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    I know nothing about them, other than they look very inviting. You bought them from a service station? Is that the farm shop looking type service station? Whatever the case, they must have cost a few quid in a service station - surely?
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    I remember that it initially took me several years of going to Glastonbury before I even thought of bringing a pillow with me. What a complete revelation, that was! It wasn't long after that that I bought my first airbed. I remember the festival well, but couldn't tell you what the year was. I only know it as the year there was a large Birmingham contingent in our camp, and I knew them all. I walked up to a group and one lad I know (knew would be a better description) was lying in his tent on the ground. I looked at all the others and they were lying down in their tents, all on top of a blow up mattress. Then this lad said to me ' Hey Kev. Have you got a blow up air bed'? I was fortunate to be able to say 'yes' (as this was my airbed's first Glastonbury). I had no more said 'yes', than all the rest of the camp started laughing. I turned to the lad lying with no airbed on his tent groundsheet, and he said 'Why the fuck didn't anybody tell me'!?
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    How fabulous! What an invention! Is it heavy? As in mentally heavy? If it's lightweight, how on earth have you managed not to burst it?
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    Was there any price differential between all those that worked and all those that didn't? I've had a few blow up mattresses but I can't recall what make they were let alone their cost. Same as you, some stayed up, some didn't. I had thought those ones which have a built in valuables storage area within a headrest on the mattress were a good idea. However, a mate of mine lost £500 in cash at Glastonbury, thinking it (his head on the storage area) would make him impervious to theft. He was told umpteen times to use the lock ups before the theft.
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    If it has to be a mat, then I'd go for one of those self inflating ones. You can get a little bit extra into them by blowing into the air intake valve. I've used one before and had no complaints. It increased physical and thermal comfort for sure. However, an airbed that doesn't go down overnight has got to be the way to go. However, decent ones can be heavy, and that has to be factored in too.
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    Have you shown him 'Mr Benn' yet? Got to be time - surely?
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    I'm sorry crazyfool1 but I have to admit that 'Brown Bottle' is my favourite 'Superhero'!
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    10 out of 10. Easy.
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    Hello and sorry. I say sorry because I meant to congratulate your daughter on her results. Vis-à-vis making a dick of herself - let he / she who has never done that (repeatedly in my case) cast the first stone!
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    Oh Lordy! Thanks for the advice Ayrshire, but you should have told me that yesterday evening. You see, I thought I was supposed to put the foot down on the bits and bobs front. I may as well get that out of the way now I've started, rather than start all over again. Highly logical, I'm sure you'll agree! 🙂
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    I have the next 10 days off from work, so to speak. This break has been a long time coming. That is my good news.
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    Congratulations 'gramps'! 🙂
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    Genius. Nothing short of genius, that.
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    if I had the same circumstances (a 10 hour stop over there) then no doubt I'd go there to have a peek. However, it's academic as I'm officially persona non grata in the USA. It's no biggie though as I have never harboured a desire to go there. It's the Far East that has captured my heart.
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    Oh I loved skateboarding back in the day, and almost lived on my board. I don't have an aversion to sport participation, (not that I do any sports nowadays), I just don't like watching sports. That's not to say that I think sports programs should be banned etc, because obviously many people do like watching sports. It's just me - I'd rather be doing something else than watching sports. Mind you, I rarely watch any telly of any nature. The last thing I watched was the first two series of Killing Eve, which I really liked watching. I haven't got around to watching the last season though. I'm too busy occupying myself on the computer - something I am having some serious discussions about with myself. I'd like to write more fiction than I currently do. I actually have masses of written pieces of work. One day I'd like to weave a lot of it into a story. I think I may have the makings of a story line now, but need to knuckle down to it, which is hard if you are the Procrastination Kid!
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    Hello bamber, Nearly everything is better than the Olympics. Has it actually finished now I wonder, or is it still going on? I don't know for sure, and that 'failing' is a good thing in my books. I was never really into watching sports - apart from occasionally watching Ski Sunday when in my teens.
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    I bought an insane garden table tonight for the princely sum of only £10. I like odd tables. I like them so much that I do actually make them myself. I once sold a collapsible table on eBay, as my wife had had enough of my table creation notions. So, I put this collapsible heavy metal framed table on eBay, selling it collection only from Bridgnorth in Shropshire. It was eventually bought by someone in somewhere on the south east coast, who further paid a courier to collect and deliver it to him. I asked him the question (using eBay's messaging service) " Aren't there any tables for sale around your end then"!? He, admittedly, had asked me to measure this table to within an inch of its life before the purchase. So, he buys it, send his courier around etc. Then he sends me photos of how it worked out for him, his family and mates, after the 'release' from one of the Covid lockdowns. The man had created a genius BBQ type set up with not one but two barrels of alcohol neatly enclosed by the existing framework of my old table, but with the shitty chipboard top (which was my aim too) taken away. Unfortunately I haven't kept the photos, otherwise I'd put them on here.
