So what have you done today..?

:Muted:

 

Got the Italian trouble maker to join the forum (with a little help from Mr R). Should liven things up a bit around here
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My wife told me today, that her friends husband (he is around 60 years old) has finally retired from his diving job in some arab country - something to do with pipelines.

Her words were "Now he's retired, he won't have to go in them compressors anymore"

 

Today I visited T E Lawrence's cottage at Cloud's Hill, Dorset:

 

This is the garage Lawrence built to keep his Brough Superior motorbike in:

 

... and this is the Greek motto carved in the lintel over the front door. It is usually translated "What do I care" :

 

it is an interesting visit that one. (No toilet in the building, just a bath and sink - he went for a walk into the woods, IIRC). Visited that last year and came back out to a flat back tyre on my bike.

Have you read the book by Michael Korda , of his life? I found it a very good read.

 

Wow, didn't know you knew him - did you both go for a spin on the bikes :Wideyed:

 

Me too.

 

There have been many biographies of Lawrence, and I have read a few. The early ones were hagiographies; then there were some iconoclastic books; and finally the later ones were syntheses of good and bad, his strengths and weaknesses, his successes and failures. I don't think any one biog is quite enough.

 

I think I've just been added to a will as a major benefactor :Happy:

 

This sounds a bit premature. You haven't yet asked me for my home address.

 

not really. i have met him. surprised he left it so long. :smile:

 

funeral,, i hate them

 

house valued

time to get a shift on

 

Not punched anyone at work today! It's taken much self control. It's being one of those days where I'm surrounded by idiots!

 

I discovered what white brain cells do. They are the cells found in the brains of women which cause white noise.

I also re-discovered the enhanced ability of women with respect to communication (aka WON)*


Seriously, someone was close to getting a STFU&L instruction from me today. I ended up walking away from them (instead of punching them in the blowhole). FFS.



WON = Wall of noise

 

Just had an apple donut, contemplating the Borders biscuits left over from the meeting next door

 

I am contemplating a rum baba. There is a cake shop almost next door.

I'll see how I get on with this temptation. Feeling a bit peckish.
Were I in the UK now, I suspect that I'd be zooming around to Pret à Manger for their lemon cheesecake.