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posted by
Kabu
on August 7, 2014 at 1:49 PM
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Re: Re: Kabu
you my dear CC are the trouble maker around here.
posted by
Kabu
on August 7, 2014 at 1:48 PM
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The sun has brought them forward Ciel, Yes we rub along, trying not to annoy each other.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 6, 2014 at 12:12 AM
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Your forte Chuck.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 6, 2014 at 12:09 AM
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Re: CCT..that is the most beautiful flower
Thanks Rumor I just snap and run,
posted by
C_C_T
on August 6, 2014 at 12:08 AM
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Re: C.C.T.
You have got it Bill.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 6, 2014 at 12:07 AM
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Another lovely flower...
Another fascinating look at history, and the dynamics of your neighborhood which seems to work well for everyone... not like a neighborhood so much as a family.
posted by
Ciel
on August 5, 2014 at 8:12 PM
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Let's all agree on keeping it short 
posted by
Chuck_E_Ibrahim
on August 5, 2014 at 5:27 PM
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CCT..that is the most beautiful flower
I think you have ever posted...what great detail!....
posted by
Rumor
on August 5, 2014 at 1:29 PM
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C.C.T.
I'll take the roses over the war sir.
posted by
BC-A
on August 5, 2014 at 12:19 PM
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Re: Kabu
Too late you have stopped us all a 500 words .I am a rebel mine was 501. Please don't sing, unless its Over the Rainbow. Wars do change things, but we don't need that kind of propulsion.Someone said Kabu said 'stop at 500 words.'
posted by
C_C_T
on August 5, 2014 at 10:56 AM
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Thanks FS yes, one needs him on a short lead.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 5, 2014 at 10:50 AM
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Re: CCT
Yes good fun Naut be over in no time. The reality soon struck home. The lice were pretty
chronic I remember My mother saying her Dad was alive with them when he had a few days leave. In away the leave was awful because one knew what they were going back to endure.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 5, 2014 at 10:48 AM
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Re: Chiff Chaff
Well I expect the men liked to think there were being paid Bro. He was lucky to make it back.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 5, 2014 at 10:42 AM
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Yes I suppose someone thought of it , not much thought to the thousands of widows who had to bring children on meager benefits. No adnohr, I did 50 years ago, paid for a little book to be published and then I just kept ten copies and told the firm to destroy the rest. Felt embarrassed I guess.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 5, 2014 at 10:39 AM
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Re: They've been doing "insightful" stories on this 100th anniversary
Years ago Pat I saw some of the victims wandering around with shell shock and old men gasping for breath, gas caught them. Sadly a lot is pomp and ceremony.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 5, 2014 at 10:32 AM
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Re: shamasehar
No shamasehar, that's the last thing we want. Chrysanthemum a bit early, it must have been the hot weather. Thank you.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 5, 2014 at 10:28 AM
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Re: Jimmy
I suppose some were nurses Jimmy but I expect a lot were just tired of being second rate. I once had some raspberry wine it tasted great, but then runner bean wine did in those days.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 5, 2014 at 10:24 AM
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Re: Annicita
Sorry A. couldn't resist what about beriberi.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 5, 2014 at 10:19 AM
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i love just about any kind of berry....matter of fact...haven't met one that i didn't like yet....
posted by
Annicita
on August 5, 2014 at 7:15 AM
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Raspberries or blackberries, they both sound good. Just don't get them mixed up with the pickled eggs! Probably not a very good combination. And back then, they could have given some of those women a real dose of equality by having them march off to their doom and leave the men behind . . .
posted by
JimmyA
on August 5, 2014 at 6:52 AM
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That's a pretty flower.Hope we learn our lessons well (can't afford another)while celebrating wars. The poem was great.
posted by
shamasehar
on August 5, 2014 at 5:09 AM
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They've been doing "insightful" stories on this 100th anniversary
of the start of WWI here in the colonies, too. Why we celebrate war and destruction is beyond my ken. Honoring the men and women lost, now that's something we do, thanking them for their bravery and heroism. But the powers that be? I don't think so.
posted by
Pat_B
on August 5, 2014 at 4:11 AM
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I can understand celebrating the end of a war...but the beginning??? An awesome poem, CCT. Do you have some published? (I can't remember if I had ever asked you before this...
)
posted by
adnohr
on August 5, 2014 at 1:50 AM
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Chiff Chaff
All the news here as well and you know my father was a Seargent Paymaster and was also sent to the trenches but made it home praise God Bro.
posted by
WileyJohn
on August 4, 2014 at 7:27 PM
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CCT
Yep - here too everyone is into 'Great War' stuff! I couldn't get over it years ago when I first saw it, and it still grabs me when I see the pictures and old news reels - how everyone in Britain, France, Germany, Austria and Russia was cheering, waving his straw hat and looking forward to a 'fun adventure'...
posted by
Nautikos
on August 4, 2014 at 5:19 PM
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Gotta watch Archie, I see....As always, a great poem you got there.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on August 4, 2014 at 5:09 PM
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sometimes one's imagination and inspiration is definitely topped right up, another day yes, running on empty ut never mind there is always a beautiful flower and a poem and a few words.
I believe that WW1 brought so many changes...Communism to Russia, higher wages in England ...the Welsh had been suffering in the coal mines for far too long with so little compensation...and parts of the empire like Canada and Australia began to feel the stirrings of pride in their own nation not just as a Colonial back water to be exploited. Oh stop it. You will have me singing Rule Britannia again.
I did not say to stop at 500 words even if it is a good idea!!!!
posted by
Kabu
on August 4, 2014 at 4:54 PM
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