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Chulla
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She's Gone
How empty lies the life not whole,
When grief pervades the yearning soul,
Devotion now but memory,
Gone forever, her from he.
Dearly 'twined for many years,
Through good times and through the tears,
Where love had no known substitute,
Joy that none shall e'er dispute.
Our time on earth is brief in measure,
Find one to love and to treasure,
Adore her 'til the very end,
And then rejoice 'twas thus, my friend.
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Harley Davidson with a Velocette tank.
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#69 Compo. Thanks for that. I had sussed that out, but still find it strange. I thought that once planted in the message, the image would remain there. I'm still learning.
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Got the picture back! Lesson - don't delete picture from Photobucket.
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Ey up, Carni, what are you doing? I started a thread in July in Owt Abaat Nowt where puzzles could be deposited, and now you have started another similar thread. That said, you will probably get the same response as I did to my puzzle - none.
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#249 &251. I remember when they pulled down the buildings in #249 and built a bank in their place (now the Bank pub). Someone wrote to the Evening Post and complained that its design was old-fashioned and what the city wanted were modern buildings. Well he got his way a little later when they built the Lloyds office block that has blighted the skyline of the Square ever since.
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Educate me! What are skins (apart from a euphemism for French letters), and what is an SWMBO?
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Picking up this old thread. Wasn't it the chippy just before you got to the Hippodrome/Gaumont that had a couple of small mirrors on the outside wall - one convex, the other concave, that distorted your image?
Memories of the No.1 bus; I have one that is not very nice. Going back to Crane school after going home for dinner, I was just past the terminus when a bus just arriving up the hill ran over a dog. The front wheel made the dog yelp, the back wheel split it open from end to end and all its insides fell out. Not a pretty sight.
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There is a depressing photo of Basford and Bulwell station in its death throes in one of the threads - can't locate it. Thought I would post a couple of pictures of how I remember it.
Top picture shows 63863, taken from Dobbie Bridge by T G Hepburn, where I began my trainspotting in the late 1940s. The bottom picture, taken by H C Casserley, looks in the opposite direction from the station over-bridge and shows 61281 entering from Daybrook. Dobbie Bridge is in the background.
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I hope this works.
Ah, the Log Cabin - I used to be part of the furniture there in the late 50s/early 60s. The photo shows the main attraction in those days; Norman Langham on the yellow piano
accompanied by Austin Nealon on drums. They were later joined by Colin? on guitar. Those whowent there might remember that he always finished the night with an extended version of
Giddy-up-a ding-dong. Norman used to play at the Robinsons Hill Club and the King Billy, both in Bulwell.
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Ey-up - I have posted an image!!! I ticked the enable HTML box. Should this have been done for past attempts?
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Are the shops any busier at that time of the year? - I've never noticed.
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The Wheatsheaf at Bobbers Mill was built in 1938/1939. At this time my dad worked for the firm that decorated it. Each room had lights that were a glass globe suspended from the ceiling by a chromed tube. There was one left over after completion and dad obtained it and had an amber-coloured glass halo made, which transformed the globe into a likeness of the planet Saturn. Very, very Art Deco (dad was into that style). I have the lighting fixture and am open to offers - it is unique, there is only one of them!
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Just found this thread and would like to join in. I was diagnosed with prostate cancer last January. I had always had a waterworks problem since when I was young, so ignored what I now know were the signs of PC, thinking it was getting worse with age (74). When it did not go away I reluctantly went to see the doctor, who shoved his finger up my rear-end and said he thought it was PC and sent me for a blood test to check something called my PSA. It was 197. On to the urology department at the City (Mr Walton) who snipped bits out of the prostate - which he said was as big a grapefruit - and sent them off for a biopsy. Prostate cancer confirmed, with a Gleason score of 8, and I joined the average of twelve men a week who are diagnosed at the City. The cancer had spread to the outer wall of the prostate and so was termed advanced with the rating of T3b. I had a bone scan at the QMC, which showed no sign of presence there.
I was told that because of my age they do not remove the prostate because it can/does cause severe incontinence problems, and they chose to go for hormone treatment to stop the cancer from growing and spreading. I had the injection and three months later had another PSA check. It had gone down to a figure of just 14. I was given a lot of information about PC and have since found other interesting sites on the internet. A particularly good one is http://umm.edu/health/medical/reports/articles/prostate-cancer by the University of Maryland.
I had a second hormone injection after three months, and have just had my third, which will last for six months. I have to say that I feel no different from any other time in my life, and if I had not been told that I had PC I would still not have known. The only effects experienced are hot sweats and the loss of libido.
