Anything But the Wrestling

A New Year so we will continue this topic pinned to the top of the forum

Anything But The Wrestling Part 2

I am not the only person going through radiotherapy. they all need our thoughts and wishes, I am just one of thousands. 1 in 6 of men will stand a chance of having prostrate cancer. remember the teams doctors, nurses, practioneers, receptionist, admin and those who drive us there and back and look after us

oving away from Wembley has enable me to do things I could not do there. one of the things was putting up a Union Jack in front garden. this I did in first lock down. if I had done it in Wembley I would have been set on fire but gangs of locals

Nope, not a church thingy. One of the few good things to come from Covid, we've had a look

https://www.facebook.com/Hogsthorpe/posts/153464296286582

it is worth noting this not a church thingy.

being monitored by locals

I wish you well Matey Dave with your hospital treatment. Ruslan good luck with your new job, and you'll never forget your skill as a Dance Coach. Hopefully in the not too distant future you'll be able to go back to doing just that.

Good luck Ruslan and Dave, you've both had a hard time. Things will only get better.

True words from Matey Dave, at the second attempt.

It's been a difficult year for all of us. We have members who have suffered Covid themselves, or watched family members suffer.

As an older member of the forum I feel fortunate in that I've not had any great economic impact as the pension continues to go in the bank and there are fewer opportunites to spend. Much more difficult for younger ones who are still in work, especially Ruslan and others like him who have seen their jobs disappear. New skills as Matey Dave says, and your old dancing skills won't disappear overnight. Stay off the cream cakes Ruslan and you will dance again.

It's been an inconvenience for me but that's about all, I've got lots of memories to look back on, more difficult again for younger ones wanting to get on with their life. But things will get better. We will gradually come out of it during the next year.

As for your research Ruslan, wrestling history won't go away. It will still be there for you to uncover when you're on a more settled financial footing. Thanks for sharing with us all Ruslan, the Heritage forum is a special place for us all.

dear friends, haven't been posting forever, apologies, have something to say, this year is almost over, so its a 'time to count stones' as they said in the past...and yes corona affected me as well. I quit my job, I actually had to...I am a ballroom dance coach. no dancing during lockdown...also had to quit my wrestling studies hobby (I stress - it was a hobby which lasted 15 years and was never fully understood or accepted by "my people"), its an expensive and time concerning activity, yet I have to admit a very fun one, and it was in fact quite a pleasant journey for me...I could do it only when I was freelancing i.e. selling dance lessons, yup a man of 1,000 emails a day (I take it as a compliment). I am thankful for every minute of research and studies and that I loved the most, and for the people who researched with me, guys you are the best, I was blessed to have you, success (and I believe it was ACHIEVED) is 100% based on the sincere true friendship and team-work. currently I am employed at the factory, and work 2nd shift. so that was a step I made, whether it was a step forward or backward, progress or regress...hard to tell...yet I made that step and moved on.

Thank you Dave. We hear you're allowed a couple of days off from your treatment. Enjoy them and then get back to the hospital and worry them 😀. Happy Christmas Dave.

He's on his way guys. Get your socks at the ready. The Ost, John Shelvey, Ed Locke, Graeme Cameron are already tucked up in bed.

since they church of England has lost it's way, they normally favour a finger of Kit Kat

I am reminded of the story of the conclave of archbishops from all over the world who congregated at Lambeth Palace for a grand Christmas luncheon. They ate a full turkey dinner with all the trimmings followed by Christmas pudding and mince pies. Following that they served coffee and passed round the under eights.

that's what the Church of England tried to cover over the bishop of Gloucester used to say the the boys

It's getting worse boys, keep your heads down.

Hope this brings a laugh to everyone

Very sorry to hear you've been so poorly Dave. Pleased to hear you're getting good treatment, and a timely reminder to us all. Merry Christmas, and here's to you having a better new year.

A serious message from Matey Dave shared in the unique Matey Dave style. Thanks for sharing with us what you're going through at the moment. At least you're being sorted and the radio therapy is getting you on the road to recovery.

