Jackie - I am not a golfer, but the very presence of you and a few other very special "Old Farts" "makes it all worth while". - seeroyQuote:
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Jackie - I am not a golfer, but the very presence of you and a few other very special "Old Farts" "makes it all worth while". - seeroyQuote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
Nice to hear from you Stavros, think about you most days and how well you cope with what life has chucked at you. You got your rock with Iris so you manage to take the hit and come out swinging.
Didn't put the piccies on the OFF site ' cos nobody looks it it until October, then old farts panic, can't remember where, or when, is it on or off, now where did I park the damned car? Who's taking me? Should I take the clubs ? Know what I mean Steve, it happens every year, bless the dopey old farts, dontcha just love 'em to bits----that's why I do so many little trophies, try and fit everyone in, I keep on telling Seebold he ain't never going to win a trophy! He don't have the ability or the money, just love pissing him off!
Jilly got the "CHEERIOS" in for Billy's breakfast, he can't start the day without 'em.
Got a great shot of Lynne, Jilly and Bill on top of a mountain in Lugano, we had to use one of those Rocky Mountain railroads to get there, Bill had the outside window seat, scared him sh-tless, he made Lynne take the window seat.
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Lynne, Billy and Jill, somewhere near Lugano 1970/80
Lynne was freezing her butt off, but there was no way she was getting Billy's coat !
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Worlds largest diamond ,estimated value one billion pounds ----just cobbled it into a golf trophy for the 2015 old farts golf tourney------silly bloody things I do to drum a bit of interest, I fought off all the competition to acquire this wonderful piece of kit.
Burton once tried to buy it for Liz but he found out she was leaving him for the third time and passed on it. Madonna made a play next but her fingers were a bit podgy and not quite elegant to support this superb example of the jewellers craft.
Had to haggle over the final asking price, seller was happy with what I gave her for it.
Almost forgot about the obelisk, picked this up at the car boot sale last Thursday, turned a chunk of mahogany on the lathe, gave it a couple of coats of friction polish, turned out quite nice dontcha think?
It will make another fine Trophy for the old farts tourney.
May have to put the entry fee up by twenty five bucks, just to help with transportation.
Sorry for not posting anything last night but apparently the S and F site was down.
Well, the diamond trophy didn't light anyone's candle so not much point in taking it to Tavares, damn thing goes over a kilo anyway------will try and find some balsa wood and styrene, see what I can cobble together!!!
Got halfway through clearing the shop and saw the Schubert boats needed filler caps and a front screen, made a better job of the windscreen so I made another so they match up!
Then made four tie bars for the wings-----then saw that Rogers monster needed one, and filler caps, it just never ends, always room for improvement.
Mark landed yesterday but don't think I'll get to see him 'til Saturday at the Barbie at SAMs place.
Its Thursday again, so that means a trip to the car boot sale at Ford. Time to hustle.
Bought a Partner strimmer at the boot sale, almost new but the throttle trigger was bust, I made a big song and dance about it and ended up paying a tenner for it. Cobbled the throttle, cleaned the plug, drained the juice out of it , put new in , fired her up and it runs like a Swiss watch.
Also found two good as new blades for my spokeshaves, a dozen "Stubbs" files, a box of new 13 amp fuses and two tubes of gorilla super glue for a fiver.
Was quite chuffed with the visit!
Oh well, guess none of the old farts are gorilla glue or Stubbs file lovers, different strokes?!,
Been a quiet sort of day, did a bit, not a lot, only did an hour in the shop, I could get used to this sort of life!
Tired as hell after doing nothing in particular night all , MYGGWY.J.
Really must knuckle down and forget everything else and make sure I get the shop cleaned up, Mark is calling in on his way to Southampton----his shop is always immaculate, with painted floors and tiled walls. Even the prop rooms have extractor fans and A/C. I have a quart in a pint pot with not enough room to swing the proverbial kitty!
See the FBI are trying to clean up FIFA, well good luck with that one, Al Capone was Snow White compared to that tosser-----he's been corrupting football for fifteen years and is hated by everyone decent, but it's odds on he'll still be there cocking a snoot at the world long after the FBI have gone home. Brazen Blatter's his name.
Dont really like soccer much anymore -----too much money going to too many Primma Donnas who fall down if anyone gets within ten feet. I'll stick to boat racers, it's where men are men and women are women and still proud of it!
Oops !,,, me and my mouth.
Somebody somewhere upset him upstairs big time . He decided he was going to take a record all time leak that pleased all the gardeners , but really pissed off everyone else.
Mark got a stomach bug that meant he had to visit the bog on a half hourly basis, poor bugger, nothing worse than the "Squits" when your on vacation.
Workshop is back to pristine, just got the six golf trophies well on the way, will put the piccies on the "OFF 2015" site, reckon y'all had a bellyful of my meanderings golf wise .
