[Vivienne]

Please remember registration for the tix is from Monday !! I'm a bit confused about it all 'cos I seem to have been able to half-register on the R1 website: i.e. I did an exchange of e-mails y/day. I haven't been asked yet for the personal details, so there must be one more e-mail to come on Monday .... hmmmm.

[Nicola_Red]

I'm from Preston.

It's the only decent thing I can recall happening there for several years.

[Vivienne]

You've got Manchester beside your name (!!). Most of the tix are apparently going to people in your area, which is annoying.

[Nicola_Red]

Yeah, I've been living in Manc almost ten years. I consider myself an honorary Manc.

[Vivienne]

I like Manc. I've been in it for 1.5 hours on the way back from Alton Towers !!! I wanted to go on the trams, but didn't have the time

[Nicola_Red]

I travel on them every day. You're not missing much.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

You are very down on Preston. Its a town trying desperately to be a City but there are far worse places to live.

[MK Chris]

Its a town trying desperately to be a City

What's wrong with that then, eh?

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

Milton Keynes is a bigger Skem Topher. Its like a Leech sucking on the fat pig that is London.

[kendra k]

skem was like a nightmare, though i want to go back. (i like roundabouts.)

preston still owes me a stupid laser show.

[MK Chris]

skem was like a nightmare, though i want to go back. (i like roundabouts.)

You would love Milton Keynes!

[Sidders]

Where is Skem?

[kendra k]

skelmersdale, it's near liddypool. i thought you were from england, i guess i was wrong.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

its also a New Town. What a great idea they were.

[Sidders]

skelmersdale, it's near liddypool. i thought you were from england, i guess i was wrong.

Doesn't mean to say I know where every slingle place in England is.

[DemonHorse]

skem was like a nightmare, though i want to go back. (i like roundabouts.)

You would love Milton Keynes!

Yup, roundabouts, straight roads and isn't that also where the concrete cows are?

[MK Chris]

Yes (though they're not actually concrete.)

[foot-loose]

they aint real are they?

Real cows in Milton Keynes? Who would have thought...

[kendra k]

i bet the cows are fiberglass.

i love me straight roads, but we've already had that debate.

[MK Chris]

They are a fibre glass shell, but they're made from scrap and rubbish basically. The real ones aren't in their original place now, cos they kept being vandalised - they were in a secret lock up for ages but now they're outside the Dons stadium, they've got replacements in the original place.

You do get real cows in MK y'know - loads of surrounding villages. And there's not loads of concrete (as is the popular opinion, thanks to Noel Edmonds when he was on R1 - now that the trees are all grown it looks alright.)

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

I have cows in the field opposite me. I like cows. Sheep are evil though.

[Yudster]

There are ostriches in a field near me. You don't know evil until you have encountered a field full of ostriches.

[Sidders]

We have a field of llamas near here.

[foot-loose]

I have cows in the field opposite me. I like cows. Sheep are evil though.

I was once privilidged enough to witness a cow work out that if it jumped the fence, it could prove how green the grass was on the other side.

However, I was even more grateful that God allowed me to witness the cows friend, who had been watching her companion jump the fence, then attempt a similar feat.

The second cow, however, failed to take into account the position of the ditch on the other side of the fence. So - while the first cow was as graceful as you can expect a cow to be in flight and by this point was munching on that green grass on the other side, the second cow took a running start at the fence, lept in the air and disappeared from view below the grass line.

This was funny enough from my point of view, but it was made complete by the rather dulcet "moooo" which came a couple of seconds later.

I like cows as well.

[Walter Sobchak]

I have cows in the field opposite me. I like cows. Sheep are evil though.

I was once privilidged enough to witness a cow work out that if it jumped the fence, it could prove how green the grass was on the other side.

However, I was even more grateful that God allowed me to witness the cows friend, who had been watching her companion jump the fence, then attempt a similar feat.

The second cow, however, failed to take into account the position of the ditch on the other side of the fence. So - while the first cow was as graceful as you can expect a cow to be in flight and by this point was munching on that green grass on the other side, the second cow took a running start at the fence, lept in the air and disappeared from view below the grass line.

This was funny enough from my point of view, but it was made complete by the rather dulcet "moooo" which came a couple of seconds later.

I like cows as well.

Cows are great, When I was 13 I used to help with herding cattle, they have a natural, but quite complex pecking order
The leader is usually in front, but then the next in order of importance position themselves amongst the others, you often see them nudging the others along, like cow-cops.
When I was little I rode around on the back of a bull, about 3 years later he seriously injured one of the farm workers!

Saying about cows falling into ditches, there was one time when we had to pull one out of a ditch, I had my shoulder in her rump pushing her, and as she came out of the ditch I fell, just as she bucked and kicked catching me in the chest and breaking a rib.