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PW, how's the new St. Pancras (where you presumably get your Eurostar now)? Can't wait to see it! In fact I'll be Eurostarring myself in 3 weeks' time...  The new St Pancras is really very impressive, even if it's not quite finished yet; it's full of light and space, not like a British railway station at all. It's also very user-friendly in terms of being able to check in extremely quickly, although the waiting area can be a bit crowded. Europe's longest champagne bar is actually a bit of a swizz - the bar itself is actually quite small (and invariably extremely busy) - the length derives from the fact that the tables sit alongside the tracks so that you can see the trains coming and going. |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #541 on: 19:49:57, 03-01-2008 » |
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I knew I`d buglered that up just after I hit the Send key  I put it down to the fact that my brain froze solid in the f-r-e-e-z-i-n-g cold of Dorset earlier today. Now, what I meant was .... she wants to meet me for champers at St Pancreas. Although I`m she wouldn`t mind a bit if you lot turned up as well  |
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« Reply #542 on: 19:56:43, 03-01-2008 » |
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I put it down to the fact that my brain froze solid in the f-r-e-e-z-i-n-g cold of Dorset earlier today. Now Mort. I want you to get yourself a hot drink immediately, with a dash of whatever you fancy thrown in. You said you were going to Salisbury. Salisbury is in Wiltshire, not Dorset. Unless you fell asleep and ended up in Poole! Put the kettle on, sit down, relax, get out the map... |
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« Reply #543 on: 20:00:16, 03-01-2008 » |
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Salisbury is in Wiltshire, not Dorset. It's all the same in't it, south of 'ull? |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #544 on: 20:15:07, 03-01-2008 » |
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I put it down to the fact that my brain froze solid in the f-r-e-e-z-i-n-g cold of Dorset earlier today. Now Mort. I want you to get yourself a hot drink immediately, with a dash of whatever you fancy thrown in. You said you were going to Salisbury. Salisbury is in Wiltshire, not Dorset. Unless you fell asleep and ended up in Poole! Put the kettle on, sit down, relax, get out the map... Mart, I did go to Salisbury but I went to Shaftesbury first, which is in Dorset. Innit? Anyway, wherever I was it bloomin` bluddy freezing. And I nearly got blown off a hill! And as for trying to walk down here without falling flat on my face .... Sheeesh!  ![]() |
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« Reply #545 on: 20:52:27, 03-01-2008 » |
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I knew I`d buglered that up just after I hit the Send key I put it down to the fact that my brain froze solid in the f-r-e-e-z-i-n-g cold of Dorset earlier today. Now, what I meant was .... she wants to meet me for champers at St Pancreas. Although I`m she wouldn`t mind a bit if you lot turned up as well Champers at St. Pancreas Mort? Would you be fancying a little lie down now? |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #547 on: 22:38:02, 03-01-2008 » |
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Dear Sister Morticia, I think an evening of unbridled passion would not have seen you back in Norf Lunnon by 19.21 of the clock? This cold weather can affect peoples behaviour can't it? Unless, Omigod, you spent last night in Shaftesbury? Wild schoolgirl giggles  In case folks don't know, we, that is I and the Blessed Moderaterix have a passion about crumpled middle aged Scotsmen. Form an orderly queue chaps. Those of you whom are Scottish, middle aged and crumpled.  |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #548 on: 22:43:56, 03-01-2008 » |
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Form an orderly queue chaps. Those of you whom are Scottish, middle aged and crumpled. Anty, My score on that is 100%, 50% and 10% (though not necessarily in that order  ) (And just FYI he's another Celto-Mediterranean mongrel.) |
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« Reply #549 on: 22:58:30, 03-01-2008 » |
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Form an orderly queue chaps. Those of you whom are Scottish, middle aged and crumpled. Well, I get 3/3 but, as my missus will tell you, I don't like queues |
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« Reply #550 on: 22:58:42, 03-01-2008 » |
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Ron, the Scilian aspect makes it even more exciting And I don't think you could possible be crumpled, a trifled tousled shall we say? And now I think I shall retire to listen to Late Junction with music by Debussy played on guitars by the Assad Brothers, dreamy post-rock from Chicago courtesy of The Sea and Cake and John Luther Adams's epic drone-based piece for two pianos Dark Waves. Might take me mind off Scottish men! |
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« Reply #551 on: 23:38:14, 03-01-2008 » |
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Now, what I meant was .... she wants to meet me for champers at St Pancreas. Although I`m she wouldn`t mind a bit if you lot turned up as well Have to say we went to St Pancreas yesterday and had coffee ( expensive enough believe me!!) at the Champagne Bar. It was nice but crikey it was cold... a chill wind right up the withers it were !! A |
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« Reply #552 on: 01:13:33, 04-01-2008 » |
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It was nice but crikey it was cold What, the coffee? Are you sure it wasn't champagne? ... |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #553 on: 16:01:35, 05-01-2008 » |
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It's not thawed out yet tin... I'll let you know !!! A |
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« Reply #554 on: 16:03:41, 05-01-2008 » |
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WHAT !! Your withers not thawed out yet, A? Cripes! |
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