Gilly
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Sun 1st Apr 2012 10:01pm
Happy Birthday to you Philip. From Les and Gill in Oz. |
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mayjan
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Sun 1st Apr 2012 10:26pm
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday dear Philip
Happy Birthday to you.
Sorry I'm a bit late hope you had a great day |
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NormK
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Mon 2nd Apr 2012 8:46am
You might as well take the chain off and freewheel the rest of the way Philip.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Mon 2nd Apr 2012 8:53am
Hi and thank you all so much.
I don't feel as old as I did twelve years ago, so something must be going right. I enjoy a sense of freedom where I, along with my Pam, can choose to please which is a position that is envied by many. I enjoy reliving my childhood memories of trainspotting, but nowadays do it in a more relaxed fashion in comfort. This is a pic of me when travelling with friends, where we were based in Bath. All doing the same thing.
After a hearty breakfast at the Lansdown, waiting for the bus. |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Mon 2nd Apr 2012 3:02pm
Hi again
Our lovely council have decided to give me a new street light.
"There we were, digging this hole, a hole in the ground, but right said Fred, we were getting nowhere & so time for a cuppa tea." |
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Tricia
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Adrian
UK
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Mon 2nd Apr 2012 7:04pm
You certainly do not look worn out here Philip, a very youthful looking 65 if you ask me. |
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Mon 2nd Apr 2012 7:36pm
Hi all
Without flannel, finding this site two years ago, has been a high point in recent years. Thank you all for your well wishes. |
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Mon 9th Jul 2012 3:08pm
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Tricia
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Mon 9th Jul 2012 3:53pm
Hi Philip, Congratulations. Your posts are always a joy to read. Also, the photos of your of trains, your interesting walks and your Pam are lovely to look at.
PS. MR, we don't have barms in Coventry, we have the good old Coventry BATCH. |
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scrutiny
coventry
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Mon 9th Jul 2012 3:58pm
If that is the prize, then i will have to step up the anti. Cheers Philip |
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Catshed
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Mon 9th Jul 2012 4:22pm
Well done Philip, I enjoy your posts also esp the railway related ones, keep up the good work
Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'.
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Baz
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Mon 9th Jul 2012 8:13pm
Well done, Philip, I have a long way to go to catch YOU up. Keep up all the good work and here's to another 1000. Let's have some more railway stuff.
Always looking forward to looking at the past.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Sat 14th Jul 2012 10:37am
Hi all
It isn't so much the worry of the forum collapsing under my weight, it was more to do with whether I turned into a blob of jelly. Or, whether I should keep my eyes closed or covered, as demonstrated by Norman Clegg. That was always his big concern at frightening events.
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Mon 16th Jul 2012 12:31pm
Hi all
Just a soggy 'Phily blurp'
Today is another wet and soggy Monday. I have just returned from Antics model shop in Trinity Street with a few more odds and ends for the model extension. I have never liked doing indoor stuff in the summer months as I like to be out and about, but I have run out of indoor jobs with the weather being so bad for weeks and weeks. Our gardens here resemble scrub and moorland. The stats for Coventry weather are that only one in three days have any rain, but for nine weeks it has been that only one in eight days that have remained dry. I am not easily drawn into arguments as to whether this has been the wettest summer period on record. In the late fifties, an aunt had been staying with us in Wyken, and her stay was lengthened by two days because she could not return home to her farm in Cornwall. Anyone travelling by road to the West Country, prior to the M5 era, might remember a 'bailey bridge' that army engineers had built on the Somerset-Devon border. The bailey bridge was in place for over a decade and was always a reminder to me of that very wet summer. My aunt's farm grain harvest was a total loss that year, along with high costs for combine and machinery recoveries, as it was for many farmers. The railways generally coped better than nowadays. The long gone mechanical systems of rod pointwork and signals, along with steam locomotives, could cope with a couple of feet of flood water, compared to just a couple of inches now. Once water gets into the electrics, they are finished.
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