On 23 Oct 2009, at 15:46, roger_millin burbled:
> Bruce wrote:
>> Put it this way: I think it's fair to say that Andy Russell is
>> accepted as one of the best boat painters around these days.
> Cough< Phil Speight/Dave Moore >cough
>
Sure, that's why I said "one of": put your specs on before reading
the emails, or you can get some really good text to speech programmes
these days, even for Windoze ;-}}}
>>
>> OTOH, he's doing it all the time and has been for around 20 years...
>
> Yeah, but you've been around for several times that and it doesn't
> mean that you're any more competent than before. ;-)))
(pause for short boggle) around *what* for several times? This is only
my second boat I'm building, unlike some. Some of us are reasonably
easily satisfied, provided we get the right supplier in the first
place...
>
>>
> You cannot compare what a professional does (and gets away with) to
> what it is suitable for an amateur to do, although Tim Tyler seems
> to get away with it (cough) ;-))))
At least Tim has a a good few years left in him; I hear Graham E
recently closed his waiting list as he thinks he's got as much work as
will last him out.
>
>> Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume,
>> labuntur anni.
>
> Yes, OK, take more water with it and you'll make sense ;-))
Just trying to introduce an element of culture, though phrases about
pearls, swine and philistines come to mind.
;-}}}
All the best and glad some of us are still out there scrapping!
Bruce
Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume,
labuntur anni (Horace, Ode 2.14).
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