Hi! I just wanted to know if there are any other English-speakers here on the board, in Lower Saxony / Niedersachsen.

I'm in Hannover, that's the capital of Niedersachsen. Whats your querie?

Thanks for the repy! I'm near Aurich (Ostfriesland). Lived in the Brüggen area for years, and moved here about 18 months ago.

I am near Oldenburg (Rastede). Anyone within 50 km? Keen to meet new people speaking ENglish. I have moved here 10 months ago, but spent most of the time commuting to England. Now I am finally settling down here.

@Tornadogirl: I thought Oldenburg sounded familiar...

Yeah. Sounds all...glittery.

Cheers,

Fairfax71
(ya, the one with the ballcap)

I meant I´d seen TG somewhere else here!

Are you sure? I think it sounds like cheese! As in: "a pound of your ripest Oldenburger, if you please, my good man"

Ballcup?! The mind boggles...

You mean the ballcap at Henry's? Or i think the German expat world is smaller than it really is?

Why of course! We were all disappointed you didn't leave us each a bag of diamonds.

Naturally we expect you to remedy this next time around.

Cheers,

Fairfax71

Well, I was dissapointed to have left... Next time I am not doing the train thing: I got stuck in Bremen for an hour, as the evening connections weren't that great.

I'll do a test next time - see if you can tell the difference between the diamonds and cubic zirconia...

Oh am I so regonizable? It's just confirms my point: there just poor ol' lonely me sitting on a farm next to Oldenburg whilst somewhere far away there is a whole bustling and partying expat world of Germany... Think of Oldenburg - think of tornadogirl.

Will check up on the local cheeses here. Perhaps you are quite right!

There you go. Give us each bags of 100% real genuine cubic zirconia and watch us all get hugely excited, and laugh yourself silly as we try to pay the waitress with it.

Cheers,

Fairfax71

Damn it! Let's do it and not tell anyone? You can laugh yourself silly together with me (willum though will have to be silenced)

Ooooh, willum must be silenced! SILENCE! *smack*

Er, minor problem, this being a public forum and various visitors of the group read the forum. Ah, it was a brilliant plan while it lasted.

But we'll silence willum anyway because I'm a right royal bastard. Muahahahaha!

Cheers,

Fairfax71
(who's letting all this H4ES Lord Protector stuff go right to his already swollen head)

DOWN WITH THE TYRANT!!!

Madame la Guillotine waits!

Watch it mate, you know what happened to Julius Caesar, Hitler etc.,

You want to be careful, I´ve got friends in high places - MI5,6,7,etc., I´d never thought I´d see the day, CIA and KGB working together...

@TG - I must say, it would be really funny if there really was such as thing as Oldenburger cheese. There is a breed of horse, though

http://www.oldenburger-pferde.com/pferde/index_12.php

Oh yeah, I am already imagining willum hands behind his back with his mouth plastered sitting in front of his beer and weeping as the others satisfyingly stuffing their pockets with zirconia. That would have been a gentle treatment then on the CIA side - a regular torture by beer, practiced widely in Germany... If it was KGB paired with MI guys though - the mouth would remain opened, but the beer would have an uncharacteristic radioactive glow... BU HAHAHAHAH!

Tyrant? Moi?

Hm, I think I'd like fine in a Sun King pose.

Except then I'd be a bit froggy. Wouldn't want that. Ribbit.

Oh very well, I promise to be a benevolent dictator. Mostly. Provided I am supplied with sufficient cubic zirconium.

Though I warn you, I have friends at MI8. (They keep tabs on MI5, MI6 and MI7. They liquidated MI9, too. And you don't want to know what happened to MI4.)

Cheers,

Fairfax71

Judging by the member profile photograph, Willum's appearance is more evil than that of people wearing blue ballcap... An E4HS overthrow might be imminent and MI8 may be involved. Lord Protectors watch out or you too will follow the steps of the likes of Charles the first.

THat I know. I went to London Horse Show last November, only to find there a one man stand from... you will never guess... Oldenburg!! We even identified a common acquaintance (a father of my boyfriend, a lifetime horse rider)... The Horse World is smaller than that of ENglish speakers in Lower Saxony!!

They all mad those horse people though...

Come, come! Loyalty to my overbearing regime shall be lavishly rewarded*, and opposition will be crushed under the heel of my jackbooted thugs.

As for Charles, I'm well ahead of you.

Cheers,

Fairfax71

* - With a drink at Henry's. That you have to pay for. With cubic zirconium. How can you possibly say no?

Frankly, I don't know who would want to take over the powers of Dictators-Moderators, whose priviledges are confined to an inevitable wearing of a ballcap from 18:30 till 22:00 on a hot summer evening, at a table BY THE KITCHEN!

Not me, not me... not even Willum...

Ha! You see, my position is unassailable! I am invincible! Muahahahahahaha!

I shall be Lord Protector of H4ES *forever*!

Cheers,

Fairfax71

Don´t forget to tip the piss-page!

