Ar least they are still there, the lanes, Patrick. Better overgrown than
redeveloped?
Bill
On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 at 1:38 am, Patrick McManus <
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> 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 <
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> >>
> >> *NOSTALGIA*
> >>
> >> feeling
> >>
> >> somewhat
> >>
> >> nostalgic
> >>
> >> that morning
> >>
> >> he wandered down
> >>
> >> his memory lanes
> >>
> >> only to find
> >>
> >> that many had
> >>
> >> been blocked
> >>
> >> overgrown
> >>
> >> had signs up
> >>
> >> like
> >>
> >> ‘beware of the bull’
> >>
> >> ‘private keep out’
> >>
> >> ‘you are trespassing’
> >>
> >> ‘road closed’
> >>
> >> ‘proceed at your own peril’
> >>
> >> or even barricaded
> >>
> >> some had disappeared
> >>
> >> become overgrown
> >>
> >> trees- brambles- bushes
> >>
> >> others booby-trapped
> >>
> >> perhaps mined
> >>
> >> and
> >>
> >> he hastily
> >>
> >> came back
> >>
> >> to the somewhat
> >>
> >> safer present
> >>
> >> /pmcmanus/
> >>
> >> /s200/
> > Douglas Barbour
> > [log in to unmask]
> > https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
> >
> > Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
> Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
> > Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> > Listen. If (UofAPress):
> >
> > There was the usual amount of corruption, intimidation, and rioting.
> >
> > Sir Charles Petrie
>
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