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Oldsparkey

Oldsparkey

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Lost my specs the day before yesterday. Only need them for close up work like reading but I hadn't been outside my garden gate since I last remember having them. Turned the house upside down and turned the garage inside out yesterday but no luck - the wife was going potty. Sent the dogs out into the garden on a sniffing trail but they were bloody useless.

Happened to go down this morning to where I keep a watering can to dilute the dog pee on the lawn (when I catch the little buggers doing it) - I hate those brown dead grass spots that they cause. Lent over to pick up the can and a pen I had loose in my top shirt pocket fell out into a small shrub. Bollocks I thought, I'd better get it back - and what do you think?

There in the little shrub was my pen - and right next to it were my specs - I must have done exactly the same with them but hadn't noticed. Well we need something to talk about before our big new signings are announced.....<laugh>
 
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Oldsparkey said:
Lost my specs the day before yesterday. Only need them for close up work like reading but I hadn't been outside my garden gate since I last remember having them. Turned the house upside down and turned the garage inside out yesterday but no luck - the wife was going potty. Sent the dogs out into the garden on a sniffing trail but they were bloody useless.

Happened to go down this morning to where I keep a watering can to dilute the dog pee on the lawn (when I catch the little buggers doing it) - I hate those brown dead grass spots that they cause. Lent over to pick up the can and a pen I had loose in my top shirt pocket fell out into a small shrub. Bollocks I thought, I'd better get it back - and what do you think?

There in the little shrub was my pen - and right next to it were my specs - I must have done exactly the same with them but hadn't noticed. Well we need something to talk about before our big new signings are announced.....<laugh>
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Shirt pockets!!!!
Pens!!!!

What sort of retired gentleman (and I use that in the loosest sense of the word) are you?
 
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ccfcremotesupport said:
Shirt pockets!!!!
Pens!!!!

What sort of retired gentleman (and I use that in the loosest sense of the word) are you?
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The shirts are casual cheapos from Tu @Sainsburys, and the pen was one of a Bic pack from Wilkies - I know how to live the sophisticated retired life.

What would have broken my heart would have been forking out a couple of hundred quid for new glasses. <doh>
 
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Shirts!?!?!?
We used to have to peel a hedgehog and wear the skin inside out as a vest - if we're lucky
 
Oldsparkey said:
The shirts are casual cheapos from Tu @Sainsburys, and the pen was one of a Bic pack from Wilkies - I know how to live the sophisticated retired life.

What would have broken my heart would have been forking out a couple of hundred quid for new glasses. <doh>
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My reading glasses are £1.50 over readers.

Before I retired, most of my scruffy gardening / working at the small holding were casual stuff that had got a bit scruffy.
Now I spend more time in scruffies than anything else.
As a result I have to BUY scruffies.
T-Shirts at £5 for 2, jeans at £16 for 2 pairs.
Never mind Sainsburys, Asda is my current brand.<cheers>
 
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ccfcremotesupport said:
My reading glasses are £1.50 over readers.

Before I retired, most of my scruffy gardening / working at the small holding were casual stuff that had got a bit scruffy.
Now I spend more time in scruffies than anything else.
As a result I have to BUY scruffies.
T-Shirts at £5 for 2, jeans at £16 for 2 pairs.
Never mind Sainsburys, Asda is my current brand.<cheers>
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I wouldn't stoop that low.....<laugh>
 
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william5551 said:
This morning i was going down stairs to the garage and half way down i thought was i going down or coming up,in the end i gave up and went and had a cup of tea,old age is a terrible thing but better than being back at school.
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I haven't had that problem yet but at least I still remember where my garage is.
 
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