Things That Gladden The Heart

[GreiginFife]

It’s going to be a DIY version of this…

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About 12 foot long and 4 foot deep.

I will need to level the ground and put a base down as the ground fall away at that end of my garden.

Yeah, that’s the sort of thing I thought when you said log store. Green oak would look lovely with those thick posts and rails.

I built a watertight version of similar to store my sheet materials to stop them taking up space inside the workshop.

 

[Sid Rixon IV]

Well…here’s a thing. Found amongst my BILs stuff we are having to work through.

A original ticket for the Sex Pistols gig that was cancelled after Derby City Council took fright immediately following the now (in)famous Bill Grundy Sex Pistols interview on 1st December 1976. I think it could be worth a lot of £s but I think I’ll hold on to it. He’s got quite a lot of stuff from that time that might well be worth a bit nowadays…and I dont think he quite realised

Just one absolutely magic bit of punk memorabilia. What a line up.
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Ooh, £1.60.
6 pints!

 

[BrianM]

It’s going to be a DIY version of this…

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About 12 foot long and 4 foot deep.

I will need to level the ground and put a base down as the ground fall away at that end of my garden.

My old man has just finished something like this at his house, I’ll take a picture next time I’m there

 

[Sid Rixon IV]

My old man has just finished something like this at his house, I’ll take a picture next time I’m there

Is he particularly handsome?

 

[BrianM]

Is he particularly handsome?

I like to think it runs in the family

 

[Sid Rixon IV]

I like to think it runs in the family

Put the photo up.
We'll be the judge of that.

 

[clubchamp98]

Well…here’s a thing. Found amongst my BILs stuff we are having to work through.

A original ticket for the Sex Pistols gig that was cancelled after Derby City Council took fright immediately following the now (in)famous Bill Grundy Sex Pistols interview on 1st December 1976. I think it could be worth a lot of £s but I think I’ll hold on to it. He’s got quite a lot of stuff from that time that might well be worth a bit nowadays…and I dont think he quite realised

Just one absolutely magic bit of punk memorabilia. What a line up. Gladden or Sadden…I’m not sure - the latter I think.
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£1.60

 

[cliveb]

Better than constant snow though . You win some, you lose some......Think of the reservoirs filling up, always a positive somewhere to be found (I do get your point mind)

You think?
Last winter it rained like Noah had returned. A lady from South West Water informed us that the reservoirs were weren't filling because it was "the wrong kind of rain"

 

[Lord Tyrion]

You think?
Last winter it rained like Noah had returned. A lady from South West Water informed us that the reservoirs were weren't filling because it was "the wrong kind of rain"

I do remember hearing that. If it was the wrong type of rain then I would suggest that they have the wrong type of reservoir. Adapt and build more of the 'other type'

 

[Neilds]

I'm sure I once heard that you would need 10 inches of snow to get the same water as 1 inch of rain so the snow won't add much to the reservoirs - hose pipe ban looming?

 

[cliveb]

I do remember hearing that. If it was the wrong type of rain then I would suggest that they have the wrong type of reservoir. Adapt and build more of the 'other type'

Problem is that all the £billions the water companies have borrowed was used to pay shareholder dividends rather than infrastructure investment.

(But this is straying into politics)

 

[AmandaJR]

Jack Draper shutting up the Aussie crowd - go Jack!!

 

[Patster1969]

Currently sat in Agadir Morocco. The weather has been gorgeous. However that’s not the gladdens the heart bit. There’s quite a few families here and it has proper wound me up seeing families sat at a table and the kids are on iPads and parents on phones.
Tonight me and Missis Tash have had a gorgeous Chinese at a restaurant. Behind me I could hear this kid who was rattling away and he was really excited talking to his mum And dad about anything and everything. They were talking back to him and although it should be the norm, it was gloriously uplifting. So much so I collared his mum when she walked past And I told her so. She was chuffed to bits.

