The 2018 Annual RAN SH Sydney Rocks Xmas Pub Crawl Smokey

Seejay · **Posted:** Wed Oct 31, 2018 11:20 pm

tafmo wrote:

Seejay wrote:

I'm going to check out the Frisco first, just for old times' sake. Then, undoubtedly, the Rockers.

What time you speak Chocolate Lips...... :sheeesh:

Should be there just prior to noon. :grin:

Stroppy Chippie · **Posted:** Fri Nov 02, 2018 4:42 pm

What time at City Extra (9 or 9.30)?

:drink eat:

The booking's for 9:30 am, Brian... :thumbright:

I've booked both of the restaurants, City Extra for 0930 for breakfast :drink eat:

and Lord Nelson for 1300 for lunch, :drink eat:

booked in the names of both ‘Rick’ and/ or ‘Navy Apprentices’, for approx.18 people... H.C.

Hippy Chippy · **Posted:** Fri Nov 02, 2018 9:34 pm

Stroppy Chippie · **Posted:** Sat Nov 03, 2018 8:29 pm

Another great gathering, perfect company and perfect weather. Sorry for piking before the end and especially sorry for not saying goodbye to everyone who was there. See you next year - Brian and Verna

Hippy Chippy · **Posted:** Sat Nov 03, 2018 8:32 pm

Yep, we've nailed it for the 16th year in a row, :yess:

and whilst I was late due to unforeseen circumstances, I managed to arrive in time for the traditional/ obligatory Group Photo :happy3:

at the Harbour View...

....................................... Left-Right: Dave Warren, Dave, (Polly's Uncle,) Chris O'Keefe, Polly, (Shep's BFF,) Bob King, Steve Shepherd, Rick Pengilly, Howie Henderson, Mark Mobley,
.......................................Gordon Robertson, Dave Maxwell, Brian Mackenzie, Sandy Robertson, John Kelly, Ellen Kelly, Brian Staples, Verna Mackenzie, Col Kelson and Rhonda King...

If your mug-shot wasn't amongst this year's 'Usual Suspects', you were sadly missed, :tear:

if your mug-shot has NEVER been seen amongst the 'Usual Suspects', why not...? :dontknow:

What's wrong wiv ya...? :roll:

..................................................................... P.S. I know there's HEAPS :omg1:

more photos :happy3:

to come over coming days, so stay posted... :yea:

phred · **Posted:** Sun Nov 04, 2018 12:26 am

I hope you all had a great time. Anne and I think back on the year we attended with great fondness. It was one of the best trips we ever took. If circumstsnces in the future allow, we wouldn't mind attending again

Chris, I seem to recall seeing that shirt some where before. Tell Jan that I haven't bought any more since our time in Hawaii. Yet.

Hippy Chippy · **Posted:** Sun Nov 04, 2018 10:38 am

And you and Anne :love6:

are well remembered too Fred, :finga:

I believe you two still hold the record :evil3:

for the distance travelled* to attend our annual get-together... :plane:

*Is it travelled or traveled? :-k

When adding -ing and -ed to verbs, we sometimes double the consonant beforehand. People are often confused with ‘travelled/traveled’, ‘benefitted/benefited’, ‘focussed/focused’ and ‘targetted/targeted’. This tip answers some of those queries.

The official requirements are that we ‘double a single consonant letter at the end of any base where the preceding vowel is spelled with a single letter and stressed’.

What does this mean in practice?

Examples:

word - present participle - past participle

bar - barring - barred
beg - begging - begged
occur - occurring - occurred
permit - permitting - permitted
patrol - patrolling - patrolled

It is true to say that there is usually no doubling when the preceding vowel is unstressed (‘enter’ becomes ‘entering/entered’; ‘visit’ becomes ‘visiting/visited’) or when the preceding vowel is written with two letters (‘dread’ becomes ‘dreading/dreaded’).

Travel

However, with some final consonants, even in cases when the preceding vowel is unstressed (so you would think that there would be no doubling), doubling does occur in standard received British English (but is not favoured in American English), so ‘travel’
becomes ‘travelling/travelled’. Others in this grammatical group (verbs ending in an unstressed vowel, followed by the letter ‘l’) are ‘cancel’, ‘counsel’, ‘dial’, ‘model’, ‘parallel’ and ‘signal’.

Some words change their spelling to cope (they add a letter ‘k’).

word - present participle - past participle

panic - panicking - panicked
traffic - trafficking - trafficked
frolic - frolicking - frolicked
bivouac - bivouacking - bivouacked

What about ‘focus’?

This word can take either double or single s, with the single option being highly preferred.

word - present participle - past participle

focus - focusing/focussing - focused/focussed

Here’s an odd one to end:

American - British English

parallel - parallel
paralleling - parallelling
paralleled - parallelled

Example:
The vetting service from Future Perfect is unparallelled. :icare:

Graeme Rhodes · **Posted:** Sun Nov 04, 2018 11:12 am

I trust all behaved with suitable decorum and grace.
(someone will have to explain the big words to the greenies)

Hippy Chippy · **Posted:** Sun Nov 04, 2018 11:50 am

Yeah...

Abso-

-inglutely, Smiley... :thumbright:

connief · **Posted:** Sun Nov 04, 2018 7:15 pm

I am going to have to make the effort to attend one of these Annual Pub Crawls sometime in the future.

The 2018 Annual RAN SH Sydney Rocks Xmas Pub Crawl Smokey

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