;-)
Mebbe like the reports of shooting stars, tailing comets and Clickman Toad
in older Ingland, David.
Lots better than the L'Bro folk who trashed the house of a pediatrician,
thinking [s]he was a pedophile.
Me now enjoying George Cruikshank's illustrations and the tiny footnote
story of Clickman Toad.
Let's see if this illustration of Cruikshank's can be pasted in to petc:
2009/7/5 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> Judy
>
> I went through Loughborough yesterday on my way to see a mate who lives out
> at the reservoir and I couldn't help noticing the news of the Ice was still
> blaring from the stands. It made a hit, for sure.
>
> I'm just having this terrible vision of someone asking for a martini 'with
> ice, blue'.
>
>
>
>
> 2009/7/5 Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > Martin Dolan's back! How could we know that blue ice would bring you
> back?
> > Any snaps? How are you doing?
> >
> > This week we tried to attract blue ice to our old car in Loughborough for
> > insurance claim purposes but only managed to encounter in a high street
> car
> > park an enraged yelling Huge Male Person who'd just found a 25 GBP
> > penalty-for-overtime ticket affixed to his windscreen. We hurried away,
> > pretending [like regular British people] not to notice his screaming and
> > crashing things; however, 'twas hard to forget the image. But I'm
> > confident
> > that next week's narrowboat canal trip northwards oughter erase that
> vision
> > of a modern-day raging Henry VIII, who is my current Historic Figure of
> > Awesome Fascination [best portrayal seen so far: East End boxer-actor
> Ray
> > Winstone in 2003 *Henry VIII* film writ by Peter Morgan, directed by Pete
> > Travis, w Helen Bonham Carter as Anne Boleyn; and the most ably
> researched,
> > fascinatingly written book about him: Carolly Erickson's *Great Harry*
> > historical biography].
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Judy
> >
> > 2009/7/4 Martin Dolan <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> > > Yep. They call it 'blue ice'. Rare occurrences, but real.
> > >
> > > Martin D
> > >
> > > Anyone remember what they call those 'gifts' from the sky?
> > >> jbp
> > >>
> > >> 2009/7/2 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> eek, spare me that fate! Though I am developing a set of pieces on
> that
> > >>> line, the formatting will probably mean I'll put them up as a .pdf on
> > my
> > >>> site.
> > >>>
> > >>> I have to note that at the supermercado this afternoon a local paper
> > was
> > >>> shouting about a block of ice falling from the sky and wrecking a
> > parked
> > >>> car
> > >>> near Loughborough.
> > >>>
> > >>> (it was from a passenger jet ...)
> > >>>
> > >>> 2009/7/2 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> which will lead to...?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Agree with the others, Dave, you can be 'our' chronicler, week by
> week
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>> into
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> what the years will hold....
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Doug
> > >>>> On 1-Jul-09, at 1:39 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> And more than one ghost was seen in more than one pub
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> In this year.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>> Douglas Barbour
> > >>>> [log in to unmask]
> > >>>>
> > >>>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Latest books:
> > >>>> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> > >>>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> > >>>> Wednesdays'
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> >
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> What in the world we see
> > >>>> is what's important.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Richard Caddel
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>> --
> > >>> David Bircumshaw
> > >>> "Nothing can be done in the face
> > >>> of ordinary unhappiness" - PP
> > >>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> > >>> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> > >>> The Animal Subsides
> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > >>> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> David Bircumshaw
> "Nothing can be done in the face
> of ordinary unhappiness" - PP
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>
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