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  1. oldfrenchhorn

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    A partially demolished Glasgow tenement building pictured in 1972, showing the exposed chimney flues. Almost, but not quite, a thing of beauty...

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    The wonders of nature - a natural rock formation in the Tassili N'Ajjer National Park in Algeria - looks for all the world like a giant hedgehog.

    The second shot shows a different view - with the hedgehog apparently being threatened by a cat-like creature to its right, and by an elephant's bum from behind...


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    My brother and his wife in Sydney are wildlife carers - these are the latest orphans they are looking after. Four Tawny Frogmouths - cute little devils...

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    I see a falcon clinging to the rock on the right bottom picture. Isn't nature wonderful.
     
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    Yup - it surely is.
    I've just noticed in that circle of stones at bottom right - the largest of them looks for all the world like a stone tank, with a row of peepholes above the gun barrel.
     
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    Drawn by a friend of my youngest son - talented youg lady.

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    33,553 squeezed in for an FA Cup 3rd Round tie v Liverpool in 1967.
     
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    The first time we had ever played Liverpool. Funny thing - I can't remember much about the game, not even where I stood in the ground, but can remember the replay four days later quite clearly - especially the joy on the terraces that Terry Melling's consolation goal brought in the dying minutes, and, sadly, Furphy getting caught horribly out of position leading to Liverpool's opening goal.
     
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    I love the guy standing on the pavement looking "over" the wall.
    I cannot remember being there, I was perhaps too young but I did go to the Man U cup match a few years later and remember sitting on the glass studded wall just above the toilets that were in the corner to the left of this picture.
    How things have changed.
     
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    I was listening to it in Mount Vernon Hospital after being mangled on my motorcycle by a drunk driver on New Years. Eve
     
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    I've spent an evening there with a nurse taking a brillo pad to me removing several yards of Batchworth Lane from my back... proper road rash and lucky it wasn't a whole lot worse.
     
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    Mine was in Batchworth Lane
     
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    Small world, crap drivers there though! Someone pulled out of Russell Road, decided they weren't going to get out in front of the car coming the other way and stopped - blocking the whole road. 4 choices: hit him and probably break several bones in the process; hit the oncoming car and die; take my chances with the grass verge and concrete fence posts; ... or lay the bike down in the road and hope for the best! B*st*rd drove off leaving me sitting in the road a bit like the copper at the end of Electraglide in Blue - but it was the other 10+ drivers that drove around me lying in the middle of the road that really p*****d me off.
     
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    That was the attitude of drivers in those days, it is different now

    Mine was at 2-00am on the morning of !st Jan
    Four students were on the opposite side of the road and on of them was a runner, he ran to Mount Vernon and at 2-20 am I was in Casualty recieving medical attention and blood transfers, the only reason I am still here, despite their evidence at the trial the drunk driver got off with driving without due care and attention and fined £40.00, his father was a rich bastard though
     
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    Well done that man. I just had a bit of road rash and needed a new crash helmet, handlebars, clutch lever, gear pedal and silencer. As to the crash helmet I smacked it on the kerb and it split almost in two and flew off... I was quite lucky to say the least, especially as I hit the kerb with my head. No concussion, it did its job. A Naval Officer stopped, got the bike off the road and drove me up to MVH. Still got charged £20 as it was an RTA even though no ambulance was called.
     
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    My crash
    My crash helmet looked like a hard boiled egg that had been thrown at a wall, with out it my head would have looked like a raw egg thrown at a wall
    The told me all in all it was the closest I could come to being dead and surviving
    I am officially the undead
     
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    Nasty things motorbikes. I finished up within a foot of rolling into the Grand Union Canal having been ejected from the pillion as we took off on a hump backed bridge.
     
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    Which bridge Harefield or Rickmansworth?
     
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