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    ah, winchester... hope your weather is better than up here
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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    ah, winchester... hope your weather is better than up here
    Short break In Bournemouth Grant, not freezing but ‘bracing’




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    Quote Originally Posted by Roy S View Post
    Short break In Bournemouth Grant, not freezing but ‘bracing’



    recognised the guildhall... cathedral too. its lovely inside. it'll blow the cobwebs away
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


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    Quote Originally Posted by Roy S View Post
    Short break In Bournemouth Grant, not freezing but ‘bracing’



    Not been to Bournemouth for a number years, used to live there in my 20’s
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    Quote Originally Posted by Roy S View Post
    Short break In Bournemouth Grant, not freezing but ‘bracing’
    I imagine the zip wire will be closed till spring, that would be bracing
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    I imagine the zip wire will be closed till spring, that would be bracing
    Yes it is was, was looking forward to that to

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    Used to like Bournemouth, not been there in maybe thirty years.

    I'll be at the seaside myself soon, permanently.
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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    Used to like Bournemouth, not been there in maybe thirty years.

    I'll be at the seaside myself soon, permanently.
    The centre’s a bit run down these days.

    Moving to the coast?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roy S View Post
    Moving to the coast?
    Near Herne Bay and Reculver, North Kent. Shortly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    Near Herne Bay and Reculver, North Kent. Shortly.
    Lived in Herne Bay in the early to mid '70s whilst I was working on my doctorate. Visited Reculver a couple of times.

    Bugger all to do for entertainment - for that you need to go to Canterbury.
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