Have you all gone on your holidays?

--
Sam Plusnet

In article <4PZPN.8780$jC2.584@fx06.ams1>, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com>
on Fri, 5 Apr 2024 at 22:12:32 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and
wrote
>
>Have you all gone on your holidays?
>
Not I, I was waiting for your Tap Tap. Now I can, safely, go to bed.

Sweet dreams
--
0sterc@tcher -

"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 23:59:39 +0100, "Nicholas D. Richards"
<nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:

>In article <4PZPN.8780$jC2.584@fx06.ams1>, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com>
>on Fri, 5 Apr 2024 at 22:12:32 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and
>wrote
>>
>>Have you all gone on your holidays?
>>
>Not I, I was waiting for your Tap Tap. Now I can, safely, go to bed.
>
>Sweet dreams

Tapping is about done for the season, here - but the results
are to be enjoyed for many more months ! ;-)

https://www.elmiramaplesyrupfestival.com/

John T.

On 06-Apr-24 0:04, hubops@ccanoemail.com wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 23:59:39 +0100, "Nicholas D. Richards"
> <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
>
>> In article <4PZPN.8780$jC2.584@fx06.ams1>, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com>
>> on Fri, 5 Apr 2024 at 22:12:32 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and
>> wrote
>>>
>>> Have you all gone on your holidays?
>>>
>> Not I, I was waiting for your Tap Tap. Now I can, safely, go to bed.
>>
>> Sweet dreams
>
>
> Tapping is about done for the season, here - but the results
> are to be enjoyed for many more months ! ;-)
>
> https://www.elmiramaplesyrupfestival.com/

Sorry. That should have been subtitled "Faucet Faucet" for our N.
American contingent.

--
Sam Plusnet

Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:

> On 06-Apr-24 0:04, hubops@ccanoemail.com wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 23:59:39 +0100, "Nicholas D. Richards"
> > <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
> >
> >> In article <4PZPN.8780$jC2.584@fx06.ams1>, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com>
> >> on Fri, 5 Apr 2024 at 22:12:32 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and
> >> wrote
> >>>
> >>> Have you all gone on your holidays?
> >>>
> >> Not I, I was waiting for your Tap Tap. Now I can, safely, go to bed.
> >>
> >> Sweet dreams
> >
> >
> > Tapping is about done for the season, here - but the results
> > are to be enjoyed for many more months ! ;-)
> >
> > https://www.elmiramaplesyrupfestival.com/
>
> Sorry. That should have been subtitled "Faucet Faucet" for our N.
> American contingent.

Nay, nay, pray don't force it.

--
^Ï^. Sn!pe, PA, FIBS - Professional Crastinator

My pet rock Gordon just is.

Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> writes:

> On 06-Apr-24 0:04, hubops@ccanoemail.com wrote:
>
>> Tapping is about done for the season, here - but the results
>> are to be enjoyed for many more months ! ;-)
>>
>> https://www.elmiramaplesyrupfestival.com/
>
> Sorry. That should have been subtitled "Faucet Faucet" for our N.
> American contingent.

In New England and the Canadian Maritimes, tapping is what you do to
get maple sap. The thing you stick into the hole(s) in the tree -- at
least before pipes through the sugarbush were introduced -- were
spiles.

Sadly, our part of Nova Soctia tends to sodden, foggy gradual warming
in the sping rather than toasty days and frosty nights but other parts
of the province get the weather and busy sugaring operations.

--
Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada

hubops@ccanoemail.com wrote in news:2l011jp9tvdtmur23m6gbo51nuf367ink4@
4ax.com:

> On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 23:59:39 +0100, "Nicholas D. Richards"
> <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
>
>>In article <4PZPN.8780$jC2.584@fx06.ams1>, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com>
>>on Fri, 5 Apr 2024 at 22:12:32 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and
>>wrote
>>>
>>>Have you all gone on your holidays?
>>>
>>Not I, I was waiting for your Tap Tap. Now I can, safely, go to bed.
>>
>>Sweet dreams
>
>
> Tapping is about done for the season, here - but the results
> are to be enjoyed for many more months ! ;-)

SWMBO has a couple of pairs of shoes that have taps on them. Noisy
blighters, especially when she starts dancing.

