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I have restored your post, to remind you what your hot air boast was about. Janet do you mean I have at last joined your company?????? |
.. 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 ! Spoken like a true Brit. |
"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message ... The message 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. Janet. From some of the comments I have seen perhaps the m on moose should be replaced by an N....apologies for this one...not usually my style but once in a while I do stray. |
" 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 seems to me much of this series started off with a train ride |
. 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. In this I thoroughly agree...if they did they would have had a far greater understanding of the mid-east....even in my short stay in Bagdad many years ago I got a feeling for 'things' over there.....bad move on Georgy Boy's part...great pity Tony went along with him....in a way tho suspect he really had little choice when one takes into consideration the 'money angle' and how closely the two countries are economically entwined. |
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from Kay contains these words: In article , Harold Walker writes OK, I apologise. In that case, I just think you are wrong ;-) p.s. Did your Bayberry seeds ever germinate......I now have at least fifty growing well...H The answer to that is 'no' .... but I can't recall them at all now - I'm wondering whether they arrived? - did I ever thank you for them? hijack I planted some pomegranate seeds and over them, seeds from a plant I'm hoping is an oxlip, not just a cowslip/primrose hybrid. They are both coming up together. I expected the pomegranates to take a bit longer... -- Rusty Emus to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co full-stop uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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from Sue Begg contains these words: In Peru last year I even tried roast guinea pig - it's actually rather nice I like South America, useful things may be discovered there. Guinea pigs were introduced here first as a source of food. Runner beans, OTOH, were first planted for the scarlet flowers. -- Rusty Emus to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co full-stop uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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from martin contains these words: /snip/ Rusty will be along with a recipe in a minute. You heard me inserting the spit? -- Rusty Emus to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co full-stop uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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from martin contains these words: 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' Especially in the Netherlands :-) But it might solve the problems of rising sea-levels. There'd be a really fine fishing pit in the middle, too. -- Rusty Emus to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co full-stop uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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from "BAC" contains these words: Think in terms of Peter Brough and Archie Andrews. Very good on the wireless, I thought ... Lips going in unison not so noticeable? -- Rusty Emus to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co full-stop uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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from Janet Baraclough contains these words: The message from "BAC" contains these words: "Janet Baraclough" wrote in message ... 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. :-( Hum, while we had a lovely pink mildewed rambler, inherited HTs, we also had a bed of Poulsen polyanthas which were a gift from the grower - his daughter trained as a physioterrorist with my mother. -- Rusty Emus to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co full-stop uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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Jaques d'Alltrades wrote: hijack I planted some pomegranate seeds and over them, seeds from a plant I'm hoping is an oxlip, not just a cowslip/primrose hybrid. They are both coming up together. I expected the pomegranates to take a bit longer... I grew a pomegranate from a seed a few years ago, and it makes a good patio plant, but I haven't got it to flower. It is too much to ask to expect fruit here :-( Returning to the thread, and your style of interruption, you are aware that a pomegranate was one of the slang words for a British style hand-grenade in the North African campaign? Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article , Jaques d'Alltrades wrote: hijack I planted some pomegranate seeds and over them, seeds from a plant I'm hoping is an oxlip, not just a cowslip/primrose hybrid. They are both coming up together. I expected the pomegranates to take a bit longer... I grew a pomegranate from a seed a few years ago, and it makes a good patio plant, but I haven't got it to flower. It is too much to ask to expect fruit here :-( Returning to the thread, and your style of interruption, you are aware that a pomegranate was one of the slang words for a British style hand-grenade in the North African campaign? Further still, the things are actually named after pomegranates in the first place. Memories of old Granada! -- Mike. |
Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
[...] grower - his daughter trained as a physioterrorist with my mother. Better than the one my daughter referred to as "Physio the rapist". I told her we were lucky he wasn't a psycho. -- Mike. |
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