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Donald Souden
Chief Inspector
Username: Supe
Post Number: 793
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 01, 2005 - 11:29 am: | 
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The full majesty of fall in New England was late arriving this year, but the last few days have made up for the 360 or so others. Indeed, the past couple days have been so nice that even Montague J., the rocks already in his pockets, might have had second thoughts about life had he been here.
Here's a sample:
Don.
"He was so bad at foreign languages he needed subtitles to watch Marcel Marceau."
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David O'Flaherty
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Oberlin
Post Number: 1093
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 01, 2005 - 11:41 am: |
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How beautiful is that, thanks for the photo. Now I want to go back to Maine. |
Donald Souden
Chief Inspector
Username: Supe
Post Number: 801
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 01, 2005 - 10:03 pm: |
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Oh heck, why not another.
Don.
"He was so bad at foreign languages he needed subtitles to watch Marcel Marceau."
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Caroline Anne Morris
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Caz
Post Number: 2263
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 02, 2005 - 4:51 am: |
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Truly beautiful, Don. Made my morning.
Many thanks.
Love,
Caz
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Maria Giordano
Inspector
Username: Mariag
Post Number: 491
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, November 03, 2005 - 7:43 pm: |
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Is that THIS year???
We've only got pallid yellows and then brown--too hot in Sept & Oct then too wet, I guess.
Mags
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David Radka
Sergeant
Username: Dradka
Post Number: 48
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, November 03, 2005 - 8:37 pm: |
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I believe that I live, coincidentally, only a few miles from Mr. Souden, and likely know the places he's photographed. They are incidentally very close to the burial place of Florence Maybrick.
Looking at these photos, I also realize that there are certain individuals who post this site, certain mind you, that I'd dearly love to see languishing amidst that foliage. Now I don't mean to insult anybody, I mean no harm whatever, but YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
David M. Radka
Author: "Alternative Ripperology: Questioning the Whitechapel Murders"
Casebook Dissertations Section
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Jennifer Pegg
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Jdpegg
Post Number: 3089
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 04, 2005 - 5:22 am: |
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Yo David,
no I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN. Is that a threat against your fellow posters?
Jenni
"Don't you know it's true what they say,That life it ain't easy"
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Maria Giordano
Inspector
Username: Mariag
Post Number: 492
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Friday, November 04, 2005 - 7:53 am: |
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David--and I mean this absolutely seriously--
SEEK PROFESSIONAL HELP.
Mags
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Jennifer Pegg
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Jdpegg
Post Number: 3096
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 04, 2005 - 8:04 am: |
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lovely pictures Don.
yo yo
Jenni
"Bring it all back to you"
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Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 5224
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 04, 2005 - 11:35 am: |
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Yo
Try and sing "Autumn in New York" as "Fall in New York."
Yo!
Robert |
Maria Giordano
Inspector
Username: Mariag
Post Number: 493
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Friday, November 04, 2005 - 4:35 pm: |
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Robert, I've been listening to Sinatra singing that song all day! 
Mags
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Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 5227
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, November 05, 2005 - 3:24 am: |
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Hi Mags
I think my favourite Sinatra song must be "All My Tomorrows." This was put out with "High Hopes" around 59, presumably as the B side. It seems to be a much-neglected track, but I think it's terrific.
Robert |
Rodney Gillis
Detective Sergeant
Username: Srod
Post Number: 60
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, November 05, 2005 - 7:53 am: |
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Robert,
I always enjoy listening to "Just the Way You Look Tonight".
This was a very strange Fall in New England. I still have leaves on my maple trees here in Vermont. Very late. |
Maria Giordano
Chief Inspector
Username: Mariag
Post Number: 501
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, November 05, 2005 - 10:51 am: |
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Robert, I couldn't begin to name my favorite Sinatra song, although I'm very partial to the live version of "Moonlight In Vermont" recorded in Paris 1962. But there's also the version of "Night and Day" on the same album. And so it goes.
Speaking of Vermont, yes Rodney, I live in upstate NY and we have the same weird conditions. Half the leaves are still green and on the trees and the other half just turned brown and fell off. And yesterday it was 70 degrees.
Of course,ther's no such thing as global warming. Just ask Dubya.
