Kepler,
A belated Happy Birthday to you.
You can keep your hangover mate - I've got one of my own and am likely to get another one in the morning.
Oh God I'll be glad when I've had enough!

Thanks everybody for the good wishes. I'm overwhelmed by the good thoughts 2.5 years after being on here before. I had a little too much hospitality last night (!) and my son who lives near Barnsley woke me with a Birthday phone call at 9 am (3 pm to you). So, fragility rules at the moment but I hav...

Thanks for the 'Wake-Up' call gessa,
Yep - That's absolutely what I meant!!!

Thanks gessa,
I appreciate the wishes,
N

Thanks Harry and Becchio.
Appreciate the hell out of both of you.
Best Wishes,
Norm

00:01 12/22 - yeah!
I get to live my birthday, or at least that part of it where I don't abuse myself!

I started work 19/8/1963 at Wakefield Kirkgate station as a clerk. The Parcels Office senior clerk was a Leeds fan and lived in Leeds. He asked me along to a game in that year and, although I wasn't immediately hooked, soon became so. Understand that I grew up being a Featherstone Rovers fan, yet pl...

I don’t think the answer to this conundrum lies with gun control, although I do agree that ‘military-style’ weapons shouldn’t be allowed to ordinary citizens. Basically, you can kill someone with a steak knife or a cricket bat if killing is your intent. What’s wrong is that too many kids grow up wit...

Thanks again Twiggs.
Shame about Chelsea but let's get promoted eh!
N

Twiggs, Thanks - sorry I've been away but I never lost my loyalty to you and this excellent site. Tomorrow (today in Europe) I reach Upper Middle Age - 68 - but NEVER Old Age!!!!!! I suppose I'm still as much of an arsehole as I ever was but, hey, I'm a Yorkshireman - what the hell does anybody expe...

Tom Petty “Free falling”
Tom Petty “I won’t back down”
Tom Petty “Learning to fly”
Alan Price Set ‘I put a spell on you”
Ultravox “Vienna”
Vangelis “Chariots of fire”
Who “Dr. Jimmy”

I love parts of ‘The Planet Suite’ by Gustav Holst (Jupiter – the bringer of jollity – especially “I vow to thee my country”, hymn number 294 in the Normanton Grammar School mini-Hymn Book and “Mars – the God of war” – all menacing in a 5/4 beat which would be hard to replicate). On a lighter note I...

Please delete username 'Norm' from this site.
Best wishes,
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