Beautiful Lancashire

[TSR2]

There is a Thai resn,t just off the centre, brilliant ,got to book in advance or queue

[Mathos]

Where do you go to my lovely?



She had to stop at the lights, I noticed she had got on the wrong bike, her boy-friend too.

I wonder if they changed over at different points of the ride.

I'm simply passing the time of day.




Dutchy here looked like he should have been in Amsterdam.

In the Port of Amsterdam

That reminds me.


Strong words here if you want to swallow them.

In the port of Amsterdam
There's a sailor who sings
Of the dreams that he brings
From the wide open sea
In the port of Amsterdam
There's a sailor who sleeps
While the river bank weeps
To the old willow tree

In the port of Amsterdam
There's a sailor who dies
Full of beer, full of cries
In a drunken town fight
In the port of Amsterdam
There's a sailor who's born
On a hot muggy morn
By the dawn's early light

In the port of Amsterdam
Where the sailors all meet
There's a sailor who eats
Only fish heads and tails
And he'll show you his teeth
That have rotted too soon
That can haul up the sails
That can swallow the moon

And he yells to the cook
With his arms open wide
"Hey, bring me more fish
Throw it down by my side"
And he wants so to belch
But he's too full to try
So he stands up and laughs
And he zips up his fly


In the port of Amsterdam
You can see sailors dance
Paunches bursting their pants
Grinding women to porch
They've forgotten the tune
That their whiskey voice croaked
Splitting the night
With the roar of their jokes
And they turn and they dance
And they laugh and they lust
Till the rancid sound of the accordion bursts
And then out of the night
With their pride in their pants
And the sluts that they tow
Underneath the street lamps

In the port of Amsterdam
There's a sailor who drinks
And he drinks and he drinks
And he drinks once again
He'll drink to the health
Of the whores of Amsterdam
Who've given their bodies
To a thousand other men
Yeah, they've bargained their virtue
Their goodness all gone
For a few dirty coins
Well he just can't go on
Throws his nose to the sky
And he aims it up above
And he pisses like I cry
On the unfaithful love

Don't scan those words, read them.




Fantastic Streets.



I wonder who paints the sky so blue

Who paints the snowflakes white

Who wakes the sun up every day

And lights the stars at night.



All that and more by the time you get to constructuion of this calibre.



Oh my Lord.

Nobody can visualise such beauty as these photographs show.

But out on the street..



You got a lotta nerve
To say you are my friend
When I was down
You just stood there grinning

You got a lotta nerve
To say you got a helping hand to lend
You just want to be on
The side that's winning

You say I let you down
You know it's not like that
If you're so hurt
Why then don't you show it

You say you lost your faith
But that's not where it's at
You had no faith to lose
And you know it

I know the reason
That you talk behind my back
I used to be among the crowd
You're in with

Do you take me for such a fool
To think I'd make contact
With the one who tries to hide
What he don't know to begin with

You see me on the street
You always act surprised
You say, "How are you?" "Good luck"
But you don't mean it

When you know as well as me
You'd rather see me paralyzed
Why don't you just come out once
And scream it

No, I do not feel that good
When I see the heartbreaks you embrace
If I was a master thief
Perhaps I'd rob them

And now I know you're dissatisfied
With your position and your place
Don't you understand
It's not my problem

I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment
I could be you

Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is
To see you

Check it out on U Tube..

Positiveley 4th Street:- Dylan.

Magic...

[Mathos]

Look through any window..

Yeah!

Any time of day..




What do you see


People with their shy ways, and their sly ways

You can see the ladies in their gowns, when you

Look through any window, yeah




What can you do besides dream when you see and come across sights so beautiful as these are.



Stairway to the stars perhaps.



That is spectacular.

[Mathos]

Students are kind of special in my book.

The Historical tales of booze and youth for instance.


Watch this connection.

Then listen carefully as the voice of Lanza comes into being after he slides

'The Stein' down the table.

Magic.

YouTube - Drink! THE STUDENT PRINCE (the same yes)

1 min 58 sec - 7 Nov 2007 -







I think Lanza was gifted with the voice of a 'God'

Spectacular.



Places like Oxford accentuate the positiveness of true youth.



A perfection in our existence.




I had a reasonable education.

That in no way means I think I am any more talented than the next man in the queue.

But the levels of Oxford and such in the UK are phenomenal.



