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how rickyg used to mock me for being ancient - I believe 'piss-stained' was his epithet of choice - and that was when I was in my thirties.
This suggests to me that others here may no longer be in the first flush of youth any more. I suppose we've all grown old together.
Soon we'll start dying.
Who will be first? Shall we have a little sweepstake?
Nicosia can't be far off a telegram from the King.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I still want to know what happened to Sod.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
I will never find out :-(
We're going to live for ever. 60 is the new 30Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
There was that chap who told us he was dying of heart disease who then went quiet :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
62 and still here? just? :wave:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Good man - just a babyQuote:
Originally Posted by 7sisters
Something like 'egg and bacon' in his moniker?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I've made it to 67 now though dodgy moment four years ago, three months in hospital followed by nine hours on the operating table. Endocarditis after an inconsequential cut to my leg while gardening, bacteria grew to a 2cm ball on my heart valve. Now have a carbon valve and a pile of meds to take every day. Otherwise fairly fit and healthy!
I did think of you when Sir C mentioned it but knew you were still going. And hopefully for a good while more.Quote:
Originally Posted by pjlincs
Cheers LA, much appreciated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
That?s a bit of a scare, PJ. Someone on the box recently referred to the decade between 60 & 70 as snipers alley. Seemed quite appropriate.Quote:
Originally Posted by pjlincs
we pjl. No bacteria ball?s taking you down!Quote:
Originally Posted by pjlincs
Do you feel like it?s about 4 days since you were 21? That bands like Nirvana are modern music? :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by 7sisters
You?re younger than me aren?t you la?Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Was it egg and dart?Quote:
Originally Posted by pjlincs
One minute you?re in the thick of the engine room, so to speak and then, before you know it you?re getting ushered towards the waiting room.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
During a hospital visit a couple of years back, I witnessed a couple of confused elderly gents stumbling around the ward in large nappies.
I mean, is this really how it ends, SC :cry:
Surely that?s some sort of rhyming slang ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I'm a fair bit younger than all of you but still ****ing old. :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
A mere stripling of 53 (feels like 80)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Genuinely thinking about retirement. Selling up property in the UK and just living off the profit in some cheap Asian island somewhere
Ionic moulding. Egg = life. Dart = death. Appropriate for this thread!Quote:
Originally Posted by 7sisters
Sir C is right in his recollection about the chap's name. Maybe he was a plasterer?
Still can't get my head round the Invincible season being 21 years ago!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Don't worry - it was yesterday, pQuote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Go for it la. That was my plan until my life was invaded by 4 horses. Expensive *******s.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Maybe I can borrow a horse and ride off into the sunsetQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Same here. Once my pension is available I am going to go to Connemara and drink myself to death, slowly. :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
As soon as my youngest is 18, then I'm sodding off to Portugal....just another 9 years to wait :cry:Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
The worst bit of that? Those 9 years are going to go past in what feels like 5 minutes. :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
****, you got 4 now, C? Must have missed that. Puddle Paws moved in during lockdown and he demands all our attention just for him. We keep buying yellow fin tuna fillets for our tuna carpaccio, but the glw prefers it cut thicker, somewhere between nigri and sashimi thickness. But 3/4 of the time we buy the fillets, the bloody cat says he should have it all and the glw gives in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
My sister's youngest is off to Uni in September - and they are moving to Milan for a couple of years. That's the way to do itQuote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
:nod: Can't believe my eldest will be a teenager next month :yikes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Mine is 30 next year. Unreal.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
She flew in from Norway for the weekend for Mrs Lincs's birthday, spent in London including 'My Neighbour Totoro' which was excellent if you're into that sort of thing.