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SHAZ! How the devil are you?  I hope yourself and himself are well.

Mrs Red makes sloe gin every year but muggins here has to pick the berries. I end up looking like a bad lion tamer.

When she's finished making the gin she uses the alcohol soaked berries in her home-made chocolate liqueurs.

Lethal they are.

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Hello there Sir Red Dog!

We are both ok tyty.

Him indoors is really good, good enough to complain relentlessly about the Welsh weather and no sign of any gollf yet. He went out with some of the lads for breakfast this morning and I reckon the biggest topic of conversation was the lack of golf and too much weather!

I'm good, still on crutches but I'm allowed to start gentle excersises now and I'm looking forward to getting out when Spring arrives. I've not been allowed out on my own due to the risk of falling and not being able to get back up again, mad huh! I confess I don't miss people but I miss being able to jump in the car and head to the beach for a paddle and listen to the sound of the sea. Hopefully that will improve soon.

I've got hobbies ongoing and I've started doing the Swedish death clean (döstädning) it's a Scandinavian method of decluttering and organizing one’s home to reduce the burden on loved ones after death. Not planning to die yet but I'd like to get rid of everything I've collected that I don't need anymore. I might as well investigate EBay, vynil collectors  etc  and get some dosh for it before anything happens and his nibs just chucks it all in a skip! I still have books to send out, I've not long since learned that Royal Mail collect now so no excuses now! I have 3 areas in the house to put things, one for friends, one for EBay etc and one for the Cats Protection. Our somewhat shrinking black bin is always full. I miss Liverpool and the 3 bins - laughs.

I try and keep up with Blonde, it's a bit easier than it was which is sad. I try and keep out of politics as I could swing for one or two or three but I'm not the only one so........

When I do get out, I'll start to take pictures again. I'll have to ask how to post them as I haven't for years and the method escapes me.

I trust you and everyone at home are well.

Likewise everyone here.

xXx

P.S. The cakes look pretty cool!

Need someone to start a book on which year KevB will finally give in and move to Thailand for good.

What is young Mr Reece doing these days?

How are you keeping Mo?

Hi Tom, Hope you're keeping well.

When I was around 10 or 11 one of my Subbuteo teams was Shamrock Rovers and the players were not even !

Ah Ralph, good to hear from you! All good here, hope you’re doing well too.

On the subbeteo, I was a player myself, I had dozens of teams. They were the 3 D versions though! If you’re a fan of the Undertones, they’re from Derry and the cover art on their single, “My perfect cousin” had Derry subbeteo players on it and subbeteo is mentioned in the song.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J9fTMRftrXc

My team is Bohemians (we won’t be bothering the top of the table) and Shamrock Rovers and Bohemians are sworn enemies!

I'm good too thanks Tom.

Love that tune. Teenage flicks?

Hi Tom, Hope you're keeping well.

When I was around 10 or 11 one of my Subbuteo teams was Shamrock Rovers and the players were not even !

Ah Ralph, good to hear from you! All good here, hope you’re doing well too.

On the subbeteo, I was a player myself, I had dozens of teams. They were the 3 D versions though! If you’re a fan of the Undertones, they’re from Derry and the cover art on their single, “My perfect cousin” had Derry subbeteo players on it and subbeteo is mentioned in the song.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J9fTMRftrXc

My team is Bohemians (we won’t be bothering the top of the table) and Shamrock Rovers and Bohemians are sworn enemies!

This is not a golf story, but a few days ago on the golf course, while I was once again blocked out by a tree, I wondered how it was that slow growing things like these actually make it to adulthood, especially the ones like this that stand alone in the middle of a farmers field, or a fairway. How come, when they emerge as a tiny, tender shoot they are not nipped off by a rabbit or a grazing sheep. Why aren't they crushed by a boot or a hoof, or tilled into the soil by an implement? Just how do they survive those first few vulnerable years?

I'm captivated by their beauty and fascinated by the thought of their history, especially the long-lived species like oak or sweet chestnut, which commonly live 700 or 800 years, and many beyond 1000.

I imagine how many land workers have sheltered from the sun or the rain beneath its boughs, how many backs have leaned against its trunk, how many weary feet were rested, lunches eaten, and girls kissed under its canopy. How many generations of a particular species of bird have nested in its branches, and are the ones nesting there now direct descendants of the ones that nested there 800 years ago?

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So yesterday, I was walking through my own little paddock as I do virtually every day of my life on my way to the snicket gate to take the dog for a walk when I noticed this.

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How the Hell did that get there?

I no longer have horses, but evey now and then someone drops one off for me to keep an eye on for a few weeks or months. Perhaps one with an injury or a bad habit. I admit though, now that my friends from another life are getting older, many of them, like me, are out of the "Horse job" so my paddock gets used less often.

That said, it's only two or three years since there were a couple of yearling fillies in there and to the best of my recollection they grazed it bare.

Once a year, if there have been no horses, I wait for a soggy day and I tow a big old tractor tyre all over it for a couple of hours. It keeps it grassy and prevents it from going wild.

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I'm a noticer, I notice things. How could a tree establish itself right in the middle of the paddock without me noticing? What's more, I suspected it was an oak, if it was, how long had it taken to get to this stage?


It's about 3ft tall now so at a guesstimate, 3 or 4 years?

Perhaps it isn't an oak, I thought, maybe a beech or a birch? Time to investigate...

I've always wondered how Trump was so good at golf, he's using your eclectic scoring, oh that and just plain cheating.

I'm going to take up golf again when I retire, after a sabbatical of nearly 40 years (barring one Top Golf adventure in Vegas, but that doesn't count, surely?)

I'm aiming to turn pro within 12 months using this method.

bias aside , i reckon liverpool will finish top fairly easily . arsenal 2nd chelsea 3rd city 4th . boring selections i know , but i just dont see villa or spurs get there

would happily take a friendly wager that utd finish outside top 6

hopefully this thread will carry on into general footy chat over the season

whoever your team is , post your thoughts about anything and everything that makes you happy or drives you mad

international break 1st week of september ffs

This aged well…

Statue of Michael Carrick out for tender.

Hi Tom, Hope you're keeping well.

When I was around 10 or 11 one of my Subbuteo teams was Shamrock Rovers and the players were not even !

My first Subbuteo set was that design. Not Shamrock Rovers, but it was a non 3 D set.

Hi Tom, Hope you're keeping well.

When I was around 10 or 11 one of my Subbuteo teams was Shamrock Rovers and the players were not even !