Palfy Posted August 26, 2017 Report Share Posted August 26, 2017 Know don't be late mate that wouldn't be a good start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romey 1878 Posted August 26, 2017 Report Share Posted August 26, 2017 Congratulations . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnh Posted August 26, 2017 Report Share Posted August 26, 2017 All the best mate. Hope the speech goes OK! Can't remember much about mine, not because I was pissed but it was so long ago. Not much money about then, our reception was a ham salad in Batley Park Cafe! Honeymoon in Southport. Made up for it since though, we have had holidays in places like Skegness and Bridlington. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted August 26, 2017 Report Share Posted August 26, 2017 Sitting on the river front at Interlaken. Utterly stunning part of the world, even by Swiss standards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted August 26, 2017 Report Share Posted August 26, 2017 Sitting on the river front at Interlaken. Utterly stunning part of the world, even by Swiss standards Just finished putting down membrane and seventeen bags of gravel at the side of the house, and it's hot. Completely fucked. Not at all jealous :shaking fist:. Can't remember much about mine, not because I was pissed but it was so long ago. Not much money about then, our reception was a ham salad in Batley Park Cafe! Honeymoon in Southport. Made up for it since though, we have had holidays in places like Skegness and Bridlington. Our reception was here https://www.bickleighmill.com/. Only about thirty people there and everyone paid for their own food because we were skint, "honeymoon" was one night in a hotel about a mile from home. Wasn't really interested in a big do and (luckily) neither was the wife . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c1982 Posted August 26, 2017 Report Share Posted August 26, 2017 All the best holystove ?? holystove 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Romey 1878 Posted August 26, 2017 Report Share Posted August 26, 2017 What a story! How long until dick head humans destroy it again though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gethinO Posted August 26, 2017 Report Share Posted August 26, 2017 Sat in 33 degrees heat at the apartment bar in Tenerife with a cold pint in hand. Planning a proper football day tomorrow. Pub by 12:30, bite to eat, Everton vs Chelsea and then Arsenal vs Liverpool washed down with pints of San Miguel for €1.50. Life's good. My 6 week of summer is closely coming to an end unfortunately!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubecula Posted August 26, 2017 Report Share Posted August 26, 2017 Just finished putting down membrane and seventeen bags of gravel at the side of the house, and it's hot. Completely fucked. snap my back is banjaxed now too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palfy Posted August 26, 2017 Report Share Posted August 26, 2017 Just seen this truly amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnh Posted August 26, 2017 Report Share Posted August 26, 2017 Absolutely fantastic, thanks for posting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holystove Posted September 12, 2017 Report Share Posted September 12, 2017 http://www.paulplowman.com/stuff/house-address-twins-proximity/ what the shortest distance was between two Address Twins – houses with the same number and the same street-name I know probably not the right thread but I love that this guy spent hours looking something up that is unbelievably trivial; it actually makes me happy. MikeO, Sibdane and Matt 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete0 Posted September 12, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2017 39 minutes ago, holystove said: http://www.paulplowman.com/stuff/house-address-twins-proximity/ what the shortest distance was between two Address Twins – houses with the same number and the same street-name I know probably not the right thread but I love that this guy spent hours looking something up that is unbelievably trivial; it actually makes me happy. Used to go the Takeaways on that road, never paid much attention to the street numbers though. That would make a great research project for students to learn about sifting through shed loads of data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnh Posted September 12, 2017 Report Share Posted September 12, 2017 When I lived in Leeds, our house was in Cardigan Lane, Headingley. There was a 'continuation' of Cardigan Lane but for some unknown reason it was 2 miles away in Kirkstall. This always caused problems but can't remember if the house numbers clashed also. Once had an Uncle who lived in London who visited us. He got a taxi from the train station and asked for 'Cardigan Lane'. He couldn't find our house and phoned for help. My Dad sent me on the 2 mile hike to rescue him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted September 12, 2017 Report Share Posted September 12, 2017 2 hours ago, johnh said: When I lived in Leeds, our house was in Cardigan Lane, Headingley. There was a 'continuation' of Cardigan Lane but for some unknown reason it was 2 miles away in Kirkstall. This always caused problems but can't remember if the house numbers clashed also. Once had an Uncle who lived in London who visited us. He got a taxi from the train station and asked for 'Cardigan Lane'. He couldn't find our house and phoned for help. My Dad sent me on the 2 mile hike to rescue him. Just looked that up on Google maps, weird; it becomes Ashville Road then you have to do a quick left/right along Cardigan Road to "rejoin" it. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Cardigan+Ln,+Leeds+LS4+2LN/@53.8116096,-1.5785704,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x48795eb58dd7bc93:0x1c7dc33978121e04!8m2!3d53.8099562!4d-1.57989 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted September 12, 2017 Report Share Posted September 12, 2017 Love Google Maps/streetview, this is the house I was born in (with red & white cars in drive). https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5329973,-0.4837934,3a,37.5y,217.72h,85.73t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPEkAe4wA92ZQJf3bPw-qvQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sibdane Posted September 12, 2017 Report Share Posted September 12, 2017 8 hours ago, holystove said: http://www.paulplowman.com/stuff/house-address-twins-proximity/ what the shortest distance was between two Address Twins – houses with the same number and the same street-name I know probably not the right thread but I love that this guy spent hours looking something up that is unbelievably trivial; it actually makes me happy. This is brilliant work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnh Posted September 12, 2017 Report Share Posted September 12, 2017 4 hours ago, MikeO said: Just looked that up on Google maps, weird; it becomes Ashville Road then you have to do a quick left/right along Cardigan Road to "rejoin" it. