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  1. Soz, It has been a few weeks of events and recovery from my Op and infection plus....Guess what...Bloomin Covid in hospital. I haven't felt up to it. BUT, I have been keeping my eye on you all.
    10 points
  2. Well I failed to get out of washing up and housework again. Today married for 55 years , so there was a pair of emerald earrings waiting for her this morning then a meal out at lunchtime . But I am reliably informed I am expected to carry out my normal tasks, please can I lose my tea towel and duster for one day , poor hard done to me.
    6 points
  3. Good to see you back carni, hope you and your other half are coping OK with your health problems. I often think of you both xx
    2 points
  4. Great to see you posting Carni, take things easy and listen to master he wants you back to normal soon, as well as Birds, their profits are down.
    1 point
  5. Carni...welcome back First post for a while !
    1 point
  6. Watched Episode 1 of Sherwood. Very slow to start (was thinking "so what is it about?" after about half an hour). Then someone whose favourite tipple was a pint of mixed (is that still a thing?) was shot with a bolt from a crossbow, with the hackneyed 'half the cast had a motive' plotline. I was struggling to decide when it is supposed to be set: I saw one of the youngsters with a smartphone with three cameras (fairly recent?) and mention of social media. However, the police set up a temporary investigations room (in a chapel?) with not a laptop or mobile phone in sight. Just a map of
    1 point
  7. When I passed my test in 1960 I was told I drove a little too slowly. Never did since then but have never been caught. Now I drive like the old people I used to curse!
    1 point
  8. I don’t think motorists are generally driving any slower. I have always hated those that drive at 32mph in a 40 limit and am sure that most people think that 60mph is the limit on dual carriageways. I just zoom past them in my little Fiat500 at 70.
    1 point
  9. My godmother was a hairdresser and can always remember her purple rinse hairdo. Also that you never went anywhere near her when she had a pair of scissors in her hand. Edward Scissor Hands had nothing on her! David Sheridan, what does a Belgian refugee look like? I’ve never heard that term before. Are they from the old Belgian Congo?
    1 point
  10. My barber doesn't cut hair any longer, he's a dab hand at cutting it shorter though!
    1 point
  11. Still there. https://goo.gl/maps/FeZJoJ68vCibBDUn8
    1 point
  12. Here's one my dad used to tell me "Piggy on the railway picking up stones," "Down came an engine and broke Piggy's bone's " ""R said Piggy That's not fair"" ""RR said the engine I don't care"" or maybe 2 There was a man called Michael Finnegan He grew wiskers on his chinigan The wind came out and blew them in-again poor old Michael Finnegan
    1 point
  13. Twas a fine October morning in April last July. The sun lay thick upon the ground the snow shone in the sky. The flowers were singing sweetly the birds were in full bloom. As I went down the cellar steps to sweep the attic room.
    1 point
  14. Yesterday, upon the stair I met a man who wasn't there! He wasn't there again today. Oh, how I wish he'd go away! All good fun!
    1 point
  15. well up until 1991 there were 27 barmaids: Concepta Riley Nona Lewis Doreen Lostock Irma Ogden Lucille Hewitt Hilda Ogden Emily nugent Betty Turpin Bet Lynch Blanche Hunt Gail Potter Dawn Perks Arlene Jones Diane Hawkins Carole Fairbanks Suzie Birchall Kathy Goodwin Gloria Todd Noreen Barnett Sally Seddon Margot Richardson Vera Duckworth Sandra Stubbs Tina Fowler Meagan Morgan Liz Mcdonald Angie Freeman and up to 2004, 54 in total [including a couple of fellas] which doesn't include all the landlords & ladies who also worked the bar. Caz I need a large drink
    1 point
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