On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:26:15 +0000, Sacha
wrote:

~On 9/2/05 5:53 pm, in article ,
~"jane" wrote:
~
~ On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 14:21:35 +0000, Sacha
~ wrote:
~
~snip
~It's said that the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire cherishes a remark
~ ~in her visitors' book - "We saw the Duke in the garden and he looked quite
~ ~normal!".
~
~ Um, Dowager? I hadn't heard the Duke had died! AFAIK (and their
~ website) he's still here...
~
~I don't know which web site you're looking at but the current one says:
~
~"It is with the greatest sadness that we report the death of the 11th Duke
~of Devonshire, KG, PC, MC, on 3rd May 2004. He was 84 and had held the title
~since 1950. He is survived by his wife, now the Dowager Duchess of
~Devonshire, and their three children, eight grandchildren and eleven
~great-grandchildren. Their son, formerly Lord Hartington, is now the 12th
~Duke of Devonshire..........."
~http://www.chatsworth-house.co.uk/ne...011th_duke.htm
~
Oh rats - thanks for this. I was looking at the site and the pages I
found never said a dickie bird. And I checked before querying your
post... obviously didn't find that one you quote!

I shall tell my Mum off for not mentioning this... though I was just
preparing to shove off to Japan for 11 days so perhaps she thought I
wasn't interested. *sigh*

Another good one bites the dust. Long may he be remembered.




--
jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

Please remove onmaps from replies, thanks!

On 9/2/05 22:56, in article , "jane"
wrote:

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:26:15 +0000, Sacha
wrote:

snip- Their son, formerly Lord Hartington, is now the 12th
~Duke of Devonshire..........."
~http://www.chatsworth-house.co.uk/ne...011th_duke.htm
~
Oh rats - thanks for this. I was looking at the site and the pages I
found never said a dickie bird. And I checked before querying your
post... obviously didn't find that one you quote!

I shall tell my Mum off for not mentioning this... though I was just
preparing to shove off to Japan for 11 days so perhaps she thought I
wasn't interested. *sigh*

Another good one bites the dust. Long may he be remembered.

He was a character alright! He always wore the same type of yellow socks
because then he never had to hunt for the 'odd' ones. ;-)
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

"Kay" wrote in message
...
In article , Bennett Langdon
writes

Many thanks. PS Have you got a Cornish Aromatic Apple Tree?

I have. Why?

I read a thing about them in the papers a while back; liked the name. What
are the apples like?

Nick

"Bennett Langdon" wrote in
message ...

"Mike" wrote in message
...
My word, I bet you feel a lot better getting that tirade off your chest.

Might I respectfully recomend a wonderful book which would, I feel, do
you
a
lot of good?

"Psycho-cybernetics" by Maxwell Maltz.



I do apologise: I seem to have caused an altercation.

No you haven't. It's often like that round here. Ignore.

Steve

"Sacha" wrote in message
k...
On 9/2/05 2:08 am, in article ,
"Janet Baraclough" wrote:

The message
from "Mike Lyle" contains these
words:

Often only too realistic, as well: "I don't know what to give
my wife for Christmas: after all, I've only been married to her for
twenty years."

Speaking of which, last week John met our neighbour returning from a
lone shopping trip to a Shed. The neighbour had been to that repository
of feminine delights to choose "a surprise" for his wife's 59th
birthday on Valentine's Day .

An electric drill. (It was a toss-up between that and a kitchen hob).


That would be a surprise, no? And therefore fulfil the requirements as far
as I'm concerned.

Steve

shazzbat wrote:
"Sacha" wrote in message
k...
On 9/2/05 2:08 am, in article
, "Janet Baraclough"
wrote:

The message
from "Mike Lyle" contains
these words:

Often only too realistic, as well: "I don't know what to give
my wife for Christmas: after all, I've only been married to her
for
twenty years."

Speaking of which, last week John met our neighbour returning
from
a lone shopping trip to a Shed. The neighbour had been to that
repository of feminine delights to choose "a surprise" for his
wife's 59th birthday on Valentine's Day .

An electric drill. (It was a toss-up between that and a kitchen
hob).


That would be a surprise, no? And therefore fulfil the requirements
as far as I'm concerned.

Romance is not dead: what a relief! But why not go the whole hog and
give her a concrete-mixer?

Mike.

On 11/2/05 13:25, in article , "Mike Lyle"
wrote:

snip
Romance is not dead: what a relief! But why not go the whole hog and
give her a concrete-mixer?

Mike.


Because she had that last Christmas?
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

Did I detect a note of humour in barracloff's posting?????????????????

What next I ask!!!!!!!!!!!!

Janet Baraclough wrote:
The message
from "Mike Lyle" contains
these
words:

shazzbat wrote:

, "Janet Baraclough"
wrote:

Speaking of which, last week John met our neighbour returning
from
a lone shopping trip to a Shed. The neighbour had been to that
repository of feminine delights to choose "a surprise" for his
wife's 59th birthday on Valentine's Day .

An electric drill. (It was a toss-up between that and a kitchen
hob).


That would be a surprise, no? And therefore fulfil the
requirements
as far as I'm concerned.

Romance is not dead: what a relief! But why not go the whole hog
and
give her a concrete-mixer?

Memo to Mrs Lyle and Mrs Shazzbat....men really love to get socks
for their birthday. Oops, spoilt the surprise....

My grandmother used to send me (among other things, I hasten to add;
along with my mother's genuine Irish linen tea-towel with Australian
scenes printed on it: how crazed is that?) a handkerchief with my
initials on it every Christmas, all the way from Oz. Well into the
Kleenex era. I figure it would have been a shade ostentatious if I'd
used it Prince-Charles-style in my top pocket, with the initials
showing -- even he would never go that far! (But then, if you don't
know his initials, he probably doesn't want you to know.)

Mike.

"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
...
The message
from "Mike Lyle" contains these
words:

shazzbat wrote:

, "Janet Baraclough"
wrote:

Speaking of which, last week John met our neighbour returning
from
a lone shopping trip to a Shed. The neighbour had been to that
repository of feminine delights to choose "a surprise" for his
wife's 59th birthday on Valentine's Day .

An electric drill. (It was a toss-up between that and a kitchen
hob).


That would be a surprise, no? And therefore fulfil the requirements
as far as I'm concerned.

Romance is not dead: what a relief! But why not go the whole hog and
give her a concrete-mixer?

Memo to Mrs Lyle and Mrs Shazzbat....men really love to get socks for
their birthday. Oops, spoilt the surprise....


If I was to get socks for my birthday it would be a surprise. Usually I get
them for Christmas.

Steve