Mags
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Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 5231
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, November 05, 2005 - 11:56 am: |
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Mags and Rod
I have a CD somewhere of a show he did with Bing Crosby, and he's singing
Climb upon my knee Bingy Boy
Though you're ninety-three Bingy Boy
Robert |
Brad McGinnis
Inspector
Username: Brad
Post Number: 278
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, November 06, 2005 - 2:00 am: |
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Hi Gang! Same here in western Pa. Lots of trees still have their leaves. The colors this year are abit muddy, due to a dry summer, but Autumn in western Pa is always spectacular. As far as global warming...well where I live on the Allegehengy plateau of the Applichians, 1500 feet above sea level, used to be a tropical sea. Ive got the fossils to prove it. The earth will do as it will, and we shall cope with it or perish like the dinosaurs. Dubuya aint got nothing to do with it, the guy cant find his ass let alone cause global warming. Just a thought... |
Brad McGinnis
Inspector
Username: Brad
Post Number: 279
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, November 06, 2005 - 2:03 am: |
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Oh, and thanks for the pics Don, they are spectacular! |
Howard Brown
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Howard
Post Number: 1099
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, November 06, 2005 - 8:05 pm: |
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Nice photos Don...very nice,sir.
The leaves haven't changed completely in my back yard....the world's biggest municipal park..Fairmount Park. Edgar Poe wrote a story about it,entitled "Morning on the Wissahiccon"
Caz..if you liked Don's photos..ahem...you'll love my backyard. A 150 foot vertical drop into autumnal heaven...romantic..with hiking trails...a tributary into the Schuykill River...little benches for sitting and absorbing the splendor of nature...
I think airfare to the States is at an all time low...just in case you was wonderin' and was interested...in nature that is.  |
Caroline Anne Morris
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Caz
Post Number: 2289
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 08, 2005 - 5:41 am: |
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Hi How,
But wouldn't that upset the mild-mannered Mrs Birchwood?
I'll just get my passport and toothbrush... 
Love,
Caz
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Lindsey Millar
Chief Inspector
Username: Lindsey
Post Number: 506
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 08, 2005 - 12:05 pm: |
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Don,
Those pics are gorgeous. Thanks for sharing them.
I'm experiencing "fall" for the first time in 17 years as a US resident. New Mexico simply runs from summer to winter, and straight back to summer. Here in Georgia I'm seeing leaves on the ground. I'm just waiting for them to be raked into a nice neat pile so I can do a 'Calvin'
Lyn
Although present on the occasion, I have no clear recollection of the events leading up to it.
Winston Churchill
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Donald Souden
Chief Inspector
Username: Supe
Post Number: 818
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 08, 2005 - 1:45 pm: |
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We are now past peak and the colors muting, though there remain surprises in this unusual year. The oaks, whose leaves generally do little but turn brown (though the acorns provide fodder for squirrels and turkeys), were this year a strange coppery color. Anyway, one more from the other day.
Don.
PS: Caz, love to have you in the States, but Howie's advice on air fare sure sounds like an updating of the mellodrama line "Once aboard the lugger and she's mine!" (Audience hissssssses.)
"He was so bad at foreign languages he needed subtitles to watch Marcel Marceau."
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Christopher T George
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Chrisg
Post Number: 1672
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 08, 2005 - 2:18 pm: |
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Hi Don
I'd love to have Caz anywhere, as long as we don't have to talk about the Diary. 
Anyway, back to the leaves--
Christopher T. George
North American Editor
Ripperologist
http://www.ripperologist.info
http://christophertgeorge.blogspot.com/
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Donald Souden
Chief Inspector
Username: Supe
Post Number: 819
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 08, 2005 - 2:33 pm: |
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Chris,
Where are you (or, more correctly, where were these taken)?
Don.
"He was so bad at foreign languages he needed subtitles to watch Marcel Marceau."
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Jane Coram
Chief Inspector
Username: Jcoram
Post Number: 619
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 08, 2005 - 3:50 pm: |
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Hi Don,
They really are absolutely beautiful pictures, I have them saved for when I am feeling low to perk myself up. It does look very much like my neck of the woods...........thanks for posting them.
Love Jane
xxxxx
I am just about to tuck into that icecream.......but don't tell anyone........hee hee |
Mark Andrew Pardoe
Inspector
Username: Picapica
Post Number: 290
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 08, 2005 - 4:41 pm: |
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Whatho all,
It all looks quite beautiful. Oddly, Autumn is very late this year in England. I remember a few years ago walking back from Nottingham Goose Fair (which is in the first week of October) rustling through deep drifts of leaves in Mapperley Park. But this year the leaves are only dropping now.
