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Are you coming to the George on Thursday? Deep in thought to say the least. I'm still reeling. Whether I come on Thursday or not will depend on how I feel by then. I might well need a night off the proms, and that would be the least grievous to miss. That's one answer, anyway. |
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« Reply #4531 on: 08:38:16, 09-09-2008 » |
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Fleetwood Pier appears to be burning down  . I have very vivid and happy memories of it from my early childhood, when I lived in Knott-End-on-Sea. |
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« Reply #4532 on: 08:53:15, 09-09-2008 » |
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I read about that on the BBC Home Page, Mary. For some reason I always feel that there's something rather sad about piers burning down. Perhaps it's the thought of all those happy days and memories going up in smoke, the past being erased. Oh dear, sorry. That's rather gloomy  |
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« Reply #4533 on: 09:00:50, 09-09-2008 » |
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St. Annes on Sea's pier burned down some years ago. They have rebuilt a more modern, shorter version, but of course it can never be the same. They have, rather poignantly, left what's left of the burnt pier where it is and it sticks up out of the sea as a rather sad monument of its Edwardian days. |
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« Reply #4534 on: 09:08:58, 09-09-2008 » |
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St Kilda Pier in Melbourne on the other hand was lovingly rebuilt and is a very fine thing indeed for a stroll. Indeed it's my postage stamp, I've just remembered.  (Cripes, Ollie, you could have held the jolly thing straight couldn't you?  ) |
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« Reply #4535 on: 09:13:44, 09-09-2008 » |
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« Reply #4536 on: 09:49:22, 09-09-2008 » |
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Is this an intervention of Ivor Friendonthecouncil, the local developer?
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« Reply #4537 on: 10:03:40, 09-09-2008 » |
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More likely it was kids arson about. |
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« Reply #4538 on: 10:18:56, 09-09-2008 » |
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For some reason I always feel that there's something rather sad about piers burning down. Perhaps it's the thought of all those happy days and memories going up in smoke, the past being erased.
I do agree Mort, it makes me sad too. Perhaps also what goes through my mind is whether they will be bothered to repair , or rebuild it.. and how long it will take. A |
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« Reply #4539 on: 10:45:55, 09-09-2008 » |
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It seems it had been unused for a year Now I will never win that tiny moulded glass bowl I coveted when I was six, and that the grabbing machine never managed to pick up for me . |
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« Reply #4540 on: 12:27:25, 09-09-2008 » |
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We don't have an 'ARGHHH! YUCK!' Room, so I'll have to post this here. Earlier this morning I opened the kitchen door to breath deeply of the morning air and marvel at the wonders of Nature. Walked face first in a spider web, complete with occupant who obviously felt that spinning a web across the door was a fine idea  A little later one of the cats wandered in sporting the latest must-have accessories for cats. Matching slugs. Four of them. Bleeeghh! |
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We don't have an 'ARGHHH! YUCK!' Room, so I'll have to post this here. Earlier this morning I opened the kitchen door to breath deeply of the morning air and marvel at the wonders of Nature. Walked face first in a spider web, complete with occupant who obviously felt that spinning a web across the door was a fine idea A little later one of the cats wandered in sporting the latest must-have accessories for cats. Matching slugs. Four of them. Bleeeghh! Oooh yuck, the slugs bit is nasty. If you handle them it takes ages to wash the.... stuff off... Ugh. I'm very much looking forward to the time of year where all the spiders in Lincolnshire come for a team meeting in my back garden and it turns into some sort of challenge worthy of Takeshi's Castle to get to the compost bin. A couple of years ago I was seeding a lawn, which obviously required a lot of back and forth journeys, and the network of enormous webs got so irritating that I had little bits of post it note hanging off them all so that I knew where to duck or step. They were so big I didn't have the heart to break them. I don't know what sort of emoticon that deserves....    |
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« Reply #4542 on: 12:37:50, 09-09-2008 » |
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They were so big I didn't have the heart to break them.
You are being FAR too kind to those spiders. Have you ever seen what they do when they're not building webs or sucking the juices out of live insects? Nothing. They'd buy their flies at Waitrose if they could be bothered to walk that far. |
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« Reply #4543 on: 12:40:23, 09-09-2008 » |
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Sending lots of sympathetic vibes from Brighton to the folks of Fleetwood. We know all about arson down here.  .jpg) There's something about old piers (especially Edwardian ones) that I really love. To see the wreck of the West Pier now always makes me very melancholy. |
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