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    They may well be very good and come highly recommended, but they aint half expensive - from £4,195 for a manual one! @ Neil - you could go to China directly and buy a CE Approved model eg - this one for about £550. You could then buy some spare batteries at an agreed price before making the total purchase. Just a thought, as it would be good for other areas of your life too. Not sure if you'd have to pay tax on top if its for personal use / medically required.
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    What sort of dosh you looking at spending, or is that how long is a piece of string, at this stage? Also, would it have a seat or two? Just gives me something to look up to see if what I have already sotted is something you'd be interested in.
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    I know what you mean. I went to Glastonbury one year having only had major surgery a few weeks before it started. I didn't get very far geographically at the festival that year. The most effort I can recall is getting to the Other Stage from the Pyramid. I managed to see / hear Blondie sing 'Atomic' and then I went back to the campsite near the Pyramid. I had only wanted to hear her sing that song, so I guess I accomplished my mission. On another day that year, I only got as far as a chip shop to the right of the Pyramid stage. I didn't even have chips from there. I simply lay down on the grass right in front of the chip shop. I was going to bed no later than 1am too. Mind you, I was up and 'back on it' very early every morning!
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    But this was lunchtime? I don't understand! PS - I do really. Very good.
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    I went to a 40th birthday celebration weekend on Lundy island, staying at Millcombe House. That really was quite a small island, but it was an adventure from start to finish. Not necessarily the island itself (although that too), but a happy place to be to celebrate a 40th birthday among friends. With regard to the island itself, I saw something in nature that I had never seen before in person - not difficult as I lived in Birmingham at the time. I saw what looked like a species of seagull trying to get to and eat another seagull species' eggs. However, the seagulls with the eggs were sitting on their eggs. So one of the other seagulls would fly towards its nest and the seagull on the nest would fly up to put it off its flight path. By doing that it allowed another enemy seagull; to aim directly at the eggs in the nest. And so it had to fly back to the nest quick. Sometimes they would achieve their goal (of saving their eggs) and sometime an alien gull would make off with an egg. I watched this going on for about an hour and a half. It was like watching Top Gun, I'd say. However, not having actually watched that film, there is a chance that it wasn't like that at all.
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    What better way to start than at Glastonbury!? Wishing you a speedy recovery Neil.
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    It was good to meet you at the weekend. It's a pity that we didn't get to spend more time chatting, but that's kind of what happens at festivals - even the small ones. Stella says that you might come and see us here in Bridgnorth sometime. That would be good, and you'd be most welcome. All the best. Yog PS - your private message box is full, or appears so, as I couldn't send this privately to you.
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    Hello glasto-worker, Yes, we made it down, arriving at about midnight on the Thursday. The weather was raining then, but then it dried up for the rest of the weekend, apart from one small shower. We didn't even try to trade on the Friday, preferring to go on the piss instead. Then, on the Saturday, we decided on a new 'policy' to do with the art and craft items - we decided to just give all the items away instead. We had many takers and were left with very little at the end of the day. OK, so we didn't make any money that way (apart from one bloke who insisted on giving us £10 for an item - he just wouldn't take no for an answer). No regrets though, as it made life far easier. We had some vey, very fine mind bending substances with us, which helped the 'party' go along smoothly. We left yesterday evening though, and missed the last night. I think our age and previous indulgence caught up with us. Oh and we ran out of gin (having got through about 10 bottles of it) on Sunday afternoon. If we had had more gin I don't doubt that we'd have stayed for the last night. I'll catch up with you off this site, when able. I'm just having a break from going through my emails, and have to prioritise the nasty ones first i.e. those to do with finances, bills etc.
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    Well, it was good news. Unfortunately the efests system has just informed me that I am now ranked as a 'collaborator'. And there's me thinking that I wouldn't buckle under torture and the 'system' just by-passes that and puts the word out that I am the sort of person who is in cahoots with Nazi's and other shitty people.
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    Today's the day the Teddy Bears have their picnic! By which I mean we're off to a festival later. Not only that but I have just managed to get the road tax sorted on our campervan, without the reminder letter or the V5 document. Initially when I rang up the DVLA about 10 minutes ago (and got near enough straight through) they told me that they couldn't help. I do have the VC5 document but it's located in a currently impenetrable garage. anyway, they sorted it and I can now legally drive the campervan again. It's probably been 2 years since we were last away in 'her', and we are bursting at the seems to 'live' in her again. God but I need this break.
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    Bosting.
