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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2023 9:36:30 GMT
600m to the gym and you walked ! Are you mad man ? That's what your EV is for. I'll bet there are members who live closer than you who do use their car. Funny thing age. I loved a pint or glass of wine or two or three. That was most nights in my 30s, in my 40s I liked a drink at the weekend, Friday or Saturday evening. Now I'm in my 50s it's more birthdays, holidays, Christmas type drink. The quality of the drink has gone up while the quantity has collapsed to almost not worth bothering to count. Is this normal ? Yeah, perfectly. Similar is happening to me. Mainly driven by extended recovery times and an unwillingness to suffer for so long.... |
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Post by bpg on Dec 11, 2023 12:49:49 GMT
It's not recovery time or suffering for me, I just don't, or very rarely, actually want an alcoholic drink these days.
If someone asks me if I want a drink it's usually fizzy water or tea that I actually want. Occasionally, a sugary beverage of indeterminate caffeine or orange flavour though never the diet variety. Suppose that will be next
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Post by EspadaIII on Dec 11, 2023 14:13:41 GMT
I am trying to wean myself off carbonated zero sugar drinks. I will only have a coffee if it is not instant, so usually it's tea, fizzy water or alcohol (whisky or wine but never when driving).
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Post by Humph on Dec 11, 2023 14:16:15 GMT
I don’t drink whisky or wine before driving never mind when driving.
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Post by EspadaIII on Dec 11, 2023 14:18:08 GMT
There's always one - and it's always you!
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Post by Humph on Jan 25, 2024 10:20:10 GMT
Here’s a little bit of trivia that I’m irrationally pleased with.
I have a couple of Le Tricoteur guernsey jumpers that I’ve had since the early 1980s. A navy one and a dark green one. Purchased in Jenners department store in Edinburgh sometime around 1982.
They have been dragged out for winter service over jeans ever since and had proven pretty much indestructible.
However, the blue one had started to fray a bit at the neck this year.
On a whim I got in touch with the company and the upshot is that they have repaired it for £15 + postage.
Should see me out now eh?
Buy once buy good etc!
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Post by WDB on Jan 25, 2024 10:26:25 GMT
That’s excellent. Both sheep would be pleased — the blue one and the green one.
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Post by Humph on Jan 25, 2024 10:29:10 GMT
Do sheep live that long?
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Post by WDB on Jan 25, 2024 10:52:00 GMT
No. Mutton dressed as shepherd’s pie. Hence ‘would’, not ‘will’. 🤓
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Post by bpg on Jan 25, 2024 11:26:13 GMT
I notice Humph didn't say they'd be repaired with wool.
They'd have to be very good to colour match the material with something 40 years old that's been through various washing machines and soap powders/cleaning agents.
Maybe they've gone a bit geography teacher and wrapped a bit of leather or corduroy around the seam.
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Post by Humph on Jan 25, 2024 11:31:53 GMT
I await its return with bated breath. Thing with guernseys is that you’re not really supposed to wash them. Ideally you just sponge any marks off them and leave them outside on a dry day to freshen them up. Oddly and counterintuitively enough, that works.
I’ve got the green one on now and no one here has fainted from the smell!
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Post by bpg on Jan 25, 2024 11:50:05 GMT
Sorry, I (probably incorrectly) assumed they'd had a silver jubilee trip to the dry cleaners hence the cleaning agent comment.
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Post by Humph on Jan 25, 2024 11:53:44 GMT
Easy assumption to make. No worries, but it seems a bit premature to have them cleaned just yet.
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Post by WDB on Jan 25, 2024 12:21:29 GMT
Maybe they've gone a bit geography teacher and wrapped a bit of leather or corduroy around the seam. I bought a Harris Tweed jacket on a whim in Oxford the other week. It was just hanging there, and it fitted — which happens seldom enough to get my attention. No leather patches yet, but it has those leather buttons like tiny 1960s footballs. I can even undo all four on each cuff, not that I’d ever need to do that. Funny thing is, I didn’t even do geography at O-level. Haven’t studied it at all since I was 12, in fact. But the moment I slipped this jacket on, I found I could tell a scree slope from an oxbow lake, and identify the route for sugar beet exports from the nearest coniferous forest. Uncanny. I’m not wearing it now and I’ve no idea what any of that means. |
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Post by Humph on Jan 25, 2024 13:37:11 GMT
Sounds a bit like my jumpers. They provide temporary knowledge of deep sea fishing and the ability to sail yachts.
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