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    devonjim replied to the thread Celebrities in passing.
    Harry McGuire queuing at our local chippy, Phillip Serrell eating in a local cafe.
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    devonjim reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread IN OUR GARDENS 2025 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Yes - our "expert" told me he saw a Meadow Blue on the Field. I said I hadn't seen any blue butterflies. His reply was "well it was...
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    devonjim replied to the thread IN OUR GARDENS 2025.
    After the above I saw a small blue butterfly so looked it up, what a bag of worms so to speak, I hadn't realised that nearly half of the...
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    devonjim replied to the thread Celebrities in passing.
    Celebrity while passing! Kenny Ball in a gents loo in a pub on Hagley road. Never seen Roy Wood even though I learn we both lived near...
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    devonjim reacted to MWS's post in the thread Interesting and Unusual Names with Appreciate Appreciate.
    A war baby? Did he go to pieces in an argument? ;)
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    devonjim replied to the thread Interesting and Unusual Names.
    I had an uncle George Shrapnel Leek. Doesn't seem to be a family name.
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    devonjim replied to the thread IN OUR GARDENS 2025.
    With the warm, no hot weather there has been a marked increase of butterflies, some I recognise, these include comma, red admiral...
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    devonjim replied to the thread The car.
    It's almost 65 years to the day since I passed my driving test, for some forty years I worked in motor industry and I have never bought...
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    devonjim reacted to mw0njm.'s post in the thread The car with Appreciate Appreciate.
    a reliant would be useless here it would not go along some rds:D:D
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    devonjim replied to the thread Empire Theatre.Stirchley.
    Went past here to and from work in 1970's never occurred to me that it hadn't always been a garage.
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    devonjim reacted to superdad3's post in the thread Empire Theatre.Stirchley with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I've often wondered about the history of this building on Pershore Road, Stirchley. It opened in1912 as the Empire Theatre. and was...
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    devonjim reacted to boilerman's post in the thread The car with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Its like a stealth bomber. Can it be seen?:grinning:
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    devonjim reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Aston's Cars with Haha Haha.
    A bit like the elizabethan codpiece
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    devonjim reacted to mw0njm.'s post in the thread Aston's Cars with Appreciate Appreciate.
    What is an SUV? An SUV is a sports utility vehicle. So, what is a sports utility vehicle? Well, this description has come to refer to a...
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    devonjim replied to the thread Aston's Cars.
    Not on theme but just wanted to ask a "car" question. What is an SUV? I know it's a sports utility vehicle but every other car is...
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