[skazza]

Originally Posted by RobinOfLoxley

Are you gonna answer dsnik post #530 or keep arguing the toss?

My dummy is well and truly spat out Robin. Even if dsnik was right (which he was) I'm not telling you. So.

[RobinOfLoxley]

Well count to a hundred or a million and come back when you feel calmer. This is only a game thread.

[skazza]

Originally Posted by RobinOfLoxley

Well count to a hundred or a million and come back when you feel calmer. This is only a game thread.

I'm calm, I'm just not sure i'll be able to meet the rapid response times required.

I'll leave you to it for now I think.

[The Mc]

Originally Posted by skazza

I'm calm, I'm just not sure i'll be able to meet the rapid response times required.

Then the thread is better off without you then....leave it for people who actually enjoy doing it.......

[skazza]

Originally Posted by The Mc

Then the thread is better off without you then....leave it for people who actually enjoy doing it.......

Ha ha, you're not seriously including yourself in that category? You do nothing but moan on.

"Enjoy..?" I was, until you started chelping about 'response times.'

[The Mc]

Originally Posted by skazza

Ha ha, you're not seriously including yourself in that category? You do nothing but moan on.

"Enjoy..?" I was, until you started chelping about 'response times.'

The "moaning" as you call it was to encourage people to use the thread otherwise it would have died......people were not using it for days on end and either getting fed up of it or couldn't be bothered waiting any longer for a response.

You had better go back into previous posts on this thread to see who else has complained in both parts 1 and 2.....I am not naming names but they are there and discussing "response" times.....

[.Lauren.]

Really guys? This has got to be one of the most innocent threads here. Please don't spoil it.

[The Mc]

One from me.......I will be on until at least midnight so will check up regularly for answers or clues......


http://i.imgur.com/A4Vmi.jpg

[The Mc]

Anybody need any help with a clue?

[magratx]

Fisher’s Fort, Berwick on Tweed???

[The Mc]

Originally Posted by magratx

Fisher’s Fort, Berwick on Tweed???

That's the one Magratx....well done....another photo of it here....

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=fis...9,r:3,s:0,i:73

[magratx]

Originally Posted by The Mc

That's the one Magratx....well done....another photo of it here....

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=fis...9,r:3,s:0,i:73

Thanks for the reply, but I do think it's about tjme Berwick called a truce with the Russians

[The Mc]

Originally Posted by magratx

Thanks for the reply, but I do think it's about tjme Berwick called a truce with the Russians

Yes, I don't think they would stand much chance against them nowadays.

For anybody wondering what the hell we are talking about, quote from Wikipedia.....


There is a curious apocryphal story that Berwick is (or recently was) technically at war with Russia. The story tells that since Berwick had changed hands several times, it was traditionally regarded as a special, separate entity, and some proclamations referred to "England, Scotland and the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed". One such was the declaration of the Crimean War against Russia in 1853, which Queen Victoria supposedly signed as "Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, Ireland, Berwick-upon-Tweed and all British Dominions". However, when the Treaty of Paris (1856) was signed to conclude the war, "Berwick-upon-Tweed" was left out. This meant that, supposedly, one of Britain's smallest towns was officially at war with one of the world's largest powers – and the conflict extended by the lack of a peace treaty for over a century.

The BBC programme Nationwide investigated this story in the 1970s, and found that while Berwick was not mentioned in the Treaty of Paris, it was not mentioned in the declaration of war either. The question remained as to whether Berwick had ever been at war with Russia in the first place. The true situation is that since the Wales and Berwick Act 1746 had already made it clear that all references to England included Berwick, the town had no special status at either the start or end of the war. The grain of truth in this legend could be that some important documents from the 17th century did mention Berwick separately, but this became unnecessary after 1746.

However, according to a story by George Hawthorne in The Guardian of 28 December 1966, the London correspondent of Pravda visited the Mayor of Berwick, Councillor Robert Knox, and the two made a mutual declaration of peace. Knox said "Please tell the Russian people through your newspaper that they can sleep peacefully in their beds." The same story, cited to the Associate Press, appeared in The Baltimore Sun of 17 December 1966; The Washington Post of 18 December 1966; and The Christian Science Monitor of 22 December 1966. The BBC investigation of 1970 seems to have missed this evidence. At some point in turn the real events seem to have been turned into a story of a "Soviet official" having signed a "peace treaty" with Mayor Knox; Knox's remark to the Pravda correspondent was preserved in this version. Thus when Jim Herbert of the Berwick Borough Museum said in 2006 that contemporary newspaper reports did not confirm that a treaty had been signed, and that Knox's remark to the Soviet official be verified, he was correct; yet the old story of a state of war and its conclusion by Mayor Knox contained more than a grain of truth.[23]

[RobinOfLoxley]

Forgotten that. Borders are lovely. I went to Abington with the Scouts once.
Distant cousin in Galashiels or Selkirk.

Sadly on my rare excursions North, just whizz on up the A74(M) or A1?

[The Mc]

If nobody else has any photos I will try this one.......
I will be on until around 0030 if anybody makes guesses or needs a clue.....


http://i.imgur.com/21Qip.jpg

[AxG]

Looks like Switzerland

[The Mc]

Originally Posted by AxG

Looks like Switzerland

It certainly does! That's because it is....

[AxG]

In Glarus?

[The Mc]

Originally Posted by AxG

In Glarus?

No.......but not that far off......

[AxG]

Looks like Chur.

[The Mc]

Originally Posted by AxG

Looks like Chur.

You got it AxG....well done

[AxG]

Originally Posted by The Mc

You got it AxG....well done

Not bad for 3 guesses, no image from me, at this time of night, someone else can do one:

[The Mc]

Originally Posted by AxG

no image from me, at this time of night, someone else can do one:

Trouble is we are all struggling at the moment, looks as though we all have exhausted our supplies.........

[tabitha2]

I'm just back from hols, collected a couple of supplies...but need to sleep now. Will post in the morning if no one else has...though I'm a bit nervous about the 'response time' grumpiness...will try to catch up with what I've missed so I don't annoy anyone.

[RobinOfLoxley]

Easy one.

No clues, no answer. I'm sure someone will get it. Google Image Search if you can't.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/138/imagergx.jpg/