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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: Bentley Bullet on January 08, 2017, 12:11:47 pm
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Away from the trials and tribulations of supporting Rovers, what other pastimes do we pursue?
I think there are a few musicians and at least one actor who post regularly on here.
Let's hear of your 'dark horse' party piece.
It's with great trepidation that I present this ......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A33Hwnm9cO8
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That brilliant, really touching and produced to a high standard. Thankyou for posting it.
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That brilliant, really touching and produced to a high standard. Thankyou for posting it.
:that:
My father fought in Burma and my Grandfather in the Somme. Both survived but were never prepared to talk about their experiences.
In a tiny way I had a small part in the Cold War, but at least I can tell my children. It is difficult, nay impossible, to imagine the horrors of front line war action, and our Armed Forces to this day, and their loved ones, deserve much more admiration and support than they get.
Thank you BB
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I play golf relatively well (18 h'cap) and dance, act and sing! Not so much dancing mind! I am also a fully classically trained cellist - tho my cello doesn't get out of the case as often as I'd like it to!
I also enjoy cooking and can do a few really nice dishes!
On a football side I run 2 adult sides - one Sunday morning prem and one Sunday night 6-a-side! Turning out in goal on occasions for the Sunday prem side and an o-35s side!
I also work hard ensuring that my school 'a' team continue to do well in donny and beyond! Talking of which we hit the road to Wembley again later this month - and I think if I can find an instinctive striker among my Y6s we may just go better than the north of England finals this year (nice draw and a bit of luck going our way to help hopefully)
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Interesting that A14475 I spent 15 years in a Army Staff Band, Double Bass Bass guitar and Tuba player studied at Kneller Hall under some of the finest orchestral players in the RPO LPO etc and did some occasional depping with the big boys and pit orchestras also played with a cover band for a fair old time
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I played tuba for a while too! Good fun! Rekindled having a go on a tuba about 8 years ago as one of the characters in the stage version of 'brassed off' concerto d'aranjuez and William Tell overture great fun to play - tho my character was the guy who conducted William Tell in the grand finale!
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I can play the trumpet to a decent standard.
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I can play the guitar, bass and ukelele plus make a decent fist of keyboards and drums. I just wish I could sing without making myself cringe, let alone anyone else.
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That is excellent BB, well done sir! Is it really just the two of you producing the backing track?
I am fortunte enough to be paid for transcribing military records so that people can find out about their ancestors' past service. I am currently working on some WWII far east stuff, I will see if Walt's name is mentioned at all.
I do a bit of cycling, although not quite a fast or as skillfuly now as I was as in this 24 hour race from a few years back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJNp5X2w_xs
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I play golf off eleven and also enjoy mountain biking when time allows which right now isn't very often.
I plan to retire at the end of this year so a coast to coast ride is on the agenda.
Country walking with the wife and our two dogs is a pleasant pastime too.
After many years of playing football I find that I still enjoy training too in my mini gym at home.
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I coach U9s kids, absolutely love it. Going for my FA level 2 badge this year and then possibly UEFA B badge if time allows.
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I can play the trumpet to a decent standard.
Aye you blow your own trumpet on a regular basis. :laugh:
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Aye, if it gets you some kip at night, pal.
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I'm a pretty decent bridge player - won a few congresses over the years though not playing regularly enough these days to do anything like that nowadays.
What's the plural of congress btw? Congri?!
BobG
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That reminds me, I once got to play chess at County level. It was only for Lincolnshire, but it still counts! I haven't played seriously for years now though. I like quizzes too - I was once Brain Of Customs, I did OK on Countdown and I won an episode of 15-to-1 last year....
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I can play the trumpet to a decent standard.
I thought you enjoyed tromboning?
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Used to play trombone many moons ago ( school and colliery band) recently took up acoustic guitar( two years ago) sing and play a little at open mic nights.
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I can play the trumpet to a decent standard.
I thought you enjoyed tromboning?
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Only if it's rusty, mate.
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I can play the trumpet to a decent standard.
