Off Topic Away from football....

[ccfcremotesupport]

Yes, seen his programmes with Bob Mortimer. Very relaxed low key and amusing viewing. Bob has been very ill lately. I always thought him funnier than Vic Reeves.

Mrs BfB and I went to Wimbledon (tennis not football) a few years ago. Always good for bumping into famous people. We were walking towards the main entrance when I saw a guy I recognised. I nudged Mrs BfB and said, "Look its.......".

At this point Paul Whitehouse looked at me and smiled as he thought I was going to say his name. Unfortunately I totally blanked and couldn't remember it. Totally embarrassed I quickly ushered Mrs BfB through the gate. He must have thought "What a to$$er"!!!

Others walked past there include Terry Wogan (he was alive then), Ille Nastase, Alistair MacGowan - I gave him the thumbs up and he returned the favour. Most miserable one was Stato from the Skinner and Baddiel football shows. A few guys started chanting "Stato, Stato". Instead of waving or just acknowledging he just got his head down, turned and walked the other way. Miserable git.

I could have changed history. Passing a players door to Number 1 Court. A guy walked out who I recognised. I said to a bloke next to me "Is that Federer?". He confirmed. Now if I had kicked Federer's legs from under him and pushed him down the steep concrete stairs tennis history could have been so different.

As an angler I find the programme superficial in one way, but they've probably done as much as any when it comes to raising the profile of angling.
Just a couple mates on a day out, having a natter.

Always good to do a bit of celeb spotting when you're out and about, especially if there are public areas people have to walk through.
You see quite a few TV personalities or even royalty at the Royal Welsh show.
Im usually past them before I realise who it is.

 

[clingo]

Oh, wow.
Is that where your musical inclinations came from?

Indeed. She sang in the chorus of WNO for many years though I only saw her perform as a soloist at various events. It was a source of probably misplaced guilt on my part when I found out that she gave up a potential professional career to bring up her kids. Of course, professional in those days wasn't much of an earner unless you were a world renowned diva.
She taught me the greatest lesson about music and that was not to be a snob about it. She instilled in me that even the most technically inept offerings could still have value if they stir any sort of emotion.
My fondest memory of her singing was watching and listening to her perform "O Mio babbino Caro".
I on the other hand have the vocal qualities of a crow eating razor blades.

 

[clingo]

Indeed. She sang in the chorus of WNO for many years though I only saw her perform as a soloist at various events. It was a source of probably misplaced guilt on my part when I found out that she gave up a potential professional career to bring up her kids. Of course, professional in those days wasn't much of an earner unless you were a world renowned diva.
She taught me the greatest lesson about music and that was not to be a snob about it. She instilled in me that even the most technically inept offerings could still have value if they stir any sort of emotion.
My fondest memory of her singing was watching and listening to her perform "O Mio babbino Caro".
I on the other hand have the vocal qualities of a crow eating razor blades.

I left out the "I" in the last sentence.

 

[clingo]

I left out the "I" in the last sentence.

Ah. No I didn't.
Nurse!!!!!!

 

[ccfcremotesupport]

Just been watching a couple episodes of a game show I'd recorded on BBC Three.
The Fast and the Farmer-ish.
Teams of young farmers undertaking tractor driving challenges against the clock.
Quite fancy a go myself.
Pictionary using a tractor and mower in a grassy field looked good.
Not sure our daughter will be too impressed if I trash our fields though.
Maybe wait until summer and the ground is a bit drier.

 

[clingo]

Just been watching a couple episodes of a game show I'd recorded on BBC Three.
The Fast and the Farmer-ish.
Teams of young farmers undertaking tractor driving challenges against the clock.
Quite fancy a go myself.
Pictionary using a tractor and mower in a grassy field looked good.
Not sure our daughter will be too impressed if I trash our fields though.
Maybe wait until summer and the ground is a bit drier.

I didn't know clocks could drive tractors.

 

[ccfcremotesupport]

I didn't know clocks could drive tractors.

You should see a young farmer driving a clock!

 

[clingo]

You should see a young farmer driving a clock!

Perhaps you could record it on TikTok?

 

[ccfcremotesupport]

Perhaps you could record it on TikTok?

Wouldnt record me.
I barely qualify as a farmer and am only young in comparison to the universe.
Creak, crack more than tik tok.

 

[clingo]

Wouldnt record me.
I barely qualify as a farmer and am only young in comparison to the universe.
Creak, crack more than tik tok.

Younger than 13.8bn years eh! You whippersnappers think you know it all!

So back to the clocks. Are they wind up or has the farming community gone dig it all?

 

[ccfcremotesupport]

Younger than 13.8bn years eh! You whippersnappers think you know it all!

So back to the clocks. Are they wind up or has the farming community gone dig it all?

Sun dial.
Never know what time it is when its raining.

