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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#1981 Post by CharlieOneSix » Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:19 pm

Didn’t think it would last very long! Tobermory Clock Tower it is - a timely handover to you, Cpt P.
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#1982 Post by Cpt_Pugwash » Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:29 pm

Thanks, C16.

Some street art, apparently ..
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#1983 Post by Cpt_Pugwash » Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:58 pm

C16, the system is showing a post from you at 9:35 but it is not visible to me.
Here's another view of this exotic location ..
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#1984 Post by CharlieOneSix » Tue Jun 08, 2021 9:12 pm

Stupidly I posted by mistake thinking I was doing a Google search….so I deleted the post.
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#1985 Post by CharlieOneSix » Tue Jun 08, 2021 9:28 pm

That second view seems typical of a winter's North Sea coast?
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#1986 Post by Cpt_Pugwash » Tue Jun 08, 2021 9:47 pm

A spring day I think, on the opposite coast.

Edit: the last pic was taken July 2017, so a typical summer day!

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#1987 Post by om15 » Wed Jun 09, 2021 4:47 pm

The grey sea and grey skies give it away, we are on the Prestatyn promenade at the Nova Centre.

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#1988 Post by Cpt_Pugwash » Wed Jun 09, 2021 8:31 pm

Evening all.
Spot on, OM, the "street art" marks the northern start/end of the Offa's Dyke Path between Prestatyn and Chepstow.
The weather pictured counts as a balmy day for the area, I grew up only five miles away from there, so am qualified to say that. :-)
The Nova Centre was formerly know as the Lido, in it's day a well known nightspot in which I spent some of my mis-spent youth.

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#1989 Post by om15 » Thu Jun 10, 2021 7:02 am

Thank you Capt, on the same theme

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#1990 Post by Woody » Thu Jun 10, 2021 7:07 am

As I’ve had my picture taken in that yellow rectangular frame, I will excuse myself from this round :((
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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#1991 Post by om15 » Thu Jun 10, 2021 8:34 am

Everyone will be looking at Slough now.

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#1992 Post by Smeagol » Thu Jun 10, 2021 8:38 am

Just looking at the backdrop, which must be Table mountain so we are in Cape Town.
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#1993 Post by Woody » Thu Jun 10, 2021 8:40 am

om15 wrote:
Thu Jun 10, 2021 8:34 am
Everyone will be looking at Slough now.
Who has their photo taken in Slough
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#1994 Post by om15 » Thu Jun 10, 2021 8:56 am

We are outside the Zeitz museum of contemporary art in Cape Town, so Smeagol to host.

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#1995 Post by G-CPTN » Thu Jun 10, 2021 9:01 am

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn’t fit for humans now,
There isn’t grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!
>
Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
Tinned minds, tinned breath.
>
Mess up the mess they call a town-
A house for ninety-seven down
And once a week a half a crown
For twenty years.
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And get that man with double chin
Who’ll always cheat and always win,
Who washes his repulsive skin
In women’s tears:
>
And smash his desk of polished oak
And smash his hands so used to stroke
And stop his boring dirty joke
And make him yell.
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But spare the bald young clerks who add
The profits of the stinking cad;
It’s not their fault that they are mad,
They’ve tasted Hell.
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It’s not their fault they do not know
The birdsong from the radio,
It’s not their fault they often go
To Maidenhead
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And talk of sport and makes of cars
In various bogus-Tudor bars
And daren’t look up and see the stars
But belch instead.
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In labour-saving homes, with care
Their wives frizz out peroxide hair
And dry it in synthetic air
And paint their nails.
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Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough
To get it ready for the plough.
The cabbages are coming now;
The earth exhales.

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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#1996 Post by Woody » Thu Jun 10, 2021 9:09 am

HMQ has a Slough postcode :D
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#1997 Post by Ex-Ascot » Thu Jun 10, 2021 11:25 am

Woody wrote:
Thu Jun 10, 2021 9:09 am
HMQ has a Slough postcode :D
No she doesn't it is SW1A 1AA. That castle is just a holiday home where HMQ goes to plane spot.
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#1998 Post by Opsboi » Thu Jun 10, 2021 2:51 pm

Ex-Ascot wrote:
Thu Jun 10, 2021 11:25 am
Woody wrote:
Thu Jun 10, 2021 9:09 am
HMQ has a Slough postcode :D
No she doesn't it is SW1A 1AA. That castle is just a holiday home where HMQ goes to plane spot.
Which she's never managed to do seeing as how the air traffic gets diverted whenever Betty's staycationing there

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#1999 Post by Ex-Ascot » Thu Jun 10, 2021 3:04 pm

Opsboi wrote:
Thu Jun 10, 2021 2:51 pm
Ex-Ascot wrote:
Thu Jun 10, 2021 11:25 am
Woody wrote:
Thu Jun 10, 2021 9:09 am
HMQ has a Slough postcode :D
No she doesn't it is SW1A 1AA. That castle is just a holiday home where HMQ goes to plane spot.
Which she's never managed to do seeing as how the air traffic gets diverted whenever Betty's staycationing there
How can you divert traffic 8 miles from finals or 8 miles on departure? It has never happened to me.
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#2000 Post by Woody » Thu Jun 10, 2021 3:53 pm

Which she's never managed to do seeing as how the air traffic gets diverted whenever Betty's staycationing there
I’m with Ex-A on this one, if only we knew someone who had ATC experience in the LHR area :D
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