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    There is only one thing worse than being tedious, and that's not being tedious! I bought a book yesterday. It's to go with all the books that I still not have yet read. If I ever wanted to end it all I could jump off that mountainous pile of books. It's the very sudden stop that does it. However, I suspect that I'm preaching to the very much converted on that one. What was it the lifeboat people said? Something along the lines of 'It would be like hitting concrete'. FFS!
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    Oh fuck me, I've just had another escapade. I've just been followed for about 16 miles along really small, dark country roads by a copper. On the roof rack of my car was a completely fascinating hand made garden table that I bought off FB Marketplace. I've been watching it for a few weeks now. It started off at £50 (if memory serves me right). anyway, it went down and down until it got to £10 yesterday. I coukld resist no longer so bought it and collected it this evening. However, there were other elements at play. I just couldn't for the life of me get the ratchet straps to work to secure this, far bigger than imagined table, to myt roof bars. i had wanted to put it in the back of the car with the seats down - especially as I was due to pick up an old Victorian 4 panelled door (for free) from another place and somehow tie IT down as well. And then the bastard with the free door didn't answer his door. So I fucked off. And then the fuzz started following me. now it just so happens that mnuch earlier on tionight I'd bought a shed load of speed and 10 2CB's. i hadn't yet taken them out of the car. So, I've just had the constabulary on my tail for 16 miles, with a kind of dodgily secured load on the roof bars, and a fair bit of Class A in the glove compartment. It's actually worse than that, but that's as far as I'm going with this post. However, now is down time. I now have drink, fags, druggage, and a 'Fuck off and die garden table'. And, yet again - we all have this;
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    I've never been to Las Vegas and wouldn't really like to go either. I have also had my heavy gambling period in life, and am glad that that is over and done with. If I happened to go to Vegas I'd probably end up with the druggies and winos in the storm tunnels, never to be seen again. As an aside, one of my proudest moments (my apologies to those who have read this already a million times) was being barred for life from a casino in Birmingham on my first ever visit there alone. I'd drank 3 bottles of red or so before getting there and then drank about another 2 while there. Anyway, to cut a long story short this resulted in me demanding cocaine be brought to me at the Blackjack table. They didn't like that. Not one bit. Mind you, once I was escorted off the premises, another punter who saw my 'need' came out and declared that he could get me some coke. and he did too. Then I woke up in the morning and there was a hand delivered letter from the casino in my porch telling me, essentially, to 'Fuck off, and stay fucked off'. Best thing ever that, as far as I'm concerned.
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    I've taken a copy of the photo and will print it off for my 'presentation package'. I may also say that you are very well known amongst Glastonbury circles. I have no idea about Twitter and how it works. if you want me to reference it, then let me know what to write down?
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    Yeah, never say never. I have made her an unusual piece of contemporary art for her birthday present. I like to make presents and cards, as I think they are so much more personal. Anyway, this pressie is a little 'out there'. I really think she'll be over the moon with it, but art is subjective, so it could go either way. So, this gives me a dilemma - ask her about you first and then give her the pressie, or give the pressie, see if it blows her mind (in a happy way), and then ask about you. I think I'll run with the later notion as I perceive that it'll be more powerful. Oh, I've just thought - she'll possibly just say 'Give me his details, and I'll see what I can do / or put him on the list'. If you want to PM me your name, address, and anything you may think relevant / persuasive then please do so. If not, then I can come back to you at a later date if she says that. However, if I write your details down in an eye arresting manner, then it might have some psychological advantage in the future over her choosing some other in the wings volunteer. Perhaps I'm over thinking this!? I just want to see you and vintage get there, if I'm honest.
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    Hello crazy, The lock ups are 'run' by different organisations from the UK. My friend runs the one for an 'environmental' pressure group (I don't want to be specific). I am going to ask her this weekend if there's anything that she can sort for you. I think that I know the answer already, but 'if you don't ask, you don't get' and all that. Maybe she could put you down as first reserve. I'll see. As an aside, I think she got the job because she's highly efficient, and takes no shit at all off anybody. I recall an incident when another friend of ours didn't turn up for a shift because he'd fallen asleep in his tent after a long 'session'. She got another two volunteers to grab his feet through his tent while he was asleep, and pull him out fast. Then she poured a huge bucket of cold water over him, said something like 'Go fuck yourself' to him, and then later barred him from being a volunteer for a couple of years (I think)
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