My apologies… I tried to post this last night but something was wrong with the website. Trying again
Our friends Phil and Lizzie were here this week and they poitned us at this great video posted by our mutual good friend VInce. It’s of all three of our favorite old Pub in Braishfield UK. It was called the Newport.. I don’t think it’s there any more.. but it was such a great place. We used to go there often when we lived in england.. We’d run there from work (10 miles round trip). and go there to play Conkers.. .. (chestnut wars) ..
It brings back great memories.
Vince wrote of it:
This was my all-time favorite English pub, The Newport. It was in the countryside in Braishfield village, Hampshire. It was like this every Friday and Saturday night apart from the two guys in smocks who weren’t regulars (not a comment on their digestive system). Around 9pm the formidable, and wonderful, landlady, Janet would take to the piano and the rest of the evening was a sing song. It felt like you had stepped through a time warp into the 1940s.
And the beer was good too. Horndean Special Brew.
Sadly Janet has passed on, and the pub is gone too (I think). So this is in loving remembrance of Janet and the special place she made.
it’s a long video.. but you quickly get the point. One special thing for all of ius is that you can hear Vinces wife Catherine.. the only american voice you here.. singing away loudly..
Catherine died last year.. . she was such a fun person. it’s wonerful to hear her having so much fun here !
My good friend Nadja shared this with me a few weeks back after we were talkign about the wonderful way that German words are created. You jsut keep concatenating the words t omake these crazy long compond nouns. THis is one of the best.
sorry there’s no translation.. btuit it’s basically about a woman named Barbara who makes great Rhubarb pie. SHe opens a bar that attracts soem barbariens as regular customers. The barbarians have really cool beards They bring in a thirsty baber to groom their beers. WHich leads to them serve beer in the bar. where they hire a barmaid called Barbel.. and there you have it
I kept most of today off in honor of a visit of our good friend Phil and his girlfriend Lindsay. Phil has been a good friend of ours for the last 36 or so years. Used to work for IBM in hers leave England… And with your in Burlington for a while. Then we lived in England… And we’ve been good friends ever since . This is our first time meeting Lizzie and she is so lovely. It was so much fun catching up on old times… And hearing about all the stuff that is happened in the many years since we’ve last seen each other
Looking forward to being with them again tomorrow.
I’m happy to announce this year’s call for nominations for this years Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering (VASE) Paula Fives-Taylor Outstanding Teaching in Science Awards . Each year we award two ‘Teach of the Year Awards’ .. One for K-8 and one for high school .
DO you know a Vermont science teacher who’s turned kids on to science in soem amazing way ? Please nominate them for this years award.. it’s very easy to do.. Just check out https://www.vtscieng.org/call-for-nominations
The winning teachers get a nice cash award, a plaque and an invite to attend our Fall meeting.. hwhich is a blast. We have lots of kids and teachers there showing off what theyve done with our VASE Equipment and HOST grants.
Please help us spread the word.. Nominations are due May 31, 2018 !
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