"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message
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Huh! When did you last sample one of *OUR* trains?

About three years ago and again will in August of this year...wish we
had as
excellent a train service as you folk over there do.....H

Bet you haven't tried shaving on our tilting trains but.

On the BBC this am, there was a report that Greyhound Buses will no
longer serve off-the track rural areas, leaving many such areas with no
long-range public transport at all. I suppose this is Bush's response to
dwindling oil resources....

Janet

Janet...please do not soil this site with the mention of such names as that
idiot Bush

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from Janet Baraclough contains these words:

On the BBC this am, there was a report that Greyhound Buses will no
longer serve off-the track rural areas, leaving many such areas with no
long-range public transport at all. I suppose this is Bush's response to
dwindling oil resources....

Would he know a Greyhound from a Husky?

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"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message
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The message
from Janet Baraclough contains these words:

On the BBC this am, there was a report that Greyhound Buses will no
longer serve off-the track rural areas, leaving many such areas with no
long-range public transport at all. I suppose this is Bush's response to
dwindling oil resources....

Would he know a Greyhound from a Husky?

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

Does he know anything....my impression is that he is President in name only
with fellows like Rumfield and Cheney calling all the shots

Harold Walker wrote:
"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in
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The message
from Janet Baraclough contains these
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On the BBC this am, there was a report that Greyhound Buses
will no longer serve off-the track rural areas, leaving many such
areas with no long-range public transport at all. I suppose this
is
Bush's response to dwindling oil resources....

Would he know a Greyhound from a Husky?

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the
foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

Does he know anything....my impression is that he is President in
name only with fellows like Rumfield and Cheney calling all the
shots

Wrenching back to the poor old Greyhounds -- an American icon for
me -- this mattter of rural public transport isn't _totally_
off-topic for a gardening group. We complain about it in UK, where
the problem is much less extreme than with America's long distances:
over there, it must be a nightmare for the public and the company
alike. Do American local authorities subsidise rural transport at
all, as is not uncommon here? ("Goddamn' European socialists!")

I have an eccentric fascination with West Virginia, and hate the
transition to driving on the right, so I tried wwwing the public
transport the "sparse" is too mild a word.

--
Mike.

"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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Harold Walker wrote:
"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in
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The message
from Janet Baraclough contains these
words:

On the BBC this am, there was a report that Greyhound Buses
will no longer serve off-the track rural areas, leaving many such
areas with no long-range public transport at all. I suppose this
is
Bush's response to dwindling oil resources....

Would he know a Greyhound from a Husky?

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the
foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

Does he know anything....my impression is that he is President in
name only with fellows like Rumfield and Cheney calling all the
shots

Wrenching back to the poor old Greyhounds -- an American icon for
me -- this mattter of rural public transport isn't _totally_
off-topic for a gardening group. We complain about it in UK, where
the problem is much less extreme than with America's long distances:
over there, it must be a nightmare for the public and the company
alike. Do American local authorities subsidise rural transport at
all, as is not uncommon here? ("Goddamn' European socialists!")

I have an eccentric fascination with West Virginia, and hate the
transition to driving on the right, so I tried wwwing the public
transport the "sparse" is too mild a word.

--
Mike.

In some instances there are subsidies but in general far less than there
should be.....some socialism has its good points....we often refer to it as
liberalism....the long distasnce Greyhound business is still good...the last
time I used it a few years back I took a 30 day pass for $240...travelled
from Cape Cod to Boston to Chicago and then on to the north west before
dropping down to San Francisco and then down to LA and then further south
and then over to Las Vegas then to Florida and then up the east coast and
back to the Cape...one helluva bargain....get off the bus anywhere and go
anywhere....H

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from "Mike Lyle" contains these words:

I have an eccentric fascination with West Virginia, and hate the
transition to driving on the right, so I tried wwwing the public
transport the "sparse" is too mild a word.

That's a new game - how do you www public transport?

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
The message
from "Mike Lyle" contains
these
words:

I have an eccentric fascination with West Virginia, and hate the
transition to driving on the right, so I tried wwwing the public
transport the "sparse" is too mild a word.

That's a new game - how do you www public transport?

Fwough ve winternet.

--
Mike.

The message
from "Mike Lyle" contains these words:

That's a new game - how do you www public transport?

Fwough ve winternet.

Would that be cold-calling?

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Rusty
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(A personal belief....the best/most productive farmers in the world are
in
the USA but as far as gardening is concerned that honor belongs to the
other side of the water).


If the americans are very productive it is because they are growing
genetically altered crops, which are grown to have no regard for the
environment.

I would not wish to have to eat that kind of food.


--
alan

reply to alan(dot)holmes27(at)virgin(dot)net

"Kay" wrote in message
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In article , doug
writes

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Many years ago when I was a boy it was quite common to find tomato plants
on
the wasteland heaps out the back, some with potatos on the roots.

Are you sure you were not simply finding potato plants in fruit and
mistaking them for unripe tomatoes?

And it would be extreemly dangerous to eat the unripe 'tomatoes'!

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alan

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"Alan Holmes" wrote in message
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(A personal belief....the best/most productive farmers in the world are
in
the USA but as far as gardening is concerned that honor belongs to the
other side of the water).


If the americans are very productive it is because they are growing
genetically altered crops, which are grown to have no regard for the
environment.

I would not wish to have to eat that kind of food.


--
alan

reply to alan(dot)holmes27(at)virgin(dot)net

Eventually I suspect you will have little choice...and you will never know
whar you are eating...H

"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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The message
from "Harold Walker" contains these words:

Janet...please do not soil this site with the mention of such names as
that
idiot Bush

I'm sorry to have done so, but life is very hard for us in little ole
Britainshire. Every time we think of America, or of our own Presidential
Minister, it's impossible to avoid intrusive, paranoid glooms about the
Subject that Knows No Shame.

Couldn't you Pondovers pretend to be posting from some less loaded
location...Iran, perhaps, or Uzbekistan?

Janet.

aye lass, will do me best....at least your Presidential minister speaks
English most of the time....sometimes tho it sounds a little like Double
Dutch with a forked tongue....(in August I will practice up me Yorkshire
stuff a wee bit when over there to see if I can improve me Britainshire
stuff.).....H

"Gary Woods" wrote in message
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Janet Baraclough wrote:

Couldn't you Pondovers pretend to be posting from some less loaded
location..

Why do you think I usually refer to my location as (New) York, in the
American colonies?

Not the place here for international politics and besides, my Celtic genes
make me predisposed to gloom and depression anyway.

The past few days here have been cool and blustery, but the Fava beans are
germinating all the same.

Cheers!.............................don't you mean Broad beans Gary....H


Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at
home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G

"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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Eventually I suspect you will have little choice...and you will never
know
whar you are eating...H

Why do you think that? GM food ingredients are not produced in the
UK, and imported ones have to be labelled as such.

Janet

The sneaky buggars over here will somehow manage to allow some to escape one
way or another - I trust the system as much as I trust Bush and suspect as
much as many over there trust Blair.........H

The message
from "Harold Walker" contains these words:

aye lass, will do me best....at least your Presidential minister speaks
English most of the time....

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sometimes tho it sounds a little like Double
Dutch with a forked tongue....(in August I will practice up me Yorkshire
stuff a wee bit when over there to see if I can improve me Britainshire
stuff.).....H

'Appen.

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Rusty
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