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    Avatar photoNathan Hughes
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    Jon has plenty of friends, gamble, but those two are/were his best as they went abroad together every year for donkey’s years.
    It’s deffo Brian and Fred though but I’m ashamed to say which one is which I don’t know

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    Don’t be ashamed – I don’t know either !!!

    #1392260
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    Dogs are sniffing the stale air emanating from a long-curtained bedroom and cats’ ears flick to the rumbling yawn of Gamble van Winkle

    The dirty dog and cool cat Grasshopper, despite snatching your pebble, sends his felicitations and is, I think, tempted to go warm turkey by having a nibble of Cormack’s oatcake

    Moehat is missing Gerald; but this is probably because she’s always clean and warm, never barks or miaows, and only ever nibbles ethically-sourced organic tofu

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    Deaf jon or as you seem to prefer him lately Nathan – Jonny deaf, ( hopefully one and the same man ) is rightly blessed with many friends – but Drone your adroit posts continue to be my friendless bogeymen. Seven times the cock crowed as I wrongly entered my password and had consummate enforced waits in endeavouring to reply to you, and of course last time I lost forever, a long replete post to both of you.

    Give grasshoper the best of the season from me, please, but doubt he will wet his legs on these shores again. He left long ago, because back then he felt the site was going in the wrong direction,and of course the clamp on swearing cramped his forthright bile style. I think it’s too big a jump to expect him to hop back now, after all this fruit fly time sleeping with the “enemy” even if he sees friendlier more temperate sheets of sleets bsck on the ol hills and the old sheep back in bleat mode – but who knows ?

    Moe, so near in name to my favourite countryside word, is one of those key background figures Drone, and never mind the flaming testesterone necessary to fire up the template at times, that oil the wheels and keep these places humming and nicely candlelit, with a degree of humanity and fun, not forgetting the woman’s touch and that smell of fresh bread on her.

    It’s all so sad Dad :cry: – the grassy knoll germinating and spreading its roughened grasses over fresh pastures; the new lower clasess, and the Moo Moo gone to market her wares on fresh downs of, in her eyes, friendlier, chattering clowns.

    #1392340
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    Deaf Jon didn’t come around this morning, I may have missed him as I had a job first thing and he may of knocked on with me out.
    Other possibility’s include a trip home to Worcester, he rambles on about that place so may have said he was going back at some stage which passed straight over my head. He maybe a secret forum reader and might not be pleased my postings of/about him.
    He’s a pretty poor driver these days, give him a few years and I’ll be calling him blind Jon. Might be locked up for undue care and attention and would use his one call to either “Brian or Fred” presuming caravans have landlines or if the caravan owner owns a mobile.
    I would ring him up only he tells me that he is deaf and to SPEAK UP..!!
    I’m seeing Father tomorrow so will make a de-tour to see if old Jon is alright, I’ll tell him about the lemon puff but I’m sure he’ll think I’m loopy… :yes:

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    Nathan, just imagine you are waiting in a hospital bed for an inguinal hernia op and you find out your allocated surgeon is a man called Pellegrini. Would you try to escape throuh a crack in the door ? or would you bend the ear of the team registrar with –

    ” I’ve heard Pellegrini has operated well on Hams but when he popped to get signature he told me most patients asked for his
    and that his players were ready and on peak form and were ready for a demolition job.

    Deaf Jon is fine I am sure and you are over worrying. My only slight concern is if he has connected on here and is a poor sleeper. Let’s hope he hasn’t travelled to caravan Fred and purchased a rope en route and a large packet of lemon puffs. If Fred serves scalding hot tea – he is not the man to hold the rope !

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    Hoping that deaf Jon/ Johnny deaf has been sleeping on ground or caravan level and is out of harms way. He’s pretty darn self-sufficient and can look after himself I’d say and may have beetled his way to Worcester.

    Escorial and Grasshopper were seismic defectors from this house. Escorial had personal with Daylight and with Grasshoper it was the sites direction. It is very good of you Drone to act as intermediary, but if you occasion to see this Grass I wonder if you feel the direction has changed at all, positively or otherwise ?

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    Well of course I am blissfully aware that Moebot is still chuntering along in her Venetia Williams inspired world and that the Hopper has hopped in here the odd time. The fact you still use a cobbler Drone is a connection to the man and his method !

    The site seems fast but obviously not furious and I may give some improvement suggestions of my own to remove the stale bread !

    Later on maybe, as I have oodles to do !

    #1392385
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    Pellegrini
    I would try and escape through the crack in the door
    reminded me of the surgeon that did my kidney transplant
    two days into my recovery an elderly man had arrived on the ward awaiting his miracle
    that night he went into surgery and came back pleased as punch but of course tired, in the morning his catheter bag was full but bright red, the doctors did their rounds and the surgeon said to him that he needed to get out of bed and move about etc.. :scratch: :wacko:
    within an hour the poor man was taken to the high dependency unit :-(
    He returned a couple days later but further up the ward in a different room, think he was a West Ham fan back but it was back in 2012 so I might be wrong but I would of asked him for sure.
    Bet he wished Pellegrini was his after care surgeon… :yes:

