JamesFrance
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Post by JamesFrance on Jun 6, 2015 8:11:54 GMT
Most weekends from April to October you will find me travelling around Southern England and Northern Europe with Elmer the Patchwork Elephant There is a great place for that at Le Franqui Plage near where I live. they have kite boarding and sand yachting championships there. It's between Narbonne and Perpignan and we stay there in our campingcar. Maybe you have been?
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Post by batchoy on Jun 6, 2015 10:30:36 GMT
Most weekends from April to October you will find me travelling around Southern England and Northern Europe with Elmer the Patchwork Elephant There is a great place for that at Le Franqui Plage near where I live. they have kite boarding and sand yachting championships there. It's between Narbonne and Perpignan and we stay there in our campingcar. Maybe you have been? The farthest south we get is Frejus in October, which involves an 18 hour all but nonstop run on the Friday and a leisurely return run on the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Sent from my GT-N7105 using proboards
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Post by batchoy on Jun 6, 2015 12:48:28 GMT
My kids lover Elmer!!! batchoy. I need a six foot Elmer!! You mean like this?  As you can see he takes up a lot of room, mind you not as much as a 10m Orca.
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Post by registerme on Jun 7, 2015 5:45:04 GMT
I once walked through a glass tube, in a shark tank, during an earthquake.
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ramblin rose
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Post by ramblin rose on Jul 3, 2015 14:48:07 GMT
There is a great place for that at Le Franqui Plage near where I live. they have kite boarding and sand yachting championships there. It's between Narbonne and Perpignan and we stay there in our campingcar. Maybe you have been? The farthest south we get is Frejus in October, which involves an 18 hour all but nonstop run on the Friday and a leisurely return run on the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Sent from my GT-N7105 using proboards Mention of Frejus links to one of my random facts. I once formed part of an official convoy with the Italian Corpo Forestale taking two brown bears from the Turin zoo, which had failed, to the Frejus tunnel. Amongst other things I became part of the camera crew for the mission, which involved us driving alongside the convoy along some of the motorway stretches, much to the Forestale guys' annoyance! We were rehoming the bears to the Welsh Mountain Zoo in Colwyn Bay and a couple of vets accompanied them from the Frejus onwards. Last I heard they'd happily managed the transition from nasty, concrete cage to open, green compound with waterfall. There were only another few hundred 'things' to rehome  but we did it, eventually.
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Jul 3, 2015 17:06:53 GMT
I can be often found in the local park at 2am wearing dark clothes and a balaclava along with like minded people. Well, I wouldn't want to be out in public at that time with all this expensive kit on my own.  John Longjohn, I know where your name comes from - very chilly hobby. As you can see, mine has been gathering dust for some years now .. getting too old and feeble to lift it into place, really ought to sell it to Ablrateandy! 
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Post by batchoy on Jul 3, 2015 20:56:03 GMT
The farthest south we get is Frejus in October, which involves an 18 hour all but nonstop run on the Friday and a leisurely return run on the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Sent from my GT-N7105 using proboards Mention of Frejus links to one of my random facts. I once formed part of an official convoy with the Italian Corpo Forestale taking two brown bears from the Turin zoo, which had failed, to the Frejus tunnel. Amongst other things I became part of the camera crew for the mission, which involved us driving alongside the convoy along some of the motorway stretches, much to the Forestale guys' annoyance! We were rehoming the bears to the Welsh Mountain Zoo in Colwyn Bay and a couple of vets accompanied them from the Frejus onwards. Last I heard they'd happily managed the transition from nasty, concrete cage to open, green compound with waterfall. There were only another few hundred 'things' to rehome but we did it, eventually. Continuing the linking of random facts, shortly after the photo was taken this bear went West and spent several weeks promoting the IMAX movie " To the Arctic" around the USA. 
