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Yorick wrote: Sun Jul 17, 2022 7:44 pm

gremlin wrote: Sun Jul 17, 2022 7:35 pm Mrs Gremlin saw the upmarket town of Portofino on telly a while back and commented on how nice it looked and how we might take a long weekend there. As I'm a nice guy I thought I'd plan a little surprise trip...

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I'm thinking a weekend in Margate might be more likely.

We know a lovely apartment, don't we children ?

I warn you now, the kid will be through your fridge like a swarm of locusts. She eats me out of house and home.

gremlin wrote: Sun Jul 17, 2022 7:49 pm

Yorick wrote: Sun Jul 17, 2022 7:44 pm

gremlin wrote: Sun Jul 17, 2022 7:35 pm Mrs Gremlin saw the upmarket town of Portofino on telly a while back and commented on how nice it looked and how we might take a long weekend there. As I'm a nice guy I thought I'd plan a little surprise trip...

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I'm thinking a weekend in Margate might be more likely.

We know a lovely apartment, don't we children ?

I warn you now, the kid will be through your fridge like a swarm of locusts. She eats me out of house and home.

There's a padlock on food fridge. Same on the beer fridge

Yorick wrote: Sun Jul 17, 2022 7:56 pm

gremlin wrote: Sun Jul 17, 2022 7:49 pm

Yorick wrote: Sun Jul 17, 2022 7:44 pm

We know a lovely apartment, don't we children ?

I warn you now, the kid will be through your fridge like a swarm of locusts. She eats me out of house and home.

There's a padlock on food fridge. Same on the beer fridge

Pre departure checklist:
Tickets
Passports
Euros
Crowbar.

Good to go.

gremlin wrote: Sun Jul 17, 2022 8:00 pm

Yorick wrote: Sun Jul 17, 2022 7:56 pm

gremlin wrote: Sun Jul 17, 2022 7:49 pm

I warn you now, the kid will be through your fridge like a swarm of locusts. She eats me out of house and home.

There's a padlock on food fridge. Same on the beer fridge

Pre departure checklist:
Tickets
Passports
Euros
Crowbar.

Good to go.

You'll need to get past the killer dog first

If it's a battle of killer dogs... Then bring it on.

mangocrazy wrote: Sat Jul 16, 2022 9:48 pm If somebody did a beer version of this I'd try it...


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Wrong-un

gremlin wrote: Sun Jul 17, 2022 8:18 pm If it's a battle of killer dogs...
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Then bring it on.

Him as a killer puppy with Carl Fogarty eyes.

Yorick wrote: Sun Jul 17, 2022 8:39 pm Him as a killer puppy with Carl Fogarty eyes.

That's uncanny!

I was briefly in the same schoolboy motocross club as Carl Fogarty but, sadly, he was quite a bit older than me so he never got to find out if he could beat me.

Stuck a deposit down on one of these

gremlin wrote: Sun Jul 17, 2022 7:03 pm

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sun Jul 17, 2022 5:53 pm little kid figured out if he put his fingers over the two of them the remaining third goes miles further. Far enough in fact that it could reach outside the fence of the splash area right the way to the tables of waiting adults

Love kids like that*. He'll either grow to be a great success at whatever he chooses to be or be languishing in nick for a twenty year stretch.



*unless they start spraying me, of course.

I was about to post exactly the same!!!

Got up early doors, did a walk up to Holmbury Hill. Sat at the view point for a while and came back down a different route. Checked my new Garmin watch. 512 kcals* used. Bit of a slog up some bits...max pulse 140, still, a few more of those and I'll be fit as the butcher's dog.

Nice up there before it gets too hot or anyone else arrives, just saw 2 people walking dogs. Bit confusing at times as the forestry boys seem to have cleared areas and made new trails.

* or 4 packs of salt and vinegar crisps

Went out to get a length of 15mm tube, went to put it on the roof rack, then as I was about to do it, just remembered that I removed the roof bars

Had to make a job of securing it to the rails which run along the roof

Count Steer wrote: Mon Jul 18, 2022 1:44 pm
* or 4 packs of salt and vinegar crisps

It is disheartening. I regularly do a gym class called 'Sweat 500', which does what it says on the tin. The watch confirms 500+ calories burnt and i do a little fist bump after blowing out of my arse for 45 minutes, then think to myself, 'Two pints, that is, give it take'.

gremlin wrote: Mon Jul 18, 2022 2:12 pm

Count Steer wrote: Mon Jul 18, 2022 1:44 pm
* or 4 packs of salt and vinegar crisps

It is disheartening. I regularly do a gym class called 'Sweat 500', which does what it says on the tin. The watch confirms 500+ calories burnt and i do a little fist bump after blowing out of my arse for 45 minutes, then think to myself, 'Two pints, that is, give it take'.

While I was looking for what 500 cals was equivalent to I found a '500 Calories a Day' diet. I think you'd have to be living on espressos and kale.

It does reinforce the thing about food = weight, exercise = shape though. You can't sweat yourself slim but you can tighten up your butt.

While I was out on the bike today I counted over a dozen Ferraris going the other direction. Must have been a club run,or something.

I idly mused how much money that was rolling up the road.

When idly rummaging through stuff in the cellar (nice and cool down there) I chanced upon an old road tax (ok, vehicle excise) disc holder with no less than eleven tax discs for the 350LC before it got forgotten for 25 years. They date from July 1982 to October 1989. I think I might mount them in a picture frame and stick them on the wall.

Skub wrote: Mon Jul 18, 2022 6:34 pm While I was out on the bike today I counted over a dozen Ferraris going the other direction. Must have been a club run,or something.

I idly mused how much money that was rolling up the road.

Depends how full the fuel tanks were....

mangocrazy wrote: Mon Jul 18, 2022 6:44 pm When idly rummaging through stuff in the cellar (nice and cool down there) I chanced upon an old road tax (ok, vehicle excise) disc holder with no less than eleven tax discs for the 350LC before it got forgotten for 25 years. They date from July 1982 to October 1989. I think I might mount them in a picture frame and stick them on the wall.

That's cool. I had stuff like that going back to the 70s and binned them in one of my (supervised) clearouts.

I had this advert framed and hanging in the garage when I had my MG Midget. So 1970's in every way.


And we all know she's holding the handbrake, but we all know what it's meant to represent.

I haven't seen an advert that subtle since I last read the BMJ. Any adverts for prostate cures feature men with gushing hosepipes.