philmayfield
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You won’t believe this but for the second time today, this time when I was buying wine from the farm shop, I was once again asked ‘if I was doing anything exciting’. Is this becoming a common form of greeting or do I look like an elderly ‘action man’?
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Thanks but I’ve done lots of track days. Until recently I had a Lotus 111S which I bought for my 70th birthday present to myself and I used to go to Cadwell Park. It was getting a little difficult to get in and out of though so it had to go!
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More exciting than my day!
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Awaiting hip transplant so that one's out, sorry!
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What's exciting about that? The chap drops the papers in a box in the village and my wife collects our copy and then gossips on her way back home.
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I’ve just been to the newsagent’s at Lowdham to pay for my paper delivery and the the owner asked me if I was doing ‘anything exciting’ this weekend. It made me think ‘when was the last time I did anything exciting’? It must have been years ago. I’m now actively looking for excitement. Any suggestions? Obviously ‘womanising’ is out of the question!
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I go to bed listening to an ‘intellectual’ programme on Radio 4 with the timer set for one hour. Five minutes of ‘intellectual’ and I’m sound asleep.
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I consider sleep to be the ‘natural’ state. Being awake and facing the day is usually a pain in the backside!
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12 hours ago, Jill Sparrow said:
Do you make your own jam as well?
My wife informs me that they don’t sing ‘Jerusalem’ at the village WI meetings. Maybe since the piano was sold!
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"Jerusalem". The answer to every question the hymn asks is 'no'!
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“Andrew’s Liver Salts”. I knew someone who took Andrew’s Liver salts twice a day all of his life. When he passed away they had to beat his liver to death with a stick.
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We came past the Little Chef at Markham Moor yesterday, the listed building with geometric roof, and it’s recently reopened as a Starbucks.
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Strangely the Empire Cafe was owned by Armitages the pet food people. I wonder what went in the sandwiches?
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I once went to a Chartered Accountants’ annual dinner at the Royal where there was a bread roll throwing incident during a boring speech. It showed that accountants are not as stuffy as is generally thought. I was not one of the miscreants I hasten to add.
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Yes, I second that. It all comes back now!
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I do remember the walkway and I've dined in an upstairs restaurant there but I need a photograph to jog my memory some more.
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Bloody Sherry?
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You’re right it is closed.
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It's still there and now called the Pulman. It was a conversion of the old railway station building.
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Someday your plinth will come.
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Well according to a Berni menu I’ve just found, in decimal coinage a small glass was 12p and a schooner was 18p so that wouldn’t tie in with the volumes you quote. Just being pedantic!
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From which UK authority are you quoting?
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Yes, I gather a schooner might be two clippers but nowhere can I find a volumetric definition of either. It’s purely an academic question now as I’m unlikely to drink from either but I really would like to know.
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How about ‘Bullshit’?
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Anything exciting?
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Can’t ‘womanise’ with a bad leg! Still waiting for a hip doner.