I thought you enjoyed tromboning?
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Only if it's rusty, mate.
It must take a lot of patience to learn to play any of them. I've always wanted to play guitar but have never got round to learning.
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In my very long past I played basketball for Doncaster Panthers, I represented Doncaster at badminton, squash, hockey and cricket and also played in the Doncaster Belles reserve team in early 1990s when you just about had to be an England player to get in the first team.
Nowadays I do a lot of walking and I am learning to play golf....at this moment in time, quite badly!
I tried to teach myself to play the saxophone and then the clarinet but gave up on them both. So if anyone wants to buy a pretty good clarinet just pm me.
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Work takes up most of my spare time, as I have to deal with international clients the emails come in at any time of day, that and family time of course..
When I do get a bit of me-time I make models, with a leaning towards the first world war era. I don't mind cooking an did a bit of baking over Christmas..
Not musical unfortunately!
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When I'm not following Rovers, I like visiting other grounds, currently on 441.
Also play poker to what I like to think is a reasonably good standard, also member of a local drama group, our next production is Fur Coat and no Knickers at the Little Theatre in Feb. Finally I'm a bit of a TV whore for quiz shows, have been on Crystal Maze, Wipeout, Backdate, Winner Takes All, Brainteaser, Today's the Day, Playing for Time, Weakest Link, The Chase and Eggheads at the last count.
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Backdate - is that like Blind Date but specifically for those with a penchant for back door action?
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I used to play the trombone to a reasonably high standard. Could've gone down the route of trying to get in the NYO etc. but when I was 12 I went to my first Rovers match and fell helplessly in love so the music always came second after that.
I have done a bit of singing and acting; only one show to date which was Guys and Dolls at Cast a couple of years ago but I'm going to make a real effort to find time to try again this year as it was one of the best things I've ever done.
When I have the time I also like to play a bit of poker but family commitments come first so not so much of that these days.
I've done a couple of TV quiz shows too. Weakest Link about 7 years ago and Face the Clock (a crap show that ran for one series on Channel 4) about four years ago. I do apply for others from time to time so hopefully I'll add to that collection.
Oh aye, I also write for popular STAND but you probably know that.
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I can play the pink piccolo to a high standard but generally I sit at home watching the tele drinking 3 litre bottles of diamond white and smoking roll ups.
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Is the colour important?
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Fur coat no knickers RR45 - good script that one is!
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Fur coat no knickers RR45 - good script that one is!
It's hilarious Al, really enjoying rehearsals. It'll be an hilarious night out for anybody for just a tenner (he says in his best salesman's voice lol)
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I used to act a fair bit. Loved it too. But it was aeons ago now....... Amongst a fair number I especially remember the lead role in Friedrich Durrenmatt's 'The Physicists' - if anyone knows it? Had the lead role, the Captain, in Sean O'Casey's 'Juno and the Paycock' once as well. Lol. I just remembered something else. I've sung in the Albert Hall. The European premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass with the CBSO and all sorts of aggregated ensembles. Roy Wales conducting.
Bob
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I always thought your best work was the film you did along with Rita and Sue.
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Watch a lot of cricket. Don't play now but when I did my best bowling figures were 6-16.
Wrote two chapters of a book on Rugby League in Wales.
Know a lot about the history and development of the Football League.
Have always nursed an ambition to open a wine bar in Wath-on-Dearne called "Steinbeck's" (you do the math)
Once worked in Nice as a part-time lion tamer and gigolo. I'm not sure which job was more dangerous...
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They think that grapes are piles in Wath RB.😉
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Part time gigolo John??!!! Vraiment? Jesus. My mind is utterly boggled....
And BB: nice one!
Bob
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I spend all my time being a miserable "B" I finds that it helps me express my feelings to others, especially the people I do not like.
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This reminds me of the time a few years ago when I was part of a group of colleagues who were sent on a training course. At the beginning, as an introduction, we were all told to come up with 5 facts about ourselves - 4 true and one false - and everyone had to guess the false one.
