On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:57:07 -0000, "Neil Arlidge" <[email protected]> wrote:
>We are so poor over here, that many people are getting small SH plastic >flappy-cloth wind poweredcraft to continue boating. Complete doom and gloom here too. I'm driving to Enniskillen on Friday, ostensibly to the opening of Waterways Ireland's new offices, but in fact to load up on cheap dogfood at UK prices. Not for the dogs: for us. >I first saw that whizzy new Mermaid JCB J444 engine at ExCel....now what >possible use could that be to an elderly barge? ;-) They don't have things like that at the Dublin Boatshow. Which is just as well, really, because if they did I might feel I had to attend the blasted thing, and I'd feel all out of place without a blazer. Incidentally, I came across a reference to the yachting chaps of Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire) the other day. Under a photo of the Royal St George Yacht Club the caption reads: Yachting is, perhaps, the chiefest recreation of the gay population of Kingstown, now numbering about 20,000 souls, mostly of the aristocratic and "well-to-do" classes. >From The Hon John F Finerty *Ireland in Pictures* published by The International Photographic Publishing Co Inc, Chicago 1898, available at http://www.quinnipiac.edu/other/abl/etext/irish/pictures/p307.html >I am only going, because Ian is madly driving to ExCel. >Shall I take my video and camera and get arrested? And a knife and a taser. YOu could test the taser on the electronics stands. bjg