--
Peter
-----

On 05/04/2024 22:12, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>
> Have you all gone on your holidays?
>

I thought this was a holiday

On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 01:07:19 +0100
snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote:

> Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
>
> > Sorry. That should have been subtitled "Faucet Faucet" for our N.
> > American contingent.
>
> Nay, nay, pray don't force it.
>
Oi I went to Fawcett.

--
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/
For forms of government let fools contest
Whate're is best administered is best - Alexander Pope

On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 08:20:51 -0000 (UTC)
Peter <myshed@prune.org.uk> wrote:

> SWMBO has a couple of pairs of shoes that have taps on them.

Beer in the left, wine in the right ?

--
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/
For forms of government let fools contest
Whate're is best administered is best - Alexander Pope

In article <2l011jp9tvdtmur23m6gbo51nuf367ink4@4ax.com>,
hubops@ccanoemail.com on Fri, 5 Apr 2024 at 19:04:33 awoke Nicholas
from his slumbers and wrote
>On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 23:59:39 +0100, "Nicholas D. Richards"
><nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
>
>>In article <4PZPN.8780$jC2.584@fx06.ams1>, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com>
>>on Fri, 5 Apr 2024 at 22:12:32 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and
>>wrote
>>>
>>>Have you all gone on your holidays?
>>>
>>Not I, I was waiting for your Tap Tap. Now I can, safely, go to bed.
>>
>>Sweet dreams
>
>
> Tapping is about done for the season, here - but the results
>are to be enjoyed for many more months ! ;-)
>
>https://www.elmiramaplesyrupfestival.com/
>
Do they make a Tubâ from Maple sap?
--
0sterc@tcher -

"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

On 06/04/2024 09:20, Peter wrote:
> hubops@ccanoemail.com wrote in news:2l011jp9tvdtmur23m6gbo51nuf367ink4@
> 4ax.com:
>
>> On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 23:59:39 +0100, "Nicholas D. Richards"
>> <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In article <4PZPN.8780$jC2.584@fx06.ams1>, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com>
>>> on Fri, 5 Apr 2024 at 22:12:32 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and
>>> wrote
>>>>
>>>> Have you all gone on your holidays?
>>>>
>>> Not I, I was waiting for your Tap Tap. Now I can, safely, go to bed.
>>>
>>> Sweet dreams
>>
>>
>> Tapping is about done for the season, here - but the results
>> are to be enjoyed for many more months ! ;-)
>
> SWMBO has a couple of pairs of shoes that have taps on them. Noisy
> blighters, especially when she starts dancing.
>
'swot my aunt & uncle used to do in leftpondia and ells wear:
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/dancers-al-connie-fanton-ballroom-3883471012

Chris

On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 09:49:50 +0100
Abandoned Trolley <fred@fred-smith.co.uk> wrote:

> On 05/04/2024 22:12, Sam Plusnet wrote:
> >
> > Have you all gone on your holidays?
> >
>
>
> I thought this was a holiday

Nah, it's a refuge.

--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.

Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:

> Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> writes:
>
> > On 06-Apr-24 0:04, hubops@ccanoemail.com wrote:
> >
> >> Tapping is about done for the season, here - but the results
> >> are to be enjoyed for many more months ! ;-)
> >>
> >> https://www.elmiramaplesyrupfestival.com/
> >
> > Sorry. That should have been subtitled "Faucet Faucet" for our N.
> > American contingent.
>
> In New England and the Canadian Maritimes, tapping is what you do to
> get maple sap. The thing you stick into the hole(s) in the tree -- at
> least before pipes through the sugarbush were introduced -- were
> spiles.

<teaching granny mode>

'The Tap & Spile' is a not uncommon name for a pub over here.
Both taps and spiles can be found in any real ale pub cellar, they're
used in the management of ale casks and barrels.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spile>

--
^Ï^. Sn!pe, PA, FIBS - Professional Crastinator

My pet rock Gordon just is.

