stars!

[Andy]

Gonna be a loooooong tour after that first up performance.... Meoooow :(

[Simona]

???

[Andy]

lols..... a tad cryptic for most but some might understand my Meooooow reference :D as it was a shambolic performance

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-unio...

[Simona]

Oh thanks. You know your MEDIUM level of crypticness is more than enough for me.... :)

[Andy]

:( 2nd major incident reported in London tonight, now at Borough Market after incident at London bridge..... Van running people over on the bridge, stabbings & also gunfire reported

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Glad to be back folks. :) Telco tech coming Wednesday now. Hope to have super powerful wifi (with properly working router gosh darn it) by mid week.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Your cryptic post had me completely stumped too, Andy. :)

Just saw the news on the London Bridge Station attack. Those mad bastards are relentless.

[Alice]

Terri, "mad bastards" they are! What's the point of killing innocent people? Such a tragedy for Londoners. My heart goes out to those affected by these senseless killings.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

The senselessness. It makes me so angry.
They can't even defend their actions with their usual nonsense about Coalition and American bombs in Syria etc.. because ISIS kill their fellow muslim innocents in Syria, Iraq etc..

Mad bastards through and through.

[Bobby]

Not sure how true this is, but an ex-pat from London friend of ours, says after a recent trip to the U.K. that downtown London was primarily Muslim! Find that hard to believe but have not been there for many years. What hard times for England!

[Laureen]

Alice wrote: "Terri, "mad bastards" they are! What's the point of killing innocent people? Such a tragedy for Londoners. My heart goes out to those affected by these senseless killings."

Unfortunately, the reaction is what IS is after and they are getting a massive response. I know the Media feels it is important to take the news to the World but we gave had over kill here in Australia.
It has not stopped being played on the news, very repetitively. The terrorists will only be encouraged by this media display, sadly. They are after notoriety and are getting it.

[Bobby]

The Muslim population in London has more than doubled between 2001 and 2011!!

[Jane]

Laureen wrote: "Alice wrote: "Terri, "mad bastards" they are! What's the point of killing innocent people? Such a tragedy for Londoners. My heart goes out to those affected by these senseless killings."

Unfortuna..."

Same here in the States!

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Bobby wrote: "Not sure how true this is, but an ex-pat from London friend of ours, says after a recent trip to the U.K. that downtown London was primarily Muslim! Find that hard to believe but have not been ther..."

Not correct. Yes, there is a muslim population, but to say the population of London is primarily muslim is crap.

Also, London doesn't have a "downtown" in the American sense of the word. It's hard to explain. The City of London (which is the old Roman city) would be the closest thing, but it has very little residential, in fact I think the Barbican complex is just about the only purely residential area of the City. In fact, a hell of a lot of the City doesn't open at weekends because there's no-one to open for.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

With you Laureen, the media coverage is ridiculous here in Australia. We need the news of course, but we don't need the intense and prolonged coverage.

I walk away from the news on tv and only check in for updates from the online newspaper I read. TV media is over the top.

[Jane]

Terri wrote: "With you Laureen, the media coverage is ridiculous here in Australia. We need the news of course, but we don't need the intense and prolonged coverage.

I walk away from the news on tv and only ch..."

Or I concentrate on the PBS Newshour. They are balanced and genteel and don't scream at you. Also, their commentators don't get into shouting matches with each other.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

I'm getting my news on it from the Guardian newspaper's website. Fairly balanced coverage without a lot of rhetoric and bollocks.