johnh Posted April 23, 2022 Report Share Posted April 23, 2022 12 hours ago, Hafnia said: Seriously??? No, it's how the joke was worded. Grandad was a very pleasant, quiet gentleman - and a blue. That was my Dad's Dad. Never knew my Mum's Dad as he died when she was 10. He was a foreman on the docks and died of cholera after drinking contaminated water on a ship they were unloading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted April 23, 2022 Report Share Posted April 23, 2022 Got a good couple of days coming up this week, Tuesday an old mate from London is coming down on his Harley Davidson, and my brother is joining us for a night in my old local (not been there since my wife died because it was "our" local, so looking forward to facing that down). We all have rooms booked there for the night so it'll probably get a bit messy. Then Wednesday doing a "road trip" on the Harley up to Cheddar Gorge, as I have pretty much zero social life I'm a bit excited Romey 1878 and Palfy 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted April 27, 2022 Report Share Posted April 27, 2022 My ride today Matt, Romey 1878 and Cornish Steve 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish Steve Posted April 27, 2022 Report Share Posted April 27, 2022 On 23/04/2022 at 05:26, johnh said: No, it's how the joke was worded. Grandad was a very pleasant, quiet gentleman - and a blue. That was my Dad's Dad. Never knew my Mum's Dad as he died when she was 10. He was a foreman on the docks and died of cholera after drinking contaminated water on a ship they were unloading. John, we'll have to find a way to get together again. I shall be passing through Heathrow this coming week and again two weeks later. Do you still live in the same area? Palfy, Matt and Hafnia 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hafnia Posted April 27, 2022 Report Share Posted April 27, 2022 1 hour ago, Cornish Steve said: John, we'll have to find a way to get together again. I shall be passing through Heathrow this coming week and again two weeks later. Do you still live in the same area? Nice to see two faces to names, great pic. Matt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnh Posted April 28, 2022 Report Share Posted April 28, 2022 17 hours ago, Cornish Steve said: John, we'll have to find a way to get together again. I shall be passing through Heathrow this coming week and again two weeks later. Do you still live in the same area? Steve, nothing more I would like but sadly am moving house - tomorrow! Will be a bit further away but the main problem is timing. Don't think I will have time. Please don't hesitate to email me if you are ever passing through. Cornish Steve 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnh Posted April 28, 2022 Report Share Posted April 28, 2022 15 hours ago, Hafnia said: Nice to see two faces to names, great pic. Haf, sadly I don't look like that now! (2 years ago). Lost 2 stone with illness and haven't had a hair cut for three months. Look like wild man from the east. Steve will be as fit as ever! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hafnia Posted April 28, 2022 Report Share Posted April 28, 2022 33 minutes ago, johnh said: Haf, sadly I don't look like that now! (2 years ago). Lost 2 stone with illness and haven't had a hair cut for three months. Look like wild man from the east. Steve will be as fit as ever! Stay strong John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palfy Posted April 28, 2022 Report Share Posted April 28, 2022 7 hours ago, johnh said: Haf, sadly I don't look like that now! (2 years ago). Lost 2 stone with illness and haven't had a hair cut for three months. Look like wild man from the east. Steve will be as fit as ever! Keep pushing mate, the one positive over Steve that you have John is he won’t be needing a haircut Apologies Steve just trying to keep John’s spirits up Cornish Steve and johnh 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted April 30, 2022 Report Share Posted April 30, 2022 Tangent here but really annoying lyric for me. Fleetwood Mac are rightly legends in both incarnations but, in Oh Diane.. "Love is like a grain of sand Slowly slippin' through your hand." How can a single grain of sand slowly slip through your hand? A handful of sand yes, but a grain is either held or dropped. One of the blue pills please nursy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post johnh Posted April 30, 2022 Popular Post Report Share Posted April 30, 2022 Moved into our new (to us) apartment yesterday in Flackwell Heath (Bucks) to be near our youngest daughter. Move went really well. Brilliant removal men and all the family to help out. Really like the new place, beautiful gardens all covered by a management fee, no work! Apartment has good quality fittings and is nicely decorated, so no work there either! Big weight off my mind. Got a call from the Consultant and he is going ahead with Radio Therapy. I think it starts in a couple of weeks. Since going on the new tablets (17 per day) I have been eating a lot better and putting a bit of weight back on. MikeO, Palfy, Gwlad and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnh Posted May 6, 2022 Report Share Posted May 6, 2022 Her indoors is now on morphine (tablets not button) and we are having MacMillan nurses in. Still some cloudy skies ahead.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted May 6, 2022 Report Share Posted May 6, 2022 1 hour ago, johnh said: Her indoors is now on morphine (tablets not button) and we are having MacMillan nurses in. Still some cloudy skies ahead.' Must be very hard for you both, morphine is sad but really good stuff at the same time, I've spent many contented days on a morphine cloud. Macmillan nurses are superb in my experience, she'll be well looked after; will be thinking of you John. johnh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwlad Posted May 9, 2022 Report Share Posted May 9, 2022 Sad to hear this John, inadequate I know but thoughts go out to you and the family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted May 11, 2022 Report Share Posted May 11, 2022 Banning these ads is pathetic, what century are we actually living in? https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/adidas-sports-bra-ad-boobs-ban-b2076296.html Matt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted May 22, 2022 Report Share Posted May 22, 2022 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-61541224 Romey 1878, Palfy and MikeO 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted June 1, 2022 Report Share Posted June 1, 2022 Cousin of mine just sent me this link. https://fineartamerica.com/featured/16-royal-institution-christmas-lecture-royal-institution-of-great-britain.html?product=canvas-print&fbclid=IwAR1hsppeJ_QqfYjsOz9_jQRJrODrTZ2ZM6GKP86nA8YHWpdvW7-a7ZrWB0I