Just caught up with these great updates Tikay
13 coronas ? You legend
That’s not out of my reach but the end result is I spend a lot of time in the “ restroom “ peeing
We flew in Tuesday tenth for 15 nights at southpoint as usual
Tuesday pm won $600 Wednesday am$900 weeee on slots 🎰
Weds pm lost $300 Thursday am lost $400 🎰🎰
Thursday pm went to Apple Store new $1300 on a new I phone before I lost too much more
Friday am/ pm  n Saturday am lost $300\400 per day 🎰🎰
Saturday pm well 1245 really on way in from pool won$1565 a hand pay 🎰🎰🎰🎰🎰🎰😀

Like  you I walk 2-3-5 km x3 a day with clover our parson Jack Russell but as soon as I sit for any length of time my right knee n hip sieze up
I still work 3-4 x8 hour am only shifts at Ocado delivering 565-920 kg of grocery shopping to 18-25 addresses which I enjoy and deliver to some proper “ posh” houses ofc the best tippers are from the elderly in bungalows/ flats  think £2-£5 I get some great rural routes with spectacular scenery and wildlife

I’ve played cash $1\2 lost $10 and won $20 with sets v flush draws
Going to have a go at the $200 k gtd $300 buy in this week with am n pm day 1a Tuesday Wednesday Thursday with a test flight in a $120 buy in today-Sunday or Monday

I’m bb with James Bond / Northampton nutz 5-7 spades unraised
Flop 7-3-7 two clubs
Guy bets $15
I call
2 others call
Turn 2
He goes all in $45
I call
Anon 1 folds
Anon 2 all in $63
Obv I call
River 4 clubs
He has 6-3 no clubs
Anon 2 had king queen clubs meh 🫤

I must try some more poker which no doubt I will

Our friend a barmaid - strange coincidence! Jennifer took us to niccos fish n steak grill in Durango resort which is a superb 2? Year old spotless casino resort where we had one of the best ever vegas meals - she was a friend of the manager Jason n his wife who works in a steak place in Caesars so we got asked where we’d like to go and avoiding the strip this year we wisely chose Niccos

Keno at the bar with coronas n White Russians is my choice of evening entertainment plus people watching 👀
Denise is doing totally shit on her slot play think $200\300 per day but hopefully a heater will arrive soon

Thanks for your updates vbol

Good to see the return of Tony’s adventures
We are out Tuesday for 15 nights
Staying at southpoint where they have a 2 pm Omaha 08 tourney
They also have a great steakhouse in the name Silverado we took Michelle and Ian Bennett there last year who in turn took Phillip heald and Andy Bradshaw there all agreed it’s a great steakhouse and a reasonable price
No poker plans this year for me
A) I’m shit 😂
B) knee and hip arthritis means after 90 mins I need a crane to get me out of the chair

I saw Eric Clapton at Nottingham 15? /20 years ago obv he was v good maybe he likes shitholes like Nottingham?

Retirement is on the horizon for me I guess at 67 this year but I’m not ready to throw my collection of thermal cups n flasks out to pasture yet
I now work for Ocado drinving and delivering groceries to shitholes like Nottingham also to some lovely rural routes within 85 miles of Peterborough
I meet some lovely people and deliver to some fab houses / halls which you wouldn’t even know were there .old ladies being the best tippers btw I always say itipping shows some class youngsters with big houses n suvs on the drive may have few bob but they have no class 400 deliveries last xmas time yielded £40 and a tin /plastic tub of quality street so it’s quite lucrative lol 😂
VBOL ALL IN VEGAS KEEP THE UPDATES COMING

Tony Scoopio'd in big O before I left, so was on about 150k.  We got moved from the rail so left.

Were you shoebombing ?

We’ve got a cuckoo at Hampton water an old brick pit now a nice nature reserve / country park
I hear it most days
It’s the first one I’ve heard for awhile though
I haven’t seen swallows / house Marin's yet ? That’s a sign of warmer weather

Morning Trevor.


I never realised it was THAT Dyson (James) or that he had farming interests. Thank goodness for google...


 https://dysonfarming.com/



How are you keeping, still making zillions on the commodities? How's the golf?

Dyson started buying land about 10 years ago and he purchased a massive amount

Just had a coupe days golfing in Yorkshire

Last Friday played in a charity event at Elsham, team of four best two count, we won with 99 points!!

You must be single figures now surely after playing everyday?

Trading ticking along nicely with usual Oil, Gold but mainly softs

Was just sat on the toilet and a swallow came through the open window, did a circuit then straight out, awesome

Get Moulty to get another round sorted please

Ahh yes, trading in softs.....   SOFT WHAT . Poos ? 😂😂😂

99 points, so not one but TWO bandits?

I'll have a word with Moulty & Neil about another round. I'm actually having a round today with Mr Giblin & another friend, Paul Jackson (JAC on blonde) at Mickleover today. Think it's my 3rd round so far this week, the other two were on The Priory Course at Breadsall which is a tough walk for me.

I'm still utterly useless. Golf is HARD.

I'd best stop cluttering up Tom's Diary, he gets a bit tetchy sometimes. I keep wanting to update my Diary with my tales of golf derring do, all of which is fascinating to me but I'm sure everyone would find seriously boring. For now, suffice to say, golf is beating me up big time, I find it SO hard, but I'm loving every minute.  I AM improving, but I'm still hopeless, just less hopeless than before.

The amazing thing is how patient, helpful & understanding everyone has been. It's really humbling.

