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rubberducky-jrr · 5 years

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Subway Girl (Part 4)

Summary: Peter and you somehow keep getting on the same subway. You didn’t notice at first but when you did, your world changed forever.

Pairings: Peter Parker x Reader, Aunt May x Happy Hogan

Warnings: Violence, swearing

A/n: I can’t say how thankful I am from the amount of notes on this little fic. There is one more part to this story, I’’ll probably have it up some time next week.

Part one, part two, part three

You quickly ran back to your friends apartment, having been late at leaving the student hospital.

“Shit, shit, shit,” you mumbled as you flew through the door to the apartment.

“What’s wrong?” You friend quickly said from the kitchen table with a concerned look on her face.

“I’m running late. Date night. Oh god, I need a shower and need to pick out something to wear!” You rushed to say, quickly dropping your bag on the floor and then fumbling to take your jacket off. Your friend stood up, quickly helping you pull your jacket off as she chuckled at you.

“Ok, ok! Calm, go get the quickest shower of your life. I’ll pick you out something to wear, alright,” she said and you smiled at her.

“Thank you,” you quickly kissed her cheek before rushing to the bathroom, removing your shirt and throwing it over your shoulder.

“Quickest. Shower. Of. Your. life!” She called out after you.

“Ok! I know!”

Peter stood in the mirror, nervously fiddling with his hair to get it perfect.

Ugh it looks a mess.

What should I wear? I did not think this through. Black or blue jeans? Is a shirt too fancy? I need May’s help.

“May!” He called and she came to the door a few moments later, leaning against the door frame.

“Aww, you look cute,” she said.

“Cute? I’m not trying to look cute,” He said glancing at himself in the mirror as his nerves increased.

“Ok not cute, you look handsome.”

“Not helping, May,” he grumbled as she came to sit on the bed. “Is Black jeans and a shirt alright?” He asked, still stood in his pyjama bottoms and a NASA T-shirt.

“Yeah, that sounds good.”

“Ok... Just which shirt?” He asked, nodding his head to the ten shirts neatly laid out on the bed behind where she sat.

“I think you’re overthinking this,” she simply said before picking out a dark blue checked shirt, handing it over to him.

“Are you sure she’ll like it?” He asked, pulling it on and doing up the buttons. May looked at him with a soft smile.

“I’m sure she will,” she said before coming to stand next to Peter, arm going around his shoulder as they both looked in the mirror. “Look at you, my boy is all growing up,” she said before ruffling Peter’s hair and placing a kiss on his head.

“May!” He whined, moving out of her grip and quickly trying to put his hair back into place. She chuckled as Peter fumbled around in the mirror.

“It looks better messy than all neatly pulled back, trust me,” she said with a wink before she walked out of the room. Peter glanced at himself, realising May was right. He left his hair slightly messy before changing into some black jeans.

He quickly brushed his teeth in the bathroom, spraying on colonel and deodorant.

“Ok,” he began, staring at him. “You got this.” He gave himself a reassuring smile before blowing out a long sigh, his heart beating hard against his chest.

“Remember, I’m working the late shirt tonight,” May called to him, currently getting ready for work. “So, I won’t be in when you get back.”

Peter walked out of the bathroom with a small frown on his face.

“And what are you implying?” He asked and she just shrugged before a smirk formed on her face.

“You are 17 after all, first proper date with a girl you really like, house to yourself,” she wondered off, the smirk on her lips getting bigger.

“Please stop,” he quickly said when he finally realised what she was trying to say.

“Just be safe and have fun,” she said, moving to place a kiss on his forehead before leaving for work.

Peter spent another few minutes making sure he looked good before grabbing his black jacket and keys and then heading out of the apartment.

He was walking to the restaurant, minding his own business while trying to think of conversation starters when he heard a loud crash. A scream followed it, dragging Peter away from his thoughts.

Robbers.

He quickly looked at his watch, 18:48. I have time. He double tapped his wrists together, his watch suddenly forming into his suit, the nanotechnology Mr Stark had given him was a life saver.

He dropped down silently to the building where the three robbers were currently helping each other climb out the window.

“Hey guys,” Peter began, startling the three. “Forgot your keys?” He asked sarcastically before the closest man swung a punch at him.

He easily dodged it, firing a web at him causing him to fly backwards. Peter fired another web to cause the man to stick fully to the wall of the building. The other two then both came for him at the same time.

He dodged the first attack, seconds later seeing a flash of metal as the second man swung a knife at him. The blade sliced his cheek and Peter hissed in pain slightly.

He quickly fired a web at the man’s hand, the knife flying to the ground. The man grunted before running for him, tackling Peter to the ground and winding him slightly.

Peter scrambled around, throwing a punch and then a harsh push to cause the man to fall backwards off him. He flipped up to stand, flying three web shots at him and pinning him to the ground.

“Come on then,” Peter said to the last man who stood bouncing slightly on the balls of his feet, fists up and determining whether or not he wanted to get his ass kicked.

The hairs on the back of Peter’s neck suddenly stood up as his spidey sense kicked in. He heard the faint noise of a gun being pulled before he quickly moved to the right, the bullet that had been firing towards the middle of his back now simply brushed through the flesh on his left arm.

He quickly turned, webbing up the gun and the first man once again before giving a swift kick to the second man behind him, slamming him against the wall and knocking him unconscious.

He let out a tired breath as police sirens closed in, the person that had been robbed having called them. He quickly fired his web upwards, pulling himself up to the roof top and out of sight. He pulled his mask off, one hand going to brush against the deep cut on his face to reveal blood on his finger tips.

“Fuck,” he grumbled to himself, glancing down at his torn Spider-Man suit, his left arm bleeding from the flesh wound.

He couldn’t go to the date like this.

You sat at the table for a good half an hour before you started to think Peter wasn’t coming. You had texted him four times and no reply. You tapped your foot against the ground in a nervous habit, glancing up from the menu and to the door. You glanced at your watch before sighing.

19:34

He wasn’t coming.

“Excuse me Miss, I’m sorry to ask but will you be ordering soon as it’s getting quite busy and we need to free up some tables,” the waiter asked, giving you a look of pity knowing full well you had been stood up.

“Can I just get the sweet and sour chicken with chow mien noodles to go please. Oh and some spring rolls and uh... Prawn crackers? Please,” you added and the waiter nodded.

To hell with it, I deserve to pig out.

The waiter handed you a white carrier bag of food about five minutes later. You paid and then began to walk home, a heavy heart and tears in your eyes from being rejected. You felt awful, you felt used.

Why hadn’t he shown up?

Was it me? Had he regretted asking me out and instead of being grown up enough to tell me he just stood me up?

You grumbled angrily to yourself before looking up at what street you were on. You distinctly remember Peter telling you where he lived and realised it wasn’t too far from here.

Before you could stop yourself you were marching down his street, up to his apartment building steps and buzzing on the button for Parker.

No answer. Just like you expected.

You buzzed the neighbour and made up a lie of locking yourself out. They gladly buzzed you in and you kept marching till you got to Peter’s front apartment door.

Your hand hovered up in a fist, about the knock when you suddenly hesitated, thinking how stupid this all was.

You shook your head, taking a deep breath to calm yourself before knocking. You didn’t hear any movement from the other side and decided to try the door handle. To your surprise, it was unlocked.

What am I doing?

You screamed at yourself to turn back but you didn’t listen, opening the front door and seeing the only light coming from one room in the corner. You walked over and pushed the door open more.

“What the-?”

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swedenandbeyond · 6 years

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July 1 AM- July 3 Mid afternoon

After breakfast we headed out to the Olympic Museum, a short walk from our hotel,we though. It was a bit longer than we anticipated but we didn't have any problems. It was an interesting museum and overwhelmingly about the Norwegian Olympic team and the Olympics in general. After that we heading towards the Olympic Park and got to what was the athletes Village they have been turned into an apartment complex and hotel. We were going to walk up to the upper reaches of the park and perhaps take a ski lift to the top but it proved to be more of an uphill trek than we thought so we just went back to the hotel after having a lunch break near the park. We took the car and drove to the Norwegian Road Museum, which is free, We wanted to look at history of tunnel making in Norway since we have driven through 500 miles of so of tunnels. We were lucky and got her own private guide because we were the only speaking English speaking people there. She was a nice young lady who lives in Oslo and is working there as a summer job. She's actually mining engineer student who will be mining minerals around Norway, one of which is a black granite that went pulverised turns completely white and is the basis for a lot of coloring like paints and materials. It’s titanium oxide. She gave us a detailed tour of 240 meter long tunnel that basically goes from using wood to heat the rocks so they crack open all the way along to the modern drilling machines that are used to drill large tunnels. I explained to her that the wood was making the water “boil” in the rocks and the steam in breaking them open. She wasn't aware that that was the process period. She thanked me for teaching her something. In the 18th century,it took a lot of wood and it was really dangerous to breathe all the smoke but they did what they had to do make tunnels, because you just couldn’t build roads normally in such ricky conditions along the fjords. They kept developing better methods and ways to reduce black lung disease because they were drilling through silica and even asbestos rocks. It was quite an eye opener because for many years they had no ventilation shafts to bring clean air into the tunnels. This day was a relaxing, recharge the batteries day, so we went back to the hotel to have coffee and cake, which turned out this time to be a single waffle maker and several jams and jellies to put on your waffle. we waited a bit long one family to make my three waffles, one for each person and we made a single waffle for two of us while a Dutch lady was waiting for us to finish. We had a very short conversation but didn't sit together. That evening at dinner on the second trip to the buffet I asked the Dutch couple to join us for the rest of the meal. We had a good long conversation. They have travelled all over America and parts of Canada. In one trip they drove over 7000 miles in 35 days and saw much of the west coast, including,Arizona, Washington state, Idaho and Oregon They have seen many national parks. This trip was in 1977.we talked for at least an hour and a half maybe longer. they have children living in America and Germany.I gave them my card in case they come back and they said they can’t come back to America because of the man we have as president. I did not get into a long discussion. I just said well he's our president and we can vote the “bum” out in three more years, if we want to. I gave them my card anyway and Peter gave me his. He's a retired comptroller and his wife had to take over her father's car dealership and repair shop when she was 20 because he died suddenly of cancer. She built it up for 20 years and her two younger brothers who became of age at that time took over and continued to run the business. Her portion of the buyout was apparently enough for her to do what she wanted to do. She started to, and is still, volunteering to coordinate people going to stay in elderly homes at night. It’s all volunteer work. She still does it and says she probably always will. We said goodbye after dinner because we had to get up early and drive to Oslo to turn in our car.