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I know i said I wouldn't bore you with the golf trophy piccies , but I got stuck in the shop as it chucked it down all day, I suffered, now it's only fair you have to! Get over it!
Swelling in the hands went down a bit by mid afternoon, may have to curb the concepts and take up line dancing or Sinatra impersonations----cheese making or train for the geriatric Olympics in slow walking.
Not even the FBI could nail Blatter , told you he's smarter than Ecclestone and controls more cash than the Vegas Casinos combined, bent as an eleven sided threepenny bit ?
Who else could get a World Cup in 110 degrees in the middle of the desert ? Blatter did.
Who else would be brazen enough to give Putin the World Cup ? Blatter did.
Wonder how many billions it took to get elected again as president of FIFA.
Call in MI5 and Bond, but make it look like an accident James. ,!!
We got SAMs birthday bash and Barbie with a band, big eats and hog roast at 7:30------- band kicks off at 9:30 'till the early hours of Sunday morning, bacon sandwiches at midnight, then the birthday celebrations begin.
I got the date wrong again, sent her all the greetings and a card and a text and an email, got told I was two days early---------some you win -------some you don't . Life's like that!
See what transpires during the day, not many of you commenting this week, I know I just changed my after shave to "EAU SAVAGE" From "ATAEUS" but they're both CHANEL so I still smell like I got roses up the rectum.
I think that's it for today so goodnight friends and MYGGWY. J.
I wonder where Blatter pays tax?
[QUOTE=powerabout;2758789]I wonder where Blatter pays tax?[/QUOTE
WHAT's tax--------Who's Blatter ?--------He claims he's only being investigated because England and the USA did not get the World Cup, why would a semi civilised country be considered when he can deliver to a dusty desert and the steppes of Siberia and bank a billion to boot. He got away with it for 15 years, why change it now ?
At 79 years old, he does have an eye for a gorgeous girlie or three, even the ugly ones don't come cheap. FBI should remember how they nailed big Al, find the deposit box.
It looks like it's going to be a bright beautiful day with no rain forecast until 10 o'clock tonight, 30 minutes after the band starts playing at SAMs birthday-bash, I shall be on my way home by then, when Sam gets pissed off its not a pretty sight!
watched a brilliant documentary last night on Jaguars making Six lightweight E Type Racecars at over two million dollars apiece for only "Selected" customers. Well worth a cursory glance.
Have a great weekend my friends, might have to give the post a miss tonight, depends if SAMs got me a bottle of Canadian Club!. J.
Was Sam and Clive's 20th wedding anniversary as well as her 49th birthday (and she's my youngest). bash was held in her back yard.
Sam gave Clive a Rolex Daytona for the occasion, ( I got a carton of Camels for mine). Still it's coming round again, this time to Jilly, haven't smoked for thirty years, but I might get a "Ticka-Tocka -Timex" if I'm very lucky.
That's the timepiece I was on about!
Previous piccie shows Sam showing off how she keeps the Champers cool,.
Colonials have a "Cool box" filled with ice--- Sam has a cast iron bath to keep the Krugs cool!
Kool or what ?
Night was getting colder , 22:00 hours means it's time I was in bed, so I gently slid off into the night, boarded the trusty Lexus and meandered Down the road a piece, just like a "Will-O-The -Wisp". Was in bed just gone 11.
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This is Joe, one of my grandsons, he installs sound systems in rich people's homes, starts around
£35,000 a pop. There are definite advantages to being a bit mutton, (mutton jeff= deaf)'
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Here 'TIS, Timex gone mad, did offer to take his rotten old Tag H. off his hands, afraid that went down like a turd in a punchbowl.
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My my three great daughters.
Have to do piccies one at a time, the site grinds to a halt if I attempt to show two at a time.
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Mark kept the the fire pit going all night, that's him with Vicky.
Good pics Jackie! Glad that the rains subsided over there long enough for the get together to not get washed away. Here south of Houston I am so tired of the rains that I am actually looking forward to when it's over 100f and not a cloud in sight! Per my rain gauge in the back yard we've had over 10 inches just this month.
Just when I was beginning to feel sorry for myself, I get a post from a guy who has had 10" of rain in May, suddenly I feel a whole lot better and realise just how lucky I am.
Have a huge family, lots of friends, food on the table, love in large portions, beliefs I often question, and fond memories no one else can ever match.
I can honestly say I have never met anyone else I would rather be, or would trade places with, having a great life , so it's "Lucky, Lucky, Lucky me, I'm a lucky son of a gun !----I work 8hours,"??-------good name for a song dontcha think?
