Beefsteak
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I'd love to know which local lake was now a few European Carp light! (cause they sure as hell couldn't buy 8-10 pounders wholesale for less than 20 quid each)
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Just had a massive thunderstorm directly overhead. I went out to get a picture of the Rainbow that was forming , it took me that little bit longer as I had to change lens.
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Just seen this
http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/article/22225/Visiting-Nottingham-Castle
And thought of you!! (Shame it's not next weekend!)
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Nah, Lady Isabel Barnett was always Robbing
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I have loads of good tips , most of them sharpened, and they involve doing drastic things to rude people with said sharp tips!
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Before heading to the seaside for your holidays carefully dismantle your green house and take it with you, reassemble on the beach , turn it upside down, voila a glass bottomed boat!
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No need to apologize.
From personal experience if you're driving at 56 and come up behind another doing 55.5 mph you have less wind in your face and therefore you have to overtake 'cause if you sit in behind him you are constantly going up and down the revs and gears so as not to smack into the back of him thus using more fuel, and at 8 miles to the gallon it works out rather expensive
Hope that helps
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Well done!
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I take it you've never driven a wagon and had a tight schedule to adhere to then?
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Never wipe your ar53 with a broken bottle.
I must admit that one or two of those ideas were really good, some were a load of baloney too ............LOL
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Wasn't lecturing you Beefsteak !
Didn't sound like it !!
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We had a lad on (When I helped run entertainments at Catchems Corner Basford) Who's stage name was "Stormy Tempest"
It's Beefsteak by the way.
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If we were telling fibs Mum would make us say "Black pudding, black pudding" 10 times very fast with out laughing, if we started to smirk (Every time without fail) she knew we were telling porkies!
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Now surely you're not claiming that "Chewing gum for the eyes" is a 'sport' and thus an achievement for the once great Aussie nation are you ?
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Just to set the record straight for you Catfan, I have spent the best part of the past 30 years behind the wheel driving for my living and notching up nigh on 2,000,000 miles in the process, so I don't need lecturing by you on "Rules of the road" and the highway code, thank you.!!
If you had read my post properly and not truncated it as you did when you quoted it you would have seen it was a RANT, and my opening 2 comments clearly covered what I was meaning!
Anybody doing 30 in a 60 limit is forcing other normal road users to take unnecessary risks, end of. (By the way , that road I'm talking of is the main route from Northwich and the surrounds to Leighton Hospital , Crewe (Our hospital) and as such should be a fast road to allow fast passage for ambulances, but no, you still see Sidney and his pal Dolly (Complete with sticker in the back windscreen saying "My other hat is a balaclava" ) trundling along at 30 mph whilst all and sundry queue up behind them!
I know the speed LIMIT is there for a reason and as such it should be obeyed and not seen as a challenge, as it is by many a boy racer (And one or two older ones too) but there should also be a mandatory minimum speed limit on trunk roads.
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Still kept the open fire regardless of putting gas fire central heating in when we bought the house , as opposed to the coal fired which was in place when we bought it, I insisted we kept the open fire for just the reasons we have it for now ie roasting Chestnuts and toasting Marsh Mallows at Christmas and New Year.
Still got some logs left from the trees our neighbours had chopped down a couple of years back (Enough for this year and next) and I can get a right good blaze going with them.
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A Double result today!
I've just bought a 600 metres spool of new Maxima Chameleon fishing line to load my new reel, bought it through an Amazon discount finder site that I got from a Martin Lewis' "Money Saving Expert" email a year or so back. Normally around 16 quid for a 600 metre spool of the type I use + postage, I got this for £5.56 including postage!
The parcel turned up today, it was massive ! I opened it to find 6000 metres . Ah well, it'll keep me going for a few years .......LOL
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I don't normally comment on these kinds of posts (A mate of mine is always ranting on Face Book about bad drivers) But just this once I shall.
Every single one of us makes mistakes when we're driving, some of us are far worse than others, and it's usually the ones amongst us who do the most ranting that are the guiltiest !
