| Oatmeal25
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Lesley, mirabile dictu, eh? Wonder of wonders, what a lamp.
Reply #3321. Sep 05 11, 6:55 PM
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I remember the word 'beatnik' and when poems were read in coffee shops and the color black was 'in', berets were the head cover of choice and snapping of fingers was 'hip'.
Go, daddyo, go. This party is a blast. Can you 'dig'?
I'm going to go lay down. My age just caught up with me.
Thanks for permitting a trip down memory lane, Lesley. You are one hip cat and I dig ya cuz you are 'in'.
Reply #3322. Sep 05 11, 7:00 PM
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| lesley153
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| This is fun, showing our age. It's well after two o'clock, and a darkened room sounds like a very good idea. |
Reply #3323. Sep 05 11, 7:22 PM
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| Oatmeal25
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Of course it is. I just didn't want to turn your blog into a music hall. That's entirely up to you. :)
Reply #3325. Sep 06 11, 5:27 AM
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| C30
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I was thinking more of an old Hank Williams number, "I saw the light"!
and if we are putting this all to music...........we can have LOTS of "light" music! rofl
.......and the Genie said, "Let there be light", and Lesley plugged in the lamp. Lo, all of Bedford was lit by a wondrous light and you could see for miles and miles.
......and the Genie said, "Let there be darkness", and Lesley unplugged the lamp, and Bedford was plunged into darkness, nobody could see a darn thing!
Lesley was well pleased!
Can anyone look to see if there are men in white coats heading towards my house?
Reply #3327. Sep 06 11, 8:18 AM
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bloodandsand
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They've done a detour to mine first, C30!
Reply #3328. Sep 06 11, 12:35 PM
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| Oatmeal25
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Ah, light. "Dawn's promising skies..."
(Will Lesley take the musical bait?)
Reply #3329. Sep 06 11, 1:19 PM
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| lesley153
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Petals on a pool drifting... nah, she wouldn't do that.
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Popped in to see a friend last night, took her a birthday card for her birthday today.
Out again this evening - a friend invited people to a restaurant meal to celebrate his father's birthday. Thai green curry and white t-shirts don't mix, but my necklace hid the damage, and the food was good.
Haven't got much done but enjoyed not doing much. :)
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Standing on the pavement after midnight, talking to the birthday boy's son, and two men in a car pulled up and asked us if we knew a Scouser who lived somewhere round here. They knew what the street looked like but not where it was or what it was called, and they'd driven from Birmingham to find him. They thanked us for a couple of ideas, and the driver said, if we were ever in Castle Bromwich, pop into his dad's pub for free drinks. I'm on my way!
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The lamp is a thing of beauty, and it lets there be light in abundance, all over the bedroom. Goodnight! |
Reply #3330. Sep 06 11, 7:44 PM
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satguru
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Glad the lamp's finally made it, if it had a passport it would need a new one now with all those stamps.
I've been told I'm too young to associate myself with hippies, but now it's been mentioned I remember the beatniks myself previously. I was actually alive then but not expected to have been old enough to remember them clearly, but the TV was on most of the time and they were pretty popular then. I could already do the twist by the time I was three and started buying records so was pretty familiar with all the scene, and that was a few years before hippies had even been thought of. So I've just discovered I actually predate the hippies as far as my recollections go. Fascinating.
Reply #3331. Sep 06 11, 9:03 PM
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Professer
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Sounds like you are enjoying things a lot more this year, then last, is so good to see you having good times, Glad the light arrived.
Reply #3332. Sep 07 11, 1:22 AM
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| lesley153
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It travelled a distance of around 430 miles to achieve a displacement of 30, which equates to approximately 7% efficiency. I'm very pleased I didn't have to pay for the wasted 93%!
I too predate hippies but never wore flowers in my hair. Another wasted opportunity.
Thanks Gary - perhaps it's not too late to go out and pick some flowers. |
Reply #3333. Sep 07 11, 8:41 AM
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| lesley153
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I deposited sprog in his new flat on Friday, and he's just sneaked off to Luton airport, to fly to Poland for a week with a college orchestra. He hadn't intended to, but they pleaded... said they were "desperate" for violins... and who can resist a bit of desperation? Not him, if there's music attached!
Rather than travel at crack of dawn, a lot of them have decided to get there around midnight, and sleep on the floor of the terminal. Sounds like fun. :(
I haven;t got any immediate plans at the moment. I'm taking the birthday girl to lunch on Friday. And catching up on sleep. |
Reply #3334. Sep 07 11, 7:54 PM
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| lesley153
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Except he didn't sleep - he sat in the airport reading, and probably didn't sleep on the plane either. Tonight he said he had been up for 40 hours and was incoherent. :D I know the feeling.
I'm pleased he's had the opportunity to get right away, with friends and music. When he starts work/studies in a few weeks, he probably won't know what hit him. |
Reply #3335. Sep 08 11, 3:40 PM
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| lesley153
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Had a delicious lunch with birthdaying friend.
Going out now to a public meeting about Tesco's plans to turn a defunct pub, at the end of a small run of shops in a residential area, into the 11th Tesco in Bedford. People are starting to call us Tesco-shire.
 http://savebrickhillshops.weebly.com/
If they get in, it won't be a little run of local independent shops - it'll be a run of boarded-up shop premises; and Tesco will probably snap them up too, and make living round there intolerable. |
Reply #3336. Sep 09 11, 12:06 PM
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| veronikkamarrz
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I'd always thought Tesco was a large-ish market...With 10 already, they sound more like 7-11 or Quick Stop!
Reply #3337. Sep 09 11, 12:29 PM
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Professer
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Tescos are the dvil incarnate they take over town after town with too many stores, Inverness is Dubbed tesco town with 5 stores, They are trying to stop asda and sainsburys building there and out lying places.
They threaten and intimidate opposition to stop development of rival stores, asda have won two appeals to develop stores so tesco not getting their own way.
People of bedford need to object.
Reply #3338. Sep 09 11, 12:39 PM
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| Oatmeal25
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"If they get in, it won't be a little run of local independent shops - it'll be a run of boarded-up shop premises; and Tesco will probably snap them up too, and make living round there intolerable."
It sounds as though Tesco is the Wal-Mart of the U.K. :(
Reply #3339. Sep 09 11, 12:45 PM
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| lesley153
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We have one Sainsbury and one Marks and Spencer. Asda were going to open a branch but ended up opening a distribution depot. Waitrose have planning permission to open a branch near one of the Tescos, but nothing's happened yet. There is an open-air market on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and a Farmers' Market on Fridays.
The Tesco presence in Bedford is eleven shops so far: two supermarkets, and a string of mini-Tescos operating under twee names like Express, Metro and One-Stop. They've also bought the consecutive "units" (I think that's another word for shops) in Bedford town centre.
http://tinyurl.com/Tesco-in-Bedford-town-centre
It was a good meeting. There were no reporters but the local MP turned up and made a lot of contributions. In an hour and a half, we discovered that we have the power to force a public ballot, and we formulated, discussed and voted on a question to be asked in the ballot.
The gist of the question is: given the number of shops we have, etc, in two local shopping parades, do we want a Tesco where the pub was? Y/N
The question was accepted unanimously. If all goes to plan, there will be a public vote on it in three or four weeks.
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Reply #3340. Sep 09 11, 2:34 PM
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