Did chuck it down all day here, went and had a piss poor lunch at my local watering hole, decided on roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, the beef was fine but you could have played "Frizbee" with the Yorkshire and the roast potatoes had been deep fried for the fourth time to get a bit of life back into 'em but failed miserably ------wine and coffee were excellent but at $160 for four there's definitely room for improvement.
in spite of $10,000,000 bribery scandal, FBI and Swiss investigations, Blatter is still the FIFA president-----but he's really pissed off the FBI this time so I think maybe things will change!
As usual, been an interesting sort of week, just five days to go and it's the Bristol re-Union , there should be a wealth of interesting stories to tell after that little get together.
Time for big ZZZZZZZZ/s sleep well peeps, MYGGWY.J.
Weather men have said summers just around the corner, highs of 80 for the weekend, ' bout feckin time too.
Mark heads out for home tomorrow ----been a lousy few days for his visit.
Been in agony with a frozen neck and back since Saturday night, must have gotten cold, off to see the doctor in a little while------think it's just that all my neck muscles seized up.
Wont be rushing out into the shop today.
Not playing IPads either, need both hands to hold my head on. What a bloody state for anyone to be in.
Make sure Mark loads his luggage up with all those trophies & Wings! Also, try a shot of onion soup and a bowl of brandy for the cold - repeat as necessary!
Hiya Roger, turns out I have a slipped disc and a trapped nerve-------oh well, it makes a change, I never had one of those before. Doc gave me some happy pills, (codeine and morphine) that's another first, sure do kick the pain into touch!!!
Mark travelled "cattle class" with Norwegian Airlines-----your allowed just your passport, wallet and a handkerchief---------everything else is excess baggage and $100 an ounce. One of the reasons he won't be carrying your wing home Roger.
My daughter Sam, runs a freight company out of Heathrow and will do us a good deal. Best if I let her do everything and we split the cost between everybody who bought a "Concept" and the golf trophies. There are over 20 items to ship up to now, most are 95% finished. Prices for packages vary wildly-------UPS, FEDEX AND THE LIKE, want top brick ofn the chimney-------Royal Mail wasn't too bad, Don's guitar to Canada was about $75 and 15 for insurance, easiest thing is for everything to go to Tavares and folk can pick up their purchases from there in November.
You nearly lost your ROTORY Johnno, Mark thought it was "REALLY COOL"-------high praise indeed, he don't give plaudits easily. Got to spend a couple of hours with him this afternoon -----think he might just have realised I might not be around forever!
Seebold will be a happy bunny this weekend, what with Timmy winning in Indiana, and GEICO coasting home with my lot, will be a lot of joshing this coming week, must say, I'm looking forward to it! That's me done for the day, never made the shop at all today, maybe tomorrow, MYGGWY.J.
Nearly 8am Tuesday morning and I'm still abed. Blowing gale force out there, dog nasty weather, throw in torrential rain and you got England this morning.
Slept better last night but my body still feels like it belongs to somebody else-----hope it don't leave me with a permanent humpety back.
Just had the breakfast bell, gotta go, kitchen goddess has spoken.
By the cringe, those blasted happy pills are wierd, taken in twos at four hourly intervals I can't stay awake.
Sat in the conservatory all day with a new David Baldacci novel, nodding off every five minutes but feeling like sh-t, hot one minute then cold the next, but feel nauseous all the time, told Jilly I can't take the pills no more.
No Need to go to Switzerland to end it all, just go to your GP and get a tub of the happy pills, I could walk all the way to France clean across the English Channel, the pain has left my neck and is heading downward, very strange.
Talk to you tonight, still not been in the shop, not like me at all.
Blatter resigned ! Ho ho ho and a bottle of rum, the Feds and Swissbiea just got too close to the jackpot,-----he'll disappear off the face the earth.
Now FIFA has a new slate, wonder how long it will be clean before the billions get siphoned off again. Football generates more cash worldwide than all other sports put together, where there's cash there's corruption!
Another day of my life just went by and I'm afraid I wasted it, tomorrow don't look much better either-------think my mind found an old carcass to hide in for a few days, sure as God made little green apples the one I'm in at the moment cannot possibly be mine, it aches, it waddles, it's got an humpety back and if it moves any slower, somebody will either bury or burn it.
As my sainted mother used to say, be happy with what you have, not with what you don't have, long forgotten her exact words but I knew damn well what she meant !
Mark dug out the five FONDA news letters, I read through them and went back nigh on forty. Years.
Will try and post them for you all to read, tell me what you think.
In my defence, all I was trying to do was give all boat racers an equal chance to race worldwide on a level playing field. I would have gone along with ANY formula, provided it was on a five year plan.
1litre, one point five, two or even three litres ------just as long as it was controlled.
did not quite get there, but we did put down the marker for the basics for powerboat racing as it is today.
its now wide open for discussion -----I will do my best to answer any questions but reserve the right to call on the of Willabee and T2X to help me out now and again. I'm bushed. MYGGWY .J.