We had a pot of tea in the garden area by the Uni as shown above.

The tray is on the left by the wall.

A good memory.



You cannot invent scenes like this.

That particular Gargoyle is really telling the 'Evil One' to keep the .... out of there.

If you value you're existence, as much as I value my Church

Stay The .... away buddy.

Lanza by the way.

Mario Lanza, was about 38 years old when he died.



Scenes like this and voices like his are irreplaceable,.



Saints abound.




Fantastic..

[Mathos]

Then drive away for a short while.

There's a certain tranquility, only water can give to the soul.




Magic.





Special..




It is rather beautiful.


I was just wondering though.

Like you do when you come across aeroplanes being

pulled to pieces in the middle of fields.





What are you doing here?

[Happyman]

830 gbp for a set of tyres !!!!!
Bloody hell !
I bought a Jowett Javelin in 1959 with 3,000 miles on the clock for 650 !!!
Got a full set of tyres on a VW Beetle in 1967 for 30 pounds !!!

Thanks for reinforcing my resolve not to go back to uk to live r

[Mathos]

Originally Posted by Happyman

830 gbp for a set of tyres !!!!!
Bloody hell !
I bought a Jowett Javelin in 1959 with 3,000 miles on the clock for 650 !!!
Got a full set of tyres on a VW Beetle in 1967 for 30 pounds !!!

Thanks for reinforcing my resolve not to go back to uk to live r

£830..00 for the tyres really daft isn't it.

Our first home was only £2,200..00 and we had to take a
twenty five year mortgage on that with
Hastings and Thanet at £17.19.6d
per calendar month repayments.

It was hard to find some months as well.

How times change.

A Jowett Javelin Happyman.



They were a superb looking motor car.

Extremely distinctive as well in their day.


You paid good money for a motor car as well in those days.

Well done.

[Happyman]

Originally Posted by Nietzsche

Rub it in why don't you

I know exactly where you are coming from - welcome to the club !

[Happyman]

I had a new tyre fitted to my Honda Air blade yesterday - 190 baht - including a can of Chang, while I was waiting !

[Mathos]

Originally Posted by Happyman

I had a new tyre fitted to my Honda Air blade yesterday - 190 baht - including a can of Chang, while I was waiting !

That seems like the deal of the year to me.

[Nietzsche]

Sometimes, Thailand is the best place on the planet

Wouldn't trust any of them to change a tyre on that beauty though!

[Mathos]

Originally Posted by Nietzsche

Sometimes, Thailand is the best place on the planet

Wouldn't trust any of them to change a tyre on that beauty though!

I'm very careful as to who I would let remove a wheel on my cars Nietzsche.


I always check the wheel nuts myself after, when I was on accident recovery, there was many an accident caused by road wheels coming off vehicles.

[Mathos]

This horse was one of numerous spectacular beauties we came across.




Beaufort Polo club.





It's an outstanding game of course.



Mainly for Officers and Gentlemen.




What a place, spectacular.



The link here say's it all.

Beaufort Polo Club
Welcome to the Beaufort Polo Club, home of the Williams de Broe Test Match and the Calcot Manor Hotel Country Fair and Argentine Club Cup. ...
www.beaufortpoloclub.co.uk/ - Cached - Similar pages
More results from www.beaufortpoloclub.co.uk »


It is of course home to the now retired but still keen player.

H R H Prince Charles.

Beaufort Polo Club -
Held at the beautiful Beaufort Polo Club, home to the now retired but still keen polo enthusiast HRH The Prince of Wales, The Country Fair is a wonderful ...
www.beaufortfair.co.uk/ - Cached - Similar pages





The horses were plentiful and there were numerous players about, Flobo was miffed that H R H' s Prince Charles, Prince William or Prince Harry weren't there.



Beaufort was hosting the Apes Hill Club from Barbados.

Apes Hill Club - Barbados - Residences - Golf - Polo
Wentworth Club, Landmark Land Company & Sir Charles Williams introduce Apes Hill Club, a new residential community & golf destination in Barbados.
www.apeshillclub.com/ - Cached - Similar pages


There's some interesting material there if you
click on all the links withing the link.


The horses alone must be worth small fortunes I rather suspect.




Note the platted tails too.



Vidal Sassoon might have been there.

[Mathos]

^^

Nice post back there Happyman.

My mates son now has it - absolute concours condition and is a leading light in the Jowett owners club !!!

