Hi Douglas thanks -it needs a bit of editing too many overgrowns!!-we
seem a bit short on snaps!!!
On 06/09/2017 16:18, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Ha, Patrick, I know the lanes all too well…
>
> Doug
>> On Sep 6, 2017, at 2:06 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> *NOSTALGIA*
>>
>> feeling
>>
>> somewhat
>>
>> nostalgic
>>
>> that morning
>>
>> he wandered down
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>> his memory lanes
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>> only to find
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>> that many had
>>
>> been blocked
>>
>> overgrown
>>
>> had signs up
>>
>> like
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>> ‘beware of the bull’
>>
>> ‘private keep out’
>>
>> ‘you are trespassing’
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>> ‘road closed’
>>
>> ‘proceed at your own peril’
>>
>> or even barricaded
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>> some had disappeared
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>> become overgrown
>>
>> trees- brambles- bushes
>>
>> others booby-trapped
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>> perhaps mined
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>> and
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>> he hastily
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>> came back
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>> to the somewhat
>>
>> safer present
>>
>> /pmcmanus/
>>
>> /s200/
> Douglas Barbour
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