Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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Hi Rod, so nice to hear from you. Great photo.

It's lovely to remember times spent with your old man isn't it? Keep remembering and keep telling the stories.

What are you up to these days? Do you consider yourself an old fogey yet?

Definitely in the old fart territory, a few of my schoolmates are grandparents and I'm being invited to other mates' kids weddings.

Growing old disgracefully though, still up for a mosh pit & going to as many concerts and football matches as I can fit in.

My middle niece is in the Ireland team for the Euro Taekwondo Championships in Sarajevo in April, so that'll be another trip to a new country/city. Last year it was Lublin in Poland, a beautiful small city that I loved.

Poland is a beautiful country. Mrs Red & I once took a 10-hour train journey to Kraków from Berlin. It travelled so slowly that you could hop off, nip to the shop and hop back on again.

We spent most of the trip sitting on that little open air veranda thing at the back of the guard's van. Tony will know what it's called.

Once you get away from the cities, Poland is very old-fashioned in a women in pinnies with pies on the window sill, men in flat caps with axes on their shoulder, horse and carty sort of way.

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I watch the golf on sky sports germany if the stream is solid - one brief advert break every 20-30 mins. It is exactly the same coverage as used by sky uk and they simply show the pictures and one commentator talks. I sometimes watch the spanish coverage which has one break an hour.

Bien jugado.

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gut gemacht auch

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Hi Rod, so nice to hear from you. Great photo.

It's lovely to remember times spent with your old man isn't it? Keep remembering and keep telling the stories.

What are you up to these days? Do you consider yourself an old fogey yet?

Definitely in the old fart territory, a few of my schoolmates are grandparents and I'm being invited to other mates' kids weddings.

Growing old disgracefully though, still up for a mosh pit & going to as many concerts and football matches as I can fit in.

My middle niece is in the Ireland team for the Euro Taekwondo Championships in Sarajevo in April, so that'll be another trip to a new country/city. Last year it was Lublin in Poland, a beautiful small city that I loved.

Poland is a beautiful country. Mrs Red & I once took a 10-hour train journey to Kraków from Berlin. It travelled so slowly that you could hop off, nip to the shop and hop back on again.

We spent most of the trip sitting on that little open air veranda thing at the back of the guard's van. Tony will know what it's called.

Once you get away from the cities, Poland is very old-fashioned in a women in pinnies with pies on the window sill, men in flat caps with axes on their shoulder, horse and carty sort of way.

I've always called them "the lookout" or "verandah" but I believe the correct term is "ducket".

In around 2005, en route to EPT Deauville, Thewy, Stu Fox & his very refined girlfriend, plus bookiebasher, Devilfish & myself took the train from Paris to Deauville & mostly sat in the "verandah" after Devilfish, who had joined us in Paris, uninvited, told lewd stories non-stop all the way to the clear embarrassment of the young lady. We had bumped into Mr Ulliott in a Bar at Gare du Nord (sp?) in Paris. That's another story actually.

The train had those wonderful "compartments" too, so there was no escape, but it stopped at most stations so one by one we all escaped at the stations & removed ourselves to the verandah. By the time we reached Deauville, Devilfish was alone in our compartment.

We thought that'd be the end of it. We were wrong though. Very wrong. That's another another story now I think about it.

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The train we were on had a canteen carriage where one of those compartments had been allocated as a kitchen with a counter instead of a wall next to the corridor. There was no menu as such, just a load of raw meats, eggs, potatoes & bread etc sitting in plain view. You just told them what, and how much of it you wanted, and they cooked it for you on the spot. Then you took it back to your seat or on to the verandah to eat it.

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So add sky new zealand to the ad free golf viewing channels (although they were showing the ladies golf on another channel with ads dominated by retirement communities plugs).

So of the six pga tournaments played this year only one has been won by an American and even he's English. (Ralph used to back him a fair bit, I wonder if he was on).

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So add sky new zealand to the ad free golf viewing channels (although they were showing the ladies golf on another channel with ads dominated by retirement communities plugs).

So of the six pga tournaments played this year only one has been won by an American and even he's English. (Ralph used to back him a fair bit, I wonder if he was on).

Unfortunately not Dave

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My God Miss Jones. 70s TV wasn't as pure and wholesome as the stuff they show today.

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If you are going to buy something that you don't usually or regularly buy, do you review the various options online first? I do, especially if it's something electrical like a camera or a microwave. The trouble is I read so many that I go into a sort of review induced paralysis, unable to decide anything.

It doesn't help that there are as many bogus reviews out there as there are genuine ones.

The 50 best dish-washers in the world. Check our definitive guide now.

How can that be true? Surely there can only be one best one.

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And, to resolve an argument, which is most popular, tuna canned in brine or that disgusting oil?

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Also, when it's so cold that you can't feel your legs, have you gone past the point when you should have put your long Johns on?

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Also as well, if you want to eat 1800 calories per day, what is the optimum number of meals, what calorific split and at what intervals? 

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I try to look at the worst reviews to see what has gone wrong and try to work out if it's just bad luck or a symptom of a bad product

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I try to look at the worst reviews to see what has gone wrong and try to work out if it's just bad luck or a symptom of a bad product

Just what I need, another parameter.

Just started Silo BTW. I will report back.

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And, to resolve an argument, which is most popular, tuna canned in brine or that disgusting oil?

I far prefer it in olive oil but am equally sure that I'm in the minority