July 2

We got to the airport using GPS and dead reckoning. After returning the car, we went into the terminal to find a cab to our hotel. Luckily for us, a family was departing that day and rode the elevator with us. They told us to go to the information Booth and get a fixed price taxi because it might cost over 1000 krone if we just picked a taxi out of the line. Sometimes life just hands you a gift without you asking. We did and a taxi came that had the number on our ticket. We got to our hotel only 699 Krone. We were very early so we got an open room and walked around a little bit for some sightseeing. We a couple of options for dinner selected a place near the hotel This restaurant had biggest, most complete Caesar salad we have ever seen. It had three small chicken breast portions, perfectly prepared and I would say at least a quarter pound or more of bacon with the right amount of dressing and croutons. It was delicious and was paired perfectly with a good pilsner. There was a group of Jehovah Witnesses attending a convention in Oslo sitting at a table beside us, three of them were from Alabama. One couple was from Norway and one gentleman lives a thousand kilometres north of the Arctic Circle. We talked a little bit, took some pictures and headed back to the hotel. They didn't even try to convert us. The room we had was very small and I wasn't sure it was what we had paid for because she gave us something that was available before traditional check-in time.

July 3

I went down in the morning to tell him we had booked and paid for a king room and I wanted to know if we had gotten what we paid for. The on duty clerk was very helpful and said most of the rooms were queen size and that's what we had last night. I said I'd booked a king room and wondered if we could have one of those today. After a leg]lengthy, discussion I found out that the king-size room is the same size as a queen bed room only with a king bed which made less total space. He said he would work on it when he his boss came in and we could check back after breakfast. They said the king and queen size rooms are the same. If we wanted a bigger bed, we could move next door to a king bed. I explained that it wasn't the size of the bed especially but it was the size of the room which was too small and that I thought we had paid for a larger room. It turns out booking confirmation haad no square footage on the size of the room. They finally said they can give us a larger room, but it will be 500 krones extra, per day. I said no, I don't want to do that. They spoken with a bit in Norwegian and said how about 300 for an executive room and I said ok. It's really a suite with the couch, a larger bathroom, really nice coffee maker etc for only $35 more per night. I told her I liked her negotiating skills because she new 300 Krones for something empty was better than 500 krones and she has an empty room. It is a really good deal for us and we moved right after breakfast. I'm posting this now before we go on our evening cruise in the fjord with a prawn buffet dinner. I'll post more tomorrow about today's activities and try to get some pictures uploaded as well.

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pendragonfics · 6 years

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Hi Gay, I’m Pan

Paring: Wade Wilson/Reader

Tags: male reader, coming out, canon gay character, fandom allusions & cliches & references, fluff, Wade Wilson breaks the fourth wall, Wade Wilson needs a damn hug

Summary: Reader lives with Wade Wilson. Reader comes out. Wade comes out too. It's all very gay.

Word Count: 1,969

Current Date: 2017-11-22

You were fourteen years, two months, and three days old when you discovered that you were very, very gay. Meaning: you loved men. Not that you had a collection of cliché homosexual memorabilia in your apartment, stashed away under and in the mattress of your bed like a sort of heathen (wait, yes, you did have some stuff, but that shit was on display on the shelf, because who didn’t like RuPaul's Drag Race?). But when you were twenty-seven years, eight months, and thirteen days old, you found yourself in a precarious position. Perhaps it was because you hadn’t found yourself able to come out to your very southern-traditional family. Perhaps it was because you’d just moved to the city, and when you put out a flyer for a roommate, found that you had reeled in a roomie who’d be a little more than what the regular person could handle.

But that was three months, six days and nineteen hours ago. You were nearly to your twenty-eighth year of life, and something so integral to your identity had not been brought up. Discussed. Even though Americans could marry whoever they wanted (and in some states, they could marry animals too), and yet, when Pride was on, you sat at home and worked on your investigations for your boss, the formidable Ms. Jones.

But it was the third month, sixth day, and twentieth hour since Wade Wilson became your roommate, and while he made no effort to keep his lifestyle quiet (of course, that was after you found him peeling the molten suit off his puckering skin at 3AM one morning), you decided that he was as good a confidant and friend as any. And thus, it was this day that you decided to come out to your roommate.

But that was easier said, than done. First you had to find the guy.

Well, you were going to, until your boss called. She was a firecracker, Jessica Jones – sometimes on fire, sometimes soaked in alcohol, but always, always, burning the candle from both ends. But she was a fantastic private investigator, and that was why you stuck around with her and her shitty pay.

“__________? Need that evidence right about now.” You opened your phone to hear. “Think it might be the tipping point to finding the guy, drop it by the office ASAP.”

You grab your messenger bag and the envelope with all you’ve got on the case, and start to head out the apartment. “On my way, Jones.”

She hangs up before you do.

The quick subway ride across Midtown to her edge of Hell’s Kitchen is fast, and when you hand her the evidence, you’re given another manila folder. This one’s titled Phimister, E. You slide it into your messenger bag, just as Jessica’s neighbour pokes his head out from his apartment. She prepares for his oncoming speech by downing the coffee in her hand.

“Did you guys hear the news? There’s another hero around the city,” he grins like an idiot. “He calls himself Spider-Man.”

Jessica rolls her eyes, “Kid Crime Stopper needs to cool it,” she groans, and goes to take another sip of her drink, to find it’s empty, “We don’t need more idiots in costume running around the city.”

Malcom doesn’t say a word. He just shakes his head, and returns to his apartment.

She turns to you. “Why’re you still here, __________?” You shrug. She scrunches her nose. “You smell, like,” she winces, “Soap? You even shaved. Don’t tell me you’ve got a job interview.”

You laugh, but inside, you’re screeching, how does she know I wore the nice soap? as if she can deduce also that you’re as into boys as the Hulk was into smashing. “Not leaving Alias if I can help it, Jones,” you tell her, “Can’t a guy just use soap occasionally, and have it not become a thing?”

She scrutinises you once again. “It’s something big.” She scoffs, and sighs, when once again she realises her cup is empty of coffee. “I don’t care.” She says, turning to close the door to her office, and over her shoulder, she says, “Good luck for it, though.”

You shoot a text to Wade upon leaving her office, wondering where he is. He sends a picture back, a selfie where he’s waving with another person’s arm, holding the cadaver’s limb like it was a regular thing to hold, like a martini, or an uncomfortable silence. You glance back to the closed door of Alias Investigations and take the elevator down. You know where Wade is, just from that picture. It’s nearby, too.

You make it there in good time, and when you get to the rooftop of your favourite noodle bar restaurant. As you climb up the fire escape, you notice there’s a not very discreet puddle of blood on the concrete, and near it, you see Wade sitting in his suit, legs dangling off the side with a fat sushi roll in his hand, the tempura prawn about to slide out the bottom end.

“Hey,” he greets, around his mouthful.

You nod. “Hey.”

You go to take a seat beside him, and looking down, you see the sidewalk below, and all the little people rushing around in their little lives, hailing taxies, making out by the phone boxes, smoking their lungs into submission. You look to Wade, and see he’s still munching away on his roll of sushi.

“I’m gay,” you tell Wade, the two words falling out from your lips like too much rice after a rice-eating contest at 1AM (something that has happened every three weeks or so between you and Wade). “I mean, I –,”

“Hi Gay,” Wade says, his smile crinkling the parts of the mask that aren’t pulled over his mouth, and adds, “I’m Pan.”

You pause. “Wait, that’s it?” You ask him. “I – wait, what’s pan? Are you screwing with me?”

Wade shakes his head. “No, I swear. No screwing,” he swallows his mouthful. “It just means I’m like, super gay, and super straight and super into every sort of human out there within reason. Also, wouldn’t say no to a panda in a sexy maid costume,” he laughs, “Didn’t you hear? It’s 2017. Everyone is some sort of gay,” he then adds in a whisper, “Even if they’re straight, they’re lying.”

You take that in. “So, it’s cool?”

Wade nods, and ripping into his sushi roll again, he says, “Yeah, it’s cool. You’re telling me this, so you can bring your hot boyfriend around to the apartment to make out, or…?” Wade asks.

“What makes you think I of all people could get a hot boyfriend?” you ask him honestly, “You’re the first person to know I’m gay…”

You can’t tell because he’s wearing the mask, but you’re sure his eyes are super wide when he utters a long, “Whaaaaaaaaaat?” But before you can say anything else to make it seem less of a big deal than he thinks it is, he says, “I can’t f*ucking believe it, this is amazing! I know a guy who gets free churros, let’s celebrate!” Then, to himself, he says, under his breath, “Author, that is not how you censor a swear word – also, congrats on writing your first major swear for fanfic!”

You look to him, unsure of what just happened. But you’re okay with it. Free churros and celebrating with Wade tonight makes the idea of staying at home and re-watching the Harry Potter movies sound a little better.

“Hey, if you were a superhero, __________, I’d make your suit red, so we could both hang out with the others. There’s this guy dressed like demon, but he’s just a sweetheart, and the churro guy, Spider-Parker. Man. Shit.” He tosses the dregs of his sushi roll over the side of the building, and watches as they fall on the roof of a taxi driving by.

“I don’t think I’m the superhero type,” you say to yourself. “I just want to make rent. And ask Mr. Cee if we could have a pet in the apartment.”

Wade considers. “Dog?”

You shake your head. “Cat. I saw an add on Craigslist for free. I feel bad for it.”

“What’s its name?” he asks.

You whip your phone out, and show him a picture of the calico kitten, a young female with yellow and white splotches over her black body, with a fluffy coat. “Uh, Eleven.”

“Get her. Now.”

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It’s another eight months, three weeks, two days, and thirteen hours when life stops being so chaotic. You’ve turned twenty-nine. You solved case after case with Alias Investigations until Jessica Jones adds you to the plaque on the door, and adds a raise to your pay check. Eleven the cat is the one thing at home that makes life bearable. Perhaps that fact was not because you lived a terrible, horrible life; in fact, it was very much the opposite.

That rooftop chat eight months ago with your roommate had led to something much different than what you had said – you were in fact, very much the hero type. But that was after the attack from a radical sect of people called Inhumans, and when you were caught on the subway exposed to fumes, and the only one left alive, it also left your body changed, as to never be able to become broken. Which was great, because a week after that, you were hit by a cab, and left a __________-sized dent in its bumper bar, and didn’t die. Bonus!

