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Thought you might like to know I had a Christmas card from Les’s sister. They’ve been clearing the house and we’re amazed to find ‘not one but two’ Betamax machines.
nocheese wrote: "Thought you might like to know I had a Christmas card from Les’s sister. They’ve been clearing the house and we’re amazed to find ‘not one but two’ Betamax machines."Oh, always something very sad about a deceased persons house being cleared out.
I guess Les was keeping the Betamax 'just in case'.
nocheese wrote: "Thought you might like to know I had a Christmas card from Les’s sister. They’ve been clearing the house and we’re amazed to find ‘not one but two’ Betamax machines."I'm sure none of us is surprised! Les was very proud of her Betamax machines.
I know! Not sure whether to say this to sis though.
Err, just to confirm my mistake re a post I put up t'other day - the fella who Johnson shuffles out to address the public about Covid ( the one who's a dead ringer for Abe from Hellboy) is in fact the CMO and not the 'Science Dude' as I mistakenly put it. That's the problem with me; 95% of what I write on here is off the top of me head and I guess I'm too damn lazy to check me facts. Anyhow, regardless of who's the Science Dude and who's the 'Medical Dude' the song - from my POV at least - remains the same.
There... now I'm sure you'll all sleep a little better now that you know that I know who the real identity of said Abraham lookalike... : )
Well, I hardly touch a drop and haven't done for many years but always have a bottle of Jack stashed for occasions. This NYE I shall have a drink to Les' memory whilst I'm doing same for Mother who passed on the first day of this year. Pardon me French but it's been a bastard of a year.As usual I don't plan going anywhere a week on Fri and I may even pop on here for 5 mins and see if anyone else stayed in.
I'll be here Blastro. Will join you in a drink and toast to those we miss.
I’m working on Hogmanay until 11pm, but shall look in after that.
Happy Christmas all - to those who are and aren't still with us!Solstice day. At least we can now start to expect the daylight hours to start getting longer!
I expect we won't be going anywhere for NYE, we rarely do, so we'll be raising a glass to lost loved ones and friends. Alas, the list grows ever longer and we miss them as much as ever ...
It's just after midnight here so officially Christmas Day. I'm exhausted so going to turn in but first, in the immortal words of Shakin' Stevens, "Merry Christmas Everyone"!
Val wrote: "It's just after midnight here so officially Christmas Day. I'm exhausted so going to turn in but first, in the immortal words of Shakin' Stevens, "Merry Christmas Everyone"!"Merry Christmas, Val 🙂
Photo on profile.Delighted Kids.............and adults too...
And so you should be! What a beautiful pup!
! ! ! BOO ! ! ! ... GUESS WHO? ! ! - LOL ! ! ! ;o>
Hiyah Everyone! ... x
Just bobbing in to send all of my love and my very best wishes to all of you and yours for a truly wonderful Christmas time and a very healthy and happy New Year ahead in 2022!
See you all soon ... stay strong, stay safe, and stay well ... x x x Suzy x x x
Hiyah nocheese ... x Nighty-Night x Sleepy-Tight x and very Sweet Dreams x
Merry Christmas folks! And to you too Suze... best wishes m'dear. Take care.If I don't appear before, will hopefully catch up with you Val, NC, Isabella (cheers m'dears) and anyone else who happens along on Friday for a quick drink... well, with me it'll be in between reassuring Dust when people start letting off the bloody fireworks. Bah humbug, yadda yadda I'm such a miserable basket. I know this.: )
Back to sleepless nights! But with a Puppy this time.1am and then 3am to let Pup out, poor thing is still crying at night. I just feel like crying when standing in the rain waiting for Pups absolutions in the 'wee' hours.
:0
Serial wrote: "Back to sleepless nights! But with a Puppy this time.1am and then 3am to let Pup out, poor thing is still crying at night. I just feel like crying when standing in the rain waiting for Pups absol..."
Aaah, the joys of nursemaiding ...😉
"waiting for Pups absolutions" - holy shit?
nocheese wrote: "FAO Val:https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.th...
Comments?"
What can I say? I have any number of specific Australian Christmas albums and yes, they do reference sun, heat, seafood, etc. The writer missed a couple :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnMSQ...
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9ggp...
"How To Make Gravy" is so iconic there wouldn't be an Aussie of any age who couldn't sing all the lyrics. The 2021 video is particularly poignant and apt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOWtK...
Val wrote: "nocheese wrote: "FAO Val:https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.th...
Comments?"
What ..."
The gravy song just had me in floods, Val. Great song!
Puppy relaxing photo on profile.Keeping us busy :)
Serial wrote: "Puppy relaxing photo on profile.Keeping us busy :)"
Awww ... such a sweetie ... what name did you all decide on? ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Serial wrote: "Puppy relaxing photo on profile.Keeping us busy :)"
Awww ... such a sweetie ... what name did you all decide on? ;o>"
She's 'Molly', my oldest daughter named her, just after she arrived.
A new Puppy is great fun, hard work, but great fun.
What a pretty name - and she really does look like a 'Molly' as well ;o>Does welcoming Molly into the family mean that you have very sadly had to say farewell and have your elderly and increasingly poorly little hairy woofer put to sleep, Tim?
suzysunshine7 wrote: "What a pretty name - and she really does look like a 'Molly' as well ;o>Does welcoming Molly into the family mean that you have very sadly had to say farewell and have your elderly and increasing..."
It'll be soon, nearly did before Christmas. She's very old now, and her quality of life is low. The Dog that is, not anyone else in the family. :0
Awww, I'm SO very glad to hear that she got to have Christmas with you all - even if it meant far more to you than it did to her for her to still be there with you at this special time of the year ... x
A poem to bid farewell to 2021 and welcome in 2022 ...New Day's Lyric
May this be the day
We come together.
