😃 The Little Pleasures of Everyday Life

Monkey Tennis
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Coming up, two weeks of quality time with most of our grandchildren.

(Really looking forward to it, but post is subject to change depending on mood of grandchildren. :wink:)

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Monday morning trip to Reeves the Baker booked for Monday morning.
Fresh Jumbo Sausage roll & Lardy Cake

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It’s really uplifting to see how much your diet has improved since you landed back on our fair isle. Those foreigners eat such filthy muck. :lou_lol:

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“If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.”

© Phil the Greek (RIP)

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You astound me. I’d have thought you’d book it for Wednesday evening. :unamused::unamused::smile:

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Thanks @lifeintheslowlane, ordered yesterday, arrived 10 minutes ago, ears irrigated and I can hear again!!

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Update #1. One family now coming for a week. Two other families want to catch up so will “drop in” for barbeques (yes, plural). Took out a mortgage at the butcher’s. My legendary skills over the coals are going to be tested and I’ll be a little busy. :flushed:

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What a day!
Grandson did exactly what all my clients do on a tour

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We did Lemurs & Squirrel Monkey walks, Tigers were up & about, we ate ice creams & shared a baguette for lunch in the Sunshine
We did bus + tube as the only time he goes on a bus it’s with me
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And I had a Red Bull.
Epic.
I’ll be at SMS Superstore briefly tomorrow about 13:45
Then maybe a car boot in Bompey Sunday

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You do realise the whole of Essex will be in Bompey on Sunday.

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As LITSL points out, Bompey might be best avoided this weekend. Lymington boot sale is on Sunday, decent bootie. :+1::+1:

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What is happening in Bournemouth the weekend then?

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Nothing specific, but it’s going to be a very hot one. Bound to be rammed.

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Good point, well made.
Will see how the post Summer Lightning hangover is

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Wetherspoons.
Breakfast. + Doombar.

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Keeping it classy @Polski_Filip :wink:

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Jesus and Donkey Wee.
M3 was simply HORRIBLE today.
Not going anywhere south of Salisbury Cathedral tomorrow.
Cant be a single human left in London by now, all on the M3
(And A38/35 etc)

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Welcome to the South Coast in the summer


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Yesterday I took my watch into a jewellers (Constad in Petersfield) to enquire about servicing/cleaning/whatever. It’s a Longines; the movement was made in 1959 and shipped in January 1960 to Wittnauer Longines in New York, where the case, face, hands etc. were added. The date of the invoice to Wittnauer Longines is 13th January 1960 - just a few days before I was born. It was a sixtieth birthday present from my ever-loving wife, so the coincidence of dates is more than a little appealing.

The jeweller asked if it was working OK. I told him it loses around a minute a day. He then said that having it serviced is the last thing that I should do, as if a watch of that age is keeping time that well you’d end up spending a few hundred pounds on a service, with no guarantee that it would work as well afterwards.

Good service, with a genuine understanding of both the item and the customer’s interests, I like that.

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60 Dorian? How’s the painting in the attic? :wink:

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Looking a little the worse for wear, to be honest. And, had you been more arithmetically attuned, you’d have spotted that I am actually sixty-one. Couple of extra lines on the old painting, but little else worthy of comment.

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