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richard shaw (og)65 my minds eye 14 Aug 15 4.18pm
Night Mail (poem) This is the night mail crossing the Border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order, Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, The shop at the corner, the girl next door. Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb: The gradient's against her, but she's on time. Past cotton-grass and moorland boulder Shovelling white steam over her shoulder, Snorting noisily as she passes Silent miles of wind-bent grasses. Birds turn their heads as she approaches, Stare from bushes at her blank-faced coaches. Sheep-dogs cannot turn her course; They slumber on with paws across. In the farm she passes no one wakes, But a jug in a bedroom gently shakes. ALL THROUGH MY LIFE I THOUGHT THIS WAS BETJEMAN BUT IT IS WH AUDEN , LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY interviewer " iggy , do you think you influenced anybody?" iggy pop " I think I wiped out the 60`S "
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Night Mail (poem)

This is the night mail crossing the Border,
Bringing the cheque and the postal order,
Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,
The shop at the corner, the girl next door.
Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb:
The gradient's against her, but she's on time.
Past cotton-grass and moorland boulder
Shovelling white steam over her shoulder,
Snorting noisily as she passes
Silent miles of wind-bent grasses.
Birds turn their heads as she approaches,
Stare from bushes at her blank-faced coaches.
Sheep-dogs cannot turn her course;
They slumber on with paws across.
In the farm she passes no one wakes,
But a jug in a bedroom gently shakes.

ALL THROUGH MY LIFE I THOUGHT THIS WAS BETJEMAN BUT IT IS WH AUDEN , LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY

interviewer " iggy , do you think you influenced anybody?"
iggy pop " I think I wiped out the 60`S "

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Red-Blue-Yellow Surrey 18 Aug 15 9.09pm
There was a time when buying a ticket from Forest Hill to Norwood Junction would have got you a little piece of card saying: DARTMOUTH ARMS To JOLLY SAILOR 31/2d Edited by Red-Blue-Yellow (18 Aug 2015 9.10pm) I also enjoy posting on: Love Everton Forum, the Acceptable Face of Scouse Football. [Link] twitter.com/LuvEvertonForum Come and give it a look, new members would be lovely. Come and JOIN. Or they'll nick your telly.
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There was a time when buying a ticket from Forest Hill to Norwood Junction would have got you a little piece of card saying:

DARTMOUTH ARMS To JOLLY SAILOR
31/2d

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chris123 hove actually 18 Aug 15 9.28pm
Quote richard shaw (og)65 at 14 Aug 2015 4.18pm Night Mail (poem) This is the night mail crossing the Border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order, Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, The shop at the corner, the girl next door. Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb: The gradient's against her, but she's on time. Past cotton-grass and moorland boulder Shovelling white steam over her shoulder, Snorting noisily as she passes Silent miles of wind-bent grasses. Birds turn their heads as she approaches, Stare from bushes at her blank-faced coaches. Sheep-dogs cannot turn her course; They slumber on with paws across. In the farm she passes no one wakes, But a jug in a bedroom gently shakes. ALL THROUGH MY LIFE I THOUGHT THIS WAS BETJEMAN BUT IT IS WH AUDEN , LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY Benjamin Britten wrote the music. Benj Betj??
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Quote richard shaw (og)65 at 14 Aug 2015 4.18pm

Night Mail (poem)

ALL THROUGH MY LIFE I THOUGHT THIS WAS BETJEMAN BUT IT IS WH AUDEN , LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY

Benjamin Britten wrote the music. Benj Betj??

