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Hendo wrote:The other greenie will help with that Gordo :yea:

That is true Ned....couth and culture galore.....but you can never have enough couth....c’mon down Gordo.... :kenoath: :kenoath: :yea: :yea:
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Hippy Chippy wrote:
david warren wrote:The 'Rabbit' Warrens are back in Sydney after the 14th intake reunion on Philip Island. So I can confidently say I can be upgraded to an attendee. See you Saturday!!!! :occasion5: :wine:
:thumbright: That's great news, Dave, :yess: we look forward to catching up with you... :finga:
Perhaps you'll help Tafmo with :down: our Drinking :love1: Team on the day... :dontknow:

:type: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kprcwpBQeGg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; :drinkers: :omg1:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kprcwpBQeGg[/youtube] :drink 29: Drinking :love1: Team
The Attendees List :down: has been adjusted (to reflect the influx of Greenies,) :roll: accordingly... :evil3:

=; I've now given up hustling, collecting, confirming the names of this year's starters :3some: for
our 2018 (16th) Annual RAN Skilled Hands Sydney Rocks Xmas Pub Crawl Smokey, :partyman: I've
also booked our usual venues for Saturday's breakfast and lunch, :drink eat: for 16 participants...
In the order that they've indicated intentions to attend, here are our 18 attendees so far... :evil3:

:tchin: Confirmed: :yess:

:drink eat: Chris 'SeeJay' O'Keefe,
:drink eat: Col 'Pussasan' Kelson,
:drink eat: Steve 'Shep' Shepherd,
:drink eat: Steve's 'Partner' Polly,
:drink eat: Polly's Uncle,
:drink eat: John 'Chippy Ned' Kelly,
:drink eat: Ellen Kelly,
:drink eat: Brian 'Stroppy Chippie' McKenzie,
:drink eat: Verna 'Toots' McKenzie,
:drink eat: Brian 'Charlie' Staples,
:drink eat: Howard 'Hendo' Henderson,
:drink eat: Mark 'Mobes' Mobley
:drink eat: Bob 'Tafmo' King,
:drink eat: Rhonda King,
:drink eat: Gordon 'Gordo' Robertson,
:drink eat: Sandy Robertson,
:drink eat: Dave 'Rabbit' Warren,
:drink eat: Rick 'Hippy Chippy' Pengilly...

:wine: Possibles: :cocktail:

:phone1: John 'Viv' McLeod,

May :bee: Bees:

:dontknow: Mick 'Mick H' Hamilton

Can't :bee: Bees
:crybaby: Henry 'Schoobs' Schubert, :bugger:
:crybaby: Mike 'Pony' Moore, :tear:
:crybaby: Mark 'Sully' Sulivan... :tear:

Wanna :bee: Bees:
:3some: The 3 Girls :love1: in the clip :laughing3: above..! :drink 29: :yess:

Late starters please indicate your intentions A.S.A.P., so I can adjust our bookings... :phone:

P.S. Gordo, Dave, et all, you'll notice, the :grin: Greenies :grin: in the list above :upy: are now all in GREEN...! :yea:

P.P.S. I regret that I will be unable to participate in The Basin Trials :drink 42: this year, see you all on Saturday... :ouzo:
Dear would bees if they could bees....we, the supposed Wanna Bees, will not be attending as our drinking will show you all up...except for the Greenies of course........ :kenoath: :spunky: :tchin: :ouzo: :drink 29: :drinkers: :wine: :yea: :finga: :upy: .
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Seejay wrote:I'm going to check out the Frisco first, just for old times' sake. Then, undoubtedly, the Rockers.
What time you speak Chocolate Lips...... :sheeesh: :dontknow: :-k
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tafmo wrote:
Seejay wrote:I'm going to check out the Frisco first, just for old times' sake. Then, undoubtedly, the Rockers.
What time you speak Chocolate Lips...... :sheeesh: :dontknow: :-k
Should be there just prior to noon. :grin:
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What time at City Extra (9 or 9.30)?

