[Liam Copley]

Me, my brother and some friends are trying to organsie a party thing at Burbage Valley, A Very Christmas-y party + Climbing

We are hoping to Choose a day between the 18th and the 22nd of December.. Depending on the Weather!, we will pick one of the days nearer to the time and announce the day.

We will be Climbing All around the Burbage Valley, Sarting at Burbage N, then S, then Higgar tor, Burbage W, then back round to burbage N to finish.. a whole circuit.. and then at the end have a bit of a christmas-y party with drinks and food ect,

Santas Hats are fairly compulsary

Young, old, and everything in-between are welcome

If we pick the right day, and have full ammuntion of skin, i can pretty much garentee the following:It will be a very good day out
The Friction should be 'top'
There will be NO rubbish left behind


Reply please

[Fiend]

We are hoping to Choose a day between the 18th and the 22nd of December.. Depending on the Weather!, we will pick one of the days nearer to the time and announce the day.

That will be very useful information...

[Liam Copley]

(v funny) but we are hoping, like i said, to pick a definate day a bit closer to the time, but hope that those dates will be of some initial use as to wether people can come.

[LucyB]

I'm impressed by your enthusiasm! I'll certainly try to come along, probably with loads of other parents and babies 

[lagerstarfish]

I like this idea 

[nik at work]

I'm always up for a bit of festive cheer. Sadly I'll probably be on the Isle of Man but if not I'll drag Mrs At Work and At Work Jnr along for carols and climbing.

[Eddies]

Will there be mince pies 

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

I can recommend mulled wine in a flask for pre and post bouldering. Did this one new year at Font and it went down a treat!

[St Hubbins]

Will there be breaded chicken items?

[Eddies]

I can recommend mulled wine in a flask for pre and post bouldering. Did this one new year at Font and it went down a treat!

Not for Liam.. he's 16!

[Krank]

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Not for Liam.. he's 16!
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Just weed and wizz then, ahhh the good old days of childhood

[magpie]

 

I think it's a nice idea, I'm too far north though.

[Dr T]

I think it's a nice idea, I'm too far north though.

my sentiment too... just replace north with south...
and with a Mrs who'll be over eight months pregnant by then I'm afraid my Christmas pilgramage to the peak will be off this year....

[magpie]

If only they had a decent inn, eh Dr T? 

[LucyB]

You must be able to find a donkey for the journey....

[Dr T]

 

[Liam Copley]

I can assure you that i will be drinking alcohol, but not wine!

[Sloper]

On a slightly serious note I would be more than happy to cater the event (usual rules no babies. dogs, irish, jews, non drinkers etc).

I'd suggest a £5 donation (mountain resuce) for decent wine, whisjy and canapes, any takers?

[Liam Copley]

the weather is not looking too good..., any suggestions?,

[andy_e]

Ring the works, I'm sure they'd let you have a head-torch session! 

[LucyB]

Monday is looking ok according to all the forecasts I looked at. If it turns out to be shit, we could just invade the Works instead, great idea! I'll get some mince pies on..

[dobbin]

Can you make it clear where and when you will be so that I can make sure I am elsewhere?

[dave]

maybe we should organise a rival Tor christmas shindig. Shuffle back and forth across the bottom of Sardine, hang stockings on the first bolts of In Brine and Rooster Booster, share a mince pie and flask of mulled wine with stone and keith. winner.

[SA Chris]

Can you make it clear where and when you will be so that I can make sure I am elsewhere?

Bah

You going to mate a point of not being there with dense?

[nik at work]

I thought you loved christmas Dobbin?
Bah humbug indeed....

[nik at work]

And Dave are you sure the're humbugs? They look a bit more like Everton mints to me. From what I remember the darker part of humbugs is a very deep dark brown colour, yours look too black to me.

[dobbin]

...share a mince pie and flask of mulled wine with stone and keith. winner.

Zippy will be destroyed not to be included. This will be a difficult situation no doubt. Poor Zips, sat crying under Ben's roof whilst we chow down on mincers. Sigh.

You going to mate a point of not being there with dense?

Absobluddylutely! Me and dense    I do love xmas - I'm like an 8 yr old about it, but the idea of trailing around the Burbage Valley with loads of people absolutely does not appeal. Small groups fine, big groups whine.

[dave]

And Dave are you sure the're humbugs? They look a bit more like Everton mints to me.

steady on there sailor, the humbugs was chris, i'm more a torpedo man.

[nik at work]

[Small groups fine, big groups whine.

Amen to that fella, once again I withdraw previous comments.

[nik at work]

Sorry Dave in my rush to address the sweet based injustice I failed to perform adequate research leading to false accusation. I feel a right Charlie.

[SA Chris]

Sorry Dave in my rush to address the sweet based injustice I failed to perform adequate research leading to false accusation. I feel a right Charlie.

And so you should. I just google image humbugs and that was the first thing that came up.

Any fule know that they are definitely not everton mints tho'



is an everton mint. The geometry is clearly different.

[a dense loner]

Small groups fine, big groups whine.

don't say that dobbin. i say it about sunday night curries, everybody calls me a whinging bastard and then at least 2 people refuse to share the bill

[Monolith]

don't say that dobbin. i say it about sunday night curries, everybody calls me a whinging bastard and then at least 2 people refuse to share the bill

I heard about the curry incident but didn't know the politics. Non bill-sharers should be named and shamed!

