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bobinder said:
Snake Bite
Lager (typically Harp), cider with the optional black currant liqueur. With or without Cassis.
A very girly beer cocktail, so if you’re a dude who values your machismo, a snake bite might not be your first pick.
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Pp has drunk liquour in the Mekong Delta from a bottle that also contained a snake and scorpions. But where Pp is from most snake bites are fatal - King brown, taipan, death adder and the rest - and there is only one known cure.
IMG_5007.JPG It comes in a square bottle emblazoned with a white bear and every "bushie" keeps a bottle or three of antivenene under the front seat of His ute.
 
Repertor said:
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Been to the pink lake Repertor but the only down under pink things Pp is interested in are ..... now Pp has only managed two of dem erits Barb hands out since He got back and His report was marked 'must try harder' so what the hell.
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Everyone knows it's Barb's pink bits Pp likes best....especially when it was Pp who made'em pink in the first place.
 
Primus pilus said:
Been to the pink lake Repertor but the only down under pink things Pp is interested in are ..... now Pp has only managed two of dem erits Barb hands out since He got back and His report was marked 'must try harder' so what the hell.
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Everyone knows it's Barb's pink bits Pp likes best....especially when it was Pp who made'em pink in the first place.
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Omg ... where did you get that pic????
 
Primus pilus said:
Been to the pink lake Repertor but the only down under pink things Pp is interested in are ..... now Pp has only managed two of dem erits Barb hands out since He got back and His report was marked 'must try harder' so what the hell.
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Everyone knows it's Barb's pink bits Pp likes best....especially when it was Pp who made'em pink in the first place.
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Barbaria1 said:
Omg ... where did you get that pic????
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I hate this prison shirt! The horizontal stripes makes me look 10 pounds heavier...
 
Primus pilus said:
Been to the pink lake Repertor but the only down under pink things Pp is interested in are ..... now Pp has only managed two of dem erits Barb hands out since He got back and His report was marked 'must try harder' so what the hell.
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Everyone knows it's Barb's pink bits Pp likes best....especially when it was Pp who made'em pink in the first place.
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i agree with you!!!
 
This thread by Phlebas is as good a place as any to post these.

On a recent visit to Blighty Pp took a stroll through Southwell Minister and was quite taken with the new stained glass window dedicated to the sacrifices of the First World War on July 10th.

Southwell 1.jpg Pp's photo on an ancient phone doesn't do the window justice but the professional ones do a much better job.

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The lower parts of the window show the sacrifice of women at home and working the fields, men who were compelled to work rather than join up, the dark of a French battlefield complete with poppies and, at the top a soldier in classic British helmet supported on a cross by his mates.

Above all a white dove of peace.
 
Primus pilus said:
This thread by Phlebas is as good a place as any to post these.

On a recent visit to Blighty Pp took a stroll through Southwell Minister and was quite taken with the new stained glass window dedicated to the sacrifices of the First World War on July 10th.

View attachment 442504 Pp's photo on an ancient phone doesn't do the window justice but the professional ones do a much better job.

The lower parts of the window show the sacrifice of women at home and working the fields, men who were compelled to work rather than join up, the dark of a French battlefield complete with poppies and, at the top a soldier in classic British helmet supported on a cross by his mates.

Above all a white dove of peace.
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Ah, it takes a visitor from the other side of the world to point out the treasures (almost) under our noses. :doh:

Thanks for the tip, Pp. Southwell sounds to be worth a revisit. :)
 
Primus pilus said:
This thread by Phlebas is as good a place as any to post these.

On a recent visit to Blighty Pp took a stroll through Southwell Minister and was quite taken with the new stained glass window dedicated to the sacrifices of the First World War on July 10th.

View attachment 442504 Pp's photo on an ancient phone doesn't do the window justice but the professional ones do a much better job.

The lower parts of the window show the sacrifice of women at home and working the fields, men who were compelled to work rather than join up, the dark of a French battlefield complete with poppies and, at the top a soldier in classic British helmet supported on a cross by his mates.

Above all a white dove of peace.
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It reminds me of the sculpture in Sydney's ANZAC War Memorial, opened in 1934. Wiki says it better than I could
Rayner Hoff's monumental bronze sculpture of a deceased youth, representing a soldier, held aloft on his shield by a caryatid – three female figures, representing his mother, sister and wife. The male figure's nudity was considered shocking at the time of the monument's opening, and it is said to be the only such representation of a naked male form within any war memorial. Two other even more controversial figural sculptures designed by Hoff—one featuring a naked female figure—were never installed on the eastern and western faces of the structure as intended, partly as a result of opposition from high ranking, reactionary local Catholic Church representatives.

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Wragg134 said:
Ah, it takes a visitor from the other side of the world to point out the treasures (almost) under our noses. :doh:

Thanks for the tip, Pp. Southwell sounds to be worth a revisit. :)
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Southwell doesn't have the grandeur of Lincoln, York, Salisbury or Canterbury.....NABC as Pp was wont to say.....or its own copy of the Magna Carta or the historic interest of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds and the grave of the French Queen and the carved angels in nearby St Mary's (explained so well by a local guide) but it is quite an imposing building all the same.

Pp's visit coincided with the Festival of the Bramley Apple so the interior of the Minster was set for festival stalls but it was still worthwhile and not only for the window.
 
phlebas said:
It reminds me of the sculpture in Sydney's ANZAC War Memorial, opened in 1934. Wiki says it better than I could
Rayner Hoff's monumental bronze sculpture of a deceased youth, representing a soldier, held aloft on his shield by a caryatid – three female figures, representing his mother, sister and wife. The male figure's nudity was considered shocking at the time of the monument's opening, and it is said to be the only such representation of a naked male form within any war memorial. Two other even more controversial figural sculptures designed by Hoff—one featuring a naked female figure—were never installed on the eastern and western faces of the structure as intended, partly as a result of opposition from high ranking, reactionary local Catholic Church representatives.

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Been there a few times over the years Phlebas. The ANZAC Memorial is a stunning focal point to Hyde Park.
 
Primus pilus said:
Been there a few times over the years Phlebas. The ANZAC Memorial is a stunning focal point to Hyde Park.
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It is, quite a reverential and peaceful place. There's a small museum there now too.
btw this was the female nude that was intended to have been installed on the War Memorial - a great pity

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Primus pilus said:
Southwell doesn't have the grandeur of Lincoln, York, Salisbury or Canterbury.....NABC as Pp was wont to say.....or its own copy of the Magna Carta or the historic interest of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds and the grave of the French Queen and the carved angels in nearby St Mary's (explained so well by a local guide) but it is quite an imposing building all the same.

Pp's visit coincided with the Festival of the Bramley Apple so the interior of the Minster was set for festival stalls but it was still worthwhile and not only for the window.
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It was about ten years ago and I went to a Remembrance Sunday service there, but that was long before the window.
 
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