The Retirement Thread

[ebikeerwidnes]

I am watching the athletics which, today and tomorrow, is the women's heptathlon.
Many of the sports stagger me ie how do the pole vaulted do that ?
Re' the heptathlon, how can any person be so good at so many different events?

Yup - we had a pole valut thing at our school
but that was in the old days when boys were tough

just a sand pit to land in and not of this woke nancy boy padding to land on!!!

and the pole was just a steel tube - can;t see it would bend at all!!!

funnily enough I never tried it - but as I was famous for being able to clear higher hurdles than High Jumps then they probably never even considered suggesting it!!!
(as someone said -" never seen a high jump bar he couldn't knock off")

 

[gavroche]

Bonjour tout le monde.
Mrs G is out at her usual meeting with lady friends on a Friday.
I have taken Molly out twice already this morning cos I am bored and I can't go for a ride as it is too windy.
No idea what I will do this afternoon.

 

[welsh dragon]

Housework done. Car vacuumed. Steak egg and fries today maybe. Def steak, not sure about what else.

 

[Dave7]

Yup - we had a pole valut thing at our school
but that was in the old days when boys were tough

just a sand pit to land in and not of this woke nancy boy padding to land on!!!

and the pole was just a steel tube - can;t see it would bend at all!!!

funnily enough I never tried it - but as I was famous for being able to clear higher hurdles than High Jumps then they probably never even considered suggesting it!!!
(as someone said -" never seen a high jump bar he couldn't knock off")

I was about 14 when we were introduced to the javelin.
I had just 1 throw, nearly killed a lad and was not allowed to throw it again .

 

[rustybolts]

Dash the Greyhound usually sleeps through the night (and most of the day) but last night she wanted to go out at 3.30 am. Anyway with no moon showing Orion was making a good display in the northern sky.

"really some people have no idea of where things should be posted!!! "

 

[Baldy]

I was about 14 when we were introduced to the javelin.
I had just 1 throw, nearly killed a lad and was not allowed to throw it again .

Did javelin and discus from age 11, we were never really supervised, they just dished out the kit and left us to it. In fact unless you were into rugby the PE teacher didn't want to know. Perhaps surprisingly no one was actually killed.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I was about 14 when we were introduced to the javelin.
I had just 1 throw, nearly killed a lad and was not allowed to throw it again .

I was OK at that
one lunchtime a few of us went to a coaching session with helped a lot

The session was held on the criskit pitch whichwas in the centre of the school (yes - one of "those" schools"

Hence sometime teachers and prefects would cut across it as a shortcut - but there were warning signs ou

I got the hang of throwing it put it all together on one throw - which went far further than anyone expected and landed "not all that far" behind a teacher that was cutting across the pitch!!!

It was behind him and he didn;t notice
but the teacher in charge went over and put the warning posts quite bit further away after that

After that I always got an A standard in the yearly athletic tests
I was always rubbish at running so I was never considered for general athletic stuff (they did a lot of running for some reason)
but I was good at chucking stuff
and far faster at hurdles that the 100m - for some reason!

 

[Dave7]

Did javelin and discus from age 11, we were never really supervised, they just dished out the kit and left us to it. In fact unless you were into rugby the PE teacher didn't want to know. Perhaps surprisingly no one was actually killed.

Bear with me here..........
As a lad our house backed onto the (steam) railway lines. That was a main playground for us young lads.
For miles the rail ballast was millions/tons of those flint type stones.
Gang fights were 2 groups of lads trying to brain each other with stones and although I was small** I became proficient and accurate.
**at age 15 I was just 4' 10".
Our school sports included 'throwing the cricket ball' and although small I always came 1st in that.
I came last or thereabouts in most other events.

 

[Drago]

Glass cut, garden tidied.

 

[numbnuts]

I found my walk hard going today and I was quite tired when I got home
I'll just put it down the the warm weather as it is 25c here.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Bear with me here..........
As a lad our house backed onto the (steam) railway lines. That was a main playground for us young lads.
For miles the rail ballast was millions/tons of those flint type stones.
Gang fights were 2 groups of lads trying to brain each other with stones and although I was small** I became proficient and accurate.
**at age 15 I was just 4' 10".
Our school sports included 'throwing the cricket ball' and although small I always came 1st in that.
I came last or thereabouts in most other events.

SO it wasn;t a gang fight

it was athletic training

I do remember a certain group of people in my class in the 5th Form (Year11 in metric) used to go to an unused classroom and have "battles" using board rubbers
which were wood and quite large

I tended to drift off at that point on the grounds
a) getting hit by one would hurt
b) the noise could well attract someone who would not be best pleased
Our form roon was in a normally unused part of the school
because upper floor of a main classroom block had a problem with the room so it was closed - all except the Staff room (???)


anyway - no one died

 

[PaulSB]

We've been to Frameless the immersive art gallery in London. Absolutely astonishing. It's very emotional. The art is well-known but completely remained and the images are displayed on all surfaces. Children from crawling to 5 or 6 were chasing the lights and colours.......as were some of the adults.

If you get to London do go. Amazing stuff.

 

[PaulSB]

Yeah, That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight

 

[PeteXXX]

We've been to Frameless the immersive art gallery in London. Absolutely astonishing. It's very emotional. The art is well-known but completely remained and the images are displayed on all surfaces. Children from crawling to 5 or 6 were chasing the lights and colours.......as were some of the adults.

If you get to London do go. Amazing stuff.

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I visited Frameless with my granddaughter a while ago. We loved it! 😍

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Just phone up the holiday company to check a few detail before we go away

one of the things was the details of travel
we are being picked up from a nearby bus stop about 1.5 miles away
it is too far to walk at 3 in the morning with cases and stuff
and, it turns out, it is a taxi as it is just is from here - and it takes us to Runcorn

We asked it we could have the name of the company as we could ring them and "do a deal" form them to pick us up from home for bit extra direct from us
But they won;t tell us

they do offer a guaranteed "pick up from home" service
which costs £90!!!


so - basically - they will arrange 2 1.5 miles taxi ride for £90


we said no