Scarlet Pimple

Right on IBM. There was no rush in these days. It was a case of veni, vide, vicci . I came I saw I conquered....and then moseyed slowly off home.

Mother used to patronize Riggs the Butchers. Is that a Capstan fags sign just beside it and what restaurant is it that is showing o n the left of the picture?

Govan Jaggie --do you have evidence or proof of what you just said about our outstanding Chairman in post #133?

Now you enunciate why I was reluctant to recommend coming back to this planet in any future re-incarnation. Why don't people learn ? - because we are human, we like expensive toys, we need to feel significant and when it affects us or our pocket we tend to see things differently. I've said it before and confirm it now. This planet is on it's way down to disaster and it's just a matter of time. While you are at it, why do we elect MP's whom we know, as sure as guns are guns, will, for the most part, never stand up in the Commons to speak, especially if it's a statement which opposes anything their bosses in the party say about it? It's a very well-paid sinecure , nothing else and his commitment is not to realty help anyone other than himself. The salary and benefits is closer to $150,000 Canadian per annum rather than $120,000 (smile) so why would he change ? When you ask them direct questions they try to take as long as they can to reply and the replies are invariably negative and self serving. The current MP we have here in my city is weak as they come, says to us, the public, he is not going to run again but immediately sends in his renewal papers because he wants another 5 years in the game to increase his pension. Replies to emails only when he is under duress or when he thinks the crisis he is asked to comment upon is well-nigh over and breaks promises etc. If you are lucky to see him on the benches in Parliament he looks sad and frequently about to fall asleep. He is a perfect follower who votes when P M Harper dictates it. But he does not appear to have a passion for representing with zeal the interests of the constituents who elected him instead of his bureaucratic bosses who use him mercilessly. This is the kind of Government we have become used to, always hoping that it will change. We have an election coming up in October of this year. But will we dump them all? I doubt it since the average person does not like change with uncertainty.

Well, Lightwelter he may think he is playing a non-superior league but if his head is big then he will need big wages to flatter him. Could be the wrong player if you are right. ?

Crikey a female with nerves of steel. Rhymes with rowlocks Oddquine. Smile Anybody who thinks they will get exactly what they think they have been promised is...... up a creek without a paddle and with no oars , no rowlocks and , lkie Rabbie Burns going on about the wee filed mouse..whit a panic should be in their breesties.

You say it's the Mars . Were civilians barred then? I'll give you a hin...... chocolate.

Was watching the Rangers on the T.V (yep,T.V!) yesterday. Such a poor, hesitant team; Maybe some bright, upwardly-mobile prospect might be willing to cut his salary to play for a much more talented and spirited team with a brighter future. NOT! Why? Because the Rangers mystique is still a potent force in the mind of young players who are living in the past. The financial debacle and the poor quality of their players indicates that thy are nothing like the teams of the past.

Donview All IHE needs to do now is to paint them two round things black and he's off to the races. Cheering girls are then a given.

1. http://pacificforestfoundation.org/glossary.html 2. https://www.google.ca/search?q=Old+logging+practices&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE- Address&ie=&oe=&rlz=&gfe_rd=cr&ei=XRPPVNzyDaarmAL4gYGQBg&gws_rd=ssl 3.https://www.google.ca/search?q=Old+logging+practices&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=XRPPVIuLIdjVoAS7kYDQDg&ved=0CCMQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=453&dpr=1.25 Plenty of meat here to inspire and fill you with awe. The modern method of removing the logs out from the forest edge with the water is by helicopter. This is a helicopter especially designed for this operation and is a very powerful beastie. I think they use Sikorskis. These pieces of felled trees are very valuable and the process of stripping and cutting them in the sawmill is intriguing. Each huge log is measured in different ways and it is determined by computer where to cut and how to cut in order to maximise the value of each log. Then the machine goes to work and does all the calculations with very little waste left over. Cheers S.P.

