philmayfield
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That’s two plaques to be screwed on then. Honoured to be in such distinguished company! Perhaps we should form a consortium to buy it. What to do with it though? Can’t make much money out of a church.
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Must go and screw one on before it’s demolished. It may be grade 2 listed though. I know I am.
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Looking at the radar I don’t think another, like the one that’s just passed, is imminent but there is a modest one to the N/W approaching you.
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Quick. Have a look on ‘Weather Radar’ and those in Notts can see the system that’s just passed through. Nothing like that to follow fortunately.
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I was christened in that church in 1943. Never been in since though!
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Councils always seem to attract the incompetent. I suppose the competent are too busy running their own businesses to spare the time.
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Spectacular but what a waste of money. Is the Council run by a bunch of blithering idiots?
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Even in Italy, which I visited regularly on business, did I meet a fellow Latin speaker!
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I had the option to drop Latin when we split in arts and science groups from the fourth to the sixth forms so I went for science. If I’d gone for arts I might have become a lawyer or an accountant! I only took up engineering in the last 25 years of employment.
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I have a pending hip transplant now that they've found a donor and then no driving for six weeks. All my public performances have been put on hold.
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Invite her to the next meet up to see her in the flesh. Please don’t misconstrue that sentence!
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That's right. I remembered all the words but not necessarily in the right order.
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We never had teachers like her!
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Civis Romanus and The Shorter Latin Primer were our standard textbooks. Remember nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative and vocative. It's all coming back to me now!
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You got it quicker than me!
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We had to study Latin at school. Apparently you needed Latin to get into Oxford or Cambridge or for medical degrees. Prescriptions used to be written in an abbreviated Latin form. I find it useful for translating ancient tombstones and solving crosswords. Otherwise it's totally useless. We would say 'Latin is a language as dead as dead can be. It killed the ancient Romans and now it's killing me!
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They usually wear a striped jersey and carry a bag marked ‘swag’.
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You wee’d in it?
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On my first fly fishing lesson at Rutland Water I impaled the barbed hook in the back of my hand and the instructor had to perform a minor operation standing on a wobbly pontoon.
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He who laughs last has the best lawyer.
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Current temperature where I live in Notts. 6C. Where Margie lives 5C.
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We've had masses of daisies flowering on the verge down our lane all winter but I gather that's not unusual in milder weather.
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That used to be part of our longer cross country course at Mellish. After going up Kersall Drive and crossing the common we went under a railway bridge and up and over the fields. We re-emerged through another bridge further down, crossed Hucknall Rd., ran beside the railway bank at the bottom of the golf course, through another bridge then back up St. Alban’s Rd., down Piccadilly and back home. School cross country champion me!
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I went to a French Restaurant called ‘Deja Vu’ and the head waiter said ‘don’t I know you?’
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in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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I’m looking over the Trent valley to the north west and the blue skies that DJ alluded to are on their way. That was a frontal system par excellence! It’s just over Peterborough if Margie is waiting.