’tis a perfect English Summer’s day....
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Topic: ’tis a perfect English Summer’s day....
Posted By: Jim Garten
Subject: ’tis a perfect English Summer’s day....
Date Posted: June 22 2005 at 07:45
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Sun shining, not too hot, not too humid, just a few scudding clouds to make photography interesting (especially in black & white with a red filter), perfect for a pub garden (preferably with a canal at the bottom of it); only one problem.
I'm in a damned office!  ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
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Posted By: nacho
Date Posted: June 22 2005 at 07:50
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"English summer"...... Can you please elaborate?
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: June 22 2005 at 07:50
We are at home, sitting at our computers facing each other, the living
room door to the back yard is wide open, and the kids are playing in
the inflatable pool there. It is a nice sunny day, and life is great.
-------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 22 2005 at 08:05
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Ita also a perfect Welsh Summers day! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 22 2005 at 08:07
Its when you can go outside without melting, unlike Spain amigo! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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nacho wrote:Posted By: firth_of_Fifth
Date Posted: June 22 2005 at 08:18
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Sunny day in Belfast and I too am stuck in an office. I feel for ya man!
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: June 22 2005 at 08:18
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That makes a pleasant change... it's usually raining in Wales.. ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 22 2005 at 08:26
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Jean forgot to mention we are also playing footsie while we are sitting at our computers. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 22 2005 at 08:27
Well as you English steal most of our water, we might as well piss it on you! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: June 22 2005 at 09:00
Happy happy sunshine here in South London. I work just moments away
from one of the great Progressive landmarks in the world and it's
looking mighty fine from my window. Please note that this is not a photo taken from my place of work. If it was, I'd be a seagull.  ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 22 2005 at 09:08
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And the building itself has "progressed" into an art gallery! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: nacho
Date Posted: June 22 2005 at 09:09
If I had to describe the weather here at the moment it would be something like this: The clouds prepare for battle Actually, I very much like what I wrote, I'm thinking in using it as the lyrics to a song... what do you think? Anyway, yes, I hope it rains before the few remaining neurons I have alive melt together... ------------- Eppur si muove |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 22 2005 at 09:16
Lyrics are great, what are you going to call it! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: June 22 2005 at 09:28
 ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: dude
Date Posted: June 22 2005 at 09:37
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ENGLISH............SUMMER???? MWAHAHAHAHAAAAAA,AHHAHAHAHAHAHAAA AHAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAAAAA.... AHAAAAAAAHAHAHA....COUGH..COUGH.....AHAAA HAHAHAHAAAAAAHAHAHAAAAAAAA......AHA...HA .....HA.............................
PARDON ME |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: June 22 2005 at 09:51
Hey back off man, a good English Summer can last for almost twenty minutes!!  ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: June 22 2005 at 09:55
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Sigod the Seagull, hmmmm... ------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: June 22 2005 at 10:00
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as opposed to a good Welsh summer, which is the stuff of mythology... in fact Rick Wakeman ought to make an album entitled.. 'The Legend of the Welsh Sun God'. What do you think? ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 22 2005 at 10:23
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I think you should lie down and take a rest!
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: June 22 2005 at 10:25
Oh yes, this was my reaction before my first summer visit to London. Since then I've made two summer visits to London and you may call me Constantine if you like ------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |
Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: June 22 2005 at 10:38
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lovely here in the South of Wales too. and here I am on the internet, boiling hot well warm!!! ------------- CYMRU AM BYTH 
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Posted By: nacho
Date Posted: June 22 2005 at 11:01
I think a good title could be "La Escalera de Jacobo"... ------------- Eppur si muove |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 22 2005 at 11:07
Perfect! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 03:12
English Summer may be an oxymoron - but that's still better than being an Aussie-Moron  -------------
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 03:46
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Well ya poor sods, I have been on holidays since June 11th , and except for the that Saturday , it has been perfrecy weather in Holland, France , Belgium, Germany (went to a superb festival on the heights of the Rhine river some 40 Kms of Koblenz). Feel sorry for you stuck at work! I just popped in today but will start again on Monday! Tomorrow night , Both Univers Zero and Present are playing and they have arranged to play at different hours so mwe could se both!
In the mean time , just to get you absolutely jealous , check out the line-up of that festival. http://www.daysofloveandpeace.de - www.daysofloveandpeace.de ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 04:16
Bastard.....
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Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 05:08
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It's nice here again too na,na,na,na,na
------------- CYMRU AM BYTH
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 05:48
Another perfect day today! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 05:50
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Damn Right, Snow Dog ------------- CYMRU AM BYTH
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 06:33
Where are you, Llanelli or something? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 06:38
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Well, its Thursday now, I'm working in Berkshire and it's f***ing hot! I'm working in a laboratory which is thankfully air conditioned and at times feels cold! I spent yesterday working hard...on my tan ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 06:53
I used to work in a Lab... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 07:14
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Now you're just workin' on your flab...... |
Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 07:31
Yes I am in Llanelli today and Ammanford tonight!!! ------------- CYMRU AM BYTH
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 07:32
Not working on it, working with it, dear boy! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 07:32
That festival line-up could've been lifted straight from 1975! Truly, I hate you -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 07:34
Posting something like that is border-line Trolling in my opinion. Let's get him!!!! |
Posted By: nacho
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 07:39
I support that! Maani, ban him NOW!!! ------------- Eppur si muove |
Posted By: Vicky Garten
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 07:46
"BASTARD" does not even come close to it with a line up like that ------------- Confusion will be my epitaph |
Posted By: nacho
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 07:53
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Anybody knows how is he like physically? I need that info to order the wax doll (already got the pins). ------------- Eppur si muove |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 08:00
Worst part is that Hatfield & The North got cancelled in the last week and replaced by Susan Vega. But I got to see them In Verviers (east Belgium some 30 kms from Germany) the night before - fabulous and I got their latest album dedicated by my hero Richard Sinclair. He wrote: Dedicated to Hugues but he was listening!!! Pip Pyle got operated from ther b ack but played with a second drummer, but was he awesome!! Robin Trower (had been waiting for 30 years to see the guy - his records are responsible for my father and I yelling at each other and me leaving home at the age of 15) was probably the best concert I saw in years as he played all stuff from his first five albums (TRFY, BOS, FEB, LMD, Live) - NOTE PERFECT! His singer , you could swear was James Dewar (sadly died recently).
