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Taipan wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 1:30 pm

dern wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:31 pm Tribute bands... there is nothing more tragic.

Years ago we saw a George Michael tribute act. Didnt know he was going to be there, it was just a thing this restaurant did on fridays. Some fat bloke with quiffy hair, a biker jacket and mirrored sunglasses came out and started to sing and sounded nothing like GM. It seemed it was only me that found it side splitingly hilarious as everyone else loved him!

Jody wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:19 pm

Noggin wrote: Sat Feb 18, 2023 5:43 pm I'm teaching myself to drink coffee (in certain places) here, but now also trying to teach myself to drink said coffee without sugar

But I do miss a good cup of tea, but since I got back from rehab in July, I've had about 2 mugs of Yorkshire - it just doesn't taste the same anymore

Tea does have more caffine than coffee, but only by weight raw, not by cup !

Noggin wrote: Wed Mar 08, 2023 7:42 pm Probably getting done for proper speeding this morning

Totally my own fault. I know the camera is there and that the limit in the tunnel is 70kph

I got distracted. Was probably too tired to be driving anyway TBH, but I was driving to a course and had left resort at 5.45am - just before the tunnel I realised the was not much fuel in the minibus, so I was trying to find the bit of the display that gives an idea of how far the fuel will take me and then trying to work out the next possible quick pit stop point. As I realised I was doing 90kph, I also realised I had gone past the camera.

The only small hope I have is that I didn't see a flash. And that one is proper bright (probably cos its in a tunnel!!!) so I'm certain sure that I would have noticed the flash in the wing mirror. But I won't be sure for a few weeks

Stupid bloody woman!! Mind, at that speed, they'll do everything they can to help me exchange my licence

If it;s the one just outside Moutiers? Then you will not nessaceralily see the flash, I know this, because of..... reasons

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:57 pm Pretty sure gremlin mentioned this last year and I'm pretty sure I did too, but...

Those little bastard caterpillars who eat all your box hedge! Just given my front garden it's annual spring haircut. I know the lavender will be in rude health by summer and my front path will be Beethrow airport....but the lovely backdrop, which was just getting to perfect topiary stage, is now a display of sticks.

Bloody immigrants, coming over here and eating my foliage. Its enough to make you vote Brexit.

Yorick wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:09 pm

Taipan wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 1:30 pm

dern wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:31 pm Tribute bands... there is nothing more tragic.

Years ago we saw a George Michael tribute act. Didnt know he was going to be there, it was just a thing this restaurant did on fridays. Some fat bloke with quiffy hair, a biker jacket and mirrored sunglasses came out and started to sing and sounded nothing like GM. It seemed it was only me that found it side splitingly hilarious as everyone else loved him!

Was it you?

dern wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:16 pm

Taipan wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 1:30 pm

dern wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:31 pm Tribute bands... there is nothing more tragic.

Years ago we saw a George Michael tribute act. Didnt know he was going to be there, it was just a thing this restaurant did on fridays. Some fat bloke with quiffy hair, a biker jacket and mirrored sunglasses came out and started to sing and sounded nothing like GM. It seemed it was only me that found it side splitingly hilarious as everyone else loved him!

There was a Coldplay tribute act at a campsite my wife booked for us in France a few years back. They managed to be just as insipid and banal as the real thing. Completely baffling.

Taipan wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 7:06 pm

dern wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:16 pm

Taipan wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 1:30 pm

Years ago we saw a George Michael tribute act. Didnt know he was going to be there, it was just a thing this restaurant did on fridays. Some fat bloke with quiffy hair, a biker jacket and mirrored sunglasses came out and started to sing and sounded nothing like GM. It seemed it was only me that found it side splitingly hilarious as everyone else loved him!

There was a Coldplay tribute act at a campsite my wife booked for us in France a few years back. They managed to be just as insipid and banal as the real thing. Completely baffling.

Coldplay in any form is best avoided! Chris Martin is as bad a live singer as Bowie, and that's bad, double bad!

cheb wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 7:36 pm

Taipan wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 7:06 pm

dern wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:16 pm

There was a Coldplay tribute act at a campsite my wife booked for us in France a few years back. They managed to be just as insipid and banal as the real thing. Completely baffling.

Coldplay in any form is best avoided! Chris Martin is as bad a live singer as Bowie, and that's bad, double bad!

I read that last sentence as Cosplay, that's probably best avoided too.

dern wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:31 pm Tribute bands... there is nothing more tragic.

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:57 pm Pretty sure gremlin mentioned this last year and I'm pretty sure I did too, but...

Those little bastard caterpillars who eat all your box hedge! Just given my front garden it's annual spring haircut. I know the lavender will be in rude health by summer and my front path will be Beethrow airport....but the lovely backdrop, which was just getting to perfect topiary stage, is now a display of sticks.

Bloody immigrants, coming over here and eating my foliage. Its enough to make you vote Brexit.

