- This topic has 353 replies, 49 voices, and was last updated 5 years, 8 months ago by
.
- Posts
Hadn’t heard that – but would agree. He must be back in Bray. Two little boys always struck me as a strangely conceptualised song and like Glitters Do you wanna be in my gang is buried somewhere with the Queen’s picture. I saw him in Alladin once with June Whitfield – only because I got free tickets, and all pretty corny stuff – but I was an adult.
Andrew Marr gave the business secretary a run for his money this but Lisa Nandy when asked if she thought the Government should have acted sooner she started off – Well to be fair to the Government to stop peoples civil liberties was a big measure – My answer to that is – so is burying thousands of extra corpses. She is working with them now with Starmer so she has to be careful what she says.
The only news today that challenged the Govt was Channel 4 – difficult questions to Hancock about most deaths in Europe and an expert who said their amber warning was on the wrong level and that they did not have a broad enough range of experts advising. – BBC and ITV had little criticism : just detailing deaths and PPE shortages.
When Cheltenham took place there were 200 deaths a day taking place in Italy which should have been a red flag.
You cannot mix alcohol and gambling strategies, and if I drink it is just one small glass of red in the evening or none at all if I have a meeting the next day.
flatcapgamble – He doesn’t touch his face at all now and when he wants to scratch + he comes over and scratches me. I am red raw.
- Total Posts 2553
Sounds like you’ve knocked the krones on the head then, gamble.
I’ve been thinking about you delivering Corona pop. I remember the lorry coming round in the 60s but as you mentioned Brian Moore being a recognisable face to you; I guess you were doing it in the 80s?
Anyway, best get back on track with the thread
60’s actually Tank when the world looked more like it does out of the window.
For those who get symptoms be particularly nice to paramedics they will decide your fate and may decide not to flash any blue lights for you – same goes when you are on the phone to 911, they may also decide your fate . if you are 55 like Johnson particularly if you are a public servant you should get admitted to intensive care. My nurse friend reports a lot of the older ones are not given the chance of ICU but are fighting for their lives in ordinary wards. If they are not considered bad enough they are refused entry to hospital. A human tragedy of the highest order and we have been promised an enquiry of sorts – when its all too late.
flactcapgamble…He’s been scratching me again
– I’ve been forced to call dogline.- Total Posts 2553
Surprised that BM was a well known face to you in the 60s He must have been on regional TV I guess. Mind you, I’m not much of a footie or cricket fan really. You must have been a proper fan of his to have been in awe of him over 50 years ago and still to this day remember the three flavours of pop he had.
Forums are pretty dead at the moment, thought they would be busier with most people being incarcerated. I’m trying not to get too bored and glad of verbose people like yourself to keep us entertained – I haven’t even got a dog to scratch
Late 60’s possibly early 70’s. He covered a lot of the big games around that time. I always have krone in the fridge but rarely feel inclined these days.
My one glass of red or nothing is my attempt at a monochrome world. You have to be very alert when you are betting. I am not betting in the morning or I would be in bed. The last bet at Will Rogers Downs this evening it was 1.01 time and somebody made an awful rick and offered odds of 310 to two pound. Presumably he wanted to back 310 @ 2. Must have not only timed it wrong but gotbit around the wrong way. It was a slightky unlucky race for me – I had three horses running for me that came 2nd 3rd and fourth. The second a horse called Ginge I had taken 20-1 and had a biggish lead but was caught up the inside on the run in.
I was hoping to bet at Bunbury again tomorrow but have other things to do.I do take the odd day off.
People are not in the mood to write and there is not much to write about unless you are a splash writer like me. I write a lot but burn out quickly.flatcapgamble… Three wheels on my sausage and I’m still Rollin along
Mention of Brian Moore , pipe in mouth, reminded me of television presenters who got caught out when the camera cut back to them unexpectedly when enjoying a pipe. Brian was one, old colleague Jimmy Hill another, and dear old Peter West at the cricket
- Total Posts 2553
The first person I think of as smoking a pipe on TV would be the late, great Sid James. He loved a bet on the gee gees as well.
