London
London
2005-07-14 20:21:35
I was in the centre of London, by Oxford Circus, just before noon
today. In a couple of minutes, almost like a scene from some disaster
movie, buses, taxis, cars, vans, lorries, all slowed down and halted,
while all the shops and offices let out their people, who stumbled
into the bright sunshine, blinking looked around, some in a daze,
before standing, heads bowed, as a silence fell upon the city like I
have never heard before. At the busiest crossroads, in the centre of
this vast metropolis, you could have heard a pin drop, as we stood
for two minutes remembering those our city, our home, had lost to
this insanity called terrorism.
I found myself silently weeping, standing amongst strangers, some of
whom were also doing the same, but knowing that all around understood
exactly why we were.
At the end Londoners applauded each other, safe in the knowledge that
nothing can stop us from carrying on and overcoming this latest
tragedy in our long and extraordinary history.
I today was deeply, deeply proud to be a Londoner.
Paul
you're never too old to launch your dreams
today. In a couple of minutes, almost like a scene from some disaster
movie, buses, taxis, cars, vans, lorries, all slowed down and halted,
while all the shops and offices let out their people, who stumbled
into the bright sunshine, blinking looked around, some in a daze,
before standing, heads bowed, as a silence fell upon the city like I
have never heard before. At the busiest crossroads, in the centre of
this vast metropolis, you could have heard a pin drop, as we stood
for two minutes remembering those our city, our home, had lost to
this insanity called terrorism.
I found myself silently weeping, standing amongst strangers, some of
whom were also doing the same, but knowing that all around understood
exactly why we were.
At the end Londoners applauded each other, safe in the knowledge that
nothing can stop us from carrying on and overcoming this latest
tragedy in our long and extraordinary history.
I today was deeply, deeply proud to be a Londoner.
Paul
you're never too old to launch your dreams
Re: [Richard III Society Forum] London
2005-07-14 21:01:48
Thanks, Paul.
After the attack last week, a friend of mine from a
suburb of Manchester posted "London Pride" by Noel
Coward on his blog. It was a great comfort in a weepy
sort of a way to read it.
Has everyone see the "We are not afraid" website? I
think Pam Butler posted the web address in the
American Branch listserv, not here, so I'll repeat it:
http://www.werenotafraid.com/
--- Paul Trevor Bale <paultrevor@...>
wrote:
> I was in the centre of London, by Oxford Circus,
> just before noon
> today. In a couple of minutes, almost like a scene
> from some disaster
> movie, buses, taxis, cars, vans, lorries, all slowed
> down and halted,
> while all the shops and offices let out their
> people, who stumbled
> into the bright sunshine, blinking looked around,
> some in a daze,
> before standing, heads bowed, as a silence fell upon
> the city like I
> have never heard before. At the busiest crossroads,
> in the centre of
> this vast metropolis, you could have heard a pin
> drop, as we stood
> for two minutes remembering those our city, our
> home, had lost to
> this insanity called terrorism.
> I found myself silently weeping, standing amongst
> strangers, some of
> whom were also doing the same, but knowing that all
> around understood
> exactly why we were.
> At the end Londoners applauded each other, safe in
> the knowledge that
> nothing can stop us from carrying on and overcoming
> this latest
> tragedy in our long and extraordinary history.
>
> I today was deeply, deeply proud to be a Londoner.
> Paul
>
>
> you're never too old to launch your dreams
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group//
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> [email protected]
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After the attack last week, a friend of mine from a
suburb of Manchester posted "London Pride" by Noel
Coward on his blog. It was a great comfort in a weepy
sort of a way to read it.
