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  1. I had them, well similar, black frames but with the same sprung metal at the end. Not a good look and painful to wear around your ears. Kept them on your face when playing football though. Wore them through several stages of school life until mam and dad saved up to get me a "designer" pair of frames. They didn't last long and it was back to NH issue until I started to contribute to the cost, paper round etc. It never really bothered me wearing glasses at school. When people called me "specky" I would comment on them being fat or ugly or soft or smelly or thick or whatever and then I woul
  2. Or desperate to be appreciated and valued and dare say it loved. Making the wrong choices with the wrong
  3. All of her lovers all talk of her notes And the flowers that they never sent And wasn't she easy? Isn't she pretty in pink? The one who is insists he was first in the line Is the last to remember her name He's walking around in this dress that she wore She's gone but the joke's the same
  4. Brian Clough, ... to me, scoring goals was just like other boys might regard delivering papers, I did it every day... Southgate, at the moment, has turned goal scorers into paper boys.
  5. Hey, we are where we are.
  6. Usually the response from someone who has f****d up due to their own incompetence and expecting someone else to try and change "what it is" to what it should be in a blameless culture. "No harm done", "let's move on".
  7. I cannot remember being more disappointed with an England team in a final. Short memory of course, topped our group stage so should be nothing to complain about. But the football played given the players that we have. Shocking! My team for next game (based on f**k all football knowledge): Palmer right wing. What do we do with Saka? Don't care, looks like an under 14 playing with seniors. Keep Walker right back. Keep Trippier out of position at left back. Gordon left wing. The kid has so much but an added bonus Trippier has played on the left with Gordon in front of h
  8. Knock on the door last night, just before the England game kick-off. Picked the dog up and opened the door. Some middle aged ginger gurning gimp dressed all in red with a big red rosette (1st in show?) Hiyya! I'm campaigning for ???? your local Labour candidate! That's great, I'll just put the dog away Cool! Right, have you got any blue tack? I was just about to put this in the window He f****d off.
  9. I often struggle with your posts and rarely do they not bring a tear to the eye or a lump in the throat. The fact that you somehow manage to soldier on day after day must truly be an inspiration to us all. You hang on in there kid and remember the words of O'l Blue Eyes And if I don't think it was worth one single try, I'd jump right on a big bird and then I'd fly
  10. The 2 bloodied ones look like pure Bedlingtons, as we know Lakie blood improves coat texture and colour. The terrier in the top picture looks it has outcross blood, but obviously it is wrong to make assumptions from a photograph as the camera often lies More power to the man who's grafting them though. The photograph is of my great uncle George Johnson. Apparently he made a bit of coin exporting them to the USA, so I'm related to a dog peddler!
  11. These threads usually get around to the lack of quality working Bedlington terriers available to produce quality lurchers. Was there ever any quality working Bedlingtons available? I've had the pleasure of seeing a few Bedlington x whippets work. Never owned 1, had a good friend who kept them and even allowed me to borrow the ones he owned on occasion. Great rabbiting dogs but none bred from the mythical working Bedlington. The sires of the little lurchers were modern KC stuff. Dogs too big to work as a terrier and bitches a bit too sleight for regular work to ground even if they had the
  12. I've been looking at the same things in the same places. Not on the cards at the moment for me as I commented on another thread so wont bore people again here. I love the street views, no streets, just incredible landscapes . It's madness not to live in such places if a person has the desire to and the freedom and resources to make it a reality. As your post illustrates, you don't need to have won the lottery from the financial aspect but could be winning the lottery from a quality of life perspective.
  13. Had not tried this before but took a punt when spotted doing the weekly shop reduced from £12 to £10. Which probably means it retails for £8 in other places. Very nice though.
  14. All work related but: A flood of plumbers A shock of electricians A narcotic of ceiling fixers A graft of ground workers A slumber of painters An angst of apprentices A bumble of builders A confusion of clients A duplicity of quantity surveyors
  15. That's bonny dog. Nothing in the picture for scale but I would imagine not a small dog. A bull mastiff in all but name and colour or KC registration. The phenotype of a bull mastiff.
  16. I remember when ram raiding was all the rage where I grew up for a short time, not that I ever had the inclination or the bottle to get involved. Mad to think now that shops and shopping malls used to have very little in the way of structural or mechanical security. All you had to do was steal a couple of vehicles, drive through Curry's window if you had the balls, then fill your boots
  17. I had the exact same experience with newts escaping in the house Some remained unaccounted for and I just assumed that our mentally unstable pet crockadilapig (mongrel Russell) had eaten them. But mam found a few dried out behind radiators, she was not happy.The last place I would have expected them to head to.
  18. My 1st hunting experiences were in pursuit of newt. I didn't realise at the time that it was hunting but it was. Setting out in search of a particular animal with the intention of catching it. Finding places were not many other people ventured. Little oasis' amongst industry and pollution with miraculous ponds of fresh water clean enough to sustain "pond life" hidden away. The expectation, the excitement on finding and the elation of making a catch. To be taken home and put in the tank for a little while before returning back to where it came from, more or less. To this day when I spot a newt
  19. I hear what you're saying but the downside would be my rural idyll being compromised by c**ts, and let's face it, walkers CAN be c**ts. I've been spat on and told "I hope you get cancer" by walkers walking through land that I have been legally hunting on in the past. Don't get me started on cyclists. No, too near to the beaten track for me
  20. I'm kidding myself with the "going off grid" idea. Unforeseen (well, something that I never factored in but probably should have) family commitments dictate that it cannot happen. But a move will, just needs to be within reasonable distance of where my family reside. No great hardship as there are beautiful places within that "bubble". Spotted a likely property today on an estate agent website. In an area that I have always liked and still have an open invite on a friend's permission not too far away from the property location, just mostly sniping rabbits with an air rifle these days.
  21. eastcoast

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    There's a joke in there somewhere... I'd rather read War and Peace than...? Sorry TOMO, no offence intended.
  22. eastcoast

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    FAO Mackem. This is a good read. More the rise than the fall. Good honest research IMO. Interesting report on charge of the Light Brigade, a comedy of errors (apart from lads getting slaughtered) that could almost have resulted in a famous victory. Saul David used to put out some good historical TV documentaries but haven't seen anything from him for quite awhile. Possibly because he is male and tries to educate and entertain with facts. To get an historical documentary on TV these days it would appear that you need to be a woman with theories that all that we have been led to believe pr
  23. As you wrote when the stars align, if she had no been the runt of the litter you would not be feeling the loss but would also not have enjoyed owning and working her. That's life.
  24. I have always tried to swerve politics as it does my head in and very rarely knocks at my door. I have never gained or lost because of which political party happens to be in power. The gains, losses or just going along nicely has always been entirely down to myself. Cannot quite escape it at the moment though how ever much I try. These "pledges" that the various desperate to be in power, or retain power maggots are "pledging" if they are in power? If they have good ideas and genuine plans to solve the present problems in the UK, if they do not get voted in or re-elected, are they going to keep
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