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Hello everyone.

Can I just ask:

if any of you should discover, while Spring-cleaning your various maisonettes, any old photographs of the early narrow-gauge railways in Bhutan that were introduced to the country by the Dutch pioneer Kwaak de Groote in the 1890s.......

Phew! That was a long sentence. Excuse me while I take a breath. The problem is, I've lost me thread now. I've forgotten the point of this post, after all this palaver.

But it was a long sentence. It was almost worthy of the Henry James Circumlocution Award.

Well, nearly almost.

Erskine,

You gifted and obtuse man. I searched high and low through my entire poloroid collection from a 1982 camping trip to Bhutan, (my 35 mm film was actually confiscated at the border), but no shots of the narrow guage railway.

I did find a picture of one evening meal, also a traditional Bhutanese dinner, something akin to a curried Haggis, which had the effect the next morning of sounding like a passing train as it left me bottom, but no locomotive. Just plenty of trailing steam in the rest room.

Having spoofed that response, let me seriously wish you and the entire gang a great holiday!

Best est wishes always,
pM

Merry Xmas PM.

Obtuse, eh?

"blunt: not pointed...greater than a right angle...dull; dull-witted; insensitive"

Hmmm. Obscure, I can cope with. Not sure about obtuse. I dunno if I'm greater than a right angle, I wouldn't claim that sort of greatness; and I'm only obscure because it's a damned good way of keeping the bastards at arm's length which I have learned through painful experience.

Narrow gauge ailways in Bhutan? I believe that Joanna Lumley's dad or grandfather was some British Embassy official there. Also much of the soil of China was blown from that area during the Ice age. Loess it's called - or more and more of less and less as my mad Geography teacher used to say.

How about that for useless info?

You bend over backwards to avoid being obtuse Erskin. How very dare he? Give him a good seeing-to!

Der, Eskin, vos den oober, Kwaak dook.
Mesmin oonder pont messin mid ober?
Lak! bien em oonder.


And I have the negatives as well.

Love as always

Arm xxxxxxxxxxxx