It was no big deal. Some people called you nerdy Luke Cage. More people, like the press, called you Tungsten. You had no idea why until a quick Google search lead you to realise it was a type of metal that was brittle and hard to manipulate, and the toughness is enhanced by melding it with steel. Sort of how you often worked alongside Deadpool.

But it was now, eight months later when you find yourself sitting at home, Eleven on your lap, watching the new season of Doctor Who on Netflix. You weren’t a fan of the companion Clara Oswald, but watching Hell Bent, it nearly rendered you to tears.

“I love Peter Capaldi,” Wade said beside you, on the lounge. He wore only his boxer shorts, and a loose tee that said I like sunsets, long walks on the beach and murder on it in comic sans, showing off his scarred skin. “But you know who I love most?”

You take a moment to consider the answer. “David Tennant.”

But at the same moment, he says, “You.”

You don’t quite get it, because maybe you’ve just been talking about the actors who play the nine-hundred-year-old plus time lord. Maybe because you’ve had a long day fighting against the forces of evil and the crowds around the subway on peak hour, and the one-word answer he has given you almost stuns you.

“Wait, what?” you ask. Eleven meows on your lap, as if to confirm, that yes, this is a love confession. “Wade –,”

He wraps his arms around you, smooshing his face into your cheek, and aggravated by the sudden assault of affection, Eleven flees from your lap to the rug beneath the television, purring indignantly. “Yeah, I’m head over heels for you, man.” He grins, and noticing your silence, adds, “Don’t tell me this time that you have a hot boyfriend.”

You pause, and taking the remote, still the commotion going on with the Timelords, so you can focus on the commotion going on in your lounge room. “Yeah, I’ve got a hot boyfriend.” His face falls, withdrawing his arms from around you. You begin to laugh, and draw the Merc with a mouth toward you, smooshing your face against his, “He’s you.”

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upwiththegood · 4 years

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Maidstone Stroke Group Newsletter

MAIDSTONE STROKE GROUP

NEWSLETTER.

JOHNS NOTICE BOARD.

Corona Virus Disease 2019 ( covid – 19 )

Due to the primeministers announcements on Monday 16th march, in which he said, Avoid pubs, clubs and theatres, we as a group thought it only prudent to follow these government guidelines and do so many have done already, and that is a postponement of future group meetings and activities until further notice. That also means for us that our April quiz night will NOT go ahead and also for some of us our Bournemouth trip will have to be postponed. Again we have been asked to avoid any unnecessary travel and to avoid gatherings and social meeting places, especially as we are a group with the majority in the age bracket 70+, that should be taking measures to remain indoors as much as is possible barring going out for essentials or excersise at a safe ( social distancing ).

Keep in Touch

Most of you will have a contact list, and it would be a good idea, I suggest, to keep in touch via: phone, email, whats app, messenger or any other means available to you, to reassure these with any concerns on that feel isolated, that they have some point of contact. Also we will still churn out a newsletter, so if anyone wishes to add some information or an idea or just something they dont mind sharing please feel free to contact me, Peter, Kathy or Richard. Tovil club are aware of our proposals and will continue to support us as ever.

BOURNEMOUTH

I will just explain the latest news I have on our planned long weekend break in may. As those that are booked for this know so far I have paid £45pp x 25 people by way of a deposit and quiet a few of you have also paid me the final £165, which by the way I am holding. I also have paid £1,330 to brookline for our return coach travel. I have spoken to Matthew Spinder of brookline and he is fine if we need to RESCHEDULE. Now whilst it is almost impossible to get through to shearings by phone as they are inundated with queries etc. I have been on their website and there is a latest coronavirus travel update which I will attach to the newsletter for the 25 people going. I have also emailed shearings group to get a ruling on wether we could – reschedule for later in the year. No news yet, but I understand they are dealing with cases by booking date order and may take time to get back, watch this space.

XMAS

Like it or not this soon comes round and by the time we have come out of isolation we may be looking forward to it. The news is, as you know last year we dined at the Marriet Tuder Park, not that there was any thing wrong with the festive side of it, but it was a bit problematic for the less able, with the stair lift and being that the toilets were on ground level as well. So we went looking for another venue for this year and we have negotiated a dinner at the village hotel next to the malta Inn in forstal road.

The package is:

Private hire for the inspiration suite and bar area, Red carpet arrival, Black or White table linen, Black chair covers, Novelties on table, Table centre pieces, Raffle prize donation, And a 3 – course dinner followed by mince pies coffee / tea at a cost of £32 pp, Automatic front doors, Plenty of parking inc disabled, and all toilets inc disabled on one level not far away. As you all know the xmas dinner is an event that we have always subsidised, so we suggest a cost to yourselves this year of £20 pp.

The Menu is:

Starter:

Prawn cocktail or Pate or Leek and potato soup (V)

Mains:

Roast turkey with roast potatos, sage stuffing, lincolnshire sausage with smoked bacon.

Grilled fillet of salmon with bearnaise sauce, gratin dauphinoise potato.

Baked brie and roasted vegetable turnover with watercress and rocket salad and tomato basil sauce. ( V )

family style veg on tables.

Dessert

Christmass pudding with brandy sauce.

Warm apple and ginger crumble tart with cinnaman custard.

Baked new york cheesecake with a forrest fruit compote (V)

DOG AND DUCK

As you know this is booked for weds 26th august and it is too soon to say if this will be affected so we will update and advise as and when.

“OH BOY”

Booked for the Tuesday 6th oct, I would like to think by then all will be O.K. So we will advise.

Birthdays

April 11th – Jackie Muggridge.

April 16th – Mick ( mr whippy ) ( fred astaire ).

April 20th – Dot Harman – 75th.

April 20th – Barry Fawcett.

April 26th – Pat Mcquillen.

May 1st - Des Martin ( The big 70 ).

MEETINGS

As discussed postponed until further notice, we will follow the Government Guidelines on this.

Please read and keep this newsletter for future reference.

Newsletter compiled by John and Peter.

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thegirlfallsfromthesky · 7 years

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I’m back from Disney! All three days were amazing, I can barely describe how happy I am and how much I loved it, but I’ve tried here :) It’s under a cut because it’s super long

Friday - Seeing Space Mountain from the train - Just walking in - New Pirates of the Caribbean, especially the redhead - Mickey's Tricycle Gang (mini) Parade, which we saw about four and a half times 😂 - Interacting with the Evil Queen/Hag during said parade when I was Disneybounding as Snow White, when she acted as if I was Snow White - Storybook Canal Boats - It's A Small World (fite me okay it's brilliant and I love it) - Snow White and Pinocchio rides. Holy crap they are so scary. Fun but terrifying

DISNEY STARS ON PARADE This gets it's own thing okay because it is absolutely and utterly incredible. Both times we stood where the floats enter the park, which meant we got the most amazing reveal when the gates opened. All the floats are amazing of course, but it really was the Princesses and Princes that stole it all for me. Every single costume is stunning and they are all strikingly beautiful people (Tiana and Phillip especially so). They're also so nice, there's something really special about a Princess or Prince choosing to interact with you beyond just a wave or eye contact, it's kind of indescribable really. Also, the Maleficent float. Wow. (I'm gonna link the full soundtrack here bc I think it's ace.)

- Autopia at sunset, and especially crashing into Dad during it - Illuminations. Not as great as Disney Dreams tbh, but I actually preferred it. The Star Wars section is the best bit and oh my God it is fantastic. Weirdly, my favourite bit was Let It Go. Believe me, it's so much better and less annoying in French. But the additions of fireworks as part of the projections rather than just at the end is brilliant, and the whole thing is just such a perfect way to end a night in the park - The Steakhouse in the Disney Village. Everything we had was utterly amazing, but the World's Biggest Prawn was pretty spectacular - My dad being so drunk that he was loudly saying he wanted more wine while we tried to force him to drink water

Saturday - Walking into the park at 8.30 for the Early Magic Time and getting to see it with hardly anyone there - Disneybounding. My advice: if you're going to do it (and I recommend it, it's so much fun), make it comfortable, and make it obvious who you are. Cast members, guests, and especially characters love it, and the characters often react to you as if you are that character, especially if you are from their film. Mr. Smee during the parade was hilarious because he was bowing to me and blowing a kiss (and also flicking a bowgie but hey he's a pirate), Snow White herself loved it, and the Evil Queen... Well, more later, but it was hilarious and terrifying 😂

MEETING CINDERELLA Again, this needs it's own bit. I've never ever met a Disney Princess before, and there's only one there so you don't get to choose. For it to be my favourite Princess was such a stroke of luck, and the whole thing was one of the best experiences I've ever had. Cinderella was, of course, absolutely amazingly beautiful, as was her dress, but it really was her personality that shone. I didn't feel at all silly for not being a child or having a child; she complimented my outfit, we talked a little, she gave me a lovely hug, and looked so pretty in the pictures (as do all of us really). It was unbelievable. I can't tell you how happy I was, and still am

- Big Thunder Mountain. It's so much fun - (Hyper)Space Mountain. New Star Wars themeing is amazing. It suits it so well, I absolutely loved it, and it is so much fun. I was doing the Peter Bowes Hoot Of Laughter all the way through it - Peter Pan's Flight. Gorgeous. Always been my fav, always will be - Dad falling asleep during a ride queue - Camping for an hour to be at the front for the main parade. Worth it, and good people watching - All the happy birthdays during the parade - Meeting the Evil Queen while Disneybounding as Snow White. She clocked me when we were about five people back in the queue. She. Was. Livid. The cast member said that the Queen wasn't happy while she was handing out sweets :’) When it was my turn she was saying I 'reminded' her of someone, and she genuinely looks like she's about to kill me in one of the photos. She was brilliant and I loved that she was horrid because, of course, she's supposed to be - Dinner in Captain Jack's. Just wow. Stunning food, gorgeous atmosphere and surroundings, impeccably themed, great service, and fun to see the Pirates of the Caribbean ride boats coming past

