Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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It's ok, you can stop worrying now, I'm home.

Its not all over though. Apparently  they can only do one side at a time because it would be too much steroid to have all at once, so I have to have the other side done next week.

I tried explaining that I'm no ordinary man but they wouldn't listen.

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Super nit with the expenses

Gl for March.

I thought the expenses were on the high side considering the fact that I didn't hit any kerbs or anything.

It's the price of bloody diesel that does it. £1.43 per litre.

This really winds me up, remember in the 90's when we boycotted petrol stations during the price hike, now we think it's an acceptable price, it's a necessity that's traded in a roguish way which has now caused such a hike, the supply of Crude hasn't gone down but the price has consistently gone up... Rant over!! Gonna start riding my bicycle from now on...
     

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Sadly, I can remember petrol costing 5/- (five shillings) per gallon. That's about 5p a litre, and  there was an assistant to pump it for you.

When I passed my driving test in 1974 I was mortified because it had gone up to 50p a gallon.

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Sadly, I can remember petrol costing 5/- (five shillings) per gallon. That's about 5p a litre, and  there was an assistant to pump it for you.

When I passed my driving test in 1974 I was mortified because it had gone up to 50p a gallon.

 whilst I was visiting India in 1996, Our driver stopped to fuel the car up, the station had an assistant, so the driver said fill the tank please, whilst the guy was filling us up another guy came out the petrol station and without warning started to attack the guy filling our tank up, we got out the car and watched these two men fighting (TBF I was jet lagged or would have tried to at least stop it) in the end the man filling us up stopped fighting and ran off, obviously bemused by the situation we asked the guy that came out of the petrol station (Wearing a name badge that said Jeff on it) what on earth was going on? he told us that the man didn't work at or for the petrol station but was just a random man trying to get us to pay for his fuel, he then showed us a pipe leading to a  bucket which our petrol was actually going into lol..  Since then I've never trusted Petrol station assistants or Indians lol

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Sadly, I can remember petrol costing 5/- (five shillings) per gallon. That's about 5p a litre, and  there was an assistant to pump it for you.

When I passed my driving test in 1974 I was mortified because it had gone up to 50p a gallon.

 whilst I was visiting India in 1996, Our driver stopped to fuel the car up, the station had an assistant, so the driver said fill the tank please, whilst the guy was filling us up another guy came out the petrol station and without warning started to attack the guy filling our tank up, we got out the car and watched these two men fighting (TBF I was jet lagged or would have tried to at least stop it) in the end the man filling us up stopped fighting and ran off, obviously bemused by the situation we asked the guy that came out of the petrol station (Wearing a name badge that said Jeff on it) what on earth was going on? he told us that the man didn't work at or for the petrol station but was just a random man trying to get us to pay for his fuel, he then showed us a pipe leading to a  bucket which our petrol was actually going into lol..  Since then I've never trusted Petrol station assistants or Indians lol

That's a great story Mr B. A visit to India is definitely on my bucket list.

When I was young I used to keep a five gallon can and a syphoning pipe in my van so that when I needed diesel I could pull into a transport cafe and bung a driver a quid to let me help myself to a fill up while he ate his dinner.

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I replaced our old gas cooker with a new one today. (And before you ask, yes. I am Corgi registered).

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Nothing remarkable there I hear you say.

Well what about this....

I had to wait for half an hour while Mrs Red cleaned the underside, (that's the bit that goes on the floor) of the new cooker.

Sigh!

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If there was ever a house where you really could "eat off the floor" as my old dad used to say about people's homes that were spotlessly clean then that would be Mrs Red's floor.

No speck of dust would dare to inhabit it.

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If there was ever a house where you really could "eat off the floor" as my old dad used to say about people's homes that were spotlessly clean then that would be Mrs Red's floor.

No speck of dust would dare to inhabit it.

She's mellowed a lot in her old age Ralph. Ask Tony about the dirty pots in the sink.


Having said that, she once washed the video recorder, inside and out.

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Gas Safe Register ftw 

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Gas Safe Register ftw 

Yes, I'm on that as well.

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Get this book and read it. I will be asking questions later.


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sliding-Snow-Stone-ebook/dp/B005OSABPC#reader_B005OSABPC

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If there was ever a house where you really could "eat off the floor" as my old dad used to say about people's homes that were spotlessly clean then that would be Mrs Red's floor.

No speck of dust would dare to inhabit it.

She's mellowed a lot in her old age Ralph. Ask Tony about the dirty pots in the sink.


Having said that, she once washed the video recorder, inside and out.

Every time I visit the sink is full of dirty pots.

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I was playing the 1/1 cash game at DTD on Sunday night and I kept getting tangled up with this slightly overweight Chinese bloke.

I has some monster hands against him and I won a few quid, but only small amounts. Somehow he always managed to escape before the showdown, and every time he put me on my exact hand, even when it was well disguised.

I can't remember his name. Frankie or something is it?

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New cooker = Entry in fry up thread?

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One night this weekend, may have been Saturday, you spent approximately 8 hours to the direct left of a gorgeous looking lady with long flowing hair on the £1-1

As I wistfully looked on, you were schmoozing away, and she smiled shyly. I turned and wrote down a hand in the comp involving Lawrence Gosney

Someone had it right, and it wasn't me!