Show Thyself!

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Originally posted by Polarbear:



Me, doing a bit of sightseeing

I see you've lost some weight then PB!

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Originally posted by Polarbear:


And again!

Can't see the excercise bike for the fur

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Originally posted by BigH47:
Joe did you not have to wear the glasses to "download" your new persona?

He did indeed: from "www.bigrat.co.uk/characters/wherenow"

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Originally posted by Cymbiosis:

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Originally posted by Polarbear:



Me, doing a bit of sightseeing

I see you've lost some weight then PB!

I have been cutting down on the fish PS

Thanks for resurrecting this thread in response to me own - I had no idea it was out there!!

Maybe others can join in....

Cheers,
Ali

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Originally posted by Polarbear:


And again!

...and this is on a good day.

On a bad day however.........

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Originally posted by JonR:

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Originally posted by Polarbear:


And again!

...and this is on a good day.

On a bad day however.........

Yes I know, you can see the grey bits!

Regards

PB,

OOOOOOOps, is this mindless drivel again

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Originally posted by Polarbear:


And again!

I was going to name this photo, "PB looks for a pompus git"

Some will know what I mean

You won't find him in that part of the world, PB, I believe he prefers slightly warmer climes....

and the walk to the top of a mountain like that would be far too much for him.

Regards

PB

Is this blatant self promotion or plain embarasing!

Well I'd say it's definitely blacks move.

And another side of me: my fascination with mechanical things: I rebuilt this old Wartime Royal Enfield from scrap, but never had the nerve to take the bike test! I sold her for less than the parts I put on her, but it was still cheap entertainment. Really I would love a Series E Morris Eight...

Fredrik

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Originally posted by GML:
Well I'd say it's definitely blacks move.

Dear george,

I think you are right as it happens. Unfortunately I often win against the most of my friends, except one who its about two to one aginst me! The best player I knew was my prep school headmaster, and he used to play till just before the bell when he would end it in his favour in about three moves. I never did beat him, though I was captain of the school chess team, (and scorer in the cricket team). Otherwise I was not very sporting, so it being a rather wonderful school at matching activities to talents I was let loose on the cricket square in the summer, and felling trees and using a cross-cut to keep the school in firing. We had six open fires in the place, much to the constenation of the Fire Brigade. Needless to say in the ninety years of the school's life there never was an accident, which just goes to show that giving children responsibility breads respect for the risks. A very far cry from today's namby pamby "pretect the little darlings" approach which has bread real problems for the future I am sure...

I was good at cross country running though, but the gym master hated me so I never got into the team... I used to use the second movement of Beethven's Eight Symphony as a pacer. The movement was written as a kind of joke on Meazel the inventor of the metronome, and has a perfect rhytm an tempo for springing along to. In my head of cours , not on ear pieces!

Fredrik

Blimey Fred, I thought you were an old fart...you actually look younger (and a great deal fitter) than me..!!!

Cheers,

Jon

[/QUOTE]A very far cry from today's namby pamby "pretect the little darlings" approach which has bread real problems for the future I am sure...[/QUOTE]

Fredrik,

I couldn't agree more, time to unwrap the little buggers from their cotton wool.

I've always lived in dwellings with open fires untill now. Central heating is of course very convenient but it's just not cosy enough. It's worth the effort of cleaning the fire place in preparation for the next comforting glow. No more watching the brush appear out of the chimney pot.

George.

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Originally posted by JonR:
Blimey Fred, I thought you were an old fart...you actually look younger (and a great fitter) than me..!!!

Cheers,

Jon

Dear Jon,

I am an old fart, but I have never been able to carry weight! I worry it off! And I think I must have one of those metabolisms that runs hot. I get very tired, but (running as a training?) I can push myself till I actually feel ill. I eat like a horse, lovely chocolate, and drink five pints a week of Gold Top a week... Not to mention copious amounts of beer on a Saturday. I suppose some would say that was lucky. I wish I was bit fatter myself. I am 44 in December. So just time for a mid-life crisis, just looking on the positive side!

Fredrik

You lucky man, Fred, with that fast metabolism!

Chill out though, and keep thinking positive...well, that's what everybody tells me anyway!

Cheers,

Jon

Me and my father ready for a ride on my motorbike, circa 1972.

What worries me in retrospect, is that I don't think he was taking the piss.

Enjoy.



John.

Dear John,
Arn't Great Coats something else. The previously mentioned headmaster, who served in the post-war occupation of Austria told me a funny story of how he rode an Army bike one day on leave, and had put his pipe in his pocket (obviously still burning) and when he got home he found that it had burned all round the back to the saddle and was ruined, and yet no harm was done (except a Great Coate is not cheap). Wool is something much underestimated nowadays, and very cheap (as a raw material) since the demise of the Wool Marketing Board, which was always responsible for the profit in keeping ewes. The lambs covered costs!

Fredrik