E.G. I drive down to Crewe from here quite regularly. The speed limit is "National Speed restrictions apply" meaning most of the 10 mile trip it is 60 mph, I don't think I've been able to make the (What should be) 10 minute trip in less than 20, 'cause I always come up behind some twit doing 30 to 40, now I'm then forced to make an unnecessary maneuver and overtake them. These are the people who then sit there and say to Dolly in the passenger seat, "Look at this idiot, what speed does he think he's doing?" ETC
Also these idiots are forcing you to use more fuel as you can't get into higher gears and keep your revs down !
Rant over
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Must admit to loving an American expression I heard on some 'cop show' recently , and one I've pinched , "I'm going to slap the taste right outta your mouth"
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Pie, chips and beans on a Wednesday in Ches Beefsteak, as we all go swimming today and it's something quick and easy.
I get them off the pie counter in Morrisons on a Sunday (4 for 85 p, but that's another story)
This week it was Chicken and Leek wedges for SWMBO and I, Cheese and Onion pastie for Adam and our Charlotte had a Chicken, Leek and Bacon pastie. 25 p tin of Morrisons Baked Beans, and £1.50's worth of chips, voila meal for 4 for £2.35 !!
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It's a strange thing re the Aberfan disaster, I feel a strange affinity to the dead as they were my generation that was wiped out by it, and I well remember the services we had at school to commemorate the dead.
I used to pass the village regularly in the 2000s as I did a lot of work at Merthyr Tydfyll and avoided the by pass to have a looksee once. Wow!! is all I can say, it was raining and everything in the graveyard appeared to be weeping in memory of those kids and teachers.
I always have a feeling of "There but for the grace of god go I" when I think of the Pantglass School dsaster
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Re Alisons post at #43 (And nothing to brag about I know) but I once won a bet regarding eating a "family bucket" of Kentucky Fried Chicken,
Just after the one on Parliament Street opened I was 'on the town' with a few work mates and the subject of KFC and the lack of meat on their portions came up, I'd said that there was less meat on their biggest pieces than in out local chippy and i could probably eat a BB all in one go! The bet was I had to eat it all ! I ate the chicken ok but I saw the looks the mates who had bet me were giving each other. Knowing they weren't going to pay up, I then started eating the bones too! at which point they payed up, in their hurry to 'distance' themselves from me they failed to notice I hadn't eaten the (Now very cold) chips !
PS 10 quid was a lot of money back in 1978!
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Oy Compo, that's what I put in #11 Ya copy cat..................................
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Now that's clutching at straws just a tad !!
As the commentary says "Canada have only scored 1 in their last ten matches, and even lost to 150th placed Mauritania last month !" It's a bit like the Ukrainians thinking they won the world cup cause they beat San Marino last night!
Games people play.
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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I think you have the wrong game there Marion!
Cu can is played with two packs and is like Rummy with 10 cards. You have to make up 'sets' of two 'four of a kind' or two '4 card runs' and a three set including the 'thinker'
It's very hard to explain how to play it but it's very easy to pick up.
It's played for "The game" and so much "Per Pip" ie '5p the game and penny a pip'
You payed out on what you had left in your hand that wasn't part of 'a set'
Nobody over here knows how to play it, the closest to it is a game they call "Nap" (short for Napoleon") and that sounds a bit like the one you've described.
We used to have a 'school' in the Meadow Club before Notts home games, '10p the game and twopence a spot' The most you could lose being around a quid! (Which was quite a bit in those days)
Perhaps the biggest school used to be in the local Liberal snooker club after a night out down The Arriba or the likes.We'd head back there and play till the sun came up ,(Which is pretty late in winter!) We used to play for 25 p a pip !!! We had a game on Christmas eve one year, playing till 8 in the morning (6 hours) at the end we totaled up who had one what, two were dead level, one was 25p up another 25p down (Bet you can't guess who was the loser!?