Has everyone see the "We are not afraid" website? I
think Pam Butler posted the web address in the
American Branch listserv, not here, so I'll repeat it:
http://www.werenotafraid.com/
--- Paul Trevor Bale <paultrevor@...>
wrote:
> I was in the centre of London, by Oxford Circus,
> just before noon
> today. In a couple of minutes, almost like a scene
> from some disaster
> movie, buses, taxis, cars, vans, lorries, all slowed
> down and halted,
> while all the shops and offices let out their
> people, who stumbled
> into the bright sunshine, blinking looked around,
> some in a daze,
> before standing, heads bowed, as a silence fell upon
> the city like I
> have never heard before. At the busiest crossroads,
> in the centre of
> this vast metropolis, you could have heard a pin
> drop, as we stood
> for two minutes remembering those our city, our
> home, had lost to
> this insanity called terrorism.
> I found myself silently weeping, standing amongst
> strangers, some of
> whom were also doing the same, but knowing that all
> around understood
> exactly why we were.
> At the end Londoners applauded each other, safe in
> the knowledge that
> nothing can stop us from carrying on and overcoming
> this latest
> tragedy in our long and extraordinary history.
>
> I today was deeply, deeply proud to be a Londoner.
> Paul
>
>
> you're never too old to launch your dreams
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group//
>
>
> [email protected]
>
>
>
>
>
London
2011-04-07 09:52:12
Marvellous programme on BBC last night about what a disgusting place London was to live in during the Middle Ages. Dan Snow demonstrated graphically what was inn the Medieval streets for citizens to walk through, and how the authorities had to take strict action against some householders when their filth prevented people from walking along by what was being thrown out their windows. One street was renamed when it had originally been called Shiteburn Street in honour of what it looked like most of the time! Dan even trudged through a sewage plant to experience what the smell was like. Poor man was turning green in front of our eyes! "Can I go now?" he begged at one point.
Lovely programme with some terrific reconstructions of the streets and buildings. One pair of men built a couple of toilets in their house, a hole in the floor over a bucket. Of course the hole was in the part of the house that hung away from the house over the street, and the bucket was many feet below. Quite often the household produce missed the bucket and the street was filled with filth! The men were prosecuted.
The Radio Times even provided us with a scratch card so we could experience the smell ourselves, if we were stupid enough to want to!!!
Next week it is Revolutionary Paris, so I guess it will be the smell of the blood from the guillotine amongst other things! Cannot wait.
Terrific show.
Paul
Lovely programme with some terrific reconstructions of the streets and buildings. One pair of men built a couple of toilets in their house, a hole in the floor over a bucket. Of course the hole was in the part of the house that hung away from the house over the street, and the bucket was many feet below. Quite often the household produce missed the bucket and the street was filled with filth! The men were prosecuted.
The Radio Times even provided us with a scratch card so we could experience the smell ourselves, if we were stupid enough to want to!!!
Next week it is Revolutionary Paris, so I guess it will be the smell of the blood from the guillotine amongst other things! Cannot wait.
Terrific show.
Paul
Re: London
2011-04-07 16:00:59
*LOL* The first "smellyvision." [:D]
I hope it's sent across the "pond"--sans scratch-n-sniff card. Perhaps
the viewers could instead be asked to fart during the appropriate
scenes? Seriously though, I do hope the show makes its way here. It
sounds quite interesting.
Joan
---
author of This Time, a novel about Richard III in the 21st-century
2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards General Fiction Finalist
website: http://www.joanszechtman.com/
blog: http://rtoaaa.blogspot.com/
ebook: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/3935
--- In , Paul Trevor Bale
<paul.bale@...> wrote:
>
> Marvellous programme on BBC last night about what a disgusting place
London was to live in during the Middle Ages. Dan Snow demonstrated
graphically what was inn the Medieval streets for citizens to walk
through, and how the authorities had to take strict action against some
householders when their filth prevented people from walking along by
what was being thrown out their windows. One street was renamed when it
had originally been called Shiteburn Street in honour of what it looked
like most of the time! Dan even trudged through a sewage plant to
experience what the smell was like. Poor man was turning green in front
of our eyes! "Can I go now?" he begged at one point.
