Messymascot's faith in humanity and ginger safe haven

[kev]

I’m staying a couple of nights for the Spurs game on 25th October.

Hope it's the right couple of nights A.T. The game is now on Sunday 26th.

 

[jazzy]

Afternoon all, my “mild” excitement at receiving the email with our match tickets this morning has been tempered by the need to download it to the wallet on my phone. This will be a first for me as in all the years I’ve had a smartphone I’ve never needed to use the wallet. This will require the assistance of a willing grandchild who will no doubt require a small payment in return as I don’t have a clue. Also to compound matters Mr G doesn’t have a smartphone can I put his ticket on my phone? Oh for the days of a physical ticket.

Couldnt agree more G.

I was chatting my former business partner , the most intelligent person I've ever met and he was bemoaning the hassle and faff of these e tickets and need to wait on an email and download to a wallet. "It's sucking all the enjoyment out of going to the game"

 

[Armaghtoffee]

Hope it's the right couple of nights A.T. The game is now on Sunday 26th.

It is Kev, I have it all planned

 

[kev]

It is Kev, I have it all planned

I have to say I panicked a bit when I read your post and I had to double check . . .
I had just that minute booked parking for 26th

 

[Gwladysover]

Couldnt agree more G.

I was chatting my former business partner , the most intelligent person I've ever met and he was bemoaning the hassle and faff of these e tickets and need to wait on an email and download to a wallet. "It's sucking all the enjoyment out of going to the game"

I must admit it’s taken the edge off my anticipation somewhat, along with forgotten phone, no battery, I’ve now got the worry of it not working at the turnstile, holding everyone up in the queue whilst I faff around and worst of all being denied entry.

 

[jazzy]

Someone has to do it @jazzy .I would love to see your efforts even on here .

Seeing as you asked so nicely Blue and you are so far away I took a few snaps this morning just for you. Garden far from its best and in a month or so I will put it to bed for the winter but here goes......

 

[jazzy]

@blue1948 explanation of photos;
1. Mediterranean garden created in 1st lockdown
2. Shows entry to Arboretum planted 2021/22
3. Tropical garden created last year and added to in May / June this year
4. Tropical garden
5. Think this is a duplication
6. View of lawn leading to pond
7. View up the garden with a brand new ( needs a lot of time ) fernery.
8. Spring border
9. Lawn with spring border and Tintin photo bombing!

I also have an Asian themed courtyard.....

 

[Barnfred 55]

Couldnt agree more G.

I was chatting my former business partner , the most intelligent person I've ever met and he was bemoaning the hassle and faff of these e tickets and need to wait on an email and download to a wallet. "It's sucking all the enjoyment out of going to the game"

Talking of tickets, did you send me that email mate? If so it may be in my spam which doesn't show up on my phone.

 

[jazzy]

Talking of tickets, did you send me that email mate? If so it may be in my spam which doesn't show up on my phone.

No , funnily enough I checked my email today because I thought I had ( but hadn't). So I've printed the 3 off for us !

Do you still want me to email?

I will book Rudy's. 3 of us and 6 or 6.30pm?

 

[jazzy]

