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Thread: Planning Application - Hindsley Place and Westbourne Drive
Post: RE: Planning Application - Hindsley Place and West...
| [quote]Very impressed by the design and this was clearly inspired by Jason Lee[/quote]
This doesn't look too bad at all and should - if I have my angles right - look quite arresting to drivers comi... |
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16-03-2011, 03:52 AM |
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Thread: Gated communities
Post: RE: Gated communities
| More reports reaching me across the Great Divide of lawlessness amongst the Tewkesbury denizens. AGAIN! Perhaps it's the high house prices up there driving everybody round the bend. Is it possible to ... |
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13-10-2010, 12:39 AM |
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Thread: World Cup song from local group
Post: RE: World Cup song from local group
| This is tremendous stuff BaggyDave. I doff my cap to you.
Out of interest was that delightful street backdrop to the north or the south of our railway line? |
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19-05-2010, 05:27 AM |
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Thread: Gated communities
Post: RE: Gated communities
| Disturbing news of further outbreaks of social unrest amongst the Tewkesbury Lodgers. The police in evidence AGAIN. What can all the trouble be about? Could it be that a small minority of the resident... |
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02-03-2010, 06:30 PM |
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Thread: Gated communities
Post: RE: Gated communities
| Some worrying news about further social unrest in the UDB estate.
Friends staying overnight in Westwood Park on Sunday were awoken by a fracas coming from the street. After the air had been turned ... |
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24-02-2010, 05:37 PM |
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Thread: Large Cat Like Animal
Post: RE: Large Cat Like Animal
| Sounds familiar.....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4370893.stm |
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02-11-2009, 11:39 PM |
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Thread: Best front man in history
Post: Best front man in history
| Me and Trev never did reach a conclusion. So I put it to you the people. Who should be the front man for the fantasy greatest band in history? Ireland's greatest son or Gwynneth's favourite hubby? |
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12-09-2009, 11:31 AM |
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Thread: Hangovers I have known
Post: Hangovers I have known
| Having tied one on big time last night I awake (regain consciousness?) with a sense of nostalgia for great hangovers of yesteryear. Two things come to mind. the first is a need for music to get me thr... |
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12-09-2009, 11:22 AM |
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Thread: Schooling
Post: RE: Schooling
| Roz,
In earlier posts you have made your views on religion in general and Catholicism in particular entirely clear. If you want to discuss the structure or ethics of Catholic institutions perhaps y... |
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Toffeejim |
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21-05-2009, 08:56 PM |
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Thread: Dacres Wood Nature Reserve
Post: RE: Dacres Wood Nature Reserve
| Just to remind people that this event will be taking place this Sunday afternoon at two o'clock. Nor is it just for the grown-ups: there'll be things for the young ones to do too including bark and le... |
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Toffeejim |
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26-03-2009, 02:12 PM |
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Thread: The History of Forest Hill
Post: RE: History of Forest Hill - 30 Jan at 7pm
| On the subject of the canal: I was looking at a local map from the 1890's and it shows a short section of the canal still there on land then yet to be built on but now Boveney Road. A quick look at Go... |
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Toffeejim |
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10-01-2009, 05:34 PM |
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Thread: Camille Pissarro's Paintings of Forest Hill
Post: RE: Horniman Triangle Play Park SE23
| I think Julia Neuberger is guilty some some over-interpretation here. Firstly the picture is clearly painted in the autumn or winter which accounts for the lighting and the lack of foliage. It's impor... |
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Toffeejim |
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13-12-2008, 11:00 AM |
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Thread: Gated communities
Post: RE: Gated communities
| "Wind-up merchant" baggydave? Oh do put your handbag away. And here was I thinking all your references to living on the "posh estate" were part of an attempt at winding up the rest of the good citizen... |
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11-12-2008, 03:11 PM |
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Thread: Gated communities
Post: RE: Gated communities
| Sorry baggydave, have you got a problem with Toxteth then? I do hope you're not "doing a Lydon" here? I say if Toxteth's good enough for the Liverpool Echo it's good enough for me and it's a perfectly... |
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09-12-2008, 02:45 PM |
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Thread: Gated communities
Post: RE: Gated communities in SE23
| Whilst I don't particularly like to see gated communities I suppose it is understandable that people feel the need to protect themselves when moving into slightly dodgy areas. I remember seeing a lot ... |
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08-12-2008, 03:27 PM |
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Thread: Buses
Post: RE: Slow buses
| Baggydave, clearly you were doing the wrong crossword. Leave the Mail or Guardian at home and try the Telegraph. You'll find the time flies by. |
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19-11-2008, 05:44 PM |
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Thread: Story behind the mask
Post: RE: Story behind the mask
| Ahhh, the old days. But surely it's inappropriate for us to be looking back to those times - not after all that trouble Snowball caused us? |
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05-11-2008, 12:08 AM |
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Thread: johnny rotten racist attack
Post: RE: johnny rotten racist attack
| Thanks for the helpful link baggy. Do you subscribe to Smash Hits too?
