The Retirement Thread
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welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Afternoon folks. Back from a 17 mile bimble. Gorgeous weather here, blue skies and really warm. The first photo was taken from the top of my drive. Such a busy place I live at 
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
I'd plan routes shaped like boobies on the map just to shock people 
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
I'd plan routes shaped like boobies on the map just to shock people
And you don't already do that? I am surprised.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Flipping heck. Chris Packham is having a pop at us shooters again. This time some eagles have gone missing in Scotland and it's the fault of shooters, even though there's no actual evidence they've been shot.
Today was going so well til he stuck his oar in
Today was going so well til he stuck his oar in
numbnuts
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- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
WoW you actually got electricity and a place to do the washing and bathing how very civilised.......Afternoon folks. Back from a 17 mile bimble. Gorgeous weather here, blue skies and really warm. The first photo was taken from the top of my drive. Such a busy place I live at
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welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
I know. This electricity stuff is amazing. So much better than having to beat the clothes against the rocks especially In the Winter when it can be a tad cool.
numbnuts
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- Gone over the hill and far away
You live in a nice part of the country, bettter than looking at rows of houses in a concrete jungle
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
You live in a nice part of the country, bettter than looking at rows of houses in a concrete jungle
Indeed. There is absolutely nothing here. Only 1 other house.
numbnuts
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- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
I live 12 miles from the New Forest, by car easy, but 24 miles round trip by bike just to see a gimps of it, we have two famous rivers the Test and the Itchen, but 95% of it is privately owned and the only time you every see it is when the road goes over it and there is not many river walks at all, but I suppose it is somewhere to live.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
I live 200 yards from an old forest. So old that Henry VIII used to hunt there. About 200 yards the opposite direction is an old building said to be the hunting lodge he'd retire to for a nosh up and to chop some heads off his wives.
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Across the road from me is common land so nothing can be built on it. I think we have the right to graze 3 sheep on it. 
Nowhere to walk really as the A470 is the only road here accept the B4404 that I normally use. It is an old road.and ends up in Mach. Much better going that way than using the main road. Lots of farmland here and of course sheep are the main animals here but we do see more and more cows now.
Nowhere to walk really as the A470 is the only road here accept the B4404 that I normally use. It is an old road.and ends up in Mach. Much better going that way than using the main road. Lots of farmland here and of course sheep are the main animals here but we do see more and more cows now.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Tennis question, perhaps @PaulSB or Mrs PaulSB will know. Why do the players when they get 3 or 4 balls from the ball boys, inspect them and keep 2 and throw the rest back? Surely they're all the same.
Clearly the balls are all the same but during play the surface deteriorates. The players are checking how "fluffy" the ball's surface has become. The smoother the surface the faster the ball travels. Fluffy balls will slow in flight.
I suspect most of us couldn't tell and for professionals it's as much superstition as anything.
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