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    Originally posted by Diver View Post



    Originally posted by voodooflux View Post
    Evening Diver

    Now you're here to look after the place I can head off to bed!



    Originally posted by Diver View Post
    I'm orf too Goodnight v



    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    morning all



    Originally posted by Diver View Post
    Morning all

    Babysitting the granddaughters

    The little one has become a hyperactive nightmare

    E No's or Sugar? I don't know, but she was a right handful last night. She's loud and bounces or runs around everywhere. Finally got her to sleep at 11:00 last night


    Enjoy...
    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    morning

    some children are like that - I was always hyperactive and a total nightmare when small.

    though I still recommend Gina Ford - plus vodka in the bottle!

    hmmm - nothing much changes!



    Originally posted by Diver View Post
    She's just flooded the bathroom

    To a resounding chorus of "I maked the floor wet, I like to move it move it" D


    Lucky Gran & Grampa....
    Originally posted by voodooflux View Post
    Morning folks



    Morning



    Morning

    On my way...



    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    WHS
    Originally posted by Diver View Post
    Daughter has just picked up the girls. Her hubby is away on a contract this weekend; so she and the girls are spending the day here tomorrow

    It's ok, I have tranquillizers



    Ah, the relief.

    Until the morrow...

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      Afternoon denizens

      Home again... lots of lovely rain to drive through on the way back, and "Long Delays" on the M1, so I nipped up the M40 instead. Gave me a chance to have a look at the Telecom tower at Stokenchurch, which is always nice to see

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        Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
        Afternoon denizens

        Home again... lots of lovely rain to drive through on the way back, and "Long Delays" on the M1, so I nipped up the M40 instead. Gave me a chance to have a look at the Telecom tower at Stokenchurch, which is always nice to see
        Afternoon

        I love that tower. and the view as you drive down the hill out of LOndon on the M40 near there.......

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          Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
          Afternoon

          I love that tower. and the view as you drive down the hill out of LOndon on the M40 near there.......
          Yes, it's a great view as you drive through that really deep cutting

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            Evening folks

            Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
            I love that tower. and the view as you drive down the hill out of LOndon on the M40 near there.......
            I just love driving out of London!
            Where are we going? And what’s with this hand basket?

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              evening all

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                Originally posted by voodooflux View Post
                Evening folks



                I just love driving out of London!
                Hard to think of a better view while driving out of LOndon though. The M20 at Wrotham Hill is okay - very fast too! A reliant robin was once clocked at 105mph down there - another chap at 172mph with his 5 year old son in passenger seat.

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                  Back to life, back to reality... or something like that

                  Upon arriving at the FMB bar tonight, I was served a pint of what ought to have been Black Sheep.

                  Hang on, I need to go back a couple of steps...

                  I'd gone for the sheer indulgence of spare ribs and fried potatoes for dinner (not from the chippy, but prepared at home). Later on, the staff at my local were keen to head off elsewhere, so I finished my last pint in there pretty rapidly - they're good people, and I don't want to delay their enjoyment of a Saturday night.

                  However, as I headed to the FMB bar, the mixture of fried spicy food and hastily quaffed ale meant that I was troubled by a touch of indigestion, so I chewed a Rennie. This then meant that my palate was saturated by a minty flavour when the aforementioned Black Sheep was presented to me.

                  It seemed to taste like a mouldy carpet, but I gave it a chance, as my palate wasn't in a normal condition.

                  The thing is, it wasn't vinegary, which would have lead me to immediately declare that it was off - it was musty.

                  After five or so sips, I still had some vestiges of a mint flavour in my mouth, but it also tasted as if I'd been drinking the by-products of steam-cleaning a mouldy carpet

                  Just then, the on-duty-chap-who-knows-the-cellar finished serving some people nearby. Catching his eye, I said "Sorry, is it just me, or does this taste a bit... well, odd?"

                  "THANK YOU!" he cried.

                  "There was some debate about it earlier - I was just waiting for you to come in and say there was something wrong with it! I'll change it now!" And he belted straight off down the cellar, like Alice pursuing a rabbit

                  Apparently another customer had objected to it and the confusion arose because it wasn't actually "vinegary" - the members of staff consulted didn't know that "musty" is also an issue

                  He had been temporarily overruled, as the previous customer had accepted an alternative (i.e. lager or Guinness or some garbage like that) - but my verdict is, it transpires, paramount in there now. If I say the beer is off, it's off

                  Luckily I've devoted so much of my life to drinking beer that I'm usually right. (And I've never even joined CAMRA.)

                  And the Timothy Taylor's Landlord that came on in place of the Musty Old Sheep was wonderfully bright and flavoursome - though not as good as one gets from the good ladies of The Harp. But then, nothing ever is as good as that
                  Last edited by NickFitz; 7 September 2008, 02:47.

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                    Oh dear, what a to-do

                    I really fancied listening to my rarer-then-hens'-teeth Nils Lofgren album, but after some exhaustive rootling, I just couldn't find the CD

                    I have the vinyl, of course, but given its rarity value I try to avoid playing that.

                    So I pulled out a blank CD-R, fired up iTunes, burned a new copy (while I went for a piss) and listened to that.

                    Thinking about it, that's probably roughly equivalent to the time it would have taken to wind up the gramophone and put a pristine needle in, about sixty years ago.

                    And that, right there, is why I love the 21st Century - it took me about fifteen years to find a copy of the original vinyl, but now I can avoid wearing it out by creating a new copy of the recording in the time it takes to pass water

                    Next week: hovercars and silver polyester jumpsuits which zip diagonally down the chest, the wrong way for right-handed people

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                      morning all

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