Sunday - Again, walking in early while the park was almost empty - Dumbo and the carousel - Phantom Manor. Amazing. The Phantom of the Opera influence is clear and brilliant. Funny scary, not actual scary - A cast member causing mum and I to leap out of our skins in the Stretching Room when he was behind us and we didn't know and he did a loud evil laugh - Buzz Lightyear's Lazer Blast. Beating my mum by over 8,400,000 points, and her making the car spin around while laughing like a maniac - Going backwards for Casey Junior - Meetin Captain Hook - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Meeting Gaston, who was worryingly attractive to be honest - The Starlit Princess Waltz. Beautiful, just absolutely beautiful. And the cast members who hosted and were singing live were amazingly talented - Final lunch at Plaza Gardens - A quick shop where I got some beautiful things that do and will mean a lot to me (plus one thing I thought was funny), will post pictures later - Seeing the Halloween Mini Parade one last time just as we were leaving

This whole holiday has easily been some of the best days of my life, and I'm so, so grateful to my amazing parents who surprised me with it on my actual birthday, and threw themselves into everything and having this as my birthday extension, and have just been so amazing and so generous, I really can't thank them enough

#I've had the most incredible time really #I'm so emotional but it's all good emotions #Off the record || OOC #Disneyland Paris

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The Ultimate C64 Games List Have you ever wondered about the amazing Commodore 64 game list? Yes, we have too - there were loads of them. Problem is that is was a while ago now. This list was compiled to jog the memories:

Operation Wolf

roger frames buys budjiit games

fox fightsback

ace & ace II combo

bubble bobble

tantric mouse wars

home office

salsa con artist

commando ninjas

world flee

blood sparse

ruby of thermogington

jettison railway

ice band

spiderman vs magoo

caravan madness

hulk vs hogan

hunk attack

jet set billy

monkey tennis

score me

addis abbaba karate international +

balloon wars

cloud paste

live at budokan

boris yeltsin vodka challenge

banjo time constructor

emelyn hughes ‘super’ soccer

opium fright

shoot em up penelope

lagoon of carabon harbungo

open heart burglary

frost bandage

diamonds are for women

car spike wheel burst adventure

crazy communists

square man runs up ladder III

treasure island kittens

barrell falls down IV

spoke damage

princess kidnapped 8

undercarriage catastrophe

reminder PRO

Jazz North

Pub Golf

Avalon - Land of the Rust

SimPub

Pregnant Gymnastics

Womb Cook-up

Animal Olympics

NASA Pinball Fantasy

Jed saves christmas

Horace goes Knifing

Time Orifice

Axe-wielding Comedians

Karate Blister

Ornament Erector

Building Smoke Out

Q Bert the Revenge

Trellis Abundance

Titchmarsh v Oddie - Greenkeeper Challenge 88

Co-op Warriors

Sand Veterans

Grass feathers

Morose Wind

Scube Whackey

Escape from Liverpool

Puppy Smoker The Outburst

Roll yer Own Challenge

Hackney Masterblaster

Connect One

Purple Chins

Cotton Developer

Haircut Zest Fair

Trophy Masser

Race Kings Alive

Hazel Irvine’s Whirlwind Badminton

Jazz Rasta VI

Jensen Buttons Nipple Dash

Maze Bomber 909

Speed Chess

Curling Avenger

Rope Twisting Example

Scourge of Daxus

Roy Castle’s Record Breakers

Organ Flexology

Cliff Richard’s Ambiguous Soccer

Revenge of the Feminists

Wax cluedo

Tennis Trumpeteer II

Maximise the Point

Sheep Monopoly

Weight Gain Olympics

Travel Guise

Roger Mellie’s Ice Darts

The Legend of Les Dawson

Blanket Snitch

Tales of the Underformed

Grave Digger 6

Onion Pro 2

Moon Ship

Turbo Trousers

Turbo Walking

Welcome back to the Island of Penny Farthing

Breathing Challenge

Run for President [Ukraine Edition]

F1 Parcel

Awning Inventor

Cello Beat

Super Accelerator Fridge

Crazy Ambulance

Burst Kidney Mopup

Save China

Chemistry Ninja Teacher

Boat Painter Design

Dogs of Fury

Furry Dog*

Beyond the Forbidden Biscuit

The Handlebars of Hashani

Bird Mother

Audio Frenzy Piano Lessons

Short’s Lair

Chun King Farm Life

Jimmy White Teaches Typing

Cif Blaster

Defenders of the Fish

Sandal Behaviour

Alien Food

Thatcher goes to School

Bob Dillons Boxing Farce

Gorbachev plays Chicken

Wayne Gretsky’s Ice Wallet Charity Challenge

Armalyte III - Springburn

Popcorn Death

Vast Salt EU

Virtual Drudgery

Chain of Accordions

Runner Cities

Yellow Bist

Lost Sandals

Train Slow

Sherlock Holmes in The Year 2047

Lost and Profound: Darkness Shop

Dust Police

Borrowed Money

Internet Maze

Slipstream Cowboys

Guns of Dryness

Alpha Scabs

Crusty The Friendly Chimp

Rice Inflator (Super Pack)

Archie McPherson’s Weetabix Head

Denis Law’s Accent Challenge

Dougie Donnelly Dune of Hair

Graeme Souness Must Be Barking

Boon - The Game

Taggart Teens

Emmerdale Goes to Pitlochry

Coping with Eastenders for the under 5’s

Death in the Family Joke

Coloured Fights

Outdoor Darts

Wrist Truffle

White Water Snooker

Sea Quest Powder Seeker

Copious Spandex Run

Mr Motivators’ Taxi Challenge

Breakup

Flapjack

David Dimbleby's Amazon Adventure 12

Frost on Sunday

TV:AM The Early Years

Moira Stuart’s Music Creator

Upside Down Ice Cream Revolt

Vat of Galt Toys

Fist of Fireflies

Tunnel Browner

Stocking Ladder Bless

Lingerie Tycoon

Up & Down with Freddy Mercury

Guitar Slayer

Drum Shake Friends

Wacky Traffic Lights

Oreo Frisbee Games

Hedgehog Relax

Roofer

SimWoman

Bent Angler

Super Horses

Fishing for Tims

Ketamine Kraziness

Shout Appeal

Daz Crime Alert

Tension Ramble

Monitor Crossbones

Stookey Chase

Cardinal Hippos

Marigold Mincers IV

Shane Ritchie’s Up For Everest

War Kind

Question Slime

Bishop Sailor

Grudge Chess

Shoplifter 6

Bed trapper

Saloon Swingers 5

Yells of Tallmouth

Athletic Trombones

Wheel Smicer

Trends of Fashion-hope

Wacky Prostate

Bag A Cow

Pronunciation Fun

with Jackie bird

Landlord Dodge

Stuart Tipney’s Bread Throw Out

Date Checker

Gary Glitter’s Subliminal Message

Frozen Bibs of Babylon

Bricklaying Challenge

Wall Tidy

Reverse a Unicycle

SimCleaner

Pick Pocket Champion 1983

Glorified Yungs

Hungry Hungry Hernias

Marble vest

Ship To Shore

What’s My Rake

View My Braces

Burp: Deluxes

Romeo and Juliet Bravo

North vs South 2 : west vs East

Corner of Flatland

Spherical Eye Bless

Under the Oceans of Armpit Forest

Outrun Birmingham (Spaghetti Junction Edition)

Sweat like a bahookey

SimBarber

Developer Roundabout: Salt Lake Boredom Factor

Wig Breathe

Telecoms Tycoon

SimBeggar

Window Sparkler

Martian Crotchet

Bin Race: Baghdad to Bucks

Limpet Picker 4

Bout of Gout

Fist of Starfish Cave

Revenge of The Ponchoed Ponces

Peruvian Mountain Rally

Pyramid Scheme

Wheelchair Rollers

Disabled Relay

Plastic Bellamy

Escape From The Care Home

Quest Far There

Sigmund Freud’s Phallic Challenge

Location Location Location

Tombola

Pharmaceutical Births

Fun Run

Telethon

The Shat Cat Strikes Back

Poo Displease

Oxymoron - School Clown Dress

Nuns on The Run

Rub a Dug

SimWork

Girl Demander

Tiny Fire Use

Spell Cracker

VirtuaBus

Horse and Cabbage

Hippyhunt

Bug Wrestler

Elmer Fudd’s Bugle Fun

Sesame Street for Mute

Vaccine Madness

Sing-a-long-outhouse

Virgin Wedding

Carry Me Right

Existential Spam

Professor Caressor

Blind Spot

Dowary 4

Backwards Todel

SimFolkSinger

Austrian Summer Fun

Think Game

SimShirt

Mum’s Gone To Iceland

SimShoes

Dad Ravage

VirtuaBurp

Record Deal Blunderer

Vinyl Earth

Pork Love

Candid Carrots

Testament of God

Jasper Carrot’s Comedy Puke

Slug Slugger

fISHMONGER 8

Javelin Jackson

Action Babes 7

Deniable Door Whizz

What’s My Remainder

Shave Me Doris

Ferrari Shaving Adventure

SuperToboggan

Fire Ski

Trowel Turmoil

Soap Detector

SimPigeon

Permit Chief

VirtuaCurtain

Wander Beyonder - Galaxy of Hands

Foot Small

Failed Janine Nurse Player

Bonnie Langford’s Dive of DEath

Cheesy Cheeks 9

Teryaki Throw Throw

Organised Library

Chrome Crunch

Defeat The Dragon XII

Sleeve Beast

Snorkel of Skeleton Mask

Bilge Crusader

Derivative Nonsense

Chip Shop Challenge

Fallopian Tube Gatherer

Short Sharp Shock

Public Pool 2

The Remorse of King Tooth Prize

Mobile Shop Catch

Dentist Revival

Pizzaboy

Return of the Shoulder

Attack of the Maharajah

Farm Variety

Ring Sting VI

Pokey Barracus O

Pyromania [Schools Edition]

