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Old Apr 8th 2005, 10:26 am
  #16  
Keith Anderson
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On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 11:14:21 +0200, Tim Challenger
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:33:03 +0200, nitram wrote:
    >> On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 10:05:42 +0200, Tim Challenger
    >> <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>
    >>>On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:53:47 +0100, Tomas wrote:
    >>>> Well the first (direct) train out of London (Waterloo) that stops at
    >>>> Salisbury is the 7:10 arriving about an hour and a half later.. add to
    >>>> that a half hour taxi journey and I think you may miss the sunrise...
    >>>By about 4 hours. :-(
    >>
    >> When I was a student I went to the summer solstice twice. I wouldn't
    >> go out of my way to visit it at sunrise by my self.
    >I was there at sunrise a long tome ago. This was when they only had a
    >little step-over fence surrounding the stones.
    >I went to a particularly, er, relaxed, party in Salisbury and we all drove
    >up there pre-dawn and tumbled out onto the (other)grass and watched the sun
    >come up between the stones. Wonderful it was. Very tree-huggingly moving.

Like, er, wow, far out man! Outta sight! Hey, really cool, man!

(PS - at my age, all-nighters mean not having to get out of bed at 3
am to take a leak) :-)



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Old Apr 8th 2005, 10:27 am
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Nitram
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On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 11:14:21 +0200, Tim Challenger
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:33:03 +0200, nitram wrote:
    >> On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 10:05:42 +0200, Tim Challenger
    >> <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>
    >>>On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:53:47 +0100, Tomas wrote:
    >>>> Well the first (direct) train out of London (Waterloo) that stops at
    >>>> Salisbury is the 7:10 arriving about an hour and a half later.. add to
    >>>> that a half hour taxi journey and I think you may miss the sunrise...
    >>>By about 4 hours. :-(
    >>
    >> When I was a student I went to the summer solstice twice. I wouldn't
    >> go out of my way to visit it at sunrise by my self.
    >I was there at sunrise a long tome ago. This was when they only had a
    >little step-over fence surrounding the stones.

When I went there was no fence or any sort of control. Not even a lot
of self control AFAIR.

    >I went to a particularly, er, relaxed, party in Salisbury and we all drove
    >up there pre-dawn and tumbled out onto the (other)grass and watched the sun
    >come up between the stones. Wonderful it was. Very tree-huggingly moving.

There are no trees in the close vicinity are you sure it was a tree
you were hugging and not a druid dressed in female clothing?

I remember a druid shouting at a bunch of pissed students, who were
sitting on a lintel "Come down you'll break it!".
It was also the last trip I made on my 1948 BSA C11. It broke down on
the way there, I abandoned it and got a lift the rest of the way.
Afterwards we got it working again and I road it home. It turned out
that the mechanical bits of the distributor were completely worn out
like the rest of the bike and it went to the great scrapyard in the
sky :-(((
 
Old Apr 8th 2005, 10:32 am
  #18  
Tim Challenger
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On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:26:50 +0100, Keith Anderson wrote:

    > On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 11:14:21 +0200, Tim Challenger
    > <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    >>On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:33:03 +0200, nitram wrote:
    >>> On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 10:05:42 +0200, Tim Challenger
    >>> <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>>
    >>>>On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:53:47 +0100, Tomas wrote:
    >>>>> Well the first (direct) train out of London (Waterloo) that stops at
    >>>>> Salisbury is the 7:10 arriving about an hour and a half later.. add to
    >>>>> that a half hour taxi journey and I think you may miss the sunrise...
    >>>>By about 4 hours. :-(
    >>>
    >>> When I was a student I went to the summer solstice twice. I wouldn't
    >>> go out of my way to visit it at sunrise by my self.
    >>I was there at sunrise a long tome ago. This was when they only had a
    >>little step-over fence surrounding the stones.
    >>I went to a particularly, er, relaxed, party in Salisbury and we all drove
    >>up there pre-dawn and tumbled out onto the (other)grass and watched the sun
    >>come up between the stones. Wonderful it was. Very tree-huggingly moving.
    >
    > Like, er, wow, far out man! Outta sight! Hey, really cool, man!

