Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

Hi All,
Thanks for the welcome, and the trip down memory lane to some of the night life venues of yesteryear here in Pompey.
I have been following the site from the shadows for a while, thought I should sign up and join in to what looks like some good fun and banter.
Although I am just a recreational player, I was a little bit disappointed to be called a "bingo" player next door tonight. Especially as I won that particular leg of the FOSP PLO8 league (thinly veiled brag)
I aim to contribute to various blogs and hopefully make some new friends here.
Nick

Good to see you here, Nick.

I'm a little busy today, what with Dave, & a fair bit of stuff to sort Next Door, but over the weekend I'll make some introductions, & guide you around the better parts of blonde, as well as the places to avoid. 

Well done last night on your win, I took an early night as Gill is down for a few days. Don't think I'd need 3 guesses to suss who was giving you chatbox grief.

I played the UKOPS £55 PLO on Wednesday, that went well. Played exactly one hand & went busto in Level 1 I think. I flopped the world, & was struggling to see what he might have called me with after I 3 bet pre.  Must admit, 2-6-9-9 was some way down the list of likely hands I could give him credit for. A flopped set & turned quads was good though.   

GL if you are playing tonight. I'll probably miss tonight & tomorrow, then return to the fray on Sunday.

[tikay]

Gill went shopping today, whilst I was wading my way through all sorts of headaches Next Door.

When she returned, as is normal, I had to have a "viewing" of her purchases.

Amongst them was a Christmas Card which has a sixpenny bit, or "tanner" as we usad to know them, affixed to the front, so it could be placed in the Christmas Pud.

It threw my mind back 65 years, to Christmas's at Grandma Angell's. They always placed a sixpenny bit in the Christmas Pud, & it was the absolute highlight of Xmas Day to chew the Zmas Pud & find the tanner. These days folks would rather get excited by identifying Earthworms in Devon.

So the next day, we'd go to the corner shop & stock up on sweets - you could get a whole lot of sweets for a tanner. Doubt you could get a penny gobstopper for less than 2 bob now.

Jeez, I loved tanners, almost as lovely as half crowns.

[typhoon13]

Gill went shopping today, whilst I was wading my way through all sorts of headaches Next Door.

When she returned, as is normal, I had to have a "viewing" of her purchases.

Amongst them was a Christmas Card which has a sixpenny bit, or "tanner" as we usad to know them, affixed to the front, so it could be placed in the Christmas Pud.

It threw my mind back 65 years, to Christmas's at Grandma Angell's. They always placed a sixpenny bit in the Christmas Pud, & it was the absolute highlight of Xmas Day to chew the Zmas Pud & find the tanner. These days folks would rather get excited by identifying Earthworms in Devon.

So the next day, we'd go to the corner shop & stock up on sweets - you could get a whole lot of sweets for a tanner. Doubt you could get a penny gobstopper for less than 2 bob now.

Jeez, I loved tanners, almost as lovely as half crowns.

We had to make do with a thrupenny bit

[Karabiner]

Gill went shopping today, whilst I was wading my way through all sorts of headaches Next Door.

When she returned, as is normal, I had to have a "viewing" of her purchases.

Amongst them was a Christmas Card which has a sixpenny bit, or "tanner" as we usad to know them, affixed to the front, so it could be placed in the Christmas Pud.

It threw my mind back 65 years, to Christmas's at Grandma Angell's. They always placed a sixpenny bit in the Christmas Pud, & it was the absolute highlight of Xmas Day to chew the Zmas Pud & find the tanner. These days folks would rather get excited by identifying Earthworms in Devon.

So the next day, we'd go to the corner shop & stock up on sweets - you could get a whole lot of sweets for a tanner. Doubt you could get a penny gobstopper for less than 2 bob now.

Jeez, I loved tanners, almost as lovely as half crowns.

We had to make do with a thrupenny bit

We had silver thrupenny bits in ours too.

[Nakor]

Gill went shopping today, whilst I was wading my way through all sorts of headaches Next Door.

When she returned, as is normal, I had to have a "viewing" of her purchases.

Amongst them was a Christmas Card which has a sixpenny bit, or "tanner" as we usad to know them, affixed to the front, so it could be placed in the Christmas Pud.

