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What's a hoover?
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« Reply #3497 on: 12:32:25, 12-02-2008 » |
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What's a hoover?
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« Reply #3498 on: 12:50:06, 12-02-2008 » |
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Well it's certainly nice to visit.
Not sure I'd rate it too highly on the culture stakes (at least certainly not from the musical perspective - the literary festival took off after I'd moved away) but if there's a countryside engraved on my soul, it's the hills of Oxfordshire.
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« Reply #3499 on: 17:49:36, 12-02-2008 » |
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Spring is definitely here....I've mowed my grass twice this year already !
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« Reply #3500 on: 18:00:48, 12-02-2008 » |
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As it was exceptionally light when I came home from work I noticed that the blackthorn has burst into blossom, and very pretty it looks too, as if sudden snow has fallen on it.
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #3501 on: 18:31:56, 12-02-2008 » |
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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 #3502 on: 20:20:23, 12-02-2008 » |
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My goodness, isnt the weather gorgeous at the moment? I hope its going to last till the weekend. Be good t go on the South Downs, etc. Havnt done that for sometime, what with the weather, etc and time!!
Also, would somebody tell me how to upload pictures?
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« Reply #3503 on: 21:28:28, 12-02-2008 » |
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Well it's certainly nice to visit.
Not sure I'd rate it too highly on the culture stakes (at least certainly not from the musical perspective - the literary festival took off after I'd moved away) but if there's a countryside engraved on my soul, it's the hills of Oxfordshire.
it is for posh people, not people like me, i just walk there, on the thames path sometimes, i knowz ma place in ze world like It's not that it's for posh people, it's for rich people. My parents nearly bankrupted themselves moving to the outskirts, and now their house is worth a healthy sum. I've heard it said that nowadays, the only way that ordinary people born and bred in Henley can afford to continue living there is if they are living in the council estates or with their parents. Henley is a very strange place to live with such a discrepancy between the way the town sees itself and the way it actually is. Hang on, is this the Happy Room? How did I get in here? Must've taken a wrong turning somewhere... [Looks for door] |
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« Reply #3504 on: 21:32:17, 12-02-2008 » |
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...which puts me in mind of Henley MP Boris Johnson's attempts to be a Man of the People here in Laandun.
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« Reply #3505 on: 21:52:36, 12-02-2008 » |
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Yes, but Boris isn't actually really from Henley anyway.
Though he did do a very good job of actually representing the people of Henley (which is more than could be said for Heseltine) before he was dispatched to engage in mortal combat with the Red Knight. He also managed to get the council to replace my sister's boiler so that my niece could have warm baths, so despite his obvious buffoonery (and that's putting how I feel about the magnetic attraction that his foot seems to feel towards his mouth mildly) I feel some respect for him.
[Handle comes off in hand]
Pootle.
Is there another way out of here?
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« Reply #3506 on: 09:39:48, 13-02-2008 » |
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Rich people are usually posh, due to the wonder of inheritance and genetics People have no right to live in the town they are born in, life is a competition over limited resources says my friend darwin. I myself just rent a room in wycombe, am toying with the idea of a campervan but unsure. |
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« Reply #3507 on: 09:58:56, 13-02-2008 » |
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Rich people are usually posh.
Like David Beckham, you mean, or Wayne Rooney, or Paul McCartney? |
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« Reply #3508 on: 10:03:50, 13-02-2008 » |
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Ah yes, those highly payed people who do nothing but kick a ball around the pitch!! I am a football fan myself, but I do think these people are too highly payed for what they do, or am I missing something here.
On another count, going back to what our Lord Byron was saying, me and my wife, as you or some of you know, have moved and have settled in quite nicely with a friend of ours in his three-bedroomed house. We have a life now, instead of struggling to make end meet with a mortgage, etc.
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« Reply #3509 on: 10:20:36, 13-02-2008 » |
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LB, would you care to give us your definition of "posh"?
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