It was a bit Neil-like. :-)


    > (PS - at my age, all-nighters mean not having to get out of bed at 3
    > am to take a leak) :-)

It was a long time ago ...


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Old Apr 8th 2005, 10:37 am
  #19  
Tim Challenger
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On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 12:27:02 +0200, nitram wrote:

    > On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 11:14:21 +0200, Tim Challenger
    > <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    >>On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:33:03 +0200, nitram wrote:
    >>> On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 10:05:42 +0200, Tim Challenger
    >>> <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>>
    >>>>On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:53:47 +0100, Tomas wrote:
    >>>>> Well the first (direct) train out of London (Waterloo) that stops at
    >>>>> Salisbury is the 7:10 arriving about an hour and a half later.. add to
    >>>>> that a half hour taxi journey and I think you may miss the sunrise...
    >>>>By about 4 hours. :-(
    >>>
    >>> When I was a student I went to the summer solstice twice. I wouldn't
    >>> go out of my way to visit it at sunrise by my self.
    >>I was there at sunrise a long tome ago. This was when they only had a
    >>little step-over fence surrounding the stones.
    >
    > When I went there was no fence or any sort of control. Not even a lot
    > of self control AFAIR.
    >
    >>I went to a particularly, er, relaxed, party in Salisbury and we all drove
    >>up there pre-dawn and tumbled out onto the (other)grass and watched the sun
    >>come up between the stones. Wonderful it was. Very tree-huggingly moving.
    >
    > There are no trees in the close vicinity are you sure it was a tree
    > you were hugging and not a druid dressed in female clothing?

I was incredibly relaxed at the time. it could have been anything. ;-)

    > I remember a druid shouting at a bunch of pissed students, who were
    > sitting on a lintel "Come down you'll break it!".

    :-)


    > It was also the last trip I made on my 1948 BSA C11. It broke down on
    > the way there, I abandoned it and got a lift the rest of the way.
    > Afterwards we got it working again and I road it home. It turned out
    > that the mechanical bits of the distributor were completely worn out
    > like the rest of the bike and it went to the great scrapyard in the
    > sky :-(((

I think I saw a photo of one of those once! B&W probably, lithograph ...
;-)
One of those where you could stick a lollypop stick in under the rocker
cover to adjust the valves? Or was that a Triumph?
--
Tim C.
 
Old Apr 8th 2005, 10:41 am
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Nitram
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On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:04:09 +0100, The Reids
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >Following up to Deep Foiled Malls
    >>Factor in English weather. It's likely to be cold, grey, and
    >>unphotoworthy. How close can you get to the stones anyway?
    >As a landscape photographer I can confirm you wont guarantee good
    >shots in UK by a single scheduled visit. Also check when dawn
    >actually is in summer! The pay off is that clouds make for great
    >photos when they work out well, check the weather forecast!

On both occasions I went Isaw the sunrise over the stones. I still
have a b/w photo somewhere.
 
Old Apr 8th 2005, 10:53 am
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The Reids
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Following up to Tim Challenger

    >I was there at sunrise a long tome ago. This was when they only had a
    >little step-over fence surrounding the stones.

