Will be at Castlerigg Farm in June on the way up to Scotland.Love that campsite, great views all round
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Will be at Castlerigg Farm in June on the way up to Scotland.Love that campsite, great views all round
Love that campsite, great views all round
Could be worse, at least it's not one of Mr Putin's ...Donington Park race circuit for the first round of the BTCC this weekend. Being parked directly under East Midlands Airport flight path does not aid a good night's sleep!
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Totally wrong and inappropriate.Spent a night at the Hooge Crater museum in Belgium ,very interesting for ww1 enthusiasts (if that’s the right word) indoors lots of artefacts etc outside parts of the German front line trenches and bunkers
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Then on to Yepers
Where we both found this wrong
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I know it’s supposed to be symbolic but a step too far perhaps?
For information the Menin Gate is covered in scaffolding and plastic sheeting for the next few months so nothing is visible
I'm curious as to why you think it's a step too far, it appears to have been moved and painted white since I saw it quite a few years ago now, or perhaps there are more then one, but I thought it quite moving when I saw it first.Spent a night at the Hooge Crater museum in Belgium ,very interesting for ww1 enthusiasts (if that’s the right word) indoors lots of artefacts etc outside parts of the German front line trenches and bunkers
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Then on to Yepers
Where we both found this wrong
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I know it’s supposed to be symbolic but a step too far perhaps?
For information the Menin Gate is covered in scaffolding and plastic sheeting for the next few months so nothing is visible
Why did they feel the need to include a female ,afaik there were No outwardly female soldiers in the British army in Flanders (there may of been a few concealed female soldiers?) so we felt it was an unnecessary addition to fit modern ideas and detracted from the hundreds of thousands of Male soldiers who fought and died ,but each to their own I suppose.I'm curious as to why you think it's a step too far, it appears to have been moved and painted white since I saw it quite a few years ago now, or perhaps there are more then one, but I thought it quite moving when I saw it first.
I can understand your view, however there are two women buried in war graves in Belgium and 122 in France, one a nurse, Nellie Spindler age 26 died at Passchendael in 1917 killed by a shell, she is buried alongside 10,000 men, her rank is inscribed staff nurse, let us not forget those ladies and the trauma they would have to live with on their return to civilian life after witnessing so much suffering. Also, it wasn't only the British operating in the Ypres salient, there were Belgian, French and Canadians there as well, though I don't know if any women served in the French or Belgian forces.Why did they feel the need to include a female ,afaik there were No outwardly female soldiers in the British army in Flanders (there may of been a few concealed female soldiers?) so we felt it was an unnecessary addition to fit modern ideas and detracted from the hundreds of thousands of Male soldiers who fought and died ,but each to their own I suppose.
I liked the bins thought they were cute better than our ugly wheelie binsLe Lauzet-Ubaye Aire , no bins todayjust a different mountain View attachment 894575