Birthday News for today, 8 February: Pauline Young.

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Thank you. I am here lurking most of the time!

Best wishes to all who remember me and to those who don't.

Pauline

docary64@gmail.com (PYoung) writes:

> Thank you. I am here lurking most of the time!
>
> Best wishes to all who remember me and to those who don't.
>
> Pauline

Hello, stranger! I remember you! Lovely to see you back amongst us.

Rosie

Thank you Rosie. It is always nice to see how many old BBQers are still posting in this most old fashioned way. Chris McMillan has always kept me up to date with major events. Now I have been kicked off Google Groups it has prompted me to pull my finger out and start contributing.

I had been meaning to ask if other Umrats are finding it difficult to get Rich Tea Fingers? I cannot find them anywhere around here - great big round ones, yes, but not the finger type.

Pauline

PYoung <docary64@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you. I am here lurking most of the time!
>
> Best wishes to all who remember me and to those who don't.
>
> Pauline
>

C’mon, you know that any true Umrat cannot lurk - so de-lurk this instant
please!

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On 08/02/2024 12:58, PYoung wrote:
> Thank you.  I am here lurking most of the time!
>
> Best wishes to all who remember me and to those who don't.
>
> Pauline

Happy birthday, from one of the former! I'm glad your birthday has
lured you out of lurking ;)

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On 08/02/2024 12:58, PYoung wrote:
> Thank you.  I am here lurking most of the time!
>
> Best wishes to all who remember me and to those who don't.
>
> Pauline

Hallo Pauline! I'm still here too, off and on, posting from far
Edinburgh (though not as far as Anne Burgess who is *really* in the north)

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On 08/02/2024 12:58, PYoung wrote:
> Thank you.  I am here lurking most of the time!
>
Huzzah !

Kate B <elvira@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes:

> On 08/02/2024 12:58, PYoung wrote:
>> Thank you.  I am here lurking most of the time!
>> Best wishes to all who remember me and to those who don't.
>> Pauline
>
> Hallo Pauline! I'm still here too, off and on, posting from far
> Edinburgh (though not as far as Anne Burgess who is *really* in the
> north)

Anne is considerably south of Thurso, never mind the island of Unst, so
if she's *really in the north where is Haroldswick?

Rosie

On 08/02/2024 12:58, PYoung wrote:
> Thank you.  I am here lurking most of the time!
>
> Best wishes to all who remember me and to those who don't.
>
> Pauline

Hello! I'm lurking here, more than I used to but not all the time and
only posting occasionally.

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Rosie Mitchell <rcmitchell@golgonooza.co.uk> wrote:
> Kate B <elvira@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
>> On 08/02/2024 12:58, PYoung wrote:
>>> Thank you.  I am here lurking most of the time!
>>> Best wishes to all who remember me and to those who don't.
>>> Pauline
>>
>> Hallo Pauline! I'm still here too, off and on, posting from far
>> Edinburgh (though not as far as Anne Burgess who is *really* in the
>> north)
>
> Anne is considerably south of Thurso, never mind the island of Unst, so
> if she's *really in the north where is Haroldswick?
>
> Rosie
>

Where ever Harold left it I imagine!

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On Thu, 8 Feb 2024 13:53:58 +0000, docary64@gmail.com (PYoung) wrote:

>Thank you Rosie. It is always nice to see how many old BBQers are still posting in this most old fashioned way. Chris McMillan has always kept me up to date with major events. Now I have been kicked off Google Groups it has prompted me to pull my finger out and start contributing.
>
>I had been meaning to ask if other Umrats are finding it difficult to get Rich Tea Fingers? I cannot find them anywhere around here - great big round ones, yes, but not the finger type.

It's Royal Scot's that I miss.
Hello Pauline. Welcome back.

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I imagine I am the most Easterly one still in UK. I have returned to my roots and now live a few miles from Sizewell and the "Sunrise Coast" in Suffolk.

Thank you for all your welcoming messages - I think I shall stay!

