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Old 4th January 2018, 20:50
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......and of course when you click to enter the thread there is the message 'last post'.........this thread will likely never end now!

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Old 4th January 2018, 20:52
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Or is that the flying dustbin?
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Old 4th January 2018, 22:40
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Here's a thought I'm going to get back on track which is kiss of death eh. I can do this on a grand scale with hotel chains and restaurants. Tourist hotel corporation gone. Southern Pacific hotel corporation gone. The Mon Desir Takapuna, flag ship of Lion breweries hotel chain gone. DB Windsor park Mairangi bay now a church of sorts. Sundry other restaurants gone. Not sure if they went belly up because I worked for them or because I left.Signed. The eliminator.
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Old 4th January 2018, 22:42
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PS . At the bottom is Post quick reply and, go advanced. What does the latter mean? Should I press and find out and maybe get ahead of myself? Regards.
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Old 4th January 2018, 23:18
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I have worked in several industries. They are all about dead now, but sadly that is an easy thing to say today.
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Old 4th January 2018, 23:27
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Every school I ever attended is now a housing estate.
Every workshop and office that I ever worked in has either been demolished or changed use.
Every Company that I worked for has either gone out of business or been taken over.
Every Police Station that I ever worked out of has gone and the land redeveloped.

There is just one ship left - I keep looking and she is still there in the Med - but for how long?
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Old 4th January 2018, 23:53
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we could all sign a round robin sending the responsibility to someone to close this down, then we would all be responsible for ending the thread. Personally, I think it can stay as a noodling thread (much like loads of others) where you can never drift too far from the subject.
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Old 4th January 2018, 23:59
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I was born in an industrial town that made shoes, diesel engines, grinding wheels, huge transformers and switchgear for power stations, locomotives, chemical products and adhesives and other things.

Now it's famous for a newly built Morrisons Supermarket that was cancelled and stands empty, a failing hospital and any number of B&Q's, Lidl's and the like on the outskirts and a main street full of boarded up shops. The school I went to is yet another office building, all the working men's clubs long gone and the British Legion Club long held in esteem by my old man just closed. The coal mines in nearby towns all shut, and their power stations gone with them.

Ah well …. brave new world and all that.
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Old 5th January 2018, 11:57
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I,m feeling depressed now.

All my shipping companies gone - except the Greek one which has gone from strength to strength. Radio stations destroyed or left to rot.

To cap it all it is a miserable day and raining/blowing.

However on the good side I am still alive and kicking and Spring is on its way.

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Old 5th January 2018, 15:51
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Amazing, yes the Spring is just showing a little, male Blackbirds getting a bit cheeky, grass growing from molehills. We have a long way to go, but it is going to happen.
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Old 5th January 2018, 16:15
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A Red Admiral butterfly has just done a little head-banging dance outside my French doors - maybe it saw the sun and thought 'whoopee', maybe it just wanted to get indoors.
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Old 5th January 2018, 16:22
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Daylight getting longer now by between 1 and 2 minutes per day, and that rate of change will only get faster ..
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Old 5th January 2018, 18:28
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Snowdrops out in garden,bluebottle came into the conservatory,and we had a cabbage white on the outer wall yesterday....

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Yesterday I took my step-son and step-niece with me when returning the left-over poppies to the office at the local Veterans & Seamens' Society building. All around the walls are photographs of seamen and ships, so they began asking "who is that" to which I had to give the name and add "he's dead". This went on for a while and they asked, "where is your picture?"
My answer: "I refused to allow my picture to go up because everyone who gets their picture on the wall dies".
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Dear 'Naytikos', are you having roots from Greece, like your forum name?

Happy New Year!

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South Carolina received three inches of snow on Monday, Jan. 1st, as temperatures fell into the low f30's. Our heat pump failed that afternoon. Repair service in Charleston said the earliest they could come was Friday. Charleston still snowed in as snow has not melted and has turned to ice. Schools shut, people urged to stay off the roads, Charleston cut off from the world. No repairman. Appointment for repairs now Wednesday, Jan. 10th. Difficult typing in gloves. Long underwear adding a bit of heat to the bod, but itchy. Temp in bedroom f52 this morning. 60f at moment, midday. Locals think a snowplow is something Northerners use to plant winter wheat. Nearest snow shovel in Maryland. Food parcels and sweaters welcome. You can even send back the dried egg powder. Never look a gift horse in the mouth...but no Jellied eels thanks.
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Old 6th January 2018, 22:25
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Wipe your feet as you leave.

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Old 6th January 2018, 23:22
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For a Kiss of Death thread you need something far far more dramatic:

https://youtu.be/2ArEaOWqzYo


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Old 6th January 2018, 23:51
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Moving on and deeper...

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Whilst you lot are enjoying lovely cool, and dare I say, freezing weather, spare a thought for those of us coping with extreme heat and humidity and Autumn months away. The carpets are so damp you could ring them out, wooden floors appear to have a sheen of water on them. Watching clothing closely so that mould does not take hold and the air con is doing it's best but failing badly. At times like this I think about what our early settlers must have felt when they disembarked.

They left home in winter and arrived to the hot summer weather of Australia. One of the crew members of the first fleet wrote 'that even the birds in the trees laugh at us', a reference no doubt to the cry of the kookaburra. I have always maintained that because of the decisions of those who have gone before me that I was born in the wrong country.

Anyone want to house swap for awhile?

Farmer John, I don't think that his thread is going to close down anytime soon.
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PS . At the bottom is Post quick reply and, go advanced. What does the latter mean? Should I press and find out and maybe get ahead of myself? Regards.
Hi jg, quick reply does not give you access to all of the emoticons or some of the other changes you can use. I can assure you that you will be quite safe pressing go advanced. Good Luck
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Old 9th January 2018, 06:57
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For JG, New Zealand is one of the countries I could have been born in if my GF had remained there.
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Yesterday it was bright and sunny here in Cornwall although cold, about 3°C. I was pulling about 2kW from the solar panels at midday, even thought the Sun is very low in the sky.

Today we have dense cloud, very grey and dark, such that you have to have the lights on in the daytime. It's 4°C outside and the panels are barely active, less than 100 watts.

Roll on summer.
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For a Kiss of Death thread you need something far far more dramatic:

https://youtu.be/2ArEaOWqzYo


Oh, just tooo beautiful. Thanks Bob for introducing me to Lisa Gerrard.
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