07-11-2018, 12:07 AM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Originally Posted by gumbud
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OMG - only the old town at the top of the hill - wot a mess they made of the rest - reputed once to have the most pubs in the south and then they came along and dumped concrete everywhere! - are you driving or training?
07-11-2018, 11:34 AM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Originally Posted by spitfire
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Holidayed at Christchurch once Sweetie, sat on a bench on a cliff top somewhere watching the Red Funnel Ferries, back and forth.
07-11-2018, 12:11 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Originally Posted by gumbud
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my 'red funnel ' ran out years ago??
07-11-2018, 12:40 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Originally Posted by Jem
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The old white side rails at the race tracks used to be made of heavy wood and it caused a lot of bad accidents, even deaths, to both horse and jockey, if there's one thing I'm grateful for with plastic it's the plastic flexible rails of today.
Ps...Snoring through a race! A mortal sin if ever there was one
07-11-2018, 12:53 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Originally Posted by Robert Junior
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I was telling my grandaughter 11 today how we were so poor that I was born in a ditch. We can smile now at tales such as "Our Grandad had a mint toffee and we sat on his chair arms and waited till he breathed out so we could breath in an share his minty breath.. Mam collected discarded orange peels from the market an burned em to make it smell like we had loads of fruit in our house an the neighbours always sniffed in through the letter box. We weren't posh enough to have a door though just the letterbox "
Mind you coping with poverty stiffened the backbone and put lots of hairs on ones chest which was OK for the men but a bit embarrassing for the women especially during the summer months. No Veet back then either
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