Bob Whysman
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Captain Haddock wrote:I note that this thread which I started in 2020 is titled 'One thousand one hundred and eighty five last Thursday!'
FWIW there were one thousand and ninety eight yesterday!
Perhaps someone is re-enacting Dunkirk with a canal barge that appears to be laying idle?
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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No sir to that I am going to make a model plane with a engine that will fly high and fast made out of a plastic if I can make it right have now sold my 3 electrc violins with all my music. I wil always be doing or trying to do things.
its in my blood
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
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Sold your violins eh! Much to the relief of your neighbours I expect Vic!!
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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Sold your violins eh! Much to the relief of your neighbours I expect Vic!!
Terry
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Captain Haddock
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Bob Whysman wrote:Perhaps someone is re-enacting Dunkirk with a canal barge that appears to be laying idle?
It's a NARROWBOAT not a barge and certainly NOT a longboat as some have called her.
For info :-
'Update 19 September 2025, 10:25am
Despite the recent rainfall, the water levels in the reservoirs that supply the Leicester Line (Grand Union Canal) have not improved enough to allow us to relax the current navigation restrictions and closures'.
However spent last week on boat which is at present moored in a marina.
(Believe it or not no-one in Crick has heard of Operation Stack/Manston 'Airport or HS1! They are all however, from overheard conversations at the Marina, in the local shop, in the cafe etc talking about 'immigration' - although they seem to understand even less on the subject than many people on this forum)
https://www.itv.com/watch/news/unprecedented-canal-closures-as-drought-causes-water-levels-to-drop/s42kj5x"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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You could be right Terry.and the wife did not object.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Back on topic!
Afghan asylum seekers ‘go home on holiday’.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/19/afghan-asylum-seekers-go-home-holiday/
(Best of luck against Hampton and Richmond Borough this afernoon. Let's hope this rain clears)
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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A thousand in but just three out: 1,072 migrants crossed the Channel yesterday in 13 boats as Starmer's 'one in, one out' scheme fails to deter - and more have arrived today!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15117069/thousand-migrants-crossed-Channel-13-boats-Starmers-one-one-scheme-fails-deter.html"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
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"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Foreign criminals paid up to £2k for agreeing to be deported.
Shabana Mahmood admits payment to nearly 50 offenders on deportation flights ‘doesn’t look good'.
Foreign criminals are being offered up to £2,000 to agree to be deported back to their home countries.
Nearly 50 foreign national offenders (FNOs) were filmed by ITV News being taken from immigration removal centres on Tuesday to be flown back to Romania, where they were each given bank cards pre-loaded with up to £2,000.
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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'Fringe' benefits. See what he did there?
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
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A COCK AND KABUL STORY Fury as Afghan dinghy migrant given asylum in UK goes on eight week HOLIDAY to ‘dangerous’ Afghanistan he’d fled
Tory Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick says 'naive' Government are being 'laughed at' by migrants
(On the plus side at least the Home Office is making decisions on asylum quicker to clear the back-log!)
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/36824629/uk-asylum-migrant-afghanistan-holiday/"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
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"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Remember when Calais used to be a pleasant day trip?
'In the many years I have reported on the migration crisis sweeping Europe, I have never seen the ferry port so overwhelmed'
'Scores of white charity vans with British and French number plates criss-cross the city from dawn to dusk delivering rice meals and water'
'Calais is turning into an unrecognisable battleground'.
Coming to an HMO near you?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15138543/migration-catastrophe-Calais-SUE-REID-never-seen-crowded-desperate-migrants.html"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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International students graduating from UK universities who were awarded "skilled worker" visas were 17 times more likely to become care workers than they were to become programmers or software developers.
More became care workers than all graduate-level jobs combined.
Remember most have master's degrees.
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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The above figures are not a surprise as many care workers are looking after their children or other relative so choose part time.
Poor spoken English will also make it more difficult to get suitable employment, I have difficulty understanding my medical contact over the phone.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Wow.
125 illegals just arrived in a SUPER dinghy - the largest number ever in a single boat
1300 so far this weekend.
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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It's a strange fact of life that most people in most countries of the world tend to prefer to live surrounded by people who, on the whole, are quite like themselves.
If that's 'racist' then most people on the planet are and always have been through history.
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"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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