smib
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I would they are worth double the "Jocky" onesWill you be bringing any English Bank notes back.........just asking
What’s made you happy for a change
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BAD LUCK DUCK
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Time to dig out my old grappling hook and nick someone's washing line and go dredging me thinks
Need supplies for the Peasant Army
About time too!
BAD LUCK DUCK
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Should never have done it in the first place...fuck em..
I suppose everyone should consider his brother a victim of the racist white man and he should be given millions in compensation and such and the family that as had their lives shattered should be eternally punished
Sarky B’stard
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I did, thank you.
My only observation would be, 'And I thought the South East was a s***thole 25 yrs ago. The Garden of England is more like an overgrown compost heap. Tragic over development/population. Harold Godwinson wouldn't recognise the place from his last trip down to Pevensey.
chas
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Pure greed. The backhanders to get planning for so much housing without a shred of infrastructure to support it is a stain.
Old Nick
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I think you’ve still got the hump for having your Scottish tenner knocked back on the A21 @Sarky B’stard
Old Nick
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I remember many years ago seeing plans to build up between Maidstone Sittingbourne and Ashford reported in the KM
30 odd miles Which was all agricultural land, not any longer
And down in South East Kent, Dover, Folkestone, Cheriton all turned over to freight Warehousing for the ports and Channel tunnel
I think of Kent being the Shed of England now rather than the Garden of England, or the Compost Heap……
Sarky B’stard
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Not a bit of it. I was just saddened to see pretty villages nose to tail in traffic with masses of modern infill and that sense that 'once was' will never be again. Furthermore you just have a sense that the younger generation (hark at him!I think you’ve still got the hump for having your Scottish tenner knocked back on the A21 @Sarky B’stard
) don't really have a sense of what's been lost.Reminds me of visiting the farm my father was brought up on. He showed me the roadside ditch virtually dry because of water abstraction where he guddled for sea trout as a boy while the main river is now thick with weed from fertiliser run off. He just said, "If you had never seen it, you could not imagine what's been lost." I just had that same sense in Kent/Sussex after going back 25 yrs later. There WAS NO motorway next to Paddock Hill bend at Brands!
Sarky B’stard
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And it was a Twenty ya cheapskate.I think you’ve still got the hump for having your Scottish tenner knocked back on the A21 @Sarky B’stard
Doc Strange
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Not a bit of it. I was just saddened to see pretty villages nose to tail in traffic with masses of modern infill and that sense that 'once was' will never be again. Furthermore you just have a sense that the younger generation (hark at him!
Reminds me of visiting the farm my father was brought up on. He showed me the roadside ditch virtually dry because of water abstraction where he guddled for sea trout as a boy while the main river is now thick with weed from fertiliser run off. He just said, "If you had never seen it, you could not imagine what's been lost." I just had that same sense in Kent/Sussex after going back 25 yrs later. There WAS NO motorway next to Paddock Hill bend at Brands!
Totally agree. One of the reasons I was happy moving out of East London was because it took to long to get to decent roads in Essex, but now those old NSLs are all 40s and full of traffic too.
I can even see the first signs of it starting to happen here now.
Lincolnshire beckons - that is nicely under-populated, albeit rather flat.
DS
Tallpaul
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True, but only worth a tenner these days.....................
smib
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TEMPVS FVGIT
Sarky B’stard
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Northumberland is a better bet! Hills, coast and rivers..... watch Vera!
chas
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And take note of the thick coats and wet roads
BAD LUCK DUCK
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That's actually very sad...Not a bit of it. I was just saddened to see pretty villages nose to tail in traffic with masses of modern infill and that sense that 'once was' will never be again. Furthermore you just have a sense that the younger generation (hark at him!
Reminds me of visiting the farm my father was brought up on. He showed me the roadside ditch virtually dry because of water abstraction where he guddled for sea trout as a boy while the main river is now thick with weed from fertiliser run off. He just said, "If you had never seen it, you could not imagine what's been lost." I just had that same sense in Kent/Sussex after going back 25 yrs later. There WAS NO motorway next to Paddock Hill bend at Brands!
Sarky B’stard
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Kind of my point....That's actually very sad...
BAD LUCK DUCK
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Don the Don
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Aye the days of the Darling buds of may are well gone long time ago, sixty million people live in England and wales and the doo gooders still say open the doors to all
BAD LUCK DUCK
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I say we can still raise the drawbridge lower the portcullis and sling the buggers from the ramparts like the good old days...