Forgive the long post but OMG! yesterday was quite a day! We travelled approx 40 miles in the same time we could have flown to Los Angeles! So here we go. Had breakfast in our Rhodes hotel - lovely. Taxi to the ferry port - no problem. It was noticeable that Sunday appears to be the day when elderly ladies and young families travel to Symi- some accompanied by bags full of massive loaves of bread. And they all seemed to know each other. Having witnessed the ferry equivalent of an F1 pit stop - drop anchor, handbrake turn using anchor as pivot, reverse into dock then unload and load cars and people in 6 minutes, we set off. So far so good. We arrived at Symi, the elderly ladies and the families all piled off and headed straight to Mass. Some crawling on their knees from the ferry to the church. Les and I swerved Mass and found a bus to get us to the other end of the island where we were staying. The driver assured us he knew where we needed to be. After a trip up and down a mountain with hairpin bends the driver stopped on a building site halfway down the mountain and said ' You are here". This was strange as our apartment described itself as 'on the seafront'. Undaunted we continued down the hill to the seafront- we passed a young man who asked us was Symi Town in the direction he was walking. Umm yes, but it has taken us half an hour on a bus and you have to climb a mountain. He assured us he had plenty of water. Anyway we soon discovered we had reached The Wrong Harbour. With advice from a cafe owner, a sailor and a man in a garage we established that we needed to get another bus to the next harbour. So we did. We arrived, found our apartment and knocked. No reply. We knocked louder, a possibly stoned/ just woke up/ having some personal private time gentleman with some fetching nasal piercings and holding a pair of Calvin Klein undies in one hand, peered through a shutter. His English was limited - basically boiled down to I know nothing, go away. I then spotted a door adjacent to the apartments. It was unlocked. I opened it and ended up in somebody's front room! 'Go away, this is a house' I went away. We adjourned to a nearby hotel for a beer and a strategy meeting. We also had no WiFi signal. I went into the hotel to ask if I could use their WiFi. I explained our situation. The guy on reception, who had beautiful eyes and is my new favourite person, told me this happens a lot. He rang the apartment owners. We had another beer. The apartment owners turned up, we got in. We also met our now fully dressed neighbour sitting outside in the sun and apologised profusely to him. So we are here. Symi is stunning and I never did find out what the bread was for.

Wow what a great tale. I've been to Symi a couple of times but always stayed in Symi town and walked an easy 1/2 hour to the beach. Which village are you in?

 

[kev]

@blue1948 explanation of photos;
1. Mediterranean garden created in 1st lockdown
2. Shows entry to Arboretum planted 2021/22
3. Tropical garden created last year and added to in May / June this year
4. Tropical garden
5. Think this is a duplication
6. View of lawn leading to pond
7. View up the garden with a brand new ( needs a lot of time ) fernery.
8. Spring border
9. Lawn with spring border and Tintin photo bombing!

I also have an Asian themed courtyard.....

Lovely pics
That's not a garden BTW, that's what I would call a park.
It must certainly keep you busy, but the results are stunning.

 

[jazzy]

Lovely pics
That's not a garden BTW, that's what I would call a park.
It must certainly keep you busy, but the results are stunning.

Thanks Kev. Yeah it's a couple of acres and pretty tough work on Spring and Autumn when there's loads of pruning, moving stuff around ( 5 acers to be moved in November because they've just got too big ) and leaf collection - which I hate.

Summer is just mowing and occasional weedkiller.

Winter is dead.

If I'm being honest it's difficult to capture the scale on a few photos.

 

[anjelikaferrett]

Wow what a great tale. I've been to Symi a couple of times but always stayed in Symi town and walked an easy 1/2 hour to the beach. Which village are you in?

We are in Gialos. It is absolutely gorgeous x

 

[Barnfred 55]

No , funnily enough I checked my email today because I thought I had ( but hadn't). So I've printed the 3 off for us !

Do you still want me to email?

I will book Rudy's. 3 of us and 6 or 6.30pm?

Yeah send it through please mate. No harm in having a back up plus I want to get used to handling these e-tickets.

I would say 6pm just in case they are busy. Two full albums and a 20 minute encore is a lot to get through so I reckon it'll be starting dead on time.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Yes I like Wolf Alice. The new one, Just two girls, is so different to their normal style. Flo Ro are playing a very tiny venue in Belfast, the same one that CMAT played very recently. Intimate is the word for it- The Oh Yeah Centre.

Well the Wolf Alice show is at the 3 Arena, so not quite as intimate. The Clearing is one of the 6 LPs I purchased to kick my vinyl collection. It's a lot more poppy than their previous records but still very good.

You may have problems finding that TLDP set as two of them have already been taken down. But I found this that seems to have gone under the radar. It's OK apart from the Scythe and the Killer which some areas (including mine) had issues with the original stream. But both of the brand new ones are on there.