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  1. While Helen and me were cycling in the Pentland hills today we had one of
    those "I wish I had a camera" moments. While going down a rough track I
    caught up with a grouse strolling down beside the track, not more than a
    meter from me. I slowed to match it's speed and kept up with it for a few
    meters until it stopped and looked at me. I stopped and it walked round the
    back of the bike and then off up the hill.

    I was totally not bothered by me. Brilliant.
    --
    Mark

    1x1 wheel, 3x2 wheels & 1x3 wheels.

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    While Helen and me were cycling in the Pentland hills today we had one of
    those "I wish I had a camera" moments. While going down a rough track I
    caught up with a grouse strolling down beside the track, not more than a
    meter from me. I slowed to match it's speed and kept up with it for a few
    meters until it stopped and looked at me. I stopped and it walked round


    the

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    back of the bike and then off up the hill.

    I was totally not bothered by me. Brilliant.
    --
    Mark

    When out walking with a friend a little while ago, we came across a grouse
    who must have thought it was a German Shepherd or something! It followed
    behind us as if 'chasing' us. When my mate tried to usher it away it became
    even more 'aggressive', if grouse can be aggressive! It followed us for a
    good few hundred yards. It was so comical. We also looked back after it
    finally gave up chasing us, and it was sat on a wall beside a gate post
    'having a go' at a cyclist as he tried passing through the gate! I had my
    camera and managed to get one or two pics but I really wish I had a video
    camera :o)

    --
    Regards, Paul (R)
    My Lake District walking site:
    www.lakelandwalker.co.uk

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    I was totally not bothered by me.

    And if you are bothered by yourself? What do you do? Tell yourself to go
    away? ;-)

    "The other day, Upon a stair,
    I met a man, Who wasn't there.

    He wasn't there, Again today,
    Oh how I wish, He'd go away!"

    (Edward Lear?)

    --
    MatSav

  4. MatSav said:

    "the.Mark" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    I was totally not bothered by me.

    And if you are bothered by yourself? What do you do? Tell
    yourself to go away? ;-)

    "The other day, Upon a stair,
    I met a man, Who wasn't there.

    He wasn't there, Again today,
    Oh how I wish, He'd go away!"

    (Edward Lear?)

    Ok, I missed out a t. I'll let you figure out where. ;-)
    --
    Mark

    1x1 wheel, 3x2 wheels & 1x3 wheels.

  5. in message <[email hidden]>, MatSav

    (') said:

    "the.Mark" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    I was totally not bothered by me.

    And if you are bothered by yourself? What do you do? Tell yourself to
    go away? ;-)

    "The other day, Upon a stair,
    I met a man, Who wasn't there.

    He wasn't there, Again today,
    Oh how I wish, He'd go away!"

    (Edward Lear?)

    A.A. Milne, I believe, wrote the version below:

    As I was going up the stair
    I met a man who wasn't there.
    He wasn't there again today,
    Oh how I wish he'd go away!

    Your version is attributed to Hughes Mearns. Since Milne was older than
    Mearns his version may have been earlier, but clearly one influenced
    the other.

    --
    [email hidden] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

    ;; making jokes about dyslexia isn't big, it isn't clever and
    ;; it isn't furry.

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