> Lovely programme with some terrific reconstructions of the streets and
buildings. One pair of men built a couple of toilets in their house, a
hole in the floor over a bucket. Of course the hole was in the part of
the house that hung away from the house over the street, and the bucket
was many feet below. Quite often the household produce missed the bucket
and the street was filled with filth! The men were prosecuted.
> The Radio Times even provided us with a scratch card so we could
experience the smell ourselves, if we were stupid enough to want to!!!
> Next week it is Revolutionary Paris, so I guess it will be the smell
of the blood from the guillotine amongst other things! Cannot wait.
> Terrific show.
> Paul
>
I hope it's sent across the "pond"--sans scratch-n-sniff card. Perhaps
the viewers could instead be asked to fart during the appropriate
scenes? Seriously though, I do hope the show makes its way here. It
sounds quite interesting.
Joan
---
author of This Time, a novel about Richard III in the 21st-century
2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards General Fiction Finalist
website: http://www.joanszechtman.com/
blog: http://rtoaaa.blogspot.com/
ebook: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/3935
--- In , Paul Trevor Bale
<paul.bale@...> wrote:
>
> Marvellous programme on BBC last night about what a disgusting place
London was to live in during the Middle Ages. Dan Snow demonstrated
graphically what was inn the Medieval streets for citizens to walk
through, and how the authorities had to take strict action against some
householders when their filth prevented people from walking along by
what was being thrown out their windows. One street was renamed when it
had originally been called Shiteburn Street in honour of what it looked
like most of the time! Dan even trudged through a sewage plant to
experience what the smell was like. Poor man was turning green in front
of our eyes! "Can I go now?" he begged at one point.
> Lovely programme with some terrific reconstructions of the streets and
buildings. One pair of men built a couple of toilets in their house, a
hole in the floor over a bucket. Of course the hole was in the part of
the house that hung away from the house over the street, and the bucket
was many feet below. Quite often the household produce missed the bucket
and the street was filled with filth! The men were prosecuted.
> The Radio Times even provided us with a scratch card so we could
experience the smell ourselves, if we were stupid enough to want to!!!
> Next week it is Revolutionary Paris, so I guess it will be the smell
of the blood from the guillotine amongst other things! Cannot wait.
> Terrific show.
> Paul
>
Re: London
2011-04-07 16:10:49
Is it the sort of programme they show on your BBC channel?
Paul
On 7 Apr 2011, at 16:00, joanszechtman wrote:
> *LOL* The first "smellyvision." [:D]
>
> I hope it's sent across the "pond"--sans scratch-n-sniff card. Perhaps
> the viewers could instead be asked to fart during the appropriate
> scenes? Seriously though, I do hope the show makes its way here. It
> sounds quite interesting.
>
> Joan
> ---
> author of This Time, a novel about Richard III in the 21st-century
> 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards General Fiction Finalist
> website: http://www.joanszechtman.com/
> blog: http://rtoaaa.blogspot.com/
> ebook: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/3935
>
> --- In , Paul Trevor Bale
> <paul.bale@...> wrote:
>>
>> Marvellous programme on BBC last night about what a disgusting place
> London was to live in during the Middle Ages. Dan Snow demonstrated
> graphically what was inn the Medieval streets for citizens to walk
> through, and how the authorities had to take strict action against some
> householders when their filth prevented people from walking along by
> what was being thrown out their windows. One street was renamed when it
> had originally been called Shiteburn Street in honour of what it looked
> like most of the time! Dan even trudged through a sewage plant to
> experience what the smell was like. Poor man was turning green in front
> of our eyes! "Can I go now?" he begged at one point.
>> Lovely programme with some terrific reconstructions of the streets and
> buildings. One pair of men built a couple of toilets in their house, a
> hole in the floor over a bucket. Of course the hole was in the part of
> the house that hung away from the house over the street, and the bucket
> was many feet below. Quite often the household produce missed the bucket
> and the street was filled with filth! The men were prosecuted.
>> The Radio Times even provided us with a scratch card so we could
> experience the smell ourselves, if we were stupid enough to want to!!!
