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Post by Aloysius on Apr 15, 2024 18:26:19 GMT
Trying to ignore this isn't going to get you anywhere π So dunkers, you've been called out for the lying cunt you are. You must have something to say, shirley?
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Post by β on Apr 15, 2024 18:59:34 GMT
Cor I just noticed it said Dyson Farming. Oh dear. If its anything like the hand driers and vacuum cleaners its going to be worthless shit but could enable the wife to become more amenable.
I have no wife and no interest in having a wife.
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Post by Aloysius on Apr 15, 2024 19:06:44 GMT
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Post by kris on Apr 15, 2024 19:10:06 GMT
Donβt give Elon any ideas.
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Post by β on Apr 15, 2024 19:48:28 GMT
It has been shockingly windy. Had the offsprings at the country estate always pleasant but the wind today was quite rude.
The teachers had an 'insect day' so no school.
Back to the grind stone tomorrow.
Some very interesting little earthquakes in the Β£300k cash legacy story.
I wonder about it all sometimes.
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Post by β on Apr 15, 2024 20:06:52 GMT
I feel a bit bad because I came past this old Oxford college barge in my launch which has a low wash hull but creates a sort of swell effect and immediately afterwards it sank and now it is completely submerged with fishes swimming around in it. I wonder if that steel work platform was not well fendered and punched a hole in it due to the wash from a passing Boat. Hmmmm My pic from 7th April
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Post by Aloysius on Apr 15, 2024 20:20:16 GMT
It might not be a good thing to have an inflated sense of self-importance. Other posters have clearly developed some unfortunate outcomes as a result of this fallacy.
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Post by β on Apr 15, 2024 20:30:35 GMT
It might not be a good thing to have an inflated sense of self-importance. Other posters have clearly developed some unfortunate outcomes as a result of this fallacy. Oh I know ! The issue with them is they are not important. I can get bad shit done without even trying. Plus of course the old Connaught London Boat just happened to be operating as well and that one makes a heck of a wash. I used to take my squirt kayak into the Connaught wash 30 yars ago and get almost completely submerged. So yeah. Probably the Connaught. 100ft passenger Boat Westminster to Hampton Caught.
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Post by dogless on Apr 16, 2024 10:06:17 GMT
Ten locks done. We were on our way at 7am ... chilly but pleasant and the bird song was glorious. The top gates of the staircase at Bascote are leaking badly ... not the gap between but the gates themselves. Loads of water pouring through. The lockside cottage at the staircase is up for sale if anyone's interested Β£695,000. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/141022364#/?channel=RES_BUYRog
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Post by Telemachus on Apr 16, 2024 10:38:32 GMT
Ten locks done. We were on our way at 7am ... chilly but pleasant and the bird song was glorious. The top gates of the staircase at Bascote are leaking badly ... not the gap between but the gates themselves. Loads of water pouring through. The lockside cottage at the staircase is up for sale if anyone's interested Β£695,000. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/141022364#/?channel=RES_BUYRog Ah yes Bascote top lock cottage. Used to be owned by Alan and Mo de Piro, he a QC and judge and she apparently a "foundling born in a London workhouse" who did quite well for herself. She was lovely. They were London friends of my uncle (also QC and judge) and aunt and I was invited to various parties there in the 70s as we lived relatively close in Alcester (Warks). One notable occasion - I think I was 18- when I had just had major surgery on my lung to deal with spontaneous pneumothoraces with 10" incision in my back, I was introduced to the delights of brandy and champagne cocktails. Got very drunk very quickly! And decided to go for a walk over the lock gates. Which were nearly closed. But not quite. In fact very not quite. A desperate grab for the far gate prevented me from falling in, but the over-reach ripped some of the stitches in my back. But then again, I was pissed so I didn't really care! She died quite a while ago and he wrote a couple of books, the second of which describes how they restored the derelict lock cottage at Bascote. I have never read it, but here it is... www.brewinbooks.com/mona_and_alan
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Post by β on Apr 16, 2024 10:48:14 GMT
Nice steam launch. I think a replica but a good one.
