THE BRITISH THREAD

Love those speakers! Quality!

You sarky bugger!!!!

montana wrote:



Oh yeah?

Well if you're so clever montana, and not busy lusting after Frenchmen, why don't you just hop on a flight (if you have a passport) and come round to mine, and read the bloody camera instructions with poor eyesight and lost reading glasses and YOU set it!

phew! that feels better...

(kisses, montana)

Just my way of bookmarking ;-)

<hugs smorgs>

According to the news, I'm about to go on strike! first I heard...

http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/news/emplyoment/civil-servants-set-strike-$449944.htm

Montana ------------ You ignore dates at your peril, whatever type they are

If you are refering to those dates that are grown & they get to be less than perfect when you eat then, you will other rather more pressing reasons for employing the words --- Grown & Groan, the choice would be yours

Voila, C'est la vie mon cherie

Bonne soir

Yes, I must make a point of ignoring dates in the future

Tonight (Mathew) I will be mostly listening to the radio...

I'm going to listen to The Real Buddy Holly Story (The music didn't dies) on BBC Radio 2.

The Proms is on as well...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/

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There's a good selection on at the moment:


BBC Proms In The Park
From London's Hyde Park

Stop The World
The story of Anthony Newley

The Otis Redding Story
Presented by Stuart Maconie

And a tribute to freddie Mercury

...same link

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Has anyone else read Stuart marconi's Cider with Roadies?

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Marconi?

I think it's Maconi, or something like that.

Whatever happened to Napalm Death, I wonder?

A ha!!!!

So you have then!

Not like you to correct spelling, Lord Smug...

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Wasn't it made into a TV series as well?

About using the Morse alphabet

Oh, now I get it: noodles it is. Funny topic, indeed.

i was arrested by two british MP's (military police) in hamburg in the spring of 1948 for wearing a u.s army jacket that had not been dyed ;
does that qualify me to join this thread :wink: ?
it was forbidden to wear allied uniform jackets , pants etc unless they had been dyed - usually a greenish-brown colour .
hbg

btw spent the night in the lockup , but was released the next day upon promising the british army judge "not to re-offend" - hope no one is looking for me .

NO!

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My daughter went to the proms in the park. it was very good by all accounts

I haven't read Marconi's book but I often catch his radio show.

Anthony newly was great. As well as acting he was also a writer, plus he wrote & rec. songs. Stop The World I Want to Get Off.

In 1960 I was working at ATV as an assisstant film editor on an Anthoy Newly show called ------------------------------------------------>>>>>>

The Strange World of Gurney Slade

1 9 6 0 (UK)
6 x 30 minute episodes

This weird and surreal series starred singer Anthony Newley as an over-imaginative young man prone to fantasizing about his ideal woman, and frequently finding himself in conversation with trees and similar objects.



The short series (only six episodes were produced) was written by Sid Green and Dick Hills, and produced by Alan Tarrant.

Max Harris's music was conducted by Jack Parnell

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The Cast

Anthony Newley

I get what you mean Walter, as Marconi were a very big employer round here for years and years....until they c*cked up all their marketing strategies and virtually went bust!

They now employ about 10% of the people they had not but two years ago!

Now who's smug?

I was certain I'd seen it, or something very similar.....

Off to google now...