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Post by finsobruce on Dec 30, 2020 19:52:14 GMT
I have what must be an early edition of that, which was my mother's - all the aeroplanes were named after Australian things I seem to remember (The Dingo and the Willy-willy). My childhood favourite was Biggles and the Cruise of the Condor Not to be confused with Biggles and Connor Cruise O'Brien. Or Biggles and Flann O'Brien : "At Swim Two Camels".
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Post by carlton43 on Dec 31, 2020 0:13:37 GMT
The group were given a treat of a flight in an aircraft and were all aboard when the pilot went to file his flight plan or something, and the plane was stolen, or they had boarded the wrong plane or something, and the plane thieves were unaware they were on board. They remained undiscovered and when the plane landed in a hidden valley, they made their escape, they discovered a hidden cave which led to a series of tunnels and more caves, where they discovered hidden Nazi-looted treasure, including rugs and furniture as I recall. They also discovered a cave opening behind a waterfall and from there could see the valley. Thye could see the crooks searching the valley below and them approaching the hidden entrance to the cave system, so they willfully made themselves known to the crooks from behind the waterfall to distract them from the real entrance. The crooks now sought to enter via the waterfall which was impossible Then more stuff must have happened because it all ended well Classic Blyton. My favorite Biggles is Biggles in the Baltic My favourite was 'Biggles Flies Undone'.
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Post by tonygreaves on Dec 31, 2020 20:55:34 GMT
I never really went for Biggles. They all seemed to be a bit odd, speaking a "language I did not know".
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Post by J.G.Harston on Dec 31, 2020 21:46:35 GMT
I never really went for Biggles. They all seemed to be a bit odd, speaking a "language I did not know". Years 'n' years ago I was staying in a Youth Hostel and they had an early edition of the first Famous Five book. I had nothing else to do, so read it in about an hour. I remember thinking how truely bizarre the world was that it appeared to portray. George doesn't go to school because her parents "can't afford" it? yerwot??? You don't "afford" to go to school, you just..... go..... to school.
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Post by tonygreaves on Jan 4, 2021 15:30:28 GMT
I have known kids that could not afford to go to school. But not Blyton-posh kids.
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Post by timrollpickering on Jan 12, 2021 1:02:48 GMT
Michelle Ballantyne MSP (South Scotland) previously Conservative to Independent now to Reform UK:
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Post by john07 on Jan 12, 2021 1:37:11 GMT
Does that mean that Chris Grayling loses it? Chris Grayling lost it years ago. Assuming he ever had it?
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Jan 19, 2021 16:03:43 GMT
Labour MS for Blaenau Gwent suspended from the labour group for hosting a drinks reception in the Senedd before Christmas.
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Post by Harry Hayfield on Jan 19, 2021 19:27:26 GMT
Labour MS for Blaenau Gwent suspended from the labour group for hosting a drinks reception in the Senedd before Christmas. And according to Adrian Masters, the knives are out for the two so far selected Conservative members at the same reception with some Conservatives calling for Paul Davies to not only stand down as the nominated candidate in Preseli, Pembrokeshire, but to stand down as Conservative leader in Wales.
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Post by kefin on Jan 19, 2021 21:45:18 GMT
Labour MS for Blaenau Gwent suspended from the labour group for hosting a drinks reception in the Senedd before Christmas. And according to Adrian Masters, the knives are out for the two so far selected Conservative members at the same reception with some Conservatives calling for Paul Davies to not only stand down as the nominated candidate in Preseli, Pembrokeshire, but to stand down as Conservative leader in Wales.Would anybody really notice the political demise of Mr Charisma Bypass?
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Post by tonygreaves on Jan 19, 2021 23:46:02 GMT
The world has gone completely mad.
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Post by greenchristian on Jan 20, 2021 0:33:20 GMT
The world has gone completely mad. You appear to be claiming that there was a time when the world was somewhat sane.
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Post by andrea on Jan 20, 2021 9:27:48 GMT
Labour MS for Blaenau Gwent suspended from the labour group for hosting a drinks reception in the Senedd before Christmas. Conservatives MSs Paul Davies, Darren Millar and Nick Ramsay were at the same event. Davies is the leader of Welsh Conservatives.
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Jan 20, 2021 10:11:35 GMT
Labour MS for Blaenau Gwent suspended from the labour group for hosting a drinks reception in the Senedd before Christmas. Conservatives MSs Paul Davies, Darren Millar and Nick Ramsay were at the same event. Davies is the leader of Welsh Conservatives. No news yet on their fate. Facts are still tbc but what I've heard via the media so far doesn't suggest any laws were broken. They weren't drinking in a bar/restaurant etc, the only possible rule/law broken might be the lack of social distancing. They are however all so unbelievably stupid.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jan 20, 2021 11:46:12 GMT
Conservatives MSs Paul Davies, Darren Millar and Nick Ramsay were at the same event. Davies is the leader of Welsh Conservatives. No news yet on their fate. Facts are still tbc but what I've heard via the media so far doesn't suggest any laws were broken. They weren't drinking in a bar/restaurant etc, the only possible rule/law broken might be the lack of social distancing. They are however all so unbelievably stupid. They'll be held to very different standards to coppers eating in an illicitly-open cafe, or railway workers in a closed bakery. Whether that's right or wrong is another question...
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Post by tonygreaves on Jan 22, 2021 14:17:21 GMT
Was the meeting per se in some way against the rules? That is what matters. What they had as refreshments at such a meeting is utterly irrelevant.
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Post by No Offence Alan on Jan 22, 2021 14:25:39 GMT
Was the meeting per se in some way against the rules? That is what matters. What they had as refreshments at such a meeting is utterly irrelevant. It's politics. The Tories absolutely piled on Neil Kinnock when not breaking any rules.
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Post by timmullen1 on Jan 22, 2021 14:33:33 GMT
Was the meeting per se in some way against the rules? That is what matters. What they had as refreshments at such a meeting is utterly irrelevant. It looks like the meeting was ok; they were discussing tactics around whatever their version of a Private Member’s Bill is called, but they were apparently consuming wine at least up to midnight, which they claim to have purchased elsewhere before the 6.30pm cut off point for purchasing alcohol under Wales’ lockdown rules. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/senedd-wales-covid-rules-broken-b1789718.html
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jan 23, 2021 0:45:33 GMT
Like the Kinnock story, this smacks of confected outrage from people disgusted that other people somewhere might be enjoying themselves.
Or more accurately, that people doing the same as them are disgracefully doing the same as them.
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Post by cibwr on Jan 23, 2021 12:13:01 GMT
And according to Adrian Masters, the knives are out for the two so far selected Conservative members at the same reception with some Conservatives calling for Paul Davies to not only stand down as the nominated candidate in Preseli, Pembrokeshire, but to stand down as Conservative leader in Wales.Would anybody really notice the political demise of Mr Charisma Bypass? Not one to defend the Conservatives, but he near invisible inordinately, his predecessor still has a far higher profile. I would guess that most don't even know that he is leader of the conservative group in the Senedd
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