I once asked my granddad how he spent his youth in London. The question visibly moved him and looking wistfully away he replied. ''Ah, London on a sunny day. I remember one such afternoon, when after a walk through a leafy London park, my lass and I took a cab to a local Palais. My favourite wrestler, Jack Pye was appearing and as I hoped, my lass was so scared of him she clung on to me tightly throughout his match. Afterwards, as she had been such a good sport, I asked her what she would like to do next. She replied she was dying to see Robert Donat in the cinema film Goodbye Mr Chips and she happened to know that there was a late night showing of it in Leicester Square. So that's what we did. Yes, a lovely day spent in London, finishing up with Pye and Chips''.

A message from one member today to say he received his Covid 19 vaccination yesterday (it was fine of course). Anyone else? It's early days for most of us who will have to be patient but we'd be interested to hear, preferably on the forum.

Shark? That was the best. Used to happen all the time up the River Ribble.

Thanks John. Your stories gave me a smile. Appreciated as, although I'm fine and nothing to grumble about at all, I have woken up with one of those I'm just getting bored by all this feelings - and I'm talking about you know what, not the wrestling.

My Dad although not born within the sound of Bow-Bells, so wasn't a Cockney, although he did have a London accent. On one occasion he was at an engineering trade fair and was extolling the virtues of one of his companies machines. As he gave his spiel, he noticed that the pretty young thing that was accompanying her boss, my dads' prospect, was hanging on to his every word. ''Wow, I'm doing well here'' he thought as the gal stood mouth open, with unabashed admiration. Having finished his pitch, my dad waited for for the compliments and an order or two, to materialise. The pretty thing spoke first. ''Gee George, you sound just like Harold Steptoe''!

On holiday, my dad was fishing in a Queensland river when his hat blew off into the water and was swept away by the current. An ex-Naval man and strong swimmer who'd become quite frugal since retirement, Dad decided he wasn't going to lose said hat. He reckoned he swum after it for about fifteen minutes before it became snagged on a branch sticking out from a bank. Job done. A couple of weeks later, a service man on leave, was swimming in the river when he was taken by a shark.

I was fishing one afternoon in the 'Little Ouse' in St. Neots, when I was rather surprised to see my keepnet slowly wending its way downstream. I followed it for a short distance and saw that a pike had taken a roach that I had caught and placed in the net sometime earlier. I thought maybe the pike, who had taken the roach from the outside of the net, had its teeth tangled in the net, however as it appeared to be swimming along quite unconcerned I figured it wasn't to be too long before it ripped the net and ate dinner. (I apologised to the roach, as I had intended to release it).

During a football match, our striker Mick, hared after a through ball that split the opposition defence. Just as it appeared he was about to catch up to the ball he veered off, seemingly speeding up. He then proceeded to run past the opposition goal, leap over a small fence and then open his car door and turned off his cars' engine that had apparently running for about an hour. He later said he noticed the 'smoking' car as he chased that through ball!

I like them Bernard.

Yes you sometimes have to do a bit of wiggling to post more than one image. You got there though, and it was worth it.

Last one.

No.3

No2.

I tried to put more than one joke on here and they ended up on top of each other,

so separate posts now.

In these strange days (I do get annoyed every time that is said to remind me) we are familiar with delivery men leaving parcels at our door and photographing them as proof of delivery.

I would just like to thank the delivery company of a photo of someone's front door. All I have to do is find it.

You are making a great contribution John. Come on the Forum more often mate.

Seeing as I've no way of knowing how my personal life first time around in Australia memories are being received along with my wrestling memories in 'JOURNEY' I might just offload some here, rather than possibly bore you there!

The first house we lived in (a rental) was a big house, but with the loo outside. One of the neighbours kids as a joke, killed a poisonous brown snake and curled it up, head directly pointing at the inside of the loo door. I'm not sure who first discovered it, but I know it wasn't my mum as she would have been on the next flight outta Sydney!

My dad was so enchanted with the sight of the 'dunny men' collecting the outside poo bins he wrote a poem which started off

''Through the early morning they flit

Picking up the bins of ....''

Mum suffered through the first baking hot summer, sitting in a cold bath, writing letters home to England.

Mum and Dad were invited to a party, being told to 'just bring a plate'. They turned up with an empty plate each read to tuck into the tucker supplied. There was none, they were supposed to bring a plate OF FOOD!