Mine were:
I have played in an official international squash match for Wales
I speak fluent Welsh
I have played in an official international squash match for The Netherlands
I speak fluent Dutch
I have never had any sense of smell
Not one person correctly picked out the wrong fact.
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I'll take a punt on sense of smell?
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I'll take a punt on sense of smell?
Nope - most popular guess. I have congenital anosmia - I don't even know what a smell is. Some say I am lucky. ;)
It turns out to be a great fact to use in games like this :silly:
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Drink excessively and kick a ball around most Sunday mornings. Nothing too spectacular, really.
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Speak fluent Welsh.
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Speak fluent Welsh.
Correct. You been reading the other thread Gaz?
Being Welsh born of a Welsh speaking mother, this has been an embarrasment to me for decades now. So is my poor decision to take up the Dutch Squash Association's offer of playing in an international friendly against Belgium as a sop to getting me to accept a non-paid position on the Association which involved huge amounts of work (organising tournaments, leagues, referrees etc). In my defence I was well past my best and wasn't going to make the Welsh team again, was married to a Dutch woman at the time, had a Dutch stepson and expected to be there forever. She left (best thing that ever happened to me) and suddenly I didn't feel at all Dutch any more, just a traitor.
But I would never desert DRFC :rtid:
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Speak fluent Welsh.
Correct. You been reading the other thread Gaz?
Being Welsh born of a Welsh speaking mother, this has been an embarrasment to me for decades now. So is my poor decision to take up the Dutch Squash Association's offer of playing in an international friendly against Belgium as a sop to getting me to accept a non-paid position on the Association which involved huge amounts of work (organising tournaments, leagues, referrees etc). In my defence I was well past my best and wasn't going to make the Welsh team again, was married to a Dutch woman at the time, had a Dutch stepson and expected to be there forever. She left (best thing that ever happened to me) and suddenly I didn't feel at all Dutch any more, just a traitor.
But I would never desert DRFC :rtid:
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One of the squash ones has to be true.
Likely to have been in your prime years before moving to Holland so representing Wales far more likely. Using an educated guess that if good enough to play for Wales once you qualified you would be easily good enough to get in the Dutch squad that wouldn't be as strong as the Welsh one. It's not a sport I associate with Holland.
You've lived in Holland for a very long time so speaking the language would be a certainty for someone of your ability!
That only left one!!
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That is excellent Gaz! I think Sherlock would have been proud :thumbsup:
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Heres the Bentley Bullet again back in the studio. What do you reckon to this? Who knows there might be a Rovers song coming along!
https://youtu.be/g4FBgXyASQ0
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That brilliant, really touching and produced to a high standard. Thankyou for posting it.
:that:
My father fought in Burma and my Grandfather in the Somme. Both survived but were never prepared to talk about their experiences.
In a tiny way I had a small part in the Cold War, but at least I can tell my children. It is difficult, nay impossible, to imagine the horrors of front line war action, and our Armed Forces to this day, and their loved ones, deserve much more admiration and support than they get.
Thank you BB
My grand- father was a P.O.W. of the Japanese in Burma too and like your father took the horrors of the place with him. The only thing I ever noticed , when living with them in my teens, were the scars he carried on his abdomen from those days and the constant shouting in his nightmares....? I can hear them still now whilst writing this.
As for me I have lived a pretty normal life in comparison however I was lucky enough to live in Malaysia ( Ipoh) as a child as well as short stays in Singapore, Hong Kong, Macao and Aden ( Yemen) as well as 7 years in Germany .
Being a child of a military bandsman certainly had it's perks being invited to huge funerals of Rajahs, Polo matches played in jungle clearing etc . Yes I truly got and experienced the last days of our Empire.