Mussels wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 3:24 pm
Talking of hedges I'm fed up with my bamboo. It was meant to form a hedge at the back but two years on the trot it's died back at the end of winter, I'll be buying some laurel then.

gremlin wrote: Mon Mar 20, 2023 10:00 am

Mussels wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 3:24 pm
Talking of hedges I'm fed up with my bamboo. It was meant to form a hedge at the back but two years on the trot it's died back at the end of winter, I'll be buying some laurel then.

Re bamboo, mine (black bamboo and gold bamboo) is looking very unhealthy at present. I suspect it may have been the really hot weather last year. I reckon a good feed and plenty of rain will perk it up over the next few weeks.

Which bamboo have you got?

Mussels wrote: Mon Mar 20, 2023 10:08 am

gremlin wrote: Mon Mar 20, 2023 10:00 am

Mussels wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 3:24 pm
Talking of hedges I'm fed up with my bamboo. It was meant to form a hedge at the back but two years on the trot it's died back at the end of winter, I'll be buying some laurel then.

Re bamboo, mine (black bamboo and gold bamboo) is looking very unhealthy at present. I suspect it may have been the really hot weather last year. I reckon a good feed and plenty of rain will perk it up over the next few weeks.

Which bamboo have you got?

Some different types but all fast growers in large planters, I suspect some need dividing and repotting. This was intended to screen our garden from the neighbour up the hill so it isn't going to do that very well if it loses its leaves regularly, even without losing leaves it doesn't grow as thick as I'd like for that job.
I'll keep the bamboo but not as a hedge.

gremlin wrote: Fri Mar 17, 2023 12:22 pm My back. I herniated a disc a few years back. Had a big ol' injection into the back and I fair skipped out of the hospital. However, Captain Age occasionally likes to remind me that I'm not as mendable as I once was.

Today is one of those days. Circuit class this morning, doing 'rockets', which are innocuous enough, when all of a sudden...POP! There she blows. Fucking agony.

Currently sat in my home office having taken ibuprofen and co-codamol, with an ice pack on my lower back. Pain down the front of my left leg, so I know it's impacting the sciatic nerve. Fuck-sticks.

If it gets worse I'm crying off sick and necking a few Tramadol. Away with the fairies for the rest of the afternoon.

gremlin wrote: Mon Mar 20, 2023 10:20 am

gremlin wrote: Fri Mar 17, 2023 12:22 pm My back. I herniated a disc a few years back. Had a big ol' injection into the back and I fair skipped out of the hospital. However, Captain Age occasionally likes to remind me that I'm not as mendable as I once was.

Today is one of those days. Circuit class this morning, doing 'rockets', which are innocuous enough, when all of a sudden...POP! There she blows. Fucking agony.

Currently sat in my home office having taken ibuprofen and co-codamol, with an ice pack on my lower back. Pain down the front of my left leg, so I know it's impacting the sciatic nerve. Fuck-sticks.

If it gets worse I'm crying off sick and necking a few Tramadol. Away with the fairies for the rest of the afternoon.

Fuck m, I'm in bits with this. Only relief I can get is walking. Sitting is painful, standing is painful, laying in bed is painful. Fuck all sleep, co-codamol has bunged me up and the Tramadol leaves me dribbling.

gremlin wrote: Mon Mar 20, 2023 10:20 am

gremlin wrote: Fri Mar 17, 2023 12:22 pm My back. I herniated a disc a few years back. Had a big ol' injection into the back and I fair skipped out of the hospital. However, Captain Age occasionally likes to remind me that I'm not as mendable as I once was.

Today is one of those days. Circuit class this morning, doing 'rockets', which are innocuous enough, when all of a sudden...POP! There she blows. Fucking agony.

Currently sat in my home office having taken ibuprofen and co-codamol, with an ice pack on my lower back. Pain down the front of my left leg, so I know it's impacting the sciatic nerve. Fuck-sticks.

If it gets worse I'm crying off sick and necking a few Tramadol. Away with the fairies for the rest of the afternoon.

Fuck m, I'm in bits with this. Only relief I can get is walking. Sitting is painful, standing is painful, laying in bed is painful. Fuck all sleep, co-codamol has bunged me up and the Tramadol leaves me dribbling.

Cousin Jack wrote: Mon Mar 20, 2023 9:36 am Little % bar charts telling you how much longer you will need to wait for an update to do it's stuff,

FFS, why are they so fxxxing useless. I have no idea what they measure (if anything) but it most certainly is not the time until it is done. I have just watched one that leapt from zero to about 30%, stepped up smartly at 5% intervals to 60%, then crawled at 1% intervals to about 80, and then jumped to 100% and stayed there, still thinking about stuff for an age.

gremlin wrote: Mon Mar 20, 2023 10:20 am Fuck m, I'm in bits with this. Only relief I can get is walking. Sitting is painful, standing is painful, laying in bed is painful. Fuck all sleep, co-codamol has bunged me up and the Tramadol leaves me dribbling.