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Red-Blue-Yellow Surrey 19 Aug 15 12.51pm
The Slow Train. Miller's Dale for Tideswell ... Kirby Muxloe ... Mow Cop and Scholar Green ... No more will I go to Blandford Forum and Mortehoe On the slow train from Midsomer Norton and Mumby Road. No churns, no porter, no cat on a seat At Chorlton-cum-Hardy or Chester-le-Street. We won't be meeting again On the Slow Train. I'll travel no more from Littleton Badsey to Openshaw. At Long Stanton I'll stand well clear of the doors no more. No whitewashed pebbles, no Up and no Down From Formby Four Crosses to Dunstable Town. I won't be going again On the Slow Train. On the Main Line and the Goods Siding The grass grows high At Dog Dyke, Tumby Woodside And Trouble House Halt. The Sleepers sleep at Audley End and Ambergate. No passenger waits on Chittening platform or Cheslyn Hay. No one departs, no one arrives From Selby to Goole, from St Erth to St Ives. They've all passed out of our lives On the Slow Train, on the Slow Train. Cockermouth for Buttermere ... on the Slow Train, Armley Moor Arram ... Pye Hill and Somercotes ... on the Slow Train, Windmill End. Lyrics: Michael Flanders Edited by Red-Blue-Yellow (19 Aug 2015 12.52pm) I also enjoy posting on: Love Everton Forum, the Acceptable Face of Scouse Football. [Link] twitter.com/LuvEvertonForum Come and give it a look, new members would be lovely. Come and JOIN. Or they'll nick your telly.
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The Slow Train.

Miller's Dale for Tideswell ...
Kirby Muxloe ...
Mow Cop and Scholar Green ...

No more will I go to Blandford Forum and Mortehoe
On the slow train from Midsomer Norton and Mumby Road.
No churns, no porter, no cat on a seat
At Chorlton-cum-Hardy or Chester-le-Street.
We won't be meeting again
On the Slow Train.

I'll travel no more from Littleton Badsey to Openshaw.
At Long Stanton I'll stand well clear of the doors no more.
No whitewashed pebbles, no Up and no Down
From Formby Four Crosses to Dunstable Town.
I won't be going again
On the Slow Train.

On the Main Line and the Goods Siding
The grass grows high
At Dog Dyke, Tumby Woodside
And Trouble House Halt.

The Sleepers sleep at Audley End and Ambergate.
No passenger waits on Chittening platform or Cheslyn Hay.
No one departs, no one arrives
From Selby to Goole, from St Erth to St Ives.
They've all passed out of our lives
On the Slow Train, on the Slow Train.

Cockermouth for Buttermere ... on the Slow Train,
Armley Moor Arram ...
Pye Hill and Somercotes ... on the Slow Train,
Windmill End.

Lyrics: Michael Flanders

Edited by Red-Blue-Yellow (19 Aug 2015 12.52pm)

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nickgusset Shizzlehurst 20 Aug 15 7.04am
I'm on a french train right now. No immigrants on it! Attachment: 1440050596468.jpg (2,911.83Kb)
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I'm on a french train right now.

No immigrants on it!

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richard shaw (og)65 my minds eye 20 Aug 15 2.31pm
I went on the orient express once , Victoria to oxford , we had our own carriage and we sat in proper dining chairs not fixed to the floor .rather pleasant food and drink , mums 80 th birthday , thought I would push the boat out , well train . interviewer " iggy , do you think you influenced anybody?" iggy pop " I think I wiped out the 60`S "
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my minds eye 20 Aug 15 2.31pm

I went on the orient express once , Victoria to oxford , we had our own carriage and we sat in proper dining chairs not fixed to the floor .rather pleasant food and drink , mums 80 th birthday , thought I would push the boat out , well train .

interviewer " iggy , do you think you influenced anybody?"
iggy pop " I think I wiped out the 60`S "

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richard shaw (og)65 my minds eye 20 Aug 15 2.32pm
Quote nickgusset at 20 Aug 2015 7.04am I'm on a french train right now. No immigrants on it! you want to see swiss trains , some of them are double deckers , totally bonkers interviewer " iggy , do you think you influenced anybody?" iggy pop " I think I wiped out the 60`S "
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my minds eye 20 Aug 15 2.32pm

Quote nickgusset at 20 Aug 2015 7.04am

I'm on a french train right now.

No immigrants on it!

you want to see swiss trains , some of them are double deckers , totally bonkers

interviewer " iggy , do you think you influenced anybody?"
iggy pop " I think I wiped out the 60`S "