At the end of a days work, a fellow worker, being kind to a 'newbee' pulled up in his car and called back to my dad, ''hey George, want a lift'? My dad gave him the thumbs up signal and walked towards the car only for it to speed off. Dad never afraid to confront a situation, tackled the guy the next day ''Now, what was the idea of offering me a lift and then driving off?'' The confused guy replied ''Well you signalled for me to stick me lift up me bum!''

Frank Carson ''and there's more, there's more''.

35000ft should be okay. They're pretty sturdy. Not like They're Pukka pies.

I will be flying over your place Monday morning about 6.00am at 35000ft and drop them off

Well that's very generous of you Matey Dave. Must admit I'd never thought of you as Santa, but am now convinced and looking forward to my first Holland's pie in 40 years. Actually, I preferred their steak puddings if you could manage that.

yodel delivered my birthday present this morning complete with kit. will try it out over the weekend. might surprise so old friends as have supply of holland Guinness steak pie. will be nice dropping off some on hack as I zoom over

Reminds me of the time when a young man in the days of national service was called up. He decided to take the urine of his girlfriend, who had diabetes to get out of conscription.

The doctor who then came with the result said “I can believe you have diabetes, but don’t believe you are pregnant”!

What a surprise!

Cheers

Last night I was stopped by the police in Lancaster on suspicion of drink driving. The breathalyser test proved inconclusive and so I was taken to the police station to provide a urine sample. After an hour or so I was allowed to leave and on passing a room by the exit, noticed my urine sample bottle there on the table. I grabbed the bottle, hid it in my coat and went home.

This morning at 3.00 the police raided my house, bundled me out of bed, arrested and charged me with........ taking the piss!

another thing I was not warned about at was this consultant who has been there for many year

I was laying there ready to be zapped and he suddenly appears

. I think I know why everybody disappeared. lucky for me my well worn socks smelt of garlic

Very good.

You know what's coming next don't you?

Isn't it time to direct some of your creative energy towards Poets In The Corner and the Christmas Songbook?

https://theriotsquad.wixsite.com/poets-in-the-corner

https://theriotsquad.wixsite.com/poets-in-the-corner/christmassongbook

Hee, hee.

I have written some more songs and I write poetry as well.

It was well worth reviving this topic. We have talent amongst us. Is this a one-off Yorkie or do you compose. Hopefully not based on a real life experience.

This is a song I've written. I just thought I'd share it with you it's called

Good Morning

I'm laid in bed wandering what time it is.

The sun shines through my curtains.

Oh my heavy head,

I shouldn't have had those last few dregs.

So it's good morning you,

and it's good morning me.

alcohol doesn't sit well,

when it's a quarter to three.

My woman has gone out,

I don't know when she's back.

But if she finds me

here in the sack.

It's a poor old me.

So it's good morning you,

and it's good morning me.

Alcohol doesn't sit well,

when it's a quarter to three.

Well I did say if she came back,

yes it happened to me.

She got all my clothes

and threw them outside.

I've still got my heavy head

but it don't worry me.

So it's good morning you,

and it's good morning me.

Alcohol doesn't sit well,

when it's a quarter to three.

Alcohol doesn't sit well,

when it's a quarter to three.

As few of us live on the Isle Of Wight, Cornwall and Scilly we thought a reminder of this thread might be of interest as we pass the time.

Try this. I thought that it was appropriate in today's climate.

She should have been grateful for small murphys.

To all of you who are helping the Wife in the kitchen, be careful!

As Basil Brush would say Powerlock, "Boom, Boom!"

a friend of mine has been eating ice cream for every meal for 30 days. I couldn't do that in a month of sundaes.

yesterday after I had a phone call from the lady who gives me my blanket baths as she was having a panic. she wanted me to come out and help as she was stuck in sloothby which is bandit country. sent me a photo of problem she had, told to rotate the wheel. texted back could not understand why she never fought of it. she is happy now I am just one of the good guys and loverly with it

📷

Hi Mike

You wrote: "Yes you are correct about Switzerland, but this is mainly due to having the most cases in the Canton of Tessin, which as you know is bordering with Italy. "

A friend in Zurich has shared this photo of traffic heading north from Tessin and I thought of you:

Here we are. From Bernard, a couple to make us smile and one to make us think. Don't be a jackass.

