I got mine last week, I'll get it then have to pay it back.
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I got mine last week, I'll get it then have to pay it back.
BoldonLad
Not part of the Elite
- Location
- South Tyneside
Mine arrived this morning, still waiting for Mrs B's. When it arrives, I may allow her an extra notch on the heating control 😂
mistyoptic
Vintage
- Location
- A parallel reality
Me too, which seems an enormous administrative effort for nothing
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
- Location
- North Wales
Mrs G has received hers: £200. I am still wait for mine.
Saw Mrs Tkk and granddaughter off on the train to London. Got home and stripped the beds, all in the WM and then on the clothes horse in the back bedroom with the dehumidifier on full blast.
Finally relaxed after a week of two grandchildren to cope with ( though its great fun but quite tiring)
Message pops up " Dave is 82 today, fancy a pint with him? " . So, up the road in torrential rain to meet up. Two pints later with the usual P*ss taking and all is well with the world.
Finally relaxed after a week of two grandchildren to cope with ( though its great fun but quite tiring)
Message pops up " Dave is 82 today, fancy a pint with him? " . So, up the road in torrential rain to meet up. Two pints later with the usual P*ss taking and all is well with the world.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
no wfa for me today
we do not get our OAP until next year
so basically you lot are older than me
but i am older than my wife - by 13 days
we do not get our OAP until next year
so basically you lot are older than me
but i am older than my wife - by 13 days
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Two WFA letters today. £100 each for me and Mrs P. Thank you.
Paul, what would you like to do today? Go cycling or...........
........build your granddaughter's new birthday bed. She's five tomorrow.
I got home and Mrs P asked "Are you done?" I replied in the affirmative and "mentioned" I would not be making tea.
No one told me about the bed. Tomorrow I go back for the mirror, shelves and curtains!
Paul, what would you like to do today? Go cycling or...........
........build your granddaughter's new birthday bed. She's five tomorrow.
I got home and Mrs P asked "Are you done?" I replied in the affirmative and "mentioned" I would not be making tea.
No one told me about the bed. Tomorrow I go back for the mirror, shelves and curtains!
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ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
Just to say - she will grow out of that ina few years when she will be too tall to sit up in it
our grand daughter's was about a foot closer to the ceiling and I felt sorry for her until it got taken down about a year ago - when she was 12!!!!
A very good friend is 82 today, met him and his brother this evening for an impromptu drink. Pete, the brother recently took a tumble and face planted doing significant damage to his nose. Nothing that pulling the cork on a wine bottle to use, cut in half, as a straighter. This was, of course, held in place by a piece of slotted plumbing pipe anchored with sellotape to both cheeks...
fritz katzenjammer
Der Ubergrosserbudgie
So I gave up motorcycling this past summer. I figured I had survived 47 years of it with no major damage so why push my luck in the currently depreciating traffic situation… you know, too many idiots on cell phones.
So today I stripped all the armour out of my bike jackets so I could wear them comfortably in the normal world. Beats the hell out of tossing an 800 dollar jacket right.
So now what do I do with this pile of armour? Some of it, the orange stuff, is that high tech reactive stuff. Soft sponge until you hit it sharply, at which point it instantly goes rigid, returning to squidgy soft immediately after. Cool stuff. The science types call it a non-Newtonian polymer.
Might make some interesting toys for the bedroom?!
So today I stripped all the armour out of my bike jackets so I could wear them comfortably in the normal world. Beats the hell out of tossing an 800 dollar jacket right.
So now what do I do with this pile of armour? Some of it, the orange stuff, is that high tech reactive stuff. Soft sponge until you hit it sharply, at which point it instantly goes rigid, returning to squidgy soft immediately after. Cool stuff. The science types call it a non-Newtonian polymer.
Might make some interesting toys for the bedroom?!
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Pretty much our view as well. Still what do grandparents know about childraising? It's not like we've done it before. 🤔
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
That must have involved a lot of careful unpicking and restitching. Interesting to read about this sort of material as it's new to me. I think my approach would be to sell the jacket and use those funds to buy a civilian one.
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
Morning. Colder again but dry at the moment.
