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I have mentioned before about my 'shaky left hand' (i am left handed) when writing,shaving,eating etc,(its called essential.tremor)......its only when i try to use it that it shakes......,Pills work for so long then have no effect..............now doing a fair bit of writing with one of the jobs i do.......and must admit its a bit embarrassing at times. Anyway been reading up on writing with the less dominant hand..........they reckon if you practice about 15 minutes a day after 1 to 2 months you get proficient,.............so from today thats what i'm doing,.........be i

Depressing thinking back to my 40th birthday party, although it was a fabulous evening when we took over an entire French restaurant to party with 60 close friends and family. It seems like yesterday but it's 28 years ago for heaven's sake. I hope the next 28 years don't fly by so quickly, I'll be 96 if I get that far !!

I was watching a news programme today about Boris Johnson's visit to the Virgin Islands and standing behind him was my son !!!! He was only on view for seconds but so nice to see him so unexpectedly. I was a very proud mum, he wears his green beret with pride.

If the PC brigade think littering like that is not criminal let them bu66ers go and clean it up at there own expense. It is a downright disgrace for the culprits to get away with it. They have no place in a decent society.

What I find scary about that is the realisation that 1993 is 24 years ago. I'm still thinking of it as fairly recent; ie a few years ago.

Nice picture of me playing the Theramin.

I have always eaten left handed, don't know why. Used to get moaned at for setting cutlery the wrong way round. So, Ben, you could be ambidextrous shortly! Still, its better than being a hermaphrodite...except I don't think that term is pc any longer!

Same goes when listening to the 60's channel on XM, they'll say 'and this next one was a big hit in 1963...........' and I think nothing if it. But when they say, this is from 54 years ago, I go Whaaaaaaaaa?

I did one of the test papers online. Got 91% and passed. Phew! Does that mean I can stay? There were several questions about Henry viii and WW1.

I use Wetherspoons in London as it can be relied upon to provide a decent pint for reasonable cost. My wife thinks that I have a built in Wetherspoons radar and could find a Wetherspoons on any planet in the solar system. Comically we were walking through Bath this summer and she wanted a toilet. "Now where is the nearest Wetherspoons now? " she asked with a certain amount of sarcasm in her voice. I just said "Wot that one?" and pointed to the door about 5 metres away. Wetherspoons are a sea change in pubs. Whist it was not the first chain to sell real ales they tended to speciali

Reading an article in the rag today about the lack of support among the young for the Conservatives and how they could increase it, the author said they should follow in the foot steps of Spoons founder. Apparently when he started his market research was not conducted by asking pub goers what they would want but by asking people who did not go to the pub what would attract them. Hence never a mean pint, always clean toilet, the kitchen does not close at 2-00pm and of course pleasant staff. Not been in a spoons for years so you regulars will have to confirm..

Thanks to CF only last month I challenged VM and got an £18 per month reduction. Right now if I look up from my desk I see a 'post-it' note saying '22/08/2018 phone VM retentions dept for better deal' as that is when my new contract ends.

It's rust

Reading through these I have to say, they've given me a right chuckle. Some very odd and peculiar sayings around that's for sure!

After coming out with a load of foul language when I were a kid,me dad shouted"Come here, I'll teach you to swear" but I already knew how to swear he did come out with some strange things Rog

My mother used to say "Stop Chinning" when we talked to much.

I used to be right-handed but now the wife says I am ambidextrous , I do nothing useful with both hands.

I just completed four of the 'Life in the UK' tests. I failed one and three and just scraped through on two and four. Phew, I have saved it to my desk top to carry on later. My brain hasn't worked so hard for a long time, but I enjoyed doing the tests and look forward to more. PS LL, I own up to guessing a few as well.

Scored 75%. Enough to gerrin anyway. Must admit I guessed one or two. Nah where do a claim me benefits?

Just tried another one. 91.67% English...and proud of it!

We probably were, Commo! We were the party of legal eagles from Browne Jacobson & Roose. Can't remember much about what we ate but several of our number sent it back and probably read the chef The Consumer Rights Act...just because they could! The manners on your table were nothing short of disgusting!

