Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

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Brings back memories for sure. I don't know Rod that well but he was a part of the amazingly named mmm Mob on Tribeca back in the day. Not many in the mob but I still have my mmm mob cap in the form of a baseball hat and we met up from time to time - mainly at P4C gigs (all fond memories but of course turned sour)

There was another collection of players on Tribeca back in the day, creeping senility means I can't remember the exact name - might have been 808 gang or something like. Great times when absolute noobs like me in 2003/4 ish could, relatively speaking, 'print'at 3-6, 5-10 and occasionally 10-20 limit.

I heard a lot about "mmm Mob", think Flushy was something to do with that?

Don't recall the 808 gang though.

Ugh at the memory of P4C, what a sorry saga all that was. Wonder what happened to Angie, & the ironically named Dave "The Truth" Newey?

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Brings back memories for sure. I don't know Rod that well but he was a part of the amazingly named mmm Mob on Tribeca back in the day. Not many in the mob but I still have my mmm mob cap in the form of a baseball hat and we met up from time to time - mainly at P4C gigs (all fond memories but of course turned sour)

There was another collection of players on Tribeca back in the day, creeping senility means I can't remember the exact name - might have been 808 gang or something like. Great times when absolute noobs like me in 2003/4 ish could, relatively speaking, 'print'at 3-6, 5-10 and occasionally 10-20 limit.

Forgot what I meant to say - great writer, wrote well with great humour I thought back then

He was a blonde Updater for a good while, as I recall. Wonderfully clever writer. He & Jen seem perfectly suited. If they ever had a kid (they won't, Jen's not the mumsie sort imo), it'd have a stratospheric IQ.

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Another Jen cracker, here with the extraordinary Brian Wilson. Hard to believe Brian won a WSOP bracelet.

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Name this motley crew.

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Tom, with his ever present sucker thing. He even slept with it in his mouth.

Only took it out when he was eating.

These were taken at Concord Card Club, Vienna. A bunch of us all travelled across & roomed together - Tom, Matt Tyler, Jen Mason, snoopy, Thewy I think., & we hooked up with Brian Wilson there. 

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Why am I never behind a big stack?

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You should be able to date this one exactly.

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[DaveShoelace]

I don't know how much Gill is driven by personal bests etc Tikay, but this was shared between a couple of Blondes on Facebook....

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This deffo would not be the case for blokes who did the nasty just before the start of a marathon.

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Name this motley crew.

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Name this motley crew.

Is that Wardonkey on the left ,Tom ,Teeks ,Chunky Mick, Thewy and Matt ?

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Now that was always an event on the estate, when a chimney was on fire, belching black smoke, & occasionally flames, too, as all us kids stood & watched in awe. There was never any damage or real danger, of course, the fire was contained within the flue, but always a great excitement to us kids.

Wasn't the technique to starve the chimney of oxygen to put out the fire?  I vaguely remember my parents putting a newspaper over the fireplace opening tho I don't know why it didn't just burst into flames.

Don't know, we used to put a newspaper over the fireplace opening to help "draw" the fire when first starting it. And yeah, it often caught fire.

They chimney fires put themselves out, once the soot had burned off, the flue was made of clay & did not burn, so it was never dangerous, but it was jolly exciting to us kids.

That was one of my daily chores - light the fire every morning. No firelighters, just chopped wood (old railway sleepers, chopping those up was my job, too, & they were great as they were impregnated with oil & creosote), & newspapers, with the coal on top. We had good coal, mind, South Wales anthracite, because we got it from the Railway stocks as a free perk. 

When we moved over from Bermuda I was 10, 5 of us moved into an old WW2 pre-fab with my Gran. So from waking up putting on a pair of shorts and running down to the bay to catch fish for breakfast to waking up pulling on a coat & lighting the fire. Good coal as well, once a month Gran got a ton dropped off from the Coal Board in the street outside, I got the fun job of moving it into the bunker round the back, then doing the same for the other 3 miners' widows in the street.

Since the prefab's were low bungalows like this:

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I got another fun job - shin up the drain pipe & someone would hand me up a long handled brush so I could sweep the chimney, again, if I was doing one I got sent to do the rest.

What an image that conjured up, can't think of too many better ways to start the day.

Did you catch different varieties of fish, so brekkie was a daily surprise, or was it always the same species?

Brings a whole new meaning to "Wonder what's for breakfast today?"

Hope it wasn't the same as the first fish i caught out there - barracuda.  Probably Groupers or Snappers.

[Rod Paradise]

When we moved over from Bermuda I was 10, 5 of us moved into an old WW2 pre-fab with my Gran. So from waking up putting on a pair of shorts and running down to the bay to catch fish for breakfast to waking up pulling on a coat & lighting the fire. Good coal as well, once a month Gran got a ton dropped off from the Coal Board in the street outside, I got the fun job of moving it into the bunker round the back, then doing the same for the other 3 miners' widows in the street.

What an image that conjured up, can't think of too many better ways to start the day.

Did you catch different varieties of fish, so brekkie was a daily surprise, or was it always the same species?

Brings a whole new meaning to "Wonder what's for breakfast today?"

Hope it wasn't the same as the first fish i caught out there - barracuda.  Probably Groupers or Snappers.

At least your barracuda was edible, they're poisonous in the Caribbean.

 No if barracuda or shark were about it was home for cornflakes. A big Grouper or Snapper would have been fun on the light wee handlines we used for the breakfast fishing. we were trying for jacks, decent sized grunts or bream and if really lucky a small red hind.

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Jack

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Grunt

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Bermuda Bream

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Red Hind - actually a small species of grouper, funny enough when my folks moved to the islands the fisherman would throw these away "They dirty fish, they eat shit" - because they hung around sewage pipes. By the time we left sewage didn't go into the water, & the Red Hind was a delicacy that had fisheries protection.

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...and this beauty. This was EPT Deauville I think. Flushy looks so young there.

I love the way that Jen's look highlights the fact that everyone else is unaware of the photographer.


It's little things like that that make average photographs great.

Ha, EXACTLY the same thought occurred to me.

Interestingly, Flushy & I were railing Jen, & Jen was all-in, on the bubble, for a relatively large lump of money - €10,000 I think. Typically, she was completely unphased by it all.

Here's another wonderful Jen photo, almost a caption competition in this one. You should recognize the geezer, too.

I love how Parker is blurred in the photo as well, pretty much capturing his eccentricity.

[George2Loose]

The sex or the marathon?

Crikey George, what brings you to this diary? Quiet day at work? Good to see some of the Big Boys still pop in now & then.

Have to say, was chuffed to bits for you & Shelley after that Dublin bink. Wonderful news.

I'm a subscribed lurker Teeks. Most discussions on here go over my head. We were also chuffed. Dave stop of the year.

[Rod Paradise]

Bloody hell, went looking for a photo of Rod & found this.

Did that romance not finally start at a Blonde Bash at DTD? The one Jen won.