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Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

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  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,081 Forumite
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    Davesnave wrote: »
    In 1966, my friend stowed away, then worked his passage, to follow the girl he was besotted with back to the good ol' USofA. He had a passport, which probably helped him get in at t'other end, but even then, there were work permits etc etc.

    Anyway, to cut a long story short, he bummed around a bit near this young lady's house, until he was arrested for vagrancy and banged up to do 200 days hard labour on a soya bean farm.

    If I remember correctly, his parents got him out via the British Embassy before too long, but they hung on to his passport until the costs were all paid.

    Maybe not such simple times, but happy? Yes! :)

    I love your stories :)
    Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    check those pics for the cream separator its only visible, just, in the last pic. In the gloom, at the back, on the left.
  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,469 Forumite
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    I'm hobbling around like a proper cripple today. Stiff left achilles, stiff left knee, both calves are dead, and my left hip is screwed. My left leg keeps threatening to give way. The gym is slowly killing me!
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    chewmylegoff wrote: »
    I'm hobbling around like a proper cripple today. Stiff left achilles, stiff left knee, both calves are dead, and my left hip is screwed. My left leg keeps threatening to give way. The gym is slowly killing me!


    do you pay for that gym? I can get all that for free :D
  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,469 Forumite
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    lostinrates wrote: »
    do you pay for that gym? I can get all that for free :D

    Sorry if my phrasing was insensitive! Yes, I'm a member of two different ones (work gym and one near home) costs me £75 a month to destroy myself! Got to offset the ludicrous amount of eating out I am being forced to do at the moment. I love this time of year and also similtaneously loathe it for exactly the same reasons!
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    chewmylegoff wrote: »
    Sorry if my phrasing was insensitive!!


    I would hope I'm at least emotionally robust! I meant nothing piqued by it!
  • lemonjelly
    lemonjelly Posts: 8,014 Forumite
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    StevieJ wrote: »
    Deed (rightly or wrongly) reminds me of Lord Denning and some of the the tricks that he used to get up to, preferring justice to the current law any time.

    :eek:
    Denning was like you suggest sometimes.
    He also was quite mad sometimes...
    It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
  • lemonjelly
    lemonjelly Posts: 8,014 Forumite
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    Doozergirl wrote: »
    As if I haven't got enough to do, I need a new kettle. Mine has plaster all round the outside and, I suspect, the inside. Now I do have to go to Redditch. Maybe I will find Farmfoods while I am there.

    I did have a shower in my own house today and the lounge is finished :)

    michaels has got one you might be able to have.
    Quite cheap I think...
    It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
  • lemonjelly
    lemonjelly Posts: 8,014 Forumite
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    An investment banker said he was going to concentrate on the big issues from now on.

    He sold me one in the street yesterday.
    It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
  • lemonjelly
    lemonjelly Posts: 8,014 Forumite
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    chewmylegoff wrote: »
    No it is not! If I had my way I'd never be out of bed before 10am.

    Amen to that brother.

    lemonjelly. Not a morning person....
    It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
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