Canteen Calamity

Scratch My Scurvy

A Team of Guys

Commercial Insertion

Alien Bold

Walk to Run

Talk Show Live

Wacaday

Tickle Me Hazel

Get to Doctor Green Helmet Arrival

Kirsty Gallacher’s Pony Tail

Bube Tube

Stu’s News

Finger By Jove

SPinach Wars

TrolleyDash IV

Coco Bianco

Can Lift Channel 4: The Game

Spider and Kite

Really Big, Really Small Advent of Tetrapak

Drainblock: Plumber Hero Chronicles

Clammy Elbow

Rinse, Spin and Wash-o-matic

Virtual Carving

Aqua Fridge 4

Milk Charge: None Today Edition

Dose of Lactose

Fruit for Fuel

SEGA Gums

World Cup Baking

Trauma Recentness

Void of Linda

Calculate My Room

Slow Slow Slow, Now Fast

Myrtle’s Spongy Threat

Round the Town: Hull

KLIX Vending Machine Panic

Suitable Suit

Trinidad vs Tobago

Coma Dream Alert

Lose Your Tail

Sudden Trump

Castle of Rugs

Dreadful Quincy

Murder You Write

Salt n Pepa: My First Lyrics

Ferry to the Island of Bins

Up to Maximum

Thanks Goth: Black It Out Decision for Survival

Thorax and King: Temple of 10 Thumbs

Shave or Swim

Spar - Double Time Price Wars

Wooden Office

Windbush: the Quest for Haribo

Thing Commander

Gusset Sweeper II

Military Cocktails: An Interactive Guide

Spillers Winalot

Gus Hiddink: Ladies-Man

Spinal Injury 4

Dungrudder

Dungrudder II

Alan Titchmarsh’s International Samba Karaoke

Gluehead 2 - Back to the Bag

Dogwrestler

Virtual Biscuit Pro Edition

Future Boots

Horace gets an enema

Goth v Ned - The Reckoning

Roy Hudd’s hut folding 3

fondant wheelbarrow challenge

squat thrusting in high denmark with Mr. T

git that skateboard oot ma bed

2 fast and furious - the angry diet

skeptics ranch 4

whippet trigger

cod’s extreme bass fishing

Meatloaf’s leotard attack

smashing gantry with len ganley

cornish nuisance III

janitor pleaser

janitor pleaser II

janitor pleaser III

interactive janitor pleaser 3D

sing-a-long-a-jim-diamond

belgian ring stretch 4

heather mills dance off

sulk or bulk

extreme rabbit riding 9

tony roper’s pope trophy

ship shape and bristol fashion (twin pack)

dan hipgrave’s hip grave

catarrh hero 2

Joseph Holt’s cow safari

barking cats 3

Debbie Gebbie

Rally through Tesco

Piano Catcher

Harold Bishop’s Hutch Touching Compendium

Cardboard Harbour

Guess What’s in the Baxterbox

Extreme Welsh Dentistry

10 Disciples Tickly Bits [denmark edition]

Zebra Dancing 2

Tractor Painting 3

Cindy Crawford’s Virtual Cooperage Pro

Anderson Shelter Designer International

Ambulance Neglecting

Pigeon Surprise!

Chilly B’s Cartography Masterclass

Paralympic Legends 1985

Angry Sue’s Penthouse Disaster

SimFlorist

Amazing Mace

Grimsby Love-In

Trilby Mechanic

Karl Lewis’s 6 Meter Dash Pro

Smoker 8

Collateral Ramage

Horse Drawn Prawn

Firebomb Kirkcudbright

Space Huff

Star Wars: Jedi High Street

Ooft Ooft 2

Flyhunter

Nadeem the Hamster

Bucky Bash II

Schnitzel Wars

Derrick Organ’s Calamity Chinfest

Malky Malky II: The Chib

Venison Crayola

Peter Shilton’s Saucey Canary

French Letter of the Law

Penguin Squeezing

Sodastream Challenge

Arthur C Clarke’s Mysteries of Dunfermline

Skin Complaint 2

Felicity Kendal’s Migratory Kennel

Thigh Trouble III

VirtuaWendy

Pebbledash Apprentice

Thrush Reduction School

Alan Randy Tanner Shows You How

Sim 9 O’clock News

Adult Colostomy

Ray Mears’ Survival Chimney

Brunch Arranger

Pro Pencil Throw

The Continuing Adventures of Nice ‘n’ Soapy

Lunchy Munchy

SimKettle

VirtuaCarpet

Snack bar etiquette

arm harm 4

saucy haulage 9

swimming with trousers on

Thora The Exploder

High Jinks on Highway

Wrist Exposure

Looking After God’s Neck 6

Frog Polishing

Harrison Ford Harrassment

Shampooing Buffalo with Betty Murchie

Unravelling Scobie’s Quotient

Alistair’s Wheels

High Speed Loaf Assembly - Knead For Speed 2

Detolionia - A World of Disinfectant

Coal Punishment

Table with Bilston Glen

Who Is Douglas Bader?

Sharpen Your Trowel with Baden Powell

Bambi Leg Stabilisation

Pimp My Sideboard

Crematorium Capers

The Burning Coupon

Fireplace Customiser featuring Annette Benning

Force 8 Golfing Atrocity Pro-Am

Trout Swiping (Mexican Edition)

Village Idiot Racing 2

Fridge Racer 4

Parrot Force 7

Amish Disease Aversion

Pro-Am Celebrity Road Kill 3

Major James Hewitt’s Blew It Game

Advanced German For Industrial Foundries with Keith Chegwin

I’m A Celebrity, Shave My Arms 8

Mortar Mixing With Fiona Bruce

Self Harm with Hartley’s Jam Jam, Arm, Harm, Barn (Farm Edition)

Deadly Riddles with Bo Diddley, Nicolas Ridley, Ken Dodd, Dodi al Fayed and the Cast of Grease

Not Poodles but Pot Noodles 2

Shed Holder vs. Vijay Singh Sing-a-long a Hitler Hillman Hunter 2

Hearing Aid

Beige Chevette 5

Ian Botham’s County Balls

PramFace: The Revenge

Nebulous Nockers

Hot Knifin’

Anton Rogan’s Potato Scone

Monotonous Madness

Sally Magnuson’s Nicotine Buzz

Doncaster Moose Pulling

Beer Goggle Challenge- Ultimate Edition

Pebble Mill - The Platform Game

Davro Goes West

Jelly Fish Juggling with Jilly Cooper

Ballroom Thighs - A Game For All The Family

Dog Plop Monopoly

Frank Tibbs’ Unanimous Cave

Tripping Over Thimbles 4

Pebble Mill Pebble Dash

Humourous Toilet Noises 3

Carry On Corduroy 5

Drain Savage 2

Radio 4 Hoar Sampler

Binman Challenge

Boris Becker’s Jazz Complaint

Callcentre Supervisor Pro

Timpsons Manager 1986

Volcano Cheese

The Lemon Vampires of Dudley

Pablo Balloon’s Hernia Diagnosis

Virtua Social Carer

Eric Gluttony

Trouser Press Sabbatical

Alarm! Run! Knit!

Whitly Bay Mesh Collector

Martini Hinge Challenge

Vole Puncher 3

Tropical Slavery 3

Slattery Battery Chat

The Ambivolent Miner’s Chin Problem

Dog Warmer 9

Piano Stroker 2

Brian Hater

Brian Massacre

The Eyes of Salamine

Wingnut

Ruthless Removal of Wind

Egg Rugby 5

International Spine Swapping

Grand Prix - Live from Borehamwood

Farmed Nicaraguan Debris - Collector’s Edition

Spongy Marmite

Fun N Games in Chernobyl with Cheryl Baker

Fun N Games in Chernobyl II without Cheryl Baker

Semi-Pro Badger Excuses 5

Face Biter III

Eric Clapton’s Dead Shoes

Stop! Or my Mom will Shoot Ike

Kate Stits

Dawn French’s Fantasy Football

Giant Priority

Extendable Alien Hairdriers

A Masterclass with Ruud Hullit

Greggs Tycoon

Nail Filing with Stefan Edberg

SimLibrarian

Aardvark Juggling

Any Swedgers?

Civil Engineering Attack Force

Bible Edit III

Cactus Comparing with Terry Waite

Gunther’s Tasty Leather

Health Challenge

Catastrophe Pants

Superhero Draughts

SimJanitor 8: Smooth Moperator

Breath Club

Biting and Chewing

The Goose 3

Armadale

Sangsters 2

Extreme Chinese

Ned Poultry Farmer

Diabolical Gran Odour 6

Camp Action Man

Topless Skateboard Nun 2

Solving Simultaneous Equations Under Water (Bridlington Edition)

Hake Take with Less Than Jake (Celebrity Edition)

The Paul Anka Diaries

Makeover : Wallpapering Your Face 5

Blackhead Removal with Scaffolding Poles 8

High School Musical Shoot Out

Bad Air Hockey (Rotten Egg Edition)

Failed Airport Terrorism Attempt 2

International Banana Terrorist 3

Conventional Bra Wearing

Terrapin 2

split pea glee

gaseous monkey

Cheddarfest revival

moonfaced lung toucher 4

attack of the angry jam ballast

relentless margarine 3

buttergutter

clutter game

wasp wing clasp assembly

futurismysticalismism presented by Kenny Leveritt

pork chop aftermath

strict rector workings 5

detected vim spillage 2

simCOLOSTOMY

Gale Force

Pike Gardening

Ribble Valley Larvae Attraction

Marmite Spite

Sarah Brightman’s Secret Pro-Am Celebrity Tench Cremation

High Speed Paralympic Disasters 5

Savoury Tights 4

Advanced Scone Vandalism with Ruth Maddock

Workplace Victimisation Art 2

Egg Poaching with Prince Charles

Varnishing with Confidence Iggy Pop versus Eggy Pope (Slovenian Edition)

Sloth Pinching with Ewan McGregor

Shoot Deirdre Off Coronation Street As Many Times As You Like

Polished Ginger Bison Falling Over 3

Lego Smashing

Snorting-A-Surgically-Removed-Spaghetti Line Back Through Your Nose Championships with Keith Floyd

Slippery Cats Finger Sizery

Vernacular Spectacular - Regional Heats - Norway Vs Newcastle

Disabled Horse Fury 5

Turtle Hurlers

Des Lynam’s Mum

Horse v Dolphin: Requiem

rentokil bill 2

rat boy 9

cardboard harbour 9

vote for a wine side dish

Ministry of Justice: Writing the Constitution Sim Local Councilor

Puggy Paradise

Pan-London Kid Chase

Pirates on the Pond

Junior Project Manager III

Decide to Read Again

Nokia vs Motorola: Find the Phone Charger

Feed the Kids Coal (Bono Demo)

Tom Clancy’s Splintered Bell

Jellied babies

Shave the Llama

Jew Harp Hero (Harp not included)

Mum Trashers 4

SimSTD

ActuaMince

Square Peg Round Hole Challenge

Blockman vs DragonThing

Menopausal Madness

Ringbinder II

Equine Manouevers

The Mysteries of Michael Elphick’s Port in a Storm

Haberdasherie Heat

LGV STD

Half a Cider And You’re Laughing

Humourless Hags Return to Castle Frottage

Hungry Hungarian Housewives

Fake Tan Dylan

Super Who Did That Thunder in Tannadice

Swollen River Wheelchair Uh-Oh

Ruby Murray’s Curry from Anything

How Clean is your Mouth

Cilit Bangers

Why’s Dad in the Furnace: HD

R Kelly’s Gotham City

Gerard Kelly’s Diet City

Kendal Misery

Buff Women Crush

Supermarket Nuts

Dry Off - You’re Wet Too!