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    I met someone I knew, but wasn't close to, a billion years after I first knew him. I recall the occasion well. Anyway, to cut a long story short I asked him (or he told me - I know not which right now) what he'd been up to. His response was that he'd been, and still was, a roadie for ZZ Top, and that he was only there because of Mick. and wasn't that the very reason that I was there too. It was Mick and his twin sister's (Rochelle) 50oth birthday at a rugby club in the middle of fucking nowhere. Anyway, it was meant to be fancy dress. Some people went for it, and some people didn't. I'd say, on reflection that the people who didn't bother were actually in the majority. However, there was one person, and I mean only one person, who went 'all the way' on the fancy dress front. Fuck knows why he did it, but he did. He had, earlier that day (quite early in the day, as the birthday celebrations started at 5pm) gone to a hairdresser and asked for a certain haircut. Later he donned his fancy dress costume - a quality brown monks robe and rope belt, complete with hood. Well, you know what's coming next - he arrived with hood on his monk's robe and then unveiuled his own bonce whebn he had his first pint (from that venue) in his hand. He had gone for 'The Friar Tuck' look! Not an easy thing to write or even say in this condition! Apparently the hairdresser was stunned. However, she saw an opportunity, and put all the detail of his 'haircut' on her website. I'm rambling. I'm rambling and I've just realised that I need to communicate with somebody important to me.
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    That I'm off to the Landed festival tomorrow is my good news. The last time I had a night away was early last September. So, to have a few nights away (until the Monday) in a beautiful country setting is just the ticket. Oh, and I've got our campervan off a SORN and up and running again, which will result in a few more snatched moments away from the 'norm' in the near future.
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    Cheers guy, That's an interesting website. I shall make a note of its existence for future forays. Ta very much!
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    'the drove' - what is that? I'm a little bit stoned guy, so the answer may seem bloody obvious to you, but I don't know where I'm at with the written and visual data that you have provided. I don't suppose you'd be willing to 'elaborate' on your last post to such an extent that I would understand? Oh, I see, you would 'rather not'! Yes, I can very much see the sense in that! All the best at this moment - and all the other moments too.
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    Talking of which - my misses played this to me;
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    I was sent a track from them this year too, which was my first awareness of them. I liked them so much I listened to other tracks from them and really liked those too. Now I know they have new stuff out today. Getting so involved in music was an anathema to me previously.
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    Hello Comfy, I like that quote. I'm still serving my time at this end. In fact I have at this moment just poured myself a G & T. Probably too early for most, but it's almost a daily occurrence for me. I believe that they call the likes of me a 'functioning alcoholic'. I really like this quote by Finley Peter Dunne; 'Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts'.
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    You make it sound like a real ale. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if a small brewing company hadn't already come out with some such.
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    Once I saw that information I had to look it up to verify if it were true or not. It is!
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    Yes, not long to go, and I have a shit load of preparation to do. I'm trying to get into a Zen state about it. To be honest it's not just the stall aspect, but organising everything else in our lives (me and my wife) to enable us to go without worrying about having forgotten some major element that we should have dealt with. Not sure on the music front, as I haven't looked into any of the acts. I do know that when we went one year, my stepson also drove down because there was one particular DJ that he wanted to see / listen to. Apparently the DJ normally plays massive venues and commands a very high fee. My stepson tried to see him when he was playing in Berlin (which was where my stepson was living at that time). The entrance fee to see this DJ (and other DJ's) was about the equivalent of £50. Anyway, he never got in - apparently he wasn't dressed trendily enough according to the bouncers! No, I've never been to Alchemy. I've heard of it but know nothing about it ie. my memory has kind of gone on that front. That said, I have a vague recollection that it might be the festival where the organiser just fucked off with all the money one year and there was no festival. Not sure about that one, so apologies to the organisers if that one is wrong. See you soon. 🙂
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    Fortunately I've never deliberately sniffed glue, or felt the desire to. However, when i used to work for the 'man' I worked from home for a long period of years. There was a small bedroom in the then house that I used as my office. However, I also begain to use it as a sort of art studio too. Much of 'my' art uses all sorts of glue and adhesives. I once had a tin of petroleum based 'sticky stuff' that I'd never opened in that room. We (my wife and I) sort of had a friend who was a qualified anaesthetist. Anyway, he came into my office one day to have a look around at my art on the walls, he spotted the tin of adhesive, took it off the shelf, read the contents, and told me never to use it in any confined environment. He went on to tell me that I would 'seriously' run the risk of a serious medical fault if I were to use it in that room - which I probably wasn't going to do, as even I knew it was mental stuff. Anyway, those other glues in that confined room must have sent me mad on several occasions. I still have (and probably always will) a complete array of glue's for different 'problems'. I've even got 5 tubes of black adhesive that will withstand temperatures of about 260 degrees, or some such. So there you have it - my glue story. Which is now stuck in your mind. I'll get me Pritt Stick!
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    It's going ahead. It's fab. Can't wait. I The Landed Festival. To Tina & Sue I love you. That fucking rhymes, that does! I'm like a cat on a hot tin roof at this end. Yog PS - Me and yer one will be sending a few G & T's your way. 🙂
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    I was just sent this (see link below), which might interest some people. Apparently you can sign up for a free trial, and then after watching it, cancel your subscription. A little naughty, but those are the rules. https://player.bfi.org.uk/subscription/film/watch-glastonbury-fayre-1971-online
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