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Post by longjohn on Jul 4, 2015 14:40:59 GMT
I can be often found in the local park at 2am wearing dark clothes and a balaclava along with like minded people. Well, I wouldn't want to be out in public at that time with all this expensive kit on my own. John Longjohn, I know where your name comes from - very chilly hobby. As you can see, mine has been gathering dust for some years now .. getting too old and feeble to lift it into place, really ought to sell it to Ablrateandy! Nice Celestron C6. Pretty good for the Moon, Planets and bright star clusters. It's looking rather sad pointing at the floor though. Longjohn = I'm 6ft 8in. I'll admit to wearing thermals when out with the scope in winter. Electric soles and gloves keep the toes and fingers warm which makes all the difference to my comfort level. John
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Jul 4, 2015 15:56:57 GMT
Longjohn .. Actually it's an Ultima 8... if it was a C6 I could probably haul it about a bit easier. Luckily the skies here are dark, because you need an estate car or transit van to move it any distance. 8>.
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jonno
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Post by jonno on Jul 6, 2015 15:14:08 GMT
The farthest south we get is Frejus in October, which involves an 18 hour all but nonstop run on the Friday and a leisurely return run on the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Sent from my GT-N7105 using proboards Mention of Frejus links to one of my random facts. I once formed part of an official convoy with the Italian Corpo Forestale taking two brown bears from the Turin zoo, which had failed, to the Frejus tunnel. Amongst other things I became part of the camera crew for the mission, which involved us driving alongside the convoy along some of the motorway stretches, much to the Forestale guys' annoyance! We were rehoming the bears to the Welsh Mountain Zoo in Colwyn Bay and a couple of vets accompanied them from the Frejus onwards. Last I heard they'd happily managed the transition from nasty, concrete cage to open, green compound with waterfall. There were only another few hundred 'things' to rehome but we did it, eventually. ;Was one of the other "things" an Ed, re-homed in the Isle of Man?
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ramblin rose
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Post by ramblin rose on Jul 6, 2015 18:37:27 GMT
Mention of Frejus links to one of my random facts. I once formed part of an official convoy with the Italian Corpo Forestale taking two brown bears from the Turin zoo, which had failed, to the Frejus tunnel. Amongst other things I became part of the camera crew for the mission, which involved us driving alongside the convoy along some of the motorway stretches, much to the Forestale guys' annoyance! We were rehoming the bears to the Welsh Mountain Zoo in Colwyn Bay and a couple of vets accompanied them from the Frejus onwards. Last I heard they'd happily managed the transition from nasty, concrete cage to open, green compound with waterfall. There were only another few hundred 'things' to rehome but we did it, eventually. ;Was one of the other "things" an Ed, re-homed in the Isle of Man?  Thankfully not - no lesser spotted, great crested or any other variant of Ed was amongst them. (And it's a shame he wasn't around at the time as he might have adopted the ducks, and I'd have had one less compound to construct and clean  ).
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Post by buggerthebanks on Jul 27, 2015 21:41:00 GMT
This thread has prompted me to check something I'd long forgotten about: I hold a top-ten world ranking for...... Spider Solitaire. Not something to be proud of, I'll admit, but I think it has novelty value.
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Post by Grezza on Jul 29, 2015 14:46:41 GMT
Okay, on a rather tenuous note, like, 'I danced with a woman who danced with a man who danced with a woman who danced with the Prince of Wales' I can say I play backgammon in Menorca with a guy who played backgammon with the late Omar Shariff. Incidentally, I'm sat in the bar of the York Hotel in Weston super Mare before jetting back to Menorca, enjoying the 3rd Test on TMS!!!
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Post by j on Jul 29, 2015 17:06:56 GMT
I went swimming the other day!.......Well, it is a fact..about myself  |
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ramblin rose
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Post by ramblin rose on Jul 29, 2015 18:27:15 GMT
I went swimming the other day!.......Well, it is a fact..about myself And a decidedly random one, at that.
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but we did it, eventually.
Thankfully not - no lesser spotted, great crested or any other variant of Ed was amongst them. (And it's a shame he wasn't around at the time as he might have adopted the ducks, and I'd have had one less compound to construct and clean 
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