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    The other hamlet inhabited by chameleon-tongued ghosts of TRF past with unscarred lips is moderated by those who have no wish to moderate, though Lollys Mate’s right-wing mate Ozgood has been sinbinned. Therein lies the difference between those rough, tough meanstreets and this sweet snowflaky safe space

    Rhinos, winos and lunatics who drone on and on, bleat, amble, gamble, ramble, annoy and occasionally focus on the trousers are an intrinsic part of a fulfilling hamlet life; a hamlet whose residents resist the twittering from the wildwood all around and long for the return of those who once composed essays, who were lured by the piping of the sound-bitten one-liner

    I now restrict betting to those weak-and-noisy two-legged naggers who spend too much time sprawled on green benches and barely follow the exploits of the grass sprawling strong-and-silent four-legged variant: the former are so much easier to read than the latter

    So, why am I still here??? :wacko:

    (this really is a lot of cobblers, I know; but it keeps my sole intact)

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    Interesting Nathan, and possibly one of the old F Firm or was it Firm F ends up in firm in Exeter. It is impossible to verify who the surgeon is these days unless you are titled, and it’s usually just one of the team – and could easily be be a pimply greenhorn. I know students have to learn but the Queen never has this problem and the dead cannot talk.

    I am an admirer of Pellegrini – a very mild mannered, measured man, a grafter too and motivated to succeed. I like his eatlty history and his dedication in study moonlightimg to become an engineer to support the rebuild of his country.

    He hated Pinochet who with good reason brought his own sniffer dogs for his hospital check up in Nothwick Park West London prior to his possible extradition. A taxi driver told a friend of mine, that he takes a lot of customers to Northwick Park – but very few back from there.
    Pinochet claimed senilty in Chile to try to avoid a trial and prison and when asked if he was head of an implicated organisation by the prosecution he answered

    “I don’t remember but I was never part of it and if I was I don’t remember ” ..

    or words similar. Quite trumpish of the general !

    I hope your health is in good order Nathan and you get your full eight hours.

    Drone thank you for that meticulously informative post,and highly interesting is your conversion to two legged betting markets. DVD2000 nails social media for the exodus from forums but I think the complicated racing markets are another drift factor.

    Your amiability Drone and sharp gossip pick up, and succinct weighing up, would up have made you an admirable courtier in the 16th century French Court with a fine cobbler at your service to boot.

    Yes why do we do it ? and it’s hardly a journey into the unknown as before – and yes there is uncertainty and dexterity of minds to flirt with. Basically just like the french court.

    I don’t know about the other place – My over exuberance ended in my banning, but I think I was misunderstood. The women in all houses by and large cannot abide the testostetone – just in manageable doses – the odd redneck adds energy of course, but mods have it hard always and I have amways been in favour of timed bans rather than lifetime. It is a small point but a few like the old sundancekid on Betfair were seven day a week 14-16 hour obsessives. Take that away suddenly, and there could be an unpredictable response that could be life threatening.

    Good luck Maxamilion in your new found status and just wonder if your two ended candle also cracked Betfair ? :negative:

    #1392441
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    I hope your health is in good order Nathan and you get your full eight hours.

    Thank you
    The ‘team’ seem happy with my blood results at present, I don’t count my chickens as things can change quickly.
    I do get my 8 hours but not always in one go, if given the chance I take more Naps than Newsboy.
    I was shattered the other day at work, a few were off sick or on holiday and I was left with an agency worker from Romania, it was a lot of walking, pushing, lifting, walking, walking and walking
    at one point just before her lunch break she said to me “I’m tired, are you tired”..?
    I was cream crackered but told her “No, I only come to work for a rest”…(Mr Green)

    Blackbeard to conquer the World

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    Interrupted sleep at night, cream crackered during the day, and as for this house of hotbed addiction – you cannot seem to exit the covers !

    Solution – holiday !!!

    Take deaf Jon’s eighty year old legs, against their will, up Cross fell, the highest point on the Pennine way. You’ll feel a 3000 foot lift and and he’ll come down a new man – Johnny deaf !!
    (Mr Wham bam wake yourself up before you go-go)

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    The lake district is a loveky part of the world – the scenery comes out of Rupert and you may find the odd bear in one of the B&B’s – it would be a goid finish for you and deaf Jon – four days minimum.

    #1392554
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    Four days munimum was added as a softener Nathan – You’ve got a lot on your plate, right now, as it is, and when have I been cruel in a post ?

    Spring may be a better time for both of you.

    I walked the hills of Scotland once – many yesrs ago – It was more remote back then and all I saw among the crag was one solitary sheep – what I would call a cream piece and it was one fine attractive animal in rare condition.

    You :yahoo: guessed it ! I btought me mirror with me.

    #1392593
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    He’s a nice old chap but
    I wouldn’t go on holiday with deaf Jon
    I’d rather sh!t bricks
    a day at the races is about maximum I’d spend with him

    I’m led to believe it’s young Grasshopper’s birthday

    Blackbeard to conquer the World

    #1392616
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    btw
    When I say my 8 hours is not all in one go
    I don’t mean my sleep is interrupted
    It’s more a case of 7 hours straight, head hits pillow ZZZZZZZzzzzzz
    and a snooze in the afternoon, usually when the snooker is on

    Blackbeard to conquer the World

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