Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Snowing gently again here in central Dover.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i have to admit that the snow adds a certain something to my bins.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Time to bight the bullet Howard and create a bit of 'hard-standing' behind the wall to the side of the gate-way.
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Dog taking a woman for a walk amongst the palm trees in the seafront snow...
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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A few have phoned to ask if we are open today with all the snow. Of course we are, noon till 3 as usual for a Sunday.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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With a complimentary port-wine toddy at the door and somewhere for boots to drip and dry?
I used to use a pub in Camden where the CH pipes were about 4ins across and ran round the bar, very welcoming on days like this.
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Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Jeane, is your Jo a Joseph or Josephine? We've got a Jack and Jill in the garden here and I can't tell which is which!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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being positive this plant pot looks happy.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Someone at the BBC has a wicked sense of humour - Derby v Notts Forest football seems to have been cancelled so what do they put on in its place - a Countryfile Winter Special and a repeat of The Frozen Planet - brrrr!
Jan Higgins
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Darren of course silly me
Wendy said that yesterday Morrisons sold out of milk mid morning because of panic buying.
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Lovely photo of the Robins, Ray - as Jeane's was earlier. Both would make great Christmas cards.
Roger
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Howard, I understood that your bins had now been collected - at least a week ago if not longer; obviously they haven't. I am sorry, I really am. I'll chase it up.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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thanks roger, i have sent anough e mails but never get a reply.
odder still there seem plenty of those veolia trucks around my way collecting other peoples then leaving mine alone when there is clearly space on the vehicles.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Just got back from the station, only one train leaving Dover Priory for London contrary to all internet and telephone reports, via Faversham only twenty stops
Slippery underfoot, having a cognac to warm me up
Brian Dixon
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howard,i see your bins have aged well,with all that grey hair,or should i say platinum blonde.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Diana, we have a couple of pied wagtails from time to time too.
Tom, what pub was that? I used to live in Camden so I know most of the pubs, lol!!
Ray, what a lovely photo.
Howard, that made me laugh.
I was at the City of London cemetery today, had to clean the snow off my friend Gladys Spencer face (music hall star.)
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Oh a secret pub Jeane, tucked away behind what used to be called The Brecknock Arms. It was/is called The Admiral Mann and served McMullens ale. (the other I know is the Nags Head at Covent Garden.)
On my first afternoon in London as a lad of 19 and not yet a Guinness drinker I had a pint of Worthington-E. "All beer passed by the management." It certainly tasted like it had, literally. McMullens too is more 'watery' than most real ales, but it does it's job wondrously. We used to take friends that thought they knew what was best about beer there and listen to them mock...and wait till they were on their third...oh yes, a separator of men from boys.
It's a nice enough little place;small front bar and roomy saloon at the rear (where the pipes are). There used to be a frieze around above the picture rail of whatever sea battle gave the gentleman his fame. Painted by the same chap that did a mural of Edinburgh Castle in the eponymous pub in the Caledonian Road which to me was rather out of perspective.
http://fancyapint.com/Pub/london/admiral-mann/3159Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Ray - when I was preparing the lunch today my husband shouts out "Come and see these wonderful icebergs!!" (The Frozen Planet) ....
No, I don't know of an easy way to tell which is a lady robin and which is a man robin !!
My neighbours were our early today making a little snow person ...
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Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Tom, I remember where The Brecknock Arms was - how interesting.
Err no, I'm not sure how you tell what robins are either, I just decided to call ours Joe!!
Lots of snow persons around today
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