In article ,
Sue Begg writes:
| In message , martin
| writes
|
| I've never understood people who spend large amounts of money going
| all the way to Peru, when you can roast guinea pig in your back garden
| in the cold & pouring rain in a biting northerly gale at home for far
| less. :-)
|
| Rusty will be along with a recipe in a minute.
|
| LOL But it would take a fair amount of landscaping to provide the
| 'little hills'

Speaking as someone who doesn't see any point in travelling when
my back garden is just as good, what's a hill?


Regards,
Ebeneezer Webfoot.

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In message , Janet Baraclough
writes

. In the US, 90 % of the population don't
own a passport and have never travelled abroad.

Is it worth mentioning the fact that the US is so vast that they don't
need to go abroad. They can get to visit almost any type of climate they
wish and travel much further than most Brits do on their travels, within
the US

It's only 3000 miles across, for petes sake. Many very modest Brits
travel far further afield than 3000 miles, at least once in their
lifetime. Not all of them travel to visit climates, btw. Many visit
other countries, cultures and nations.

.. IMHO, Americans most desperately do need to go abroad, to appreciate
that the rest of the world and its experience is far vaster and more
diverse than their country. Staying home in their own familiar culture
rut does not equip them for the world-role they pursue.

Janet.

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"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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I hope they won't. Back in the good old days in 1950's industrial
Lancashire winters were blighted with thick filthy smog.

But, looking on the bright side, there was very little black spot on the
roses in urban gardens in those days :-)

But on the downside, roses in urban gardens were usually garish
HTs(sticks for half the year) and mildewed ramblers. :-(

Janet

In message , Nick Maclaren
writes

In article ,
Sue Begg writes:
| In message , martin
| writes
|
| I've never understood people who spend large amounts of money going
| all the way to Peru, when you can roast guinea pig in your back garden
| in the cold & pouring rain in a biting northerly gale at home for far
| less. :-)
|
| Rusty will be along with a recipe in a minute.
|
| LOL But it would take a fair amount of landscaping to provide the
| 'little hills'

Speaking as someone who doesn't see any point in travelling when
my back garden is just as good, what's a hill?


Regards,
Ebeneezer Webfoot.

In the case of Peru it was more a case of what's ON a hill :-)
It was a lifetime's ambition to see Macchu Pichu and we went last year
for our honeymoon. First and probably only time abroad as I have no
interest in standard sun, sea, resort type holidays.
--
Sue
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"martin" wrote in message
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On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:17:41 +0100, "BAC"
wrote:


"Mike" wrote in message
...

....I was but a
scholarship kid at a public school and being of a "working class
family"
money did not exactly grow on a tree

Do you think that experience in your formative years might go some
way
to
explaining your apparent preoccupation with the British 'class
system'?


Not a preoccupation, just a very aware fact that there 'is' a class
system
in this country and it is alive and well.


Sorry, I thought the ex-pat had posted the bit about his education, not
you,
my mistake.

Think in terms of Peter Brough and Archie Andrews.


Very good on the wireless, I thought ...

and a glass of elder flower wine?
--



'Witherspoon' - "You don't see much Elderberry Wine nowaways - I thought Id
had my last glass of it"

'Abbey' - "Oh no ------"

'Martha' - (handing him a glass of wine) - "No, here it is."

CURTAIN

With apologies to Joseph Kesselring

Mike

In article , Nick Maclaren
writes


Speaking as someone who doesn't see any point in travelling when
my back garden is just as good, what's a hill?

It's one of the reasons I live where I do, and not where you do ;-)
--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

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Speaking as someone who doesn't see any point in travelling when
my back garden is just as good, what's a hill?

Regards,
Ebeneezer Webfoot.

Dear Ebenezer; if you want to know all about hills, look out of a
train window as it passes through a cutting. Those steep uplands on
either side of the track will give you a pretty good idea what Scotland
looks like. Especially if it's raining.

Janet

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Another piece of crisp guinea
pig crackling and a glass of elder flower wine?

Please save me the guineapig skins, everyone..I'm sewing them
together to make myself a moose.

Janet.

"martin" wrote in message
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On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:13:35 +0100, Janet Baraclough
wrote:

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from martin contains these words:

Another piece of crisp guinea
pig crackling and a glass of elder flower wine?

Please save me the guineapig skins, everyone..I'm sewing them
together to make myself a moose.

Whoops cleans reading glasses I read that as noose.
--
Martin



Seems like a very good idea

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from Sue Begg contains these words:


It was a lifetime's ambition to see Macchu Pichu and we went last year
for our honeymoon. First and probably only time abroad as I have no
interest in standard sun, sea, resort type holidays.

Well, having discovered that it's possible to travel abroad for more
interesting pursuitss, I can't understand why you never want to do it
again!

Janet

Please save me the guineapig skins, everyone..I'm sewing them
together to make myself a moose.

Whoops cleans reading glasses I read that as noose.


Seems like a very good idea


Janet has a home knitted blunt guillotine reserved for you
--
Martin

The Barrowcloth only thinks of herself and the other 'owners' so I doubt
very much if she would knit anything for anybody else. Not even a Lamp Post
for the local council or leccy board.

In article ,
"Mike" writes:
|
| Please save me the guineapig skins, everyone..I'm sewing them
| together to make myself a moose.
|
| Whoops cleans reading glasses I read that as noose.
|
| Seems like a very good idea
|
| Janet has a home knitted blunt guillotine reserved for you
|
| The Barrowcloth only thinks of herself and the other 'owners' so I doubt
| very much if she would knit anything for anybody else. Not even a Lamp Post
| for the local council or leccy board.

I am sure that she would make you a noose if you ask nicely.
Even I would, though mine would be of a more traditional
material.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Since you know absolutely nothing about my lifetime, that's just
another example of you not having a clue what you're on about.

Janet.

..........Me thinks otherwise.....I may have left England a number of
years
ago but have remained a reader of your newspapers over the years and now
that Drudge Report so conveniently allows me to read the London Times,
the
Telegraph and the Guardian each morning I do think I have a clue as to
what
is going on in England...

But not what I am doing. Since my activities and travels are not
national news, you won't have gleaned any press information to support
your claim that you have travelled more widely in England or seen more
of it than I have.

I have restored your post, to remind you what your hot air boast was
about.

Janet

For Gods sake woman get a grip !
Your anti-English, anti-America vitriol is oozing from every post. Harold
has not made a single insulting criticism against Britain or anything
British in any of his postings, he's merely made some nostalgic comments and
observations......which I, being a septuagenarian, working class and poor,
find valid and generally true. As an outside observer, as an ex-pat and as a
frequent visitor he is well qualified to make comment on his mother
country.
Stop being so bloody pedantic, utterly trite and downright nit-picking
antagonistic.
And that some Americans should have the brass-necked gall and impertinence
to actually speak to you in a train.... in Glasgow yet ! God preserve
us !

Janet

For Gods sake woman get a grip !
Your anti-English, anti-America vitriol is oozing from every post. Harold
has not made a single insulting criticism against Britain or anything
British in any of his postings, he's merely made some nostalgic comments
and
observations......which I, being a septuagenarian, working class and poor,
find valid and generally true. As an outside observer, as an ex-pat and as
a
frequent visitor he is well qualified to make comment on his mother
country.
Stop being so bloody pedantic, utterly trite and downright nit-picking
antagonistic.
And that some Americans should have the brass-necked gall and impertinence
to actually speak to you in a train.... in Glasgow yet ! God
preserve
us !




So it's not just me?

Oh good

I was beginning to think the unthinkable, that "I" was wrong!

Salvation saved.

Mike

:-))