prestonjohn

The Indian authorities must be getting desperate to obtain forex because i have just read a report that they are pushing Customs to confiscate any Rupees being brought into the country in an attempt to push up foreign currency reserves . This is getting desperate.The markets will read these reports and get jittery nerves.Bit self defeating if you ask me though

a_f_d

Greetings to all triskaidekaphobes!

AndyD 8-)₹

prestonjohn

Ta for reminding me its Friday the 13th.....the origin of this superstition is from when they burnt The Knights Templers in Paris 700 years ago...just read that Sunburn has to move from Candolim courtesy Mr. lobo MLA for Calingut. Thank F**k the 13th cannot be that bad then.Whats the betting where it will end up ?
Mapsua....Donna Paula......or in the South ?

a_f_d

Candolim?

AndyD 8-)₹

Chameleons

Well, you've got to, haven't you?

Probably right, Andy.

hemingway

Well, Shri Mickky Pacheco already has the Betalbatim Beach Grind (actually nearer Colva than Betalbatim to me) so maybe he'll take it "under his wing" & add it to his stable of so called entertainment events!

H

msj5

I seriously wish all of you with property issues the best of luck now that both Dreadsoc and Lewys are no longer part of this Forum.

a_f_d

If that's so then I think we are entitled to more information/ explanation from the Mods.

AndyD 8-(₹

Mitzyboy

There's nothing to explain really Andy, Dread and Lewys' accounts are still open and available for them to post, but obviously the choice is up to them.

erinsgirl

I heard rumours that it would be in Baga behind the new bridge? Seemed unlikely to me.

prestonjohn

Anjuna. Mordem, colva,cavelossim....4 alternative places put forward in todays Times of India

prestonjohn

any body watch the new BBC series Peaky Blinders ? I thought it was fantastic and completely real.

a_f_d

+1
my grandad used to talk about the Peaky Blinders - he was the oldest of 17 and came from a rough part of Birmingham. He'd been a tough little b*gger but he was terrified of the blinders. Only quibbles I have are dates (I thought they were earlier than 1919) and they are showing steel plates sewn in the cap brims - g'dad reckoned they used heavy strips of lead which they smashed across the bridge of your nose, breaking the facial bones and bursting the eyes (hence the name).

AndyD 8-)₹

Return of Santan

I think this forum is fast becoming a Marie Celeste with all the "sudden mysterious disappearance" of many long standing members, very very sad

RofS

prestonjohn

Im always fascinated by living links to historical events.I once met an old man when i worked for Amnesty International on Rosebery Avenue. He described to me an old blind match box seller who stood on the corner of Exmouth Market in Farringdon for years. He had a sign around his neck ." Blinded in the Fenian Bombing." This was in December 1911, when the Fenians blew up Clerkenwell Jail. I read in The Guardian that gang warfare in Brummy was even more violent than the series, " Peaky Blinders." Apparently it was not unusual for 300 people to be involved in turf wars in the Small heath area of Birmingham, some as young as 8 years old.Soldiers coming back from war must have completely betrayed at the conditions they had to face in their home towns and districts. The slums and poverty,official indifference to their plight and the police having to keep the peace with just a truncheon and a whistle...