:drink eat: The booking's for 9:30 am, Brian... :thumbright:

I've booked both of the restaurants, City Extra for 0930 for breakfast :drink eat: and Lord Nelson for 1300 for lunch, :drink eat: booked in the names of both ‘Rick’ and/ or ‘Navy Apprentices’, for approx.18 people... H.C.
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Another great gathering, perfect company and perfect weather. Sorry for piking before the end and especially sorry for not saying goodbye to everyone who was there. See you next year - Brian and Verna
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Yep, we've nailed it for the 16th year in a row, :yess: and whilst I was late due to unforeseen circumstances, I managed to arrive in time for the traditional/ obligatory Group Photo :happy3: at the Harbour View...

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....................................... Left-Right: Dave Warren, Dave, (Polly's Uncle,) Chris O'Keefe, Polly, (Shep's BFF,) Bob King, Steve Shepherd, Rick Pengilly, Howie Henderson, Mark Mobley,
.......................................Gordon Robertson, Dave Maxwell, Brian Mackenzie, Sandy Robertson, John Kelly, Ellen Kelly, Brian Staples, Verna Mackenzie, Col Kelson and Rhonda King...

=; If your mug-shot wasn't amongst this year's 'Usual Suspects', you were sadly missed, :tear: if your mug-shot has NEVER been seen amongst the 'Usual Suspects', why not...? :dontknow: What's wrong wiv ya...? :roll:

..................................................................... P.S. I know there's HEAPS :omg1: more photos :happy3: to come over coming days, so stay posted... :yea:
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I hope you all had a great time. Anne and I think back on the year we attended with great fondness. It was one of the best trips we ever took. If circumstsnces in the future allow, we wouldn't mind attending again

Chris, I seem to recall seeing that shirt some where before. Tell Jan that I haven't bought any more since our time in Hawaii. Yet.
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And you and Anne :love6: are well remembered too Fred, :finga: I believe you two still hold the record :evil3: for the distance travelled* to attend our annual get-together... :plane:









*Is it travelled or traveled? :-k

When adding -ing and -ed to verbs, we sometimes double the consonant beforehand. People are often confused with ‘travelled/traveled’, ‘benefitted/benefited’, ‘focussed/focused’ and ‘targetted/targeted’. This tip answers some of those queries.

The official requirements are that we ‘double a single consonant letter at the end of any base where the preceding vowel is spelled with a single letter and stressed’.

What does this mean in practice?

Examples:

word - present participle - past participle

bar - barring - barred
beg - begging - begged
occur - occurring - occurred
permit - permitting - permitted
patrol - patrolling - patrolled

It is true to say that there is usually no doubling when the preceding vowel is unstressed (‘enter’ becomes ‘entering/entered’; ‘visit’ becomes ‘visiting/visited’) or when the preceding vowel is written with two letters (‘dread’ becomes ‘dreading/dreaded’).

Travel

However, with some final consonants, even in cases when the preceding vowel is unstressed (so you would think that there would be no doubling), doubling does occur in standard received British English (but is not favoured in American English), so ‘travel’
becomes ‘travelling/travelled’. Others in this grammatical group (verbs ending in an unstressed vowel, followed by the letter ‘l’) are ‘cancel’, ‘counsel’, ‘dial’, ‘model’, ‘parallel’ and ‘signal’.

Some words change their spelling to cope (they add a letter ‘k’).

word - present participle - past participle

panic - panicking - panicked
traffic - trafficking - trafficked
frolic - frolicking - frolicked
bivouac - bivouacking - bivouacked

What about ‘focus’?

This word can take either double or single s, with the single option being highly preferred.

word - present participle - past participle

focus - focusing/focussing - focused/focussed

Here’s an odd one to end:

American - British English

parallel - parallel
paralleling - parallelling
paralleled - parallelled

Example:
The vetting service from Future Perfect is unparallelled. :icare:
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