Stormy Weather

[amateur51]

Oh thanks, I think. Iwas 19 and that would have been 1949. Were you all odd at Henry Stave ??? [Runs for cover]

Well we most certainly were not 'normal' - thank goodness

Sun's just come out in NW2 - lovely - and I've just realised that the clocks have gone forward an hour

[salymap]

Anton,good morning, I csn'tremember what details I gave about the GG DVD or Blu-ray Disc. It'scalled' Genius Within' out on 28 March, also available om iTunes or all dealers. Contains Theatrical Trailer and 22 minutes of deleted scenes

[Anna]

It's grey and cold here and I'm wondering about the wisdom of filling in the Census online as opposed to filling in the paper form. One question on it is "How well do you speak English?" and one option for the answer is "Not at all" .........

[salymap]

Anna, I thought about online but decided against it. I also tnought about the seven dwarves/dwarfs for my other six residents here [I live alone.] The thought of a. the Fine, b. the'officials' searching my home rather took away the fun aspect.Ishall be good.

[amateur51]

Anna, I thought about online but decided against it. I also tnought about the seven dwarves/dwarfs for my other six residents here [I live alone.] The thought of a. the Fine, b. the'officials' searching my home rather took away the fun aspect.Ishall be good.

"I used to be Snow White, but I drifted." Mae West

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[vinteuil]

... a lad who lived in a small market town with half a record shop and one book shop I find the exchange very interesting. ...

- I'm sure that one of the reasons I was hopelessly addicted to buying books and records as an adult, was having grown up ten miles from the nearest town - which had "half a record shop and one book shop" ...

[greenilex]

Must say I still miss the second-hand book place on that corner in Salisbury - by one of the gates into the Close. Probably there in Trollope's day?

[marthe]

Must say I still miss the second-hand book place on that corner in Salisbury - by one of the gates into the Close. Probably there in Trollope's day?

greenilex, I'm wondering if that's the second-hand bookshop I went into during my only visit to Salisbury back in 1975? I remember going into a a book shop near the cathedral close; can't remember if it was on a corner or near the gates into the Close. We were working in Wiltshire then and had made a visit to Stonehenge and Salisbury on the 4th of July! Later when we lived in Staffs., between Lichfield and Burton-on-Trent, we used to go to a very nice second-hand book shop in Lichfield not far from St. Chad's, the big church (a cathedral?) in Lichfield. I bought a copy of Mrs. Beeton's Cookery and Household Management (a 1960's edition) and taught myself to make white sauce from one of the recipes. Happy memories of browsing in bookshops.

Weather here is bright and sunny but still cool. Garden clean-up is well under way. It's still too early for mowing the lawn!

[greenilex]

Did the Stonehenge /organ recital at Salisbury last May with US family... managed most of it on local bus services which works out free for yours truly but were forced into a cab for the last bit. I'm not a fan of the expensive tourist bus service. However if you haven't been there you are only half alive. IMHO.

[salymap]

Morning all, cold so far but sun has just come out. I try to avoid politics on these MBs but I thought this rather a laugh. Edward Heath was our MP for a number of years. I still feel responsible for his defeat as PM. I wished him luck at the voting station about that time. In our local Kentish times we are asked to contribute to a fund to keep his house in Salisbury, near the Cathedral, open as a museum.For once words fail me.

[MrGongGong]

It's grey and cold here and I'm wondering about the wisdom of filling in the Census online as opposed to filling in the paper form. One question on it is "How well do you speak English?" and one option for the answer is "Not at all" .........

surely the right answer is "see question 17"

[greenilex]

Saly, if all of them were put in a boat and pushed out well into the Channel the old Grocer would be one of the few useful members of the party.. I believe he was hot stuff at tiller and keyboard.

[salymap]

Greenilex Yes, not a bad pianist either. he used to take part in playing piano duets at a local music club in fairly early days, before no 10 of course. He shouldn't have tried conducting though

[amateur51]

Greenilex Yes, not a bad pianist either. he used to take part in playing piano duets at a local music club in fairly early days, before no 10 of course. He shouldn't have tried conducting though

Were there no suitable buses in Kent then, salymap?

Hold verrrrry tigght pleeeeease!

[MrGongGong]

I was under the impression (from some friends in a nameless London Orchestra) that he was a bit of a "vanity" conductor...... stand at the front and wave your arms about and let them get on with it !

do they have bendy busses in Salisbury ?