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Post by WDB on Aug 24, 2017 13:39:35 GMT
Boy 1 turned in a remarkably good set of GCSE results this morning - including two 8s and a 9 on the new scale that is apparently too hard for certain media types to understand. Nothing to do with me, as he did all the work. S'pose he deserves a bit of a treat now.
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Post by Alanović on Aug 24, 2017 13:44:26 GMT
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Post by WDB on Aug 24, 2017 13:49:10 GMT
Sadly spot-on. 😳
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Post by Alanović on Aug 24, 2017 14:02:36 GMT
Gots to be The French Horn if you really want to bore him stupid.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2017 14:30:31 GMT
Congratulations.
The reward should be a goodly number of driving lessons when he turns 17.
That's how my sons were rewarded.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2017 8:18:16 GMT
Congratulations!
What does No1 son enjoy? Do millennials even aspire to driving and car ownership especially in the south-east?
My eldest son is 24, has had his licence 6 years. To him a car is a device that has a function nothing more or less. If he lived in a city he wouldn't have a car.
When we visit family in Edinburgh we use buses and trams to go anywhere inside the bypass, driving and parking is just too time consuming due to road layouts rather than congestion.
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Post by Humph on Aug 26, 2017 8:52:06 GMT
Guy I know lives in Corstorphine ( Edinburgh suburb ) and has offices in George St. ( city centre) He's a car nut but uses a Vespa to get to and from work.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2017 16:06:50 GMT
We've got family who live on Balgreen Road near the Zoo. It can be a RPITA getting out and into town at the wrong times of day.
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Post by Humph on Aug 27, 2017 16:17:30 GMT
I nearly bought a house on Balgreen Road. About 1985 or so. Would've cost me £54,000, which seemed rather a lot to me then.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2017 16:37:33 GMT
You might get a tent on a the park land between Balgreen Rd and Balgreen Park now. 1985 eh ! I was 16, mortgages hadn't even crossed my mind then.
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Post by Rob on Aug 27, 2017 16:59:33 GMT
I was 15 and doing O Levels... Mortgages not on my mind then either.
I have stayed at the hotel next to the zoo a few times for work. If you were on the wrong side of the hotel and left your window open at night, you got woken up early by the sound of various animals.
I wonder which house Humph was looking at. Valuation on Zoopla of number 20 is £394k but 23 is £498k. Could have been a good investment. But then again, in 1985 my current house was probably less than £40k and is now over £300k.... so all property is a good long term investment which we all know.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2017 17:03:12 GMT
I have stayed at the hotel next to the zoo a few times for work. If you were on the wrong side of the hotel and left your window open at night, you got woken up early by the sound of various animals. Nothing worse than noisy pandas humping. |
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Post by Rob on Aug 27, 2017 17:06:26 GMT
I never did stay on that side of the hotel. It was the lions that woke colleagues and not pandas :-)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2017 17:39:23 GMT
ROOOAAAARRR! Had to be done  |
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Post by Alanović on Aug 29, 2017 9:31:49 GMT
4th form in 1985. O Levels next year.
I lived sufficiently close to the former Windsor Safari Park to be awoken by hungry lions some mornings. A girlfriend (she of the infamous Alfasud) lived right at the boundary and sometimes had giraffes browsing (old sense) the trees along the garden boundary.
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