Georgian Fair report
(12 messages)
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 22:10:52 +0100
Well, I spent all day Saturday wandering around Cockermouth in the pouring
rain, wearing a rather chilly Georgian costume and playing for the morris
dancers, and I didn't see any of you! Where were you all? Huddling beside a
warm ...
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Jet Ski
(5 messages)
Date: 10 Apr 2005 07:13:09 -0700
Anyone living in Cumbria got one or know anything about them?
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An interesting bit of research. Male <> female attraction.
(2 messages)
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 13:52:12 +0100
This article was posted by an individual who calls himself
M T.. <me@privacy.net> in <uk.local.south-wales>.
I felt that it was such a good example of the descriptive power of
your English language that I ought to share ...
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Bygone Cumbria
(30 messages)
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 08:35:43 GMT
I have just returned from the market, where the second-hand bookstall had a
book of photographs of bygone Cumbria. There was this picture of two old
ladies sitting each side of a fire range, knitting, which took my eye.
Could ...
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Happy Birthday Tania
(89 messages)
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 15:16:55 -0500
I wanted to be the first to wish Tania a Happy Birthday tomorrow
(9th).
And I think I was first!
Johnny-don't-expect-a-card-though ...
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Netiquette for the newbies: A draft. Comments Please???
(1 messages)
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 12:56:13 +0100
In an effort to enlist your understanding and tolerance I wonder if I
could explain the function of < uk.local.*> news groups.
All of them, have been from the very beginning and will be to the very
end safe play areas ...
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boink
(17 messages)
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 00:16:37 +0100
I've just sent a message out to the usual suspects and a few potentially new
suspects, but if you want to come to a transatlantic boink at - possibly -
Caldbeck - very soon, speak now or forever hold your peace.
I'm hoping ...
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Well. Are you?
(12 messages)
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 12:34:33 +0200
Iz tha garn oot fur a slap oop feed tuneet, iz tha?
Edith
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The old pencil Mill
(2 messages)
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:52:19 +0200
http://www.cumbrian-cottages.co.uk/framkesw.htm
Look at Greta Side Apartments. Strange to think my Dad onced worked there.
Industries of Cumbria - Wad
www.gretabodyworks.co.uk/html/history.html
Lake District and Cumbria ...
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Ospreys
(26 messages)
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 18:46:00 +0200
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/
Have you read about the ospreys? Cool.
Edith.
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My Drug problem
(1 messages)
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:04:42 +0200
My Drug Problem
> Drug Problem:
> The other day, someone at a store in a small town read that a
> methamphetamine lab had been found in an old farmhouse in the adjoining
> county and he asked me a rhetorical question, "Why ...
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Bored
(1 messages)
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 14:27:14 +0200
Annie's Goat.
Annie's goat stood out in the middle of the turnip field munching away in
broad day light, not a care in the world, eyes rolling, big yellow goat
teeth grinding away in extended bliss.
William, who had given ...
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Threlkeld
(1 messages)
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 12:05:10 +0200
via Stuart
www.threlkeld.org.uk
This one's good.
Edith.
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Personalised Poems
(1 messages)
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 08:45:29 GMT
For that unique gift try a personalised poem for that special person. New
business venture.
http://fiddy64.tripod.com/
Sorry for spamming your newsgroup
Bob
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John Paul
(8 messages)
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:11:28 +0200
Well, now the world's a funny old place without him.
Edith.
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Morning all
(5 messages)
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 09:37:27 +0200
Are there no shin bones out there that I can kick?. I need to express
myself. Fine lot of friends you lot are, hm!
Oh well.............................chu! chu! chu!........come here Leroy
Frustrated Edith.
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Google Fight
(1 messages)
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 02:16:01 +0100
http://www.googlefight.com/
Do you ever fantasize about who would win in a fight between two people?
Neither do I. There are some unanswered questions that people have, and the
only way to figure out who truly wins is to ...
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Web-Site Update: Railway Stuff at Workington
(3 messages)
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 12:44:19 +0000 (UTC)
I have updated my web-site to include some photographs of Calva
Junction and the Buckhill Line, 1981-85, and a couple of Workington
goods-yard taken in 1985.
Interested? Have a look at:
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~rwbarnes/workgton/cwne ...
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April Fool
(5 messages)
Date: 1 Apr 2005 03:54:52 -0800
So who came up with the best Cumbrian April fool this year? Anyone
like to admit they were duped by a particularly wicked fool? Or were
you impressed by a particularly clever jape?
Alan Cleaver ...
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Crime From The Top
(1 messages)
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 03:24:39 +0100
H.R.H. Queen Elisabeth II
Buckingham Palace
London.
20th March 2005.
Your Royal Highness I wrote to you around four years ago on the matter of
whether you bear any responsibility to act when judges and ...
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