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My seasonal "summer" thread.

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Just thought I'd ask again chaps & ladies, what will you do during the long summer days when you have no rugby to occupy your chat centres?

My latest fetish is for mechanical gramophones, so I might restore one or three. I've found my mechanical level with the gramophone, electronics I can do to a reasonable standard. Mechanical stuff.... I'm not so good at. But I can manage gramophones and I like them, so... Gramophones this summer.

Will probably sneak off to Italy at some point to waste some nice Italian chap's 7.62 NATO for a weekend.

I think that's it this year.... Getting old.
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Kerry in July Spain in August, tending to horses and donkeys in Millisle. That apart following Rory Best's captaincy in North America and watching the Rugby Championship.

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Alps in June and the USofA in July
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USA in August but a bit of golf over the summer never goes amiss. Fills the time nicely.
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Trying to get cheap seasoned logs,hopefully demand will be down and someone will even deliver them to the door.
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Off to see a re-enactment of the battle of Waterloo in June, then speaking at a couple of conferences in Vienna in July, then I have got two friends from California over in August who want to see the best of Ireland so any good suggestions greatly received.
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bootlaced wrote:Trying to get cheap seasoned logs,hopefully demand will be down and someone will even deliver them to the door.

I hear there are some seasoned logs blocking trap 2, I'd imagine UR may pay you to take them away. :shock: :shock: :shock:
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I would imagine that they are far too soggy to burn.
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Indiana wrote:Off to see a re-enactment of the battle of Waterloo in June, then speaking at a couple of conferences in Vienna in July, then I have got two friends from California over in August who want to see the best of Ireland so any good suggestions greatly received.

What sort of things are they into?
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Transfer-Siberian railway journey with the better half, looking forward to three weeks of good food , wine with the occasional vodka chucked in.
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LastKnightoftheproms wrote:
BaggyTrousers wrote:
bootlaced wrote:Trying to get cheap seasoned logs,hopefully demand will be down and someone will even deliver them to the door.

I hear there are some seasoned logs blocking trap 2, I'd imagine UR may pay you to take them away. :shock: :shock: :shock:
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Rome/Naples in June; Spain in July; as much time as possible watching the Ashes.
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big mervyn wrote:Rome/Naples in June; Spain in July; as much time as possible watching the Ashes.

What from the burning logs, boring
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bootlaced wrote:I would imagine that they are far too soggy to burn.
Have you ever driven up around Donegal and seen stacks of peat drying out? Just a thought......... >EW
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I would imagine that the smell of Guinness and Gin could well give the game away.And the atomic half life may disrupt the natural balance of things.
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