"chrisnd@privacy.net" <chrisnd@privacy.net> wrote in
news:l7coucF9li2U1@mid.individual.net:

> 'swot my aunt & uncle used to do in leftpondia and ells wear:
> https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/dancers-al-connie-fanton-ballroo
> m-3883471012

[impressed]

--
Peter
-----

On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 14:12:38 +0100
snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote:

> Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
>
> > Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> writes:
> >
> > > On 06-Apr-24 0:04, hubops@ccanoemail.com wrote:
> > >
> > >> Tapping is about done for the season, here - but the results
> > >> are to be enjoyed for many more months ! ;-)
> > >>
> > >> https://www.elmiramaplesyrupfestival.com/
> > >
> > > Sorry. That should have been subtitled "Faucet Faucet" for our N.
> > > American contingent.
> >
> > In New England and the Canadian Maritimes, tapping is what you do to
> > get maple sap. The thing you stick into the hole(s) in the tree -- at
> > least before pipes through the sugarbush were introduced -- were
> > spiles.
>
> <teaching granny mode>
>
> 'The Tap & Spile' is a not uncommon name for a pub over here.

It was a (mostly Northern) pub chain, and sold nice beer. Sadly missed now.

I could only find these ones with that name still:

https://whatpub.com/pubs/BIR/3318/tap-spile-birmingham
https://whatpub.com/pubs/SCA/53/tap-spile-scarborough
https://whatpub.com/pubs/SIR/037/tap-spile-bangor
https://whatpub.com/pubs/TYN/3942/tap-spile-morpeth

> Both taps and spiles can be found in any real ale pub cellar, they're
> used in the management of ale casks and barrels.
>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spile>
>

Bung us a pint!

--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.

On 06-Apr-24 9:56, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 08:20:51 -0000 (UTC)
> Peter <myshed@prune.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> SWMBO has a couple of pairs of shoes that have taps on them.
>
> Beer in the left, wine in the right ?

Champagne from the slippers?

--
Sam Plusnet

On 06/04/2024 16:46, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 14:12:38 +0100
> snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote:
>
>> Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
>>
>>> Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On 06-Apr-24 0:04, hubops@ccanoemail.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Tapping is about done for the season, here - but the results
>>>>> are to be enjoyed for many more months ! ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.elmiramaplesyrupfestival.com/
>>>>
>>>> Sorry. That should have been subtitled "Faucet Faucet" for our N.
>>>> American contingent.
>>>
>>> In New England and the Canadian Maritimes, tapping is what you do to
>>> get maple sap. The thing you stick into the hole(s) in the tree -- at
>>> least before pipes through the sugarbush were introduced -- were
>>> spiles.
>>
>> <teaching granny mode>
>>
>> 'The Tap & Spile' is a not uncommon name for a pub over here.
>
> It was a (mostly Northern) pub chain, and sold nice beer. Sadly missed now.
>
> I could only find these ones with that name still:
>
> https://whatpub.com/pubs/BIR/3318/tap-spile-birmingham
> https://whatpub.com/pubs/SCA/53/tap-spile-scarborough
> https://whatpub.com/pubs/SIR/037/tap-spile-bangor
> https://whatpub.com/pubs/TYN/3942/tap-spile-morpeth
>
>
>
>> Both taps and spiles can be found in any real ale pub cellar, they're
>> used in the management of ale casks and barrels.
>>
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spile>
>>
>
> Bung us a pint!
>
You'll have to make do with the "brewery tap". Lots of them.

--
Nev
It causes me a great deal of regret and remorse
that so many people are unable to understand what I write.

