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In Madeira I had Scabbard fish for dinner one evening. It came with rice and salad I think, not too sure because I was too shocked that they slap a banana on top of the fish!

The royal mail (Ye Posteman Patteth) amongst other things, read the first photo.

No, it was a tiny article in a local paper in 2007ish.

Just a bimble about this morning seeing as it was sunny. I popped down to Kelvedon to have a look at the packhorse bridge that I heard about years ago but had never actually seen. I had to wade through shit loads of nettles and general nature crap to even see a little bit of it! Then a general wander about went into the ancestral Powell village of Rowhedge which is usually empty to find it rammed with people watching some sort of rowing competition. By the time I'd stopped and got a camera out it was all over..

There's a red flag!

After searching Kursaal vids on the other thread this came up. If you wind back to the beginning before the music you get lots of aerial video of the pier and the Kursaal. The pier is still it's original length (1976 the film) before some twat sailed a ship though the middle of it. Only a mile long nowadays, I walked it a few months back, but got the train back to shore. A local told me that the people stranded in the cut off section after the accident weren't very happy at the time. On 30 June 1986, a 54.9-metre (180 ft) tanker named Kings Abbey crashed into the pier, severing a 21.3-metre (70 ft) gap from the new pierhead to the rest of the pier, destroying the boathouse used by the lifeboat service and causing major structural damage due to the destruction of iron piles and supporting girders. I hated Dr Feelgood after seeing them about three years running at the Kent Custom Show, but this one song I do like, regularly played in the garage or car.

On another bike site I go on it was a relatively regular complaint from new members that they were sick of all the pervy sites in the header/footer adverts when they browsed the site. It was then pointed out to them that they would be based on their own personal internet history.

I never ever went to the funfair there. However your comment made me search youtube for video of these planes. Worth watching the whole thing, but should start at some aircraft going around. Are these the ones that turned upside down? The bit that affected me most was the centrifuge thing where you stick to the walls (from 2:20 onwards), I used to come out of that fighting to hold on to my dinner at my own local fair.

From wikiwossname. I never noticed a Tesco Express. Decline and closure (1973–1986) The Kursaal as a whole had been in gradual decline since the early 1970s, with the outdoor amusements closing in 1973.[15] At the end of 1977 the decision was made to close the ballroom, with the main building finally succumbing in 1986. The outdoor amusement area was later redeveloped for housing. Main building reopening (1998) In 1998 the main Kursaal building was reopened after a multimillion-pound redevelopment by the Rowallan Group containing a bowling alley, a casino and other amusements.[15] The building originally contained a McDonald's, but the fastfood chain left in 2008.[18] The bowling alley closed permanently in 2019, and the casino closed permanently in 2020. This currently leaves only a Tesco Express store occupying part of this historic building.

Sunset in Southend on Sea this evening that looked very like a nuclear bomb going off over the Isle of Sheppey in one picture. Is the other disc above the nuclear explosion the moon?? Also The Kursaal, scene of crime for Doctor Feelgood, now sad and abandoned. I was about 4 feet from a seagull this evening, he was flying but due to the wind he was flying into, he was stationary right in front of me, a very odd feeling being eye to eye.

waving his left hand to reveal the missing index finger https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/04/maurice-evans-firework-collector-x/

My mate bought a Shad box that expanded. He was very proud of it. On the only three journeys I did with him with it fitted it did the following:- 1/ Couldn't unlock it for about 30 minutes after arrival at an event, when it did unlock it jammed on one side on the expansion part and then he couldn't lock it shut. Had to walk around with his jacket and lid. 2/ Riding behind him on the way back from somewhere in Sussex, I noticed the lid hadn't shut properly and was flapping up and down. I tried bibbing for half a mile but the deaf sod didn't hear that, so I overtook him pointing at his top box. He waved and went straight past me as I slowed down to stop in a convenient lay-by. Eventually he realised what I was hinting at and stopped somewhere dangerous to relock it. 3/ Same as number 1 only this time it only jammed for 10 minutes. Then the lid opened on the way home again and he had waterproof trousers hanging out the back flapping about. He still goes on about how marvellous it is that it can change sizes???

Yeah, absolutely, I line them with old pants as well, they flourish with a bit of manure.

I give them to friends who turn them into hanging baskets in the garden. I will get pictures next time they are in bloom. You have to take the lining out and drill a few small drain holes.

It does sound fine in the video. I recommend ear plugs just in case.

Well I wouldn't live there if I had a million and a half quid. This is the same bloke who I said lived next door to the Bishop of Stepney. Even he's taking a chance if he walks about at dusk.

You'll be fine Pete, I've seen the pictures of 'young you', you'd avoid all contact if you saw him mooching about grunting and dribbling.

I mentioned in my stories about someone I know who bought a derelict house and did it up. He bought it for about 350k and added an extension to the basement and a mansard roof to get an extra floor. I did some of the plans for him, the last one was a retrospective planning permission because he had built a little bit too high on the roof part. I just looked it up to see how much he sold it for. Jesus, the inside wasn't like that when he bought it, it looked like Ebeneezer Scrooge's weekend place I should point out, it is still in a dodgy area but London prices are silly. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=88282162&sale=88422162&country=england

That's cos it was bloody dangerous, especially when you stopped but couldn't put your feet down because the flares on your jeans got caught round a pedal.

Found it, best joke I think I ever heard as a child.

The story about Shuggie the wrestler is better, but this is also quite good.

Looking at the maps I screen shot, they seem a lot further out than that shows the path to be. Those squares on the map are 1000 metres wide so they should be about 300m from the shore. At times I can't even see the shoreline and that is from the bikers head height isn't it. That's the 100 yard dash at school three times, not that far.