Incidentally, I asked the urologist what the highest PSA count was that he had dealt with - 15,000! I was also told of an old man patient who had a Gleason score of 10, the maximum - cancer throughout the whole of the prostate - but his PSA was only 6.
I would strongly advise any man over 60, no matter how fit and healthy he is, to have a PSA check. This disease catches men out so easily. Don't wait until you have trouble passing water.
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Rabbi Tole
Euan Mee
I Newitt
Ivor de Zeze
Long Pot - Chinese snooker player
Shu Ting - Chinese hit-man
Lim Ping - Chinese athlete
Lorna Mower - Italian gardener
Mia Culpa - accident-prone Italian
Yuri Nating - incontinent Jew
Van der Luize - Dutch yob
Harry Stottle - philosopher
Ho Kikoki - Japanese dancer
Pasta Best - Italian momma
Theo d'Lite - surveyor
Le Rue Fliques - French observation
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If you hate him and his philosophies that much Melissa, why don't you burn the books to stop them from 'poisoning' other people's minds. I think you had made your mind up before you began to read the books. Sorry we don't see eye-to-eye on this, so no point in continuing the discussion .
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Yes, the tall building, I think it is/was called Ascot Works.
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The building at the bottom of Aspley Lane (still there) used to be a Players storage factory until it was taken over briefly by Rolls-Royce as its tank engine factory, making the Meteor engine, based on the Merlin engine. However, it was soon taken over by Rover, who were the main manufacturers there until they moved back to the Birmingham area.
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Really, Melissa! You have just taken a degree in philosophy - the search for knowledge and understanding of things and causes - and you say that you hate one of the great thinkers of today.
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I thought my poem might produce a reaction from those with opposing views, but I did not write it specifically to rile them.
loppylugs: I did not say that religion is responsible for all deaths and suffering.
If the victims of the Russian and Chinese Communists were not religious they would not have been murdered.
Michael: They are many people who devote their lives to religion, presumably, among other reasons, thinking that there will be a special place in heaven when they die. Such people want their lives to be run in a religious manner; in other words it becomes a hobby. Many such people think either that their lives won't be worth living unless they believe in God, or something evil will befall them if they are not religious. These people never query the existence of God.
You say that if I am wrong then I will be in trouble; who with - God? But I thought that God was an understanding being, who forgives; after all he gave me a brain to think with. But, of course, that will never happen, because when we die that will be the absolute end. No purgatory, no heaven - just imagine existing for an eternity (billions of years). What do the dead do with themselves in heaven? The more you consider the possibility of an after-life the more ridiculous it sounds.
Face the fact, we are just another species of life on this earth, the one that has advanced in intelligence more than any other. We are born, exist and then die, like all life. What is wrong with that? Religion was invented to allay the fears of those who didn't like the prospect of dying, and God was invented to explain everything that the simple people of the past could not comprehend. Amen.
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Hmmmm, interesting. Carni, did the URL address appear in the Reply box? And did the image appear in the Reply box before you hit Post? I note that your #73 does not have an image.
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Happiness, forgiveness and love - I have all of those things without being religious, because I have my own mind-set. I know right from wrong, appreciate others' feelings, and so on, I do not need instructions on how to or be made to behave. Throughout history and 'til the present day, religion has been responsible for more death, suffering and misery than any other reason. Read the books of Richard Dawkins.
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I hear what you say Cliff Ton, but I have a new picture to post and it will not go. Neither will my Avatar picture, which, of course did originally post correctly. Any thoughts on why I have IMG ...... and you have IMG
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Logic's Adversary
Religion is life's mental crutch the lame-in-mind rely on,
For others tell them what to think, of self-belief there is none.
They trust the words of ages past, in books they call the scriptures,
And spread them round as gospel truth, in sermons and in pictures.
Some force themselves and their beliefs on anyone who'll listen,
And those that won't are demonised, their outlook shall not glisten.
Tolerance of others' views? anathema with knobs on,
They are right, all others wrong, and understanding long gone.
Look around the world, in almost every region,
Troubles there are usually caused by despots or religion.
Death and suffering, stock-in-trade to those with strong persistence,
In God's name they force their will on those with less resistance.
So see it clear there is no God, nor is there a heaven,
Such figments of man's making put him at six and seven.
The world would be a better place if religion it resist,
For me I'll just say this then, thank God I'm, atheist.
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Image Attach Test
in Message Test Forum
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#82. Nobody has come up with a reply. Doesn't anyone know? Many of the images in the posts must have originated as camera JPEGs and were posted via Photobucket. A computer savvy friend has converted a couple of my images, but they turn out to small and are not sharp.