No sorry,coming via Hack hopefully.

I'm hoping to post 3 items, sorry about the quality.

If they don't come out they will hopefully follow via Hack.

That's funny Bernard. As for Matey, he's repeating himself. Too much isolation. No danger of topping up our tan in Wolverhampton today. On the plus side Morrisons did have pasta and toilet rolls.

A long queue had formed waiting for the supermarket to open. They were the over 70's allowed in one hour early.

About 5 minutes before opening time a young man rushed in and tried to jump the queue pushing right to the front of the queue.

An elderly lady beat him back with her walking stick.

He tried again and was tripped by an old man and another man rolled him away.

He tried again and a pensioner near him punched him in the stomach and stood on his hand when he tried to get up.

When the pensioner removed his foot , the young man got onto his knees and said “If you don't let me unlock the door no-one will get in.”

have a new invisible friend, she is called Matilda. has being keeping me sane during the self quarantine. loverly lady. gets on well with the dogs. fantastic cook and terrific singing voice, reminds me of ruby murray. tried to take a photo the other day but being invisible she did not come out in the photo. certainly knows how to keep a vulnerable old chap happy. they have put me hormone therapy to prepare for radiotherapy. was told it was female hormone injection and there would be side effects. now have to wear a bra as now have very large man boobs. Matilda is calling so must go, she is quite an old fashion girl with a tight bodice

Gadzooks. You should be banned from here Graham Brook. But then Matey Dave continues to survive. Just. It's good to see this thread being used. We started it because we thought you might like a chat in these isolated days. If it's not necessary I suppose that's good, but still pleasing to see it being used. Keep it up guys and gals.

I heard a story about an old hall dating back to Tudor times. In those times a gay man was executed for his sexuality and, to this day, he wanders around the old hall at night in ghostlike form. One of these TV companies filming a show about haunted houses did a documentary and, in their research, they realised that the old hall contained not one but two homosexual ghosts who would wander around at night but as one ghost wandered around in a clockwise direction and the other wandered around in an anti-clockwise direction, they never met.

That is, until one fateful night when the inevitable happened, and the two ghosts came face to face. They put the willies up each other.

Just a joke to give people a laugh in these terrible times:

One day a guy was looking through his local newspaper and came across the following advert:

Jaguar XJ only 1 year old, in perfect condition. Asking price 25£. Call 1234…….

This really got him thinking, so he rang the number, where a lady’s voice answered. He then of course wanted more details, in the end the lady said “just come around and have a look”.

So, the next day as arranged he went to inspect the car and sure enough it was in perfect condition, however one thing still niggled him “why so cheap”. He then put the question to the lady, who answered as follows:

My husband has just run off to Italy with his secretary and has asked me to sell his car and send the proceeds to his address in Italy!

Cheers and keep well

Me too.

It's a good few years since I had that much hair!

The closure of barber shops is lready having an impact on Main Mask, Matey Dave and SaxonWolf

I'm reminded of a story about Superman flying through the air when, atop a high-rise building, he notices Supergirl sunbathing in the nude. Excitedly, he zooms down on her unfastening his blue tights as he does so. He reaches his target but the look of anticipation on his face turns to fury as he yells out, "Clear off, Invisible Man!"

1. have a new invisible friend, she is called Matilda. has being keeping me sane during the self quarantine. loverly lady. gets on well with the dogs. fantastic cook and terrific singing voice, reminds me of ruby murray. tried to take a photo the other day but being invisible she did not come out on photo
   

Morning folks. Have a laugh at my expense.

We have a weekly vegetable box delivered. It arrives between 6 and 7 a.m. so the night before I put out a box for it to be left in.

Last night (Thursday) I put the box out as usual. It was still empty this morning. The veg delivery is on a Tuesday.

Okay Frank, that's good. It's just a saying that I do say. Not to be taken seriously. Sorry to have upset you though.

No worries Hack, I find it hard to believe myself. I just thought your comment was a bit uncalled for but its not worth falling out over anyway Ive deleated the story now.

Just watched the episode of 'Minder' where Karl Howman plays the randy footballer. Before that I watched 'The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle'. I'm pretending it's 1980.

