Comments on: At anchor in St Augustine http://keliandstu.com/blog/2009/02/at-anchor-in-st-augustine/ Adventures on Beannacht Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:45:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Andrew Culbert http://keliandstu.com/blog/2009/02/at-anchor-in-st-augustine/comment-page-1/#comment-129 Andrew Culbert Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:30:29 +0000 http://www.keliandstu.com/?p=258#comment-129 Hi Stu! I thought I was quite the international lad about town until I discovered this blog- Gothenburg in the winter can hardly match up to your exploits! I'm at work at the minute so I don't have much time to read, but I'll have a good look through later. As for 6 nations rugby, 9.99 will pay for a month of hosting at ukproxyserver.co.uk- the service has bee pretty reliable and it's about the only one I'd recommend. You will find that the free ones are either too ropey (like the nautical touch there? Sorry.), or they don't allow iPlayer as it sucks up all their bandwidth. Of course, if you know someone in the UK with a fast connection you could ask them to setup a proxy on their home machine, (and give me the details) ;-) Nice to see how you're doing anyway mate. Culby. Hi Stu!

I thought I was quite the international lad about town until I discovered this blog- Gothenburg in the winter can hardly match up to your exploits! I’m at work at the minute so I don’t have much time to read, but I’ll have a good look through later. As for 6 nations rugby, 9.99 will pay for a month of hosting at ukproxyserver.co.uk- the service has bee pretty reliable and it’s about the only one I’d recommend. You will find that the free ones are either too ropey (like the nautical touch there? Sorry.), or they don’t allow iPlayer as it sucks up all their bandwidth. Of course, if you know someone in the UK with a fast connection you could ask them to setup a proxy on their home machine, (and give me the details) ;-)

Nice to see how you’re doing anyway mate.

Culby.

]]> By: cricketjonnyp http://keliandstu.com/blog/2009/02/at-anchor-in-st-augustine/comment-page-1/#comment-128 cricketjonnyp Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:54:13 +0000 http://www.keliandstu.com/?p=258#comment-128 good to hear all is well with u 2. We are covered in snow here and winter wonderland is all around. 4 weeks to go until zoe is married, Karl back home now & living in Sligo with Giovanna. We will watch with interest take care hope u got rugby result yahoo! cricket good to hear all is well with u 2. We are covered in snow here and winter wonderland is all around. 4 weeks to go until zoe is married, Karl back home now & living in Sligo with Giovanna. We will watch with interest take care hope u got rugby result yahoo! cricket