The BBC newsreader Peter Woods had a habit of sticking his pipe in his mouth at the end of the broadcast; Jack Hargreaves of the children’s show ‘How’ was usually sucking away; and Fred Trueman who presented some sort of pub game show I forget the title of signed off with an “I’ll sithee” wreathed in smoke
Pipe smokers are a rare sight these days. Time they made a comeback. If side-partings and full beards can become fashionable again, anything is possible
Drone I have just this morning had delivery of 20 x N95 masks I have 10 at another address sent gratis by a well wishing Chinese friend but am fearful to drive the 69 miles to pick them up. Irresponsible or not but I ordered 200 bottles of reasonable red wine late in February and 60 krone. There is not much dent I have two alternatives set up a small care home or sit this 18 months out in reasonable safety and distraction.
Didn’t know Jimmy Hill smoked one and there is only one Sid James. I can remember Moore interviewing Lineker and he looked unsettled – a bit like a chicken inviting a fox into it’s coop. His end was high !
I can remember sitting in the Croydon Tavern in the town in the late sixties and it was a Tuesday because I was out with Tuesday when Don Partridge’s Rosie came on the jukebox and a man behind me lit up a pipe with the a fabulous blend that wafted towards me. Tuesday to Saturday never matched Rosie who I had ditched and was soon married to Cliff and she was Harry at the time. I was in Heaven – it was a Condor moment.
Tuesday… Are you listening to anything I am saying
flatcapgamble…. H Hanckock’s half hour
pub game show I forget the title of signed off with an “I’ll sithee” wreathed in smoke
That was “The Indoor League” Drone. They do show clips every now and again on these “It was alright in the 70s” and such like programmes.
The last regular pipe smoker I knew was a Cockney named Ted who used to visit the Listowel Festival when I first started to frequent this back in 2002. Sadly he passed away whilst in Listowel during the 2005 Festival. Always remember him sparking up his pipe whilst in the Bookies’ hut at the Course and me and a mate lifting him out so he didn’t receive a hefty fine (probably the year the smoking ban came in in Ireland).
I can just about remember watching “Indoor League” when I was a child. Didn’t it feature arm wrestling?
And I remember Peter West from the cricket. He was quite dapper in the morning but by the evening it looked as if he might have spent a bit of time in the hospitality tent.
The indoor league was on one of the ITV channels recently. Arm wrestling was in there alongside shove ha’penny and the worst game of darts I have seen in my life.
Almost as good as the Frisbee golf on World of Sport.
Mind you, given the dearth of live sport on TV at the moment could you imagine the viewing figures for live shove ha’penny?
I can remember sitting in the Croydon Tavern in the town in the late sixties and it was a Tuesday because I was out with Tuesday when Don Partridge’s Rosie came on the jukebox and a man behind me lit up a pipe with the a fabulous blend that wafted towards me
Goodbye rosie ruby tuesdays
My grandfather was a pipe smoker: the scent of his Ogden’s Best Brown Flake was gorgeous. My grandmother was a cigarette smoker: the scent of her Craven A was ghastly. The whole house seemed to be decorated in a sickly shade of ochre and smelt like a pub without the top note of stale beer…loved every second being in that smoky suburban dive
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday
How could I just turn on you
Cos Rosie shone with every new day
But how I’m gonna miss you…Well Drone maybe it was Ogden’s best that wafted
so aromatically in to mix with Partridge’s sun filled majestic lyrics to take me – in the words of Wonder – to a Higher Ground.Rosie oh Rosie
Its raining when you looked the other way
Rosie oh Rosie
Your laughter brings the sunshine out to playThe Cheltenham 250,000 were brought up by the battler Bruce on a people free question time. The Govt. changed its policy on 12th March and stopped community testing and contact tracing and diverted all testing to hospitals in what I believe was a mistaken move in their herd immunity approach. Old people were treated like flotsam in a sea or growing despair.
Some time earlier Whitty said that Care homes were not expected to get virus transmissions when evidence in Europe saw them as a grave hotspot and dead bodies were found and removed in Spain a while later. Germany locked a full week earlier than us and never stopped testing or tracing, the former of which has been 100,000 a week for weeks on end and the figure our Government is ambitiously aiming for at the end of the month.
flatcapgamble…
The Germans won the War
Merkel’s grown a lot more
Us dogs we know the score
We’re all gonna be poor.
Gamble
do you know what the score is in New Zealand.??
Someone told me that they locked down before the 1st deathGaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026
– I’ve been forced to call dogline.
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.