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Forum: General Chat 27-02-2022, 11:53
Replies: 10
Views: 11
Posted By Gremlin
Re: Thanks Accy Web

You are too kind Margaret. But I am a tryer.
Forum: General Chat 02-02-2022, 12:43
Replies: 10
Views: 11
Posted By Gremlin
Thanks Accy Web

Thank you to Accy Web for the birthday wishes.
Who’d have thought in 1939 I’d still be alive and reasonably active.
I don’t put as much on here as I used to do as I have lost interest in...
Forum: General Chat 30-12-2021, 19:57
Replies: 34
Views: 35
Posted By Gremlin
Re: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

I'm a bit late joining this thread but Merry Christmas and a healthy covid free 2022 to you all. Best wishes from Yorkshire.
Forum: General Chat 30-12-2021, 19:55
Replies: 17
Views: 18
Posted By Gremlin
Re: christmas .. memories or do you still do it?

I usually give cash to the bin men and postman. It makes no difference though, they still leave my bin two doors away after emptying the thing.
Forum: Accy Photos 30-12-2021, 19:53
Replies: 10
Views: 11
Posted By Gremlin
Re: Horse Shoe Pub

I used to sup in the Horseshoe around the late 60,s and 70,s. Stan Hindle was my drinking buddy. He lived next door at the time. Philamenia lived next to Stan, she was a pianist (not bad when...
Forum: Anything Goes 28-10-2021, 20:42
Replies: 13
Views: 14
Posted By Gremlin
Re: Have you ever had a scary moment?

Six months after the death of my lovely wife June I had a friend and his wife call to see me.
They were sat at my kitchen table while I made them a coffee and then I was stood in the centre of the...
Forum: Accy Photos 11-10-2021, 20:19
Replies: 14,275
Views: 412,812
Posted By Gremlin
Re: Today in pictures

I don’t know how long it’s been since you visit the memorial but they’ve improved the car park including coach bays.
Also a memorial garden which was well tendered with wreathes etc.
We didn’t go...
Forum: Accy Photos 10-10-2021, 21:04
Replies: 14,275
Views: 412,812
Posted By Gremlin
Re: Today in pictures

Commando memorial between Fort William and Fort Augustus.
Gondola ride up the Nevis range. Taken from a swaying gondola through Perspex doesn't show the real beauty of Scotland.58401
Forum: Accy Photos 10-10-2021, 21:00
Replies: 14,275
Views: 412,812
Posted By Gremlin
Re: Today in pictures

58400We have just had a few days at Fort William and enjoyed a ride on the Jacobite train, taking photos hanging out of a moving carriage isn't the easiest trick.
On previewing my post which...
Forum: Buy, Sell n Swap & Wanted 20-06-2021, 16:15
Replies: 1
Views: 2
Posted By Gremlin
Re: Strimmer and Flymower £70

Both machines have now got a new owner.
Forum: General Chat 16-05-2021, 19:30
Replies: 2,532
Views: 2,533
Posted By Gremlin
Re: Corona Virus

I am due to go to a clinic in Bolton soon to have a cataract removed and not knowing Bolton we decided to have a dummy run today. We had no intention of getting out of the car or even opening the...
Forum: Buy, Sell n Swap & Wanted 14-05-2021, 12:45
Replies: 1
Views: 2
Posted By Gremlin
Strimmer and Flymower £70

After struggling to get a small lawn behind our property looking decent we finally decided to pave it all over. So surplus to requirements are BLACK+DECKER 18V Cordless 28 cm String Grass Trimmer...
Forum: General Chat 02-05-2021, 10:36
Replies: 24
Views: 25
Posted By Gremlin
Re: Pen Pals?

Hi mate, do you remember the "Dear Johns" or "Blueys" we used to get from our girls friends back home when they decided they were madly in love with somebody else. Some squaddies would have a...
Forum: General Chat 24-04-2021, 10:11
Replies: 24
Views: 25
Posted By Gremlin
Re: Pen Pals?

When I was in the forces I had a couple of pen pals who wrote regularly. That was up to the early 60's. Now I have a friend who I worked with in the 60's and 70's and he writes a few times a...
Forum: Buy, Sell n Swap & Wanted 03-04-2021, 09:26
Replies: 2
Views: 3
Posted By Gremlin
Re: Meccano

Thanks for the enquiries about the Meccano.
It has now gone off to a new home with a very nice gentleman who seems delighted with all the gears and parts. He already has plans for what he’s going...
Forum: Buy, Sell n Swap & Wanted 30-03-2021, 14:08
Replies: 2
Views: 3
Posted By Gremlin
Meccano

Over the years I've collected Meccano and built some fine models.

I've now decided to get rid of it all. Some brand new, some like new, some a bit worn but all in useable condition.
There must...
Forum: General Chat 11-03-2021, 21:34
Replies: 21
Views: 22
Posted By Gremlin
Re: Pinocchio and the Ginger Whinger.

I heard a presenter on LBC radio the other night refer to the farce of the couple's talk show as The hazard, sparkle and Oopla show.
Forum: General Chat 25-02-2021, 20:40
Replies: 48
Views: 49
Posted By Gremlin
Re: Nuisance Calls

I just hang up if I think the call is a bit dodgy, then dial 1572, then press 1 and that number is on the blocked list.
Forum: General Chat 07-02-2021, 08:53
Replies: 5
Views: 6
Posted By Gremlin
Re: Thanks

Thanks Taddy, Yes I had the "Little prick" a couple of weeks ago and may I say how smoothly the who operation went, credit to the staff and organisers at the Acorn Centre.
Forum: General Chat 03-02-2021, 10:09
Replies: 5
Views: 6
Posted By Gremlin
Thanks

Thank you to Accy Web for the best wishes on my birthday.
I could find better ways to celebrate my 82nd birthday rather than being locked in due to contact with a covid carrier, although I received...
Forum: General Chat 15-12-2020, 08:33
Replies: 37
Views: 38
Posted By Gremlin
Re: Christmas Presents (the best and the worst)

That’s exactly how we both feel about presents Margaret.
Get something useful which you want or need rather than something which would probably lay in a drawer unused.
Forum: General Chat 14-12-2020, 19:06
Replies: 37
Views: 38
Posted By Gremlin
Re: Christmas Presents (the best and the worst)

I got my handmaiden exactly what she wanted for Christmas and she is delighted.
1. I paid a man to power wash all the patio steps and flag stone paths.
2. I paid a man to fix automatic security...
Forum: General Chat 14-12-2020, 18:54
Replies: 2,532
Views: 2,533
Posted By Gremlin
Re: Corona Virus

My cousin who lives in Poulton le Fylde and is 84 had the vaccine last Friday afternoon.
This afternoon (Monday) he told me that as yet he has no reactions. I'm 82 in February and when I get the...
Forum: General Chat 15-08-2020, 14:04
Replies: 31
Views: 32
Posted By Gremlin
Re: Price

I have read a few articles about this horrendous event and how some people say that the convicted youth was incapable of the crime.
I wonder if another member or members of his community were...
Forum: General Chat 17-05-2020, 15:07
Replies: 2,532
Views: 2,533
Posted By Gremlin
Re: Corona Virus

Just after my wife died I had to do my own shopping until I organised home delivery.
Wandering aimlessly around Tesco, not having a clue where things were I spotted a neighbour looking at me and I...
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