Shed 2 (The Gazebo)

James wrote: I do have a feeling many of these cases of Swine Flu aren't actually Swine Flu at all. There's actually a cold or cold-like virus going around too.  My father has been off with it and now my mother has it too.  It's just a cold though. But he still 'phone up the Swine Flu number and get some medication reserved.  So he may now statistically have it.  I'm not sure.

Jim Garten wrote: chopper wrote: Apparently boxes of Tamiflu go for around £100 on eBay Sounds like a tax on tabloid readers to me - Never under-estimate the power of gullibility +++koffkoff+++

Just realised that koff meant cough; at first I thought it meant something far less polite and was about to complain to admin

Ho Hum -

Cropredy Festival next week

In preparation for a three day festival in the English countryside in summer, just took delivery of a few essentials...

2 waterproof ponchos + 2 sets of waterproof trousers.

Squelch!

No no - that's in addition to every waterproof item we own already.

^ even with my advancing years I try to do at least one festival a year - last couple of years it's been Latitude in Suffolk. (last year was actually a good year - Latitude, Cambridge Rock Festival and Summer's End). This year it was Womad - Cropredy was on the cards but we've booked a week glamping in Cornwall instead.

I used to love Reading in the 1970s & 1980s; only ever did Glastonbury once - had a good time, but it was just too big (and that was 1986) - this year is our 18th consecutive Cropredy festival - they always keep it relatively small (circa 20,000ish), very friendly, both pubs in the village serve real ale & have live music all weekend & there's a nice little pub about a mile or so's walk from the Festival, too.

If you get good weather it's a fantastic way to spend a weekend - the last couple of years have been somewhat damp though & I don't want the weather to spoil it for me as it did last year.

Dean wrote: It's an evolving language, some new words are okay, some are pretty naff

Such as 'naff'

...always hated that word...

Edited by Jim Garten - August 05 2009 at 09:58

co-incidentally, 'naff' is a polari word.

James wrote: Now I'm wondering how Dean knows Polari...  Something you're not telling us, Dean?

I am old enough to have listened to Round The Horne when it was originally broadcast, (along with such gems as the Navy Lark and I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again), recently watched the BBC4 stage play reconstruction of a RTH show and saw the docu-drama on Kenneth Williams. While in the 60s I hadn't the faintest idea what they were saying, I have since learnt that it was called Polari and is a mixture of Italian and backslang.

James wrote: So I know what it is.  I just don't know any Polari.

Edited by Dean - August 05 2009 at 14:47