last night report featured on the living golf show....all about villamoura...they mentioned briefly about offshore problems and interviewed someone called Andre jordan who is known as Mr.Portugal...well i have never heard of him!! anyway hes selling villamoura for 700 hundred million euros (dam just used my last cheque up)..and oh by the way their building another golf course there..apparently they have 4 already but hey whats another golf course amoung friends..doesnt every ghost town like villamoura need 5 golf courses!!!!

sure sounds like a ghost town full of phantoms who like to play golf if they need another one, n'est pas? Ou bien est-ce-que j'ai tort?

Une triste nouvelle.Est il la verite?
Plus Golf c'est plus grave que nous ne pensions
Pierre,youre not wrong.Is Algarve just destined to be one huge golf course
Im in despair

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot


Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop


They took all the trees, and put em in a tree museum
And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them
No, no, no
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot


Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop

Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT
I don't care about spots on my apples,
Leave me the birds and the bees
Please
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey now, they paved paradise to put up a parking lot
Why not?

Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop


Listen, late last night, I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi took my girl away
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Well, don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise to put up a parking lot
Why not?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey hey hey
Paved paradise and put up a parking lot


Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop

I don't wanna give it
Why you wanna give it
Why you wanna giving it all away
Hey, hey, hey
Now you wanna give it
I should wanna give it
Now you wanna giving it all away

Hey, paved paradise to put up a parking lot

(Big Yellow Taxi)

“They took all the trees, and put em in a tree museum
And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see em
No, no, no
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot”



Hey cowboy, you beat me to it!!! I’ve been thinking of posting these very lyrics. The song’s been going round in my head for the past couple of weeks, especially the verse above. Must be because it’s been covered 33 years on. (and I like the way see em rhymes with museum)

Hey cowboy, didn’t I see you on the road to Woodstock???

And that is exactly what they have done with a large proportion of the Petrified forest on Lesvos

"....Hey cowboy, didn’t I see you on the road to Woodstock???"

Digger, how would I know? I was with the Band.

the band
The Band, with a capital B
cool cowboy, full of intrigue, tell us more

Digger, I'ed like to tell you all about it, but there is a small problem:

"If you can rember the 60's, you wern't fully participating"

From what I can tell from surviving eye-witnesses and the few documents that wern't used as rolling papers, I seem to have participated quite a bit in those days.

i remember them Coop---even though young and reasonably innocent----but fully aware and enjoyed every minute
Were you banging away on those skins then--come on --tell us all about it--were you the "Tambourine man" --hey man --great stuff then--- my teens --kaftan/beads( me not you!)----bet you made love not war---or maybe you cant remember that either ---but I do
Peace man V

ah jaysus ,ye mean there over ,that was quick

They tell me the 60's are only an Acid trip away.

Or, at least I THINK that's what they told me.

OOPS --just re-read my last post here "banging away on skins"---of course I meant your drum kit Coop!
Course theyre not over Gerry--we're all still here re-living it aren't we
Any minute now --expect some younger persons will come on here and call us a sad lot--but it'll only be jealousy wont it?
Great groups ---and thanks Coop --for reminding me it was "The Byrds" who gave us "Hey Mr Tambourine Man"!
And lucky you --through your music career --to have met some of them--the BeachBoys for one
watched one of my idols last week -David Bowie--still sounding good :
Sorry to have got away from Martins original topic----but more fun than golf courses