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Today we went for a wander around the old Thames side town of Marlow, made famous by Izaak Walton in The Compleat Angler. Doubtless Jerome K Jerome's Three men in a Boat passed through there, too.
So did Sir William Borlase: http://www.swbgs.com/info.php It was a boys' school until 1987. This plaque is pre 1987
I passed the school today and took this picture of a plaque inset into its wall:
[Updated on: Sat, 24 January 2009 23:48]
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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A very nice place, Timmy. And as a oarsman I've used Marlow rowing club It would be nice to be able to live there in a nice house on the river bank.
One has to be a financier or captain of industry to do that and if one is one of those one doesn't have time to enjoy the place.
I'll just have to stick to Bristol!
Love,
Anthony
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timmy
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It's quite lovely. Not entirely unaffordable, but very expensive.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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The motto is something I've always attempted to live by - I think that throwing oneself into things wholeheartedly is probably one of the major contributors to personal happiness.
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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timmy
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Throughout my life I have thrown myself wholeheartedly into the things my hand has found to do.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Dear NW, you missed Timmy's whimsicality by a mile or more. Read it again. And then blush.
J F R
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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timmy
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Now there is the possibility that you read his post as missing it, and he is to have the last laugh on you!
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Dear JFR,
I think NW was saying something like "If you are trying to do something and you aren't giving it your best shot then what the hell are you doing pretending to try?"
Or "Whatever you do, do it wholeheartedly!"
Now what was it you were getting at? If NW has it wrong somewhere, so have I.
I'm delighted to see you're back. I hope that means you are well on the mend if not wholly recovered! Don't be shy! Please tell us how you are.
Love,
Anthony
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timmy
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Has your hand never found something to do that it then does with all your might? I know mine has.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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timmy wrote:
> Has your hand never found something to do that it then does with all your might? I know mine has.
I think I've done *that* with all my might about once in my life ... abrasions and tears in the foreskin are not fun!
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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timmy
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hahahahahahaa. And no, they are not.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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