Happy Birthday Jackie. Hope there is a single malt somewhere in your day.
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Happy Birthday Jackie. Hope there is a single malt somewhere in your day.
Look above (post #11339)...Birthday wishes from Canada where we are about 5 hours behind you !!Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
Just this moment sunk a large 25 year old ! Not even over the yardarm—- but it is my 88th !!!Quote:
Originally Posted by AZMIDLYF
Thank you very much my friend—- S+F has become quite an important part of my everyday life over the years !Quote:
Originally Posted by peterse90
Lots of lonely old boat racers out there ——— lots I’ve lost touch with—- we’re all “getting on”a bit — not as active, not as alert as we once were, but every now and then some long lost person finds you on line and makes the whole exercise well worth while.
Another Crazy Canuck wishes you a VERY Happy Birthday, Jackie!!Quote:
Originally Posted by peterse90
Keep up everything you do that keeps you going strong.. We're all better off for your communications and contributions.. Hmmmm, just noticed that there were a few "CC"'s written here, so let's add one more - a promise to buy you one (or several) CC's & Ginger next time we meet!
Cheers to the Birthday Boy!
Mark
Finally got it right!Quote:
Originally Posted by peterse90
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACKIE!!
Attachment 457547Resides in a place of honor, JackieQuote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
Happy birthday Jackie 796000 + views you are still at the front of the pack .
...Wife & I say "Happy Birthday To You" Mr. Wilson!...https://il7.picdn.net/shutterstock/v...48/thumb/1.jpg
Happy Birthday you old f**t. Keep going round and round.
You see, all it takes is a little nudge and suddenly all my friends wish me a happy birthday !
Thank you all so much for all your birthday wishes—— was a time when I used to get dozens of presents and phone calls would be constant all day. But I’m afraid as I’ve grown older, the cards and the calls get less and less and the presents to two or three.
I had grandkids around me twenty four seven—— a massive farmhouse —- acres of land and thousands of square feet of empty buildings all the kids could get lost in, move on twenty years and how different it all is. I live in a three bedroom bungalow with a cramped workshop and a small garden, visits from kids are rare as rocking horse sh-t——- a dozen cards from over fifty relations and hundreds of friends—- half a dozen phone calls and four Facetime calls from each of my kids ! That’s about it, so you see how important the birthday wishes from my S+F friends are !
Funny how I don’t feel any different at 88 to what I did when I was 87—— age is just a number after all and doesn’t mean a damn thing.
There’s adventures anew in the offing—— new CONCEPTS to be conceived—-moving house to where the house is more comfortable and the workshops are bigger and better and the concepts more outrageous.
So again, a very big thank you to all my friends for remembering my 88 th birthday. ,
Now I’m off into the workshop for the morning—— daughter Sam is taking me to Goodwood this afternoon to hit a few golf balls, down a few malts, one or two nibbles— and my birthday presents of course !
Happy Birthday Jackie. Guys like you and Gene give a mere 73 year old kid something to shoot for.
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when my father “turned his toes up” , he was well into his nineties ——— he left me and my two sisters the princely sum of £412-10-6p. apiece.
Jilly asked if I wanted to buy a watch or a bit of jewellery to remember him by—— I politely declined saying I would like to buy a couple of cases of good wine !!!!
She asked me why I would do that ?—— I gently explained, —— that way, I can piss it against the wall.
One of our friends in France was nicknamed “Michael the Wine”——— his hobby was collecting the very best French wines—————- he always said that one of the best vineyards in France was right there on my doorstep, We went to this vineyard up in the hills ten miles out of Montpellier
I bought two cases of this particular vintage——— one was a 1998 premier cru—— the other was a 2002 that simply said “SPECIAL” —— having some of my family round for Saturday lunch—— it’s a leg of New Zealand Lamb—— Roasted and Pastis Flamed——- and one of my fathers piss it up against the wall Serranne of 1998 vintage!
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Reposted the bottle of wine we have reserved for my birthday brunch tomorrow!
Spent the afternoon with my daughter Sam and husband Clive, nowhe is a geek with anything IT.
After a couple of hours he got rid of my old email address which had been hacked and trashed!
Would All my friends on S+F please contact me on this new E Mail address
thejackwilson@icloud.com ( all lower case of course ) thejackwilson@icloud.com