I drove past at Easter and the high fence didn't seem to be there
anymore?
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Old Apr 8th 2005, 2:01 pm
  #22  
Nitram
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On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 12:37:30 +0200, Tim Challenger
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 12:27:02 +0200, nitram wrote:
    >> On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 11:14:21 +0200, Tim Challenger
    >> <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>
    >>>On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:33:03 +0200, nitram wrote:
    >>>> On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 10:05:42 +0200, Tim Challenger
    >>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>>>
    >>>>>On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:53:47 +0100, Tomas wrote:
    >>>>>> Well the first (direct) train out of London (Waterloo) that stops at
    >>>>>> Salisbury is the 7:10 arriving about an hour and a half later.. add to
    >>>>>> that a half hour taxi journey and I think you may miss the sunrise...
    >>>>>By about 4 hours. :-(
    >>>>
    >>>> When I was a student I went to the summer solstice twice. I wouldn't
    >>>> go out of my way to visit it at sunrise by my self.
    >>>I was there at sunrise a long tome ago. This was when they only had a
    >>>little step-over fence surrounding the stones.
    >>
    >> When I went there was no fence or any sort of control. Not even a lot
    >> of self control AFAIR.
    >>
    >>>I went to a particularly, er, relaxed, party in Salisbury and we all drove
    >>>up there pre-dawn and tumbled out onto the (other)grass and watched the sun
    >>>come up between the stones. Wonderful it was. Very tree-huggingly moving.
    >>
    >> There are no trees in the close vicinity are you sure it was a tree
    >> you were hugging and not a druid dressed in female clothing?
    >I was incredibly relaxed at the time. it could have been anything. ;-)
    >
    >> I remember a druid shouting at a bunch of pissed students, who were
    >> sitting on a lintel "Come down you'll break it!".
    >:-)
    >> It was also the last trip I made on my 1948 BSA C11. It broke down on
    >> the way there, I abandoned it and got a lift the rest of the way.
    >> Afterwards we got it working again and I road it home. It turned out
    >> that the mechanical bits of the distributor were completely worn out
    >> like the rest of the bike and it went to the great scrapyard in the
    >> sky :-(((
    >I think I saw a photo of one of those once! B&W probably, lithograph ...
    >;-)

There was a very good French website dedicated to a C11 restoration.



It even had a sound clip - oh! the waves of nostalgia when I heard it.
Maybe this but the sound clip has gone
http://bricologie.free.fr/bsa.htm

    >One of those where you could stick a lollypop stick in under the rocker
    >cover to adjust the valves?

real men used their own parts. Lollypops were for Lolita in those
days.

    > Or was that a Triumph?

A Triumph was a bra.
 
Old Apr 8th 2005, 2:22 pm
  #23  
Nitram
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On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:53:17 +0100, The Reids
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >Following up to Tim Challenger
    >>I was there at sunrise a long tome ago. This was when they only had a
    >>little step-over fence surrounding the stones.
    >I drove past at Easter and the high fence didn't seem to be there
    >anymore?

Were the stones? Can't trust BBC gardeners anymore.
 
Old Apr 8th 2005, 3:35 pm
  #24  
tarinth
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Why not try for sunset instead of sunrise,no need to get up so early
 
Old Apr 8th 2005, 3:56 pm
  #25  
Hania
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Why not try sunset instead of sunrise,no need to get up so early.
Prints and postcards are often better than any photographs you take
yourself,so take your time,don't knock yourself out, and call into the
local souvenir shop
 
Old Apr 8th 2005, 4:09 pm
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Magda
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On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 12:41:08 +0200, in rec.travel.europe, nitram <[email protected]> arranged
some electrons, so they looked like this :

... On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:04:09 +0100, The Reids
... <[email protected]> wrote:
...
... >Following up to Deep Foiled Malls
... >
... >>Factor in English weather. It's likely to be cold, grey, and
... >>unphotoworthy. How close can you get to the stones anyway?
... >
... >As a landscape photographer I can confirm you wont guarantee good
... >shots in UK by a single scheduled visit. Also check when dawn
... >actually is in summer! The pay off is that clouds make for great
... >photos when they work out well, check the weather forecast!
...
... On both occasions I went Isaw the sunrise over the stones. I still
... have a b/w photo somewhere.

Can count on you to shoot a sunrise in B&W...
 
