Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.

[Horse]

Selsey. Where the road through the town ends, by the car park.

Do you live in Selsey? A friend of mine moved there about 10 years ago and really likes the place. He works at Selsey Press.

Nope, weekend away.

I'd just had the Chiari diagnosis and was anticipating surgery later that year, so we took a few short breaks rather than plan, then have to cancel, a longer holiday.

That was Feb 2019. Surgery ended up being in Aug 2020 (after second and third opinions, then a fourth consultant did the op).

[Mr. Dazzle]

One of the best 'side benefits' of having children is getting to play in the park and stuff like that

Baby D insisted I have a go on the zip line too, honestly. They've refilled the wood chippings, so I only just made it...

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[cheb]

I've a picture of me somewhere stuck halfway down a slide, sat properly upright.

And it's properly called a death slide, not a zip wire.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Death Slides are way more 80s/90s HSE violations n'est ce pas?

https://www.shortlist.com/news/what-hap ... slides/amp

[cheb]

OK, a mild peril slide.

[Yorick]

Just bought some strawberries. Not seen them in shops for ages

[Jody]

Not only have my favourite group of the whole year come to stay. 2 of the 11 people like to tip in advance, the chef and I got €300 each last night !!

[Whysub]

An actual MotoX event near me-only found out when I visited the local KTM dealer this afternoon.

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Seems to be a decent track too.

(Crevillent is 35 kms south west of Alicante)

[Mussels]

My car flashed up a big red warning last night saying 'DPF full, visit dealer'
Looking online the red warning can only be cleared by a dealer forcing a regen and a Jag dealer is likely to go straight for an expensive replacement. I spent a tenner on a bottle of DPF cleaner in Halfords this morning and twenty minutes later the fault had cleared.

[Yorick]

One of me old pals who used to be an Ops manager for Focused Events was on a little jolly with his young lady along from his home on South Spanish coast.

This morning, out of the blue she proposed to him (29th)

They got married at 1:00 and now in a posh hotel for their honeymoon

Go Barry

[Taipan]

[Jody]

Guests have departed, leaving us €600 tip each and some very nice comments in the visitors book.

We have several days off now.

It's snowing !

[Taipan]

Guests have departed, leaving us €600 tip each and some very nice comments in the visitors book.

We have several days off now.

It's snowing !

Your life seems like a snowy version of Below Deck!

[mangocrazy]

Finally getting round to digitising the first vinyl album I ever bought - the Rolling Stones 'Between the Buttons'.

I bought this album as a teenager in 1967, the first one I'd ever bought with my own money, and absolutely played it to death for the next year or so; probably two or three times a day for well over a year. Consequently I knew it upside down, back to front and inside out. Then all of a sudden I started buying a lot more albums and this one got pushed to the back of the pile and stayed there. But for a certain period of my life when I was like a sponge, soaking up new sounds, this album was front and centre.

So listening to it again on modern equipment over 50 years later was weird. It was like a time capsule, transporting me back to sitting in my parents living room, playing it on their radiogram (remember them?) Back then I thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Listening to it now I still have enormous affection for it, but you realise just how '60s' the production values were (Stereo was still a really new thing) and it struck me how 'English' sounding most of the tracks were. It has to be the closest thing to a Kinks album the Stones ever recorded. It also had a really amusing cartoon (drawn by Charlie Watts) on the back cover. You'd never see that again on a Stones album.

Next stop - digitising 'Let it Bleed' and 'Sticky Fingers'...

[gremlin]

Remember that thing you used to do at school, when you'd ask the rhetorical question, 'What's got two thumbs and can >insert action here<?' and then point both thumbs back towards yourself with a smug smile?

Imagine me doing it now when I say 'What's got two thumbs, can still get a bone on and still spaff his load, post prostate surgery when i was told it was very unlikely?'

I know. Gross, but I'm feeling quite pleased and relieved, even though since my vasectomy many years ago it's served no practical purpose.

[Horse]

(Stereo was still a really new thing)

I have a Move album with some tracks in mono.

[gremlin]

Just bought some strawberries. Not seen them in shops for ages

I've been looking for a camouflage jacket in my local shops but can't see one anywhere...

[Yorick]

Just bought some strawberries. Not seen them in shops for ages

I've been looking for a camouflage jacket in my local shops but can't see one anywhere...

You'll find these Hiviz ones

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[Horse]

Just bought some strawberries. Not seen them in shops for ages

I've been looking for a camouflage jacket in my local shops but can't see one anywhere...

You'll find these Hiviz ones

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Apparently deer see orange as grey, so these are available:

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[gremlin]

What are available?