Brilliant

SKID ROW ? And slops? Nope I am afraid you are wrong Laurence. I am not saying it didn't happen but I have never heard of slops in roads in the last couple of hundred years .. Seattle is south of the B/C. border some 100 Kilometers from where I live and is on the west coast of America. Like Vancouver, it has always been a logger's town. Their wood came from the forests of the northern Cascadia Mountains close to Seattle in what is generally called the Pacific North West , Vancouver is, of course, also in this region but more often called the West coast of British Columbia. The town of Vancouver was started some 150 years ago at a point on the North Shore of the Burrard Inlet coming in from the Pacific Ocean. This was where the loggers dragged their huge logs out of the forests and to do this they used huge sleds harnessed to equally huge horses. In old documentaries I have also seen large carts heaped to the top and pulled by horses. Also what looked like open trains on rails also pulled by horses. Thus these 15 feet in diameter monster logs were "skidded" out on the skid roads down to the water's edge where they were prepared and locked into huge groups of logs called booms. There are still booms on the Inlets and also upstream on the Fraser river where they stand until ready for moving out.....either to the sawmills up country or exported. The name Skid Row is synonomous with Skid Road in the downtown Eastside and is usually now refers to down at heel, lower class areas of the city fairly close to the water as in olden times. It's also strongly associated with drug use and alcohol in Vancouver and everyone knows where it is, in the back areas and lanes behind the main drag called Hastings Street. . So I will see if I can find some old photos of the logging operations. These Western redwoods and cedar trees grow to tremendous heights due to the Pacific rains and they used to cut them down by inserting long metal strips into the base of the tree and the men stood on them on either side of the tree and held on to the huge long saw handles which needed two crews to move them --that was before the modern invention of the buzz saw.

Charlie--George Mackintosh . That's it. Now I remember. Fine man.

Canada currently has only 3% of energy production in wind powered generators. This Government is concentrating their efforts on the tar sands in Alberta and trying to get the U S Government to approve the Keystone oil pipeline through their country to the southern coast. Obama is dead against it.

IBM Wow! It's right at the bottom of the picture isn't it? I vaguely see the end of the church on the right whose architecture I recognized.

IBM St Stephen's Church was the one my family attended. But I can't pick it out. As I recall I walked up Castle Street, at the top turned left on old Edinburgh Road and the church was situated at a cross roads on my right side. ?

Charles--no, unfortunately I really don't remember 1947 because I was only 9 years old at that time. But strangely enough, I vividly remember 1945 because it was victory day in the 2nd world war and it was raining that day. So I fell off my bike applying the brakes too hard. IHE these are terrific pictures, I would just love to cut them out and make Xmas cards from them.

P for Pomagne, Charlie ? Is that scent then? And is that as good as saying, speculatively, whimsically and with tongue in cheek, P for Po.f ? I proffer an exclamation.. You're having a laugh.

J.Hughes is not alone in this! He has to also be in concert with the Club management at all levels. And what do we know about their plans? Virtually nothing, apparently.What we need, possibly, is a statement of intent from the club? But, on the OTHER hand, why would the club risk an expose of their intentions and plans for the immediate future just to satisfy a few fans? So far, where is the hullabaloo of a general outcry? Nowhere to be seen? Most folks are sitting patiently on the sidelines watching and waiting--not a bad policy is it? It's sitting tight and not rocking the boat, It's showing faith in the upper level team and the absence of outright negative criticism is as much as saying ''We have faith in you". The latter seems to me to be a good policy at this stage because anything else will only be knee-jerk reactions. Which could harm the club because it could be wrongly construed, cause dissent and more criticism and put the focus on NEGATIVETY, rather than positive, encouraging support,. And then what?

Bright agitator.

I understand your feelings IHE and I think that you are not entirely wrong about the club's attitude but it's a question, IMHO, that the club is faced with the idiom..."you are damned if you do and damned if you don't". As for John apparently being unusually uncomfortable, my opinion is that his attitude reflected more about his disappointment at Billy's leaving and the disruption in his plans and what he had hoped would be a very good outcome at the end of the season as a result of his intense planning and work. At the same time he now has to factor in the Shinnie situation so what can he do about that ?He can't include Billy in his plans really but he can't exclude him either. And what happens if that scenario changes and Shinnie does not actually go to Aberdeen? That's more tension and uncertainty in his mind as to what to do in the way of transfers. So you can hardly blame him for being somewhat nervous especially since it is not his fault that his good work leading up to these players becoming as good as they are is cruelly turned against him in a sense and giving him a lot to think about? Time to back him unequivocally IMHO. And see if he can work some more magic. What other course is there to take at this quoite crucial point in the season. Cheers

I hear the words Summer Football bandied about on this thread and current reports. I also saw these words mentioned in England on a report I was reading from the Wigan F.C. site. Hope it bears fruit for everybody connected with the game. Ryan Esson summed it all up in his interview about the conditions today. He was quite diplomatic but reading between the lines the word appalling springs to mind? Comments please?

IHE, don't you think that with the lack of available resources at the club for transfer fees for GOOD players, who also have to have a record of sufficient flexibility so that they can fi in to Mr. Hughes' scheme, then your commentary against his explanations is a tad harsh. Also, this has all happened very quickly for everybody to really grasp the significance of it and the club can't be expected to buy in players on the supposition that any player, no matter how good or allegedly relentlessly-sought- after , will automatically be transferred on any specific day? So John's hands are tied until he knows the circumstances that he is actually faced-with. It all boils down to money-- surprise, surprise. Isn't that right Oddquine? At least, to be fair, that's my uninformed insight.