P.s. Reopening blog to report that both Liz and Kerry have 'phoned in the last two minutes to report that they are both (despite a nasty, foggy, journey) now home safe and well. Goodnight All.
I am back in the land of the bloggers !!!! whooppeee ! I don't have time to blog tonight but will try to get around to it before the week is out - I have missed this ! Thank you both for aa fab Christmas, I agree the BEST yet !!! Here's to many more - I may crack open the black label later to toast the 'many more' just to be on the safe side !! Much Love Stig
Thank you Sarah. Good to have you back blogging, and thank you again for a lovely Christmas. Due to Great Gran no longer being with us (and this would have been her twenty sixth Christmas with us) we weren't really looking forward to it, and your invitation made a grand Christmas of it for us. I'll drink to 'many more'.
AND your English Heritage membership has arrived - remind me on Monday (please) to give it to you - you know how forgetful I am !!! X x really am going to bed now x
In view of global warming resulting in longer colder winters (don't scientists talk lunacy? I think they are related to meteorologists, those weather forecasters who always have a cast iron excuse for being wrong yet again!)I concur with cracking open a bottle of spiritous liquor now and then. But with the greatest respect to Mr Walker's 'Black Label' I have a spot(2 litres) of export quality, 47% sloe-gin in pickle alongside a batch (5 litres) of standard 37%brew. I suspect it may well see me out, long before I have to consider whether to purchase another Black Label Whisky or more likely, a Lambs Navy Rum. 'Here's tae us, Wha's like us? Dam' few, and they're a' deed!' Although I do love the family toasts that start with 'To his Albanic Majesty King Zog' and work round the alphabet of loyal toasts to end up where it started 'Zog of Albania'! I generally start to lose my way when we get to 'The Queen!' by then I'm never quite sure if we mean Boudicca, Victoria or EIIR. Happy new year to you all and all your blog-readers.
Carl - the toast is in alphabetical order and starts off with Queen Abishag the Shunammite, and ends, if any are still standing by that time, With King Zog of Albania and his wife Queen Geraldine (and NO I didn't make any of that up).
I suppose by dint of her beauty Abishag was indeed a queen amongst women. I'm not sure she can be legitimately called King David's last Queen as their relationship appears not to have been consumated... "Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat. Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat." "So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king. And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not." (1 Kings 1:3-4 KJV) However, Adonijah clearly assumed her to have been David's Queen as he sought her hand in Marriage after David's demise in order to make himself King... To his fatal loss!
Pootatu says 'chetrat' - I suppose he means Adonijah was a rat who was cheated out of the throne by his fratricidal little brother Solomon!
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I am back in the land of the bloggers !!!! whooppeee !
I don't have time to blog tonight but will try to get around to it before the week is out - I have missed this !
Thank you both for aa fab Christmas, I agree the BEST yet !!!
Here's to many more - I may crack open the black label later to toast the 'many more' just to be on the safe side !!
Much Love Stig
Thank you Sarah. Good to have you back blogging, and thank you again for a lovely Christmas. Due to Great Gran no longer being with us (and this would have been her twenty sixth Christmas with us) we weren't really looking forward to it, and your invitation made a grand Christmas of it for us. I'll drink to 'many more'.
ditto ! Am currently blogging via mikes iPod - how cool am I ??!! Night night love Stig x
AND your English Heritage membership has arrived - remind me on Monday (please) to give it to you - you know how forgetful I am !!! X x really am going to bed now x
In view of global warming resulting in longer colder winters (don't scientists talk lunacy? I think they are related to meteorologists, those weather forecasters who always have a cast iron excuse for being wrong yet again!)I concur with cracking open a bottle of spiritous liquor now and then. But with the greatest respect to Mr Walker's 'Black Label' I have a spot(2 litres) of export quality, 47% sloe-gin in pickle alongside a batch (5 litres) of standard 37%brew. I suspect it may well see me out, long before I have to consider whether to purchase another Black Label Whisky or more likely, a Lambs Navy Rum. 'Here's tae us, Wha's like us? Dam' few, and they're a' deed!'
Although I do love the family toasts that start with 'To his Albanic Majesty King Zog' and work round the alphabet of loyal toasts to end up where it started 'Zog of Albania'! I generally start to lose my way when we get to 'The Queen!' by then I'm never quite sure if we mean Boudicca, Victoria or EIIR.
Happy new year to you all and all your blog-readers.
Carl - the toast is in alphabetical order and starts off with Queen Abishag the Shunammite, and ends, if any are still standing by that time, With King Zog of Albania and his wife Queen Geraldine (and NO I didn't make any of that up).
I suppose by dint of her beauty Abishag was indeed a queen amongst women. I'm not sure she can be legitimately called King David's last Queen as their relationship appears not to have been consumated...
"Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat. Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat."
"So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king. And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not." (1 Kings 1:3-4 KJV)
However, Adonijah clearly assumed her to have been David's Queen as he sought her hand in Marriage after David's demise in order to make himself King... To his fatal loss!
Pootatu says 'chetrat' - I suppose he means Adonijah was a rat who was cheated out of the throne by his fratricidal little brother Solomon!
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