| 100 Years ago today. |
[Dec. 3rd, 2009|05:36 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | The Ellan Vannin Tragedy - Hugh E Jones | ] |
The Ellan Vannin Tragedy - Hugh E Jones (Source Hughie's Ditty Bag)
Snaefell, Tynwald and Ben-My-Chree,
Fourteen ships have sailed the sea.
Proudly bearing a Manx name,
But there's one will never again
Oh, Ellan Vannin, of the Isle of Man Company,
Oh, Ellan Vannin, lost in the Irish Sea.
At one a.m. in Ramsey Bay
Captain Teare was heard to say,
"Our contract said deliver the mail,
In this rough weather we must not fail."
Ocean liners sheltered from the storm,
Ellan Vannin on the wave was borne.
Her hold was full and battened down,
As she sailed toward far Liverpool town
With her crew of twenty one Manxmen,
Her passengers Liverpool business men.
Farewell to Mona's Isle, farewell,
This little ship was bound for hell.
Less than a mile from the Bar Lightship,
Ellan Vannin by a wave was hit.
She sank in the waters of Liverpool Bay
And there she lies until this day.
Few Manxmen now remember
The third day of the month December
That terrible storm of Nineteen-Nine,
Ellan Vannin sailed for the very last time.
"The Ellan Vannin was originally built as an iron paddle steamer and named Mona's Isle". Constructed in Scotland by Tod & MacGregor at Meadowside, Glasgow in 1860 at a cost of 10,673UK£. She had a gross tonnage on building of 339 tons, top speed of 12 knots and an overall length of 63.09metres. She was launched on 10 April 1860. In 1883 the Mona's Isle was converted to a twin screw steamer by Westray, Copeland and Co. of Barrow and renamed Ellan Vannin on 16 November 1883.
(From the Middle Bar Email List - but I knew the song beforehand as played by the Spinners.) |
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| NO ONE PIECE THIS WEEK |
[Jul. 14th, 2009|04:10 pm] |
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I'm probably going to join Will and watch the new Harry Potter film (5:30 - assuming I can get there in time). |
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| NO ONE PIECE THIS WEEK |
[Jun. 17th, 2009|12:00 pm] |
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Taking Gran to WI and back. And watering Tomatoes (Parents are walking the coast path) |
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| Gaming |
[Apr. 28th, 2009|10:34 am] |
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Henge-Youkai tonight for just me and Tom, then One Piece tomorrow. |
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| No One Piece today (Easter Holiday) - However there is Star Trek |
[Mar. 25th, 2009|07:18 am] |
Hi all.
I'll be running a Star Trek game instead, set after all the series' and after all but two of the novels.
Today will be character gen, back-story and the lead up to the plot, with the main plot due next week. I'm off on the canal boat for a week, then I'll bring the mini-game to some sort of conclusion the week after.
Then it will be back to one piece with the new term starting at uni.
So, start thinking about a Federation Starship Engineer you'd like to play. |
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| New Years |
[Dec. 30th, 2008|03:13 pm] |
So I'll be at the party at Will's for new years.
Afterwards...
One Piece games starts again first Wednesday of term. I believe that is the 7th?
Edit - I believe wrongly, first Wed of term is the 14th. So Warewolf on 7th then One Piece the following week. |
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| Yes there is One Piece today. |
[Dec. 3rd, 2008|03:08 pm] |
So I've updated the friends only group.
Especially after the wonderful Grand Cosplay Ball in London on Sunday night into Monday morning. Which I went to as Luffy. |
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| (no subject) |
[Oct. 15th, 2008|07:37 am] |
Nicked from [info]Jane_olive cause it looked cool.
1. Your rock star name (first pet, current car): Rosie Victor
2. Your gangsta name (fave ice cream flavour, favourite type of shoe): Vanilla Black
3. Your Native American name (favourite colour, favourite animal): Blue
4. Your soap opera name (middle name, city where you were born): Richard Exeter
5. Your Star Wars name (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 of your first name): cooan
6. Superhero name (2nd favourite colour, favourite drink): White Lemonade
7. NASCAR name (the first names of your grandfathers): Lennard Samuel
8. Stripper name (the name of your favourite perfume/cologne/scent, favourite candy): Triple Protection Chocolate
10.. Spy name (your favourite season/holiday, flower): Spring Daisy
11. Cartoon name: (favourite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now): Satsuma Shirt
12. Hippie name (What you ate for breakfast, your favourite tree): Pain au chocolat Oak |
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| One Piece |
[Oct. 6th, 2008|10:39 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  devious | ] |
The One Piece game will try to resume again on Wed 8th.
I am thinking of possibly making it every other week. Then people can go off and do other things and not have their characters phasing out of the story, or getting knocked unconscious for some flangey reason.
Much silliness should occur.....and we will be playing a fun game as well!
See you guys then.
Plotting......................................... |
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| Dance then where-ever you may be |
[Oct. 6th, 2008|10:32 pm] |
| [ | mood |
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So, Thursday was Morris.