Is this global warming? I must admit I'm enjoying this mild autumn.
Cheers, Mark Andrew Pardoe
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Mark Andrew Pardoe
Inspector
Username: Picapica
Post Number: 291
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 08, 2005 - 4:47 pm: |
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Whatho all,
Wouldn't it be fun if the gallant Notts County and the evil Nottingham Forest swap divisions at the end of this season?
I keep hearing on Radio 5 Live how terrible it is to see the once double European Champions Forest in such dire states. All I can say is NO IT'S NOT  .
Cheers, Mark Andrew Pardoe
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Christopher T George
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Chrisg
Post Number: 1675
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 09, 2005 - 2:48 am: |
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Hi Don
I am in Maryland but I have to 'fess up that those are Fall pictures that I picked up on the Net not original photographs as yours are. D. Radka believes your pics were taken near Litchfield, CT, burial place of Florence Maybrick. Might I ask, have you been there, Don? Another stock pic--
Chris
Christopher T. George
North American Editor
Ripperologist
http://www.ripperologist.info
http://christophertgeorge.blogspot.com/
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Donald Souden
Chief Inspector
Username: Supe
Post Number: 821
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 09, 2005 - 10:23 am: |
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Chris,
Chalk up another one in the errors column for David (who did once tell me he was a pretty good fielder as a youth). These were all shot in my immediate neighborhood and not in or around Litchfield. I've been through there many times but never visited Florrie's grave.
Don.
"He was so bad at foreign languages he needed subtitles to watch Marcel Marceau."
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Mark Andrew Pardoe
Inspector
Username: Picapica
Post Number: 292
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 09, 2005 - 1:00 pm: |
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Whatho all,
I must apologise for the odd appearance of thoughts about football appearing in this thread. It should, of course, gone elsewhere.
Cheers, Mark Andrew Pardoe
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Donald Souden
Chief Inspector
Username: Supe
Post Number: 823
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 09, 2005 - 1:44 pm: |
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Mark,
Hey, it's Pub Talk so no prob, though you'd probably get a better response in the "Sports thread for Monty."
That said, I can give a bit of local lore about the demise of Nottingham Forest. Back when Forest was king of the hill some college-age guys in town entered a team in an area amateur summer soccer league and named that team "Waveny Forest" (they played in Waveny Park) with the Forest part an allusion to the then successful Nottingham side.
Today, Nottingham Forest once more only conjures up images of Robin Hood and were they to have a team now it might be "Waveny Chelsea," which doesn't have the same ring at all.
Don.
"He was so bad at foreign languages he needed subtitles to watch Marcel Marceau."
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Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 5270
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 09, 2005 - 2:37 pm: |
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That's OK Mark, you weren't talking about football, you were talking about Notts County.
Didn't mean it, Mark, honest!
Robert |
Mark Andrew Pardoe
Inspector
Username: Picapica
Post Number: 296
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 11, 2005 - 8:29 am: |
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Whatho all,
Yes of course it's Pub Talk and I'll be chatting in a few pub's in Berkhampstead tonight. Something to look forward to.
Nottingham Forest got its Forest bit of name as the club started on what is now the Forest Recreation Ground in Nottingham; a very large hilly park with large trees, flat areas for football and cricket, a putting green, a memorial to the Boar War and prostitutes.
I lived near there in the 1950s and played on the Forest many times. It is also the site of Goose Fair which brings me full circle to where I started. (Like many of the arguments to be found elsewhere on this site  .
Cheers, Mark Andrew Pardoe
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John Savage
Chief Inspector
Username: Johnsavage
Post Number: 530
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 11, 2005 - 9:51 am: |
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Whip Mark,
If you happen to be in the Three Hourseshoes at Winkwell, have one for me. ( I had my first pint there when I was 14)
Rgds
John |
Mark Andrew Pardoe
Inspector
Username: Picapica
Post Number: 297
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, November 13, 2005 - 2:58 pm: |
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Whatho John,
Actually they were the Crystal Palace, Boat and Rising Sun walking along the towpath and I didn't fall into the Grand Union Canal.
Cheers, Mark Andrew Pardoe
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