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  1. Christmas Dinner

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    3 hours ago, Arry said:

    Well the family is off to Colombia for Christmas, so Wifey and I will be just the two of us. We have had single mother and her teenage lad for Christmas dinner couple of years before last,  they were ill last year, so we had Christmas dinner at Easter. She at her mothers this year, might do something Boxing Day.

    So instead of a big roast I'm going to do a buffet, with every thing can think of, Wifey likes the idea. 

    I can pick and drink all day Lol.

    Cheers Arry

    Kinda early boxing day... My mate used to have a couple of pints and steak and chips for a good few years. I'm keeping it simple turkey roast , nice breaky , some cheese etc for supper. Boxing day is king all the cold cuts pickles etc pick all day chill out , gonna get the dogs completely f****d up first thing so I can relax , can't wait.

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  6. Slough near London...

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    18 minutes ago, mackem said:

    Yup theres pike I there.

     

    I live maybe 20 minutes? from Wraysbury lakes,that's all calmed down now.

    When my old man fished it there was postman's peg as he could beat most to it, also bed peg and people might hook a bedspring and think they had a fish, remember going there maybe 5/6yr old and throwing stones and alike as some guy landed a big pike , my poor old man trying for an hour's fishing whilst looking after us lol. He fished a match there and watched one of the best in country turn up to throw a bait bowl of orange sized ground bait balls into his swim sit and read a paper for an hour and then go on to win the match on bream, was definitely my dad's realm. Kings tackle in Maidenhead was the place to go . Windsor was his haunt for social , used to go in the donkey house pub on Thames , pop in Diana dors's place and finish in the casino . He had a good life there.

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  8. When you breaking up

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    43 minutes ago, Daniel cain said:

    I can't stand working with most folks...so the last thing I would want to do...is socialising and going on the piss with em👍

    I was invited to the races for work do , thought about it but I spend enough time with guys on site, plus most of these lot are on the books and hate subbys 😂 . I'd more likely meet up with a mate or two over Christmas, got a fishing session planned and another friend normally pops over New year's. Feck work lol

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  9. When you breaking up

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    22 minutes ago, cragman said:

    I’ll be beating three days a week during the season and helping out in between with pest control, stalking throughout the year and out at night shooting, I hunt, I’ll be doing bird surveys in spring, I spend a lot of time walking on the fells, I’ve three kids and six grand kids to help out. I intend visiting a few auctions next year and a great friend has invited me up to Orkney anytime I like to stay on his farm, so lots to look forward to 👍🏻

    Brilliant 👍🏻 

  11. When you breaking up

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    1 minute ago, TOMO said:

    My last day is the Thursday 18th ...start back Monday the 5th Jan...

    Got plans to do loads of jobs round house and garden....but knowing  me I will end up veging out on sofa...eating Cadbury hero's for 2 week...lol

    Well I've toyed with the idea of ripping the bath out and putting a shower in , but that might be a far as it gets , I'll probably be gorging on cheese and pate dealing with gout and alcoholism rather than grout and hygieneism....

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  15. Veiw from your office

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    4 minutes ago, eastcoast said:

    No views to share, just a sorry tale from work yesterday. Travelled from Gateshead to Scarborough for a site visit approx 5 hour round trip depending on traffic. Parked at Washington services and got picked up by a work colleague in the interests of saving the planet. Had a good day, site visit very productive and had the opportunity to catch up with an old friend and nice to have a break from driving.

    Got back to Washington services and luckily my friend went inside to get a sandwich rather than driving straight off. It was only then that I realised that the jacket I was wearing was not the one that I had travelled down in. That one had been hung up in the site office in Scarborough and was I wearing a hi-viz jacket from site. My car and house keys were in the pocket of the jacket left behind. DOH!

    Thought you were gonna say your mate had a heart attack, bet he loved you lol..

  18. Growing up in the 70,s

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    45 minutes ago, Qbgrey said:

    I did nt mean good going mate for 40,000 , those effing things normally go wrong well before that, I agree it’s disgraceful, I’ve had Isuzu trucks off eBay that have done 175,000 on them and I’ve taken it over 200,000 without a murmur. My sisters got a new Peugeot, no end of problems too. They make them unreliable with electric gremlins. I always think if they built a pick up that you can jet wash out, no electric seats, handbrake, parking sensors the lot, just wind down windows, heater , radio that’s it I reckon would sell well. My Mrs can start her car and put the heating on it from her mobile ffs

    Chatting to some friends, one mentioned a car without all the electrics etc would sell, my other mate a mechy said wouldn't stand a chance of passing emissions without all computers , game over.

  20. Migrants

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    12 minutes ago, mackem said:

    The Don is taking no prisoners,ICE have started snatching Somalian wrongdoers in Minneapolis,even grabbed one lady in a traffic stop on a school run.

    Well it all lies at the feet of the ultra liberal treacherous sorts , if they didn't see this coming they're daft.

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  22. Growing up in the 70,s

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    5 hours ago, WILF said:

    Where I come from there’s this type of car snobbery, as in you will hear people judging people every day if they don’t have some kind of almost new and/or flash motor……the important bit is, none of them have a pot to piss in and anyone with half a brain knows it but they just want to look like they do…..it’s f***ing weird !

    So refreshing then when I moved here because that type of car snobbery just don’t exist, at all !……nobody gives a f**k if you have a brand new €100k Land Cruiser or a 20 year old Skoda with the back doors held shut with bailing string !

    The roads are shite, the cars gonna get f****d, nobody services anything…..it’s just something to get about and maybe tow a trailer with….end of story ! 

    I'm fortunate I have no interest in car outside of something reliable and preferably comfortable. Work with lads that work away with a banger whilst got an expensive motor sat on the driveway on tick paying through the nose for so they can drive it twice a month. A lad dropped his tools of the other week in a gle V8 , and came back down in another Merc . I here from missus or kids about the keeping up with the Jones' whether cars or houses , my son came back the other day said his mates house got a sitting room same size as our downstairs and kids got his own bathroom etc. I just say well they got a few quid then. Pointless basing your life on other folks financials , there's always richer and poorer . I invest in the kids and I think it does them a little good to think they're less well off , and they know there's much worse off as we live in the poor end of the village lol. I like that they see all walks of life. I was working near Basingstoke and a mate rang me from Wales , said what's on, I said stuck behind about 6 range rovers doing the school run about 300yrd down a lane , he said sake at least in the valleys if do you see a range rover you know it's a drug dealer lol.

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  23. Polish brick layers

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    A lot of it comes down to energy costs to produce materials, a will to build more , lack of training and mentoring . The money is in lending money on mortgages not building houses. I think as far as youngsters go, and adults phones are a killer . I only got to look at guys I work with half of them are staring at a phone half the day, I'd ban phones or have them in a locker if I employed people. As for people slating young folk they're your kids or grandkids , I tell it as I see it I don't suffer them, I've refused to work with lazy sods before , gaming all night and claiming pip and in there phone all day lost generations , I think some of my generation is still doing right by their children , my boys will be getting properly parented , they're still young but no phones , got rules, it's unfortunate they don't have the freedom I had and that will impact them somewhat but they will learn hard work and a bit of savvy hopefully. Opportunity needs to exist and the do wells will always do well then, might find ai puts more in front of trades and skilled folk.

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  24. Nanny dogs

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    I would say with limited knowledge the mastiff breeds were the nanny dogs , the dogs bred to protect and laze around , found throughout Europe. Originally of sounds temp as apposed to fighters.

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