Jefferson Starship played mostly Airplaine stuff and some Quicksilver also since David Freiberg was also present. Arthur Brown was just great in acoustic with two guitarist/cellist/mandolinist - very medieval! 10 CC was stellar!!!!!!! Caravan just fantastic, BJH fairly poor, Hawkwind and Nazareth simply too loud but in great shape. Hackett started out with two Genesis numbers!! His brother was there, too!! Savoy Brown and Canned Heat correct
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 08:11
May I be allowed to say; you git Blacksword! Jealous, moi? ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 08:33
You're perfectly at liberty to curse me sigod! I understand how you feel At least you've got Battersea Prog Station to look at all day, I dont even have a window to look out of at work ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 09:16
Does "Welsh summer" have any likeness to "Welsh rabbit"? ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 10:06
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No ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 10:30
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BTW, I noticed that you were playing footsie a while ago.. are you still doing so, and can I join in? Hot English (not Welsh..) afternoon... just chillin, having a Bud, listening to ELP... groooooovy.. ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 10:34
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Yes, except in your case, 'Lab' is short for Labrador.. ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 11:25
Battersea Prog Station. And from now on, I shall never refer to it as anything else!------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 15:39
Does anyone else need a failed joke counter? |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 16:12
No, but Tony R and I could do with a 'Joke at Snow Dog's expense' counter... which will need to run into at least 6 digits! ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 16:27
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Whats your name, By-Tor?? Leave the dog alone! I'll get the RSPCA on to you...
------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 16:31
I still haven't had my game of footsie with BaldJean... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 16:52
Bad enough with Tony arse, now I got Fanny Dangle on my case! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 03:40
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++sigh++
8:40 a.m. Friday Currently: 24 degrees Forecast for today: 32 degrees Forecast for weekend: rain Bugger! ++sigh++ -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 03:56
I want the mother of all storms to clear the air for a few days. I need to get some sleep!! I cant in this heat. My flat was like a sauna last night!  ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: nacho
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 04:10
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C'mon, be brave, sure it's not that bad!! Now you know how we feel down here from the middle of june to the end of august... May I suggest a fan?
------------- Eppur si muove |
Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 04:26
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24/6/2005 - and guess what the weather is today in SW Wales?
Raining and Thunder but still blimering warm!!!
------------- CYMRU AM BYTH
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 05:35
We aint used to it nacho. Besides, us Brits like to moan I do have a fan, but it's as much use as a hair dryer or a fan heater in terms of cooling things down; just blows hot air around.
------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: the dragon
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 05:45
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African sun here in Rome. I think there are 29/30° at least. Sadly I'm in office, but with an amazing view of the near Vatican Dome. Currently listening to an MP3 Genesis compilation from my PC. ------------- Still alive... |
Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 06:26
http://www.daysofloveandpeace.de/3days.htm"> ...if only I had Knew this earlier Starship : 17.06.1978 Lorelei Germany In 1978 I was listening mainly to Westcoast and lucky me a reformed Starship was going to do a tour of the european summer festivals. So with a friend we went to see them at the 'Lorelei', a nice venue in Germany o the banks of the river Rhine. It is a beautiful place, but unfortunately when we arrived it started to rain. I would never have believed that they would have come back again there. ------------- Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear "Hey there! Rotter's Club! Explain the meaning of this song and share it" |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 09:34
Told you it usually pissed down in Wales... although I did spend 2 years working half way up Snowdon, where the mist rolled in through the doors 8 months of the year! ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 10:15
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My wife would probably interfere ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 15:24
That's ok, she can join in.. I'm not fussy, and I promise I won't go above the knee... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 16:34
Well, come to Germany then, and we'll play a game of footsie together. Somehow this reminds me of the line "He looked at me with the glazed expression of a man that has just been asked to play a game of mutual pocket-billard by another man" from the song "Why I hate to clean the cat-box" from our first album, which will be out in August. ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 16:50
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I think any album that has a track entitled "Why I hate to clean the cat-box" has got to be worth purchasing!! Has 'footsie' been made into an Olympic sport yet? Or is that what they'll be doing in Germany next year? World Cup Footsie, 2006? ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 16:51
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By the way, BaldJean, I've been having an 'Eloy' evening tonight.. in honour of the German nation! ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 16:59
I'm American by birth though and came to Germany in 1993. I acquired German citizenship in 2001 and had to give up my US-citizenship for that. But when I decide to live in a country for good I want the right to vote there. ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: June 25 2005 at 04:35
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Trading Germany for the US seems like a fair trade to me... in my experience, Germany is so clean, run efficiently, and very friendly c/p to many parts of the UK, and I'm sure US too. ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |