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    Sometimes you have to back off.What was Hungerford about?  & Dunblane,Moat.The chap in Chelsea after a long lunch. You can''t shoot everyone soa sensible amount of thought seems good.hex
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    The old Lightning that tagged the Bears had an enormous streak of power,but it had to be replenished almost immediately to keep it aloft.I wonder if Typhoons will be stooging around as Biggles might have said. hex.
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    Not disputing your comments nevermind.There is a rusting hulk filled with explosives. Not far from the stadium. It is sunk.No one has dared to touch it for 60 years.hex.
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    I do agree Walkern. The video blog is amongst others about activism .Typhoons have been overflying for a while. They are gone before you notice they were there.All of the comments on the blog refer to previous events being safeguarded.  I don''t see the problem.3 scruffy gents asked if they could use my house to secure the back wall of a property behind.Well I was won over by the public school accent. So they went over the wall at 02.00.I still have the card from the WPC. Gorgeous girl with a glock, "Maybe one day".hex
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    A relative-in-law came back. He never left his house or spoke much again.He just looked out of the window for the next 40 years.Before the war he was a bit of a rake with sportscars. Stuff happens.I know Shrimper that I bang on about old times.I have a copy of a film of the Kokoda Trail battles.The trail started just beyond my stilted bungalow on a hillside outside Port Moresby.I was astonished on visiting the new ANZAC memorial a few years ago. @ Hyde Park.Standing next to a more grizzled person we were both shocked by the 2 backpackerswho were pointing to a map of PNG. "Why have they put that here?"We both spoke.  They had no idea what we were talking about.!0,000 Japanese forces had landed and were heading for Darwin. And south.(In usual form the great Australian & New Zealand forces & pilots were involved over Dover,Tobruk etc.),The forces to stop them were just guys allocated to unload shipsand they were suddenly given guns and told to head over a mountain. They battled mud, illness, scorpions,spiders,otherwise the plan to split the Pacific would have got through.They won.I think it might have been bad news as the victors would have got the steel and other bits that keptplanes in the air from Australia.hex.(I will check out the book),ce
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    Pretenders. On a singles CD at the moment. 2nd girlfriend was a total Hynde .Pulled me. I''ll never forget it.  She worked for BBC radio . Family were loaded.  Old family names.I don''t know where I went wrong. She decamped to Hong Kong as a journalist in 1972.So I am back on the chain gang.I am trying to do an insurance claim so a bit of past music helps. Good Songs.hex
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    My goodness Nevermind. I rarely post these days but you certainly gotmy interest up with your latest poem about taxes. Do we need to be taxed.?The MOD  seems to have made so many failed projects since 1950 costing the taxpayer .The aircraft industry was ruined by multiple trials of secret planes. To Air projects. To get to Mach1My wife was involved with Thurso ,I guess you know where that is.It is astonishing how much tax is wasted on gimmicks. Most of her government planned contracts to IT firms were shelved in the 1980s.Too many of them didn''t work.I didn''t always listen to the grumbles as to what project was being shelved.So I can''t comment.I was just a lad who entertained Richard Burton .hex
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    Sort of old school, that one GP."BUT if you''re happy and you know it clap your hands"hex
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    Larson. A terrible thing, often ended on the young of old. Syphillis.My brother rented a house in Hampstead years ago, not far from a member of The Hollies".(Allan )It was an  extended family ! At one stage they owned Islands off Scotland.The Grandfather had given the children the problem. A girl died, and then later the son threw himself out of a hospital window.Trouble will get you .ce
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    Just watched it Herman. A bit too hard for my taste but a good programme.Silly me, I like everything from Klezmar to Zydeco to California Dreaming to dustbowl blues.ce.
