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Vince Hawthorn
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Posted at 20:36 on 3rd October 2013
  Oh dear - head in the clouds again 
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rustyruth
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Posted at 21:20 on 3rd October 2013
Come down from the clouds Vince and have a look around Europe Smile
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Vince Hawthorn
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Posted at 21:32 on 3rd October 2013
 Ah - maybe the diameter of the hadron collider.  We had a survey team there for a year back in the day- note they did not send the scruffy long haired one with the noisey music.

Edited by: Vince Hawthorn at:3rd October 2013 21:46
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rustyruth
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Posted at 21:36 on 3rd October 2013
That's a good answer Vince, wish it was right, no I'm looking for something more natural, and I probably should have gone for width rather than length.
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Vince Hawthorn
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Posted at 21:59 on 3rd October 2013
  Is the Water getting Smokey, I think because of Frank Zappa , Purple had their classic track in the bag as the Smoke went over Lake Geneva.
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Ken Marshall
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Posted at 03:06 on 4th October 2013

Europe is a big continent so I will have to guess.

The Strait of Gibraltar.

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rustyruth
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Posted at 11:26 on 4th October 2013
You have it again Ken, yes at its narrowest point it is 8.9 miles across. Well done and over to you.
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Ken Marshall
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Posted at 12:00 on 4th October 2013
What is the name of the very famous British author and novelist who succumbed to tuberculosis in 1950 while he was still in his forties? His books are still widely read and studied in the twenty-first century.

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Ken Marshall
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Posted at 23:02 on 4th October 2013
Yes John, it is George Orwell. Well done. Over to you.
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rustyruth
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Posted at 10:30 on 5th October 2013
Well done John Smile
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