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Re: The 2018 Annual RAN SH Sydney Rocks Xmas Pub Crawl Smoke
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2018 9:35 pm
by tafmo
Re: The 2018 Annual RAN SH Sydney Rocks Xmas Pub Crawl Smoke
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2018 9:49 pm
by tafmo
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!!!!
That's great news,
Dave,
we look forward to catching up with you...
Perhaps you'll help
Tafmo with
our
Drinking 
Team on the day...
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Drinking Team
The
Attendees List has been adjusted
(to reflect the influx of Greenies,) 
accordingly...
I've now given up hustling, collecting, confirming the names of this year's starters
for
our
2018 (16th) Annual RAN Skilled Hands Sydney Rocks Xmas Pub Crawl Smokey,
I've
also booked our
usual venues for Saturday's breakfast and lunch,
for 16 participants...
In the order that they've indicated intentions to attend, here are our
18 attendees so far...
Confirmed:
Chris 'SeeJay' O'Keefe,
Col 'Pussasan' Kelson,
Steve 'Shep' Shepherd,
Steve's 'Partner' Polly,
Polly's Uncle,
John 'Chippy Ned' Kelly,
Ellen Kelly,
Brian 'Stroppy Chippie' McKenzie,
Verna 'Toots' McKenzie,
Brian 'Charlie' Staples,
Howard 'Hendo' Henderson,
Mark 'Mobes' Mobley
Bob 'Tafmo' King,
Rhonda King,
Gordon 'Gordo' Robertson,
Sandy Robertson,
Dave 'Rabbit' Warren,
Rick 'Hippy Chippy' Pengilly...
Possibles: 
John 'Viv' McLeod,
May 
Bees:
Mick 'Mick H' Hamilton
Can't Bees
Henry 'Schoobs' Schubert, 
Mike 'Pony' Moore, 
Mark 'Sully' Sulivan...
Wanna Bees:
The 3 Girls in the clip
above..!
Late starters please indicate your intentions
A.S.A.P., so I can adjust our bookings...
P.S. Gordo, Dave, et all, you'll notice, the
Greenies in the list above
are now all in
GREEN...! 
P.P.S. I regret that I will be unable to participate in
The Basin Trials 
this year, see you all on
Saturday... 
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........
.
Re: The 2018 Annual RAN SH Sydney Rocks Xmas Pub Crawl Smoke
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2018 9:53 pm
by tafmo
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......
Re: The 2018 Annual RAN SH Sydney Rocks Xmas Pub Crawl Smoke
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2018 11:20 pm
by Seejay
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......
Should be there just prior to noon.
Re: The 2018 Annual RAN SH Sydney Rocks Xmas Pub Crawl Smoke
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2018 4:42 pm
by Stroppy Chippie
Re: The 2018 Annual RAN SH Sydney Rocks Xmas Pub Crawl Smoke
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2018 9:34 pm
by Hippy Chippy
Re: The 2018 Annual RAN SH Sydney Rocks Xmas Pub Crawl Smoke
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2018 8:29 pm
by Stroppy Chippie
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
Re: The 2018 Annual RAN SH Sydney Rocks Xmas Pub Crawl Smoke
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2018 8:32 pm
by Hippy Chippy
Yep, we've nailed it for the
16th year in a row,
and whilst I was late due to unforeseen circumstances, I managed to arrive in time for the
traditional/ obligatory Group Photo 
at the
Harbour View...
....................................... 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,
if your mug-shot has
NEVER been seen amongst the
'Usual Suspects', why not...?
What's wrong wiv ya...?
..................................................................... P.S. I know there's
HEAPS more photos
to come over coming days, so stay posted...
Re: The 2018 Annual RAN SH Sydney Rocks Xmas Pub Crawl Smoke
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2018 12:26 am
by phred
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.
Re: The 2018 Annual RAN SH Sydney Rocks Xmas Pub Crawl Smoke
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2018 10:38 am
by Hippy Chippy
And you and
Anne 
are well remembered too
Fred,
I believe you two still hold the record
for the distance travelled
* to attend our annual get-together...
*Is it travelled or traveled?
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. 
