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Topic: Great new signature! (sorry, not about beer)
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wurdsmiff
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posted 03-23-2001 04:40 AM
So you've been to England. Hedingham is very popular, I have an old pencil drawing of it. If you're interested, I'll post in in the Photo Archive.
I was in the Netherlands and Belgium when I was about your age, but have never managed to get back (no time with all my visits to Malta). I remember being very impressed by some of your castles as the coach whisked us about. Unfortunately we never got a closer look at them. If you can find the treasure story it would be interesting.
A lot of your footballers live and work in Glasgow, where I live. Unfortunately for the team who employ them, they don't try too hard. |
AJR
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posted 03-23-2001 04:45 AM
I live less than 50 miles from Hedingham, and shamefully, I've never been there. Pictures, yes. Books, yes, but there's no substitute for actually being there. Must make it one of aims in the near future. |
Fox Atreides
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posted 03-23-2001 06:07 AM
Hey, no comments on our football players. The always do very well at EC and WC, better than da english guys...
I'll see if I can find the story for ya.
I've also been to castle Bodiam and the castle on the very very high rock er, castle I can't rember, Haddon hall and Peveril castle.
Glad someone's crazy enough to come to this country, come again, you'l like our mudhole. O, visited the Muiderslot? |
Philip Davis
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posted 03-23-2001 02:23 PM
The castle on a high rock sounds like Beeston but I suppose it could be Carreg Cennan. Hedingham is one of my favourites too and I'm shocked AJR hasn't visited it. |
wurdsmiff
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posted 03-23-2001 02:42 PM
To be fair, the Dutchmen at Glasgow Rangers are almost all injured, DeBoer, Michael Mols, Van Bronkhurst, Ricksen is banned since he nearly took an Aberdeen players leg off below the knee. Konterman is fit, and Advocaat is ......struggling.
I saw Hedingham on TV the other day, think it must have been a kids schools programme. It's one of these places that is so commonly photographed these days, you feel as though you know it intimately without ever having been. A bit like Eilan Donan or Urquhart
(though I have been to these). Maybe if the F&M abates I'll do a trip south of the border this year, assuming I don't get held for ransom like they did in the old days when a Scot got caught down there. Nobody would pay to get me back!!!!!!
Holland will have to wait a while I'm afraid, I'm going back to Malta in the summer.------------------
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Fox Atreides
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posted 03-24-2001 05:59 AM
you're looking at the wrong football players (except de Boer)
The good ones don't play in your glascow clubbie.
Hm, quite shocked indeed, Hedingham you must go.
I don't think the castle on the rock had such a name. It was a very white ruin, and now I remember, it was in France. But there're so many castles there, don't look for the name.
My favorit castle at da moment is Bentheim, it's a shorter travel to get there then to go to Hedingham.Another dutch one: slot Loevestijn, in the 17th centurie an important scientist escaped from there in a bookkist after he was centenced (spelled wrong of course) to a life in jail on the castle. |
AJR
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posted 03-26-2001 12:32 AM
Don't actually get to visit too many places unless I'm on holiday. I don't have a car, and castling holidays have been with my Dad (the wife refuses to come, but then, us two men enjoy visiting castles in peace).
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wurdsmiff
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posted 03-26-2001 07:21 AM
de Boer has been as poor as the others since he arrived, though he does say he's got a sore knee!! Poor man, allegedly £30,000+ a week and he can't even work. Wish I could get a job like that, I could retire fairly quickly. |
Fox Atreides
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posted 03-26-2001 10:20 AM
you're already retired anyway aren't you?
And de Boer is great, suppose ya've seen him play on the EC and WC?
He's da only one who doesn't make any stupid mistakes, like others do.
Hey, 5-0 vs. Andorra! pretty nice e?
Wel, ya gotta visit the Doornenburg too, nice castle, though we haven't got any really large castles like in the books, we have castles with 4 square meters of courtyard, and some house and towers with stupid roofs, no stand alone walls  |
wurdsmiff
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posted 03-26-2001 01:52 PM
I've seen de Boer play a lot on TV, but since he came to Glasgow, i've seen him make a lot of silly mistakes. Maybe he's missing his brother who's still at Barcelona. There are rumours that he's coming to Glasgow too when his contract expires.
Enjoy your visits, I'm only going to manage to pop nextdoor to Bothwell this week, hoefully it's open, but there's no livestock around so it should be.
And no I'm not retired, still got an awful lot of years to work before then.
Andrew, if your wife is like mine, then take her to castles with shops.......... |
AJR
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posted 03-27-2001 12:09 AM
What !!! Take my wife to castles with SHOPS !! No way. I don't earn enough to do that.Truthfully, she does tolerate one or two castles on a week's holiday, provided that she can sit and wait for me. I wouldn't swap her for the world though, despite her lack of enthusiasm for castles. |
Philip Davis
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posted 03-27-2001 12:57 AM
Ah the need for a car. I've certainly not visited nearly as many castles as I'd like since I stopped owning a car. Public transport just isn't a viable alternative. Lawence of Arabis used to visit castle on a bike when he was a boy traveling hundreds of miles but my angina won't let me do that I'm afraid. All I can say is that the keep of Hedingham is so lovely and of such a domestic quality that perhaps your wife might actually like it. |
AJR
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posted 03-27-2001 02:43 AM
That may be so, Philip. She has been to a number of sites with me, but mainly for the scenery, not the castle. She thinks all castles are similar - just a pile of stones (except for those which are earthworks, which apparently are not just similar, but all look the same).She also traipses (is that how you spell it - I'm not sure) round postcard fairs and antique shops searching for vintage postcards (again, she gets a chance to see not only castle postcards, but other items too). As for castle visiting in general, she is happy to send me out for a few hours to see them, provided that she has something else to keep her occupied in the meantime. Hedingham will probably be on one of those days she meets up with friends for a "girls" day. Meanwhile, I do pass a castle on my way to work everyday (and on the way back again). Rochester. It's beautiful with the sun shining on it in the evening as I cross the River Medway. One of these days I'll have my camera with me and get a decent shot. Problem is the movement of the train (when the trains actually run of course).
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Fox Atreides
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posted 03-27-2001 03:30 AM
Hm Rocester eh?
Isn't that one quite similar to Hedingham, just a keep? (It is a very pretty one of course)
Hm, have to think of something to write...
O, has anybody been to castle Gaillard and if so, is it worth visiting? |
AJR
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posted 03-27-2001 04:56 AM
Yes Fox, Rochester is very similar to Hedingham, only a little more ruinous I believe.
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