Xenophobic Elderly Home

Easy Rider: Trikes and Quads

Rise Up and Get Back To Bedford

Alan Sugar’s Finger Fiasco

Private Investigator: Carbon Footprints

Snakes on a Phone

Phone a Snake

Snakephone

Phoney Snake

Children In Need: One Can Survive

The Canterbury Compendium Featuring: Sinister Minister

The Godies ft. Hymn Brooke Taylor

Virtual Nun

Cheeses Of Nazareth

Nun Surfing: Birds of Pray

Dogs drink wine

nacho panic

ostrich borstal

bombscare in sacred cities of spain

spiral binding awards

biro spinning awards

spiro binning awards

Thora Hird’s Extreme Stairlift

Gammy Dodger 2

Hell Monger 5

Tag Nutter 8

simClaw

Mayonnaise Babies 2

Kissing With Incontinence

Dances With Wolverines

Come Dancing 3D

Dumb Dating 4D

Interactive Pylon Climbing

Fundamental Dish Cloth Equations

Haulage Wars 1 - Norbert Dentressangle vs. Eddie Stobbart

Haulage Wars 2 - David Heeps vs. C. Hinds Potato Merchants

White Van Driver Fashion Show

Greasy Dinosaurs Almanac

Terrible Tearing Sounds

Baste The Family

B&Q BBQ Standoff

May’s Rotary Chuckling

Spontaneous Fury

Induced Tap Dancing with Andy May

Your Lip’s Burst 2

Attack of the 40 foot Gingerbread Postman

The Dalgleish Index Escalator

Arthur Askey’s Crop Spraying

Alsatian Alien

Cow Painter 5

Impossible Cornering Technique with Ayrton Senna

Ann Frank 3D

Chop: Stand: Force: Interactive Cumnock Gala Day with Obie Trice

Dougie Donnelly’s Battenberg Cake Jumper Confusion Game

Mince Rinsing with Peter Alice

Wife Swab 3

Knife Swap 4

Gnome Drool Collecting for Beginners

Anger Manager IV

Uncle Tony’s Special Cupboard

Spilt Milk

Virtual RAC Guy Challenge

Michael Ballack’s Ludo Madness

Archie McPherson’s Apron of Chance

Gulls of Fury

Monty Don’s Embroidery Masterclass

Spammy the Dog

Rumbelows

Windows C64 edition

Mr. Minit’s Key Cutting Japes

Saved By The Bell End 3

Asp The Family - Snakecharmer Edition

Snoop Doggy Dog’s Dance Studio Workout

Taming The Shrew with Lena Zavaroni

VirtuaConkers

Sectarian Dolphin 4

Fly Phishing by J.R. “Hacker” Hartley

The Goth Temple of Gloom

The Hannible Lectures

simBiscuit (bourbon special)

Evostick Party

Bri-Nylon Guy 3

Skinflat Survival

Eaglesham Startrek

Bees In The Loft

Sandra Sandra

Justin and Colin’s Guide To Deep Sea Pipe Welding

Wayne Rooney Loony Toon Room for Kids

Pheasant Milkfloat Run

Late Ex in Latex 6

Dick Advocaat’s guide to coctkail mixing

To The Manor Braun

Tandoori Roti 3

Murder She Roti

Silence of The Prams

Emlyn Hugh’s Omelette Challenge

Josh Wink’s Tiddleywinks

Elvanfoot Butterfly Massacre

Carstairs

Monster Metros

Fuzzy-Felt Masterclass with Yuri Gagarin

Predator Paint

Eel Chair Regatta

Big Pants Comedy Skydiving

Bang! Bang! Bang! Oops…

Swindlin’ Yokels with Roman Abramovich

Outrun Bolton

Tony Blair’s Prole Crusher

Heather The Weather’s Fishnet Frenzy

Nick Drake’s Morose Warblings

Ape Attack!: Wishaw

Patrick Moore’s Tedium Personified

Chicken Gun

Barry Robson’s Beguiling Napper

C5 Grand Prix

Roll Me A Fat One and Get They Dishes Done

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Upside of Death VI

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Pyjamas.. At School?

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Cash In the Attic, Now In My Attic

Get Pregnant 5 - Civilised Scamming

Soda Stream: Hunt for the Gas Canister

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Unicycling for Pensioners

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Filthy Ventriloquist Stories

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Irene Maiden 10

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Holy Moly - the unluckiest Mole in the Field

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Mike Tyson’s Rapid Wrestling

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An Audience With Kirk Broadfoot

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Re-pot That Geranium, You Fool

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Dad! You’re My Brother!

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Like the real thing, The Great Escape 2019 is not going to end well

By happy, or otherwise, coincidence, last Sunday marked the 75th anniversary of The Great Escape, the World War II prison camp breakout which spawned a hit movie and an England football anthem.

The theme music from the 1963 film, composed by Elmer Bernstein, is as much a part of our national soundtrack as Jerusalem, Land Of Hope And Glory and Waterloo Sunset.

A few years ago, I was invited to the Proms for Elmer’s Hollywood Songbook concert, which included his music from The Magnificent Seven, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments.

Bernstein was conducting, and when the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra launched into The Great Escape, the audience at the Royal Albert Hall rose to its feet, as a man and woman, clapping and singing along.

Da-da,

Da-da, da, da-da.

Da-da,

Da, da-da,

Da-da!

Never mind The Last Night, and all those blue and yellow, face-painted Guardianistas, looking like a bunch of Smurfs, and waving EU flags, while trying to hijack one of the great events in the British calendar to promote their own political bigotry.

The spontaneous Great Escape sketch was the best thing I’d ever seen at Sir Henry Wood’s gaff. In the words of the great Chuck Berry, the joint was rockin’.

And, trust me, I’ve seen everything from Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and the opera La Boheme to Joan Baez, Carl Perkins and Wilko Johnson, Canvey Island’s finest, at the Albert Hall.

I was even there the day Gerald Ratner crashed his company by telling the Institute of Directors conference that some of the jewellery he was knocking out was not worth the price of a Marks & Spencer prawn sandwich.

The Bernstein concert wasn’t one of those poncey metropolitan elite nights, where smug, self-reverential ‘intellectuals’ disguise their moral and financial impoverishment inside shiny dinner suits from the Oxfam shop, and parade their superior disdain for the Great Unwashed — the knuckle-scraping, low-information, racist Little Englanders who had the audacity to vote for Brexit.

Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street for the House of Commons for key Brexit votes yesterday

No way, Pedro. This was Daily Mail Land en fete, coachloads of proper people from Beyond The North Circular Road, the very folk our own dear, and much-missed, Jack Tinker used to address when he was writing his peerless theatre reviews.

At the end of the evening’s entertainment, we wandered into Kensington Gore, in search of Last Orders, humming and whistling the theme from The Great Escape.

Da-da,

Da-da, da, da-da.

Da-da,

Da, da-da,

Da-da!

Bernstein himself looked baffled at the ecstatic reception which greeted his wartime meisterwerk.

Nobody else was, least of all me. For better or worse, World War II is deeply embedded in our national psyche.

We revere the sacrifices made by our parents’ and grandparents’ generations to protect our independence. We are inspired by the stoicism, the stiff upper lips, of those who came before.

Old gits like me were raised on black-and-white movies about British prisoners of war, plotting their escape. No wet Sunday afternoon on TV was complete without one — The Wooden Horse, Albert RN, The Colditz Story.

It’s who we are.

OK, so The Great Escape was in glorious Technicolor and Cinemascope, the best out of Hollywood, and featured James Coburn as a dodgy Aussie, with the worst accent since Dick Van Dyke played a Cock-er-ney chimney sweep in Mary Poppins.

Most of the time, Coburn sounded Irish.

But it also featured Dear, Dear Dickie Attenborough, Cowley from The Professionals and Upstairs, Downstairs, and Nigel Stock, who starred alongside Dear, Dear Dickie in Brighton Rock, as well as playing Dr Watson to Peter Cushing’s Sherlock Holmes.

Machine-gun towers would be manned by Remoaners

Although it took the usual Hollywood liberties, the film was based on a true story. In 1943, the Germans set up a special camp, Stalag Luft III, to house Allied prisoners of war who had previously escaped. Once banged up together, the chaps decide that they will stage the biggest breakout in history.

They dig three tunnels, called ‘Tom, Dick and Harry’, tailor civilian clothes and forge identity papers. Their aim is to liberate 250 men all at once, regardless of the dangers.

This being Hollywood, the Yanks are over-represented. Charles ‘Death Wish’ Bronson, who made his name playing an Apache, pretends to be Polish, and Jim Rockford is an American serving with the RAF — presumably because he can’t manage a Polish, Australian or Oirish accent.

The British are portrayed by, among others, David McCallum, (Illya Kuryakin from The Man From U.N.C.L.E.), and ‘Johnny, Remember Me’ Leyton, from Von Ryan’s Express and Joe Meek’s famous recording studio on the Holloway Road.

Star of the show is a pre-Bullitt Steve McQueen, a baseball-throwing American, who — in the movie’s best-loved scene — eventually ploughs a motorbike into a barbed wire fence as he attempts to evade his captors.

American Steve McQueen poses on a motorbike in The Great Escape, released in 1963

McQueen lives to fight another day, but most of the escapees are recaptured and mown down by the Gestapo, on Hitler’s direct orders. Only three go on to make a ‘home run’.

On Sunday, at a ceremony in Poland, RAF officers and airmen held photos of the 50 men murdered after breaking out of Stalag Luft III. The last survivors of the daring escape, Dick Churchill, aged 99, and Jack Lyon, 101, died recently. I wonder what they’d have made of the preening Remoaners who marched against democracy this weekend.

As it happened, I was in Central London on Saturday. If there was a tenth of the million marchers they claimed turned out to try to overturn the Brexit vote, I’d be astonished.

