TheTramp

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  1. TBI @2761 if you can drag that roller out of the grass verge you've earned it! Robbie has really bothered me with this picture, where is it? the fences are nice, the fence on the right is a deer-proof one around a cedar plantation, the road seems new, clay topped, no tarmac, the water in the distance seems to say "reservoir" and I always think I know Leicestershire just by looking at the land. Not Belvoir in the distance but a farmhouse been there a few years and owned by a bloke with a bob or two. C'mon Robbie have you got any more picture clues?

  2. S Barker @8. That picture you may know already is of the foot of old Short? or Long Stairs at the eastern end of Narrow Marsh under Malin Hill. The City is really missing out if we don't start capitilising on these old cave systems, some at that end of the town must have been used by the first Saxons. Who would waste time building when there was a decent cave to be had?

  3. Arguments about the Royals are risky aren't they? Can divide families, perhaps the Royal family get heated when discussing the citizens. The Monarchy is perhaps a bit like inoculations, we would rather give it a miss but nice to have it on the paperwork when travelling, while we have Queenie we know no ordinary thug (like Putin) or no great talker (like W Bush) can get the chair.

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  4. 90% of pop music was always about sex, we just didn't know it when we heard it, especially imported American/Black music. Did anyone else hear a radio prog by George Melly called Filthy Jazz? That was old stuff, what about Stop-don't do it? I hear it played often in broad public like fair grounds and GARDEN PARTIES. Difference is music like that was played in small spaces now it's spread far and wide by the "media" I do like that F Sinatra song though about it being a very good year for about six different girls..

  5. There's a spider living in my kitchen, I talk to him a lot, takes no notice though. He even walks across the ceiling. There's nothing useful up there, still wont tell me what the buggery he's doing up there. There's a fabulous piece of rock lives near the front door, found him in Norfolk on the beach, I think he's from Norway so I can't get a lick of sense out of him either.

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  6. See these tractors? I spent months as a teenager whacking old ones like these with a sledgehammer, the boss got em, broke em and sold the cast parts into Gloworm Boilers because it was such pure iron. He had a Field Marshal I nearly bought but he sold a wheel for spares so it meant probs sorting it, I lost interest then, if I had it now I would drive it to yes TESCO

  7. Plenty of argument to be had here loppylugs, Humph, I think first told his mate " I told you never to play that again!" then later on said " Play it for me" "whats that Boss?" "you know, play it" I don't think Humph ever said ----- play it again Sam

  8. Hi Clifton @ 51. That picture of The Rose is special with the sky all around it, tried times to catch The Rose just right , I'll be down there to try again, BUT what will appear as a background next? The hangar didn't work, the little redbrick station was better but no glamour, what are the "investors" planning now?

  9. Vinyl banners. Should be banned. Banners are graffiti, graffiti is litter. Can't abide banners. And filthy sticky tables in Nottingham pubs - including Wetherspoons where the customer service training includes how to tell a customer "I'll be back in a minute mate" (well I'll won't be mate). Phewie, sorry. and ugly cars, with ugly names --- Quashkie. Why not nice names like bikes? Raleigh, Carlton, Mercian, Aende, Norman Butler.

  10. I think personal number plate buyers are pathetic but a few years ago I was impressed when I saw a Ford with a plate that started FEO2, now theres a bloke with sense of humour thought I, he paid for a plate with the chemical brev for rust. Then I found out how new reg plates were devised. DOH!

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  11. I am old, of Irish heritage and clarity of mind and have the benefit of pre comprehensive education with no college follow up, a long career in scrapyards and jobs that required little input which brought much thinking time so I can assure you all, 1 there is no such thing as time, 2 the gravity we experience is the opposite of what is really operating, 3 the Universe is truly infinitely large. This is difficult to comprehend even for the best scientific mind but anyone may be able to glimpse the truth. If you can believe in the infinitely large then you must accept that things can be infinitely small. I have not noticed any great scientist admit this. Stop this reading of The New Scientist and National Geographic and get happy as only Red Indians and cats know how. I wish you all many summers.

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