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Off Topic => The Pub => Topic started by: PaulF on 04 April, 2008, 05:58:09 pm

Title: Small World
Post by: PaulF on 04 April, 2008, 05:58:09 pm

On Wednesday I found myself back in Gotham Bikes as recommended HERE  (http://www.anothercyclingforum.com/index.php?topic=45973.0) (the downtown branch trades as Gotham Bikes) where a saw a really stylish jersey that  I really liked with the Gotham Bikes logo. Thinking that it would be unusual and that few people would have heard of it in London I decided I needed one to take advantage of the weak dollar and treat myself.

Roll forward to this afternoon when I took it out for its first spin. Not 100 yards from my home someone stopped me and said "Did you get that at West Broadway, I used to live round the corner."

So bang went my plan for an exotic jersey  >:(

Title: Re: Small World
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 April, 2008, 06:29:26 pm

This afternoon I went to the enormous B & Q which has sprung up on the north side of the town. The purpose of my visit was to buy seeds.

When on the hunt for onion sets, which I failed to locate, I came across a chap dressed in the pensioner-working-for-b-&-q uniform and thought "I know that chap!" His name badge, Brian, confirmed it.

This was my boss's boss, whose civil service pension must be pretty enormous (probably at least £25000 p a)  but who finds it necessary to get a minimum wage job in a garden centre. When we worked for HMCE, he accompanied me on one of the best jollies we ever had, a trip to Elgin Sub-VAT office in June. This involved a guided tour of the Glenmurray-Glenlivet distillery.

I expect his wife was fed up with him at home.

Title: Re: Small World
Post by: hairyhippy on 04 April, 2008, 07:19:55 pm

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

<Goes back to sleep in the arm chair ;D ;D ;D>

Title: Re: Small World
Post by: tonycollinet on 05 April, 2008, 12:55:37 am

clicky (http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/smworld.htm)  ;D

Title: Re: Small World
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 May, 2021, 08:31:53 pm

I have just made contact with an old college chum with whom I have not been in touch since... 1975, I reckon, when we left college.

He's just posted a photo including Canardly, of this parish, and sporting his YACF top, round the corner from whom this chap lives, in St Neots.

Title: Re: Small World
Post by: Canardly on 24 May, 2021, 08:42:52 pm

Well I never.

Title: Re: Small World
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 May, 2021, 08:44:49 pm

Pat Hart.

Title: Re: Small World
Post by: Canardly on 24 May, 2021, 08:57:19 pm

OIC. I did suspect. Nice bloke.