Ping! Phil? Are you there?

I know us guys north of the Borders tend to 'knock' you guys from the south
sometimes, but it's only a bit of banter. I do hope, sincerely, that none of
you, or yours, got caught up in that horrendous affair this morning.

It makes the G8 'riots' in Scotland pale into insignificance!

--
Remove my boots to email me ...
Regards
Andy
"Fran" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Phil Cook, calling Phil Cook - come in please. Who else have we in
the London area? Is everyone OK?
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Fran O(<|={
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Fran said:

Phil Cook, calling Phil Cook - come in please. Who else have we in
the London area? Is everyone OK?

Phil posted this in the Exp 17 thread :

"Weekend of the 15 16 17th anybody? I'll be further north than the
Southern Uplands for the two weeks previous to that so St Mary's Loch
would be handy."

So, I reckon he'll be well away from London right now. I hope so.

Judith

Fran said:

Phil Cook, calling Phil Cook - come in please. Who else have we in
the London area? Is everyone OK?

Mike Reid too. Yes, are you all ok? My heart goes out to you all.

Katherine

Fran said:

Phil's the only one I
know of here who's London-based - I'm sure there ar

Nick Pedley works (and lives, too, I think) in London. Pipe up, Nick.
Are you OK?

Judith

In article <[email hidden]>, Andy Crawford said...

Quoted message said:

I do hope, sincerely, that none of
you, or yours, got caught up in that horrendous affair this morning.

I've heard from a friend in the City that he's OK; I've not yet heard
from my mother, but unless she had a hospital appointment she
shouldn't have been near the centre of London. Phil's the only one I
know of here who's London-based - I'm sure there are others though.
--
/
Fran O(<|={
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Following up to Katherine

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Phil Cook, calling Phil Cook - come in please. Who else have we in
the London area? Is everyone OK?

Mike Reid too. Yes, are you all ok? My heart goes out to you all.

thanks Katherine, I'm fine. Were used to it, The Luftwaffe and
the IRA couldnt stop us, neither will the current bunch of
loonies!
--
Mike Reid
Walk-eat-UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Walk-eat-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap
Photos of both "http://www.lawn-mower-man.co.uk"

Following up to Andy Crawford

Quoted message said:

I know us guys north of the Borders tend to 'knock' you guys from the south
sometimes,

Really! And I always thought I was envied and admired north of
Watford, now you mention it I have heard people say something
about "southern softy" just because I put a padded jacket on when
it fell below 70F :-)

Quoted message said:

I do hope, sincerely, that none of
you, or yours, got caught up in that horrendous affair this morning.

thanks for that, a refreshing change from the opinions of a Tyke
who posts here but I wont name who takes the north south thing
all too seriously.
--
Mike Reid
Walk-eat-UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Walk-eat-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap
Photos of both "http://www.lawn-mower-man.co.uk"

"Judith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Fran said:

Phil's the only one I
know of here who's London-based - I'm sure there ar

Nick Pedley works (and lives, too, I think) in London. Pipe up, Nick.
Are you OK?

Hello! Is there any cake going spare? Ate all mine yesterday while sitting
at home watching the news.
I was due to work the late shift yesterday starting at 1pm but that changed
pretty rapidly with the shutdown of all the public transport. All my 'Tube
Strike' contingency plans went out the window so I called work and waited to
hear back. The Eye was hardly open yesterday and today is going to be very
interesting...

Nick (in Epping which is most certainly not part of London! ;-) )

Nick Pedley said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Phil's the only one I
know of here who's London-based - I'm sure there ar

Nick Pedley works (and lives, too, I think) in London. Pipe up, Nick.
Are you OK?

Hello! Is there any cake going spare? Ate all mine yesterday while sitting
at home watching the news.

Best place to watch it from, I reckon.

Quoted message said:

Nick (in Epping which is most certainly not part of London! ;-) )

<quick look at map>

Of course it's London. Everything south of Brum is London. ;-)

Judith

In article <[email hidden]>, Judith
said...

Quoted message said:

Nick Pedley said:

Quoted message said:

>Phil's the only one I
>know of here who's London-based - I'm sure there ar

Nick Pedley works (and lives, too, I think) in London. Pipe up, Nick.
Are you OK?

Hello! Is there any cake going spare? Ate all mine yesterday while sitting
at home watching the news.

Best place to watch it from, I reckon.

Quoted message said:

Nick (in Epping which is most certainly not part of London! ;-) )

<quick look at map>

Of course it's London. Everything south of Brum is London. ;-)

No 's not. 'S almost Essex, in the same way that Beckenham is almost
Kent. Good job you weren't at work though - a tad too close for
comfort. I guess you sit at home and await instructions.

--
/
Fran O(<|={
\

The Reids said:

Following up to Katherine

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Phil Cook, calling Phil Cook - come in please. Who else have we in
the London area? Is everyone OK?

Mike Reid too. Yes, are you all ok? My heart goes out to you all.

thanks Katherine, I'm fine. Were used to it, The Luftwaffe and
the IRA couldnt stop us, neither will the current bunch of
loonies!

Well said that man!
--
R
o
o
n
e
y

"I always knew the entire Green party were nutters" - Ken Livingstone

In article <[email hidden]>, The Reids
said...

Quoted message said:

Following up to Katherine

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Phil Cook, calling Phil Cook - come in please. Who else have we in
the London area? Is everyone OK?

