How about Henry V’s Agincourt Experience…the finale of which would be the “French Invitational”…a mass of French tourists subjected to a fusilade of Longbow expertise on Mayflower Park. I’d go. 
I have just ordered Hogarths the gate of Calais and am all excited about the French relatives coming over and having a sideways glance at the masterpiece ha ha!
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Originally posted by @lifeintheslowlane
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Something just something is needed, Felixstowe doesn’t have the size and history of Southampton, that said we don’t have much and what we do have we don’t sell that well.
How about Henry V’s Agincourt Experience…the finale of which would be the “French Invitational”…a mass of French tourists subjected to a fusilade of Longbow expertise on Mayflower Park. I’d go.
I have just ordered Hogarths the gate of Calais and am all excited about the French relatives coming over and having a sideways glance at the masterpiece ha ha!
I know we’re getting way off topic but I love Hogarth…he’s not only an artistic satirist but a fantastic portrait painter…something magical about his empathy with the sitter.
I love the patriotic sarcasm.
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“Do you know what I am going to tell you?” he said with his wry mouth. “A pint of plain is your only man.”
Notwithstanding this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a drink which still remains the one that I prefer the most despite the painful and blinding fits of vomiting which a plurality of bottles has often induced in me.
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Quick trip to Southampton last weekend. I arrived at Southampton Central Station to be confronted by a young couple. He with an electric guitar nonchantly slung over shoulder. Her with pink hair. They were passionately snogging with her making panting sounds!
Anyway other parts of Southampton were easier on the eye.
so all my fine photos have disappeared from this thread. Here’s some more.
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Why have the others disappeared?
The images aren’t actually stored here. If the source they’re on has gone, so do the images.
Yeah, but think they’re still where I left them. Nevermind. I can bore people with them all again 
Ok. So I think I created a a thread about things to do in Southampton but I cannot find it in the billion threads we have.
Anyway there are spaces available at 11am on Saturday 10th March tour of Southampton Vaults.
https://tudorhouseandgarden.com/event/southampton-vaults-tour/
A bit of the tour of the medieval vaults / air raid shelters.
4 vaults done today.
There’s a talk coming up.
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My Dad was one of the first Southampton “Blue Badge Guides”. He used to do the official tourist walks around the old town and had the keys for the vaults. Really spooky to do the vaults in the evening in fading light…just me and me Dad.
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The Test Valley is beautiful this time of year…lush greens…for obvious reasons.
I drove it on the back roads to Stockbridge on Wednesday stopping off at The John of Gaunt for a pint. The bridge at Houghton Mill is about the only place you can get a good view of the river from the road…beautiful setting and very quiet. Vrooom vroom…well relatively quiet. 
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Time for the master poller to kick in.
How will @Barry-Sanchez perceive @lifeintheslowlane’s lovely photo of our lovely city?
- It’s not as good as Derby’s nightlife. It’s not even dark, FFS.
- Actually, the new bit of West Quay is quite nice.
- Cards on the table, I went on a school trip to Southampton as a boy, bought the Bargate off an older Southampton boy, found out that I didn’t really own the Bargate, and have resented the place since
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Booo
See, with this kind of set up, I could be persuaded to go shopping with the Ayatollah