Have flag will travel.
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I am watching the BBC coverage of the Reading & Leeds Festival - as far as I can see it is 95% Reading - I haven't seen anything from Leeds even on the 'red button' options yet. Therefore I haven't spotted D-d and her friends. You think I would have no hope of spotting them amongst 65,000? Don't you believe it. Manx teenagers get all over the place - and they always take their flag with them! So in front of the main stage at Reading there are at least four distinct groups of Manx fans, as I counted four Manx flags in different places.
D-d has a flag with her the size of a single bedspread - although she took it without a pole, hoping to buy a spare tent pole when she got there, otherwise they will doubtless do what a group at Reading are doing with a matching one which is holding it above the heads of four or five of them. So, if they ever show any of Leeds, any smaller flags will be some of the other groups from the island, and any the size of a bedspread could well have D-d, Kitch, et al underneath it!
We play spot the Manxie whenever there is any big crowd on TV - the Olympics, check, saw at least three; the World Cup, check; Winter Olympics, check; Glastonbury, check; FA Cup final, check; Rugby World Cup,check - and so on. My UK friends, or indeed our friends worldwide, might now find yourselves playing along!
D-d has a flag with her the size of a single bedspread - although she took it without a pole, hoping to buy a spare tent pole when she got there, otherwise they will doubtless do what a group at Reading are doing with a matching one which is holding it above the heads of four or five of them. So, if they ever show any of Leeds, any smaller flags will be some of the other groups from the island, and any the size of a bedspread could well have D-d, Kitch, et al underneath it!
We play spot the Manxie whenever there is any big crowd on TV - the Olympics, check, saw at least three; the World Cup, check; Winter Olympics, check; Glastonbury, check; FA Cup final, check; Rugby World Cup,check - and so on. My UK friends, or indeed our friends worldwide, might now find yourselves playing along!
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Date: 26/08/2006 09:56 pm (UTC)It's true, wherever you go there is always a Manx person about - we get everywhere ;-)
I hope your daughter is having a great time.
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Date: 26/08/2006 10:20 pm (UTC)I am sure all at both venues will be enjoying themselves - all I know of D-d for sure is that she got there, and had got her tent up with no problem. The rest I will doubtless hear on Monday night when they get home.
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Date: 26/08/2006 10:04 pm (UTC)Hope you spot her in the end!
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Date: 26/08/2006 10:16 pm (UTC)I'm not trying all that hard to spot them mind you - only when there is a group on that I like!
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Date: 27/08/2006 01:20 am (UTC)Congratulations on your win at the Lie to Me awards!
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Date: 27/08/2006 09:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 27/08/2006 05:13 pm (UTC)The link to the banners is here:
http://freewebs.com/lietomeawards/index/pickup.htm
You won Reader's Choice for the Key To Dimensions awards:
The Key To Dimensions Award
Winner: Something Like by Semby
Runner Up: Big Mean Bossy Sister by Chris G-D & Secret Green by Dutch Buffy
Readers’ Choice: Ten Years by curiouswombat
In case Speaker didn't get the notice either, he picked up three wins:
The Queen C Award
Winner: The Good, the Bad and Cordelia by Speaker-to-customers
Runner Up: Crushed by D.M. Evans & Supermom She’s Not by Beboppin Betty
Readers’ Choice: The Good, the Bad and Cordelia by Speaker-to-customers
The Dumb Blonde and Beautiful Award
Winner: A Day In the Life of Someone Just Like You by Nilhilist Bear
Readers’ Choice: Pyromania by Speaker-to-customers
Congrats again!
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Date: 27/08/2006 06:03 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 27/08/2006 04:29 am (UTC)Good luck in spotting her. :-)
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Date: 27/08/2006 09:30 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 27/08/2006 09:38 am (UTC)The motto 'Quoqunque Jeceris Stabit' is usually translated as 'However you throw me I'll stand' - which is true of the 3 legs, but is also very true of the Manx - we are all over the world, settled into every country. You find Manx surnames everywhere - I think the one who has risen the highest is Dan Quayle. Of course one of your Founding Fathers came from a family from the north of the Island - Miles Standish lived here, was possibly born here, and was married to two Manx sisters (sequentially rather than concurrently!) - I was at school with someone from the same farm - but his surname was English.
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Date: 27/08/2006 07:15 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 27/08/2006 09:38 am (UTC)sekrit message
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