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Vic Patterson

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  1. 2 hours ago, Canny lass said:

     

    18.   27.9 miles

    Thank you for putting up with me! It's been an interesting experience and I've learned a lot about you in the process. For instance, I now know that I'm hobb-nobbing with people who seem to know a lot about gansters, whores, drugs, gambling, dictators and just about every alcoholic beverage known to mankind but on the other hand, are also pretty  knowledgeable about things like: geography, history, languages (including Japanese!), religion, cooking, world cultures, Easter, Christmas and sport. I take my iridescent purple hat off to you all.

    So true CL about learning about others, I feel I know the other regulars quite well now. I like to go through the questions I know the answers too, then I Google what's left, sometimes a know a lot of the answers but then most of the time I have to learn a lot! Having spent 25 years in gaol I met my share gangsters etc (and most of them were inmates!)

    Not being from Bedlington I thought I'd better leave this one to the experts!

    Then sometimes I'm left guessing, like #18 answer, was the 1.1 mile difference because the tide out when Eggy measured it? 

    Thank's again. Vic

  2. 1.         What would you expect to find in a pluvial region? High precipitation

    2.         Where is Rupert Bear’s home town? Nutwood

    3.         What is the surname of boxing brothers Leon and Michael? Spinks

    4.         From which country does the wine Johannisberger come? Germany

    5.         A nectarine is a cross between a peach and which other fruit? Plum

    6.         In what year did Salman Rushdie go into hiding? 1989

    7.         There are two Cleopatra’s Needles. One is in London, where is the other? New York City

    8.         Who sang the theme song to the Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me?  Marvin Hamlisch

    9.         Who in literature was haunted by the ghost of Banquo? Macbeth

    10.      Into which sea or ocean does the Mekong river flow? South China Sea.

    11.      Which European prime minister was assassinated in February 1986? Olof Palme

    12.      What were The Kinks dedicated followers of in 1966? Fashion

     

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  3. 1.         Drove (or litter.)

    2.         1,500-metre run.

    3.         South Island

    4.         Paris.

    5.        Kettledrums

    6.         Kate Hudson

    7.         Brooker, Reid and Fisher

    8.         King of Scots Robert the Bruce

    9.         Julius Caesar

    10.      Cricket

    11.      Helium. (lithium, beryllium, and boron)

    12.      Apple

  4. 1 hour ago, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

     

    I kept my old PC with Windows Vista as that is the machine I have the software that I use when 'clarting' with the photos.:thumbsup:.

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    Same here! but as of last week it doesn't recognize me and won't let me log into my Toshiba Satellite Vista, "The user Profile Service failed the logon, User profile cannot be loaded" It was my favourite computer as we spoke the same language ! most of my most important (but older) information is on it, I have most of the information on an external drive but my newer Windows and Apple just cooperate! 🙄

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  5. Thank you all so much for your kind thoughts and prayers, it seems no matter how prepared you feel you are it is still a shock, that is when friends and family are so important.

    Creating memories is very important, not long ago we called her sister Joyce, their first conversation was of a four year olds  Christmas in Phillips Yard and an "incident" with a dolly that had a celluloid face! Creating and recounting memories is so important. 

    We brought her bedridden mom Ruby with us to Canada, in a few years the dry mountain air enabled her to regain some mobility and was able to walk and attend her weekly "Bingo" 19 bonus years. Bonus memories for her grand children!

    Thank you again for you appreciated thoughts.

    Vic.

     

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  6. It is with great sadness I have to announce the passing away of my wife Dot (Doreen Dagless) Patterson, after a long illness she passed away May 10th in the Grande Cache hospital (Alberta, Canada), peacefully, with her family by her side.

    Born June 9th 1944 and raised in Bedlington, Married in St Cuthbert's church September 5th 1962, she raised four children, Andrea, Keith, Angela and Amanda, and then moved to Canada 1976, where the family became larger gaining 10 grand children 7 great grandchildren .

    It has been many years since she was able to visit Bedlington but was able to keep in touch with several friends and school friends (Hollymount square, Westridge school), and fondly remembered the reunions 

    She was pre deceased by her mom and dad, Ruby and Bill Dagless and her sister Jean Harrison.

    Vic Patterson.

  7. 1.         In which English county is Much Wenlock. Shropshire     

    2.         How wide apart are the ‘tramlines’ in tennis. 35ft

    3.         How many syllables are there in a haiku. 17

    4.         Who is the patron saint of tax collectors. Matthew

    5.         Which organization has the motto ‘Courtesy and Care’.Automobile  Association.

    6.         For which country did David Campese play rugby union. Australia

    7.         From which language does the word ‘shampoo’ originate. Indian

    8.         What is a chuckwalla. Lizzard

    9.         What did Shakespeare describe as ‘Green-eyed monster’.Jealousy.

    10.      Which scientist, who produced the Laws of Motion, was born on Christmas day 1642. Isaac Newton

    11.      Bilbo Baggins appears in which book. The Hobbit,

    12.      What is Britain’s most remote inhabited island. Fair Isle

     

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  8. 1.         Which Japanese word (English spelling please) translates as ‘Empty Orchestra’?karaoke

    2.         Who could only play one tune – Over The Hills And Far Away?Tom, the Piper's Son

    3.         Off which group of islands would you find Bishop Rock lighthouse?Isles of Scilly

    4.         Which English monarch had a horse called White Surrey?King Richard III

    5.         Who missed the last penalty in the 1994 football World Cup?Roberto Baggio

    6.         What are the three ingredients of a Harvey Wallbanger cocktail?Vodka, Galliano and orange juice.

    7.         Which British architect designed the Cenotaph?Sir Edwin Lutyens

    8.         How many months have twenty eight days? 12

    9.         The Star of Africa is what type of gem?Diamond

    10.      Apart from Newcastle United which other team is nicknamed The Magpies?The Collingwood Football Club Brian will know this one.

