p1kef1sh

@p1kef1sh (45681)

Age 66

Joined myLot 16 years ago

If you can keep your wife when all around are losing theirs and blaming it on you

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Discussions (1028)

p1kef1sh's Discussions

Panic...What Panic?

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 4 Mar 20

My city probably isn't the best place to get a headache. I've noticed what appears to be panic buying of sanitary items, especially hand sanitisers and headache medicines. No doubt other cities are experiencing the same thing, or...

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The Shop That Must Not Be named

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 1 Mar 20

I know nothing abut Harry Potter, however, this shop in the Shambles, an ancient street in York, England, sells Potter memorabilia. I just like the name.

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Prison Relief

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 27 Feb 20

From the Corporal Acts of Mercy window at Holy Trinity, North St, York, circa 1410. Whilst the thirsty look like they are about to receive food(?) and drink, thus relieving those in prison, it is the detail of the ankle irons...

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Elephants - never forgotten

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 26 Feb 20

Perched in the north aisle of St Nicholas church in Wickham, Berkshire, England there are these curious elephant heads. Made of paper mâché they were installed by a 19th century priest who had seen them in Paris and moved them to...

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Cover that Font!

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 24 Feb 20

No, not Sans serif or Arial, this font is of the baptismal variety and has the most enormous and ornate cover that must be lifted using a pulley system. Fonts in England were covered to stop people from stealing the consecrated...

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Condemned to the Dungeon

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 24 Feb 20

A couple of years ago I was fortunate enough to be taken on a behind the scenes tour of parts of Windsor Castle. We saw many things that the public do not usually access and had a superb day. One place that we were taken to was...

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myLot Frustrations

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 22 Feb 20

I want to post photographs, I have many to share with you. However, myLot won't let me. Every time that I try, I get an error message written in technical language that I simply do not understand. So, no photos today, maybe...

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Writing on the wall

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 22 Feb 20

One of my interests is graffiti in ancient buildings. This is a not too old example taken from the ruined abbey at Netley in Hampshire, England. Sue and Jim left their rather beautifully framed names for passers by to view for...

graffiti

marks

love

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Cat on the wall

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 22 Feb 20

Recently I was running a training course in an army museum. At tea break we would gather on a short stairwell over which this fine chap presided. Now, generally speaking, trophy animal skins are not appreciated in the UK and I...

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A desperate plea for assistance

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 21 Feb 20

Don't you just love it when a solid British sounding chap send you what must surely be an authentic plea for help?

scam

help

ripoff

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Church Lights

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 20 Feb 20

This week marks the start of the year long 800th Anniversary celebrations of Salisbury Cathedral. The most amazing light show is running every night and so I had to pop down and take a look. I actually appear in one of the...

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Back Again

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 20 Feb 20

I have discovered myLot again and have made a couple of posts. No idea how long I shall last there, but currently it has the ring of nostalgia about it. I've been a member for 12 years, longer than any other group or social...

mylot

social media

membership

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Train Con

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 20 Feb 20

OK, not a huge con, but nevertheless charging double the outward journey to return home having lured you into travelling by dangling a cheap one way fare is a little underhanded. I was offered a fantastic single fare of £29 from...

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I don't exist

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 20 Feb 20

This who know me may well think that the title of this talk is spot on, it's so long since I have been here that whilst rumours of my demise may be a tad exaggerated, there's no doubt that I've been as rare as teeth on a hen...

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Cooking up a bonfire

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 9 May 16

I am a curious cove, today I felt exhausted so I decided to be physical and have a bonfire to get rid of all the rubbish that the so called 'garden clean up' men had neglected to remove when they took my money and put in the...

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I've Been Away Too Long

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 7 May 16

Now let's be honest, I am not the most assiduous myLot contributor although there was a time in the dim dark past when I was here every day and night. Anyway, I've just spent the most ghastly long weekend in New York City. This...

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Bullying Women

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 2 Apr 16

I am the kind of man who need a firm kick in the pants from time to time to ensure that I am properly motivated. Those who know me of old will know that occasionally I have been known to write the short stories but that they can...

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Troubled By the Wind

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 26 Mar 16

Yesterday was the perfect English Spring day. The epitome of what Spring here ought to be. However, today it is all change and the rain is lashing - well drizzling heavily, and the wind is blowing hard and likely to gust as...

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Blitz Spirit

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 22 Mar 16

During WW2 Britain was bombed pretty continuously during 1940 and 1941. At it's height London was being plastered nightly in an attempt to break the spirit of the civilian population. There's nothing exceptional about the...

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Sneaky Sunshine

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 21 Mar 16

Here we are in jolly old England enjoying a brief respite from the rain, the hail, wind and snow..er no, no snow here so far this year; well we did have a very brief flurry, but nothing serious. Anyway, yesterday was cold and...

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