Admin - you might want to consider changing the title of this thread as simonj hasn't produced a scrap of evidence to back up ... |
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28-10-2008, 03:13 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Library
Post: RE: Forest Hill Library
| Hmmm........what we could really do with is an empty, Council owned building as near as possible to the library that they could fill up with old-fashioned shelving and lots and lots of stock. If [u]on... |
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Toffeejim |
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24-10-2008, 08:53 PM |
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Thread: johnny rotten racist attack
Post: RE: johnny rotten racist attack
| simonj,
John Lydon has had a long-standing admiration of dub music, he made one of the first rap songs (with Afrika Bambaata, godfather of hip-hop) and had one of his biggest hits with an anti-apar... |
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23-10-2008, 07:44 PM |
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Thread: Incosiderate builders
Post: RE: Incosiderate builders in SE23?
| Think nothing of it bagster.
But don't you think your problem in approaching this chap was that he assumed you were what our medical friends reduce to the acronym GROLI ? Surely if you'd been smart... |
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13-10-2008, 08:44 PM |
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Thread: Incosiderate builders
Post: RE: Incosiderate builders in SE23?
| Baggydave, have you considered getting up earlier in the morning? And it's hard not to empathise with a lorry driver who's been rudely jolted from his morning reverie, understandably disorientated by ... |
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Toffeejim |
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12-10-2008, 01:05 PM |
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Thread: Gyms
Post: RE: Can someone open a Gym in FH?
| The gym on Davids Road is in two parts: the heavy lifting goes on downstairs but there is a fitness centre upstairs. It's all run by the companionable Dave from Swansea (who does indeed go home to Swa... |
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Toffeejim |
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27-09-2008, 11:16 AM |
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Thread: Tesco, London Road
Post: RE: Immigration raid on Tesco, London Road
| Reading the link this looks very much as if it was first and foremost a police raid that happened to be directed at a foreign national. Given the significant number of people involved and that it clea... |
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Toffeejim |
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26-09-2008, 02:05 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| As the project has been put back could not the further sum be allocated out of a future year's budget? Presumably the initial sum allocated was from this year's budget.
I'll now sit back and await ... |
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Toffeejim |
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10-09-2008, 02:19 PM |
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Thread: Door to door scammers
Post: RE: Door to door scammers
| I had this happen last year. The girls were waving about an unconvincing looking photocopied sponsor form but were unable to answer even the most basic questions about the race. If they reappear I'll ... |
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Toffeejim |
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29-07-2008, 02:10 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Unless the council were to extend the conservation area to cover the buildings in question. Nothing to stop them doing this if their own plans were not to be thwarted by doing so. And some precedent w... |
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Toffeejim |
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24-07-2008, 01:31 PM |
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Thread: Did the binmen strike today?
Post: RE: Did the binmen strike today?
| To my great disappointment the bins in my part of the People's Republic were emptied yesterday. Baggydave - congratulations for allowing the strikebreakers their thirty pieces of silver for doing no w... |
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Toffeejim |
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17-07-2008, 11:19 PM |
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Thread: Any tattoo'ed amongst us?
Post: RE: Any tattoo'ed amongst us?
| Was it in the midlands? Now that would be embarrassing. |
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17-07-2008, 11:03 PM |
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Thread: Brockwell Park
Post: RE: Brockwell Park
| I think it's protected under some form of complicated trust. But I could be wrong. I picked this up from one of the residents at a summer party in the park itself but the wine was flowing....
Nice ... |
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04-07-2008, 01:38 PM |
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Thread: Right-turn camera at Wickes/Halfords
Post: RE: Right-turn camera at Wickes/Halfords
| Anyone know what's happening with the bypass? Or has that been knocked on the head? |
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01-07-2008, 11:48 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| The character of Forest Hill is overwhelmingly Victorian. The great majority of us choose to live in Victorian houses. This is our environment and it helps to define us. But we are not blessed by a gr... |
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Toffeejim |
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01-07-2008, 11:44 PM |
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Thread: Blythe Hill Fields
Post: RE: Blythe Hill Fields Festival
| And good, traditional English sports on offer: tug of war, boot throwing and the sack race. For the latter I especially enjoyed watching the keen dad who went surging into the lead and, just for a mom... |
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Toffeejim |
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01-07-2008, 11:04 PM |
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Thread: Honor Oak Play Bus
Post: RE: Honor Oak Play Bus
| I'm sure the playbus regulars will be grateful for that piece of gracious condescension. The playbuses are indeed [i]useful[/i] to some. For others [i]indispensible[/i] might be a better descriptor. |
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28-06-2008, 09:12 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Ticket Barriers at FH Station
| CAW: the staff on the barriers are not the decision-makers who are responsible for this mess. Best save your ire for the fat controllers. |
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Toffeejim |
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21-06-2008, 12:51 AM |
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Thread: Tube pricing
Post: Tube pricing
| Just back from Paris. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that single tube fares were not the normal four pounds but in fact a paltry one euro fifty. Can somebody explain the disparity to me please?... |
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Toffeejim |
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03-06-2008, 11:29 PM |
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Thread: Does Perry Vale need a coffee shop?