Morning Trevor.


I never realised it was THAT Dyson (James) or that he had farming interests. Thank goodness for google...


 https://dysonfarming.com/



How are you keeping, still making zillions on the commodities? How's the golf?

Thanks to Tom for posting my photos

I delivered to dyson farms Spalding the other week
Obv asked the lady is this the real James Dyson ?
Yes was the reply
quite a large and surprisingly tidy yard for a farm
Also seem to remember doing some bhs for a new barn for him some years ago through his consulting engineer Steve Kidd associates  Spalding based

Steve learnt after 2/3 large grain or potato sores subsiding due to the weight of produce stored that a bh for foundation design is quite important
After a multi conveyor computer controlled system in a grain store came apart due to differential settlement
Also a potato store which stores big wooden boxes which individually weigh 1.5 tons and when stackedd 6 high  there’s obv considerable weight on the foootslab
So he now insists on a geotechnical investigation

"a very nice guy around 50ish"



Many of you will be jumping to conclusions there, but for the record, no, it was not me.

More seriously, it's SO wonderful to be on golf courses at this time of year, wildlife everywhere you look. Hope you had a good round Ralph & there are no golfing after-effects from your broken wrist last year.

Oddly enough, I saw some Egyptian goslings on Breadsall Priory on Thursday, & I attempted to take a few 'photos too. I'll try & post them later.

It’s not just golf courses Tikay
I now drive for Ocado 6 weeks ago in the sticks south east of Lincoln near Digby - I think early one morning 0630 ish a white barn ? Owl flew across my route and obv I slowed down to take a look  , it landed and sat perched on a fence post
Then after delivering to a remote house at a farm I was driving along the raised track with hares in the field either side of me ,some 50 m in front of me one started running across the field up the bank across my route it then vaulted a dyke ,ran up to another hare they both stood on their back legs and started boxing after which they resumed grazing
It really was quite magnificent

Any ideas on dates when virgin airmiles sales / offers come out please?

Hello again everyone!

So I took up golf again during Covid when golf courses opened again. Move along another three months and them my boss said working from home is going so well I could make it permanent. We always holiday in Norfolk so it made sense to move there now rather when I retired.
We found a lovely house with a huge garden. Very rural but only 3 miles from Kings Lynn so easier access to London. We happen to back onto the 8th fairway of the local golf course and now it feels like we are living the dream. From now until October instead of my 50 minute commute from London to Essex I can be on the first tee within 10 minutes of leaving my "office". I still have to pinch myself sometimes. This time of year in the evening the birds of prey circle looking for an easy ducklings. Squirrels are everywhere and the odd deer can be seen skipping across the fairways. They asked me to be the Club Secretary last year which I gladly accepted. We also have a small group of about 20 of us called "The Middleton Old Boys" and for nine months of the year we play a different course in Norfolk every month. I'm not bothered about my handicap in anyway but I started off 26 three years ago and reached a low of 14.8 a couple of months ago. Lots of practice helps I suppose :-)
Middleton is a small community and the local village pub is only 10 mins walk away. I restrict myself to once a week. The only time I play poker now is if the pub is particularly quiet and I can find a corner to fire up the £2 deep stack on my phone to quietly while away the time.
Jules has never sung before but joined "Your Choir" when we moved here and loves it. She has met many friends through it as well. We were driving to Sandringham a couple of years ago as she was singing there as part of the Queens Jubilee celebrations neither of us could quite believe it.
We only 20 mins drive to the coast as well and the dogs have a blast there. We also have many beautiful walks around here so that's how I spend my lunch hour every day.
I also love my electric bike. The tyres were pumped up and chain oiled and we went for our first ride of the year yesterday evening. The village closest to us is North Runcton which is gated as it has cows roaming freely. The other side is miles of open countryside.
Its so weird to think that Covid is responsible for all of this.
Times have moved on now and I have to spend two days a month in the office. I do this consecutively as if you book in advance a Travelodge is only about £100 a night. I drive to nearby Watlington station to get to Kings Cross. Its a tiny unmanned station which is only 4 carriages long and so quaint. Parking is only £1 for 24 hours as well. Its nice to go back to the City though and eat in some decent restaurants and have a good lunch. WFH lunches always seem to be either soup or a sandwich! But soon the greenhouse will be full of salad. I also make a trip once a month to play golf with my work colleagues and normally pick somewhere north of the M25.
If anyone ventures over this way and fancies a round you are more than welcome.
Check out the video at the bottom of the page.

https://www.middletonhallgolfclub.com/

May bore you all with some pictures as well but for now clubs have to be cleaned as we are teeing off at 8.42 am tomorrow.

We live in Peterborough and have looked at moving to sunny hunny but nothings been done about it yet
Every Christmas morning we go to sandringham to see the Royal family go to church and subsequent Sundays after till they return to London
We avoid the coast at weekends instead preferring to visit midweek when it’s quieter sometimes calling at friends in east rudham who downsized to a smaller house in this charming area
It’s wonderfully rural and peaceful

Event #3 and #30 for me
Maybe something at golden nugget
Venetian n wynn are too pricey for a donkey lol 😂

Are you going tk ?

16 th for £1110

I saw Keith Hawkins near the top of some day 2 at Blackpool
Would that be the camel 🐫?

Great updates Tony thanks
Good to hear you are enjoying life
Keep posting please

I smashed 5 laptops in 9 days some time ago and have never played online since 😂