I was in a tug of war team that took part in the Bankside sports on the grass
outside the power station there. There was seven rugby club members and me all
straight out the office. No boots - just suit jacket off, wrap rope round body
(as I was anchor) and lean back. Then backward march (until half way through
the second pull the idiot coach said to stop pulling and rest as it was 'too
easy' - at which point it was forward collapse and they (the chaps not in suits
but wearing the full gear including boots) won 2 pulls to 1. Passing the Holly
Bush I often muse that I could have been a contender!
David
Cragg
Martin Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steve Haywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>I am a great lover of Brough, once the only ward of the City of London to be
>outside of the city walls. I am a regular at Borough Market, the cathederal
>is a lost gem of London and Tate Modern a real testimony to the fact we can
>really do art in this country.
Brough is on Humberside, although there's also one in Westmoreland. My
mother-in-law, when moving to Brough some years ago, failed to specify
to the removal men which one. The results were predictable.
Borough too is nice. I have happy memories of working there before
university, in a laboratory with a view of what seemed the biggest brick
wall in existence: the arse-end of Bankside power station. We tested
dodgy pharmaceuticals. These included strychnine tablets, exported to
the middle east as aphrodisiacs. Strychnine causes the muscles to
contract and go rigid. The fatal dose was six of the tablets, which
caused everything to go permanently rigid. Overdoses made you die with a
smile on your face - the so-called risus sardonicus, caused by the
facial muscles contracting. Damn fine cathedral.
Wassail!
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