CoTT 2 House of Cards

[Albert1434]

 

[Albert1434]

Aloha Bucket

[Bucket1]

Hello young Albert

[Headstall]

51 minutes ago, Bucket1 said:

I must be moving down south rather than just heading off for a week... I seem to have bought a truck load of bits and pieces for the holiday 

and this just the extra stuff, fruit and veg I will get at the farmers market on the way there. I need a bigger car 

I hope you have a wonderful Christmas, Bucket!  

[Headstall]

38 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

Aloha All

Aloha, Albert!   

[Bucket1]

Just now, Headstall said:

I hope you have a wonderful Christmas, Bucket!  

You too Gary

[Bucket1]

With all the news around the globe (and the east coast of Australia), big virtual hugs for everyone...

2020 is certainly a very different kind of year

[Headstall]

19 minutes ago, Bucket1 said:

With all the news around the globe (and the east coast of Australia), big virtual hugs for everyone...

2020 is certainly a very different kind of year

It can't end soon enough. We must trust better days are ahead.  

[Marty]

Page 1,987...

That was the year I finally settled in Ireland.

I had bought the smallholding in 1986, after having first looked at it when I had brought my dad over for a visit to his relatives, and his birthplace, shortly before he died from cancer. He knew he was dying, and had asked me to bring him home for one last time.

I was in the process of selling my house in England at the time. Unfortunately, Sterling dropped quite sharply against the Irish pound (or punt) in between me agreeing a price for the smallholding and completing the sale of my house. That meant that, although I had enough punts to buy the smallholding from the profit I got from the sale of my house when it was converted from Sterling, I didn't have enough left over to pay off another loan I was still repaying in England. That necessitated me staying in England for a while to earn the money to pay off that loan.

I finally moved to Ireland towards the end of July 1987, a few days after my dad had been buried in his adopted town, close to Manchester.

[Marty]

2 hours ago, Albert1434 said:

Aloha All

Greetings, young Albert!

[Marty]

1 hour ago, Bucket1 said:

With all the news around the globe (and the east coast of Australia), big virtual hugs for everyone...

Everyone please...

[Headstall]

12 minutes ago, Marty said:

Everyone please...

Hey, Marty. I felt the hug.    

[Headstall]

The new chapter of Sidewinder is now posted. Cheers!

 

[Marty]

13 minutes ago, Headstall said:

Hey, Marty. I felt the hug.    

Hey, bro!

And I'm glad you could feel it. Because it was certainly sent with feeling!  

Edited December 21, 2020 by Marty
Clarification

[Drew Espinosa]

Hey y'all!  

1987 (or 9 B.D.): My eldest sister was born.

Spoiler

B.D. stands for Before Drew.  

 

Edited December 21, 2020 by Drew Espinosa

[Headstall]

2 minutes ago, Drew Espinosa said:

Hey y'all!  

1987 (or 9 B.D.): My eldest sister was born.

  Reveal hidden contents

B.D. stands for Before Drew.  

 

Uh... duh!   Hello, young Drew.  

[Drew Espinosa]

1 minute ago, Headstall said:

Uh... duh!   Hello, young Drew.  

Hello Handsome!  And  I'm just making sure you slowpokes got it.  

[Headstall]

1 minute ago, Drew Espinosa said:

Hello Handsome!  And  I'm just making sure you slowpokes got it.  

Well, I do need a little prodding now and again.  

[clochette]

37 minutes ago, Drew Espinosa said:

Hey y'all!  

1987 (or 9 B.D.): My eldest sister was born.

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B.D. stands for Before Drew.  

 

Inventing your own calendar now?  How the head? Not feeling to claustrophobic? Seing as you are not able to go out the door

[Marty]

38 minutes ago, Drew Espinosa said:

Hey y'all!  

1987 (or 9 B.D.): My eldest sister was born.

  Hide contents

B.D. stands for Before Drew.  

 

Greetings, young Drew!

(Have to admit, I was a slowpoke as well. )

 

[Drew Espinosa]

22 minutes ago, clochette said:

Inventing your own calendar now?  How the head? Not feeling to claustrophobic? Seing as you are not able to go out the door

I need some way to date prehistory.  As for my head, well I have the  and you don't!  

21 minutes ago, Marty said:

Greetings, young Drew!

(Have to admit, I was a slowpoke as well. )

 

Greetings, Marty!  

[clochette]

1 minute ago, Drew Espinosa said:

I need some way to date prehistory.  As for my head, well I have the  and you don't!   

Prehistory was not after 92 for a mathematician one would thought you'd know your numbers correctly 

Yes you have a very shiny paper crown

 

[Drew Espinosa]

16 minutes ago, clochette said:

Prehistory was not after 92 for a mathematician one would thought you'd know your numbers correctly 

1992 was before I was born, therefore it is prehistory.  

18 minutes ago, clochette said:

Yes you have a very shiny paper crown

 

That's your fake crown.  

[Marty]

41 minutes ago, Drew Espinosa said:

1992 was before I was born, therefore it is prehistory.

I'm reminded of a few lines from the poem A Migrating Dialogue by Leonard Cohen, that appeared in his 1964 anthology "Flowers For Hitler"...

I believe with a perfect faith in the Second World War.
I am convinced that it happened.
I am not so sure about the First World War.
The Spanish Civil War-maybe.
I believe in gold teeth.
I believe in Churchill.
Don't tell me we dropped fire into cribs.
I think you are exaggerating.
The Treaty of Westphalia has faded like a lipstick smudge on the Blarney Stone.
Napoleon was a sexy brute.
Hiroshima was Made in Japan out of paper.
I think we should let sleeping ashes lie.
I believe with a perfect faith in all the history I remember, but it's getting harder and harder
to remember much history.

 

 

[Albert1434]

A Florida woman woke up to find a raccoon in her Christmas tree. Chaos ensued.

 

 

Edited December 21, 2020 by Albert1434