Post: RE: Does Perry Vale need a coffee shop?
| [quote=baggydave]
No
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Sourpuss. Time for a new thread: "Is it a good idea to open up a pub/restaurant/coffee shop/deli within half a mile of Shake'n'Vac mountain?"
Oh no... |
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03-06-2008, 11:02 PM |
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Thread: Honor Oak Play Bus
Post: RE: Honor Oak Play Bus
| Lewisham has a traditional red routemaster that it has converted into a children's playbus for toddlers. It tours around the borough and, although originally conceived as a facility for travelling com... |
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Toffeejim |
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03-06-2008, 10:45 PM |
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Thread: Things to do Locally with Visitors
Post: RE: Things to do Locally with Visitors
| Bermondsey Market. Unfortunately, since the ancient custom of marche ouvert was outlawed in 1995, there are no longer quite the bargains to be picked up there used to be.
If your parents haven't be... |
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21-05-2008, 11:21 PM |
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Thread: Mayow Park
Post: RE: Mayow Park
| Brian, congratulations for speaking out in favour of a part of our community that is under-represented on this forum: people that have supported and contributed to the community over the course of man... |
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Toffeejim |
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17-05-2008, 09:43 AM |
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Thread: My little boy broke a world record last Sunday!
Post: RE: My little boy broke a world record last Sunday...
| [quote=thenutfield]
it was (well, the day before - a Sunday).
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This year, the day after though: St Patrick's was celebrated on Saturday 15th. |
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29-03-2008, 01:54 AM |
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Thread: Who are the bad people?
Post: Who are the bad people?
| Who are the bad people and what can be done to change what they do? What can be done specifically by individuals (me) or communities working in concert (us) to undermine them?
By bad I don?t mean t... |
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18-03-2008, 12:26 AM |
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Thread: Lewisham hospital v Kings College hospital
Post: RE: Lewisham hospital v Kings College hospital
| [quote=thenutfield]
statistically home births are safer.
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This is a rather misleading thing to say. In Holland they have been promoting a policy of home births very strongly for sev... |
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17-03-2008, 09:50 PM |
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Thread: South East London Pub of the Year 2008..
Post: RE: South East London Pub of the Year 2008..
| That's really great news. And a look at the previous recipients of this prize shows the Blythe to be in some very select company indeed. |
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Toffeejim |
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15-03-2008, 02:04 AM |
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Thread: Nearby facilities
Post: RE: Nearby facilities
| [quote=hilltopgeneral]
I wouldn't get too carried away. Whilst the area certainly has many positives, there are also plenty of aspects in which SE London is considerably ****er than North London.
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15-03-2008, 01:57 AM |
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Thread: Lewisham hospital v Kings College hospital
Post: RE: Lewisham hospital v Kings College hospital
| A consultant paediatrician of my acquaintance, trained on the London round, recently had to make the same choice. In the event she plumped for Lewisham and had no complaints. But Kings is a leading te... |
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12-03-2008, 12:46 AM |
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Thread: The Blitz
Post: RE: The Blitz
| Shake 'n vac mountain made from fibreboard eh? I suppose if it is that much of a pre-fab estate it would have been cheap and fast to just build more of the same after the war. A shame though that we'r... |
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Toffeejim |
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08-03-2008, 06:54 PM |
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Thread: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
Post: RE: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
| The Big issue is clearly a good money-raising mechanism for the homeless but there are less arbitrary, and probably more efficient, ways to give. I began a monthly standing order to a homeless charity... |
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Toffeejim |
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08-03-2008, 06:28 PM |
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Thread: What is se23 reading?
Post: RE: What is se23 reading?
| [quote=baggydave]
Correct! And glad I have sparked a thread. Actually quite a poor reader, but anything McEwan or Banks goes down well. Mostly Michelle Paver at present (what?)
BD - glad he is n... |
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31-01-2008, 11:44 PM |
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Thread: Arthur Scargill
Post: Arthur Scargill
| Arthur Scargill, sometime leader of the National Union of Mineworkers and founder of the Socialist Labour Party, turns seventy today. Some of the older readers of this site may even remember him. |
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11-01-2008, 01:08 AM |
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