In article <uuuhkr$2slq7$1@dont-email.me>, nev young <newsforpasiphae195
3@yahoo.co.uk> on Sun, 7 Apr 2024 at 17:29:15 awoke Nicholas from his
slumbers and wrote
>On 06/04/2024 16:46, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
>> On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 14:12:38 +0100
>> snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote:
>>
>>> Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> On 06-Apr-24 0:04, hubops@ccanoemail.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Tapping is about done for the season, here - but the results
>>>>>> are to be enjoyed for many more months ! ;-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.elmiramaplesyrupfestival.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry. That should have been subtitled "Faucet Faucet" for our N.
>>>>> American contingent.
>>>>
>>>> In New England and the Canadian Maritimes, tapping is what you do to
>>>> get maple sap. The thing you stick into the hole(s) in the tree -- at
>>>> least before pipes through the sugarbush were introduced -- were
>>>> spiles.
>>>
>>> <teaching granny mode>
>>>
>>> 'The Tap & Spile' is a not uncommon name for a pub over here.
>>
>> It was a (mostly Northern) pub chain, and sold nice beer. Sadly missed now.
>>
>> I could only find these ones with that name still:
>>
>> https://whatpub.com/pubs/BIR/3318/tap-spile-birmingham
>> https://whatpub.com/pubs/SCA/53/tap-spile-scarborough
>> https://whatpub.com/pubs/SIR/037/tap-spile-bangor
>> https://whatpub.com/pubs/TYN/3942/tap-spile-morpeth
>>
>>
>>
>>> Both taps and spiles can be found in any real ale pub cellar, they're
>>> used in the management of ale casks and barrels.
>>>
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spile>
>>>
>>
>> Bung us a pint!
>>
>You'll have to make do with the "brewery tap". Lots of them.
>
Betterer than a 'tap on the shoulder'.
--
0sterc@tcher -

"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

On 05/04/2024 22:12, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>
> Have you all gone on your holidays?
>

I did. Back now. First trial camp in the new (to me) Hymer. All systems
go, except I need to change the water pump (too weak) and fix a slight
link on a sink trap.

Found a couple of switches that I don't know what they do, but pretty
lickle red light come on to tell you something could be happening.

Tony Two Hymers

On 06/04/2024 14:12, Sn!pe wrote:
> <teaching granny mode>
>
> 'The Tap & Spile' is a not uncommon name for a pub over here.
> Both taps and spiles can be found in any real ale pub cellar, they're
> used in the management of ale casks and barrels.
>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spile>

The knack is knowing when NOT to tap a barrel.

Tone

Hymermut said:
> On 06/04/2024 14:12, Sn!pe wrote:
>> <teaching granny mode>
>>
>> 'The Tap & Spile' is a not uncommon name for a pub over here.
>> Both taps and spiles can be found in any real ale pub cellar, they're
>> used in the management of ale casks and barrels.
>>
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spile>
>
>
> The knack is knowing when NOT to tap a barrel.

When it taps back at you ?

--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

On 08-Apr-24 12:58, Hymermut wrote:
> On 05/04/2024 22:12, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>
>> Have you all gone on your holidays?
>>
>
> I did. Back now. First trial camp in the new (to me) Hymer. All systems
> go, except I need to change the water pump (too weak) and fix a slight
> link on a sink trap.
>
> Found a couple of switches that I don't know what they do, but pretty
> lickle red light come on to tell you something could be happening.

That's one good thing about having the same caravan since 2018, there
aren't too many unexpected bits & pieces to deal with - but we still
manage to leave 'important' things at home when we do our first trip of
the year (delayed this year since the van needs a repair, and I can't
get it done until mid May).

--
Sam Plusnet

Richard Robinson <richard@qualmograph.org.uk> wrote:

> Hymermut said:
> > On 06/04/2024 14:12, Sn!pe wrote:
> >> <teaching granny mode>
> >>
> >> 'The Tap & Spile' is a not uncommon name for a pub over here.
> >> Both taps and spiles can be found in any real ale pub cellar, they're
> >> used in the management of ale casks and barrels.
> >>
> >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spile>
> >
> >
> > The knack is knowing when NOT to tap a barrel.
>
> When it taps back at you ?

Boodly Greta Garbo...

--
^Ï^. Sn!pe, PA, FIBS - Professional Crastinator

My pet rock Gordon just is.

On 08-Apr-24 21:03, Sn!pe wrote:
> Richard Robinson <richard@qualmograph.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hymermut said:
>>> On 06/04/2024 14:12, Sn!pe wrote:
>>>> <teaching granny mode>
>>>>
>>>> 'The Tap & Spile' is a not uncommon name for a pub over here.
>>>> Both taps and spiles can be found in any real ale pub cellar, they're
>>>> used in the management of ale casks and barrels.
>>>>
>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spile>
>>>
>>>
>>> The knack is knowing when NOT to tap a barrel.
>>
>> When it taps back at you ?
>
> Boodly Greta Garbo...
>
Maybe it was that Horatio Nelson in there.

--
Sam Plusnet