Amazing and a brilliant occurence.

Thanks, very interesting.

My Dad had a Standard Vanguard, I remember it well.

[Mathos]

Guardsmen on the scene.




Officers and Gentlemen, every last one of them.


Good link here, especially The Who's Who link.

Welcome - Guards Polo Club
The Fortune Autumn Nations - Semi Final, 13/09/08 at 03:00PM, Laird ... Guards TV. © Guards Polo Club 2008. Developed by Rawnet.
Welcome - Guards Polo Club - Cached - Similar pages



They certainly take excellent care of the horses.



Immaculate.



Well dressed when they weren't being used as well.



Plenty of sand about, ground maintenance.


These monsters do a fair bit of damage after a game or two.



Plenty of games being played.

[Happyman]

^^^
The Jowett Javelin was an award-winning British car that was produced from 1947 to 1953 by Jowett Cars Ltd of Idle, near Bradford. The model went through five variants labelled PA to PE, each having a standard and "de luxe" option.
The car was designed by Gerald Palmer during World War II and was intended to be a major leap forward following the relatively staid designs of pre-war Jowetts. The flat four overhead valve engine of 1486 cc with a compression ratio of 7.2:1 was water-cooled and had an aluminium block and wet cylinder liners. It developed 50 bhp (37 kW) at 4100 rpm (52.5 bhp in the case of the PE) giving the car a maximum speed of 77 mph (124 km/h) and a 0-50 mph (80 km/h) time of 13.4 seconds. [2] Two Zenith carburettors were fitted and PA and PB versions had hydraulic tappets. The radiator was behind the engine. A four speed gearbox with column change was used. Early cars had gearboxes made by the Henry Meadows company, whilst the remainder of the cars had gearboxes made by Jowett themselves. The decision to make the gearboxes in house proved to be a costly mistake for Jowett.[4]
Design features included aerodynamic styling with the headlights faired into the wings and, for the time, a steeply sloped, curved windscreen. The body was of pressed steel, incorporating a box-section chassis and was made for Jowett by Briggs Motor Bodies in their Doncaster factory. The suspension used torsion-bars on all wheels (independent at the front) and internal gear-and-pinion steering. PA and PB models had mixed Girling hydraulic brakes at the front and mechanical braking at the rear. Later versions were fully hydraulic.
The car had a wheelbase of 102 inches (2,600 mm) and a track of 51 inches (1,300 mm). Overall the car was 14 feet (4.3 m) long, 5 feet (1.5 m) wide and weighed about 1 (Imperial) ton (depending on model and year). The car was expensive costing GBP819 at launch. [1]
A de-luxe saloon version tested by The Motor magazine in 1953 had a top speed of 82.4 mph (132.6 km/h) and could accelerate from 0-60 mph (97 km/h) in 20.9 seconds. A fuel consumption of 29.1 miles per imperial gallon (9.71 L/100 km; 24.2 mpg-US) was recorded. The test car cost £1207 including taxes. [3]
Just over 23,000 units were produced.

Nice car indeed - I used mine for pulling a trailer with my bikes on to race meetings !!
350 Gold star - 50cc Itom - 500cc Manx !!
Sold it to my mate when I had to get a bigger trailer when I started racing sidecars !!
The more entries you had at a meeting the better [at] 10 pounds a class if you qualified and did at least 1 lap in the race !!!
My mates son now has it - absolute concours condition and is a leading light in the Jowett owners club !!!
Replaced it with a beetleback Standard Vanguard with a Massey Fergeson engine - handled like a pregnant pig -flat out at 60 mph but would pull a house down with the torque !!!

[TSR2]

Originally Posted by Mathos

Mainly for Officers and Gentlemen.

That,s me out on both counts !

[Happyman]

Have a look in your fridge!
If you have any "Non Dairy" spread - OK margerine as us old farts call it - you will find that one of the main components is canola - in other words Rape Seed oil !

Healthy stuff - low cholesterol (sp) and all that !

[Happyman]

Nice pics Mathos !
Long way south of Lancashire - any problem getting a visa ?

[Mathos]

Originally Posted by Happyman

Nice pics Mathos !
Long way south of Lancashire - any problem getting a visa ?

Nice one Happyman, no problems with the Visa.

Just the VAT rates at times.

Them Southern Boys try to charge us Lancashire Lads 17.5%, but they would, wouldn't they.