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I have had to close the forum to new members. Registration is shut. I'm sorry for it - but I can no longer vouch for who comes through the door.

You may also find that certain older topics are no longer where you left them. I have, with great reluctance, removed a small number of threads and posts from this forum. I did so at the written request of a firm of solicitors acting for the landowner, who hold that the material touched on matters they would prefer were not aired in public.

I have complied, because I am one man and they are not. I want it set down plainly, here, that I did so under protest, and that I do not accept the grounds. Nothing removed was untrue. Nothing removed was anyone's business to suppress.

But I will not delete this board. What is left here stays, and you may read it for as long as I can keep the lights on. I have locked the doors; I have not burned the house. I have kept copies of everything. I would ask, gently, that those of you who hold anything of your own do the same.

E. Selwood

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by Calne_Sam
Sun Feb 08, 2026 10:50 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: I dont know who else to ask
Replies: 11
Views: 91

<t>I wasnt going to come back to this but I dont have anyone else who would understand. The same vehicle, or one just like it, was parked on our road on Tuesday. Not up the down. On our road, outside the school, two of them sat in it, and they were still there at pick up. I told myself it was nothin...
by Calne_Sam
Mon Sep 22, 2025 12:30 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: I dont know who else to ask
Replies: 11
Views: 91

I dont know who else to ask

<t>I dont post much and I am sorry if this is the wrong board, but I cant sleep for thinking about it and you are the only people I could think to ask. I took the two of them up the byway on Sunday, past the old ruin ground, you all know the field, the one with the manor wall and the stones, weve wa...
by Calne_Sam
Tue Sep 14, 2021 10:30 pm
Forum: Myths & Folk Tales
Topic: A charm my nan said
Replies: 2
Views: 20

A charm my nan said

<t>My nan, ninety this year bless her, used to say a little rhyme over us when we were poorly as children, something like "out of the marrow, out of the bone, send the bad thing to the standing stone." I always thought she made it up. Is it a real old thing, or just a Calne thing? Asking before it g...
by Calne_Sam
Thu Apr 16, 2020 11:15 pm
Forum: The Snug
Topic: Snug for the duration
Replies: 4
Views: 34

Honestly the Snug has saved my sanity. Stuck in with two small children climbing the walls, and then they finally go down and I come and sit with you grown ups and remember I am a person. Thank you, all of you, you have no idea. Pat I am jealous of your heron.
by Calne_Sam
Sun Mar 20, 2016 8:30 am
Forum: Ghost Stories & Strange Stuff
Topic: Loud bang over the downs last night - skyquake?
Replies: 3
Views: 26

thanks both, weirdly reassuring that the cows heard it too, makes me feel less mad. army most likely then. though i did NOT love bill saying the cattle dont mill for nothing. off to make the kids breakfast and pretend the sky doesnt go bang in the night.
by Calne_Sam
Sat Mar 19, 2016 8:00 am
Forum: Ghost Stories & Strange Stuff
Topic: Loud bang over the downs last night - skyquake?
Replies: 3
Views: 26

Loud bang over the downs last night - skyquake?

<t>did anyone else hear an almighty BANG about 11 last night? shook the windows, set car alarms off down the close, the dog went mental. no storm, clear sky. my husband said sonic boom but theres no fast jets round here is there. saw online its called a skyquake when theres no obvious cause and appa...
by Calne_Sam
Fri Nov 06, 2015 9:50 pm
Forum: The Snug
Topic: What's everyone making, and reading?
Replies: 4
Views: 20

You are all so lovely. I am reading the same picture book about a tractor for the four hundredth time, so I am taking notes for an evening I might get free in about fifteen years. The quinces sound gorgeous though. Can you freeze them? Asking for a woman with no time and good intentions.
by Calne_Sam
Tue Nov 18, 2014 12:00 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Is the Honeystreet road flooded again?
Replies: 2
Views: 18

thank you Pat, will brave it slow then. the river wanting its land back is very poetic for half seven on a Tuesday but youre not wrong. cheers, owe you one.
by Calne_Sam
Tue Nov 18, 2014 7:30 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Is the Honeystreet road flooded again?
Replies: 2
Views: 18

Is the Honeystreet road flooded again?

Quick one before the school run. Is the Honeystreet road under water again? It floods at the dip by the bridge every time we get a wet week and the council never sorts it. Dont want to get halfway and have to reverse back with the kids moaning. Has anyone been through this morning?
by Calne_Sam
Fri Oct 10, 2014 10:15 am
Forum: Myths & Folk Tales
Topic: Fairy rings and the little people
Replies: 3
Views: 24

<t>oh this is perfect thank you both, shes going to LOVE the lost time bit (and be smug about being right). we walked out and said hello to the ring politely from the edge and she was delighted. honestly i half felt something myself, standing there, but thats just being a tired mum with an overactiv...

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