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Floss
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Carole
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Today's Big Picture on BBC News website.
I used to live a couple of hundred yards upstream, on this bank - you can have a cup of tea in my bedroom now...
A mate of mine was fishing just downstream from here once and I stopped to chat to him as I cycled past. Unfortunately, he didn't notice my arrival and I put my foot into a water-vole burrow, taking both of us and the bike into the river. He was remarkably unamused.
Where is this @Gramaisc ?
Carole
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Gramaisc
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Bourton on the Water.
tek-monkey
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Sat in cannock court waiting for someone to plead guilty so I can go home.
Gramaisc
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I lived in the ground floor that is now the Windrush Garden Café https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...0x4871259c974efdd3:0x62b46d705469ad33!6m1!1e1 - there may be a plaque...
I also lived here - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.8...!1e1!3m2!1scrUHujH63ZLIYj1eawdG7w!2e0!6m1!1e1 - tourists used to take pictures through the window when I was having my tea....
Gramaisc
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I once made a flippant comment to a friend who had been called to jury service, that the jury members would lose more in terms of lost income and time than the guilty defendants in the cases put before them would be sentenced to, in terms of fines and detention/community service orders/etc.
A brief, back-of-an-envelope calculation showed that this was likely to be true in his case...
littleme
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I had to jury service about 12years ago, hopefully I'll never have to do it again!
tek-monkey
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Plea entered, journey wasted. Although I'm not at work and I get to ride my (slightly poorly) motorbike in the sun so not all bad.
Laurie61
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Bourton on the Water is a lovely spot, I have visited a hand full of times over the years. On one visit there was an unfortunate car accident involving a car driving through a shop window, the air ambulance arrived and I could see nowhere safe to land but the pilot dropped down between trees next to the river! To this day I don't know how they managed it.
staffordjas
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Hope all goes well Peggy.
I couldn't believe it when they came around with tea and coffee in our locked Jury room , but we had to pay for it if we wanted any. Wouldn't let me leave the room to get my purse out of my locker, so had to lend money off someone or would have had to go without. Same with the sandwiches which we were brought in. No money, no sandwich! Would have gone hungry and thirsty as we were in there all day until an unanimous verdict was reached. One woman stuck it out until the final minute before we were due to be carted off to a hotel overnight, to change her mind and agree with the rest of us (her sister was childminding, so she stretched it out as long as possible to get as much money out of them as she could
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staffordjas
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New washing machine supplied and fitted by Tom Sturgess today 
With the pile of washing that's accummulated over the last few days , it hasn't stopped working since it came before lunchtime. Off to strip the beds while it's nice weather...................
With the pile of washing that's accummulated over the last few days , it hasn't stopped working since it came before lunchtime. Off to strip the beds while it's nice weather...................
Gramaisc
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Get it done! I've had several Met Office warnings about it pissing down from tomorrow afternoon onwards...New washing machine supplied and fitted by Tom Sturgess today
staffordjas
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Thanks, hadn't heard the forecast .
Gramaisc
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This is the last one I got, about 3 hours ago - subsequent events aren't always quite as apocalyptic as predicted - though "yellow rain" is to be avoided on your washing..
The Met Office said:
staffordjas
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Good luck peggy , hope it all goes well
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