On 15/02/2015 07:37, Dawlish wrote:
On Sunday, February 15, 2015 at 12:25:04 AM UTC, Whitehaven wrote:
On 14/02/2015 21:50, Dawlish wrote:
Set of old buggers! 😃😃😃�


More like old communists, dreaming of the Soviet Union coming back.
They may get there wish with Putin and his bullying tactics.

Idiot.


You won;t say that when Putin marches in Poland.

On Sunday, 15 February 2015 09:02:35 UTC, wrote:
Very true in my case. The careers master laughed when I said that I wanted to join the Met Office, he had me marked down for the gas board. I often wonder if I made the right choice.

I use to tell my teachers, family and friends that I wanted to be a stand up comic when I got older. Well they're not laughing at me now !!


Bob Monkhouse

On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 11:26:05 +0000
Whitehaven wrote:

On 15/02/2015 07:37, Dawlish wrote:
On Sunday, February 15, 2015 at 12:25:04 AM UTC, Whitehaven wrote:
On 14/02/2015 21:50, Dawlish wrote:
Set of old buggers! 😃😃😃�


More like old communists, dreaming of the Soviet Union coming back.
They may get there wish with Putin and his bullying tactics.

Idiot.


You won;t say that when Putin marches in Poland.

You don't have to tell me. A fortnight ago someone came to warn me
that the Russian President had ordered my assassination and that a
killer was in town to carry out his orders. I found out where he was and
went to tackle him. Imagine my shock when I discovered it was Putin
himself!

After a struggle, I realised he was gaining the upper hand and
that I wouldn't be able to eliminate him. I decided discretion was
the better part of valour and managed to break free and escape. Then I
fled to London and caught a train to head north to hide out in the
Scottish Highlands.

Pity that the ending of that dream was so derivative but it had been
quite entertaining.

--
Graham P Davis, [aka Richard Hannay]

On Sunday, 15 February 2015 12:07:45 UTC, Graham P Davis wrote:
On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 11:26:05 +0000
Whitehaven wrote:

On 15/02/2015 07:37, Dawlish wrote:
On Sunday, February 15, 2015 at 12:25:04 AM UTC, Whitehaven wrote:
On 14/02/2015 21:50, Dawlish wrote:
Set of old buggers! 😃😃😃�


More like old communists, dreaming of the Soviet Union coming back.
They may get there wish with Putin and his bullying tactics.

Idiot.


You won;t say that when Putin marches in Poland.

You don't have to tell me. A fortnight ago someone came to warn me
that the Russian President had ordered my assassination and that a
killer was in town to carry out his orders. I found out where he was and
went to tackle him. Imagine my shock when I discovered it was Putin
himself!

After a struggle, I realised he was gaining the upper hand and
that I wouldn't be able to eliminate him. I decided discretion was
the better part of valour and managed to break free and escape. Then I
fled to London and caught a train to head north to hide out in the
Scottish Highlands.

Pity that the ending of that dream was so derivative but it had been
quite entertaining.

--
Graham P Davis, [aka Richard Hannay]



So is the Russian link to Richard Hannay the 39 Steppes ?

Cossacks is all I can say.

On 15/02/2015 12:07, Graham P Davis wrote:
On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 11:26:05 +0000
Whitehaven wrote:

On 15/02/2015 07:37, Dawlish wrote:
On Sunday, February 15, 2015 at 12:25:04 AM UTC, Whitehaven wrote:
On 14/02/2015 21:50, Dawlish wrote:
Set of old buggers! 😃😃😃�


More like old communists, dreaming of the Soviet Union coming back.
They may get there wish with Putin and his bullying tactics.

Idiot.


You won;t say that when Putin marches in Poland.

You don't have to tell me. A fortnight ago someone came to warn me
that the Russian President had ordered my assassination and that a
killer was in town to carry out his orders. I found out where he was and
went to tackle him. Imagine my shock when I discovered it was Putin
himself!

