Hi Tony,

  We've put a hold on the "when" part of the trip, as we aren't fans of vouchers and then having to pay any revised extra costs; we continue looking at the wheres' and how, but
to be honest Sue's mum is having a rough time with her health at the moment, so even that is taking a back seat.


  I finally retire at the end of the month and fully convert into an OAT: Old Age Teenager when I will complete
my " I wished I had done that when I was younger, but my 8th decade will have to do"

Things on the agenda are:

Wing walking
Getting on a TV quiz rogramme.
Couch to 5k
A small Tattoo
At least 50 urban rambles(code name for afternoon pub crawls) in different parts of the country during the next 12 months, praise given to our free bus passes.
Oh, and just in case Sue reads this, I'll spend more time with our family.............

You guys crack me up, keep them coming......

Hi Tony,

   This is right up your street........


https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/12vbByzjT1hcmFgh79f2MHw/are-you-grammatically-gormless-or-a-punctuation-perfectionist


Cheers

Dave

Look like Blue Peter badges to me.........................

Season Greeting to you all,

   It's been great reading the latest raft of posts from the "old fella", and I don't know why, but I looked at his Wiki page, and I have to say what great read of fiction it is; so do
we know who's responsible for this?:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Kendall_(poker_player)

If you haven't seen it then enjoy.

Dave & Sue




 

As a lot of us do, we log on with some anticipation, first looking at how many pages this epic tome has grown to, and then click to see if the Godfather of Poker
has been at work. Well this morning I want to know if this is a Covid-19 record, as 13 other like minnded soles were sat around the country waiting for the next eagerly awaited post.............

We've started watching this on a daily basis - Saddo's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZNCtDLUKHw

Morning All,

   Like Tony I've become hermitised during the lockdown, and as I still work in the food industry the past 3 months has been manic trying to keep up with retailers demand, same %'s as poker.

Sue and the kids badly missed our Sunday night live game with upto 20 Vegas nuts in a local pub, but we quickly migrated to a Home Game on Stars, and the acidic chatroom banter on Discord.

Any of you guys railing this years WSOP?

https://www.wsop.com/tournaments/updates/

Cheere

Dave & Sue

Even by my standards, this will have very limited interest to most, but here's two super galleries of photographs from Hull Docks back  in the 1950's.

And yes, I really did type that. Hull Docks. 1950's.

Each to their own, eh?

There is some crossover between the two galleries, but no matter, you'll either love them or yawn.

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/business/gallery/history-of-hull-docks-pictures-2179319

Hi Tony,

  As you may know I was a Hull lad before the move to exotic Grimsby, and being born less than a mile from the docks in the early 50's, those photo's (or from Hull we say 4Toes) unlocked
quite a few memories:

 The biggest being the Black Market that was the rife in those days, and at it's height in the 60's, it had gone from buying what was on offer, to telling the Spivs what you wanted and it would arrive within
a week or two.

Don't get me started on the Fish Dock.

Cheers

Dave



https://www.inportstories.com/gallery





Oh what days they were.

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Hello Everyone,

  Did I miss the memo? the one about this blog was having a Dry January?  Now I know I'm a bit of a mute  Blonde bibliophile, but surely there are some
 anecdotes of times gone by, funny stories; even comments about all the Brexit parties people will surely be having tomorrow night.

Reading and even writing is a great endorphin producing process, so the catalyst for all of us to come here to read and contribute needs to buy
a SAD Light to combate the worst desease of us Old Fogeys  - CBA.

This is from a guy who lives in Grimsby, so cheer me up everyone.

Forum Manager to the diary room.......................

500 down, 229 to go, can’t wait for day 2 victory speech.

Travels with Tikay & Gill, a bestseller in the making.

Morning Tony,

             Great verbiage as always, the expansive ramblings is what we stakers love; the highs, the lows and most of all your ability to bring happiness into our
humdrum lives. Have I started on the sherbets early today, yes I have as we've a couple of weeks of Scoopio to come, I thought I'd celebrate.

Morning Alll,

    I've been away for a few days, and came back expecting insightful banter about drones and the authorities; Bonkers Brexit chatter and maybe the
ocassional Festive iirony; but no, nothing.

    Have I missed a memo, have we gone mute for Xmas?

Well I for one will be raising a glass (or four) to you all, and especially Tony for adding colour, humour, sarcasm in equal measures to my mundane existance.

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year.

Dave & Sue