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Interesting, Pete suggest I come along, you start back-pedalling 
I too have some time orf between Christmas & New Year....
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Oh no. I'm all for it. Isn't Mrs Kief Arabic? Dear Mrs Wife is a fluent Arabic speaker and has been known to be mistaken for one.
speramus in juniperus
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I've been known to be mistaken for one too 
Mrs Keef is indeed an Arab, though her father is dismayed at how poor her Arabic is. Perhaps Mrs Nagy can give some tips 
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: For some obscure reason we've wanted to visit the area for a while
I was up there earlier in the year, and it's very nice. Good selection of boozers, and very friendly locals. 
This[^] is well worth a visit, and you'd need a whole day to do it properly. Any museum with two decent drinking establishments in it gets my vote! ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I live about five minutes from Beamish. I'd have to agree with your vote here.
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I once spent 6 months living in Beamish Woods. Well in a converted barn in the woods.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Can't remember now, it was nearly 20 years ago.
I have been looking at google maps trying to work it out.
I've a feeling it may have been one of those off Hammer Square Bank, they had a barn which we occupied (I was working for a company from the West Midlands that had 5 of us up there along with a director and his wife) as well as some other guest rooms in the main building which a couple of us moved into at the end of the contract when the rest returned home.
They had a few horses in the paddocks, and the buildings themselves were down a track from the road.
We started off working out of offices in Sunderland, but after two weeks it was broken into so we worked from the barn for a couple of weeks before moving into studio offices in Gateshead.
It was a sweet deal, we traveled up in a leased car on a Sunday night, worked 4 ten hour days, then drove back to the midlands after the Thursday shift getting a three day weekend. The director's wife was a very good cook, and she made us breakfast and dinner each day we were there, and sent in trays of sandwiches for lunch. We also got given a case or two of beer and a few packets of cigarettes each week whilst we were there.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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I recommend this place[^]
Great food, reasonable price, friendly staff, easy to get to.
In fact, I am tempted to run up there too, make a CP Gathering of it.
Maybe get one or two of the other pseudo-scots to join us.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I would be up for that. I might even be able to persuade Mr M to part fund it . No promises, but it's worth a try.
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I'm up to stress test Chris's credit limit if you are.
speramus in juniperus
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 Oh yes.
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Has Gordons been notified of the extra wagon needed for that post xmas period?
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I believe it's counting towards the economic upturn.
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How many of you have managed to live up to your diet plans? (mainly to reduce weight). I have been repeatedly failing on my convictions about avoiding sweets. For the last two weeks I was cutting down heavily on food in take , Sweets and fatty/oily items. And all of a sudden, today I noticed a parcel full of sweets in the kitchen, the wife had brought in from her relatives. I couldn't resist & started grabbing them one by one and I would look like a camel loading up stocks for a non-stop Sahara cross run. I envy those thin ones that never put on weight even if they eat a whole camel loaded with sweets.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Vunic wrote: How many of you have managed to live up to your diet plans?
I have very selfishly decided a long time ago that I would not care about my physical shape or appearance. If I have to die at 45 because I do not want to drink less beer or eat less good stuff, then be it. Carpe Diem, and better live my life fully now than live 50 years longer with privation and so on. Sure, it is healthier to eat plants and soja only, exercise the whole day, not smoke, and not tell bad jokes in the soapbox, but how boring a life it is !
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Bravo.
Where I work there are now loads of people making themselves miserable eating small amounts of tasteless food or wincing each time they move because of efforts in the gym.
Eating is a great pleasure in life, I see now reason to restrict that pleasure in the hope of getting a few more years at the end.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Carpe Diem? If only it were that simple.
The problem with really unhealthy behavior is that it usually doesn't kill you all at once. You don't suddenly die. You linger in misery.
For example, smokers blow off dying young but don't consider "living" with emphysema, wheeling around a tank of oxygen just to walk.
If you make it to diabetic, you end up eating with exceptional care - whilst your toes are amputated one-by-one, you may go blind, and lose other organ functions.
The misery comes when it comes - not on some scheduled date far off in the future. A few luck out* - most don't.
*Bacon-lovers don't consider looking like their quarry.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: For example, smokers blow off dying young but don't consider "living" with emphysema, wheeling around a tank of oxygen just to walk.
If you make it to diabetic, you end up eating with exceptional care - whilst your toes are amputated one-by-one, you may go blind, and lose other organ functions
There is one simple way to put an end to it, should it come that far.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Yeah - but when that time comes, it's different than hypothesizing about what one will do.
When of my someday famous sayings: "It's easy to say you won't scream out when your feet aren't in the fire."
Crap happens to people all the time - no doubt - but it's finding that combination of hedging your bets.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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If you get run down by a bus, tomorrow, I won' 'arf larf.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You never read in the paper about fat people dropping dead whilst out jogging.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Too true -- fat blokes just sit and watch news about skinny blokes dropping dead on the telly.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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W∴ Balboos wrote: If you make it to diabetic, you end up eating with exceptional care - whilst
your toes are amputated one-by-one, you may go blind, and lose other organ
functions
Which pretty accurately (but not the toes bit) describes the state of a guy right outside my office. He's been on the slippery slope for about three years but he just carries on eating and drinking like that's not what caused it in the first place. I've watched him say "I'm not allowed to eat cake" then 10 minutes later chow down on the largest hunk of chocolate mud cake possible.
He's one rooted unit.
If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can.
“We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone
"The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone
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All right for you ya young wipper snapper but when 45 is in the dim past you tend to take more notice, so I gave up smoking.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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