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10th May 2015, 08:00 AM
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#9, We all have a role to play Gilly, pimms sounds just fine to me
Not sure if you are being facetious or not!
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10th May 2015, 08:48 AM
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Many years ago, when the children were youngsters, I planted a facetious as a single seed. It was watered, nurtured and covered in the finest manure a horse could produce. I stood back proudly waiting for a riot of colour to emerge from my endeavours. In all the years I cared for this beauty, making sure it had the correct amount of sunshine and shade, not one single potato did it grow.
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10th May 2015, 08:51 AM
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Louis the fly
Many years ago, when the children were youngsters, I planted a facetious as a single seed. It was watered, nurtured and covered in the finest manure a horse could produce. I stood back proudly waiting for a riot of colour to emerge from my endeavours. In all the years I cared for this beauty, making sure it had the correct amount of sunshine and shade, not one single potato did it grow.
####like the labour party then lou....regards cappy
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10th May 2015, 10:05 AM
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The Eton potato has taken his place at the trough with the other vegetables Cappy. Wait and watch this is only the first chapter.
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10th May 2015, 10:21 AM
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Louis the fly
The Eton potato has taken his place at the trough with the other vegetables Cappy. Wait and watch this is only the first chapter.
i may be mistaking in my old age ...but did you not say if cameron got in you would go to scotland to live....or was that some other person swimming against the nation......be a good loser lou .......you will get balls back in one job or another......lol cappy
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10th May 2015, 10:35 AM
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Heard he had got the job of President of the RSPCA, 500,000 a year but turned it down. Wants to join Bliar as head boy to be a specialist in Middle eastern customs so as to assist in their transition to UK customs Bolton style. Brian is going to head the welcoming party. JS
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11th May 2015, 01:11 AM
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Well Marion as i was a very keen gardener i just loved that tape it was nice to see something different
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11th May 2015, 03:26 AM
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Hi Marion.
We watch "Return to the Country" on TV my wife says that it's the only time I stop squirming
It's not the houses as ours out here are so different, but the gardens, I go outside with all good intentions, then I look around at the dryness and come back inside get changed and take Betty up the club.
Cheers Des
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11th May 2015, 05:46 AM
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Come to Oz the land of droughts and flooding rain. Got rid of all my grass and replaced it with stones, paver and plant that do not need a lot of water. Still have my roses though, 15 fruit trees and a 25 sq mt veg patch, self sufficient for nine months of the year
Last edited by happy daze john in oz; 11th May 2015 at 05:48 AM.


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
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11th May 2015, 11:05 AM
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Hi Des. must get my eyes tested again, mistook the words take for make!!!!
Seriously though talking about flooding rain, was in Sydney in the early Fifties and it must have poured for a couple of months,
we were stuck there all this time as the dock workers wouldn't work in the rain, the area was flooded and I believe at the time
about 2 million sheep were drowned, I used to be asked when returning home would I like to go to Australia (several crew members
were jumping ship at that time) my answer was No Way, that place was either on fire or flooded out, I'll stay here where you get
4 seasons in one week, that way life doesn't get boring, something different every day. F.
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