Terry: This is astonishing. I actually get a response re Samuel Pepys, our Great Leader. I can't imagine our Great Leader doing any home improvement of...
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Terry Foreman
thforeman
Aug 25, 2006 3:14 am
Carl, I fully agree. SP was among but not OF his painters, joyners, etc.. Class thing, you know: he's not a tradesman. Is that still the British way? Yanks...
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Susan Thomas
australiansusan
Aug 25, 2006 3:29 am
** Low Priority ** The DIY craze (which is *huge* in the UK) did not flourish until the 1960's - until then everyone employed tradespeople to do everything. As...
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Terry Foreman
thforeman
Aug 25, 2006 4:51 am
Of course that's Terry Foreman writing from Murray, Kentucky (an hour and a half SOUTH EAST of the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers) (you can take...
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Terry Foreman
thforeman
Aug 26, 2006 12:21 am
Susan, Thanks very much. My father followed the Australian pattern. Reared on a farm near Hannibal, MO, where the family had lived since 1818, who learned, as...
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pepysdiary-social@yah...
Oct 25, 2006 11:32 am
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the pepysdiary-social group. File : /!...
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glyn_thomas1234
glyn_thomas1234@...
Nov 8, 2006 5:02 pm
Sam has just had his Lord Mayor's Show, we've had another 340 since then, and if you want to copy him, the next one is this Saturday (11 Nov):...
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Alan Anderson
pepysreader
Nov 9, 2006 6:45 pm
Oh that sounds like a lot of fun. Wish I was there, but will think of you all here in NEW Hampshire, US! Have a wonderful time. I'm soooo jealous ;-). Cheers...
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Jenny Doughty
britinme
Nov 9, 2006 9:57 pm
Alan - I'm in Maine, so there are at least two of us with Lord Mayor's Show envy! I suspect Bradford, in Missouri, may be likewise afflicted. Jenny ... From:...
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Terry Foreman
thforeman
Nov 9, 2006 10:51 pm
Alan - I'm in far western KY only 227 km (141 mi ) - over here a short distance -east of Bradford and I could be said to share Jenny's jealousy ca. 3100 km...
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Susan Thomas
australiansusan
Nov 9, 2006 11:26 pm
** High Priority ** Well, I'm down here with the roos and the possums far too far away, but the prospect of doing something so English as to watch the Lord...
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Todd Bernhardt
beat_town
Nov 10, 2006 12:29 am
No, you're right, Terry ... I'm in Virginia, and it's not the distance that makes the heart yearn, it's the Anglophilately ... Anglophilatism ......
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Terry Foreman
thforeman
Nov 29, 2006 10:10 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061129/ap_en_ce/australia_the_wiggles Since Aussie Susan and others have mentioned them, there must be some who give at least a...
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Susan Thomas
australiansusan
Nov 30, 2006 3:09 am
** High Priority ** Very sad for the children's entertainment business! ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061129/ap_en_ce/australia_the_wiggles Since Aussie...
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Terry Foreman
thforeman
Nov 30, 2006 9:16 pm
Esp for those in the UK http://marguerite.ca/images/mastersingers.mp3...
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Susan Thomas
australiansusan
Nov 30, 2006 10:13 pm
** High Priority ** Thanks for that, Terry! haven't heard it for ages! They also do a very good Highway Code. They have been emulated by a group in Australia...
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carl_wickstrom@...
carl_wickstrom
Dec 1, 2006 2:37 am
Terry: Wonderful singing. I have not mastered the art of Yahooing, so I send this to you direct. The Anglican Chant was right on. I was watching Doo Wop on...
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Susan Thomas
australiansusan
Dec 1, 2006 5:26 am
** High Priority ** Further to my previous email, I have now found an excerpt from the Australian version, which is Customs & Quarantine, not a Vet Manual as i...
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Terry Foreman
thforeman
Dec 5, 2006 6:31 am
http://www.ndrf.org/orthostat.htm The yellow's now worn by Sam Moran and here's part of an article in the NYTimes: "The band’s young fans may well prove more...
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Susan Thomas
australiansusan
Mar 23, 2007 2:21 am
** High Priority ** To quote the wonderful David Walliams: "The computer says No". My PC thinks this is spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam [ John...
Hi, I've just changed the setting of this group so that you can only post to the list from the same email address with which you're subscribed. Hopefully this...
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Terry Foreman
thforeman
Jul 23, 2007 10:48 pm
The flooding there was the lead story on the major TV networks here in the US this evening. CNN and the Weather Channel have also been carrying video footage...
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carl_wickstrom@...
carl_wickstrom
Jul 23, 2007 11:10 pm
All: Even now I am composing a message to my good friends in London. I don't suppose they are affected because of their foresight in erecting the Thames...
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polbloom
Aug 19, 2007 2:17 am
Love the Union Oyster and would love to make it as since we're not going to accept a position at Manchester after all I have to miss out on the big meet in...
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Terry Foreman
thforeman
Sep 12, 2007 1:59 am
Friends in the UK, Congratulations! Wouldn't be quite the same toasting Sam metrically. This page was sent to you by: terry.foreman@... ...
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Bob Terry
augustusminns
Sep 12, 2007 2:08 am
Poor old Brits. Pounds, pints, miles, and drive on the wrong side of the road too. :-)...
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Todd Bernhardt
beat_town
May 12, 2008 11:55 am
Will someone please put this group out of its misery? We haven't been using it, and now it seems to have been hijacked by spammers... -Todd...
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Phil Gyford
gyford
May 12, 2008 12:14 pm
I'm happy to use it if others agree. I keep deleting spam messages from the site (after they've been sent of course) and banning the authors, but there are...
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Todd Bernhardt
beat_town
May 12, 2008 12:37 pm
Thanks, Phil. Isn't there a way to force a potential member to register, so they can't simply post? Or do you already do that? -Todd...
