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  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,506
    Clean break
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,506

  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,166
    WTF? Is it a mix of cream soda and cola, Rob? 
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,506
    Algarveaddick said:
    WTF? Is it a mix of cream soda and cola, Rob? 
    Yeah. Taste like the old ice cream floats we used to do as kids. Coke with a lump of ice cream in it 👌
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,166
    The missus suggesting that I get the National Express up from Ringwood for the Watford game while she looks after her mum... Bless her!  
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,423
    Building this in a year🤷‍♂️


  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,051
    Killarahales said:
    Lying in bed, looking forward to my first non-working day tomorrow, having just retired 😊
    I hope you are doing something memorable to mark the day @Killarahales. Don't be like my mate who I saw a couple of months after his retirement:
    Me: What've you been up to?
    Him: Oh nothing much, just watching Father Brown, you know.
    Me: No, I don't know!
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,982
    Killarahales said:
    Lying in bed, looking forward to my first non-working day tomorrow, having just retired 😊
    First thing I did on my first day of what transpired to be my retirement, was go to the garden centre and sign up for a 'friends' card for a 10% discount on anything, but mainly the café. The most old persony thing I've ever done.
    I consoled myself that, centre employees aside, there was nobody in the cafe I couldn't beat in a fight. Three years later, that remains the case, though the gap is closing fast.
    Mrs Idle (who still works) and I have brunch there almost every Monday. It's nice to have some structure to your week. I haven't been bored for a moment since I stopped working. 
    Whatever you do, enjoy it! 
  • Killarahales
    Killarahales Posts: 1,060
    Stig said:
    Killarahales said:
    Lying in bed, looking forward to my first non-working day tomorrow, having just retired 😊
    I hope you are doing something memorable to mark the day @Killarahales. Don't be like my mate who I saw a couple of months after his retirement:
    Me: What've you been up to?
    Him: Oh nothing much, just watching Father Brown, you know.
    Me: No, I don't know!
    Went early and had a couple of dozen oysters, washed down with a bottle of Muscadet (with my girlfriend) at the weekend. This week is all about Wimbledon and the cricket, with centre court tickets on Sunday! But I do have some more interesting plans other than watching other people do stuff.

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  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,982
    Killarahales said:
    Stig said:
    Killarahales said:
    Lying in bed, looking forward to my first non-working day tomorrow, having just retired 😊
    I hope you are doing something memorable to mark the day @Killarahales. Don't be like my mate who I saw a couple of months after his retirement:
    Me: What've you been up to?
    Him: Oh nothing much, just watching Father Brown, you know.
    Me: No, I don't know!
    Went early and had a couple of dozen oysters, washed down with a bottle of Muscadet (with my girlfriend) at the weekend. This week is all about Wimbledon and the cricket, with centre court tickets on Sunday! But I do have some more interesting plans other than watching other people do stuff.
    Spot on! It's such a luxury to have time to do what you want without worrying about time off work and all that crap. I had lots of weeks and weekends away that first summer, either with Mrs or with mates, and it was fantastic. It's tailed off only slightly now, due to having to do the house up for sale. Then we'll move and start again.
  • gringo
    gringo Posts: 600
    I notice that roughly double the number of Charlton fans,  are positive and able to find things that please them, rather than those posting negative opinions!.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,166
    Being accosted by a young Portuguese chap in the supermarket cafe this morning on seeing my Charlton shirt. He asked me if the club shop would export to Portugal, and then went on to tell me he used to play FIFA or somesuch video game as Charlton back in 2004-ish. He obviously wasn't an avid follower, as he didn't know we got promoted this year, but I'll take it...  :)  
  • Valley Ant
    Valley Ant Posts: 469
    The "General things that annoy you thread".
    I do like a good moan.
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,902
    The weather today.

    Dull, overcast, rain on & off. So much better than the last few days of heat and humidity.

    Hopefully, a good night's kip under the duvet tonight, rather than on top of it.
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,693
    The 106 year old man who has put his longevity down to a daily helping of custard.

