"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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Living in Greater London has its advantages.

d

Except if you like to dig for truffles or fly fish for salmon:-))

Iain

On Tue, 17 May 2005 20:36:17 +0300, "Iain M Churches"
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"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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Living in Greater London has its advantages.

d

Except if you like to dig for truffles or fly fish for salmon:-))

Iain


Never liked truffles, and I go to Scotland for fly fishing.

d

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"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Tue, 17 May 2005 20:36:17 +0300, "Iain M Churches"
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"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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Living in Greater London has its advantages.

d

Except if you like to dig for truffles or fly fish for salmon:-))

Iain


Never liked truffles, and I go to Scotland for fly fishing.

d


So you count Scotland as a part of Greater London? :-))

Iain

On Wed, 18 May 2005 10:03:13 +0300, "Iain M Churches"
wrote:


"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Tue, 17 May 2005 20:36:17 +0300, "Iain M Churches"
wrote:


"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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Living in Greater London has its advantages.

d

Except if you like to dig for truffles or fly fish for salmon:-))

Iain


Never liked truffles, and I go to Scotland for fly fishing.

d


So you count Scotland as a part of Greater London? :-))

Iain


Well, bits of it.

d

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"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Wed, 18 May 2005 10:03:13 +0300, "Iain M Churches"
wrote:


"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Tue, 17 May 2005 20:36:17 +0300, "Iain M Churches"
wrote:


"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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Living in Greater London has its advantages.

d

Except if you like to dig for truffles or fly fish for salmon:-))

Iain


Never liked truffles, and I go to Scotland for fly fishing.

d


So you count Scotland as a part of Greater London? :-))

Iain


Well, bits of it.

d

Don't tell Sean Connery that. He will send a piper from
the Black Watch to play outside your bedroom window
at 0400 hrs:-)

Iain

On Wed, 18 May 2005 11:20:48 +0300, "Iain M Churches"
wrote:

Iain


Well, bits of it.

d

Don't tell Sean Connery that. He will send a piper from
the Black Watch to play outside your bedroom window
at 0400 hrs:-)

Iain

But Connery doesn't even live there, and doesn't go back unless he
feels the need to renew his Scottish credentials.

Why do bagpipers always march while they play? It is harder to hit a
moving target.

d

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"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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Why do bagpipers always march while they play? It is harder to hit a
moving target.

:-)))

I have recently been reading the WW1 diaries of Major James Riddell,
of the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers, whose sword I have in my
collection. He wrote that his CO complained bitterly to GHQ when
a Scottish infantry regiment of lower seniority was sent into battle before
the Northumberlands. The reason given by GHQ was that they *had*
to send the Scots in to kill someone before they started killing eachother.

Germans infantry commanders told that their troops were more afraid
of "the skirl of the pipes" than they were of phosgene gas.

Iain

On Wed, 18 May 2005 11:57:57 +0300, "Iain M Churches"
wrote:


"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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Why do bagpipers always march while they play? It is harder to hit a
moving target.

:-)))

I have recently been reading the WW1 diaries of Major James Riddell,
of the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers, whose sword I have in my
collection. He wrote that his CO complained bitterly to GHQ when
a Scottish infantry regiment of lower seniority was sent into battle before
the Northumberlands. The reason given by GHQ was that they *had*
to send the Scots in to kill someone before they started killing eachother.

Germans infantry commanders told that their troops were more afraid
of "the skirl of the pipes" than they were of phosgene gas.

Iain


I presume you have seen "Carry on up the Khyber"

d

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"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Wed, 18 May 2005 11:57:57 +0300, "Iain M Churches"
wrote:


"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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Why do bagpipers always march while they play? It is harder to hit a
moving target.

:-)))

I have recently been reading the WW1 diaries of Major James Riddell,
of the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers, whose sword I have in my
collection. He wrote that his CO complained bitterly to GHQ when
a Scottish infantry regiment of lower seniority was sent into battle
before
the Northumberlands. The reason given by GHQ was that they *had*
to send the Scots in to kill someone before they started killing
eachother.

Germans infantry commanders told that their troops were more afraid
of "the skirl of the pipes" than they were of phosgene gas.

Iain


I presume you have seen "Carry on up the Khyber"

d

Probably. But....??

Iain

On Wed, 18 May 2005 12:30:15 +0300, "Iain M Churches"
wrote:

Germans infantry commanders told that their troops were more afraid
of "the skirl of the pipes" than they were of phosgene gas.

Iain


I presume you have seen "Carry on up the Khyber"

d

Probably. But....??

Iain


The Scottish regiment was called "The devils in skirts", and it wasn't
their guns that the Burper tribesmen were scared of.

d

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