Jackie, We are missing your crack of dawn input.......are you OK??
Bristol is awaiting...bunting is out... T.V crews on standby, rooms booked...ice cream vans poised.............Phill.
Jackie?....How's about ya?
Have to tell you Phill.Quote:
Originally Posted by ron54
Ive known better days , carted myself off to the physio, told her I didn't care what she did to me just so long as I was walking tall and upright with no sign of the "Humpety Back" syndrome by Friday, when Seebold comes in?
Think I left my own body somewhere but for the life in me I cannot remember where, bodies are like umbrellas,you take em with you, prop em in a corner, when you leave make sure you take the right one.
Physio is new to the village, seems like a nice girl, mid twenties, 34 b, middling to long legs with a tinkerbelle tattoo on her right foot, fingers like the bucket on a JCB, JUST TEARS OUT YOUR SPINE, MANIPULATES AND THEN PUTS IT RIGHT BACK AGAIN. charges $50 for making you feel like you been put through the wringer
So, no, I'm not alright Phill. I feel like sh-t, but I will make Bristol .
My sense of humour and "Gigglement" were at an all time low the last couple of mornings ---see what happens tomorrow!
Jackie, you must be on the up some if you manage to cop the 34b's and pins.......keep improving!
I thought the idea that blatter might go to gitmo for 100 years would cheer you up
Get no pleasure from corruption either in high or low places Pilgrim, Blatter loves the ladies, so first thing they should do is cut off his nuts.Quote:
Originally Posted by powerabout
Thought I would be real smart and just take Paracetamol as thecodomorpho's were making me pukey and sleepy----big mistake, I couldn't even stand up. Threw in the towel at lunchtime and went back to the "Heavy medication", need to feel a whole lot better than this in the morning or it will be Seebold and my three girls going on their own to Bristol.
Leave here 4am, Seebold lands at 6:20 am Will drop you a post once I have him on boad.
Night all MYGGWY.J.
9:30 am, still no sign of Seebold--------that man is not fit for human consumption , you ever heard of time travellers getting lost I reckon Bill has got lost in time.
Like a prat we drove into the short stay car park u'know the one twenty quid an hour, but we were only staying a few minutes, that was 0ver four hours ago.
Lynne , you should have given him a white stick and a guide dog with a note round his neck saying " Help"
Jackie....A story is a bit like love making~It needs a beginning,a middle and an end.
Now we heard the start (airport) etc... now whats the rest? did Mr Seebold arrive ...did he get lost? did you get lost....com'on spill it!
I don't want to waste a clean shirt if it's only you making the trip...:smiletest:
Now, I've done it a million times before , allow an hour for customs and baggage, wait at the barrier until said traveller appears, repair to aforementioned short stay car park-----whole feckin procedure takes around 30/40 Mins. Made a fundamental error! I forgot it was Seebold, he decides he's going to the cash mart and trade pounds and dollars, so he has to shop around to see where the best deal is, after all there's whole shed load of money being talked of here-----a whole $100.up for trade.Quote:
Originally Posted by ron54
Finally track him down and back to the short term car park to find I have a bill of $100
unfortunately I don't feel so good, so Bill has gone down to Bristol with my three girls!
It's 12 Noon and I haven't made it downstairs yet, have heard from the girls, told me , Rick frost, Andy Eliot , Kathy and Fred Hauenstien have all checked in, Seebold and Leo, They are in the reception checking out all the new arrivals! Will keep you posted throughout the day.
Feeling a bit ****ty myself so have an appointment at the surgery for 13:00 hours.
Jackie... sorry to hear you weren't up to snuff.I've just got back and was told about the neck.
I would love to tell you weather was crap,the water had 2metre waves and Steve Kerton did some p*ss poor demo laps and that the sound of his
Mercury sounding off the dock wall was really awfull................but I can't cos it wasn't..
Had a quick chat with Fred, nice chap....Didn't manage to catch Mr Seebold so '79 programme remains unsigned,no matter still a good day
Get well soon..Phill.
Phill, do yourself a favour------find Bill, he's with Leo,on the "Casale" table, he sure as hell won't come looking for you
Sam was on her iPhone all afternoon sending me pictures of Steve Kerton running around the dock, The BULLEN boys, Jenkins,Stevie Pinson, Dave Brocklington the Hauenstiens, Parkinson, Dewey, the Osprey boys, Tony and Linda Williams. The day was a complete sell out, every room, every seat at every table.
Some people ride a motor bike, while others kick a ball, but if you never raced a power boat, you never lived at all.
It's like the " Family" decided on a reunion to bring back a few fond memories and get all the friends back together Looks like it's working a treat.