Marooned on a Greek Island

[rogeriko]

Due to all the strikes and general problems here in Greece there has been NO ferry boats at all since last monday thets 8 days completely cut of from the world. The supermarkets have only empty shelves and no fresh vegetables for days now. Luckily I have a huge freezer full of Angus Beef and other Frozen british delicacies that I drive down every year. We have dry/canned food for months in the house because this is becoming the norm here. The gasoline ran out 3 days ago. If you really have to go somewhere the fishermen will take you on their boats.

[camillitech]

My idea of heaven 

soon it may well become the norm Roger, don't you just love being prepared and living 'off grid' 

Cheers, Paul

[Mike McMillan]

If that was the UK, we would have riots with the Army on the streets. The Greeks, like the Japanese, are very stoic.

Mike McMillan

Off grid IOW

[rogeriko]

I have two incubators here that I havn't used for a couple of years. Can hatch 400 chickens a month, I think I had better clean them up and fill them full of fertile eggs. Free range of course theres nothing here that can kill a chicken apart from a hungry neighbour. Greece is one of those countrys where the farm animals roam free everywhere and nobody cares.

[camillitech]

"Greece is one of those countrys where the farm animals roam free everywhere and nobody cares."

same here Roger, it just rains more 

Cheers, Paul

[biff]

that bra laddie in the frame above reminds me of my old maths and latin teacher of years ago.the hair and eyes a perfect match.
                                                                                                                            biff

[M]

that bra laddie in the frame above reminds me of my old maths and latin teacher of years ago.the hair and eyes a perfect match.
                                                                                                                            biff

Biff, what's a 'bra laddie'?

(I tried google'ing it, but got distracted)

Rogeriko, if you are trying to run a subversive campaign to encourage foreign investment through Greek immigration - well, it's working.

Martyn.

[camillitech]

Biff would have been meaning 'braw' Martyn,

"Braw developed from a variant of the word brave, itself borrowed into Scots and English from French. Early uses of braw, noted in Scottish sources in the seventeenth century, often relate to physical beauty, such as the "cumlie yowth of braw statour (build)" described in A Chronicle of the Kings of Scotland (c 1615). A more proverbial usage is found in Robert Pitcairn’s account of Ancient Criminal Trials in Scotland (1833): "the Devill wold giv us the brawest lyk money that ewer wes coyned". This sense continues to be represented in later literature, as in Sir Walter Scott’s novel, Old Mortality: "Ye think yoursell a braw fellow enow; and troth…there’s na fault to find wi’ the outside". Another of Scott’s novels, Heart of Midlothian (1818), illustrates the use of the plural noun which developed from the same word: "But, Madge, the lads only like ye when ye hae on your braws". "

http://www.scotslanguage.com/articles/words/890


Cheers, Paul

[biff]

near enough,,spot on paul, but burns would use "bra"as would rab C. 
                       
                                                            biff

[M]

Thanks Paul and Biff for the clarification. Very informative, but can you pronounce Llanelli properly. And if you can, may I apologise for the mess. As Blackadder once said, 'never ask for directions in Wales Baldrick, you'll be washing spit out of your hair for a fortnight!'

I wonder if this is a hijacking of the thread, or a pleasant distraction for an island captive?

I'd guess with all those turbines (and chickens) to keep him busy, Rogeriko neither cares one way or the other.

Martyn.

[biff]

chlanelie,, martyn, ?

[M]

chlanelie,, martyn, ?

Nice start mate, but you didn't plant the finish. No idea if I can spell it phonetically (can't even spell phon...).

Chlaneckli - not sure if that works. Start it with a spit build up, and end it with a hissy LEEE.

Usually pronounced on national news or tourist programmes as Lanale, oh dear.

I live in Rumney, in Cardiff. The Welsh name for Rumney (partially contested, but everything in Wales is partially contested) is Tredellerch. That's why I say I live in Rumney! Not to be confused with the valley's town of Rhymney, or Rhymni. Then there's good old Swansea, or as it's known in Welsh Abertawe.

So have some sympathy for us Welsh, it's not that we are slow, we are just taking our time trying to remember where we live. 

Anyway's after that short virtual tour of S. Wales, and those bra laddies of Ireland/Scotland, back to Greece and Rogeriko's warm, windy, sunny and chicken filled island prison. Any sign of escape yet?

Martyn.

[biff]

not far from aberflock,
                      and the ancient abbott,
                                     who hung the bell
                                                on the rock.
    and we all had to learn it over and over and as time went by made up our own words which were totally smutty and unsuitable for human consumption but came spilling out in the classroom by mistake (not me)amid roars of consternation from pupils and teacher alike.
                                                                                                                biff

[rogeriko]

There's a ferry boat, I see a ferry boat we are are saved. Finally the boats are running again ,but whats that I hear, tomorrow is a national holiday so no boats again, never mind all the produce on the trucks was a week old anyway. Next week again we shall see. Maybe yes maybe no.

Finally now that Germany is running the Greek Government there is a ray of sunshine http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_27/10/2011_412145

[biff]

i think i will write to angela and ask her to come over here and run this place also,
        our shower want us to vote them in a president at 300,000 euros a yr,,a president who has no power at all,,thank you.  300,000euros a year for dossing about in fancy gear.we dont even have anyone who could act the part,never mind be the part.it took the last mary 14yrs to get ready for the queens visit,and they are dipping in to our pensions,,no not the queen,,or mary,,the gov.!u see,!
      the incredible thing is,,no one is really asking questions,the population has just given up and i guess we will wait till everthing goes bump to the bottom and then boot them up the rear.we have judges who are drawing mega bucks and are refusing to take a paycut so the gov.is holding a referendum to change the law,at the moment the judges are above the law,even a court officer is above the law.(they have more power than the garda) and if you happen to get on the wrong side of them there is nothing you can do.,their word is final.
 so we are electing a president,holding two referendai and the people are wondering, do these goverment ministers really understand what broke means ?, then we have,,NAMA,,paying developers a salery of 200,000 a year to act as salesmen for their bankrupt properties.it gets worse.
     meanwhile roger is sunning himself on his island,doing a bit of fishing while we walk round with wet feet and long faces(  no not poo). i have a cousin who went out to papua new guinea years ago,he built a big castle on his plantation.,,maybe he will give me a job shining his shoes.
                                                                                                                       biff