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" Once worked in Nice as a part-time lion tamer ." - The Red Baron
How come you could only find lazy lions ........boom boom :chair:
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Interesting that A14475 I spent 15 years in a Army Staff Band, Double Bass Bass guitar and Tuba player studied at Kneller Hall under some of the finest orchestral players in the RPO LPO etc and did some occasional depping with the big boys and pit orchestras also played with a cover band for a fair old time
Daggers my Dad also trained at Kneller Hall met my mum who was from Richmond whilst there . Unlike you he was a percussionist ( as well as trumpeter and violinist ) and played mainly with 13/18 th Hussars QMO for 18 years that's how I managed to travel the world with him and my mum . My dad never left work though he was always tapping out some beat or another with whatever was available - mealtimes were the worst !
I guess that's why I have never ever felt settled anywhere in my life , we were always travelling and experiencing new things - I have kept that up since the 1950s.
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Speak fluent Welsh.
Correct. You been reading the other thread Gaz?
Being Welsh born of a Welsh speaking mother, this has been an embarrasment to me for decades now. So is my poor decision to take up the Dutch Squash Association's offer of playing in an international friendly against Belgium as a sop to getting me to accept a non-paid position on the Association which involved huge amounts of work (organising tournaments, leagues, referrees etc). In my defence I was well past my best and wasn't going to make the Welsh team again, was married to a Dutch woman at the time, had a Dutch stepson and expected to be there forever. She left (best thing that ever happened to me) and suddenly I didn't feel at all Dutch any more, just a traitor.
But I would never desert DRFC :rtid:
So what have you done with your language skills , I guess you don't get much if am opportunity to use it much in if I recall correctly Ireland (?). Are you able to get EU status I.e. did you get Dutch citizenship ? If so can you adopt our family formally to ease our Eurupean travel in future ?
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" Once worked in Nice as a part-time lion tamer ." - The Red Baron
How come you could only find lazy lions ........boom boom :chair:
If the lions were part time lions, what were they for the rest of the time?
COYR
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I got a first at a world championships and was also Yorkshire Champion both at 14 years of age
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General Manager for the GB Australian Rules Football Teams as well as running a local side up here in Newcastle
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Speak fluent Welsh.
Correct. You been reading the other thread Gaz?
Being Welsh born of a Welsh speaking mother, this has been an embarrasment to me for decades now. So is my poor decision to take up the Dutch Squash Association's offer of playing in an international friendly against Belgium as a sop to getting me to accept a non-paid position on the Association which involved huge amounts of work (organising tournaments, leagues, referrees etc). In my defence I was well past my best and wasn't going to make the Welsh team again, was married to a Dutch woman at the time, had a Dutch stepson and expected to be there forever. She left (best thing that ever happened to me) and suddenly I didn't feel at all Dutch any more, just a traitor.
But I would never desert DRFC :rtid:
So what have you done with your language skills , I guess you don't get much if am opportunity to use it much in if I recall correctly Ireland (?). Are you able to get EU status I.e. did you get Dutch citizenship ? If so can you adopt our family formally to ease our Eurupean travel in future ?
I have been teaching some voluntary classes in German for a couple of years Hoola (I lived in Germany for 3 years before living in NL), and I really enjoyed that. However our elder daughter and husband have recently moved back from NL to about a mile from us in Northern Ireland, so I see our grandchildren (aged 4 and 2) pretty well every day, which is great but I have stopped the German classes. I have thought about learning Gaelic Irish, but my heart wants to learn Welsh instead. I might do that via books, CD and the Welsh TV Channel!
With regards to EU travel, as a resident of Northern Ireland (and btw married to a local) I have the automatic right to an Irish passport (dual citizenship). Unsurprisingly since the Referendum there has been a huge rush on them, but somehow, much as I love the Irish, North and South, I don't actually see myself as being Irish and don't really want to apply. My tagline on this site is 'probably the only Dutch speaking Plaid Cymru voting Doncaster Rovers supporter living in Bangor, County Down'. I am Welsh and proud of it. And I never really felt Dutch, certainly not enough to apply for a Dutch passport.
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Speak fluent Welsh.
Correct. You been reading the other thread Gaz?