Nothing overly earth shattering for most I'm sure, but the gent in the picture is my great grandfather Cornish Steve 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted June 2, 2022 Report Share Posted June 2, 2022 Of course he has, how convenient https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61676093 Matt and Romey 1878 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwlad Posted June 2, 2022 Report Share Posted June 2, 2022 21 hours ago, MikeO said: Cousin of mine just sent me this link. https://fineartamerica.com/featured/16-royal-institution-christmas-lecture-royal-institution-of-great-britain.html?product=canvas-print&fbclid=IwAR1hsppeJ_QqfYjsOz9_jQRJrODrTZ2ZM6GKP86nA8YHWpdvW7-a7ZrWB0I Nothing overly earth shattering for most I'm sure, but the gent in the picture is my great grandfather I am into family history so any photo is pure gold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted June 2, 2022 Report Share Posted June 2, 2022 11 minutes ago, Gwlad all over said: I am into family history so any photo is pure gold. I was aware of the photo but to see it on sale comercially was amazing; he died four years before I was born but his wife, my great grandma, lived to 95 so I was fifteen when she died and I knew her very well, she loved to tell stories about him. I actually still have some of his notebooks, a lot of his stuff we donated to the Royal Institute, but I kept a few back for myself. Family history is brilliant in the internet era, my family tree currently has 765 people in it! Find nuggets such as an ancestor from Clackmannan (place crops up so many times) who emigrated to the US and died by being decapited in the shunting yard at Salt Lake City railway station....and you can read the newspaper report of it, amazing. Gwlad 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted June 16, 2022 Report Share Posted June 16, 2022 On 23/03/2022 at 03:40, Cornish Steve said: Well, that was a harrowing experience. Thankfully I'm OK, but, thinking back, it was actually quite shocking - maybe because I wasn't expecting it. Few things unnerve me, but being robbed at a Shell station just down the road from us, in broad daylight, did it. Embarrassing, I know, but I was shaking for quite a while. Other drivers who saw what happened, probably not wanting to get involved, just drove off - although some walked over and did their best to calm me down. Honestly, I didn't even think to call the police at the time - what's the point? - but one of the others thought to do so. Funnily enough, the officer lives in our neighborhood (a couple of them do, actually), and he was very patient with me. (Not the way I expected to get to know a neighbor better, that's for sure!) The cashier at the counter inside brought me some coffee. I don't usually drink the stuff, but it actually calmed me down a bit. Connor (I now know the police officer neighbor's name) asked me if I knew who'd done it... "Yep. It was pump number 3." Just cost me over £104 to fill up, around $129 to save our over-the-pond members the trouble of doing the conversion. I need a lie down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted June 16, 2022 Report Share Posted June 16, 2022 I'm very grateful our garage still hasn't looked at our car after it broke down nearly 3 weeks ago (in the middle lane of the motorway north of Oxford. Took 9 hours for the AA to get us home and 90 mins to get to us in the first place). Probably saved enough in fuel to pay the repairs and service MikeO and Palfy 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palfy Posted June 16, 2022 Report Share Posted June 16, 2022 2 minutes ago, Matt said: I'm very grateful our garage still hasn't looked at our car after it broke down nearly 3 weeks ago (in the middle lane of the motorway north of Oxford. Took 9 hours for the AA to get us home and 90 mins to get to us in the first place). Probably saved enough in fuel to pay the repairs and service Your not going to be far wrong mate Mandy filled her car up Tuesday £136.00, I filled mine up yesterday £112.00. Soon they will be doing fuel ️ and energy mortgages on Go compare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted June 16, 2022 Report Share Posted June 16, 2022 7 minutes ago, Palfy said: Your not going to be far wrong mate Mandy filled her car up Tuesday £136.00, I filled mine up yesterday £112.00. Soon they will be doing fuel ️ and energy mortgages on Go compare. Picked sister up from the airport 2 weeks ago in the campervan, that was £120. Mental. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted June 21, 2022 Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 Summer solstice today dunlopp9987 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunlopp9987 Posted June 24, 2022 Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 A friend of mine just told me that there's a surge of polio springing up in the UK??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted June 24, 2022 Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 9 hours ago, dunlopp9987 said: A friend of mine just told me that there's a surge of polio springing up in the UK??? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61896411 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted June 24, 2022 Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 16 hours ago, dunlopp9987 said: A friend of mine just told me that there's a surge of polio springing up in the UK??? Well, it might do since apparently Facebook opinion pieces seem to carry more weight than science over here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted June 24, 2022 Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 39 minutes ago, Matt said: Well, it might do since apparently Facebook opinion pieces seem to carry more weight than science over here... Yup, there are no cases as yet, just traces of it in waste water... "No cases of the disease or related paralysis have been reported, and the risk to the general public is considered low, but public health officials urged people to make sure that they and their families were up to date with polio vaccinations to reduce the risk of harm." dunlopp9987 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted June 24, 2022 Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 On 16/06/2022 at 19:02, Palfy said: Your not going to be far wrong mate Mandy filled her car up Tuesday £136.00, I filled mine up yesterday £112.00. Soon they will be doing fuel ️ and energy mortgages on Go compare. £434 to repair it a month later. That's probably 2 tanks saved, so half of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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