Ha, but I´m a good friend of Hugo Rune! (read Robert Rankin)

TG - it was the Lord Protector (Olliver Cromwell) who had Charles I beheaded, so I assume he was aware of the risks.

Oliver Cromwell died penniless, I believe, after they reinstated (big mistake!) the monarchy. He did however have a brother called Richard! Not sure what became of him though.

Nothing against radioactive beer, now we know what´s really in those Castor containers! They´re actually massive great beer-barrels

Oh my goodness. An American has to teach a Brit his own history.

Indeed it was Oliver Cromwell who did in Charles I. But Oliver Cromwell didn't die penniless. He died as Lord Protector, in office. His son Richard succeeded him, but wasn't as tight-willed or respected as his old dad, and the régime quickly unravelled as Cromwell's old supporters unseated Richard and chose to invite Charles II back in, so long as he agreed not to make Britain Catholic and generally play nice (which he generally agreed to, but his brother James II & VII reneged on, and was promptly rewarded by being unseated by William of Orange).

And Oliver Cromwell had the rather unique end of being posthumously executed by Charles II. That's right, Chuckie Two had Oliver dug up and "executed". Pshee, talk about being personal.

Cheers,

Fairfax71

It's just Yanks are fascinated by the long British history whilst not having much of their own (Independence proclaimed on what 1776? All the cool kings of England like Edward the Confessor, Henry V, VIII and Elisabeth I were long dead). I found many Americans salivating all over old furniture in the antique shops, not to mention their obsession with period houses. The place the Lord Protector used to visit (Lygon Arms in Broadway, Cotswolds) is a secret American hideout...

Ha! HA, madam, I beg to differ, for I am from the proud Commonwealth of Virginia. We are more British than the British. We still do foxhunting, unlike the apostate Brits.

http://www.freedomfields.net/foxhunting_in_virginia.html

For that matter, the Virginians who helped start the Revolution did so because they were defending their rights as native Englishmen (as Pitt the Elder cheered them on). Some of us haven't forgotten that.

http://www.history.org/

Cheers,

Fairfax71

Hmm, that was how I remembered it from history lessons! He was supposed to have died in Cheshunt, near where I grew up. That´s what they told us at Primary School anyway. Should I go back and sue my old teachers? Never thought I`d meet up with some smartarse colonial 30 odd years later, though...

Is another one of your titles "All Knowing One", or what?

I was going to add "at least we´ve got a history", but that´s cheap and obvious, so I won´t.

There´s actually a very long american history - ask an indian.

Salivating over the furniture?! - how disgusting, I hope they washed it off afterwards!

Yeeees, and I know just what you were doing behind the wardrobe with Susie in your third year that Tuesday, so you'd better keep quiet!


Ah! For a moment I was almost insulted.


We generally don't. It reduces the value, so we get it cheaper that way. ;-)

Cheers,

Fairfax71

Her name wasn´t Susie and it was in the broom cupboard... And it was Wednesday! Ha! So there! sticks tongue out and makes "brrrrrr" noises.

A wardrobe in a classroom? We have them in our bedrooms. Is this a case of British English - American English difference in meaning?

Only almost? Damn, I´ll have to try harder!

Curses! I have to adjust my Spy-O-Tron -- but wait! A-ha, you've provided me with all the details I need for my fine-tuning! Muahahahahahahaha!


Dunno, to me a wardrobe is just any big piece of furniture for hanging up coats and things. Doesn't have to be in a bedroom, or at least it's the first I've ever heard anyone think of it that way.


Well, it was pretty far off, I mean, it just sort of bounced off and fell on the floor with this gooey blort noise. I mean come on.

Cheers,

Fairfax71

Now I know you remind me of - the evil Emperor Ming from Flash Gordon! He also had a something-o-tron I believe.

Seriously, I´ve never seen a wardrobe outside of the bedroom. We had hooks for coats and stuff.

Indeed! I'm so awesome I have my own Queen soundtrack!

Cheers,

Fairfax71

Flash ah-ah, he saved every one of us!

I was thinking more of the old 30s films though - with the really cool spaceships with a strip of magnesium sticking out the back.

[img]http://www.slick-net.com/space/serial/serials2/flashming1.jpg[/img]

Hmmm, a slight resemblance.

OTOH there's always this:

[img]http://echosphere.net/star_trek_insp/insp_captkirk_preview.jpg[/img]

Cheers,

Fairfax71

well yes, but he´s got meaner eyebrows...

BTW, I´ve just applied for membership of Yahoo Groups/H4ES, let me in, or else!

Oh good Lord, we don't want your kind!

/me gives willum a look of utter revulsion

Oh all right, you were charming enough at the last meeting.

Cheers,

Fairfax71

Well, gee, thanks that´s like really nice of you...(sarcastic tone of voice)

You let Don in having only met him once!

thinks: I thought I was going to have to beg...phew!

What? You mean I could have had you begging? Curses, I missed my chance!

Cheers,

Fairfax71

Ha, foiled again!