Being Welsh born of a Welsh speaking mother, this has been an embarrasment to me for decades now. So is my poor decision to take up the Dutch Squash Association's offer of playing in an international friendly against Belgium as a sop to getting me to accept a non-paid position on the Association which involved huge amounts of work (organising tournaments, leagues, referrees etc). In my defence I was well past my best and wasn't going to make the Welsh team again, was married to a Dutch woman at the time, had a Dutch stepson and expected to be there forever. She left (best thing that ever happened to me) and suddenly I didn't feel at all Dutch any more, just a traitor.
But I would never desert DRFC :rtid:
So what have you done with your language skills , I guess you don't get much if am opportunity to use it much in if I recall correctly Ireland (?). Are you able to get EU status I.e. did you get Dutch citizenship ? If so can you adopt our family formally to ease our Eurupean travel in future ?
I have been teaching some voluntary classes in German for a couple of years Hoola (I lived in Germany for 3 years before living in NL), and I really enjoyed that. However our elder daughter and husband have recently moved back from NL to about a mile from us in Northern Ireland, so I see our grandchildren (aged 4 and 2) pretty well every day, which is great but I have stopped the German classes. I have thought about learning Gaelic Irish, but my heart wants to learn Welsh instead. I might do that via books, CD and the Welsh TV Channel!
With regards to EU travel, as a resident of Northern Ireland (and btw married to a local) I have the automatic right to an Irish passport (dual citizenship). Unsurprisingly since the Referendum there has been a huge rush on them, but somehow, much as I love the Irish, North and South, I don't actually see myself as being Irish and don't really want to apply. My tagline on this site is 'probably the only Dutch speaking Plaid Cymru voting Doncaster Rovers supporter living in Bangor, County Down'. I am Welsh and proud of it. And I never really felt Dutch, certainly not enough to apply for a Dutch passport.
You have led an interesting life Dutch , shame you can't keep up the German classes and keep your brain ticking over and I darn sight easier than either Irish Gaelic or Welsh . No doubt you will end up still doing all of them - I just hope you stay as happy as you seem and keep those stats coming.
I'm hoping to see a book about the Rovers from you in the near future.........no pressure eh.
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" Once worked in Nice as a part-time lion tamer ." - The Red Baron
How come you could only find lazy lions ........boom boom :chair:
If the lions were part time lions, what were they for the rest of the time?
COYR
The lions were full time, although they did sleep a lot. I found I could fit in lion-taming with my "other work." That was infinitely more dangerous... 😉
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They had a talking Lion at that time I believe
I remember because I rang him up and the Keeper (maybe even you) said "sorry he's on another Lion"
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They had a talking Lion at that time I believe
I remember because I rang him up and the Keeper (maybe even you) said "sorry he's on another Lion"
Now you might be old enough to remember if this is true, I was once told, by an ex work mate (from Thorne) that a pub in Donny had a dancing bear
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They had a talking Lion at that time I believe
I remember because I rang him up and the Keeper (maybe even you) said "sorry he's on another Lion"
Now you might be old enough to remember if this is true, I was once told, by an ex work mate (from Thorne) that a pub in Donny had a dancing bear
There was a real Bear in Donny behind what became the Girls High School but was at the time a Zoological Gardens / Museum (searching for thread)
I dont remember a dancing bear though
Got it - Free Press. https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/billy-the-bear-was-a-star-draw-at-the-museum-1-3312475
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The dancing bear was owned by Simon Smith. ;)
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The dancing bear was owned by Simon Smith. ;)
Amazing.
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Wow .... I may go out tomorrow (if I can
find borrow a coat to wear) !
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You will be stepping out in style then Wolfe.
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Council estate
Grammar School (Thorne)
Lysaughts
Apprentice Electrician NCB
Physics teacher London Spain Yorkshire
Cooking
Fishing
Walking
Culture
Retired
Senior examiner in Physics
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Play golf, handicap 11 shot a 72 around Owsten Robin Hood, (gross) and had hole in one on the 8th at thornhurst. Chess 1700 rating and play poker to a high standard. Play the keyboard to a decent standard.
That's the good.
Used to play tennis and sunday football, but as much as I loved playing I was rubbish at both.