Old Apr 8th 2005, 4:11 pm
  #27  
Nitram
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On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:26:50 +0100, Keith Anderson
<[email protected]> wrote:


    >(PS - at my age, all-nighters mean not having to get out of bed at 3
    >am to take a leak) :-)

LOL
 
Old Apr 8th 2005, 4:54 pm
  #28  
Nitram
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On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:09:15 +0200, Magda <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 12:41:08 +0200, in rec.travel.europe, nitram <[email protected]> arranged
    >some electrons, so they looked like this :
    > ... On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:04:09 +0100, The Reids
    > ... <[email protected]> wrote:
    > ...
    > ... >Following up to Deep Foiled Malls
    > ... >
    > ... >>Factor in English weather. It's likely to be cold, grey, and
    > ... >>unphotoworthy. How close can you get to the stones anyway?
    > ... >
    > ... >As a landscape photographer I can confirm you wont guarantee good
    > ... >shots in UK by a single scheduled visit. Also check when dawn
    > ... >actually is in summer! The pay off is that clouds make for great
    > ... >photos when they work out well, check the weather forecast!
    > ...
    > ... On both occasions I went Isaw the sunrise over the stones. I still
    > ... have a b/w photo somewhere.
    >Can count on you to shoot a sunrise in B&W...

There wasn't much choice in those days.
 
Old Apr 8th 2005, 5:21 pm
  #29  
Magda
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On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:54:20 +0200, in rec.travel.europe, nitram <[email protected]> arranged
some electrons, so they looked like this :

... On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:09:15 +0200, Magda <[email protected]>
... wrote:
...
... >On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 12:41:08 +0200, in rec.travel.europe, nitram <[email protected]> arranged
... >some electrons, so they looked like this :
... >
... > ... On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:04:09 +0100, The Reids
... > ... <[email protected]> wrote:
... > ...
... > ... >Following up to Deep Foiled Malls
... > ... >
... > ... >>Factor in English weather. It's likely to be cold, grey, and
... > ... >>unphotoworthy. How close can you get to the stones anyway?
... > ... >
... > ... >As a landscape photographer I can confirm you wont guarantee good
... > ... >shots in UK by a single scheduled visit. Also check when dawn
... > ... >actually is in summer! The pay off is that clouds make for great
... > ... >photos when they work out well, check the weather forecast!
... > ...
... > ... On both occasions I went Isaw the sunrise over the stones. I still
... > ... have a b/w photo somewhere.
... >
... >Can count on you to shoot a sunrise in B&W...
...
... There wasn't much choice in those days.

Dinosaurs were roaming the Earth ?
 
Old Apr 8th 2005, 5:39 pm
  #30  
Ian
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Magda wrote:
    > On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:54:20 +0200, in rec.travel.europe, nitram
    > <[email protected]> arranged
    > some electrons, so they looked like this :
    > ... On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:09:15 +0200, Magda
    > <[email protected]> ... wrote:
    > ...
    > ... >On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 12:41:08 +0200, in rec.travel.europe,
    > nitram <[email protected]> arranged ... >some electrons, so they looked
    > like this : ... >
    > ... > ... On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:04:09 +0100, The Reids
    > ... > ... <[email protected]> wrote:
    > ... > ...
    > ... > ... >Following up to Deep Foiled Malls
    > ... > ... >
    > ... > ... >>Factor in English weather. It's likely to be cold, grey,
    > and ... > ... >>unphotoworthy. How close can you get to the stones
    > anyway? ... > ... >
    > ... > ... >As a landscape photographer I can confirm you wont
    > guarantee good ... > ... >shots in UK by a single scheduled visit.
    > Also check when dawn ... > ... >actually is in summer! The pay off
    > is that clouds make for great ... > ... >photos when they work out
    > well, check the weather forecast! ... > ...
    > ... > ... On both occasions I went Isaw the sunrise over the stones.
    > I still ... > ... have a b/w photo somewhere.
    > ... >
    > ... >Can count on you to shoot a sunrise in B&W...
    > ...
    > ... There wasn't much choice in those days.
    > Dinosaurs were roaming the Earth ?

Piss taker! B & W with a nice filter on the lens can still look moody and
effective, even with a sunrise. Then again, maybe I'm just being
charitable! ;)
 


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