Or the fall following the scrumpy
I don't really associate scumpy with cornwall... more to the east I think
I'm not one to ask now... I hardly drink
but I remember _doom bar_ from, I think, st austell brewery
and there's spingo from the blue thingummy in helston
can't remember the second name
they sell it draft i mean draught - maybe it *is draft - or daft - but i
saw a bottled version in penzance once
i was waiting for a bus with a mate and he said let's go in the blue
thingummy
then he said let's have a second pint
i advised against it
he ignored me
later on the bus he suddenly yelled _what have you made me drink, upton?_
and the bus rolled on towards lizard point
a good obelisk can be useful, especially if it's ancient and mysterious
find the way in, go in and say "my god it's full of stars"; scumpy helps
L
On Wed, October 28, 2009 17:11, Patrick McManus wrote:
> I saw a lot of stars in Cornwall once -but I think that it was to do with
> the Scrumpy P
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> I also remember lying on the roof of a small house in aghia galini
> (sp?) on the African side of Crete, in the late 70s, & seeing the sky
> the ancients wrote about. All those lights, bright.
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> Not too easy to see today I bet, similar reasons to what you said
> about those villagers...
>
> Doug
> On 28-Oct-09, at 4:53 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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>> not much milky glory in the heavens, no Berenice's hair then we went to
>> the dodecanese, mid 80s, and one night early on in the stay I looked up
>> on the way back from the ouzeria, maybe I was falling over, and it was a
>> bit like the inhabitants of krikket seeing the rest of the universe
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