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Post by John Parry on Feb 27, 2007 17:50:50 GMT -5
Wayne - you must know your itinerary by now. What is it (the UK part anyway)?
Ron - When you come over I'll take you to see "The best team in the land and and all the world" Can't guarantee that your piece of best fillet steak won't make it to some of the best shops though!!
Regards - John
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Post by Reiska on Feb 28, 2007 12:24:33 GMT -5
"To everyting there is a season"
After having read this thread I have to twist a little what John has written. “You all have certainly made me feel far more receptive to the opinion, that there are quite a decent bunch of boys here” and I have started indexing my stuff. I noticed, that it was easy to me to agree with any opinion of any writer. It is a fact that we all are (or have to) slowing down sooner or later and we all have to prioritise our workings. World is full of simpler and easier but still wonderful things to do. Just ramble and enjoy rambling, Gene
I also feel bad what is happening to my collection in the future. Luckily, like Ron, I have a son who is interested about my collection and generally about cameras. I have heard my daughter saying aloud, that she has a plan to purchase a vithrine for a part of my collection. I am confident, they both are very reasonable and even-tempered ;D
We all earn a time when we can do the things we enjoy. To give time for family and neighbours is far more important than long days in the office or at the lathe. It is not a sin to give time to our amulets or talismans or dreams of our childhood, are they then Holgas or Leicas.
Please turn my solecisms to jokes about yuppies. (no, they are not worth it)
Reijo
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Post by John Parry on Feb 28, 2007 16:37:16 GMT -5
Ron - "I wish I'd spent more time at the office!"
You know - I've been feeling a bit guilty about that.....
Welcome aboard Reijo !!
Regards - John
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Post by kiev4a on Feb 28, 2007 16:49:14 GMT -5
John:
I think we'll be in the U.K. from April 2 through 6 (leaving on the 7th). London the first two days and we'll be operating out of the Cambridge area (staying at Lakenheath with my brother-in-law) after that. Don't know exactly the itinerary because he's getting things set up for us. Definitely hope to get to the War Museum).
Wayne
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Post by John Parry on Feb 28, 2007 16:59:14 GMT -5
Wayne - Well you'll see everything in 5 days no problem ! LOL
No way we'll get to see you, and I'm sorry about that - you could maybe have convinced me about those Nikons you insist on waving around!! No problem mate - have a great time. It's the Imperial War Museum you're looking for, and if you get the chance, try and stick your noses into the British Museum, the Scince Museum, and the Tate Gallery. Of course, I wouldn't like to influence you in any way, but I've no doubt you'll end up at the sodding Tower of London!
Regards - John
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Post by PeterW on Feb 28, 2007 18:09:37 GMT -5
Hi John, Off topic, but d'you know, I'm a Londoner born and bred, and all the years I lived there I never got around to going to the Tower (and no cracks about I should have been locked in there!).
When I had free time I spent it either browsing round camera shops, Brunnings was one of my favourites, going to Christie's camera auctions, not that I could buy much except 'box containing cameras various all as seen', or at Clerkenwell in the watch and clock parts supply places when I was into fixing watches and clocks. Sunday mornings were often spent browsing round Portobello Road.
I also spent quite a few afternoons in the Science Museum, and the British Museum Library.
Saturday evenings Valerie and I were usually at one the jazz clubs, Humph's, Ronnie Scott's etc. Saw some great musicians there, like Joe Pass, Coltrane, Gillespie, Dankworth and the great Louis Armstrong. What an atmosphere that man generated! Totally different from his theatre appearances. The only time we saw him he talked about his times with King Oliver, and in Chicago, and he played some wonderful stuff that he never recorded.
Also got to chat with quite a few jazzmen who would drop in and jam a couple of pieces before sitting down for a drink. Great times! Wish I'd had one of today's cameras with me, but in the 1950s and early 1960s you couldn't take much in a dim jazz club with an f/4.5 lens and ASA 400 film. Flash wasn't allowed. We also went to some rock clubs to see Clapton, The Who, the Stones etc. Great evenings, but the atmosphere wasn't as good. Too crowded, and a different type of people - noisy, shouting and whistling, and the amps up too loud to compensate.
But I never went to the Tower, the Tate, Houses of Parliament or any of the other 'must see' places. I think, like many Londoners, I had the attitude that "I can go there any day, but today ...".
PeterW
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Post by John Parry on Mar 1, 2007 15:45:58 GMT -5
Peter - lovely post! My dear departed mother-in-law lived in Capetown all her life, and never went up Table Mountain. A 'never had an accident' cable car - you stepped on at the bottom and stepped off at the top, but she never got around to it in 85 years!
I used to go to the MSG (the Manchester Sports Guild) which, contrary to it's name was the smokiest, unhealthiest den of iniquity you'll ever come across. Alternative weeks it was Jazz and Folk. Must admit I was a folk fan personally, but the MSG suited me down to the ground. No amplification allowed.
Around that time I must admit there were people doing good stuff on the electric front - Lindisfarne and Span spring to mind, and I'll love Maddy Prior till the day I die! But there was so much horrible garbage too! My criteria at the time was whether or not a folk artist had a drummer. Why would they need a drummer? Of course that was almost immediately blown out of the water by the appearance of the Corries with their boraan. As the McCalmans (who sang mainly English songs by the way) said, "The Corries have a despicable gimic - it's called talent!"
Well then! Are you going to go to the Tower of London? I dare you!! I double dare you!!
Regards - John
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Post by kiev4a on Mar 1, 2007 18:07:10 GMT -5
I double DOG dare you!
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Post by PeterW on Mar 1, 2007 20:59:38 GMT -5
John,
Nah! Not now. My leg won't take trains and tubes and stairs and things for a full day. If I can't take the car door to door I don't go.
I very seldom go to London now. The London I knew doesn't exist any more. And I hate the congestion zone, it's just another London Council tax. I pay enough tax as it is for the privilege of driving a car. I object to paying extra tax to drive into my home town, and another fifteen quid to park. Ken Livingstone can take a running ... preferably off Hungerford Bridge. PeterW
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Post by Randy on Mar 2, 2007 7:23:26 GMT -5
Peter, the house next door to me is for sale. Come move to Ohio and we can go hobble around on our bad gams and shoot pics together. ;D
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Post by John Parry on Mar 2, 2007 11:22:21 GMT -5
Peter - you know of course that I was only joking, but after your shots of Dover Castle, I thought we could have been in for something special from the TOL!
Wayne - Are you still here ( I mean there!)? Dog Dog Dog!!
Randy - we should all move to a little village somewhere, with superb scenery surrounding, and a High Street with lovely young ladies in miniskirts who are happy to be photographed, and I'd be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats, who are coming to take me away!!
Regards - John
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Post by kiev4a on Mar 2, 2007 11:40:35 GMT -5
"Ha Ha, Hee hee to the funny farm" 1966. I was in Army Basic Training when that song came out.
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