Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

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Good for him, one up the bum for the health a safety brigade :-)

Got stuffed in the Aberdeen Links Championship, Murray Cup FINAL tonight. Nice trophy, £100 voucher for the pro shop and a bottle of Famous Grouse which is going down very well at mo Hic!!!! :O)

MaxK - God love him! Don't talk to me about those H@S jobsworths, Gobshites the lot of em.

Typical Tories on watch......................................

Why dont they use the Bullingdon Club,

'remember you cant beat a drop of bolly down the bully'.

of course it may well be that the party opposite does its fair share too, but of course you'ld never expect a sensible and balanced comment where a silly and partisan one can be made to fit :-)

more sensibly ....
aren't there also a fair amount of wedding receptions + of course more formal parliamentary entertaining done there too

oh - and who said all that champagne consumed was ladled out free anyway?


sticky - clearly you couldn't sleep; must have a guilty conscience from ripping off or harassing all your tenants :-)

bad luck Chris
i'm afraid these young kids can be terrifyingly good ....
we not only have a thriving junior section, but also an excellent scholarship scheme (for tennis too), so they are to be seen regularly on the practice ground and many of them, both girls and boys, are quickly down to single figures or better .... i don't know if it was actually bernard gallacher's idea, but certainly he took it under his wing in the early days

Love that old fellow going to normandy good for him , its those type of men with that spirit who fought fought for us there in France ..
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Got a treat on Sunday with Nadal v Djokovic another dream final .

Hard luck, Chris.

Couldn't you have locked the little prick up in a locker or something and claimed the win by default?

:-)

Thanks cynic and Exec, hard to bear but that's golf :o)

Robert Maxwell MP , sold off all the house of commons wine .

Robert Maxwell - Labour MP/crook

Wondered what you guys were on about, so I used the trusty Google:

8,807 bottles of wine worth a small fortune purged from one good cellar - a la Robert Maxwell MP, who similarly purged the H of C's cellar back in 1960

http://news.sky.com/story/1276981/heros-welcome-for-great-escape-d-day-veteran

Hero's Welcome For 'Great Escape' D-Day Veteran

A 90-year-old who made his way to Normandy without telling his nursing home says he'll go again next year.

A D-Day veteran who went "AWOL" from his care home to see Friday's commemorations in France has returned to a hero's welcome.

Bernard Jordan, 90, was cheered and hugged by staff waving Union Flags at The Pines nursing home in Hove, Sussex.

"I had a great time. I'm really pleased I did it," he said after the Brittany Ferries ship Normandie arrived in Portsmouth.

Quizzed on whether he would go back next year, he replied: "Yes, I expect so. If I am still here, definitely!"

Brittany Ferries said Mr Jordan enjoyed a breakfast of bacon, two fried eggs, sausage, orange juice and coffee during the seven-hour crossing.

The pensioner would be given free crossings to the D-Day commemorations for the rest of his life, the company confirmed.

Fabulous story about this old bloke, Bernard Jordan.

I wouldn't be surprised if he gets a chauffeur driven car from the nursing home to the ferry next year. Certainly, they won't try to be stopping him from going, that's for sure (miserable sods!).

With Father's Day coming up, this is for the Fathers on MoneyAM:

Wagyu steaks on sale; what they are and tips for how to cook them

Just imagine how he would feel if he had missed it ,, by following orders from the nursing home , I don't know why they didn't get in touch to the local branch of the British Legion who would have taken care of him.

Apparently they did contact the British Legion, but they had left it too late to get him on one of their trips.