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Johnny Eagles berlin 20 Aug 15 2.39pm
Quote richard shaw (og)65 at 14 Aug 2015 4.18pm Night Mail (poem) This is the night mail crossing the Border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order, Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, The shop at the corner, the girl next door. Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb: The gradient's against her, but she's on time. Past cotton-grass and moorland boulder Shovelling white steam over her shoulder, Snorting noisily as she passes Silent miles of wind-bent grasses. Birds turn their heads as she approaches, Stare from bushes at her blank-faced coaches. Sheep-dogs cannot turn her course; They slumber on with paws across. In the farm she passes no one wakes, But a jug in a bedroom gently shakes. ALL THROUGH MY LIFE I THOUGHT THIS WAS BETJEMAN BUT IT IS WH AUDEN , LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY Reminds me of the spoof version once in the Viz Profanisaurus: Guard's Parcel Pulling up Beattock the guard needs a s***e, but there's no bog's till Glasgow, much later tonight. In time-honoured fashion he empties his arsehole into brown paper to make a guard's parcel. ...we must expand...get more pupils...so that the knowledge will spread...
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Quote richard shaw (og)65 at 14 Aug 2015 4.18pm

Night Mail (poem)

ALL THROUGH MY LIFE I THOUGHT THIS WAS BETJEMAN BUT IT IS WH AUDEN , LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY

Reminds me of the spoof version once in the Viz Profanisaurus:

Guard's Parcel
Pulling up Beattock the guard needs a s***e,
but there's no bog's till Glasgow, much later tonight.
In time-honoured fashion he empties his arsehole
into brown paper to make a guard's parcel.

...we must expand...get more pupils...so that the knowledge will spread...

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Southampton_Eagle At the after party 20 Aug 15 2.51pm
Quote richard shaw (og)65 at 20 Aug 2015 2.32pm Quote nickgusset at 20 Aug 2015 7.04am I'm on a french train right now. No immigrants on it! you want to see swiss trains , some of them are double deckers , totally bonkers Got a double decker train in the Netherlands from Rotterdam to Amsterdam and that was about twenty years ago! I also got a single decker back the other way, the whole interior was bright orange. My blazed eyes couldn't deal with it.
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Quote richard shaw (og)65 at 20 Aug 2015 2.32pm

Quote nickgusset at 20 Aug 2015 7.04am

I'm on a french train right now.

No immigrants on it!

you want to see swiss trains , some of them are double deckers , totally bonkers

Got a double decker train in the Netherlands from Rotterdam to Amsterdam and that was about twenty years ago! I also got a single decker back the other way, the whole interior was bright orange. My blazed eyes couldn't deal with it.

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mezzer Main Stand, Block F, Row 20 seat 1... 20 Aug 15 4.03pm
I ate a double decker on a train once. Just the once, mind. Living down here does have some advantages. At least you can see them cry.
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Main Stand, Block F, Row 20 seat 1... 20 Aug 15 4.03pm

I ate a double decker on a train once. Just the once, mind.

Living down here does have some advantages. At least you can see them cry.

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Dulwichsteve (Another Girl) Another Planet 20 Aug 15 4.36pm
Quote mezzer at 20 Aug 2015 4.03pm I ate a double decker on a train once. Just the once, mind. Whilst I have never eaten a double decker on a train, once, when I was a kid, I ate an apple on a French train as my father slept in the window seat. I sought permission from my mother to throw the apple core out of the window and duly launched it with all my might. Unfortunately and surprisingly the window was closed. The apple core exploded on impact with the remarkably clear and deceptive glass thereby showering my father in apple and pips. Oh how we laughed....very many years later I'm a sleeping dog, but you can't tell When I'm on the prowl you'd better run like hell
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Quote mezzer at 20 Aug 2015 4.03pm

I ate a double decker on a train once. Just the once, mind.

Whilst I have never eaten a double decker on a train, once, when I was a kid, I ate an apple on a French train as my father slept in the window seat.

I sought permission from my mother to throw the apple core out of the window and duly launched it with all my might. Unfortunately and surprisingly the window was closed. The apple core exploded on impact with the remarkably clear and deceptive glass thereby showering my father in apple and pips.

Oh how we laughed....very many years later

I'm a sleeping dog, but you can't tell
When I'm on the prowl you'd better run like hell

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richard shaw (og)65 my minds eye 20 Aug 15 6.09pm
some cracking train anecdotes here , keep them rolling in interviewer " iggy , do you think you influenced anybody?" iggy pop " I think I wiped out the 60`S "
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richard shaw (og)65

my minds eye 20 Aug 15 6.09pm

some cracking train anecdotes here , keep them rolling in

interviewer " iggy , do you think you influenced anybody?"
iggy pop " I think I wiped out the 60`S "

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