Eau de wimbledon

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This year at Wimbledon, you can buy a candle that when lit gives off the aroma of the newly cut grass at Wimbledon. Only £25 a throw.
Perhaps we should all be marketing candles imbued with the fragrance of chicken droppings, layers pellets, red mite powder aimed at people who may be" between" hens.
Suppose the candle would look good next to the jar of "Broadchurch" air on the mantelpiece
 
This could be a substitute satisfaction after being thrown out of Wimbledon for wearing your Vote Labour t-shirt and singing "Ohhh Jeremy Corbyn!"
See dire warnings in The Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/30/wimbledon-warns-supporters-against-political-chants-slogans/
 
Little things please little minds

How do you know when a politician is lying? You can see his lips move..................
 
Marigold said:
This could be a substitute satisfaction after being thrown out of Wimbledon for wearing your Vote Labour t-shirt and singing "Ohhh Jeremy Corbyn!"
See dire warnings in The Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06 ... s-slogans/
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That's a shame. I was going to start off a rendition of "He's old, he's grey, he lost to Mrs May, Jeremy Corbyn!"
 
It is my custom to come in and settle down with a cafatierre to watch the Politics Show at mid-day. Oh no - it's been cancelled so that sad losers can watch grown men knock a ball backwards and forwards over a net for hours at a time!
I think I'm living on the wrong planet.
 
There are times when I think we are all on the wrong planet. I used to enjoy Wimbledon in ye olde days when you would have amazing rallies that seemed to go on forever, but now its all the speed of the serve and aces, and as for the women sounding like prize wrestlers lifting weights don't go there
 
There's always hardly anything to watch on TV in the summer if you're not into sport, especially tennis - BORING!! Thank goodness for Poldark on Sunday nights. 0:-)
 
I like the tennis, am I in a minority of one? Its the gladatorial spirit, nowhere to hide, one on one :D
 
I'm of similar mind to BYM, didn't mind tennis in the 80's, but as the rackets have got better and the players have got bigger the power on the court now makes it too stop start a game for my liking. For a one on one sport I prefer boxing, though I don't enjoy that as much as I once did either.
 
MrsBiscuit said:
I like the tennis, am I in a minority of one? Its the gladatorial spirit, nowhere to hide, one on one :D
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I too love the tennis Mrs B, you are not alone. :) For me it is a sign that summer is truly here, even if rain stops play.

But I can do without the grunts and groans - it's like the soundtrack from a porn film!
 
dinosaw said:
I'm of similar mind to BYM, didn't mind tennis in the 80's, but as the rackets have got better and the players have got bigger the power on the court now makes it too stop start a game for my liking. For a one on one sport I prefer boxing, though I don't enjoy that as much as I once did either.
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Are you too young for Saturday afternoon wrestling? Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, the Pallo Brothers, the Royal Brothers etc. now that was gladiatorial.
Now it was staged but nevertheless, it must have hurt!
 
Not having a tv, Wimbledon, like all other sporting events, even the Olympics, passes me by! But even I have noticed on magazines, news sites etc., that tennis players are a different breed now than they were in the 70's when, all summer long, us children would play tennis in the street, just getting out of the way of the occasional car that would pass by! Now, when I go to mum's, the amount of traffic on the road in the estate, outside her house, is unreal! When we were kids, my dad was the owner of only a handful of cars there. Now, mum is one of the few houses without at least one car! No chance of playing tennis using the roadway as a court now!!
 
Hen-Gen said:
Are you too young for Saturday afternoon wrestling? Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, the Pallo Brothers, the Royal Brothers etc. now that was gladiatorial.
Now it was staged but nevertheless, it must have hurt!
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I remember Bid Daddy and Giant Haystacks from during the "Fit" Finlay era, the Pallo's are before my time though. Apparently Mrs Dinosaw's Gran was well into the wrestling and took it deadly seriously. She would turn up to the events when they came to town and handbag the villains on the bill, that must have hurt as well!.

It is really noticeable how few kids you see out playing nowadays compared to when I was young, if it isn't organised with adult supervision, it ain't happening. I pity the kids now, the way their parents wrap them up with cotton wool can't be healthy.
 
My aunt and uncle were wrestling fans and if they visited on a Saturday the wrestling was duly viewed. Mick McManus was another wrestler from that era. I also remember we had to be dead quiet when the football results came on so grandad could check his pools coupon.
Then it was time for Dr Who, before someone asks Jon Pertwee was my favourite Dr
We all used to play out and every street had a long skipping rope tied to a lamp post and a hop scotch grid marked out. A good few years ago we went to Beamish museum and a hop scotch grid was marked out and some kids were just standing looking at it asking their parents what it was, no idea was the answer. So we showed them how it was played.
 
British Bulldog!
British Bulldog!
British Bulldog!
1 - 2 - 3!

That was a very silly game! All the kids in the street (about 40) got together on the grassy patch on the front. 3 stood in the middle and the rest charged from one end to the other yelling all the way and trying not to get caught.
 
Remember that, and of course we all had roller skates in our street which had a nice hill, just right for zooming down unless you got it wrong and ended up scraping your skin off on the gravel verge.
Queenie Queenie who's got the ball was another game. Not forgetting Cowboys and Indians, although that got superseded by Thunderbirds I seem to remember in our street.
Just remembered another wrestler from that era Kendo Nagasaki
 
I remember all those games but the one that sticks in my mind the most was playing cowboys and indians with my brother and his friends. I was always stagecoach horse, with a rope around the back of my neck and then under my arms I was 'driven' round the block...Happy days
 
Not to mention fishing for sticklebacks, butterfly hunting, we didn't need children's tv or computer games in those days.
 
Seem to remember also spending a lot of time bored rigid!
Of course I would say this, being a relative oldie, but being bored is good for you - makes you think of (imagine) something to do (other than downloading a new anti-boredom app)
Kids these days... mumble, mumble...
:)
 
rick said:
Seem to remember also spending a lot of time bored rigid!
Of course I would say this, being a relative oldie, but being bored is good for you - makes you think of (imagine) something to do (other than downloading a new anti-boredom app)
Kids these days... mumble, mumble...
:)
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More like parents these days I reckon, they don't want their kids playing out, it's gone full circle since I was a kid. I am young enough to have had a Spectrum 48k and other indoor stuff like Subbuteo, truth be told I probably preferred playing indoors, however if it was a nice day/evening I was turfed out of the house by my dad. The same went for the other kids I grew up with despite our estate being a bit dodgy (understatement of the year). As far as him and the other dads were concerned we ought to be out getting some fresh air. In summer I can remember going out with a sour face at 6pm, only to have to be virtually dragged in by my mam as it was getting dark while we tried to finish a football match that had worked it's way up to "first to 70". Other times I would go out with a sour face at 6 and be knocking on the door with an even sourer face as soon as I knew my dad had gone out.

A quick tip on using the principle first to (insert total) in games. If you find yourself losing at any game by 20-10, chances are that if you say lets play first to 40, you will be losing 40-20 by the time you suggest first to 60 and so on. In our case Peter Beardsley never did drive past and decide to give us a hand.
 
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