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Watch that last step, Not, it's a lulu

>>> Sympathy <<<

Why not come over to Ruggie's for a transfusion?

I'm sure I could find a match . . .


Seriously, hope you're OK, SSue

Mike

Owie! I did that once when I was drying a wine glass and got stitches in my index finger. My sympathies. {{{{{{{{{{SSue}}}}}}}}}}

Thanks for the sympathy votes, pals. Course, I had to go and knock it yesterday, maybe you heard me singing it was loud enough for a couple of people in the vicinity (supermarket) to ask if I was OK , another drink sounds like just the thing, except that I've just got up, so I'll take a raincheck, and make it much later Mike, thanks.

Cheers SSue

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If I was a cat, I'd be purring..........thanks Squiffs, ooh it's lovely being 'special'

SSue 8)

Well, Kay, I reckon Canary's a bird!

Whichever, welcome along Canary and if you have any experiences about your island life that you'd like to compare with people in my neck of the woods (or should that be drop in the puddle!?) pop on down to the Malta board and let us know...

I reckon that the Canary has flown away............. Most likely thinks we're a load of Cuckoos

SSue

Nah. Gone to bury a bone. (Gran Canaria's name has nothing to do with birds. It's another Isle of Dogs. I reckon Canary is an undercover dog who's been put on our case to see what we're really up to.)

Oh. I forgot to say WELCOME, CANARY!!

Oh, I know, Mike -- you mean those little yellow dogs with wings? The ones you can drop down mine-shafts and if they stop barking you don't go down to fetch them back?

Technically, Barking isn't on the Isle of Dogs which may throw your theory out of the window

We're talking safety in mines here, Rich, not technicalities! If your canary stops barking, you don't jump down to see what's wrong with it.

Since we're having fun running off on tangents here, is Strat or Alan lurking?

"... where the Southern cross the Yellow Dog..." I used to know what that referred to. A railroad and an old trail, I think. You guys living in Dixie should know.

Hey, canary, do you want to come and rescue your thread? We seem to be plaiting it for you.

I don't think I ever 'fessed up here to having spent time in the south myself, and I reckon it was 2 railroads, Mike. the Southern and the Yellow Dog (without wings, though!), which was a nickname for the Misisissippi Valley Railroad (hell they don't spell out words right neither). As you correctly capitalised it, the song does not refer to the Southern Cross - neither the stars which obviously aren't visible up there, not the Dixie flag but to where the Southern and Yellow Dog lines cross. Where was that? Got me beat. Atlanta was a significant railway junction back then, but it's a ways away from the Misssssppii. Maybe it was Birmingham (the Alabama one of course), or now I'm thinking about it, obvious places would be New Orleans or Memphis.

Well Strat and Alan are both musicians living in the general area, so maybe they can tell us more about it!

Wish I could guys! I have no clue what you're talking about.

Alan.