    11.      What sort of creature is a Hairstreak?Butterfly

    12.      What is the name and profession of the hedgehog  character created by Beatrix Potter?Washerwoman

     

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  9. 1.         Of which instrument was the sackbut a forerunner? Trombone

    2.         Which Riviera fishing village was an independent republic from the 15th to the 17th century? Genoa

    3.         What are young grouse or partridge called? Poult

    4.         Who invented the steam turbine in 1884? Charles Parsons

    5.         What is your philtrum? The groove between the nose and upper lip.

    6.         Arch, whorl and loops are all part of what? Fingerprints

    7.         Which fruit was discovered by Christopher Columbus in Guadeloupe in 1493? Pineapple

    8.         Which spice is made from the outer covering of the nutmeg? Mace

    9.         What did goalkeeper Gordon Banks reputedly put on his hands to improve his grip? Chewing gum.

    10.      What are auctioned at Tattersalls? Horses

    11.      What record was a chart-topping hit for Showaddywaddy in 1975? Sweet Music and Three Steps to Heaven.

    12.      What is the smallest independent state in the world? Vatican City

     

  10. 6 hours ago, Canny lass said:

    It must have some relevance for the area if it's nothing to do with just Easter. Any idea what?

    Vegreville is predominately settled with Ukrainian immigrants, mainly farmers, and the pysanka being their traditional way of decorating Easter eggs, the area is well known for its heritage preservation, music, dancing, singing etc and like many other small towns they like to advertise their clams to fame by erecting a large symbol, which also happens to be a wind vane! Grande Cache has a Grande Cache!

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  11. 5 hours ago, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

     

    My memory says our mam would boil the ones to be used for japping with the brown outer skins of onions making the egg shell stain a patchy brown.

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    On half of the eggs to be boiled for japping my dad was allowed to put designs on them by using a candle. He would draw out a pattern, with the candle, on the egg shell and the egg would then be wrapped with the onion skins, secured onto the egg with cord/twine, and then the egg boiled. When the onion skins were removed, after boiling, the wax from the candle had protected the onion skins from staining the pattern that had been drawn with the candle.

    We all had one hardboiled egg to paint = competition and the winners egg was kept on display for months, or until one of the loosing children accidently😇 knocked the winning egg over and cracked the shell.

    Being the youngest of the 3 lads my head was a place where the other two would crack open a hard boiled egg😬

     

    Yes Alan that is how we decorated most of the eggs, hand painting the rest of them. My dad was quite an artist and he would paint pictures mostly the three crosses etc, he even made "Humpty Dumpy" eggs, plastercine limbs and sitting on a match box, my wife won a wrist watch with one at "the Club" or Grapes! 

    These are about 35 years old, and come out each year.

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  12. 6 hours ago, Canny lass said:

    Confused, Vic?  What I'm trying to say is that "sack" has never meant wine. In more modern day parlance, wine is a noun and sack is the adjective that describes the wine as being dry. The modern day name would therefore be HONEY DRY FARM. This just doesn't sound right for a farm name. Mind you, neither does Honey Sack Farm.

    I'm hoping John can let us see the original of those three handwritten words.

    Not really confused, but I never did get past the noun, verb and adjectives rules! but I learned just enough to be understood (usually) 

  13. 8 hours ago, Canny lass said:

    I think mine was too! However, i did get to taste  a Thorntons egg ( a very small piece of) a couple of times in my childhood. My sister worked for Berthe Burns in her 'Tea Rooms in Morpeth and Bertha was very generous at Xmas and Easter when her employees recieved a small box of chocolates (Xmas) or a chocolate egg (Easter) - always from Thorntons.

    Chocolate! we used to dye or paint our paste eggs! then exchange them them within the family then have egg japping contest at tea time, (pointy to pointy and blunt to blunt ends!)

  14. 1.         Ukrainian Easter egg

    2.        The Easter Bilby

    3.        Dairy products

    4.         Peter Carl Fabergé's

    5.         Pre-Christian goddess in England, Eostre, who was celebrated at beginning of spring.

    6.         Fertility and rebirth,  Easter eggs symbolize the empty tomb of Jesus, from which Jesus resurrected.

    7.         Queen Elizabeth I

    8.         Germany

    9.         President Hayes

    10.      Establish Easter Sunday as the Sunday following the second Saturday in April

    11.      No

    12.      40 days

    13.      16 oz

    14.      Pancake Tuesday!

    15.     Chile

    16.      April 16

    17.      Maundy Thursday

    18.      England

    19.      Ash Wednesday

    20.      Spanish

    21.      Hot cross bunnies!

    I used to pass this Pysanka in Vegreville on my way to Saskatoon.

     

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  15. I can relate to your predicament CL, Although our restrictions generally are not as severe as in many countries, Canada is having the same Covid problems, Politics, 10 Provinces 3 Territories all working separately and with not enough vaccine, all setting different priorities, I've had my first shot but the second one might be four months!,

    I look forward to doing the Friday night quiz over BREAKFAST. (the rest of the day can just wait!) thank you for the challenges you set.

     

    1.        Domesday Book

    2.         Cambria (Cymru.)

    3.         Otter

    4.         Abdominal abscess.

    5.         George H. W. Bush

    6.         Paradine

    7.         Gum arabic

    8.         King Hussein of Jordan

    9.         Eggs

    10.      Daimler

    11.       Richard Adams

    12.      Dennis the Menace

     

  16. Well done Malcolm, you can look back and see what you have achieved and be very proud of yourself and of the others who helped make these things happen. Many people will enjoy and benefit from these achievements and not be aware of the efforts you went too, but we know!

    Thank you.

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