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Things That Gladden The Heart

Em, I wasn't finished the sentence.
My budgie pulled out the plug on my computer and I had to reboot.
Then some religious people came to the front door.
Then a pipe burst in the loft which leaked into the kitchen but it's all fixed now.
Honest.
So, as I was saying.......
Eating my dogs family and the correct use of the 'comma' in a sentence.

:whistle:

Full stops, two words.;)
 
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Going to the Reading with some Reading fans who were very chipper over pre-match pints. All quiet in the pub after so bought them a drink to drown their sorrows. Been a very enjoyable morning in work so far
 
Mrs Hogie got a job yesterday - working a couple of days for one of the major UK breast cancer charities on their Helpline. She really needed it as she has been at a real loose end and quite depressed since we returned from our travels - and she found out what being retired with nothing to do meant...

And my lad accomplished a dream of his - shared the DJ'ing of a midnight to 4am 'silent disco' slot at the Leeds Festival a few weeks back. 4000 in the tent :)

What was I doing at 27 - well I wasn't doing this...:)IMG_0125.JPG
 
My mobile phone packed up the other day ................................... and today I fixed it!
I noticed that the volume button was bent, ordered a new one and have just replaced it.
For me, that's a result!
 
Bananas……..Due to my wife's dietary problems she eats a lot of bananas however she must not let them get overripe due to sugar/alcohol.
This usually ends up with a lot of bananas in the food waste bin.

On her helpline she saw a tip that if you separate the bananas and wrap the stalk end in a small bit of tin foil it stops the bananas ripening too earlier.
This works amazingly well.

In Tescos the other night buying bananas and the wee woman next to me asks if I could reach for the greener bananas on the top shelf.
Says she cant stand overripe bananas.
I explain to her about my wife's tip and she gives me such a wonderful 'oh Aye' look that only Scottish women of a certain age manage.:love:
 
Like Dan2501 just a couple of days left at work before I too fly off to Cancun to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary, crikey I must be getting old!
 
Human kindness, sometimes it still exists. Mrs Wolf put fuel in the car yesterday went to pay and then only realised she had forgot her bloody purse and the amount she put in was too much for apple pay. She told me the older gent in queue behind her stepped forward and paid the £40 it was she put in without hesitation and merely asked her to have a good journey and be safe. She said he had a small poppy pin on his jacket so today I've donated the money she would have spent in fuel to the British Legion. Things like that really show what being a decent human being is all about, and will serve as a lesson for her not to be such a plum..

Oh and also passed a job interview today for a potential change of career, that's 3 stages done in a 6 stage application process fingers and toes are being crossed.
 
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Mrs Hogie got a job yesterday - working a couple of days for one of the major UK breast cancer charities on their Helpline. She really needed it as she has been at a real loose end and quite depressed since we returned from our travels - and she found out what being retired with nothing to do meant...

And my lad accomplished a dream of his - shared the DJ'ing of a midnight to 4am 'silent disco' slot at the Leeds Festival a few weeks back. 4000 in the tent :)

What was I doing at 27 - well I wasn't doing this...:)View attachment 28306
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good to hear Mrs SILH has something to do. I know when my dad retired he really struggled with things at first
 
My Grandson's team into the third round of the under 14's age group Scottish Cup.
Winning 2-1 against a good team that hammered them 5-0 a few weeks ago.

Great game with good skills on show.
 
Some good things last few days.

Took my mother's car to Sheffield for my son now that he has passed his test. My mother would have been so pleased to see him drive around in her car - how happy he was to - at last - have some wheels and the freedom that this gives him - plus that he can now take evening work and not have to rely upon public transport as he has had to do for last 5yrs. But those 5yrs have been a good lesson for him in self-reliance.

And one from Friday that pleased me very much.

Cutting a long story short I came across a short document relating to the Scottish Horse in WW1 called 'Scouting in Salonika'. It was on the Scotlandswar website. It looked interesting - so I read it. Reminiscences of a Scottish Horse scout in WW1 - mostly in Salonika in 1916. Contained detailed account of his training and when in action as a scout going forward to into the Turkish and Bulgarian Lines. It turns out he was in a group of scouts who were also snipers. And there was a photograph of the guy with the other 21 scouts/snipers in his team. And there crouching in the front row is my grandfather...

We are a large and close family - and my 20 odd cousins and I have much pride in our grandparents, where they came from in life - and what they did for our parents and hence ourselves - but I am not aware of ANY photographs of my grandfather serving. But now - quite randomly - we do.

My grandfather never talked much of his time serving - nothing at all about his time in Flanders 1917-1918 - but did mention to my father a little about his earlier exploits as a scout in Gallipoli campaign (he landed at Suvla Bay) - and once getting stuck behind enemy Turkish lines. I have imagined what that was like - but this fella reminiscences in detail about their their transfer from Gallipoli to Salonika - their training, what they did as scouting/snipers parties and how they did it. So now - after all these years - I know what my grandfather was up to. Just awesome.

Isn't the interwebbie brilliant...
 
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