Actually I’ve just noticed that remark from Hack. This is precisely why I haven’t spoken about it too much and probably shouldn’t have on here either.

All these Neil Young fans; just finished playing "Rust Never Sleeps" in the car while I could get out last week and "Harvest Moon" will be next one. Saw him and Bob Dylan at Hyde Park last year.

Leonard That's a really good ghost story

People from every house in our little close turned out to clap except one property.

How selfish if they have no reason for not applauding people who will save many lives, whilst putting their own lives in danger.

That is a pretty weird story!, from leonard.frank with the lost cuddly toy!

Well done Yorkie. That's impressive.

Having singing lessons via Skype, and at 64 just passed a level 2 singing exam for musical theatre with distinction.

Incredible turnout on our road at 8.00 tonight. I was amazed.

Now playing 'The End Of The World' by Skeeter Davis on my guitar.

I live on a road where everybody comes walking. As recently as a Sunday morning in February a group of 10,000 people came by while I was pruning my kiwi trees. Today not one single person was to be seen. Not one. It is very very serious here, total discipline amongst the population. We need a permit to go out; fines and prison otherwise. Rather like Mike Agusta says above, just the same in fact. But the stats say that Switzerland is in an even more worrying state than Italy, per capita wise.

We are at the beginning only.

Wait till impatience and hot temperatures kick in.....

Now onto 'After The Goldrush'. I have also been playing my guitar. The other day I wrote a song about the current house arrest we're under called 'Life Saver Waiver'. I'm also practicing 'Cry Baby Cry' by The Beatles.

I'll be dusting off a few guitars to play, and scouring the garage for some weights, now that the gym has closed. I'll also be making the most of catching up with Netflix things I started to watch, but never finished, all while polishing off a few beers.

I have been putting some new galleries onto Heritage and bombarding Hack with the updates. Enjoy them very soon

Listening to Neil Young cassettes 'Weld' and 'Harvest'. I have recently acquired a new cassette player so my cassettes are being unpacked after many years in cardboard boxes. While Crazy Horse were tearing through 'Rocking In The Free World' it was like a double irony.

I am baking bread today,on another if toilet roll is in short supply you can use lettuce leaves, personally I think this is just the tip of the iceberg

So, what have you done today? I baked my very first cake. Grape and Olive Oil because it said it was an Italian recipe and I was thinking of Anglo Italian. Also, as Mrs Hack has never baked this cake I can proudly proclaim it our best ever Grape Cake. I'm not that keen on grapes though.

We have more time to watch the television at the moment so I thought I would have a look in the Radio Times archive at what was on tv forty years ago today, 1980.

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/issues

I see it was Budget Day and the Radio Times quotes Geoffrey Howe saying "' A decade might be needed before our economy is really strong again.'" After what we are going hrough now a decade would look pretty good.

David Dimbleby and Robin Day presented the programme. I liked Robin Day. He didn't let them get away with anything and yet was always polite. Question Time has never been the same since.

In the evening was the daily Nationwide and then 90 minuted of "A Song for Europe," chosing our Eurovision entry.

Sportsnight introduced by Harry carpenter, a programme about the condition of council houses, and finally Parkinson, closing down at 5 to 12. TV doesn't close down these days.

i don't know how many of you remember the plague of 1660s but there was a lot which shows we have learnt nothing. samuel pepys had a lot to say

The sun is shining here, so at least we can go for a walk or, if confined to the house, get in the garden. What's the weather in Switzerland Phil? And what are the restrictions?

A friend of mine who is a debt collector in bankruptcy cases for our area once told me this tale:

He and his workers were called to house to asses and where possible recover items of value. The man in question was not at home, but his wife was there, who told them simply to do whatever is necessary. They looked in the garage and were confronted with a very expensive sports car, not sure anymore, but think it was either a Porsche or Mercedes. In order to stop the man driving away and then selling the car, they jacked the car up and took off all the 4 wheels.

A couple of hours later after getting back to the office he got a phone call from an irate man who asked why they had done such a thing to the car in the garage, which belongs to his wife!

They had to drive back again and refit the tyres.

Nice one Dave.

My wife told me that in our new routine we should try and make each day different in some way. Good idea. When we got up this morning she told me it was "Windows Wednesday." I've been putting off cleaning those windows all week.