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| | Welcome to our newest member, wildman68 | | |
Welcome to the Wild About Britain forums | | | |  | | 
06-08-2007, 12:43 PM
| | New Member | | Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 9
| | | Hello from the colonies
I am from Blacksburg Va and hope I won't given the boot cause I've never been to Britain. 
What are the rules for posting artwork? Must it be from and about Britian? |
06-08-2007, 02:40 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Derbyshire
Posts: 1,724
| | | Re: Hello from the colonies
Hello darts and welcome!! 
jen xxx |
06-08-2007, 05:52 PM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 380
| | | Re: Hello from the colonies
Hi Darts, being a new member myself (joined a month ago), I cannot advise you about posting artwork, but I can welcome you to the WAB forum. |
06-08-2007, 06:11 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Ipswich
Posts: 1,265
| | | Re: Hello from the colonies
Hi Darts, welcome to WAB.
I don't know the rules governing non-Brit art subjects either, but you might find it worthwhile to check out WAB's sister site WildAboutThe World: Wildlife and Environment Forum
All the best
T2
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06-08-2007, 07:29 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Ijmuiden, Holland
Posts: 2,068
| | | Re: Hello from the colonies
Hi Darts, I think that is some sound advice from Tursiops2 about our sister site. Welcome from me too and if you decide to stick around no doubt we will see you on the forums |
06-08-2007, 07:53 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Lancashire.
Posts: 1,036
| | | Re: Hello from the colonies
Hi Darts,
A warm welcome to WAB, looking forward to your posts.
Carol.
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07-08-2007, 11:42 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Cumbria
Posts: 537
| | | Re: Hello from the colonies
Hello Darts
Nice to have you here!
(sorry, I'm not sure about the rules on the artwork either)
But enjoy yourself on the WAB and see you on the forums!! |
08-08-2007, 08:22 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kensworth, Bedfordshire - a village in the Chiltern Hills
Posts: 3,297
| | | Re: Hello from the colonies
Hi Darts,
Welcome to WAB!
Pete |
08-08-2007, 08:42 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: N.E. Derbyshire
Posts: 2,040
| | | Re: Hello from the colonies
Hi Darts,
welcome to WAB.
If your artwork is good then I don't mind seeing it even if it ain't british.
Wildlife is wildlife !
neil |
09-08-2007, 11:17 AM
| | New Member | | Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 9
| | | Re: Hello from the colonies
Thank you all for the grand welcome.
I think I will have to listen to the forums and learn about wildlife in Britain. |
09-08-2007, 11:58 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Ipswich
Posts: 1,265
| | | Re: Hello from the colonies
[quote=Darts;148535] I've never been to Britain.
QUOTE]
...then you haven't lived mate 
Get yourself over here ASAP 
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09-08-2007, 04:14 PM
| | Active Member | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Kent
Posts: 90
| | | Re: Hello from the colonies
Hello Darts Look forward to seeing your artwork!
Oseor |
10-08-2007, 10:32 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Blackpool, Lancashire
Posts: 756
| | | Re: Hello from the colonies
Hi Darts
Ask the question on what you want to post in the 'Wild About Britain Web Site' forum and one of the moderators will probably be able to give you the best answers
Welcome to the site from me. Never heard of where you are from. What's it like? |
11-08-2007, 10:07 AM
| | New Member | | Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 9
| | | Re: Hello from the colonies
Well GME since you asked. Blacksburg Va is located in SW Virginia in the Blue Ridge Mts. The land is beautiful year round. Lots of wooded areas and fields as well as many small streams and lakes. Hiking on the Appalachian Trail or the Blue Ridge Parkway is a great thing to do.
Blacksburg itself is a College town and is home to Virginia Tech. "Go Hokies" |
11-08-2007, 09:47 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Boroughbridge near York - isn't the same as the Dales, but close enough!
Posts: 2,389
| | | Re: Hello from the colonies
Oooo! You live in 'Laurel and Hardy' country - The Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia!!! - now I'm showing my age lol!
Well a big welcome from me, and hope you can post some piccies up soon (if the mod's will let ya, as this is about Britain after all )
Hope to see you around! |
12-08-2007, 05:12 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Hetton le Hole Tyne & Wear
Posts: 563
| | | Re: Hello from the colonies
Stan Laurel was a brit - born on South Shields at the mouth of the River Tyne about 15 miles from Hetton (not a lot of people know that!)