 

[clingo]

Sad to read that Doddie Weir finally succumbed to MND.
RIP

 

[ninian opinion]

Sad to read that Doddie Weir finally succumbed to MND.
RIP

Indeed.
I’m actually watching with one eye the England v SA game. What is it with current yellow cards for “technical offences” which seem to totally ruin a game? Also I’m sure I heard the ref tell off the players for pushing and shoving - it’s a physical sport

 

[BluefromBridgend]

Sad to read that Doddie Weir finally succumbed to MND.
RIP

Very sad.

A giant of a man in so many ways.

RIP Doddie.

 

[ccfcremotesupport]

Sad to read that Doddie Weir finally succumbed to MND.
RIP

A big man and an even bigger character.
Toured SA in 97 with the lions. A big influence on and off the pitch as seen in the Living With Lions video.
Tour cut short by a brutal and cowardly stamp which ruptured his ACL.
Been discussing this on a fishing forum (where rugby is appreciated ).
He went down hill quite quickly and looked in a sorry state when he was wheeled onto the pitch at Murrayfield to deliver the match ball a couple weeks ago.
Him and Rob Burrows / Kevin Sinfield have done a lot to raise awareness regarding MND with their 2 charities raising huge amounts for research into the disease.
RIP big man.

 

[clingo]

The festive season is soon to be upon us.
Any exciting plans after two years of restrictions?
We know Sparkey has branched out into an arboreal world and that FfB is trying to escape the salt mines.

 

[irishbluebird]

Had my Christmas dinner last week with the extended family and been to Belfast to see the relatives. So a quiet Christmas at home. No Parkrun Christmas Day as there is one on Christmas Eve. Can’t do two on a trot anymore with my back!

 

[BluefromBridgend]

Had my Christmas dinner last week with the extended family and been to Belfast to see the relatives. So a quiet Christmas at home. No Parkrun Christmas Day as there is one on Christmas Eve. Can’t do two on a trot anymore with my back!

Should be another one on New Year's Eve.

3 years ago I did Poole Parkrun on Christmas Day. Over 1200 runners. Took me 3 minutes to cross the finish line after I joined the back of the queue to finish.

A week later on New Year's Day I ran Upton House Parkrun at 8.30 - over 500 did that - then drove over to Bournemouth and ran that one at 10.00 - over 900 there. Took 2 minutes to get over the line from the back of the queue.

I say ran, that is a very loose description for dragging my 65 year old sorry arse around 2 Parkruns on the same morning having not got to bed until about 2.30 on New Year's Eve with a belly full of booze.

Since then the powers that be have made it logistically impossible to do 2 Parkruns on the same day due to the effect on the environment of having thousands of runners across the country jumping in their cars to travel from one run to another.

Probably good for me as I'm struggling to do 1 Parktun at present.

Our running club is going to Murcia early February. Their running festival will have a 10k, half marathon and marathon on the same morning. Somehow I've got to get some fitness back to crawl around the 10k - and not get beaten by Mrs. BfB.

 

[irishbluebird]

Should be another one on New Year's Eve.

3 years ago I did Poole Parkrun on Christmas Day. Over 1200 runners. Took me 3 minutes to cross the finish line after I joined the back of the queue to finish.

A week later on New Year's Day I ran Upton House Parkrun at 8.30 - over 500 did that - then drove over to Bournemouth and ran that one at 10.00 - over 900 there. Took 2 minutes to get over the line from the back of the queue.

I say ran, that is a very loose description for dragging my 65 year old sorry arse around 2 Parkruns on the same morning having not got to bed until about 2.30 on New Year's Eve with a belly full of booze.

Since then the powers that be have made it logistically impossible to do 2 Parkruns on the same day due to the effect on the environment of having thousands of runners across the country jumping in their cars to travel from one run to another.

Probably good for me as I'm struggling to do 1 Parktun at present.

Our running club is going to Murcia early February. Their running festival will have a 10k, half marathon and marathon on the same morning. Somehow I've got to get some fitness back to crawl around the 10k - and not get beaten by Mrs. BfB.

You’re in a running club! Good for you. I also did ‘the double’ a few years back. Cardiff Blackweir and then Grangemoor. I could run faster then and we were at Cardiff bay about twenty minutes before the start at 10:30. Very hard to get going again in the cold.
I’m 72 now and the past three years have been a slog. I’m like Billy no mates running at the back with the tail walker for company but hey, as you know Bluey it’s the feeling afterwards. No hangovers for me as I swapped the booze for running 23 years, two months and 5 days ago, but who’s counting
I did however enter the Cardiff Bay 10k the other night so I’ll have to get my butt moving before March.

 

[Oldsparkey]

You’re in a running club! Good for you. I also did ‘the double’ a few years back. Cardiff Blackweir and then Grangemoor. I could run faster then and we were at Cardiff bay about twenty minutes before the start at 10:30. Very hard to get going again in the cold.
I’m 72 now and the past three years have been a slog. I’m like Billy no mates running at the back with the tail walker for company but hey, as you know Bluey it’s the feeling afterwards. No hangovers for me as I swapped the booze for running 23 years, two months and 5 days ago, but who’s counting
I did however enter the Cardiff Bay 10k the other night so I’ll have to get my butt moving before March.

Other way around for me.......