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Things That Gladden The Heart

Crow said:
Not been on this thread for a while and I was taken to page 1, where I noticed that Homer has been banned. 😮

Was it a football, aimpoint or wedge-prize thread that caused it?
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I have no idea, too busy trying not to get myself banned!

Mods : That's just a little joke between you and I. ;)
 
Lovely weekend
Yesterday eldests birthday, swimming at the local swimming pool with the family down the slide with the kids. Think I enjoyed it as much as them followed by taking her on her own to a zoo for an evening event

Today took the wife out with friends for her birthday (tomorrow) for lunch at a nice pub nearby

Tomorrow I'm doing her the first grill up on the ninja BBQ grill 😂
 
Crow said:
Not been on this thread for a while and I was taken to page 1, where I noticed that Homer has been banned. 😮

Was it a football, aimpoint or wedge-prize thread that caused it?
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The first rule of 'banned from forum', is that you don't talk about 'banned from forum'

@FightClub

😉
 
Coming back home from golf at Dunbar to Haddington on the expressway, it's basically a duel carriageway but there's no slip roads or junctions so they call it an expressway, about 9 miles or so, after about a mile or so i'm passed by a BMW, I'm only doing about 65 and he's probably just a few mph faster, the roads completely empty except for us and he stays in the outside lane all the way, got me thinking is that their dedicated lane or can they use both ?
Anyway what gladdened my heart, well that would be the Police XC90 which genuinely must have been doing about 120 (and I'm being conservative) when it passed me, lights on but no siren, on approaching the BMW it added the siren, he got such a fright he swerved into the inside lane and just about managed to stop going down the embankment, Oh dear, what a shame, never mind
 
Eldest been confirmed as peer mentor again for next year after doing such a good job this year. Basically a prefect or someone who helps out at break time. She's very proud of it
 
Wonderful thing that is the NHS and how everything works together when needed

111 2am for eldest we suspected whooping cough (she has asthma so extra money)

They told us to pharmacy this morning, they rang us however and did over phone and said contact the GP and they will refer us as urgent (this was 9am)

Gp saw us at 11:40. My favourite of all the GPs at the surgery as his bedside manor is excellent, he checked her over confirmed not whooping cough (thankfully) just a cold that's caused her asthma to play up so increase the pump for a week and back to school tomorrow ( which means Dr dad can go back to either the golf course or the cinema lol)
 
Voyager EMH said:
Seeing an 80-year-old sing and perform on stage for an hour and a half.
Looking good and entertaining the crowd.

As I might be entering my anecdotage, I find this inspiring.
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Today we had an over 70's comp and it was blu**y hot on back 9. I'm 75 and playing with an 82 and 85 year old. Both great company (they were each others' Best Man 50+ years ago!).
85 yr old happy to be out there and hitting a ball straight(ish).
82 year old just got back to single figures and broke his age several times in his late 70's. I'm chuffed to hit the green, he targets the pin every time.
It made me think how lucky I am to be fit and well enough to be a part of it for 4 hours, three times a week.
My dad worked continental shifts in Margam steel for almost 40 years, retired at 65 and passed on his 66th, having had several jobs that year because he didnt know what else to do.
He met his first grandchild for 18 months but not his second.
I've had 17 years retirement and have to remind myself what a change there's been over 40 years in our lifestyle.
Mind you, how Rod, Ronnie and Keef dunnit, beggars belief 😄
 
Sid Rixon IV said:
Today we had an over 70's comp and it was blu**y hot on back 9. I'm 75 and playing with an 82 and 85 year old. Both great company (they were each others' Best Man 50+ years ago!).
85 yr old happy to be out there and hitting a ball straight(ish).
82 year old just got back to single figures and broke his age several times in his late 70's. I'm chuffed to hit the green, he targets the pin every time.
It made me think how lucky I am to be fit and well enough to be a part of it for 4 hours, three times a week.
My dad worked continental shifts in Margam steel for almost 40 years, retired at 65 and passed on his 66th, having had several jobs that year because he didnt know what else to do.
He met his first grandchild for 18 months but not his second.
I've had 17 years retirement and have to remind myself what a change there's been over 40 years in our lifestyle.
Mind you, how Rod, Ronnie and Keef dunnit, beggars belief 😄
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It’s the clean living that did it 🤣🤪🤣🤪
 
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AliMc said:
Coming back home from golf at Dunbar to Haddington on the expressway, it's basically a duel carriageway but there's no slip roads or junctions so they call it an expressway, about 9 miles or so, after about a mile or so i'm passed by a BMW, I'm only doing about 65 and he's probably just a few mph faster, the roads completely empty except for us and he stays in the outside lane all the way, got me thinking is that their dedicated lane or can they use both ?
Anyway what gladdened my heart, well that would be the Police XC90 which genuinely must have been doing about 120 (and I'm being conservative) when it passed me, lights on but no siren, on approaching the BMW it added the siren, he got such a fright he swerved into the inside lane and just about managed to stop going down the embankment, Oh dear, what a shame, never mind
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Expressway??? Is that an east Lothian thing, as I have never heard the A1 being called that....wonder what yous call the bypass? 🤔...
 
My wife's BFF. She's lovely and helpful and a pain at times - and the reason me and my Mrs got together.

She's also rather paranoid (cautious she'd say) about surviving a very serious attack on the UK. So in the last few weeks we've had delivered: 5 x 25L water containers; a portable/camping gas single burner; a portable water filter straw, and most recently, a hand-crank and solar chargeable radio/torch/sos alarm/power bank. So that's the survival kit sorted. I (just about) jest - but she's serious.
 
C7usk said:
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Expressway??? Is that an east Lothian thing, as I have never heard the A1 being called that....wonder what yous call the bypass? 🤔...
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We call the Edinburgh City bypass that presumably because it bypasses Edinburgh, the stretch from Haddington to Dunbar, being 17 miles from that is not the EC bypass, it was marketed when being built as an Expressway specifically due to there being no slip roads on or off between the Abbots View junction in Haddington and the Thistly Cross roundabout nr Dunbar, much to the consternation of those in and around East Linton
 
Pathetic Shark said:
Sorry did you post this in 1976 and it's only just appeared? :ROFLMAO: Arctic roll - that takes me back.
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Googled how to keep yourself cool during the night. Apparently freezing your Jim jams is recommended. Personally it’s a load of rammel. Your Jim jams are lovely and cool for two mins and then everything is back to normal apart from the side effects of cold and shrinkage. 😉☹️
 
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