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Cardigan+Ln,+Leeds+LS4+2LN/@53.8116096,-1.5785704,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x48795eb58dd7bc93:0x1c7dc33978121e04!8m2!3d53.8099562!4d-1.57989 Mike, if you go another two inches up on the map, following Cardigan Road, you come to Headingley Cricket Ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnh Posted September 12, 2017 Report Share Posted September 12, 2017 4 hours ago, MikeO said: Love Google Maps/streetview, this is the house I was born in (with red & white cars in drive). https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5329973,-0.4837934,3a,37.5y,217.72h,85.73t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPEkAe4wA92ZQJf3bPw-qvQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 You posh bar steward. I was born in a shed, or could have been a cardboard box and we had gravel for breakfast and.................................................. MikeO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted September 12, 2017 Report Share Posted September 12, 2017 16 minutes ago, johnh said: You posh bar steward. I was born in a shed, or could have been a cardboard box and we had gravel for breakfast and.................................................. I love it, to be clear I was actually born in that house (as was my big bro), not born in hospital and taken home after. We're going up in the near future, majority of my mum's ashes we've put with my dad on a hill in the Mendips but we've kept a bit back (probably about an arms worth) to put on her dad's grave in Hampton. He died when she was five but she expressed a desire to be reunited with him before she died, it took a fair bit of research to find where he was because she knew nothing. We're going to go to her granddads house where she grew up in Acton, grave in Hampton, mum and dads first house in Uxbridge (as above) and then the house we were brought up in in Guildford as a final farewell. We'll probably get arrested for loitering more than once but it'll be a good day. pete0 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnh Posted September 13, 2017 Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 Mike, lovely story. Hope you have a really good day. MikeO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaron Posted September 13, 2017 Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 Took one of the girls I work with out on a date last night, date 2 pencilled in for Sunday. I have a good feeling about this one! Unfortunately she is a kopite though markjazzbassist 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubecula Posted September 13, 2017 Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 45 minutes ago, aaron said: Took one of the girls I work with out on a date last night, date 2 pencilled in for Sunday. I have a good feeling about this one! Unfortunately she is a kopite though convert her mate, you know how.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted September 13, 2017 Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 1 hour ago, rubecula said: convert her mate, you know how.... https://media.giphy.com/media/4yThR9seRfapO/giphy.gif aaron and rubecula 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish Steve Posted September 13, 2017 Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 On 8/21/2017 at 13:23, MikeO said: I agree, stunningly beautiful; I think more so than Devon in fact (Exmoor/Dartmoor aside). I'm not a fan of Cornwall though (sorry Steve). Devon and Dorset are for the polite afternoon cricket, scones and tea crowd. Cornwall's for the wild, eccentric, rule-breaking types who can't wait to experience the next storm force gale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish Steve Posted September 13, 2017 Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 1 hour ago, rubecula said: convert her mate, you know how.... Same phrase oughta do it whether she wears blue or red. "Love the outfit. Colour matches your eyes." rubecula 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish Steve Posted September 13, 2017 Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 23 hours ago, MikeO said: Love Google Maps/streetview, this is the house I was born in (with red & white cars in drive). https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5329973,-0.4837934,3a,37.5y,217.72h,85.73t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPEkAe4wA92ZQJf3bPw-qvQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Here's the church in Cornwall where I was christened. Amazingly, it was built about 1,000 years ago. My aunt and uncle are buried in the churchyard. My brother was born not 100 yards from there. I should have been born in Cornwall, but I was a difficult and premature birth, and the only hospital was in Plymouth, Devon. Of course, I never hear the end of this from my brother. When I was 7, one of my cousins asked me to play the organ at her wedding. Every Sunday afternoon, I'd get the key to this church and practise on its organ. It was once powered by choirboys manually operating bellows but had been upgraded to be powered by an electric motor. Still, it took quite some pressure to push down the keys. I'll never forget the sense of wonder hearing air rushing through the organ pipes. I was quite short for my age and couldn't reach the pedals - except by doing a dance on them.https://www.google.com/maps/place/Saint+Marys+Sheviock/@50.373079,-4.293766,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1s120926931!2e1!3e10!6s%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2Fproxy%2FLaXIun2IwNM4lJcson9McUgm56ulA0fFBXItcsjacon-yNo-0VgqVc31kOo1NA4uBDHMHdNiyuck2Sb61YeB_S-bsA-wbgI%3Dw203-h152-k-no!7i3648!8i2736!4m8!1m2!2m1!1ssheviock+church!3m4!1s0x486c90e76890f149:0x9d8eb7642a2fba2c!8m2!3d50.3731121!4d-4.2933801 MikeO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted September 13, 2017 Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 8 minutes ago, Cornish Steve said: I was a difficult and premature birth, and the only hospital was in Plymouth, Devon Devonian Steve from now then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowensda Posted September 14, 2017 Report Share Posted September 14, 2017 Getting hitched in the morning. Engaged for a few years but decided 5 weeks ago to "just do it". Stressful few weeks but we've nailed it (here's hoping). Treating the family to a long weekend in Anglesey immediately after the ceremony (not having a formal reception). Boys in bed, H staying out and I've had to watch (parts) of that shambles. Luckily I'm alone so I've not been publicly embarrassed. Kept it relatively quiet and intimate. Just need some prayers for good weather ? all welcome to assist aha. aaron, pete0, Matt and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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