We have some reasonable coastline around here but I dont think it will match Blue Ridge Mountains. |
12-08-2007, 09:21 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Boroughbridge near York - isn't the same as the Dales, but close enough!
Posts: 2,389
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Originally Posted by rscott74  Stan Laurel was a brit - born on South Shields at the mouth of the River Tyne about 15 miles from Hetton (not a lot of people know that!)
We have some reasonable coastline around here but I dont think it will match Blue Ridge Mountains. |
I was refering to the song they famously made |
13-08-2007, 09:08 AM
|  | Wild Member | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Reading, Berks
Posts: 119
| | | Re: Hello from the colonies
Hi Darts - nice to hear from you. Hope you enjoy the site & can't wait to hear what's happening over there.
Don't worry too much about not being based in the UK. The site's a great way to learn - besides, didn't the British come over to Virginia a few hundred years ago? We're practically related!
All the best
Derek
ps Hope your football team do better than mine! |
13-08-2007, 04:42 PM
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Posts: 380
| | | Re: Hello from the colonies
I just thought aren't the Blue Ridge mountains where the "Waltons" lived? I used to watch it when I was little? Like Cazzie, I remember the song sang by Laurel & Hardy, I am sure it was in the charts about 25 years ago (probably more?? ). |
13-08-2007, 08:01 PM
| | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Blackpool, Lancashire
Posts: 756
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Darts Well GME since you asked. Blacksburg Va is located in SW Virginia in the Blue Ridge Mts. The land is beautiful year round. Lots of wooded areas and fields as well as many small streams and lakes. Hiking on the Appalachian Trail or the Blue Ridge Parkway is a great thing to do.
Blacksburg itself is a College town and is home to Virginia Tech. "Go Hokies" | Wow - sounds lovely. How lucky you are!
Thanks for explaining - I didn't have a clue  |
14-08-2007, 12:07 AM
| | New Member | | Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 9
| | | Re: Hello from the colonies
Well what a lot of friends I have here. I would post a picture of the land here but this forum won't allow that. So Sad.
The "Waltons" is indeed based on life in a town located in the Blue Ridge Mts. The town is Schuyler (Sky-ler) and is east of me about 150 miles (241 kilometers). Never been there myself. Not a big fan I suppose.
The other TV show y'all may remember is "The Andy Griffith Show" ? The place for that is in the border town of Mount Airy North Carolina, and is closer to me. Only 90 miles (145 kilometers)
Now I must confess I have never heard the song you say is by Laurel and Hardy but since Hardy passed in 1957 and Laurel passed in 1965, I think the song must be 40-50 yrs ago?
But I would love to come to England and see you coastline and mountains. |
14-08-2007, 09:43 PM
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| | | Re: Hello from the colonies
The laurel & Hardy song "ON The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" was from their film "Way out West" (??). For some strange reason it was released as a single (in the UK) in the late 1970s (79 I think ?), which is where I remember it from. It was even on "Top of the Pops", lol. |
14-08-2007, 10:39 PM
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Originally Posted by clover green The laurel & Hardy song "ON The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" was from their film "Way out West" (??). For some strange reason it was released as a single (in the UK) in the late 1970s (79 I think ?), which is where I remember it from. It was even on "Top of the Pops", lol. | Oh That Song!
"On a mountain in Virginia, stands a lonesome pine.
Just below is the cabin home of a little girl of mine.
Her name is June and very, very soon, she'll belong to me.
For I know she's waiting there for me, 'Neath that lone pine tree.
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia,
On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine.
In the pale moonshine, our hearts entwine,
Where she carved her name and I carved mine,
Oh June, like the mountains I'm blue.
Like the pine, I am lonesome for you.
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia,
On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine."
Never heard of it. |
14-08-2007, 10:41 PM
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| | | Re: Hello from the colonies
Yeah, that's the song!! |
14-08-2007, 10:13 PM
| | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Blackpool, Lancashire
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Originally Posted by Darts Well what a lot of friends I have here. I would post a picture of the land here but this forum won't allow that. So Sad.
. | No, you'd be fine I think if you uploaded the image into the 'Forum Images' Gallery section and then posted it within this thread. I know I'd like to see it You can add images of anything you like really. It's just the ones to go into the moderated galleries that need to be specific. | | | |
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