After a struggle, I realised he was gaining the upper hand and
that I wouldn't be able to eliminate him. I decided discretion was
the better part of valour and managed to break free and escape. Then I
fled to London and caught a train to head north to hide out in the
Scottish Highlands.

Pity that the ending of that dream was so derivative but it had been
quite entertaining.

Good one Graham!

On Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 11:15:40 PM UTC, Graham wrote:

Actually John I too hate to see snow retreat like a defeated army. It must
be something to do with our age group both being born 51/52. I do realise
that at that point Will will be eager to dismiss intensely any other
similarities.

There seem to have been a lot of USWers born at that time, in my case 1951.

WE were, of course, lucky enough to age during a musical revolution, and at
a time when top bands would play outside the major cities.

Genesis, Yes, Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull (a personal favourite and possibly
still the loudest band I've ever seen) Fairport Convention (before Sandy
Denny died) Queen (twice!) Elvis Costello, The Ramones all played the
"Wints" in Penzance. The place is now a restaurant, now doubt run by a
celebrity chef.

1953 for me.

I remember seeing Black Sabbath, Family, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Wishbone
Ash (3 times) all in the 1970s. I really wanted to see Jethro Tull & Yes but
never got the chance, great bands.
Ah those were the days, weather wasn't bad either. The fantastic summer of
1976 followed by the snowiest winter I've ever lived through in 1979
Met my Mrs in 1981 so it was more Dave Essex (4 times), Japan (3 times),
Siouxsie & the Banshees, Soft Cell, Tina Turner, Sting and Suzanne Vega in
the 80s.
Seen Coldplay twice more recently at Old Trafford Cricket ground and the
Etihad stadium, both times they were excellent.

Graham (Weston Coyney)

(OT) Sorry - but you have been warned!

Plenty of Graham's on USW, another thing that rather indicates the average age!

I also saw Wishbone Ash, I fully understand why you saw them 3 times, that was while I was at MIddlesex Poly (now a university). I was there primarily because having a career seemed rather unattractive compared with 3 years of geography field trips. Another lesser known band from the same era were 'Curved Air' I thought were sensational, I believe they brought out the 1st colour disc, I had this one http://darkcloudstudio.com/psychedel...nditioning.jpg . I saw them in 1973 and again in Penzance recently. I saw Blondie, Elton John (disapointing) the Eagles in the early '80s, I'll stop here before I work my way through the '90s to the present day.

One local (Falmouth) Band I 1st saw around 8 years ago, and have subsequently played Glastonbury 3 times since are 3 Daft Monkeys, sort music hall Celtic Folk Rock,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqasU0zx5nM

I'll stop now before others start putting me in the bin, but music is up there with weather for me.

Graham

On Sunday, 15 February 2015 13:18:12 UTC, Graham Easterling wrote:
On Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 11:15:40 PM UTC, Graham wrote:

Actually John I too hate to see snow retreat like a defeated army. It must
be something to do with our age group both being born 51/52. I do realise
that at that point Will will be eager to dismiss intensely any other
similarities.

There seem to have been a lot of USWers born at that time, in my case 1951.

WE were, of course, lucky enough to age during a musical revolution, and at
a time when top bands would play outside the major cities.

Genesis, Yes, Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull (a personal favourite and possibly
still the loudest band I've ever seen) Fairport Convention (before Sandy
Denny died) Queen (twice!) Elvis Costello, The Ramones all played the
"Wints" in Penzance. The place is now a restaurant, now doubt run by a
celebrity chef.

1953 for me.

I remember seeing Black Sabbath, Family, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Wishbone
Ash (3 times) all in the 1970s. I really wanted to see Jethro Tull & Yes but
never got the chance, great bands.
Ah those were the days, weather wasn't bad either. The fantastic summer of
1976 followed by the snowiest winter I've ever lived through in 1979
Met my Mrs in 1981 so it was more Dave Essex (4 times), Japan (3 times),
Siouxsie & the Banshees, Soft Cell, Tina Turner, Sting and Suzanne Vega in
the 80s.
Seen Coldplay twice more recently at Old Trafford Cricket ground and the
Etihad stadium, both times they were excellent.