Mike Reid too. Yes, are you all ok? My heart goes out to you all.

thanks Katherine, I'm fine. Were used to it, The Luftwaffe and
the IRA couldnt stop us, neither will the current bunch of
loonies!

Whereabouts are you Mike? I hadn't registered that you were that
close in - or is it work that takes you to the Wen? IRA? Yes, we
used to just ignore 'em and carry on regardless. They never managed
to produce anything on yesterday's scale, mind. (I was working in the
EC3 area from the mid 70s to the mid 80s)
--
/
Fran O(<|={
\

Following up to Fran

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Of course it's London. Everything south of Brum is London. ;-)

No 's not. 'S almost Essex, in the same way that Beckenham is almost
Kent. Good job you weren't at work though - a tad too close for
comfort. I guess you sit at home and await instructions.

my postal address is Kent, but I pay taxes and vote in a London
borough, so i'm in London.
--
Mike Reid
Walk-eat-UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Walk-eat-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap
Photos of both "http://www.lawn-mower-man.co.uk"

Following up to Fran

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

thanks Katherine, I'm fine. Were used to it, The Luftwaffe and
the IRA couldnt stop us, neither will the current bunch of
loonies!

Whereabouts are you Mike?

Live in Bexley
Heres what it looks like:-
"http://www.lawn-mower-man.co.uk/londonbexthb.htm"

Quoted message said:

I hadn't registered that you were that
close in - or is it work that takes you to the Wen?

Yes, used to work at County Hall for 20 odd years until Red Ken
got silly and got us abolished.

Quoted message said:

IRA? Yes, we
used to just ignore 'em and carry on regardless.

I took offence when they blew up a pub I used.

Quoted message said:

They never managed
to produce anything on yesterday's scale, mind. (I was working in the
EC3 area from the mid 70s to the mid 80s)

Indeed. Some big explosions your way though, Baltic Exchange,
Tower 42. Funnily enough it was that lone looney who came nearest
to getting my wife, she was one street away from the Admiral
Duncan.
The Luftwaffe nearly got me (is he that old they think?) a Stuka
it was, during the Guards Armoured division push to relieve the
paras at Arnhem[1], my dad dived dived under a lorry which
promply blew up, put him out of the war but still able to do the
business and produce Reid Jnr just before they introduced the
free health service! Theres timing.
I'm beiginning to sound like some old buffer, spose I am! :-)

1] the details might not be quite right, he didnt talk about it.

Now, all together "therell be bluebirds over the white cliffs of
Dover......"
--
Mike Reid
Walk-eat-UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Walk-eat-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap
Photos of both "http://www.lawn-mower-man.co.uk"

Following up to Paul Rooney

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

thanks Katherine, I'm fine. Were used to it, The Luftwaffe and
the IRA couldnt stop us, neither will the current bunch of
loonies!

Quoted message said:

Well said that man!

"Londoners can take it" is the phrase going the rounds again,
according to Robert Elms, he heard it once from a bloke "just off
the boat" after an IRA bomb!
--
Mike Reid
Walk-eat-UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Walk-eat-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap
Photos of both "http://www.lawn-mower-man.co.uk"

The Reids said:

Following up to Paul Rooney

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

thanks Katherine, I'm fine. Were used to it, The Luftwaffe and
the IRA couldnt stop us, neither will the current bunch of
loonies!

Quoted message said:

Well said that man!

"Londoners can take it" is the phrase going the rounds again,
according to Robert Elms, he heard it once from a bloke "just off
the boat" after an IRA bomb!

If anything is likely to pi*s off Al Quaeda's London branch, it'll be
the sight of the no. 30 bus carrying on as usual!
--
R
o
o
n
e
y

"I always knew the entire Green party were nutters" - Ken Livingstone

Following up to Paul Rooney

Quoted message said:

If anything is likely to pi*s off Al Quaeda's London branch, it'll be
the sight of the no. 30 bus carrying on as usual!
--

not to mention girls strutting their stuff and people enjoying a
pint after work.
--
Mike Reid
Walk-eat-UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Walk-eat-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap
Photos of both "http://www.lawn-mower-man.co.uk"

The Reids said:

Following up to Paul Rooney

Quoted message said:

If anything is likely to pi*s off Al Quaeda's London branch, it'll be
the sight of the no. 30 bus carrying on as usual!
--

not to mention girls strutting their stuff and people enjoying a
pint after work.

Ah, summer! I love this weather for enjoying a pint or three while
watching the girls go by.
From what I see on the news, you're all virtually back to normal.
Let's now hope they catch the barstewards and deal with them
accordingly.
Sadly, of course, things will never be normal again for some.
--
R
o
o
n
e
y

"I always knew the entire Green party were nutters" - Ken Livingstone

Following up to Paul Rooney

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

not to mention girls strutting their stuff and people enjoying a
pint after work.

Ah, summer! I love this weather for enjoying a pint or three while
watching the girls go by.

Steady, think of your blood pressure.

Quoted message said:

From what I see on the news, you're all virtually back to normal.

except for some tube lines.

Quoted message said:

Let's now hope they catch the barstewards and deal with them
accordingly.
Sadly, of course, things will never be normal again for some.

sadly, yes.
--
Mike Reid
Walk-eat-UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Walk-eat-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap
Photos of both "http://www.lawn-mower-man.co.uk"