]]> By: Andrea Crawford http://keliandstu.com/blog/2009/02/at-anchor-in-st-augustine/comment-page-1/#comment-127 Andrea Crawford Sun, 08 Feb 2009 08:50:27 +0000 http://www.keliandstu.com/?p=258#comment-127 Stu and Kel and Beannacht, Thank you Stu for your warm and excellent message to us the other day. There's something to be said for a brief last passage in St. Augustine before you leave this shore for the seas, for a steeping in one of our lost and hidden pasts. I'm sure I've heard a Spaniard argue they were the sanest and least offending of our settlers, though the Russians weren't too bad along our green, fogged, sort of Irish north California coast. Hope you're at ease there and freshening after your work put in this far. Someone above has mentioned St. Kitts which has something coming back to me. That's lovely there, as are the people of it. Turn left at the Dutch islands and you'll make it,and if you hit Antigua you've gone too far. Suffering almost daily here now from Caribbean on the brain- you know the symptoms. Late inspiration coming from the news of soft English batsmen flailing in the breezy heat of west indies fast bowlers at Sabina Park in Kingston. I never knew feck all about cricket but I used to listen to the old men in Bridgetown talk about the days of Headley, Constantine, Sobers and Worrell and as a pup myself heard rumours of Lloyd, Haynes, and Richards the way one heard about Best or Cruyff or the old All Blacks or the atmosphere in Lansdowne Road or Wembley or the old Garden on Madison Square for a fight night or the Rangers in winter. Did not see it myself and hope and suppose you have heard or seen, but Ireland are off with a steady dismantling of the French and they were singing The Fields of Athenry by the ending at Croke Park. Stirringly no doubt. Heaslip man of the match with nods to Kidney's trials and invention. Good on them, I had not known for how long the French have been handling Ireland. It must be a good one on the green island tonight. We're quiet here, under the first good rains in ages. I'm still looking for an old issue of Slocum I'm sure I've kept hauling with me through the years to get me going for just such an occasion as we all hope to share with you before you leave the hemisphere. If not Josh, I'm down to Two Years Before the Mast. Old school Stu, I'm very old school. Only good for bailing, but then one hopes I won't have to. Wish I'd known and been in that Kon-Tiki deal back when, but fellas named like Heyerdahl were rare in my parts. I hope to God nothing arrests you in West Palm Beach, although it is possibly a good place to run a Ponzi scheme to right your balances. Enjoy the passage and get thee to Bahamas where they have islands called things like "Cat" and "Watermelon" I think, and lovely cays. Think you deserve to idle out at some paradise awhile. Try the conch and the flying fish. Andrea sends love too to you and Kel. Mahlon's on the brink of speech,but we can't tell the accent. First words "Ah Hah!" Stu and Kel and Beannacht, Thank you Stu for your warm and excellent message to us the other day. There’s something to be said for a brief last passage in St. Augustine before you leave this shore for the seas, for a steeping in one of our lost and hidden pasts. I’m sure I’ve heard a Spaniard argue they were the sanest and least offending of our settlers, though the Russians weren’t too bad along our green, fogged, sort of Irish north California coast. Hope you’re at ease there and freshening after your work put in this far. Someone above has mentioned St. Kitts which has something coming back to me. That’s lovely there, as are the people of it. Turn left at the Dutch islands and you’ll make it,and if you hit Antigua you’ve gone too far. Suffering almost daily here now from Caribbean on the brain- you know the symptoms. Late inspiration coming from the news of soft English batsmen flailing in the breezy heat of west indies fast bowlers at Sabina Park in Kingston. I never knew feck all about cricket but I used to listen to the old men in Bridgetown talk about the days of Headley, Constantine, Sobers and Worrell and as a pup myself heard rumours of Lloyd, Haynes, and Richards the way one heard about Best or Cruyff or the old All Blacks or the atmosphere in Lansdowne Road or Wembley or the old Garden on Madison Square for a fight night or the Rangers in winter. Did not see it myself and hope and suppose you have heard or seen, but Ireland are off with a steady dismantling of the French and they were singing The Fields of Athenry by the ending at Croke Park. Stirringly no doubt. Heaslip man of the match with nods to Kidney’s trials and invention. Good on them, I had not known for how long the French have been handling Ireland. It must be a good one on the green island tonight. We’re quiet here, under the first good rains in ages. I’m still looking for an old issue of Slocum I’m sure I’ve kept hauling with me through the years to get me going for just such an occasion as we all hope to share with you before you leave the hemisphere. If not Josh, I’m down to Two Years Before the Mast. Old school Stu, I’m very old school. Only good for bailing, but then one hopes I won’t have to. Wish I’d known and been in that Kon-Tiki deal back when, but fellas named like Heyerdahl were rare in my parts. I hope to God nothing arrests you in West Palm Beach, although it is possibly a good place to run a Ponzi scheme to right your balances. Enjoy the passage and get thee to Bahamas where they have islands called things like “Cat” and “Watermelon” I think, and lovely cays. Think you deserve to idle out at some paradise awhile. Try the conch and the flying fish. Andrea sends love too to you and Kel. Mahlon’s on the brink of speech,but we can’t tell the accent. First words “Ah Hah!”

]]> By: Dennis and Pat http://keliandstu.com/blog/2009/02/at-anchor-in-st-augustine/comment-page-1/#comment-126 Dennis and Pat Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:16:55 +0000 http://www.keliandstu.com/?p=258#comment-126 Hi Keli and Stu, good luck on your next leg. We are in Nairobi and tried to watch your earlier video, but won't compute at these slower "hi-speed" rates. We are having a great time so far in Tanzania and leave tomorrow for 8 days at tent camps in Kenya. We will check in again after that if possible. Love Pat and Dennis. Hi Keli and Stu, good luck on your next leg. We are in Nairobi and tried to watch your earlier video, but won’t compute at these slower “hi-speed” rates. We are having a great time so far in Tanzania and leave tomorrow for 8 days at tent camps in Kenya. We will check in again after that if possible. Love Pat and Dennis.

]]> By: Smithkid http://keliandstu.com/blog/2009/02/at-anchor-in-st-augustine/comment-page-1/#comment-125 Smithkid Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:13:24 +0000 http://www.keliandstu.com/?p=258#comment-125 Stu, I've no idea how to send you a private message so forgive this abuse of your blog. Just to say how great it is to sit staring out at shitty slushy snow, not enough to ski, too much to cycle and to read of your travels. I might be making a qick trip to St. Kitts in a few months so depending on how far you get, you may be seeing an old face sooner than either of us thought. Take care and huge love to Kell Stu,

I’ve no idea how to send you a private message so forgive this abuse of your blog. Just to say how great it is to sit staring out at shitty slushy snow, not enough to ski, too much to cycle and to read of your travels. I might be making a qick trip to St. Kitts in a few months so depending on how far you get, you may be seeing an old face sooner than either of us thought.
Take care and huge love to Kell

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