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No not everyone here are stupid just the nobhead I replied to. And I laugh at someone whos comments are pointless. I said you cannot know what is going on in another country with out standing in that country and seeing with your own eyes. Did I say Americans are stupid? To laugh and have fun is not the same thing.
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Your arguments are of low quality.
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07-25-2016, 07:44 AM
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Florence and I spent many happy times in England, it was one of her favourite places to visit. On one of our trips we rented a Ford and drove down to Coventry, had a picnic lunch (that the hotel made up) in a pasture overlooking Folkstone harbour - annoyed the hell out of the sheep. Came back to London by way of the channel coast and Brighton- met no end of people lunching in pubs. Funny how quickly you can get used to driving on the left.
Unfortunately none of my trips took us to the Midlands or we could have visited my Dad's birthplace.
The relevance of all this is to simply note that the people there are not stupid and the from what we observed on our trips both to Britain, France, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Denmark is that while there might have been much to say for the EU in the beginning is that they ultimately screwed it up. I did not take her to Israel for understandable reasons.
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07-25-2016, 08:32 AM
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Your arguments are of low quality.
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. Your arguments are none existent. Your incapable of replying, just coming out with nothing to do with what's been said.
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07-25-2016, 08:36 AM
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Florence and I spent many happy times in England, it was one of her favourite places to visit. On one of our trips we rented a Ford and drove down to Coventry, had a picnic lunch (that the hotel made up) in a pasture overlooking Folkstone harbour - annoyed the hell out of the sheep. Came back to London by way of the channel coast and Brighton- met no end of people lunching in pubs. Funny how quickly you can get used to driving on the left.
Unfortunately none of my trips took us to the Midlands or we could have visited my Dad's birthplace.
The relevance of all this is to simply note that the people there are not stupid and the from what we observed on our trips both to Britain, France, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Denmark is that while there might have been much to say for the EU in the beginning is that they ultimately screwed it up. I did not take her to Israel for understandable reasons.
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You should of come to the midlands. The west midlands to be precise. Were was your dad born?
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07-25-2016, 08:58 AM
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. Your arguments are none existent. Your incapable of replying, just coming out with nothing to do with what's been said.
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Strike 'incapable,' insert 'can't be bothered,' and you're pretty close.
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07-25-2016, 09:04 AM
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You should of come to the midlands. The west midlands to be precise. Were was your dad born?
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Grandfather Sam was a stonemason and moved about a lot. So although we were initially from Lincs Dad was born in Newark Notts. When Grandmother Sarah Anne died and Dad was only 11 he went to live with Aunt Amey and her husband George in Thornhill Lees, Yorks. Uncle George later got Dad into the glass-works. I'm sure you know the expression 'coddswallop' well Dad actually made many of the early Codd bottles. He left and came to Canada in 1908 aboard the SS Parisian a ship of the Allen Line. Unfortunately Robert, Edward and Samuel were favourite names for boys in the family and I have run into a brick wall (HA, appropriate as there were a lot of stonemasons in the family) with my 5X Great-grandfather Edward in Great Gonerby, Lincs, born about 1700.
Thanks to the better records the Catholic Church kept and Spanish naming conventions Florence's line was easier to trace - all the way back to Castile.
Yeah I wish we had taken a week of holiday and headed north out of London. Water under the bridge now. Have a cousin from Grandmother's side living in Ely, Grandmother was from Kirtling, Cambs.
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Herefordshire roots here with a bit of Hessian turncoat.
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07-25-2016, 10:15 AM
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These are my folks.
"The JAMES family of Bucks county is of Welsh origin, being descended from John JAMES and Elizabeth, his wife, who with sons Thomas, William Josiah, and Isaac, migrated in the year 1711 from the parish of Riddillyn, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, and settled in Montgomery township, Philadelphia, (now Montgomery) county."
http://pagenweb.org/%7Ebucks/BIOS_DA...mesfamily.html
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07-25-2016, 11:24 AM
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Herefordshire roots here with a bit of Hessian turncoat.
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I live four miles from North Herefordshire.
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07-25-2016, 11:39 AM
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My folks trace back to around 1750 in the Kent area on my dad's side. Other than that details are scarce. Probably my folk are the some of the ones England "exported".....
I've visited London once. Had fun.
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