[BITList] Edinburgh Tattoo

Sun Jan 11 00:23:23 GMT 2009

Hugh
agree with you re the kiwi girls the ABC gave us the tattoo for new year 
though my favourite was the the American squad of a few years ago doing  
a small arms drill their precision put all to shame
frank

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>    1. Re: Belated HAPPY NEW YEAR (Kenneth Jones)
>    2. Re: CAN YOU GUESS WHAT THIS IS ? (HUGH)
>    3. Re: gymnast and rubber ball (HUGH)
>    4. January 10, 1839  - The beginning of Assam in Britain
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> Re: [BITList] Belated HAPPY NEW YEAR
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> Kenneth Jones <guidepostsheepwash at yahoo.co.uk>
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> IT IS GREAT TO HAVE THE SITE BACK CAN ASSURE YOU IT WAS SADLY MISSED 
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> YOUR GREETINGS ARE HEARTILY RECIPROCATED
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> Subject:
> Re: [BITList] CAN YOU GUESS WHAT THIS IS ?
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> "HUGH" <chakdara at btinternet.com>
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> Colin,
>  
> I thought it was the missing bit of the aircraft door being offered up 
> to see if would fit, even though the rounded corner is the wrong one.
>  
> Marine diesels get bigger, and computer stuff gets smaller.  The only 
> advantage of the latter I see is that, eventually, mobile/cell phones 
> will disappear up their own @rses.  I read this morning that a laptop 
> is being proposed/produced, small enough to fit in a lady's bag.  The 
> lady who mentioned this thought some people have a strange concept of 
> the size of women's bags. Some of my wife's bags would easily take a 
> couple of normal laptops, and leave room for piles of old bus tickets, 
> receipts, used tissues, yesterday's paper, ballpoints that don't work, 
> purses (some with money and some without), her glasses, a compact, 
> lipstick, gloves, etc, etc, etc, and, last but not least, her travel 
> pass.  The latter is the cause of the preamble to every outing - "I 
> can't find my pass."  I can write this with impunity - she's over in 
> Ireland till Sunday.
>  
> Hugh.
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> Subject:
> Re: [BITList] gymnast and rubber ball
> From:
> "HUGH" <chakdara at btinternet.com>
> Date:
> Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:11:14 -0000
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> Frank,
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> The mind boggles !  The ball seems to have no bounce whatever, so that 
> would help a bit, but only in the matter of knowing she wouldn't have 
> to allow for a stray bounce.  It is all down to aptitude, skill and 
> years of practice.  A few days ago BBC TV showed the 2008 Edinburgh 
> Tattoo, and there was a group of girls from New Zealand doing a long 
> and VERY complex series of "marching" manoeuvres, all without a single 
> word of command or a single error or (as far as I could see) a 
> sideways glance at a colleague.  The precision was stunning, even when 
> going backwards.
>
> Hugh.
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> Subject:
> [BITList] January 10, 1839 - The beginning of Assam in Britain
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> John Feltham <wulguru.wantok at gmail.com>
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> Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:53:58 +1000
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> From
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> http://sensibiliteas.blogspot.com/2009/01/beginning-of-assam-in-britain.html
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> Friday, January 09, 2009
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> The beginning of Assam in Britain
>
> Two Scottish brothers, Major Robert Bruce and Sir Charles Alexander
> Bruce started tea cultivation in India in 1817. In 1823 Robert discovered
> an indigenous plant used by the people of the Assam region of India.
> Originally it was rejected as being just another form of the flower,
> Camellia sinensis.
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> Before his death in 1825, Robert passed the information about the
> plant on to his brother Charles. When presented more thoroughly
> in 1830 by Charles, the find was declared ``the most important and
> valuable'' ever made on agricultural or commercial resources of the
> British Empire.
>
> In 1835, the first tea company, the Assam Tea Company, opened.
> On January 10, 1839 a shipment of 159k of tea (about 300 lbs of
> Assam tea shipped in May 1838) from the Assam region of India
> became available in Britain for the first time. Until this time, the 
> nation
> had seen only tea from China, and that had become very expensive.
> As India was a British colony, there was no duty on the Indian tea
> and it quickly became more affordable than the Chinese tea. This
> lead to the popularity of tea drinking in Britain.
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> ooroo
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