Friday was Warewolf - not dancing, but one of the characters is called "Waltzes to war"
Saturday night I went to Totness for a Ceilidh, Dartmoor Pixie Band were calling, and apart from starting and ending with Circassian Circle, the dances were complicated but flowed well and were fun. I was dancing with Sarah - who is also an experienced dancer, so we were able put in lots of flurishes and extra spins. :-D
Sunday was fresher's fair at the University. I was supporting Folk Soc. - very busy and loads of people.
Sunday night was an amazing session at the Fire House.
Monday night was a session in JCR, followed by dancing. Nice easy dancing, with lots of new faces, but even higher energy per dance. :-D
I will be glad of tomorrow's scheduled rest evening. |
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| So how many are folk? and will anyone get the anime ones? |
[Sep. 23rd, 2008|06:54 pm] |
Step 1: Put your media player on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: BoldStrikethrough the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is wrong. Wrongwrongwrong.
Step 6: PROFIT!
Step 7: If instrumental add 1 more to the number to do
Stolen from various people.
* Those I actually listen to regularly
*1: nagaredashita hito gomi no jidoukaisatsu wo (The crowd of people poured out of the ticket gate,)
*2: There lies a little farm house away across the moor tivunel Fill up the cider cup (The Yetties / Trad)
3: -Can't make out what the first line is and I don't know it- (skip)
3 (try2): In <FOIP> there lived an old saint
*4: Three jolly coachmen sat in a Bristol tavern Landlord Fill the Flowing Bowl (The Yetties / Trad) catmint 1984
5: <FOIP> Just cos I'm dead and gone
*6: oo ooo oo oo oo totemon ureshi ka dio
7: An I don't wanna know ?mish kane wans come fear?
*8: <FOIP> Singing is the thing tivunel It's a fine thing to sing (The Yetties / Trad)
*9: <Instrumental Track> Title = Buttered Peas (Trad) catmint 1984
10: De le ??? de l'epoulet <or something like that> on parti du village. (not from that cd, but I can't actually remember what it was!) La Cuisiniere? Perhaps can't remember, definately La Bottine Souriante though tivunel
*11: <um another one in a language I don't know, welsh I think> Title = Athair Ar Naimh tivunel
*12: Now when I were a young man my father did say Good English Ale, the yetties tivunel
13: Its a neet, there's a neet <?not sure>
14: Miserable <FOIP>, Oh don't strike me Dorin. <Not a song, an audio book chapter appeared instead!>
*15: <Instrumental Track> Title = Umi no Namamono
*16: Fair thee well to my dream Silly old Fussel, the yetties tivunel
17: <Really corrupted track - I think it starts with> Some people wait till it stops but I just keep on singing - Wombling in the Rain! (ish tivunel )
18: <FOIP> and <FOIP>, Firelight and shawl
19: <Instrumental Track - that audio book again!> Title: Opening and <FOIP>'s theme (<FOIP>)
*20: <Instrumental Track> Departure of the King of Pirates
21: The shadows of the night,
22: Yeah come on flat top, grooving it up slowly
23: Oh you close your eyes, theres a frightened cry
24: Oh the sharp thing has such teeth there Mack the Knife tivunel
25: <Instrumental> Title: The Manchester Hornpipe / Maggie Dickie's / The De'il Among the Tailors <- but what instrument?>
26: It's good, Isn't it grand, Isn't swell, Isn't fun, Isn't it <FOIP>
27: Through the <FOIP> lanes of time from the safety of now
28: It was like honey, no one else could fill his shoes
29: <Instrumental> Title: Amon Hen From The Fellowship of the Ring movie sound track catmint 1984
30: "You know what? I never did find out what kind of shop it is that sells outfits for nurses and maids" <Sound clip from?> Fruits Basket (actually Tohru not Yuki) tivunel
*31: 'ej HumtaH 'ej DechtaH 'Iw <I think - answer this one if you can anyway> Some strange klingon thing? Yep! tivunel (Kor's song that he sang one DS9 episode)
*32: We were sailing up the coast of Forinya Do you speak norsican?, The Bricks (over troubled mortar) tivunel
*33: Quand on est parti de Ste-Mélanie Par un début d'après-midi
*34: All together <FOIP>, Last year on the villiage outin' Singing all the Way, the yetties tivunel
*35: <Instrumental> Title: Polskas Artist: Stomp Album: __________________
36: <Instrumental> Title: Nejimaki Shima no Houkai
*37: <Ed's voice is too high for me to make out the words>
*38: As the sun sets beyond the pyramid
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| Bento |
[Sep. 14th, 2008|06:19 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  pleased | ] |
I had a go at cooking bento lunch-boxes today.
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| Windows XP failure |
[Sep. 7th, 2008|03:37 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  anxious | ] |
Now getting blue screen of death on my other main PC. Can't seem to get it to boot or find my install CDs. Damn.
(C) Hard drive now scandisked and defragged. Backed up to new USB drive. Main storage disk also needed scandisk. Seemed to work.
New wireless link up and runnning on this PC so I can access the internet and post. No sound working as yet.
So, searching through more boxes to try and find that CD - or the other one from the PC before... probebly together! |
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