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Ron Brind
Ron Brind
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quotePosted at 17:43 on 9th January 2009
On 9th January 2009 17:00, Richard Sellers wrote:
I thought taking was grabbing !!!
No Rick, Gabbing not Grabbing! What does Gabbing mean to you guys?
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Richard Sellers
Richard Sellers
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quotePosted at 17:51 on 9th January 2009
oops....Gabbing is gossiping
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Bob T
Bob T
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quotePosted at 18:10 on 9th January 2009
On 9th January 2009 17:31, Richard Sellers wrote:
Well said Bob !

Thanks, Richard.
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Krissy
Krissy
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quotePosted at 18:12 on 9th January 2009
On 9th January 2009 17:41, Bob T wrote:
On 9th January 2009 17:32, Krissy wrote:

Bob..do you ever get a chance to see whales? I've gone whale watching up around Cape Cod!

Coin collecting is cool!! I always save the odd foreign coin that I find!

Once, on a passage from Kittery, Maine to Newport, RI. I saw one. I was approximately 30 miles off of Nantucket. One other time (and I don't know what it was) something passed beneath the boat while I was crossing Nantucket Sound...the silhouette was abot thirty feet long and seven feet wide.

Coins are fun. As a matter of fact, I still have the change that was in my pocket the day I left the UK in 1986.


30ft??!!!  WOW!!! Wonder what that was!!!! Humpback maybe?!
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Bob T
Bob T
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quotePosted at 18:26 on 9th January 2009
On 9th January 2009 18:12, Krissy wrote:

30ft??!!!  WOW!!! Wonder what that was!!!! Humpback maybe?!

I have no idea. May not have been a whale at all. It passed deep enough that I was only able to see the silhouette.
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Krissy
Krissy
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quotePosted at 18:27 on 9th January 2009

Loch Ness monster?? On holiday? Laughing

Now I really wonder what that was?

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Bob T
Bob T
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quotePosted at 19:57 on 9th January 2009
Loch Ness monster on holiday...now THAT'S funny!
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Krissy
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quotePosted at 20:11 on 9th January 2009
Laughing
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Ruth Gregory
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quotePosted at 04:40 on 10th January 2009
We did a whale watch in Monterey Bay a few years ago. Krissy.  We had gray whales, and bottle nosed dolphins by the hundreds.
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Paul Hilton
Paul Hilton
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quotePosted at 23:21 on 11th January 2009

I collect an assortment of things that catch my eye for one reason or another.  Antique furniture of the 1700s and 1800s; assorted paintings, some coins of historical interest, the oldest formerly being a 1625 sixpence of Charles 1st found on the civil war battlefield of Newbury ( 1643/44); old pocket watches, model buses and commercial vehicles.

Bob---don't have any vintage Strats but have a mint 1990s Fender copy of a 1959 Strat. Jimmi Hendrix used to have a Gibson Flying V guitar and, a few years ago, was found in a junk shop up north, asking £50 for it as they didn't realise what they had. The chap who bought it did, so suspect his £50 investment is worth a bit more than that today.Just missed out on a mid-60s Burns Hank Marvin a friend was selling for peanuts as he was broke in the  '70s. I've always enjoyed radio since a kid, and have assorted radio items and licenced amateur radio operator. Collect old cameras as well as new ones. Collect old books as well.



Edited by: Paul Hilton at:11th January 2009 23:22
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