BT tried that one on me, CT. I told them there were other service providers...they gave me what I wanted! Simples!

I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Strangely hand-tinted, but you can still see what it is. And it's described as circa 1960s.

A good example of how dexterous the non-dominant hand can be is playing the guitar. I'm left handed, but my right hand does all the work - opposite if you're right handed !! -weird.

I rode a Granville bike for the CO-OP Ben, like you say no gears & bleddy hard work too.

I managed Marsdens High street Long Eaton in 1966.............and every morning we would deliver several sorts of Bacon and Cheeses to Grange Farm by the Granville bike,....with basket on the front always full............and it was ridden by a girl aged 15 which was very rare to see.(in fact never saw another).........even remember her name Sandra Domleo........it was probably 3 to 4 miles round trip and them granvilles wer'nt easy to handle no gears or owt,.........but young Sandra could handle it. Can't imagine many young girls today doing it..........bless her........

Exactly CT, VM have a dedicated retentions department set up to offer customers a sweeter deal IF they threaten to leave or even ask. Loyalty doesn't matter anymore from large companies, AA, RAC & Insurance companies just send a renewal with a price hike because they know full well that many will just carry on paying without question, strangely many people don't exactly know how much they are paying out each month for goods & services just taking it on the chin every month not realising how much they are actually paying.

I've just had the opposite. I got a renewal email from BT for broadband and landline. I didn't automatically accept it; instead I looked at the numbers and realised I was paying more than I thought. So I rang them and said I want a different, better tariff. With virtually no delay they came back with a much improved deal and I am now paying around £18 per month (approx £200 a year) less..... and getting more services for it ( including mobile, which wasn't previously with them). Moral. Don't automatically accept renewals.

Recieved phone call this morning from the QMC eye dept, can you be here this saturday ? Yes, no problem says I. Is it for the urgent refferal appointment I've been waiting for ? No she says, we should have gave you an appointment back in March, 3 months after your laser surgery but yo got missed off the list ! Ah well.

Or working as a tattooist

Don't take up men's hairdressing then Ben !

I don't trust 'free Wi-fi'. There's no free lunch. Watch you don't get hacked.

Wages just don't keep up with inflation...........interesting what i heard Jeremy Corbyn say the other day...........inflation 2.5 %.........and they have offered Police and the like 1%..............then found a job offer in my 'Sentimental old tat' in the garage..from.....1993,..............position as Store Detective £8.95 per hour,...............have recently turned down offers (2017) for same job at £8 per hour..............,ie 24 years later !!!..........makes ya think don't it..........

Jill, we were probably sitting at the next table. I know it was 1977 because Derek Randall was in just before going to Oz to play in the Centenary Test. By the bye, yo lot weren't arf mekkin a racket! PS: just noticed Jill that I've made one more post than you've had "likes"

If you needed a haircut in our house, mam would say, if you don't get it cut soon, someone will stick a violin in your hand.

Just an aside, My mrs is Russian and is a teacher. She is now... after much difficulty in getting past the authorities. There is a Citizenship test which is quite expensive. My mrs failed it the first time. They gave her a DVD which you could put on the computer to prepare you for the test. I am English, born in Nottingham, an ex-military officer and a published military historian. I think I qualify as a UK Citizen. I failed the test three times. Basically it was full of things that unless you are from a certain community you would not know. I do not know the proporti

My great grandparents kept that pub about 100 years ago. Apparently they opened up at the crack of dawn every day so the miners could lubricate their throats after the night shift. When my Great Grandad passed away his wife had to leave the pub as (so I've been told) women were not allowed to be licencees. She then moved to Long Eaton and had a 'beer-off' ........ wouldn't that be the same as running a pub? I'm sure someone will be able to answer that.

Bugger all mate,if they did get charged some loony left pc clown would say it's unfair because they are a minority and they are being victimised Rog

It fascinates me that they all die in alphabetical order?

When I told my teenage grandson that I was born in the Meadows he whistled respectfully and said, 'Cool!' I`m a bit ashamed to say that I swaggered a little. I wonder what he was imagining.............