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Points: 7456 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2009 at 13:19
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

^ at least you saw someone half decent - my walk across London from Dingwalls to Chislehurst was after seeing all-girl Pop Punk trio The Flatbackers... Ouch


Chislehurst!

I was a regular drinker in the Rambler's Rest and The Bull.

I once had to sleep in the waiting room of Chislehurst Station after missing the last train back to Lewisham. It was September and it had been a beautiful,warm day so my friends and I went out in t-shirts...It was brass monkeys by 1 a.m.

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Points: 1497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2009 at 13:20
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Incidentally - interesting piece of info passed to me by Vicky earlier:

In about 30 minutes (UK time) it will be 12:34:56 7/8/9...

...and will not be again for another 1,000 years
Ah, I heard something about that on the radio at about lunchtime and couldn't see how it worked (I didn't think to include the seconds).  However it doesn't work if you put 07/08/09 which you normally would and it certainly doesn't work if you use US date notation.Confused
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Points: 1497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2009 at 13:21
Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:


I was a regular drinker in the Rambler's Rest and The Bull.

Sounds like "The Archers" LOL

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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2009 at 13:39
I haven't been back to Chislehurst in 25 years (practically to the day) - I just did a quick walk-through on google maps - they've renamed the Hong Kong Garden Disapprove
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Hey Gazebo, I'm back from England! Just wanted to tell you that it was awesome and really expensive. 

Question, though: I thought Trafalgar Square was more awesome than any monument in the US, but do most English agree, or do they tend to see it as a relic of imperialism? Because one of my professors (American) thought it was almost ridiculously overblown, but I think that's just jaded. In fact, I loved all the triumphant monuments around London. It makes going through the city an uplifting experience. Except for the Cenotaph, that's a huge downer. :(

Oh and the Parliament building owns the hell out of Congress. 
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Trafalgar Square was originally designed as a monument to the great sea battle over the French off Cape Trafalgar in 1805, so a relic of Imperialism it could be but over the years so many controversial and momentous events have taken place there it has remained in the British collective conciousness - most recently the "fourth plinth" (or rather what to put on the damned thing)  has been the topic of heated debate..

 

 

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on the subject of monuments i always wanted to visit The Statue of Liberty, especially now they opened up the viewing gallery in the Torch. My Dad visited New York in the 40's and was amazed it was green, having only seen photos and films of it  in black and white!
 
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Hi Henry.Welcome back.Glad that you liked our (un)fair City.

I think that the design of The Cenotaph is very appropriate.

Sir Edwyn Lutyens designed it so that it didn't detract from it's purpose.A memorial to the dead of WW1.If you wanted to see a war memorial with a bit more 'impact',you should have walked about 200 yards through to Horseguards parade.Or there is the Animals in War Memorial in Hyde Park,just off of Park Lane.


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the garden's looking nice today!  Big smile
 
 
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Is that a hare or a rabbit under the birdbath?
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Nice shed Steve. Glad to see you let Bunnykins out for a little run around.
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^ ^^   he's very obedient, he always waits when i say "STAY"  Wink
 
 
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^ he looks stoned to me. Wink
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Don't let him stray into next door's garden Steve, lest this should happen to him.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/8191355.stm


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bless its little pointed head...
 
 
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Originally posted by mystic fred mystic fred wrote:

the garden's looking nice today!  Big smile
 


 


Nice garden, Steve.

Are you growing runner beans at the bottom of the garden?

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^ just 2 tomato plants, started with 6 but the slugs are rather voracious round here Ouch


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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

Hey Gazebo, I'm back from England! Just wanted to tell you that it was awesome and really expensive. 

Question, though: I thought Trafalgar Square was more awesome than any monument in the US, but do most English agree, or do they tend to see it as a relic of imperialism? Because one of my professors (American) thought it was almost ridiculously overblown, but I think that's just jaded. In fact, I loved all the triumphant monuments around London. It makes going through the city an uplifting experience. Except for the Cenotaph, that's a huge downer. :(

Oh and the Parliament building owns the hell out of Congress. 


I'm listening to Just a Minute and they're talking about The Battle of Trafalgar.

Q.E.D.

In fact, it's from London, near by to the big statue of Lord Nelson. Wink
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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

Hey Gazebo, I'm back from England! Just wanted to tell you that it was awesome and really expensive. 

Question, though: I thought Trafalgar Square was more awesome than any monument in the US, but do most English agree, or do they tend to see it as a relic of imperialism? Because one of my professors (American) thought it was almost ridiculously overblown, but I think that's just jaded. In fact, I loved all the triumphant monuments around London. It makes going through the city an uplifting experience. Except for the Cenotaph, that's a huge downer. :(

Oh and the Parliament building owns the hell out of Congress. 
We kind of like our relics of imperialism! The Eurostar trains from Paris used to arrive at Waterloo station, which I always felt was an appropriate welcome for our Gallic cousins when they arrived from the other side of La Manche. The Eurostar now terminates at St Pancras, which doesn't have quite the same ring to it. I've always thought that 'Agincourt' would be a nice name for a railway station Wink.
 
 
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2009 at 16:53
Let's not forget Freedom Fries. Wink

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Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

Hey Gazebo, I'm back from England! Just wanted to tell you that it was awesome and really expensive. 

Question, though: I thought Trafalgar Square was more awesome than any monument in the US, but do most English agree, or do they tend to see it as a relic of imperialism? Because one of my professors (American) thought it was almost ridiculously overblown, but I think that's just jaded. In fact, I loved all the triumphant monuments around London. It makes going through the city an uplifting experience. Except for the Cenotaph, that's a huge downer. :(

Oh and the Parliament building owns the hell out of Congress. 
We kind of like our relics of imperialism! The Eurostar trains from Paris used to arrive at Waterloo station, which I always felt was an appropriate welcome for our Gallic cousins when they arrived from the other side of La Manche. The Eurostar now terminates at St Pancras, which doesn't have quite the same ring to it. I've always thought that 'Agincourt' would be a nice name for a railway station Wink.
 
 
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