Rattling in on the Piccadilly Line from Daily Mail Land, it wasn’t until we crossed the North Circular Road that the demonstrators started getting on board. First up was a scruffy bird in Doc Martens and one of those Intifada scarves. She was brandishing a tatty cardboard ‘Stop Leave’ sign.

By the time we’d reached Islington, spiritual home of Remain, there were a few more of them, all looking very pleased with themselves.

Curiously, the local MP, O.J. Corbyn, wasn’t among them.

He’d legged it up north to be photographed doing a silly dance alongside the statue of Eric Morecambe. Presumably, because he’s always been in favour of leaving the EU, despite what he says for public consumption.

Anyway, I digress. I couldn’t help wondering what the remake of The Great Escape would look like today.

Boris, Rees-Mogg and Farage (Tom, Dick and Harry) would be attempting to tunnel their way out of Stalag Luft 2019, while the likes of Spread Fear Phil and Look Back In Amber were grassing them up to the guards.

The machine-gun towers would be manned by Remoaners like Dominique Grieve, Bercow, Chucky Umunna and Soubry Lou.

Rees-Mogg and Farage along with Boris Johnson would be attempting to tunnel their way out fo Stalag Luft 2019

Chuka Umunna and Anna Soubry from The Independent Group leave the Cabinet Office in Whitehall last week

Meanwhile, Mother Theresa would be doing her best Steve McQueen impersonation, ploughing her motorbike into the barbed wire in a doomed third attempt at a meaningful escape.

Like the real thing, The Great Escape 2019 is not going to end well. Altogether now:

Da-da,

Da-da, da, da-da.

Da-da,

Da, da-da,

Da-da!

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Why Howard Smith Wharves is the hottest place to be in Brisbane

Summer has arrived in Brisbane but it’s not just the weather heating things up. A once-derelict piece of prime land just 10 minutes’ walk from the CBD has been transformed into the city’s hottest new dining and lifestyle precinct. Say hello to the Howard Smith Wharves.

The wharves were built in the 1930s to provide residents with work during the depression. Largely abandoned since the 1960s, that all changed in 2017 when work began to transform the heritage-listed sheds into a world-class destination for locals and visitors.

The Howard Smith Wharves are nestled between Brisbane’s iconic Story Bridge and the New Farm cliffs, with a 180-degree vista of the city skyline and river. AKA if you’re looking for Insta-worthy views, this is the place.

But it’s not just the outlook bringing the crowds.

A steady stream of restaurants, bars and event spaces have opened over the past month in the lead-up to Christmas, making it one of the hottest places to be this summer.

Several more eateries and Art Series Hotels’ flagship 164-room, five-star hotel – dedicated to four-time Archibald People’s Choice Award winner, Vincent Fantauzzo – will follow suit in the first quarter of 2019.

Mr Percival’s

Arguably the jewel in the crown of the $200 million redevelopment is Mr Percival’s, an octagonal overwater bar perched directly under the Story Bridge.

Remember the pelican from childhood Aussie film Storm Boy? Well, it’s named after him. Since its opening two weeks ago, Mr Percival’s has become Brisbane’s new go-to place to see and be seen.

We’re not in Kansas any more people, Brisbane is all grown up and it’s just as sparkly as the Emerald City.

The structure and its interior were created by design guru and local Anna Spiro (she of Halcyon House fame). And just like the Howard Smith Wharves, Mr Percival’s is a destination. It’s a get-dressed-up-for-a-night-out kind of place.

The DJs stand on top, that’s right, of the stacked, octagonal mirrored bar and it’s not uncommon for them to be joined by saxophonists and bongo players. When the sun goes down and the city lights turn on, the party really gets going. But it’s not all party, party, party.

The expansive deck overlooking the river means there’s plenty of room for a leisurely lunch or dinner.

The menu is based around seafood, we are in Queensland after all, and is headed by acclaimed chef Damien Styles. Treat your taste buds to three different types of caviar (eaten off the back of your hand, no less) or dive into some lobster rolls as well as freshly grilled scallops, octopus and Mooloolaba king prawns.

Trust us when we say they go perfectly with champagne and cocktails at sunset.

But if the Euro-summer vibe doesn’t take your fancy, there’s plenty of other options at Howard Smith Wharves, like these guys:

Felons Brewing Co

Felons was the first kid off the block when it opened in a mammoth shed in the heart of the precinct in November.

It may be a big space, but it’s a chilled one. With its on-site brewery (producing four beers and one cider) and seating overlooking the water, it’s the perfect place to spend a summer’s day.

There’s also no chance you’ll go hungry at this modern gastro-pub. Aside from classics like burgers, fish and barbecue chicken, there’s also a 1kg rib eye steak ideal for sharing and an extensive menu of woodfired pizzas with dough made using its Australian Pale Ale.

Felons also run tours and have plans to become a national beer brand. XXXX, once the staple in town has been seriously challenged by a slew of breweries in and around Brisbane.

Greca Restaurant

The man behind Sydney’s famed restaurant The Apollo has finally ventured north of the border to give Brisbane his own take on the food of the gods.

Jonathan Barthelmess’ contemporary Greek taverna, which opened on December 8, is hidden amongst the olive trees inside one of the renovated buildings.

If you can’t decide between classic favourites like dolmades, spanakopita and lamb shoulder, then why not go full Greek, quite literally, and have it all?

Do as the Europeans do and share the Full Greek set menu with your family and friends. Or if that isn’t enough to satisfy your festive hunger, there’s also the Almighty Aphrodite and The Apollo Feast.

Don’t forget to be a sticky beak and check out the private dining area upstairs, nestled high above the beams in the roof.

ARC Dining and Wine Bar

Star Sydney chef Alanna Sapwell was just announced as the head chef of this new offering, which, alongside Felons, Mr Percival’s and the event spaces, has been created by the people behind the Howard Smith Wharves redevelopment.

Sapwell is leaving hatted fish restaurant Saint Peter to take up the helm and we couldn’t be happier.

Located at the New Farm end, the bar is set to start welcoming the masses this Thursday, with the restaurant slated to open early next year.

Toko

The migration north of Sydney Harbour continues in 2019 as popular eatery Toko is welcomed to the Howard Smith Wharves fold.

Matt Yazbek will bring his casual Japanese dining concept to the Brisbane riverfront, following openings in Melbourne and Dubai.

Stanley

The only other restaurant to be announced so far is Stanley, a Cantonese-Chinese restaurant located next to Toko.

It’s owned by Brisbane husband and wife duo Andrew and Jaimee Baturo, of Libertine fame.

The kitchen will be run by local chef Kym Machin, who’s known for his popular southside eatery Bare Bones Society. It’s also set to open in the first quarter of 2019.

Thinking outside the box

The group behind the Howard Smith Wharves unashamedly want the area to be Brisbane’s hottest food and beverage precinct.

But with more than 80 per cent of the area allocated to public space, they also want to reacquaint people with the river.

Chief executive officer Luke Fraser says they want people to walk, ride and scoot through the grounds, while also taking time to sit and enjoy the surrounds.

From 2019, the open spaces will be used as a playground for outdoor festivals, markets and pop-up marquees.

Coincidentally, the 2.7 hectares of natural parkland means there is also plenty of greenery to lie down on after you’ve sampled all of the culinary options on offer.

The boardwalk along the river’s edge and the footpath behind the wharves connect with the New Farm River Walk and another that leads into the city.

Two lifts have also been installed to help people get from the top of the cliffs to the precinct below, while a new City Cat stop is expected to open in 2020.

The Howard Smith Wharves are located under the Story Bridge, at 5 Boundary St, Brisbane City.

Have you been to the Howard Smith Wharves? Tell us in the comments below.

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JaPOW 2017

Andy and I decided last spring to celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary by going skiing in Hokkaido, Japan, with our dear friends Carrie and Dave. We scored our plane tickets with Andy’s airline miles in April, and 9 months of anticipation finally came to a head on February 4th of this year.

A few days prior to our departure, we started receiving mixed reports from Carrie saying that some snow was great, some was terrible, and we realized perhaps we had better temper our expectations. We reasoned that many, many people take ski vacations in Colorado with the promise of amazing pow, only to be skunked. With measured enthusiasm, we packed our bags for what was sure to be a great time, even if the snow didn’t blow our minds every second.

To say that we were pleasantly surprised would be an understatement. But skiing wasn’t the only great thing on the trip, I’ll break my trip report into four parts:

THE FOOD

I thought this would not be a very cultural trip, and as I had spent ten months in Sapporo in 2001-02, I felt I had a good handle on Japanese culture anyway. However, we experienced the gestalt of Japanese cuisine - and if food isn’t considered cultural, I don’t know what is. I forewent coffee for most of the trip, opting for tea in the morning (about 1000 cups of it, the cups are so small! But this was good for hydrating me for the daily ski tour. Oh, I shouldn’t deceive you, reader: the coffee tasted like grimy dishwater, so I drank the tea because it was all I could stomach.). I weaned myself off western fare at breakfast, and after a few days was eating rice, fish, miso, and eggs, along with other sundry, often unidentifiable, items. The sticky rice is so named because it sticks with you - I could power along the ski tour all the way until lunch without a snack!

Andy (ahead) and I, skinning up to the alpine on day 3. The snow just kept getting better...

Dinners were divine. Of course, you probably think of sushi when you think of Japanese cuisine; some of you might include tempura as well. However, you can’t forget ramen (not the crappy 99 cent kind), okonomiyaki, monja, shabu shabu, and the offerings of the izakaya (think tapas, Japanese style). Some pictures of this excellent fare are below.

The snack aisle in the supermarket is a little different...

Shabu shabu! Dunno what all that was, but it was tasty.

Pushing back some savory sushi at the kaiten (conveyor belt) zushi.

Okonomiyaki, savory pancakes. The name means, roughly, “what you like,” and we did like. Carrie and Dave, getting hungry....

Monja, a specialty from Tokyo. The restaurant owner cooked both these and the okonomiyaki at our table. More experienced restaurant guests are allowed to cook their own, but I’m pretty sure we looked ignorant of the ways of the okonomiyaki-ya.

Ermergerd, ermergerd, ermergerd. All the little sea critters are so delicious! I’m ruined on sushi for a few months - there is no way any place in Denver can top this meal.

THE SKIING

I could go on and on here, but since many readers are not skiers, I’ll just say it was FABULOUS. We skied powder every day, and were treated to one day of the snorkel-worthy deep snow that has made Hokkaido an iconic ski destination. We didn’t take any pictures on the snorkel day - we were too busy skiing as much as possible. But you can get an idea from this:

The stoke for this run was palpable. We’d already had one blower run, where I was veritably submerged in powder on each turn. I was ready for more!

