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[challenge entry] Since eveyone else says how shit their homes are:


That is my late Great Uncle Ralph.

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(, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 23:50, archived)
# You live in Manaton?
I used to live in Moretonhampstead!

Who'r'you?

By the way, are you claiming that Bowerman is your great uncle?
(, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 23:52, archived)
# Ralph Bowerman
(, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 23:56, archived)
# Ah! You are an outsider.
You are no local!
(, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 23:58, archived)
# Ralph James
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:00, archived)
# I have a feeling I used to deliver dog food
to a Mrs James in Manaton.
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:02, archived)
# Possibly,
Miss James - big house near Water - two liver and white springer spaniels, keen horsewoman, about 80 now though.

That there is her brother on top of a fucking great rock.
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:05, archived)
# That's her.
Yes, my Dad still delivers her dog food. There you go eh?
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:07, archived)
# I grew up there,
well, in the holidays.

In term time I was at school, obviously.
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:09, archived)
# Well
I bet we know some of the same people.
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:12, archived)
# Maybe.
Let us see, Gillian Everett?
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:13, archived)
# Went to Primary school with her.
I wasn't a favorite of hers. Probably because I was a little shit. How about Mike Miners?
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:18, archived)
# No idea.
I am a bit older and went away to school.

I only go back to visit these days, but I remember Gillian because I spent a dirty evening there on the way back from the Kestor once.
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:21, archived)
# Oh I see.
I heard she was quite good at those.
(Spent a few nights in Kestor mysef)
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:21, archived)
# Not my place to say.
My experience was certainly satisfactory, but the age gap is a little large for that sort of thing really.

I am 30 now after all.
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:23, archived)
# She must be 28.
She was in the year below me.
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:25, archived)
# Blimey
Shall I get Judi Spiers to sort out a reunion?
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:29, archived)
# Ah well,
It was after I came back from Bosnia, I must have been 21 and she was 18.

Seemed a bit bad at the time, but looking back doesn't seem bad at all.

Nice girl as I recall, but I obviously remember her better than the other local girls for this reason.

Funny how things change.
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:31, archived)
# Know anyone from Broadhempston?
I do
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:32, archived)
# Only in the biblical sense.
I am off to bed. I leave you with this thought:

(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:35, archived)
# Ta very much
*only slightly scared*
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:40, archived)
# Yes,
Bowerman is my Great Uncle Ralph.
(, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 23:58, archived)
# Your gran must've been pissed at those witches eh?
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:00, archived)
# Yes.
She hates competition.
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:06, archived)
# Fucking Moretonhampstead
Nice one
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:05, archived)
# Hey!
It's not much, but it kicks the ass of Chagford.
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:09, archived)
# True, true
Be thankful you're not an inbred twat from Bovey Tracey
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:10, archived)
# You are from the Bovey?
My gran lives there - don't worry, she's a recent import.
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:13, archived)
# Hell, NO!!!!!
but I know folk who are...

(did some time in Torquay)
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:14, archived)
# Oh God,
You aren't Charlotte Aggett are you?
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:17, archived)
# LOL
no
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:17, archived)
# Me either.
I'm glad to say.
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:19, archived)
# Thank God for that.
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:19, archived)
# *now needs to know the dirt*
Dish it!
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:21, archived)
# I don't know her.
I thought it was a very unfortunate name.
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:24, archived)
# I thought
you got the boot from God?
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:06, archived)
# No, that was not me.
That was Lord Manley of Ven.

No relation*
















*May contain trace elements of lie.
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:07, archived)
# ooohh....
Meh, welcome, and such. Good luck not getting kicked again.
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:08, archived)
# Good evening and welcome to
Westcountry chat. Talk yokel with the locals!

Craig fucking Rich'll be coming in to do the weather next
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:19, archived)
# Better if it was Ron Bendall
from Westcountry Live.
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:29, archived)
# He must be a new boy
*misses Gus Honeybun*

(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:31, archived)
# Hops, winks or magic button?
I always thought the magic button would have been best value... that's what I wanted anyway.

Remember Freeze Frame? What a load of plop!
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:35, archived)
# Gus is still going.
You have to go to Flambards to see him. Hear he's a bit washed up and on the scotch now.

www.flambards.co.uk/
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:44, archived)
# Blimey
I thought they let him go free! At least, that's what they had us believe on his last TV appearance...

BASTARDS! Let him enjoy his retirement!
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:48, archived)
# Not the original anyway.
Mixametosis in the family.
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 0:56, archived)