Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

I know Quendon very well. It is a very nice hamlet sized village. I have watched cricket on the green there several times in years gone by. The singer Roger Whittaker used to live there in Quendon Hall. I had a friend who lived in the village.

Quendon hall is about a mile past Rickling house. Only about 5 miles from me Haystack. R whittaker moved out the early eighties.
The house has been restored called rickling house . The swimming pool out of interest has huge animals on the tiles of the walls that Roger had done. They must of been inspired from his South African game reserves memories. There are elephants, lions. Been in his sound recording studio a few years back, same as the day he left it . Now converted to a bungalow. You must know ugly just before Quendon and their Ugly womens institute. lol

So you would know the view well below then Hay.

Hope you watched the cricket and was not in the pub. lol

A fantastic artist Roger Whittaker -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx5G9kmj-Vw

I drove back to London one night after heavy rain. The road between Quendon and Stanstead has a dip into in it and rain had collected there. As I drove through the deep puddle the water came up into the car. I was driving a Morgan and they have floorboards.

I heard that they wanted to change the name to Women's Institute Ugly Branch. That seemed to me to be worse.

My friend lived just along the road from Quendon Hall.

A beautiful house Hay, the Newport end of Quendon.

http://www.quendonpark.co.uk/88/the-history-of-quendon-hall

Something else very interesting hay - the picture in post 22003. Ten years ago if you went in the opposite direction of the blue transit in the picture is travelling for quarter of a mile there was a petrol garage on the right hand side and just past there in the wood lived Dick I have written about. The garage was knocked down and something like 6 houses were built. This left a huge problem for Dick as the garage was where you saw him walking to and from daily with a five gallon drum in the bottom of the pushchair and dogs to collect water. So if you look very carefully just behind that water well ( has no water) there is a small bridge heading to the wall . R. whittakers old house is behind that wall and the present owners run hundreds of meters of fresh water pipe through the wall, with a tap and put the bridge in for Dick to then collect his water supply daily from the day the garage was knocked down. Something nice to have done, :-))

What a truly remarkable story. Very well put dc and obviously a well loved man.

It was just opposite the garage that I used to go (redbrick cottages). I think there used to be a Chinese restaurant behind the garage. I often used to walk through bluebell woods.

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Thanks 3m. I know where you were,Hay there are some beautiful blue bell woods in that area . Rw's old house (9 acres of garden and 15 odd of pine forrest surround it, which will be carpeted in blue bells soon, beautiful. Spectacular views of blue bells all in the forrests that run back to Stansted. A beautiful part of the country.

I thought Cameroon had a bright idea when he "promised" a EU referendum in 2015 and may have defuse part of his looney right, but it appears the electorate don't think much of his "promises".

What are his next set of promises?

Interesting for some:

Swiss referendum 'backs executive pay curbs'
Daniel Vasella, chairman of Swiss drugmaker Novartis There was outrage in Switzerland over a $78m pay off, later scrapped, to the outgoing Novartis chairman

Swiss voters appear to have backed proposals to impose some of the world's strictest controls on executive pay, projected referendum results suggest.

Some 70% are thot to have supported plans to give shareholders a veto on compensation and ban big payouts for new and departing managers.

Business groups argued the proposals would damage Swiss competitiveness.

But analysts say ordinary Swiss are concerned about a growing economic divide in the country.

The vote comes just days after the EU approved measures to cap bankers bonuses.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21647937

Referendums on emotive topics like that mean very little and government should ignore them. For a instance, if there was a referendum for bringing back capital punishment it would produce a huge vote in favour.

i was very pleased to read today that, very belatedly, the tories are at least thinking about not allowing immigrants free use of the NHS for the first year, except for emergencies and antenatal care .... at least that would shut one hole in the sieve

Hays and Manuel,

Do you think that the recent results shows true tory grit and support for the leadership.

Read that the majority of the tories "think" Cameron and Boy George are deluded and flocking to UKIP. Even here the money is travelling with some of them. They rest would like to stick the knives as soon as they can, but when they look around there isn't anybody inept enough in the party to replace them.

(Maybe there is a chance for you Hays. 8-)


Forgot, there is always Boris.

Bring on the clowns, can see the trio of Cameron, Boris and Beppe Grillo.

The only thing is that while Beppe Grillo has become a politician, Cameron and Boris have become comedians with support of the rest of the cabinet.

If they weren't b. the economy it would be funny.

Almost, feel like voting for Nigel.

Sorry, that is a mistake, I meant Nigella.