Happy birthday @pap!
May your beard be clumped with cake.
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Itâs the big 50 on Saturday. How the fuck did that happen?? My brain still stubbornly refusing to budge from the mid 20âs but my body is refusing to cash in the chips these days
I am being taken to London tomorrow for a long surprise weekend. Hopefully it is food and wine based
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Not much of a surprise if you know youâre going to London tomorrow already
Youâll be going shopping and to a show, so donât get your hopes up.
Happy Bâday for Saturday btw ( getting it in now as Iâll be pished by midday)
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I canât remember my mid twenties.
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I have enough trouble remembering last week
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Iâve spent the last five years trying to forget the previous thirty 
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I remember getting to 30, like a man having climbed Everest, looked at my 20s and thought thank fuck theyâre over, I hope I never see them again.
I saw bits of them again.
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Welcome to the other side of the hill. I hope theyâve fixed a splendid meal for you.
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Not often but with a bloody stinking hangover I bet
Ah, I can remember being fifty (which is more than can be said for @lifeintheslowlane). Happy birthday, you young scamp.
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Bloody hell 50 is like fuckinâ yesterdayâŚIâd been retired 3 years by that time and spent most of my time around Slowlane Mansion organising the drilling rig and storage tanks in the Lower Forty. You kids will be lucky to make to my current age.
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After wearing glasses for 67 years i now have new eyes. Well, sort of. I have had cataracts removed, had the second eye done last week. I started wearing glasses aged five, after starting school in 1954, when after a few frustrating weeks it was discovered that i wasnât thick, I just couldnât see the writing on the blackboard, ( I was so short sighted I could hardly see the blackboard to be fair)! Have worn glasses ever since, impossible to function without them, everything a blur. Now with cataracts removed and new lenses inserted a surprising, to me, side effect is perfect eyesight. Although I need reading glasses, impossible to read anything like phone, mail, books etc, which is always the case apparently. It will take about a month to settle down, I have to put drops in the eye four times a day for two weeks which is a bit of a pain at times, but a small price to pay I think. My left eye was done two months ago, my right eye is still a wee bit out of focus with the left but the surgeon assured me all will be fine in a couple of weeks once my brain gets the message.
Itâs quite a novelty at the moment, not least seeing people I know who clearly donât recognize me until the last minute, when they do an about turn. Iâm off down to West Wales in a couple of weeks to see my son and daughter for a week or so, they are intrigued as they have never really seen me without specs, my daughter asked me the other day what colour my eyes were, she genuinely didnât know, all my life my glasses have been the first thing I put on in the morning and the last thing I take off at night.
The reading bit will take a bit of getting used to, if I go anywhere i have to remember to take them with me in case I get an SMS that needs responding to, or asked to sign anything. Although I will have a pair of prescription glasses I think I will go to a chemist and match them up with some off the shelf cheapos and leave them laying about in strategic places. I may well leave a pair behind the bar at my local, in much the same way as the real ale afficionados leave their favourite tankard there!
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Ah, but that is the old Nottarf-Krap. What we have now is the new, super improved version!
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Lady Slowlane is going through the same process at the momentâŚhad her left eye done 3 weeks ago and waiting for the follow-up appointment to set a date for the other eye.
Sheâs aware sheâll need reading glasses but going the same route in buying several pairs of cheapies and scattering them about the house.
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Can it really be 6 whole years since the night of the âLost Walletâ?
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Please let the power go to your head.
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Do the locals know you frequent here?
Could be a scandal from day one
Well done you though!
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Can you approve Twinning with Bolechowice?
I can do the transport, arrange the party etc
