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Back after a week in the Lake District. Started each day by feeding the red squirrels, rabbits, pheasants. jays, woodpecker and chaffinches which came to the back door for their breakfast. If that sounds like something from Snow White then that's because that was what it was like. Thankfully there was no wicked witch. Other than the one who came on holiday with me....
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annalee:
Happy birthday!
soldatka:
happy birthday! kiss
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A week ago I lived in Beeston.
Shortly after 9.00am last Thursday I opened an e-mail that would begin a week that transformed perceptions of the place I live.
Id forwarded one of the many Olympic jokes doing the rounds on the internet to my friend Steve who lives and works in London. A fellow sports enthusiast I knew hed be on a high after...
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a:
Hiya, I'm good thanks! How are you ? smile

Hope you are fine xx
loslope:
Excellent commentary, D. Good message as well. I'm glad that you and yours are safe. Take care.

J
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Holy fuck.
The bombers lived 200 yards from me.
I have probably been on the bus with them hundreds of times.
Repeat, holy fuck.
Time to get the kettle on I think.....
a:
Shit...... that is scary eeek

Stay safe kiss
loslope:
You know what? The news people are twats. Now is when they try to sensationalize this, and ....no shit, the bad guys were suicide bombers. I'm glad that A) you're ok, and B) that one of my friends was able to humanize this for me. The last thing I want is to be dehumanized to this type of attrocity, thanks to the media.

Sorry for the rant, but as I said, glad your alright, mate. smile
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Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London, speaks to those who would seek to bomb London:

I know that you personally do not fear giving up your own life in order to take others - that is why you are so dangerous. But I know you fear that you may fail in your long-term objective to destroy our free society and I can show you why you...
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dulllifelesshair:
Hi,

Just thought I'd say hello and compliment this post of yours. I like the thought of a reunited Ireland through reproduction.
annalee:
Hey, hope you're doing well. Hope you're book is going well too. Bad things happening eh. frown
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I posted this on one of the boards after what has happened today. My own parents are Irish, but I have grown up in England and so I am perhaps a little like Morrissey when he sang Irish Blood, English Heart. Anyway, it's a liitle part of Winston Churchill's speech after Hitler had been defeated and I think it says a lot about how the...
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We are all Olympians now.
sea2:
I posted this on one of the boards after what has happened today. My own parents are Irish, but I have grown up in England and so I am perhaps a little like Morrissey when he sang Irish Blood, English Heart. Anyway, it's a liitle part of Winston Churchill's speech after Hitler had been defeated and I think it says a lot about how the Brits will respond to today's bombs, because the Brits always respond the same way - no panic, stout-hearted, united:

My dear friends, this is your hour. This is not victory of a party or of any class. It's a victory of the great British nation as a whole. We were the first, in this ancient island, to draw the sword against tyranny. After a while we were left all alone against the most tremendous military power that has been seen. We were all alone for a whole year.
There we stood, alone. Did anyone want to give in? Were we down-hearted? The lights went out and the bombs came down. But every man, woman and child in the country had no thought of quitting the struggle. London can take it. So we came back after long months from the jaws of death, out of the mouth of hell, while all the world wondered. When shall the reputation and faith of this generation of English men and women fail? I say that in the long years to come not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts, look back to what we've done and they will say "do not despair, do not yield to violence and tyranny, march straightforward and die if need be-unconquered." Now we have emerged from one deadly struggle-a terrible foe has been cast on the ground and awaits our judgment and our mercy.

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I'm applying for a job which, if I get it, will enable me to like anywhere I want to in the UK. Working from home. Yay!
loslope:
My new job starts on the 5th of July. I will be working from home too. I'm fairly excited, as this is the kind of work that I have been doing for so long, and I'm really geared for it. Good for you, mate. GET IT, that is my edict. biggrin
a:
Oh how I dream of a job like that!!!! surreal

GOOD LUCK!!!!! kiss
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It is about time I had another sizeable win on the horses. Even if I am one of the undeserving poor....
loslope:
Is there anyone more deserving than the poor? Good luck on that one, mate smile
datsun:
hun, you need to post your birthday for me to let you into the Scorpio group.
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Dirty rain beats a tattoo on the window of the office and mimics the ticker that's pounding out war drums in my rib cage.
And those ribs; they're beat up pretty bad since Lenny worked me like a stumblebum in the alley that runs down the side of O'Hara's saloon bar until I lay face down in the dirt and the puddles and the night...
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It's been a bad week to be one of my pets. Last Monday my dog in Ireland was put to sleep after an inopeable tumour on his snout had gotten so large that it was beginning to have a detrimental effect on the quality of his life. Then the following night my cat had an embollism. He spent the next few days at the vets,...
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genghiskhan:
I'm sorry to hear about your dog.

I was wondering if you are still working on that "gig book". I have countless stories that revolve around gigs...what are you looking at putting together?
tits_mcgee:
man, that sucks.


but seriously don't mount the goldfish, you would'nt imagine the amount of problems that will cause.
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When she walked into the office I could see she was a dame used to getting her own way. I didn't let the petite frame and big baby-blues fool me none; this babe had cold steel running through her veins.
"I need a little help, Mr Dirtybast," she whispered in the kind of little-dame-lost voice that could make a guy go daffy if his name...
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annalee:
skull
loslope:
Very 1940's, Phillip Marlowe, hard boiled Americana there, mate. This isn't the same strory (Johnny and the pub) no?

Hope your week is great. smile
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Been off work a couple of days with another virus....my house is the house of plagues...brought in by the Plague Monkeys. Furthermore, it's been a terrible week for the animals in the family; on Monday my dog in Ireland had to be put to sleep because an inoperable tumour had got to the point where he could no longer enjoy life and then on Tuesday...
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