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by Montreal Wanderer
Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:11 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: This Exe is on fire: Exeter (A) Sat 9 Mar, 3pm
Replies: 288
Views: 5292

Re: This Exe is on fire: Exeter (A) Sat 9 Mar, 3pm

And we haven't won the FA Cup since we abandoned the 2-3-5 formation :mrgreen: [/quote] Ah, but back then we had Eddie Hopkinson in nets, Roy "Chopper" Hartle at right back and Tommy Banks at left, while up front we had Nat loftnouse, Doug Holden and Ray Parry. All but the Chopper were England inte...
by Montreal Wanderer
Sat Mar 02, 2024 2:43 am
Forum: General Banter
Topic: The Politics Thread
Replies: 20524
Views: 1694169

Re: The Politics Thread

Been a long while since an AoC has presided over a head of state funeral and crowned a new monarch.. I watched the last coronation in 1953 and the Bolton-Blackpool Cup Final. Not sure for which event we bought our first tv. So I missed the 1952 funeral. Slacker! Hope all well with you and the missu...
by Montreal Wanderer
Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:43 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: The Politics Thread
Replies: 20524
Views: 1694169

Re: The Politics Thread

Worthy4England wrote:
Sun Dec 24, 2023 1:37 pm
Been a long while since an AoC has presided over a head of state funeral and crowned a new monarch..
I watched the last coronation in 1953 and the Bolton-Blackpool Cup Final. Not sure for which event we bought our first tv. So I missed the 1952 funeral.
by Montreal Wanderer
Tue Jan 23, 2024 2:12 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: General Chit Chat
Replies: 8893
Views: 783529

Re: General Chit Chat

Best wishes to Mrs Monty, Monty. Hope all goes well with the op. Operation (which turned out to be a total replacement of the artificial hip) went well and she was actually released the following day (Saturday night). Currently the physio is here and the nurse expected this pm. So all good so far.
by Montreal Wanderer
Sun Jan 14, 2024 7:58 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Under Starters Orders. At Home to Cheltenham Sat 13th Jan 3-0 clock.
Replies: 115
Views: 5165

Re: Under Starters Orders. At Home to Cheltenham Sat 13th Jan 3-0 clock.

Awful news. Condolences to the family, and those who fought to save his life in the ground. Hopefully the club will mark their efforts in an appropriate way. Ditto to that. What a tragedy for his family. I'm sure all our prayers are for them at this sad time. May God rest his soul. ae:) The club sa...
by Montreal Wanderer
Mon Jan 08, 2024 5:11 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: General Chit Chat
Replies: 8893
Views: 783529

Re: General Chit Chat

Thanks. I suspect things are bound to improve. I didn't mention it but last month she found her brother has stage 4 lung cancer. Poor chap hadn't smoked for forty years. She of course cannot travel (to Winnipeg) to see him yet and so is depressed about most things. As I say, everything will improve ...
by Montreal Wanderer
Sat Jan 06, 2024 8:00 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: General Chit Chat
Replies: 8893
Views: 783529

Re: General Chit Chat

It was quiet here. The wife dislocated her articificial hip in October and again November. It is completely unstable. So she is immobile in a brace until an operation scheduled for January 19. Stayed home and was in bed by 10.00 pm. 2023 was a bad year for her (and by extension me who got stuck doin...
by Montreal Wanderer
Sat Jan 06, 2024 7:54 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: Today I'm angry about.....
Replies: 19926
Views: 1240477

Re: Today I'm angry about.....

I would think it might be worth consulting a lawyer. Limiting a ten-year warranty to just bricks sound very odd. "Oh, the bricks were fine, ti was just the mortar which disinter=grated when your hous collapsed". What has Prufrock to say? What they mean is new build warranties cover the structure of...
by Montreal Wanderer
Sat Jan 06, 2024 7:49 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Merry Christmas
Replies: 12
Views: 1724

Re: Merry Christmas

Seasons greetings and a Happy New Year to everyone from the land of snow and ice. However, for the first time in many years, we had a green Christmas and still raining today. Bit like Bolton really. We managed a tornado in Tameside, Monty. All the best, SIr. Still no snow. It appears to have moved ...
by Montreal Wanderer
Sat Dec 30, 2023 2:04 am
Forum: General Banter
Topic: Today I'm angry about.....
Replies: 19926
Views: 1240477

Re: Today I'm angry about.....