Pauline

PYoung <docary64@gmail.com> wrote:
> I imagine I am the most Easterly one still in UK. I have returned to my
> roots and now live a few miles from Sizewell and the "Sunrise Coast" in Suffolk.
>
> Thank you for all your welcoming messages - I think I shall stay!
>
> Pauline
>

Good - the right decision Pauline! 😊

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On 08-Feb-24 13:53, PYoung wrote:
> Thank you Rosie.  It is always nice to see how many old BBQers are still
> posting in this most old fashioned way.  Chris McMillan has always kept
> me up to date with major events.  Now I have been kicked off Google
> Groups it has prompted me to pull my finger out and start contributing.
>
> I had been meaning to ask if other Umrats are finding it difficult to
> get Rich Tea Fingers?  I cannot find them anywhere around here - great
> big round ones, yes, but not the finger type.

Not Rich Tea Fingers as well? We are still looking for ways around the
Great Glengettie teabag robbery. (Loose-leaf Glengettie is possible to
find, if you look hard enough, but the tea bags have gone without a trace).

The parent company (Typhoo) was sold off to a private equity firm, who
have done what such firms do.
I.E. Closed the factory (probably to make a profit by selling off the
site for housing), and 'outsourced' all the products - though our tea
bags don't seem to be sourcing from anywhere.

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Sam Plusnet

On 08/02/2024 19:22, Sam Plusnet wrote:
> On 08-Feb-24 13:53, PYoung wrote:
>> Thank you Rosie.  It is always nice to see how many old BBQers are
>> still posting in this most old fashioned way.  Chris McMillan has
>> always kept me up to date with major events.  Now I have been kicked
>> off Google Groups it has prompted me to pull my finger out and start
>> contributing.
>>
>> I had been meaning to ask if other Umrats are finding it difficult to
>> get Rich Tea Fingers?  I cannot find them anywhere around here - great
>> big round ones, yes, but not the finger type.
>
> Not Rich Tea Fingers as well?  We are still looking for ways around the
> Great Glengettie teabag robbery.  (Loose-leaf Glengettie is possible to
> find, if you look hard enough, but the tea bags have gone without a trace).
>
They appear to be available on Amazon. £16 for 80.

On 08/02/2024 19:45, BrritSki wrote:
> On 08/02/2024 19:22, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>> On 08-Feb-24 13:53, PYoung wrote:
>>> Thank you Rosie.  It is always nice to see how many old BBQers are
>>> still posting in this most old fashioned way.  Chris McMillan has
>>> always kept me up to date with major events.  Now I have been kicked
>>> off Google Groups it has prompted me to pull my finger out and start
>>> contributing.
>>>
>>> I had been meaning to ask if other Umrats are finding it difficult to
>>> get Rich Tea Fingers?  I cannot find them anywhere around here -
>>> great big round ones, yes, but not the finger type.
>>
>> Not Rich Tea Fingers as well?  We are still looking for ways around
>> the Great Glengettie teabag robbery.  (Loose-leaf Glengettie is
>> possible to find, if you look hard enough, but the tea bags have gone
>> without a trace).
>>
> They appear to be available on Amazon. £16 for 80.
>
Ooops, look like that's TWO packs of 80.

In message <uq342e$22jlq$1@dont-email.me> at Thu, 8 Feb 2024 17:46:54,
Mike McMillan <toodle.pip1@virginmedia.com> writes
>PYoung <docary64@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I imagine I am the most Easterly one still in UK. I have returned to my
>> roots and now live a few miles from Sizewell and the "Sunrise Coast"
>>in Suffolk.

I was idly looking at Google Maps (OK, I was looking at how far
something I'd bought on eBay had to come [it's coming from near Glasgow
IIRR], and zoomed in on some dot), and was interested to see that GM
marked it as "most westerly point in the UK" or something like that. (I
think the dot is St. Kilda.)
>>
>> Thank you for all your welcoming messages - I think I shall stay!
>>
>> Pauline
>>
>
>Good - the right decision Pauline! 0 >
Indeed!

