chartpolski
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It’s debatable, but the 13 colonies declared independence in 1776, and Washington became President of America. The war ended in 1783, so it was a win for America. We didn’t let them have independence, the British General Lord Cornwallis surrendered to the American Army at Yorktown in 1781 leading to the British Parliament voting to end the war and withdraw. so, at the beginning of the war, it was colonists rebelling, but by the end of the war it was an independent country defeating its former colonial master. Thats just the way I see it, others will have differing opinions,
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Philip was a Prince in his own right as Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark. On marrying Queen Elizabeth, she made him a Prince of the UK, with the title His Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh . Prince Albert was a Prince in his own right, as Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha. On marrying Queen Victoria, she made him a Prince of the Uk with the title His Royal Highness, Prince Consort. Queen Elizabeth evidently wanted Camila to be titled Her Royal Highness , the Queen Consort, even though the Palace said she would “only” be a duchess, but after the Queens death and h
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I well remember my mate who was a coal man, delivering coal on a horse drawn cart. He would carry a sack of coal up to my third floor flat, drink a bottle of brown ale I gave him , and be back down the stairs and onto the cart before the horse had walked on to the next tenement ! Cheers.
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We were lied to all along; first they said she would never be Queen, just a duchess. Then we were told she would be Queen Consort, now she is Her Majesty The Queen. Not bad for a woman who cheated on her husband…. Cheers.
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No, I may have possibly been giving some legitimacy to the car. Or it may have just been a nice gesture from my brother in law. Cheers.
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True story; I was home on leave and my late brother in law said “ don’t hire a car, use one of mine”. It was a nice nearly new nondescript Vauxhall, taxed and M.O.T’d and I got insurance, so all legal. Id had some instruction at the British Embassy in Saudi about driving; be aware, drive defensively, change routes and times, keep plenty space between vehicles, etc, but I had the uneasy feeling whilst driving this car that I could be being followed. I found out later, after he died, that it was a pool car for the tab runs on the ferry ! I like to think he was being nice to me, b
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Yes, it’s much faster than ordinary yeast, but you can still get good results with bakers yeast if you use Turbo Klar finings to clear the wine. If you’re not in a hurry , bakers yeast is much cheaper than Turbo yeast. Cheers.
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“ If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen” Harry S Truman. Its as simple as that, really…. Cheers
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Egg production is ramping up, todays lot; Black Leghorn, Irish Hennie, quail and call duck . These won’t be picking at my peas and beans when I move them outdoors from the greenhouse ! I’ll just take the breasts off and the rest can go in the compost bin ! Cheers. -
But we were very active ! LOL ! Nowadays it’s called “ADHD” ! Cheers.
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Let me use “reductio ad absurdum” to counter your point; If America declared war on the UK and defeated us, it wouldn’t count as an American victory, as the American President, Trump, is half Scottish through his mother, Washington was more American than Trump. Cheers.
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George Washington . His family were from Washington , Tyne and Wear. His ancestral home is still here; Washington Old Hall. Cheers.
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Hanoi is probably nicer now than London ! LOL ! Cheers.
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The American Continental Army, with the assistance of the French and the Spanish. Cheers.
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They beat us in 1783 ! LOL ! Cheers.
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I’ve watched every episode mate, very informative and unbiased. Cheers.
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The local council planted plum trees next to my allotment, (very nice of them), years ago, yellow, red and black, alternately, and there’s a community orchard a few hundred yards away with apples and pears, loads of blackberries, elderberries and sloes all around, so plenty of raw materials, but I’ve also made decent wine using Lidl’s 2 litre summer fruits juice. Demijohns waiting to be pressure washed and steam cleaned; Cheers.
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I’ve never tried the flower but make a very decent elderberry. Ive had plum wine up around 16/17%; nice to drink, but not to recover from Cheers.
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Half a teaspoon of sugar added to the bottle would give second fermentation but I was wanting to avoid sediments. I use Turbo yeast and Turbo finings and get excellent results with a high alcohol content. Just fancied a bottle of sparkling now and again. Cheers.
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I looked into getting the modern one of those to put a fizz into my home made wine but they and the gas refills are bloody expensive. Not worth it. Cheers.
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The whippets win ! LOL ! Cheers.
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I’ve hunted in New Zealand, Texas, the Middle East, When my daughters friend Hamed Ghunaim invited to go to the UAE to visit his saluki kennels, I jumped on the first plane I could get ! When I was asked to judge the whippet show at Birr Castle in Ireland, I jumped at the chance, took a couple of lurchers with me and had a days coursing and a days fishing on the grand canal! I would go anywhere, any time to hunt or fish. Getting a bit old for it now, but not quite finished yet. The missus was in Finland a while back and was on about the ptarmigan shooting and ice fishing, so that’s o
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They do it all; I went out with terriers bolting to the lurchers, walked up with lurchers and I went out with the Barwon Fox hounds. Those hounds are a mixed pack of English Foxhounds and Irish Beagles ,
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Every Sunday; cream soda, dandelion & burdock, lemonade…….not a coke or pepsi in sight ! Cheers.
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Yes, mate, the land is huge, makes the fens look like my back garden ! Theres plenty of hares, but none of the lads I met were interested in them, they considered them pests. Also ,I’ve never seen a saluki or saluki x when I’ve been there. I’m sure there will be some, and the land is perfect for coursing, but I don’t know anyone who runs them. Cheers.
