tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068105406305319114.post9205120146153239886..comments2024-01-11T17:17:37.361+00:00Comments on The Raft Journal: Domesday AmbridgeWoman on a Rafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068105406305319114.post-53672296063755838122011-01-16T02:27:16.994+00:002011-01-16T02:27:16.994+00:00For info: Ramtops has a blog and has put up a vide...For info: Ramtops has a blog and has put up a video and <a href="http://ramtops.livejournal.com/625084.html" rel="nofollow"> a short account of how the woodburning stove was installed.</a> That is a curious counterpoint to this post.<br /><br />There's a video of the new fire which is blocked by my software but works if I click through to youtube on it.Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068105406305319114.post-22423453002070019632011-01-16T02:21:22.853+00:002011-01-16T02:21:22.853+00:00I suppose, JuliaM, that it is even more unlikely t...I suppose, JuliaM, that it is even more unlikely than the Pargetter accident, and that's saying something.<br /><br />Glad you enjoy it, Gildas.Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068105406305319114.post-3398506971186412782011-01-16T02:16:18.946+00:002011-01-16T02:16:18.946+00:00Indeed, Lenko, the decision to drop Dick Barton wa...Indeed, Lenko, the decision to drop Dick Barton was another strange one. There seems to have been the daft idea that you could write a vehicle which combined agricultural notes with a thriller. A farmer was supposed to stalk round solving mysteries.Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068105406305319114.post-12496990378547018872011-01-16T02:13:11.207+00:002011-01-16T02:13:11.207+00:00Hello Ramtops. You have something in common with a...Hello Ramtops. You have something in common with a correspondent here, Richard. He decided to use a woodburning heating too, and <a href="http://goingfastgettingnowhere.blogspot.com/search/label/woodburning%20stoves" rel="nofollow">he has been writing about it</a>.Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068105406305319114.post-82056066004656277422011-01-15T19:01:10.390+00:002011-01-15T19:01:10.390+00:00Great piece, and a blog new to me, but going on my...Great piece, and a blog new to me, but going on my regular reading list!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068105406305319114.post-77489969079823283752011-01-15T17:58:00.829+00:002011-01-15T17:58:00.829+00:00I never listened to this show, apart from the time...I never listened to this show, apart from the time I had a girl friend who just HAD to listen to every episode, and if I wanted her in a good mood for whatever game I wanted to play, then I'd better keep quiet while they blathered on about lambs and tractors.<br /><br />Anyway, I still haven't forgiven the BBC for putting on this rubbish, which they dropped Dick Barton for!lenkohttp://dailymoaner.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068105406305319114.post-88174503051027035392011-01-15T17:15:57.286+00:002011-01-15T17:15:57.286+00:00The execution of Nigel...
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Love this blogThe execution of Nigel...<br />love it!<br />Love this bloggildashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01224099195320666809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068105406305319114.post-84600291004223325352011-01-15T06:07:33.954+00:002011-01-15T06:07:33.954+00:00"The Telegraph is crowing about cuts and free...<i>"The Telegraph is crowing about cuts and freezes but the BBC always claims that is happening, whether it is or not. "</i><br /><br />I', reminded of the 'Gershon Review' of the civil service, which - according to the unions, anyway - was going to sweep through like Genghis Khan, leaving devastation in its wake.<br /><br />And if you believed <i>that</i>...JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068105406305319114.post-87365982039394522202011-01-14T22:33:10.704+00:002011-01-14T22:33:10.704+00:00And I am proud to be so, Mrs WOAR.
I suppose expe...And I am proud to be so, Mrs WOAR.<br /><br />I suppose experiencing recognition with the Grundies and their dodgy ways was bound to earn me that 'wrong sort of listener tag' from the metropolitan cognescenti who see the countryside as a rather large back garden to their urban residences. Hunting and poaching would sit ill with those who see the rural as an Edenic landscape filled with undesirables who need their consciousnesses raised.PT Barnumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068105406305319114.post-79917151200367863742011-01-14T22:19:34.051+00:002011-01-14T22:19:34.051+00:00You are what Whitburn once called "the wrong ...You are what Whitburn once called "the wrong sort of listener", Mr Barnum.Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068105406305319114.post-44210809544855204552011-01-14T20:11:08.302+00:002011-01-14T20:11:08.302+00:00Now I know why I stopped listening c.1993 after 18...Now I know why I stopped listening c.1993 after 18+ years of faithful enjoyment (obviously having blanked the details of writers and editors). Having grown up the rural south I found myself stumbling over the increasing lack of farming in a programme centred around...farming. And the bizarre colourblind racism of the 'locals'.PT Barnumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068105406305319114.post-4334858106393397992011-01-14T16:34:42.664+00:002011-01-14T16:34:42.664+00:00You've summarized it excellently, Jim. Thank y...You've summarized it excellently, Jim. Thank you.<br /><br />However, I don't believe that the wider BBC audience realizes how much it is paying to be despised or how detrimental to their interests the BBC has become. <br /><br />The <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/8257607/BBC-faces-hundreds-of-job-losses-as-cuts-bite.html" rel="nofollow">Telegraph is crowing about cuts and freezes</a> but the BBC always claims that is happening, whether it is or not. <br /><br />We'll see if it makes any difference. Usually it doesn't.Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068105406305319114.post-5972744153485603032011-01-14T15:59:04.878+00:002011-01-14T15:59:04.878+00:00If you think I'm going to read more than a thi...If you think I'm going to read more than a third of that then you must think I care about the Archers and have an attention span 15 times that of an 18 year old which at the age of 52 I aint got not never did neiver.<br /><br />But, the BBC show their contempt for those of us who pay for them more and more by the day. By which I mean that we pay and they hate us more an more. On the off-chance that that was any part of your argument you have my complete support.Jim Baxterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10817293012642419524noreply@blogger.com