P. S. - OnTish! - my spelling checker suggested "Hilda" above!
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J. P. Gilliver <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
> In message <uq342e$22jlq$1@dont-email.me> at Thu, 8 Feb 2024 17:46:54,
> Mike McMillan <toodle.pip1@virginmedia.com> writes
>> PYoung <docary64@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I imagine I am the most Easterly one still in UK. I have returned to my
>>> roots and now live a few miles from Sizewell and the "Sunrise Coast"
>>> in Suffolk.
>
> I was idly looking at Google Maps (OK, I was looking at how far
> something I'd bought on eBay had to come [it's coming from near Glasgow
> IIRR], and zoomed in on some dot), and was interested to see that GM
> marked it as "most westerly point in the UK" or something like that. (I
> think the dot is St. Kilda.)
>>>
>>> Thank you for all your welcoming messages - I think I shall stay!
>>>
>>> Pauline
>>>
>>
>> Good - the right decision Pauline! 0 >
> Indeed!
>
> P. S. - OnTish! - my spelling checker suggested "Hilda" above!

That is probably where Brian would like to send the cat!

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Toodle Pip, Mike McMillan

On 8.2.24 17:12, Paul Herber wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2024 13:53:58 +0000, docary64@gmail.com (PYoung) wrote:
>
>> Thank you Rosie. It is always nice to see how many old BBQers are still posting in this most old fashioned way. Chris McMillan has always kept me up to date with major events. Now I have been kicked off Google Groups it has prompted me to pull my finger out and start contributing.
>>
>> I had been meaning to ask if other Umrats are finding it difficult to get Rich Tea Fingers? I cannot find them anywhere around here - great big round ones, yes, but not the finger type.
>
> It's Royal Scot's that I miss.
> Hello Pauline. Welcome back.
>
>

Me I miss Bath Olivers - they seem to have been dropped by the
supermarket chains.

Welcome back too.

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On Fri, 9 Feb 2024 10:11:10 +0000, kosmo <kosmo@whitnet.uk> wrote:

>On 8.2.24 17:12, Paul Herber wrote:
>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2024 13:53:58 +0000, docary64@gmail.com (PYoung) wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you Rosie. It is always nice to see how many old BBQers are still posting in this most old fashioned way. Chris McMillan has always kept me up to date with major events. Now I have been kicked off Google Groups it has prompted me to pull my finger out and start contributing.
>>>
>>> I had been meaning to ask if other Umrats are finding it difficult to get Rich Tea Fingers? I cannot find them anywhere around here - great big round ones, yes, but not the finger type.
>>
>> It's Royal Scot's that I miss.
>> Hello Pauline. Welcome back.
>>
>>
>
>Me I miss Bath Olivers - they seem to have been dropped by the
>supermarket chains.

Crumbs.

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https://www.paulherber.co.uk/

On Fri, 09 Feb 2024 10:14:07 +0000, Paul Herber
<paul@paulherber.co.uk> wrote:

>Bath Oliver

I like rich tea biscuits and always have a packet on the go, as well
as ginger biscuits, Nice biscuits and shortcakes. Never had a Bath
Oliver though. Googling to see what they are.Had heard of them.

https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/fortts-original-bath-oliver-biscuits/002389-790-791?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAt5euBhB9EiwAdkXWOw04Myb2qOo9uHUHvmwoCnVv803NvrZteJNpNJehEVBVy1gdZiDoYRoCSqcQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
seem to have them. A biscuit to have with cheese? Plain not sweet.
https://lukehoney.typepad.com/the_greasy_spoon/2014/03/bath-olivers.html
I like that they are in Puck of Pook's Hill.

On 08/02/2024 12:58, PYoung wrote:
> Thank you.  I am here lurking most of the time!
>
> Best wishes to all who remember me and to those who don't.

<Waves> Hello, Pauline! I remember you. Sorry I missed you yesterday
- was away celebrating another birthday - but hope you had a great day.

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Wrexham, UK

In message <a93csil57h7od9f4d8edup5lhiv9lminmo@4ax.com> at Fri, 9 Feb
2024 11:42:12, Vicky <vicky.ayech@gmail.com> writes
[]
>as ginger biscuits, Nice biscuits and shortcakes. Never had a Bath

Like "the guy who taught us math" in My Home Town
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHaELevEHFQ)?

>Oliver though. Googling to see what they are.Had heard of them.
[]
Oh. As you were.
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Vicky wrote:

>I like rich tea biscuits and always have a packet on the go, as well
>as ginger biscuits, Nice biscuits and shortcakes.

Is it OK to say that I don't find Nice biscuits particularly
nice?

Chris
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