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@pete wrote:

Sorry but global warming is a fact and despite it being called warming could make it colder here in the UK which, thanks to the gulf stream, enjoys 10 degree or average higher temps than other countries at the same latitude. If the ice caps melt this could result in a diberting of the path of the gulf stream and consequently far lower winter temps.

Oh btw cutting down rainforests doesnt make a huge oxygen shortage as over 50% comes from seaborne algae so not every environmental scare story is true

*Chucks a snowball at Pete* :P

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I agree with you completely, PB. Global warming is nothing more than another way in which to scaremonger, execrcise more control over the masses, and dip our pockets in the so-doing.

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The Beatles-In My Life

In My Life

There are places I’ll remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I’ve loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I’ll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I’ll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more

Though I know I’ll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I’ll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more
In my life I love you more

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No you blind eejits..there’s been a revolution whilst you were all enjoying Christmas and scrumming in the festive sales. I personally overthrew the lousy Englander Government..consigned Brown and buddies to a Gulag in Rotherham and declared anarchy in the u.k.
Or am I confusing falling asleep after a late supper whilst listening to The Sex Pistols?

Dammit..not again :oops: I unleashed the might of the Russian Imperial Army last week after nodding off to Tchaikovsky’s 1812.
Now I’ve got to billet the buggers. :roll:

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The brilliant strains of Karen Matheson and Capercaillie with..

Ailein Duinn (Dark Alan)

How sorrowful I am
When I rise early in the morning,
Ò hì I would walk with you.
Hì ri bhò…. o hò,
Brown-haired Alan, Ò hì, I would walk with you

If the sand be your pillow,
If the seaweed be your bed,
Ò hì I would walk with you
Hì ri bhò…. o hò,
Brown-haired Alan, Ò hì, I would walk with you

If the fish are your candles bright,
If the seals are your watchmen,
Ò hì I would walk with you
Hì ri bhò…. o hò,
Brown-haired Alan, Ò hì, I would walk with you

I would take a drink, though everyone would be scandalised,
Of your heart’s blood after you were drowned.
Ò hì I would walk with you
Hì ri bhò…. o hò,
Brown-haired Alan, Ò hì, I would walk with you

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Gura mise tha fo eislean
Moch sa mhaduinn is mi g’eirigh

O hi shiubhlainn leat
Hi ri bho, ho ru bhi,
Hi ri bho, ho rionn o ho,
Ailein Duinn, o hi shiubhlainn leat

Ma ‘s’en clusag dhuit a ghaineamh
Ma ‘se leabaidh dhut an gheamainn

O hi shiubhlainn leat
Hi ri bho, ho ru bhi,
Hi ri bho, ho rionn o ho,
Ailein Duinn, o hi shiubhlainn leat

Ma ‘s en t-iasg do choinlean geala
Ma ‘s na Righ do luchd-faire

O hi shiubhlainn leat
Hi ri bho, ho ru bhi,
Hi ri bho, ho rionn o ho,
Ailein Duinn, o hi shiubhlainn leat

Dh’o lainn deoch ge boil le cach e,
De dh’fhuil do choim ‘s tu ‘n de idh do bhathadh,

O hi shiubhlainn leat
Hi ri bho, ho ru bhi,
Hi ri bho, ho rionn o ho,
Ailein Duinn, o hi shiubhlainn leat

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I love January..the icy-cold pristine freshness of the air; the starkness of the trees against a baby-blue sky; snowdrops in profusion and a chance to delve into my christmas books..oh and the days lengthening (although I enjoy the anonymity that being folded in night’s black cloak brings)and blue hyacinths in pots on the windowsill and the countdown to my birthday and most of all a time for contemplation at the prospect of ploughing a new and exciting furrow through my field of dreams.

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@reason wrote:

I thought she’d been caught short while out in the countryside and stopped to drop a log(so to speak)behind a nearby bush. :shock: :-# :wink:

Ah, Reason..I see you have the romantic in your soul…

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“There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.”
Lois McMaster Bujold

“Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.”
Eric Hoffer (1902 – 1983)

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@pete wrote:

@will wrote:

@sarah_1 wrote:

Easy …… Don’t make any then you don’t let yourself down. :wink:

Would be good to kick the ciggy’s though (thinks of how the money saved could be spent) :lol:

ciggys ere also they r gonna be the death of me :shock:

h and ae missing otherwise good :lol:

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Oh Toy…how I adore Thomas Hardy…and as I’ve gotten older..his poetry even more than his prose (and I fell in love with him when in my teens..at one point convinced I was the reincarnation of his first wife) There are few more beautiful pieces than my favourite The Darkling Thrush..but Bags Of Meat has made me cry today. The man has a soul forged in heaven and hell both. Sheer genius.

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