Mourning, we come to mend,
Withered, we come to weather,
Torn, we come to tend,
Battered, we come to better.
Tethered by this year of yearning,
We are learning
That though we weren't ready for this,
We have been readied by it.
We steadily vow that no matter
How we are weighed down,
We must always pave a way forward.
This hope is our door, our portal.
Even if we never get back to normal,
Someday we can venture beyond it,
To leave the known and take the first steps.
So let us not return to what was normal,
But reach toward what is next.
What was cursed, we will cure.
What was plagued, we will prove pure.
Where we tend to argue, we will try to agree,
Those fortunes we forswore, now the future we foresee,
Where we weren't aware, we're now awake;
Those moments we missed
Are now these moments we make,
The moments we meet,
And our hearts, once all together beaten,
Now all together beat.
Come, look up with kindness yet,
For even solace can be sourced from sorrow.
We remember, not just for the sake of yesterday,
But to take on tomorrow.
We heed this old spirit,
In a new day's lyric,
In our hearts, we hear it:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne.
Be bold, sang Time this year,
Be bold, sang Time,
For when you honor yesterday,
Tomorrow ye will find.
Know what we've fought
Need not be forgot nor for none.
It defines us, binds us as one,
Come over, join this day just begun.
For wherever we come together,
We will forever overcome.
(Amanda Gorman)
I doubt I'll be around to see your New Year in but it's 11.38pm now so I should make the downunder New Year. I've got my Harvey's Bristol Cream sherry and a couple of mince pies (no black bun, no tall dark men carrying a lump of coal) so I'll be able to toast all my Goodreads friends and those we've lost. Jan 1st was my Mum's birthday - she would have been 95 tomorrow; she died too young. But it's not a time for being maudlin. We were lucky to have special people in our lives. I get a good laugh remembering how horrified Les would be - sherry and mince pies AND I watched White Christmas on Christmas Eve.
The Forum feels so achingly empty without Lez here, doesn't it? ;o<Ahhh well ... Happy New Year Val ... x x x
The witching hour is here. A few crackers going off but nothing to speak of. Still 29 degrees outside and a forecast of 34 for tomorrow. Yuk! Happy New Year folks.
happy new year, Val, all the best! xno boozing for me (probably wouldn't be anyway) as i'm on antibiotics for an infected thumb, i'm working all day tomorrow, Lux ain't well, it's pissing with rain, freezing. miserable, cannae be arsed, but hey ho, let's go!
Awww, tech! ... (*HUGE HUG*) ... ;o<If it helps any? - I'm also having an exceptionally 'orrible day here as well ... x
And it's always lovely to see you posting on here ;o>
Tech XXIII wrote: "happy new year, Val, all the best! xno boozing for me (probably wouldn't be anyway) as i'm on antibiotics for an infected thumb, i'm working all day tomorrow, Lux ain't well, it's pissing with ra..."
And yet just up the road in Glasgow it’s 12 degrees and dry, in fact we had sunshine earlier. What has East Ayrshire done to displease the gods? Sorry to hear about your thumb and your poorly doggie. And there’s nothing like work the next day to put a blight on the Hogmanay festivities. I’m working tonight, but finishing at 11pm, so will be welcoming the new year in with a 10 year old Jura.
I'll drink to that Val... and Happy New Year!! Just thinking of Lez and it made me remember a couple more that we, as a community, have lost going back to the days of 'zon. Not too long after I first arrived on there, a poster by the name of Hypergod passed away. I never really got to know him but he seemed to be a popular fella. Then of course there was Mark Kibble a few ears after that. Am sure most of ya remember MK but anyone remember Hyper? I'm betting there's still two or three folk about who might. Keep thinking that others are gone but I'm coming up with a blank. Shame on me if I have forgotten.
Anyways... to absent family and friends...
And then there's many posters that've not followed us over here for whatever reasons, some that I miss, some that I don't. Would be a shame to think any of em didn't make it here because they simply missed the boat. Sod it, I'll drink to them as well...
Been a change of plan at this abode. Not just J, Blastromite and meself stopping in now; all members of Clan B (incl partners) bar one, are stopping in. The one (our middle lad) in question was never gonna contemplate stopping in the house. Too much like his father when he wuz a young un. Anyway, that means that they'll be partying here so I'll not totally commit to coming on here later. We'll have to see. Being as I don't really drink more than a couple of shots nowadays I might even duck out up to bed before the year's in. Like I said, we shall see. Happy New Year folks, have a jolly good un.
Blastro,I remember Hyper when I first started on the Amazon thread ,it does seem so long ago.A very happy new year to everyone.
Happy new year, all and here's to absent friends x
I remember Hyper. He was still posting when I joined the old Zon threads. Seemed like a good bloke and loved his classic rock. But not long after he suffered from complications due to diabetes I think. I remember quite a few posters went to his funeral and conveyed to his wife how highly he was thought of. I think when Zon started winding down, a number of posters regrouped via Facebook. Many of them had met up at various PPUs and are probably still knocking around somewhere. RAB, JohnnyBee, Wharf Rat, MC, Schiz, Greysuit, Toffeeman, Telly Addict, Cornish, Krytical, Starship Trooper, BOF, Tommo, Liquidator, Dragonlord, Mondo Ray, Knocked Out ....Woke Up 1973, Gingerlily are just some of the names I remember. All missed on here.
Mark Kibble was particularly kind to me as a newbie and helped me with burning tracks, making compilations, downloading/uploading and distributing them. He was a lovely man.
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On the way I had to skirt the edge of Louth where two road signs had been hugely defaced with the word(?) 'Vaxkill' in big red letters. Might as well have sprayed 'Fukwitz'?