Graham (Weston Coyney)

(OT) Sorry - but you have been warned!

Plenty of Graham's on USW, another thing that rather indicates the average age!

I also saw Wishbone Ash, I fully understand why you saw them 3 times, that was while I was at MIddlesex Poly (now a university). I was there primarily because having a career seemed rather unattractive compared with 3 years of geography field trips. Another lesser known band from the same era were 'Curved Air' I thought were sensational, I believe they brought out the 1st colour disc, I had this one http://darkcloudstudio.com/psychedel...nditioning.jpg . I saw them in 1973 and again in Penzance recently. I saw Blondie, Elton John (disapointing) the Eagles in the early '80s, I'll stop here before I work my way through the '90s to the present day.

One local (Falmouth) Band I 1st saw around 8 years ago, and have subsequently played Glastonbury 3 times since are 3 Daft Monkeys, sort music hall Celtic Folk Rock,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqasU0zx5nM

I'll stop now before others start putting me in the bin, but music is up there with weather for me.

Graham

Funny Graham as I've got older with some of the legends of seventies music I find I'm not that keen on them now.

For example in my quest to get more information off of my vinyl I was playing the Joni Mitchell LP (note not album) 'Blue' and it hit me what a lousy voice she had. My gods its dreadful and the pretentiousness of some of her lyrics like "The fiddle & the Drum" I find unlistenable . Anyhow back on topic for the first time in ten years, I do like "clouds".

On Saturday, 14 February 2015 09:38:29 UTC, Dawlish wrote:

Somebody seems to be trying to stir up trouble, just ignore.

Will
--
http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
---------------------------------------------

That would be hughes.

No, it was you. Yours is the only nasty and aggressive reply to Will's harmless observation, so by saying it was me makes you simply a liar and your lies are there for all to see, I suppose you realise.

You are also lying about your motivation for the post. You say Will's remarks were "incorrect". How can such such a thing be "incorrect"? Your motivation was purely to have a pop at Will and anyone on this group over the age of 6 will have deduced that. You can deny this, of course, but you'd be ****ing into the wind. I'm not a snow fan, BTW, just to show there's no personal or meteorological animosity.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

When everybody else around me at school were all into modern romantic
'trendy' music or Goth, I stayed true to the faith and Black Sabbath,
Deep Purple, Led Zep, Pink Floyd etc were my albums of choice. I was a
decade out.

I saw Ozzy play at the NEC in the early 90s (I think). The stage was a
huge set of stairs and at the top was a propped up coffin with smoke and
demonic music playing all around, the coffin lid slowly opened and Ozzy
(looking like Dracula) was 'sleeping' in it.

He opened his eyes and stepped out of the coffin and started singing
'Crazy Train'. Hilarious stuff.

My ears have never fully recovered as it was sooooooo loud.

Afterwards he ran around the stage throwing buckets of cold water at the
crowd.

Keeping on OT, the weather was hot and inside the arena it was beyond
hot. Having buckets of cold water chucked at you every few minutes was
quite a relief in the heat.

--
Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk

On Sunday, February 15, 2015 at 4:34:54 PM UTC, Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Saturday, 14 February 2015 09:38:29 UTC, Dawlish wrote:

Somebody seems to be trying to stir up trouble, just ignore.

Will
--
http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
---------------------------------------------

That would be hughes.

No, it was you.

Sure hughes. It was me, as I said 3 years ago, guilty as charged over speaking the plain truth at the time.

Not me now, old boy. Just curmudgeonly old hughes; stewing in his hatred and not being able to resist a pop.

Your unwelcome intervention, entirely of your own volition and prompted by nothing but an old thread and a lot of anger, hasn't worked, has it?

*))