I would think it might be worth consulting a lawyer. Limiting a ten-year warranty to just bricks sound very odd. "Oh, the bricks were fine, ti was just the mortar which disinter=grated when your hous collapsed". What has Prufrock to say?
by Montreal Wanderer
Sat Dec 30, 2023 1:55 am
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Merry Christmas
Replies: 12
Views: 1724

Re: Merry Christmas

Seasons greetings and a Happy New Year to everyone from the land of snow and ice. However, for the first time in many years, we had a green Christmas and still raining today. Bit like Bolton really.
by Montreal Wanderer
Mon Dec 04, 2023 5:43 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: General Chit Chat
Replies: 8893
Views: 783529

Re: General Chit Chat

First class stamp £1-25. (I ran a mailroom when they were thirty pence). When we were kids they were three old pence. T.V Licences £1-59 with a proposed 15 pence rise imminent.(These we supposed to be free to old-age pensioners, huh, what a hope. Britain has officially lost the plot. :shock: Police...
by Montreal Wanderer
Sat Dec 02, 2023 5:29 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: General Chit Chat
Replies: 8893
Views: 783529

Re: General Chit Chat

TANGODANCER wrote:
Fri Dec 01, 2023 4:11 pm
Words of solid sense from the number one citizen:

"King Charles III has said humans are carrying out a "vast, frightening experiment" on the planet, taking the natural world "outside balanced norms and limits".
To his credit, he has always been a tree-hugger.
by Montreal Wanderer
Sat Nov 25, 2023 5:31 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Beware of Grecians bearing gifts. Home v Exeter City, 25th Nov. 3-0'clock.
Replies: 210
Views: 122132

Re: Beware of Grecians bearing gifts. Home v Exeter City, 25th Nov. 3-0'clock.

What a remarkable change in GD in just two hours. Well done Blackpool and Cheltenham.
by Montreal Wanderer
Fri Nov 24, 2023 10:43 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: General Chit Chat
Replies: 8893
Views: 783529

Re: General Chit Chat

WOW! Massive shout out to HM Passport office. Applied on line last Tuesday, sent the old ones back first class recorded delivery same day, received our new ones today. Kept upto date with email and text, brilliant. At least somethings work :D Amazing! Over here you can apply online but I chose to g...
by Montreal Wanderer
Tue Nov 21, 2023 2:48 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: General Chit Chat
Replies: 8893
Views: 783529

Re: General Chit Chat

WOW! Massive shout out to HM Passport office. Applied on line last Tuesday, sent the old ones back first class recorded delivery same day, received our new ones today. Kept upto date with email and text, brilliant. At least somethings work :D Amazing! Over here you can apply online but I chose to g...
by Montreal Wanderer
Sun Nov 19, 2023 4:03 am
Forum: General Banter
Topic: General Chit Chat
Replies: 8893
Views: 783529

Re: General Chit Chat

I stumbled across the video on X last night, without realising what it was. 😬 The ‘aggressor’ appeared to spin and thrust his rising skate at a seemingly ridiculous height towards his opponent. That’s where the video stopped, fortunately. Not sure why people are still posting it tbh, when we know t...
by Montreal Wanderer
Sat Nov 18, 2023 4:06 am
Forum: General Banter
Topic: General Chit Chat
Replies: 8893
Views: 783529

Re: General Chit Chat

<t>Ooops! I've watched the video now. Though it wasn't very clear, it seems to me that it was not deliberate. I don't think the 'agressor' even saw Johnson. He was being checked by another player who spun him a little off balance. His leg went backwards and up because of the check. Johson was standi...
by Montreal Wanderer
Sat Nov 18, 2023 3:54 am
Forum: General Banter
Topic: General Chit Chat
Replies: 8893
Views: 783529

Re: General Chit Chat

I stumbled across the video on X last night, without realising what it was. 😬 The ‘aggressor’ appeared to spin and thrust his rising skate at a seemingly ridiculous height towards his opponent. That’s where the video stopped, fortunately. Not sure why people are still posting it tbh, when we know t...
by Montreal Wanderer
Fri Nov 10, 2023 5:24 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: The Politics Thread
Replies: 20524
Views: 1694169

Re: The Politics Thread

^ Hear hear! I only found out today that 'A small Eva Braun' is an anagram of Suella Braverman Amusing but,alas, not accurate. Suella Braverman has 15 letters, 3 a's, 2 r's and 2 e's. 'A small Eva Braun' has 14 letters, 4 a's, 1 r and 1 e. But all is not lost. You can use 'smaller Eva Braun' and be...