    This is a fact that I have known since childhood.  My mum used to serve custard for afters seven days a week.  We'd have it with rhubarb crumble, apple pie, tins of mixed fruit, stewed apples, tinned apricots/pears in fact you name it ... On a Sunday we'd have ice cream and custard ... the creme de la creme.

    I recall my dear departed child bride presenting me with a very nice first dinner after we married in 1976.  I also remember the conversation turning  distinctly frosty when i asked her what was for afters?  "Afters?" she said.  "what do you mean?"  "Oh you know" I said, "Something with custard".

    In the next few nano seconds it became abundantly clear that this practice was to be stopped forthwith.  It was also suggested that there was an opportunity for me to return to my mothers house and home.

    Anyway, using the negotiating skills of Kofi Annan I managed to avoid a one way ticket back to mum's house, but not even Kofi Annan could convince my new bride to put custard on the menu  :/



     (It was Pearce Duffs for me). 


  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,884
    Raith_C_Chattonell said:
    The 106 year old man who has put his longevity down to a daily helping of custard.

    This is a fact that I have known since childhood.  My mum used to serve custard for afters seven days a week.  We'd have it with rhubarb crumble, apple pie, tins of mixed fruit, stewed apples, tinned apricots/pears in fact you name it ... On a Sunday we'd have ice cream and custard ... the creme de la creme.

    I recall my dear departed child bride presenting me with a very nice first dinner after we married in 1976.  I also remember the conversation turning  distinctly frosty when i asked her what was for afters?  "Afters?" she said.  "what do you mean?"  "Oh you know" I said, "Something with custard".

    In the next few nano seconds it became abundantly clear that this practice was to be stopped forthwith.  It was also suggested that there was an opportunity for me to return to my mothers house and home.

    Anyway, using the negotiating skills of Kofi Annan I managed to avoid a one way ticket back to mum's house, but not even Kofi Annan could convince my new bride to put custard on the menu  :/



     (It was Pearce Duffs for me). 


    Not another custard thread. At least you ate it I suppose.
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,979
    Ludovico Einaudi
    Finally got to see him in concert on Thursday. Absolutely superb. 
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,423
    My head is now in a place where it remembers to take a little “me time” 🙏

  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,443
    edited July 5
    I just regassed my own car's air con using a kit off eBay for £17.99

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  • gringo
    gringo Posts: 600
    tightwad!
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,979
    Monty Don. 70 today but still on my ‘would ya?’ list. 
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,615
    Arsenetatters said:
    Monty Don. 70 today but still on my ‘would ya?’ list. 
    He'd keep your bush nice and trim
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,756
    DaveMehmet said:
    Arsenetatters said:
    Monty Don. 70 today but still on my ‘would ya?’ list. 
    He'd keep your bush nice and trim

    That’s something that pleases me.

     
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,705
    DaveMehmet said:
    Arsenetatters said:
    Monty Don. 70 today but still on my ‘would ya?’ list. 
    He'd keep your bush nice and trim
    She probably wants her allotment cultivated.
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,979
    jimmymelrose said:
    DaveMehmet said:
    Arsenetatters said:
    Monty Don. 70 today but still on my ‘would ya?’ list. 
    He'd keep your bush nice and trim

    That’s something that pleases me.

     
    What, my bush? 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,975
    Gribbo said:

    Had one the other day - really nice!  Bang on that it's like a coke float, perfect for summer.
  • CharltonKerry
    CharltonKerry Posts: 2,963
    On a cruise just off Norwegian coast and not quiet in the artic circle yet, just seen a large whale slapping his tail and showing off for around 5 minutes, awaiting to try to find out what kind it was from the expert on board got a tal in half hour. Always wanted to see that, but never thought I would. Fantastic show might have been two as it could be part of there mating ritual. 
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,384
    We took our daughters to the open day of a girls' secondary school in Surrey on Friday. We were shown around by two Year 8 students who were the absolute highlight of the experience. They were bright, confident and chatty and clearly loved their school. 

    I had to laugh. If they let the Year 8s from my school do the tours, it would have been a disaster. They'd have been showing the parents the best graffiti and telling them which teachers were wankers. 
  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,443
    That story about that CEO cheating on his wife with the head of HR at a Coldplay concert has generated some great internet content.

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