[Rockhounds] Travelling to France

[Axel Emmermann]

You mean wielding the hammer or sticking my pick in the ground?
The other hand is only slightly better. In a few years I'll be having my beers through a Roman four. (just to show that my brain is not arthritic 😉)
 
Axel


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Onderwerp: Re: [Rockhounds] Travelling to France

If you drink beer with the other hand your arthritis won't hurt as much.

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Axel Emmermann <axel.emmermann at telenet.be>
wrote:

> Well, that's part of the problem... Never been groundbashing in France.
> The other part is that I can't barely hold a hammer right now. Bad 
> case of arthritis in my hammer-hand...
>
> Never say "Oooo... go put your pick into the ground HERE" to Dutch people.
> In Dutch slang pick means dick. You might get weird looks.
>
> Axel
>
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> Van: Rockhounds [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com] 
> Namens gary brown
> Verzonden: vrijdag 2 juni 2017 22:13
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> Nice Big List.  Very Big List.  Huge (sorry) List.
>
> How about some nice "Oooo... go put your pick into the ground HERE" stuff?
>
> GcB
>
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> Hi Gary,
>
> Poitiers is in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine dept..
> You should hit paydirt about everywhere you go 😉
> Here's what Mindat has to say about what you can find there:
> https://www.mindat.org/loc-8307.html
>
> Cheers
> Axel
>
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> Van: Rockhounds [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com] 
> Namens gary brown
> Verzonden: vrijdag 2 juni 2017 17:44
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>
> Hello all...
>
> I'll be France from around 22 June to 10 July.  My wife wants to have 
> some Quality Time with her daughter (and our new grandson!) down in 
> Poitiers so it has been "suggested" that I go off somewhere and bang 
> on rocks.  Go figure.  I'd love to go somewhere with someone and bang 
> on rocks that have fluorite in 'em.  Anyone up for collecting?  I can 
> take a train from Poitiers...  Failing that... any neat collecting spots near Poitiers?
> Poitiers is around 350 km southwest of Paris.
>
> Gary Brown
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