Totally get that Tash. We were sitting in a Starbucks and there was a little girl with both her parents at the next table. She was trying to talk to them but they both just sat there with their noses in their phones. She then started talking to us and she was a lovely little thing - just sad that she wanted to engage with her parents & neither were interested/too engrossed in their phones (probably on FB and telling everyone what great parents they were - they were also a bit older, so we were surprised that they weren't taking every minute to enjoy being a parent).
Hit home a bit that we would have loved a nice little child like that but couldn't (& couldn't adopt either - although she likely would have been a devil child if she was ours).
Tablets/phones for kids is a bit no in my book

 

[Neilds]

Totally get that Tash. We were sitting in a Starbucks and there was a little girl with both her parents at the next table. She was trying to talk to them but they both just sat there with their noses in their phones. She then started talking to us and she was a lovely little thing - just sad that she wanted to engage with her parents & neither were interested/too engrossed in their phones (probably on FB and telling everyone what great parents they were - they were also a bit older, so we were surprised that they weren't taking every minute to enjoy being a parent).
Hit home a bit that we would have loved a nice little child like that but couldn't (& couldn't adopt either - although she likely would have been a devil child if she was ours).
Tablets/phones for kids is a bit no in my book

Partly agree but is it much different than giving them a book or colouring in whilst the adults talk?
Obviously interacting is better

 

[Patster1969]

Partly agree but is it much different than giving them a book or colouring in whilst the adults talk?
Obviously interacting is better

IMO, phones/tablets are worse due to the ease that they can get onto the internet/social media. They are used as a very easy parenting tool when the kids are too young, which can/does lead to mental health issues as it is too addictive.
At least with a book/colouring, the parents know what's going on and have an element of control over the content.

 

[Pathetic Shark]

There has been a video doing the rounds of an obnoxious Philadelphia Eagles fan screaming at a young female Green Bay Packer supporter last Sunday. He calls her the worst possible names and is beyond abusive.
The Eagles went out of their way to get hold of a load of Packer merchandise for the young woman and delivered to her house.
Social media identified the Eagle lout, found out where he worked, published their name and the guy has been fired from his job.

Trial by jury perhaps not, trial by your peers, definitely. And justice done.

 

[Neilds]

There has been a video doing the rounds of an obnoxious Philadelphia Eagles fan screaming at a young female Green Bay Packer supporter last Sunday. He calls her the worst possible names and is beyond abusive.
The Eagles went out of their way to get hold of a load of Packer merchandise for the young woman and delivered to her house.
Social media identified the Eagle lout, found out where he worked, published their name and the guy has been fired from his job.

Trial by jury perhaps not, trial by your peers, definitely. And justice done.

Whilst I don't condone what the guy has done (not seen it) I'm sure that a half decent employment lawyer will have a field day about wrongful dismissal. Was not work related and was so quick I would doubt if processes have been followed correctly.

 

[Hobbit]

Whilst I don't condone what the guy has done (not seen it) I'm sure that a half decent employment lawyer will have a field day about wrongful dismissal. Was not work related and was so quick I would doubt if processes have been followed correctly.

Once the company he worked for became public knowledge.

Bringing the company into disrepute = gross misconduct = booted.

Very simplistic and, as you say, a lawyer would have a field day but I’m not sure he’d win. I’d expect the company to settle out of court rather than run up a massive legal bill.

 

[Pathetic Shark]

But it was America. There cannot be a precedent surely for long-drawn out legal cases over such matters

 

[Hobbit]

Seeing the goat whisperer. When we first started coming over to this part of Spain we had a house in a village about 10km from where we are now. There was an old guy, close on 150yrs old by the look of him, who we would see almost every day out with his herd of goats and his scruffy dogs - werewolves by the look of them. He’d wander a couple of dozen km a day.

We thought Covid had got him and his Mrs. But whilst out today we heard the sound of bells - think Swiss cow bells. There he was with his son, who must be a good 100yrs old, wandering up the road behind a big herd of goats. Sadly, no sign of his Mrs, a typically voluble Spanish mama prone to waving her stick, shouting the odds and cackling away. I remember her giving Mrs H a good going over for not wearing a sombrero on a hot summer’s day - a real character.