>> Next week it is Revolutionary Paris, so I guess it will be the smell
> of the blood from the guillotine amongst other things! Cannot wait.
>> Terrific show.
>> Paul
>>
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> ------------------------------------
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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Paul
On 7 Apr 2011, at 16:00, joanszechtman wrote:
> *LOL* The first "smellyvision." [:D]
>
> I hope it's sent across the "pond"--sans scratch-n-sniff card. Perhaps
> the viewers could instead be asked to fart during the appropriate
> scenes? Seriously though, I do hope the show makes its way here. It
> sounds quite interesting.
>
> Joan
> ---
> author of This Time, a novel about Richard III in the 21st-century
> 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards General Fiction Finalist
> website: http://www.joanszechtman.com/
> blog: http://rtoaaa.blogspot.com/
> ebook: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/3935
>
> --- In , Paul Trevor Bale
> <paul.bale@...> wrote:
>>
>> Marvellous programme on BBC last night about what a disgusting place
> London was to live in during the Middle Ages. Dan Snow demonstrated
> graphically what was inn the Medieval streets for citizens to walk
> through, and how the authorities had to take strict action against some
> householders when their filth prevented people from walking along by
> what was being thrown out their windows. One street was renamed when it
> had originally been called Shiteburn Street in honour of what it looked
> like most of the time! Dan even trudged through a sewage plant to
> experience what the smell was like. Poor man was turning green in front
> of our eyes! "Can I go now?" he begged at one point.
>> Lovely programme with some terrific reconstructions of the streets and
> buildings. One pair of men built a couple of toilets in their house, a
> hole in the floor over a bucket. Of course the hole was in the part of
> the house that hung away from the house over the street, and the bucket
> was many feet below. Quite often the household produce missed the bucket
> and the street was filled with filth! The men were prosecuted.
>> The Radio Times even provided us with a scratch card so we could
> experience the smell ourselves, if we were stupid enough to want to!!!
>> Next week it is Revolutionary Paris, so I guess it will be the smell
> of the blood from the guillotine amongst other things! Cannot wait.
>> Terrific show.
>> Paul
>>
>
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>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
Re: London
2011-04-07 18:07:32
I'm not receiving many postings (?)
Have I been naughty?
Judy
________________________________
From: joanszechtman <u2nohoo@...>
To:
Sent: Thu, April 7, 2011 10:00:59 AM
Subject: Re: London
*LOL* The first "smellyvision." [:D]
I hope it's sent across the "pond"--sans scratch-n-sniff card. Perhaps
the viewers could instead be asked to fart during the appropriate
scenes? Seriously though, I do hope the show makes its way here. It
sounds quite interesting.
Joan
---
author of This Time, a novel about Richard III in the 21st-century
2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards General Fiction Finalist
website: http://www.joanszechtman.com/
blog: http://rtoaaa.blogspot.com/
ebook: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/3935
--- In , Paul Trevor Bale
<paul.bale@...> wrote:
>
> Marvellous programme on BBC last night about what a disgusting place
London was to live in during the Middle Ages. Dan Snow demonstrated
graphically what was inn the Medieval streets for citizens to walk
through, and how the authorities had to take strict action against some
householders when their filth prevented people from walking along by
what was being thrown out their windows. One street was renamed when it
had originally been called Shiteburn Street in honour of what it looked
like most of the time! Dan even trudged through a sewage plant to
experience what the smell was like. Poor man was turning green in front
of our eyes! "Can I go now?" he begged at one point.
> Lovely programme with some terrific reconstructions of the streets and
buildings. One pair of men built a couple of toilets in their house, a
hole in the floor over a bucket. Of course the hole was in the part of
the house that hung away from the house over the street, and the bucket
was many feet below. Quite often the household produce missed the bucket
and the street was filled with filth! The men were prosecuted.
> The Radio Times even provided us with a scratch card so we could
experience the smell ourselves, if we were stupid enough to want to!!!
