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Post by Doofey on Mar 29, 2009 2:48:26 GMT
Ah yes, I know of Aaron Davey - my team is the Richmond Tigers, favourite player is Matthew Richardson - he is gorgeous and a great player. Just wish the whole team would play better  I got caught up in the last World Cup, Australia did well until Italy cheated, got a free kick and we lost  Still not over it lol Another Tiger supporter! Goodie!  I am a Tiger supporter and Richo is my fave too. Disappointing start to the season but I'm sure it will improve (fingers and toes crossed). |
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Post by misspan on Mar 29, 2009 6:40:01 GMT
Well the season couldn't get much worse for us.........LOL I think we can't handle the big pressure games, something we really need to work on for sure |
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Post by richmondgal on Mar 29, 2009 8:44:15 GMT
High Five for another Richmond fan. Although not so for the team, with Cousins and Raines out, it looks bleak again. Only time will tell.
Anyway, back to the columns...
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Post by maureen on Apr 4, 2009 7:11:28 GMT
Again, I'm going to miss this one. Be back for catch up reading in a week's time.
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Post by vanderdb9 on Apr 5, 2009 0:15:28 GMT
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Post by vanderdb9 on Apr 18, 2009 23:22:22 GMT
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Post by lymaze on Apr 19, 2009 11:26:17 GMT
It's good to have him back. As a city dweller (or the outskirts as I can't afford the actual city  ) I agree with both James and Jezza. I love the country for about 5 minutes and then I can't wait to get back to town. Both have their plus points but to not have to rely on a car to get a pint of milk is the biggest of them all.  |
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Post by ulstermayniac on Apr 19, 2009 12:09:25 GMT
Totally! My cousin once said to me when we were driving back through a countryside here 'Sarah, you are very suburban.' because I was complaining that everything was green, and dull, and boring, and there was no civilisation for mile after mile, nothing to do, nowhere to go, everything is dull and smells funny and you can drive here anyway, for hours and hours and still never see another soul, barely another building! How the hell to the weirdos here live out there, I just don't get it! OK, I keep to myself, i don't 'bother' anyone else but even if all I do is go to the shop to buy some milk, I still get to talk to the cashier, that is still contact with another human, I couldn't do without that, no matter how much I might complain about other people. |
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Post by maureen on Apr 19, 2009 12:40:54 GMT
I'm too much of a suburbanite too. I like being able to take my bag for life for a walk to Tesco's and pick up some veggies or whatever else I might need in a pinch and walk back home, than drive a million miles to get to the shops. London, Cambridge, Norwich, even Rome. Give me a city or get me close enough to commute to one easily anyday.  |
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Post by Wyvern on Apr 19, 2009 12:50:30 GMT
My parents live in a village, and some of you may recall I'm very familiar with the problems of what you may and may not shoot, following the badger problem they had a few months ago. The thing is, there are definitely upsides to both town and city living, but if I had to make a choice, the city would win every time. Even though I've lived in several different cities (I was born in Bristol and have lived in Birmingham and Plymouth, and am currently on the edge of London) I've never felt like an 'outsider', yet although my family has had links to the village for over twenty years now, I still feel the eyes of the locals boring into me when I wander into one of the pubs that hasn't been turned into holiday cottages for Tarquin, Jocasta and their Volvo full of labradors, green wellies and obnoxious children. A few years ago, my eldest nephew was supposed to start at the village school, having been to the feeder playschool. His place suddenly vanished a couple of months before the start of term when someone realised my sister's house was actually a few hundred yards outside the village boundary and Tarquin and Jocasta had decided they weren't going back to Surbiton because they thought growing up in the country would be better for little Peregrin and Eulalia...
Best thing that could have happened. All three of my nephews went to a primary school with excellent facilities, and the learning difficulties that had gone unnoticed by the eldest's pre-school teachers were diagnosed and are being dealt with.
Meanwhile, back in the village, Tarquin and Jocasta have buggered off, having discovered that although Eulalia can ride ponies, it takes forty minutes to drive to ballet classes in the next town and Peregrin has nothing to do at all. An attempt to build more facilities for local children, such as an adventure playground and a skate park, ended in disaster when the skate park attracted kids from the neighbouring villages and disturbed the nesting habits of the lesser-spotted something or other and the playground was commandeered by older teenagers who had nothing better to do than sniff glue and drink cider. What might be worse, though, is that that between the summer residents and people coming into the village to try their hand at country living and then going away when they realise it isn't the idyll they thought it was, and the young people leaving for the cities as soon as they are able, all sense of community is eroded.
Ultimately, there is no such thing as unspoiled countryside; there would be, but people insist on living in it, and that spoils it for everyone!
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Post by PP on Apr 19, 2009 13:35:41 GMT
Lol! Wy speaketh the truth ;D I grew up in a village, exactly as Wy has described, and hot-footed it to Manchester as soon as I'd left school. I've lived in a city ever since, although the one I'm in at the moment is stuck in the 1820s . However, I'm about to move back to the village permanently and I'm not sure if it's the right thing to do. I love the fact that I'm close to my family and old friends, but I think that I'll be bored to tears fairly quickly. I'd quite like to spend some time living in London but the fact that I would have to rely on public transport to get to work is putting me off. That's not a slight on public transport, it's that I have a balance problem (nothing to do with alcohol, btw) and standing on a crowded tube train during rusch hour would only lead to disaster  |
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Post by nobody on Apr 19, 2009 13:42:37 GMT
Even though the town that i live in is half dead and i don't like people i would take it over the countryside any day.
There a mini tesco just round the corner from my house and a bus stop just across the road and 2 train station's,a primary school and a secondary school 15 minutes walk away.