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    Ok. I will step back a bit and have another think about poetry.Or maybe read of the "Little World of Don Camillo".hex
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    And of course Imperial Russia was involved in the "Great Game".Efforts to dislodge GB from India and gain a warm water port for warships.Plucky Finland was invaded by Russia.Poland tooThe fact that Napoleon invaded Russsia is odd.Most invasions of Europe came from the east.Magyars, Huns, Goths, ...Sounds like Glastonbury....ce
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    Well Purple Canary, There are always 2 sides to a fence. Shrimper once posted a .jpeg.I guess the 20 m lost in 1942-45  have to be balanced with the gulags, Stasi, Dershinski Strasse,The cattle trucks to Siberia. All self inflicted. Albania, Tito, Killing fields of Cambodia,Angola, China,Korea, the list is endless. I am not sure that despite a terrible time in WW2. Marx or Leninor comrade Trotsky even, would be proud of their legacy.ce
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    What a strange world of "What If''s".2 tired men and another.Photographed at Yalta.Churchill was worn out, Roosevelt was dying, and Stalin was given much of the world on a plate.I don''t know if there was much poetry about that meeting. Probably a lot of best Imperial Vodka.I don''t do links or sourcing, but I believe that more people died in USSR dominated countriesthan were killed  in Barbarossa ,both before WW2 and after.Worst insult of all is that a pipsqueak called Boris has a bigger yacht than I do and owns a football club to boot.(Actually I don''t own a yacht)  but I have a very nice picture of a hulk on Blakeney marshes.hex
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    At least I know what I think I am talking about.Anyway like Kings Lynn, Norwich does have nice areas such as the Cathedral and on to the river.As a youngster I worked at The Theatre Royal for 2 weeks one summer, and ambled around the Cow Tower fields. The Castle has a great display of local art,(The Norwich School Of Art).It seems you can pick up a bit of Nelson memorabilia withoutanyone noticing. (Not Mandela).The Riddler would have no trouble hiding a Cotman under his jumper.I think, like London you do have to have a reason to go into the centre.Shrimper heads for galleries & Cutty Sark for photography.When there is good stuff on I head into the West End for a "Night at the Ballet).I am not that keen on Opera! There has been much Rattigan recently.The Duchess of Malfi is on  the list. It was an A Level text some 46 years ago.That probably explains why I don''t make life easy for readers.hex
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    Sorry London Canary.I am often obscure. Norwich has nice bits . The ''golden triangle'' to the south with big houses once seemed a good idea but life follows other roads.Follow your tomorrows is a Tim Hardin line.   & he didn''t last long. Take care.hex
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    Well london Canary. Stick with it, It is your choice. I live 30 minutes away.A journey I would not wish to bother with. "Stick with your tomorrows"I would  once have liked to buy into the golden triangle..No longer a plan.hex
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    Yes Herman. I was trying to find a sensible anti -war poem from long past days.Not much to equate with WW1 poetry. Art maybe.hex
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    Well as Larson may remember I have a fondness for Country Joe and Robert Service.Did the "Fish Cheer at Woodstock" achieve anything other than a stoned hillside.?Pete Seeger, the old commie campaigner set a poem to music. Bombs on Japan.Still they built bigger and better. SS-20s ,Cruise, B52s, Tupolevs. Subs......( not sandwiches).http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yApAg0hl490..............Springsteenhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im3oxaQ3Ong.............Seegerhex
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    I passed through Dereham on Saturday and there were a lot of people around.There is still the trusty Akash.Years ago we dropped the kids off at the cinema in the evening and "enjoyed" a hot curry evening.I once had to ask a waiter for an extra napkin for my head as mine was soaking from mopping the brow.My daughter (once one of the kids) , has been there with chums and found it a bit old school but still perfectly OK. It is hard to tell about new developments on the edge of towns. Can people be bothered to get a babysitter,settle the children, and walk into town for perhaps 20 minutes and eat in the evening, or is it just a lunchtime thing.?Or feet up with Lovefilm.? The idea of living in a town is that you are close to amenities. I know CF that you have a youngster.It does take a bit of organising of an evening. Even if you live closer in, there is still the organising for an evening out.I did check out Romany Rye. It does seem to be family friendly. There you have it. Standard fare.Hill House Hotel was pretty unexceptional. There is nowhere for a better dinner than the chippie in the Market Place.It is a shame. but it will be interesting to see how the George morphs.(Never fancied Lotties).....hex.
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    At least they didn''t leak, Walkern.
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    hexem replied to SHRIMPER's topic in Non-Football

    Well nevermind I always apologise. Sorry.See you at the Arts do later in the summer.Christopher..
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    Such is life.... I live on a busy road. A couple of couples where sort of arguing outside my window." I don''t care waht e sez, e is not going down there... It was just a trim"... end of ramble. hex
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    Thanks for the, ideas folks...Luckily October is a long away season.I think my idea from Byrds went down quite well last night.I have been playing it all day.Cheesy pop----How very dare you? Herman.hex.
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    Don''t mention sherries on this forum...D will have you wiped.hex
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