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Things That Gladden The Heart

This made me smile ? ... Oldest grandson lives, with his Mum, in accommodation attached to a pub... With the pub currently shut he's taken to practicing his guitar playing in the restaurant... No doubt at full volume ?... Prompting a passer by to report there's a party going on in the pub... Police duly arrived to find it was just a 14 year old honing his skills... Mum did offer them a beer but they politely declined...
 
This could have gone in the irritations thread,

However after seeing some of his comments in the last on The COVID thread I rapidly changed my mind!

Last night I DREAMT of Hobbit - we were discussing the problems generally and I think this is mainly because we have family in Madrid and he is in Almeria . Find dreams extremely strange as I can never remember much about them.

Incidentally have never met Brian but appreciate his knowledge and his positive contributions to The GM Forum. This was in evidence when his name continually came out for a 4 ball recently.

Anybody else dream often and know why?
 
Got a refund from easy jet this afternoon and was only on the phone for a total of 27 minutes. That's probably better than normal.
I'd forgotten how little I'd paid for the flights though, so was slightly disappointed...
 
pendodave said:
Got a refund from easy jet this afternoon and was only on the phone for a total of 27 minutes. That's probably better than normal.
I'd forgotten how little I'd paid for the flights though, so was slightly disappointed...
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Excellent

Did you send a claim or was it only by phone? If the former how long did it take please.

waited ove a month now with Ryanair and they keep saying they are busy. Helping their cash flow thoug.
 
3offTheTee said:
Excellent

Did you send a claim or was it only by phone? If the former how long did it take please.

waited ove a month now with Ryanair and they keep saying they are busy. Helping their cash flow thoug.
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By phone (it's the only way). It really was only 27 minutes (I had a couple of connections where they went through a couple of menu options then dropped the call) The lady said they would only give a refund if the reason was approved by her boss. I told her (nicely) that they were legally obliged to pay me cold hard cash. Then she did.
Will be having a chat with Jet2 shortly. I'm spreading out my chores to kill time!
 
Music and writing.

Listen to so much music the last week due to self isolation, discovered loads of new stuff as well.
I’ve always had a bit of passion for writing since school, had a great teacher who actively encouraged to express yourself through it, so again I’ve been writing down my thoughts over the last week or so and hopefully my youngest can read it when he is older.
Once you get going its hard to stop.
 
BrianM said:
Music and writing.

Listen to so much music the last week due to self isolation, discovered loads of new stuff as well.
I’ve always had a bit of passion for writing since school, had a great teacher who actively encouraged to express yourself through it, so again I’ve been writing down my thoughts over the last week or so and hopefully my youngest can read it when he is older.
Once you get going its hard to stop.
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Great thing to do and leave for them to look at when older, my wife set up email accounts for my 3 youngest and emails pictures of things to the accounts when we do things that make her/them happy. she is going to give them the passwords when they're older to look through all the memories of their early years. But I like your idea of writing so may give that a go myself as I enjoy putting pen to paper.
 
BrianM said:
Music and writing.

Listen to so much music the last week due to self isolation, discovered loads of new stuff as well.
I’ve always had a bit of passion for writing since school, had a great teacher who actively encouraged to express yourself through it, so again I’ve been writing down my thoughts over the last week or so and hopefully my youngest can read it when he is older.
Once you get going its hard to stop.
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My better half writes a regular lengthy letter back home to her Mum in Oz... Sadly, her Mum is now in a care home... But, when my missus 'phones, her Mum, the staff tell her that not only does Mum like getting the letters they enjoy reading them to her...
 
Wolf said:
But I like your idea of writing so may give that a go myself as I enjoy putting pen to paper.
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I have to be honest it's one of the reasons I do my blog (irrespective of whether you like mine or blogs in particular). Always find it therapeutic to type the words out and get my thoughts on a screen. Like most, I've that hankering to write a book but not got the time at this moment in my life.
 
My mate and drummer from my band told me he's purchased a new electric drumkit, so along with the condenser microphone I recently bought, we've decided to spend lockdown time recording some of our songs via Garageband on my iPad and his Mac. Which gives me something fun to do. :D
 
Orikoru said:
My mate and drummer from my band told me he's purchased a new electric drumkit, so along with the condenser microphone I recently bought, we've decided to spend lockdown time recording some of our songs via Garageband on my iPad and his Mac. Which gives me something fun to do. :D
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Italian outcast said:
We had two of these flying around our garden yesterday at dusk - end of days o_O

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FFS don't eat them :eek:
 
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