> Next week it is Revolutionary Paris, so I guess it will be the smell
of the blood from the guillotine amongst other things! Cannot wait.
> Terrific show.
> Paul
>
Have I been naughty?
Judy
________________________________
From: joanszechtman <u2nohoo@...>
To:
Sent: Thu, April 7, 2011 10:00:59 AM
Subject: Re: London
*LOL* The first "smellyvision." [:D]
I hope it's sent across the "pond"--sans scratch-n-sniff card. Perhaps
the viewers could instead be asked to fart during the appropriate
scenes? Seriously though, I do hope the show makes its way here. It
sounds quite interesting.
Joan
---
author of This Time, a novel about Richard III in the 21st-century
2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards General Fiction Finalist
website: http://www.joanszechtman.com/
blog: http://rtoaaa.blogspot.com/
ebook: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/3935
--- In , Paul Trevor Bale
<paul.bale@...> wrote:
>
> Marvellous programme on BBC last night about what a disgusting place
London was to live in during the Middle Ages. Dan Snow demonstrated
graphically what was inn the Medieval streets for citizens to walk
through, and how the authorities had to take strict action against some
householders when their filth prevented people from walking along by
what was being thrown out their windows. One street was renamed when it
had originally been called Shiteburn Street in honour of what it looked
like most of the time! Dan even trudged through a sewage plant to
experience what the smell was like. Poor man was turning green in front
of our eyes! "Can I go now?" he begged at one point.
> Lovely programme with some terrific reconstructions of the streets and
buildings. One pair of men built a couple of toilets in their house, a
hole in the floor over a bucket. Of course the hole was in the part of
the house that hung away from the house over the street, and the bucket
was many feet below. Quite often the household produce missed the bucket
and the street was filled with filth! The men were prosecuted.
> The Radio Times even provided us with a scratch card so we could
experience the smell ourselves, if we were stupid enough to want to!!!
> Next week it is Revolutionary Paris, so I guess it will be the smell
of the blood from the guillotine amongst other things! Cannot wait.
> Terrific show.
> Paul
>
Re: London
2011-04-07 18:31:20
Judy Thomson wrote:
>
> I'm not receiving many postings (?)
>
> Have I been naughty?
>
> Judy
Carol responds:
Try reading the posts online rather than from your e-mail; that way, you'll know what's going on without worrying about what's in your inbox. In any case, the group can be slow at times--nothing to do with any individual poster.
Carol, who belongs to several Yahoo groups and reads all the messages online
>
> I'm not receiving many postings (?)
>
> Have I been naughty?
>
> Judy
Carol responds:
Try reading the posts online rather than from your e-mail; that way, you'll know what's going on without worrying about what's in your inbox. In any case, the group can be slow at times--nothing to do with any individual poster.
Carol, who belongs to several Yahoo groups and reads all the messages online
Re: London
2011-04-07 18:34:34
ethanx!
________________________________
From: justcarol67 <justcarol67@...>
To:
Sent: Thu, April 7, 2011 12:31:14 PM
Subject: Re: London
Judy Thomson wrote:
>
> I'm not receiving many postings (?)
>
> Have I been naughty?
>
> Judy
Carol responds:
Try reading the posts online rather than from your e-mail; that way, you'll know
what's going on without worrying about what's in your inbox. In any case, the
group can be slow at times--nothing to do with any individual poster.
Carol, who belongs to several Yahoo groups and reads all the messages online
________________________________
From: justcarol67 <justcarol67@...>
To:
Sent: Thu, April 7, 2011 12:31:14 PM
Subject: Re: London
Judy Thomson wrote:
>
> I'm not receiving many postings (?)
>
> Have I been naughty?
>
> Judy
Carol responds:
Try reading the posts online rather than from your e-mail; that way, you'll know
what's going on without worrying about what's in your inbox. In any case, the
group can be slow at times--nothing to do with any individual poster.
Carol, who belongs to several Yahoo groups and reads all the messages online
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