It threw my mind back 65 years, to Christmas's at Grandma Angell's. They always placed a sixpenny bit in the Christmas Pud, & it was the absolute highlight of Xmas Day to chew the Zmas Pud & find the tanner. These days folks would rather get excited by identifying Earthworms in Devon.

So the next day, we'd go to the corner shop & stock up on sweets - you could get a whole lot of sweets for a tanner. Doubt you could get a penny gobstopper for less than 2 bob now.

Jeez, I loved tanners, almost as lovely as half crowns.

We had to make do with a thrupenny bit

We had silver thrupenny bits in ours too.

But you could of broken your teeth or choked. Glad we live in less crazy times.

[tikay]

Such sad news about El Blondie, always was such a gent RIP Dave

Please don't think I've forgotten this.

I've been blown away by this & that the last 3 weeks, & I want to devote a bit of time to writing a bit about Dave.

I probably knew him as well as anyone here, & I 100% bought into his belief that blonde should be a little different to other Forums, "poker with a smile" etc. blonde began when THM was un-moderated, then of course Betfair Forum demonstrated the very worst of internet dialogue & manners. Dave wanted blonde to be the opposite of all that.

Anyway, bear with me please, as I want to talk a good bit more about Dave, but I'm a bit pulled out right now.

[tikay]

Meanwhile, you cannot BEGIN to imagine how ill I am. Worst cough & cold ever ever ever.  

Childbirth would be far less painful, I'm quite sure of that.

Stocked up on patent medicines though. Can't fail to recover quickly.

[Woodsey]

Might be something to do with the fags hidden behind half that junk you don't need, then again I'm happy you are supporting the pharmaceutical industry 

[Rod Paradise]

Meanwhile, you cannot BEGIN to imagine how ill I am. Worst cough & cold ever ever ever.  

Childbirth would be far less painful, I'm quite sure of that.

Stocked up on patent medicines though. Can't fail to recover quickly.

I'm getting over a full month of it. The bug went into extra time because i got a chest infection that the docs wouldn't give an antibiotic for until it had 2 weeks to screw me right up.

Best thing of the illness, Mum decided to keep me going with chicken broth. a few chicken wings boiled in some chicken stock, then the meat stripped and added back in, delicious.

[doubleup]

Meanwhile, you cannot BEGIN to imagine how ill I am. Worst cough & cold ever ever ever.  

Childbirth would be far less painful, I'm quite sure of that.

Stocked up on patent medicines though. Can't fail to recover quickly.

beechams all in one ftw

[tikay]

Meanwhile, you cannot BEGIN to imagine how ill I am. Worst cough & cold ever ever ever.  

Childbirth would be far less painful, I'm quite sure of that.

Stocked up on patent medicines though. Can't fail to recover quickly.

I'm getting over a full month of it. The bug went into extra time because i got a chest infection that the docs wouldn't give an antibiotic for until it had 2 weeks to screw me right up.

Best thing of the illness, Mum decided to keep me going with chicken broth. a few chicken wings boiled in some chicken stock, then the meat stripped and added back in, delicious.

Well I'm really sorry to hear you have been a tad off colour, Rod, but you don't seem to grasp the enormity of my malaise. Doubt I could even eat chicken broth, I'm so ill. Gill was down for the weekend, so she made me Afternoon Tea, with scones & cream, which I forced down. 

Things got worse overnight though. As I'm coughing & sneezing non-stop, I'm taking all sorts of medicine & stuff. And that in turn led to a bit of a tummy upset.  And let me tell you this, you have not lived on the edge until you have had a major coughing & sneezing fit whilst in the midst of a volatile tummy upset. Never quite sure what might happen.

Seriously scary stuff. 

[tikay]

Talking of Afternoon Tea, this was Gill's home-made version at the weekend. Have to say, if we lived together I'd pretty soon be 20 stone.

The scones were home-made, too. Delish. Proper pot of tea, china cups & everything. 

[tikay]

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[tikay]

What's the recipe today, Jimmy?

Poor old Jimmy Young died yesterday - he was 95. He was the Chris Evans of his day.

I first listened to him on Radio Luxembourg, before Radio 1 & the Pirate Stations arrived.

Not just a DJ, but a quality interviewer as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Young_(broadcaster)


BFN Jimmy.