[a dense loner]

good god monolith do you think i complain about isolated incidents. err, scratch that

[tomtom]

Sorry Dave in my rush to address the sweet based injustice I failed to perform adequate research leading to false accusation. I feel a right Charlie.

Any fule know that they are definitely not everton mints tho'

Was that supposed to be in a scouse speak (fule) or am I just over-interpreting a smelling pistake? 

[lagerstarfish]

Sorry Dave in my rush to address the sweet based injustice I failed to perform adequate research leading to false accusation. I feel a right Charlie.

Any fule know that they are definitely not everton mints tho'

Was that supposed to be in a scouse speak (fule) or am I just over-interpreting a smelling pistake? 

I think he meant "any fule kno" in a tribute to Nigel Molesworth.

[grumpycrumpy]

Sorry Dave in my rush to address the sweet based injustice I failed to perform adequate research leading to false accusation. I feel a right Charlie.

Any fule know that they are definitely not everton mints tho'

Was that supposed to be in a scouse speak (fule) or am I just over-interpreting a smelling pistake? 

I think he meant "any fule kno" in a tribute to Nigel Molesworth.

As any fule kno .....

[SA Chris]

He is a swot and he did blub.

http://www.stcustards.free-online.co.uk/

[Sypeland]

Sorry Dave in my rush to address the sweet based injustice I failed to perform adequate research leading to false accusation. I feel a right Charlie.

And so you should. I just google image humbugs and that was the first thing that came up.

Any fule know that they are definitely not everton mints tho'



is an everton mint. The geometry is clearly different.

Ummmm The oldest sweet shop, It's 50yds up the street from me!
And it's freebie Friday!

[Danger]

I Pity the Fule!

[slackline]

Sorry Dave in my rush to address the sweet based injustice I failed to perform adequate research leading to false accusation. I feel a right Charlie.

And so you should. I just google image humbugs and that was the first thing that came up.

Any fule know that they are definitely not everton mints tho'



is an everton mint. The geometry is clearly different.

Happened to pass a sweet rack whilst buying petrol the other day and thought I'd help clear this up once and for all....



Thus humbugs have a brown colouration and the stripes run along the length of the sweet, whilst everton mints have a black colouration that runs transverse to the longest dimensio of the sweet.

I hope everyone can sleep soundly now 

[tomtom]

Slackers, did you get any strange looks whilst taking pictures of sweets in the garage...?   

[SA Chris]

From the packaging I am not sure thant they are officially sanctionedsweets. Inconclusive results

[slackline]

Slackers, did you get any strange looks whilst taking pictures of sweets in the garage...?   

No, but I almost got arrested when I tried offering said sweets to some kids.

From the packaging I am not sure thant they are officially sanctionedsweets. Inconclusive results

Fair enough, we wouldn't want to be erroding the standards of SCIENCE.  I shall endeavour to increase the sample size on future outings.  Granelli's by Park Square is just round the corner and will serve as the ideal starting point 

[dave]

i'm sure humbugs are classically supposed to have a longitudinal twist, or at least ends crimped off a 90 degrees to each other.

[tomtom]

Slackers, did you get any strange looks whilst taking pictures of sweets in the garage...?   

No, but I almost got arrested when I tried offering said sweets to some kids.

At work I'm trying to settle an argument about the font size used on the cover of 'Razzle' and 'Huge wobbling jubblies (monthly)' - any chance you could pop along to the garage and take a picture of both of them for me?? 

re: Humbugs. I have in front of me some co-op humbugs, and they are definately like exhibit A from your post - no crimped off ends - oval shapes, stripes running longtitudinally... tt

[slackline]

At work I'm trying to settle an argument about the font size used on the cover of 'Razzle' and 'Huge wobbling jubblies (monthly)' - any chance you could pop along to the garage and take a picture of both of them for me?? 

On the condition you pay my legal fees for infringement of copyright 

[Jaspersharpe]

From humbugsuk:

http://www.humbugsuk.co.uk/shop_details.asp?productID=570&productName=Black_&_White_Mint_Humbugs

but also.....

http://www.humbugsuk.co.uk/shop_details.asp?productID=568&productName=Barker_&_Dobson_Mint_Humbugs_

And........

"HUMBUG Etymology

The use of the word humbug for a stripy peppermint-flavoured boiled sweet seems to date from the nineteenth century: the Oxford English Dictionary notes it as being ‘remembered in common use in Gloucestershire’ in the 1820s, while Elizabeth Gaskell in Sylvia's Lovers (1863) explained: ‘He had provided himself with a paper of humbugs for the child—“humbug” being the north-country term for certain lumps of toffy, well-flavoured with peppermint."


So it seems that the shape is not important. The difference with Everton Mints is that they have a toffee centre as opposed to either a hard or soft mint centre in the humbug.

http://www.humbugsuk.co.uk/shop_details.asp?productID=351&productName=Barker_&_Dobson_Everton_Mints

Case closed. 

[Jaspersharpe]

Oh and from Wiki.....

"Humbugs are a traditional hard boiled sweet available in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. They are usually flavoured with peppermint and striped in two different colours (often black and white). Humbugs are typically cylinders with rounded ends wrapped in a twist of cellophane, or else pinched cylinders with a 90-degree turn between one end and the other (shaped like a pyramid with rounded edges), loose in a bag."

Word.

[SA Chris]

Word.

As per my original pic from middle previous page.

I used google images to obtain a cross section sample.