If i was stuck in the countryside i could never leave the house as i can't drive.
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Post by ulstermayniac on Apr 19, 2009 15:33:22 GMT
I don't live in the city, I couldn't live in Belfast for all the money in the world, too much trouble for one thing, too noisy also, but I live in what is known as 'the commuter belt' a housing area just outside the town of Carrickfergus. (technically Carrick is a town, Belfast is the city but whenever anyone is going into Belfast they always say they are 'going into town' I never got that one myself) Here there are bus stops, the trainstation, 2 hairdressers, the Drs surgery, the chemist, 3 local shops and a post office. Technically, if you didn't want to, you would never have to leave here you can do everything. The bus stop is about 5 mins from my house, the trainstation about 10-15. There are also 2 primary schools which are full and having to turn children away and that is just from the area itself, no 'outsiders' are in them. There are several secondary schools in Carrick itself but because the area where I live is between 2 council boroughs the kids here can have a choice of going to anyone in Carrick or Newtownabbey or if your grades are good enough, you can get into one of the inner Belfast 'posh' secondary schools for the smart kids, if you are prepared to travel that far. Living here isn't without it's problems, I can personally verify that with all the trouble I have been put through but I have always lived here in the same house, I couldn't get used to living anywhere else. I have lots of family and extended family close by me too. Better the devil you know. |
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Post by beckstar on Apr 19, 2009 17:38:49 GMT
Whatever. The result will infuriate my colleague James May, who has stated very often that the RAF should be instructed to wipe Burford from the map. Burford, in fact, is about the only word in the English language that can make him even remotely excitable and animated.
I should think 'pint?' has some kind of effect, tbh, Jezza...
I think James's 'RAF' solution is a bit harsh (although they'd not have far to come - Brize Norton is farting distance away) but Jeremy is right - Burford is pretty much useless. It's ten minutes away from me, and yes, it's pretty like the front of a chocolate box, and it has nice houses and nice little shops and nice tearooms and one nice pub and a nice river and a nice bridge... But that's just it, it's nice. To be honest, if someone renamed it 'Tweetown' no-one would notice. Burford serves only one real purpose, and that's the keep the hordes of American and Japanese tourists the hell out of Chipping Norton and Witney...
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Post by lymaze on Apr 25, 2009 21:22:39 GMT
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Post by ulstermayniac on Apr 25, 2009 21:33:48 GMT
Thanks for the link |
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Post by vanderdb9 on Apr 25, 2009 22:40:38 GMT
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Post by ulstermayniac on Apr 25, 2009 22:48:03 GMT
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Post by Wyvern on Apr 26, 2009 1:00:08 GMT
What is the world coming to? First of all James goes vegetarian (yeah, right), now Jeremy's on the wagon... what next? Richard giving up all the risky stuff? Or did he start it all by giving up smoking (again)? Thank god normality returns with the Jag review...
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Post by vanderdb9 on Apr 26, 2009 2:08:13 GMT
I think its because they are bored. Andy bring back TG early and save the boys from themselves!
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Post by maureen on Apr 26, 2009 7:16:07 GMT
Well, he does have a point though. If I go a week without anything alcoholic, I usually feel fine. Then, by the end of that week, I start craving a beer or cidar, so I end up giving in. I still feel fine. The Jag is gorgeous. I've always loved them. |
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Post by lymaze on Apr 26, 2009 12:16:55 GMT
Must say i feel great when I don't drink but after day 4 I get a bit twitchy. I can't remember the last time I managed more than a week without a tipple.  |
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Post by nobody on Apr 26, 2009 13:12:51 GMT
I can go weeks with out a drink but saying that i am not very good at drinking.
I have never been legless if i drink beer i get full before i can get drunk and if i don't have the same drink all night i am sick can't even have different brands of wine.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2009 13:23:25 GMT
I'm not really a drinker, just sniff it and I'm already merry. But I feel rough all the time, so the adding of the alcoholic beverages probably wouldn't help. I am staggered at how much Jeremy was drinking on his holiday, it is quite gross. |
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Post by vanderdb9 on Apr 27, 2009 12:23:31 GMT
doesn't look like he stuck it out from this pic! though it may be apple juice! LOL  |
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Post by lymaze on May 2, 2009 21:08:40 GMT
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Post by ulstermayniac on May 2, 2009 21:12:38 GMT
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Post by inky on May 2, 2009 21:36:53 GMT
Once again, His Clarksoness has got it spot on. I have been down to my last farthing in the past and still managed to feed the doggies. Recession is just an easy excuse for some people to get shut of their animals  |
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Post by TheDaisy on May 2, 2009 21:45:51 GMT
Once again, His Clarksoness has got it spot on. I have been down to my last farthing in the past and still managed to feed the doggies. Recession is just an easy excuse for some people to get shut of their animals *nodnod* It is ridiculous how easily people can just get rid of pets. To me, the cats and birds have been part of the family, and IDK, maybe some people out there ARE capable of selling their grannies or something |
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Post by nobody on May 2, 2009 21:46:59 GMT
I can understand people who lose there jobs can't afford big vet bill's but if your dog is fine i can't see why your can't afford to feed it.
If you stay away from the big brands dog food is dirt cheep.
And for someone abandoning tortoise's i don't see why he/she did not find a home for it themself's i have heard there not cheep to buy so your pet stays safe and you get a bit of money to help you out.
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Still not over it lol
I am a Tiger supporter and Richo is my fave too. Disappointing start to the season but I'm sure it will improve (fingers and toes crossed).
) I agree with both James and Jezza. I love the country for about 5 minutes and then I can't wait to get back to town. Both have their plus points but to not have to rely on a car to get a pint of milk is the biggest of them all. 
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