Didn’t need to see that much, just go!

On a different day, but almost as fluffy. Here Andy drops into a nice tele turn.

We decided to hire guides for this trip: since we only had a week, we wanted to efficiently pillage all of the best snow. While it wasn’t the cheapest way to ski Hokkaido, it was certainly the most stress-free! We’ve never done a trip like that, and lucked into having two exceedingly competent, very witty Kiwis to take us to the best skiing.

This is Peter. His super slangy Kiwi accent made for some hilarity - we learned words like mongrel, pancake, and frizzah. Sweet as. Peter liked to be a little bawdy and find the rowdiest line on each pitch.

Jim, the serious one, but he tolerated us admirably! Both guides worked in Colorado as ski patrollers, which was quite a coincidence.

I will brag a little, and say our guides were excited about us (as excited as you can be about working, I suppose) because we were very content to ski uphill, and ski a lot, and ski up big peaks. Granted, the latter required a little coaxing on their part for your author, as she is afraid of heights and generally underestimates her ability to do anything on skis.

Carrie and me, summiting again. On the first summit, Jim asked “who’s excited, and a little nervous?” Carrie and I raised our hands. He told us we’d be just fine. We informed him that if Andy or Dave were trying to get us up here, we would have been cursing and whining and turning back! I said I really believed he didn’t want to kill us.

The peak we skied two days in a row. 1500 vertical feet of pow, followed by another 2500 vertical of fun, sometimes rowdy, tree skiing. Steepest trees I’ve ever skied!

THE ONSEN

Onsen, or hot springs, are a Japanese cultural institution. When I taught English in Sapporo, my students would often come back from the weekend telling me about their trips to the onsen in various quaint villages near Sapporo. My experience at onsen was limited during that first trip, but I remembered that there are lots of rules to follow. First and foremost: onsen are not clothing optional, they are clothing forbidden. There was much humor regarding personal grooming habits when I first informed Carrie and Dave about this, but I won’t describe such vulgarities here. Once you have your clothes off, there are more rules, explained by the picture below:

We quickly developed a habit of going to the onsen after skiing, as every hotel has one. If we were en route to a new hotel after skiing, we would stop at an onsen straight away - nothing worse than cramming six smelly people into a van for a long ride. On the third morning, our guide Jim mentioned that he likes to hit the onsen before breakfast - start the day the way you want to end it, he said. We realized the wisdom in this, and started to double down on onsen. I don’t think anyone managed a triple onsen, however. The best ones were those that had outdoor baths, as you can see below. I couldn’t get very many pictures of onsen, as I’m guessing most folks would take umbrage to having their photo snapped while in their birthday suits.

SAPPORO

I had the opportunity to reconnect with my old friend Brendon on our last night in Sapporo - we worked together when I lived here in 01-02. It’s always great to catch up with someone where it feels like it has been 15 minutes, not 15 years, that you saw them last. He guided us to a fantastic sushi restaurant (food pictured above), where we let him do the ordering - and ended up eating fermented squid, some weird green crab thing, and (hooray!) lots of raw prawns. After dinner, we took in the Sapporo Yuki Matsuri (Snow Festival). It was just shutting down for the evening, but we had enough light to capture the mammoth creations in Odori Koen (Big Street Park) in the center of the city.

Some of the snow sculptures are at least two stories tall. I think Andy didn’t believe me when I told him that - then we saw them. He was impressed.

I’ll leave you with this parting shot of the USA’s sorry excuse for a leader and his apple pen, whose sculpture was inspired by a Japanese viral video.

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Introduction

Singaporeans moan that besides shopping, dining and the movies, there's not a lot you can do here. Ignore them. The must-see list for the one-day visitor to Singapore, especially the first-timer, is absorbingly long. There is very little chance you'll get bored. Most tourists tend to gravitate first towards the famed retail stretch of Orchard Road. Fine, get your fix of bold-faced names like Louis Vuitton, Chanel and every other couture label under the sun. When you've gotten that out of your system, dump your purchases back at the hotel and head out into the 'burbs where the real charm of Singapore lies. We're here to guide you to the top 10 places where tourists don't normally go; in short, the places where Singaporeans in the know live and play.

1. Singapore Botanic Gardens

So, you've arrived. It's early and nothing really opens for business until around 11 a.m., so how are you going to kill time? Slip on the trainers and head out to the Botanic Gardens (open 5 a.m. to midnight). At this time of the day, downtown Singapore's last remaining green lung is a cool, bucolic retreat filled with joggers, dogs and tai-chi practitioners. Wander through the swaths of virgin rainforest (the main boardwalk through it is entered from Upper Palm Valley Road) and then take in the National Orchid Garden's many-colored collection of 1,000 orchid species and 2,000 hybrids. When you're done, drop into the food court near Tanglin Gate for a traditional local breakfast of soft-boiled eggs, coffee and toast slathered with coconut jam.

2. Artwork at the Ritz-Carlton

It may seem a little strange to head to a hotel to look at artwork, but the Ritz-Carlton is no ordinary hotel. The massive three-ton Frank Stella installation at the entrance and the pair of Dale Chihuly crystal glass sculptures that anchor both wings of the building kick off one of Southeast Asia's finest (and under the radar) collections of modern and contemporary art. The majority of the pieces were specially commissioned for the public spaces and guest suites. The treasures on view include Andy Warhol and David Hockney's exuberant colors, Rainer Gross's geometric compositions, Henry Moore's restrained monochromatics and the lush botanicals of Robert Zakanitch. It's all free to view, and you even get an iPod-guided tour.

3. Chinatown Heritage Centre

Let the other tourist hordes charge over to the newly minted Peranakan Museum or the gloomy Asian Civilisations Museum. If you do only one cultural thing during your 24hour Singapore layover, it must be a tour of the unheralded Chinatown Heritage Centre, where entire sets of bedrooms, kitchens and street scenes from the late-19th century and early-20th century have been faithfully recreated. It's an authentic slice of Singapore's history that's made all the more fascinating by the gleaming skyscrapers just a few blocks away. And if you must, pick up a kitschy souvenir from the gift shop on your way out.

4. Plastic Surgery

In case you missed the memo, the place for plastic surgery is Asia. While many people head to Bangkok and Seoul for assorted nips and tucks, the locals make a beeline for the ultra-swish, Richard Meier–designed Camden Medical Centre. You may not have time for a full makeover, but squeeze in a spot of Botox or a non-surgical facelift with local celebrity surgeon Woffles Wu. And then adjourn downstairs for snapper pie and Pavlova at Whitebait & Kale.

5. Electronics for Cheap

Tokyo may have the latest in electronic gadgets, but Singapore has the widest range, and luckily for the time-pressed shopper, they're all clustered in two massive multistory emporia. Handicams, portable DVD players, mobile phones, hi-tech cameras, MP3 players and laptops in just about every imaginable configuration are up for grabs at Funan Digitalife Mall and Sim Lim Square. The prices are usually about 10% to 20% cheaper than at other commercial outlets. At Sim Lim Square especially, good deals can be had with some serious haggling, and many retailers will knock off a few extra dollars if you pay in cash.

6. Haji Lane

This tiny lane, hidden away in the heart of the Muslim quarter, is a fashionista's paradise. With very little fanfare, the collection of narrow shop-houses have, in less than a year, been transformed into an aggressively hip retail stretch recalling Le Marais in Paris or New York's Meatpacking District. Know It Nothing is a stylish industrial space that stocks beautifully tailored dress shirts stitched with silver skull buttons by Japanese label Garni. Next, pop into Pluck for its shabby chic collection of Austin Powers– inspired cushion covers and a cute ice-cream parlor. A few doors down, Salad boasts a range of home accessories like laser-cut table mats and Hong Kong–based Carrie Chau's quirky postcards. If you're feeling peckish, have an authentic Middle Eastern lunch around the corner at Cafe le Caire.

7. The Singapore Flyer

The 165-meter-high Flyer is Singapore's answer to the London Eye. For the moment, it is the world's largest observation wheel (that title will go to Beijing when its version opens in 2009). Despite much fanfare and hype, the locals have never really taken to the Flyer, grousing that it's too far from anywhere (it's not) and S$29.50 is a lot of money to pay for a 30-minute ride. Lucky you, since this means you'll almost never have to wait in line. The best time to hitch a ride is at dusk when the entire row of downtown skyscrapers is softly lit. Back on the ground, head for a dinner of chili crabs at Seafood Paradise.

8. The White Rabbit

Back in the '50s, Dempsey Hill was home to the British Army. These days, the former barracks, set amidst lush jungle, have been transformed into a fine collection of restaurants, bars, art galleries, epiceries and spas. Recently, the long abandoned garrison church was reopened as the White Rabbit, a restaurant and bar serving up Euro comfort food. After extensive renovations, its lofty interiors are now a mood-lit bolt-hole that heaves with tout le monde. When people aren't busy air-kissing and waving to one another across the crowded dining space, they're tucking into chef Daniel Sia's cleverly re-imagined classics, like macaroni and cheese drizzled with truffle sauce and a deconstructed Black Forest cake. After dinner, head up the hill for a chilled mojito at Margarita's.

9. Geylang

Once upon a time, Bugis Street was Singapore's premier red light district (and forever immortalized in Peter Bogdanovich's Saint Jack), but the crown has long since passed to Geylang, an atmospheric quarter on Singapore's east coast that bristles with great period architecture, leggy street walkers and some of the best local food on the island. On offer is a greedy grab of Peranakan, Indian, Malay and regional Chinese standards including the coconut rice and curry chicken at Bali Nasi Lemak, spicy noodles with roast pork and prawns at Kuching Kolo Mee and the Hakka favourite of rice, vegetables, tofu and peanuts in a tea-based broth at Lei Cha Fan.

10. Zouk

Despite its prim, straight-laced reputation, Singapore's nightlife is actually quite racy, though compared to Barcelona or New York, the party ends early (around 3 a.m.). After nearly two decades, Zouk is still the throbbing heart of the action. The pulsating institution is a strobe-lit, rambling warren of dance floors, figure-hugging outfits, swagger and seasoned moves. For many of the pretty young hipsters here, it's a rite of passage. If it isn't enough to satisfy your urge to groove, drop into the mammoth Ministry of Sound for a quick shimmy.

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