Beautifully put I think. My course runs along the same lines as Ollie on time scale and work that needed to be done before moving. It used to give me a laugh when in my early 606 days people would ask if I were him. I would always wish to write in the easy going manner that he has since he produced his French blog, but there is a difference, he is the wordsmith that I am not. I just missed meeting him by about half an hour in Bushey High Street last spring where he was researching for a book. So instead of my thoughts he has used the words of my B-I-L. I will correct it when I get a copy.
That's really sad, his whole life before him and probably a very successful one too by the sound of it. His family must feel destroyed about it.
Can't give you any un shattering rep Dave, You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to canary-dave again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz7pv9pwPNM It's not overly clear from this film clip - but it appears that our juniors, currently taking part in the Wojtyla Tournament in Italy, suffered racial abuse on the field and walked off in protest. You'd think in this day and age....
Good morning all from a still very mild Weston-super-Mare! Rain promised for tomorrow! Have a good day!
You're exactly right with what did happen - they even mentioned it on SSN. I wonder how embarrassed our owners, manager, sporting director and a couple of our players are about this treatment of our youngsters by their compatriots.
Sæl öll. Cappuccino, coffee, tea donuts and fruit are on the bar. Frothy cappuccinos for for al, HH, and W_Y Coffee and cramel frapachino for IB Coffees for COYH, Frenchie, Kev rob theo vic-rijrode and kiwiqpr Strong coffee for Sandy Milky coffee for Yorkie Espresso for SuffolkHorn Strong black coffees for Bragi Norway and zen Black coffee half hot half cold and no sugar for Charlie A peppermint latte for DanH Tea for BHD Cornish Mark jsybarry Lloydinio NZ and BCFCRed Tea with skimmed milk and no sugar for GG and Leon Hot chocolate with marshmallows for BBW Caramel latte for Hornette Scullion Canary Dave Fossefilberto and Maestro Una paloma for Mexican Hornet The temperature is -8C today.
Hardly a week goes by without reading that some unfortunate motorist has been injured or even killed when they have hit a deer or wild boar. My experience of a deer leaping a hedge and landing on my car does make me grateful that only the car was in a mess. However, a report in today's newspaper tells how on Tuesday evening one of the TVG trains hit a huge wild boar on the line. 110 people were on the train and although they were alarmed by the impact, no one was hurt. It did so much damage to the train that a replacement had be brought along and the passengers transferred. No mention was made of the health of the animal!
I had a similar experience a few years ago when travelling back home on the Brisbane to Cairns Tilt Train after an eye operation. What should have been a seven hour trip ended up taking fifteen hours after someone jumped off a bridge into its path as it was speeding along at 160kph. In addition to having to wait for a replacement driver, the train was stopped regularly by bits of body working their way into the electrical circuits. As well as stopping the train, it also stopped the windows, doors and air conditioning in each carriage from working, meaning the passengers were all hermetically sealed inside. And of course it was in the middle of summer.... The train finally gave up the ghost 100k from home & we had to finish our journey via a fleet of buses.
Why is it that, not five minutes after the plumber leaves telling you not to use the sink for a few hours, your tap decides to start leaking?
That's an appalling story Bolton. This might lighten things a bit. When I was in Kenya I was driving back from Nakuru to Nairobi early one Monday morning to get into work on time for a meeting. As is normal in the early hours all the wildlife are jaywalking on the road.... I manage to stop before I hit the Giraffe, swerve round the Zebra but the Thommo Gazelle copped it and went under the car. I didn't stop but wish I had to put the thing in the boot for some game tucker. On inspection the car had a dunt on the bit beneath the front bumper and few bits of hair for DNA profiling purposes. I love Toyota's, indestructible. Needless to say I rolled up late to the meeting which did not go down well as the Senior Partner called it and it was a 3-line whip.
That beats my 'animal' story Scully. I used to regularly travel to an Outback town called Longreach, the final 100 mile stretch of road to which is basically through desert. One morning on that stretch I got caught short needing to pee, pulled off the road and headed behind the only shrub (hesitate to call it a tree) in sight - strange really as there was no other traffic in sight. Just as I got back into the car, a huge crow with a black snake in its claws landed on the bonnet - I nearly sh*t myself. Took me a while to realise, after much prodding with the longest stick I could find, that they were both dead. Before the days of phone cameras unfortunately.
My friend Per was in Sweden and hit an elk. The animal is tall on thin legs which folded up and the animal destroyed the car above the hood. When the elk gained its sense again it stood and walked off into the forest leaving my friend with a smashed car.
Talking of driving into things, my father once drove into the back of a hearse. The driver, black-suited and looking very stern, got out and walked slowly back. As my father wound down his window, the undertaker said, "It's all right, sir...we're not carrying."