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Post by dogless on Apr 16, 2024 11:13:09 GMT
Ten locks done. We were on our way at 7am ... chilly but pleasant and the bird song was glorious. The top gates of the staircase at Bascote are leaking badly ... not the gap between but the gates themselves. Loads of water pouring through. The lockside cottage at the staircase is up for sale if anyone's interested Β£695,000. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/141022364#/?channel=RES_BUYRog Ah yes Bascote top lock cottage. Used to be owned by Alan and Mo de Piro, he a QC and judge and she apparently a "foundling born in a London workhouse" who did quite well for herself. She was lovely. They were London friends of my uncle (also QC and judge) and aunt and I was invited to various parties there in the 70s as we lived relatively close in Alcester (Warks). One notable occasion - I think I was 18- when I had just had major surgery on my lung to deal with spontaneous pneumothoraces with 10" incision in my back, I was introduced to the delights of brandy and champagne cocktails. Got very drunk very quickly! And decided to go for a walk over the lock gates. Which were nearly closed. But not quite. In fact very not quite. A desperate grab for the far gate prevented me from falling in, but the over-reach ripped some of the stitches in my back. But then again, I was pissed so I didn't really care! She died quite a while ago and he wrote a couple of books, the second of which describes how they restored the derelict lock cottage at Bascote. I have never read it, but here it is... www.brewinbooks.com/mona_and_alanYou're even posher than β Admiral aren't you π Have you looked at the house now on the advert ... is any of it recognisable from the 1970's ? Sounds like a fun place back then. Rog
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Post by β on Apr 16, 2024 11:23:49 GMT
He is more posh than me but of a different class.
We were always taught as kids that it is naff to be posh. I travel in the steerage area.
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Post by Telemachus on Apr 16, 2024 11:36:12 GMT
Ah yes Bascote top lock cottage. Used to be owned by Alan and Mo de Piro, he a QC and judge and she apparently a "foundling born in a London workhouse" who did quite well for herself. She was lovely. They were London friends of my uncle (also QC and judge) and aunt and I was invited to various parties there in the 70s as we lived relatively close in Alcester (Warks). One notable occasion - I think I was 18- when I had just had major surgery on my lung to deal with spontaneous pneumothoraces with 10" incision in my back, I was introduced to the delights of brandy and champagne cocktails. Got very drunk very quickly! And decided to go for a walk over the lock gates. Which were nearly closed. But not quite. In fact very not quite. A desperate grab for the far gate prevented me from falling in, but the over-reach ripped some of the stitches in my back. But then again, I was pissed so I didn't really care! She died quite a while ago and he wrote a couple of books, the second of which describes how they restored the derelict lock cottage at Bascote. I have never read it, but here it is... www.brewinbooks.com/mona_and_alanYou're even posher than β Admiral aren't you π Have you looked at the house now on the advert ... is any of it recognisable from the 1970's ? Sounds like a fun place back then. Rog Not posh really, my parents were both Brummies, grandfather #1 was an engineer with Petters (I think) and #2 set up a printing business. So they were the "professional middle classes".
My uncle went to the local grammar school. But he was pretty bright and did very well for himself, got a 1st at Oxford (in the days when 1sts were rare), moving to London as a Barrister, then QC, then Old Bailey Judge. His claim to fame as a QC was getting Clive Ponting off on his charge of leaking secret documents relating to the sinking of the Belgrano (Falklands war). So their circle of friends is what someone from Sheffield might call "posh" but they were just the London middle classes. My uncle's best friend was Gordon Snell (BBC and childrens book writer), he married Maeve Binchy the irish author. My aunt's friend was Jon Snow the newsreader, Jeff and I had dinner with him at my Aunt's swansong/pre-wake thing a few weeks before she died. So as a child I knew those sort of people, but they were not really my bag (as Admiral would say) and I left all that behind when I moved to Scotland in 1980 and became the slob I am now.
And they are just people with the same problems as everyone else. My uncle became an alcoholic which eventually killed him, their only son is extremely autistic, my aunt died of mesothelioma (not a nice way to go). Maeve Binchy was plagued with terrible arthritis (she's long since dead, as are all the rest of them except my mother who is still going at 101, and Gordon Snell).
As to the cottage, no I think it has changed a lot. I am not sure that that extension existed at the time, it was very small, but that made it very cosy. They just used it as a rural retreat from the hubub of London. Yes always lots of booze to be had, which is very important when you are a teenager! They did have kids, perhaps they inherited the cottage or more likely it has had one or more intermediate owners.
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Post by dogless on Apr 16, 2024 12:16:23 GMT
Every time I pass this bridge I take a photo ... got to be one of my favourites on the system. Bridge porn for those who are into that type of thing π Rog
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