Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

Wow Nadal has pulled out of his Wimbledon semi-final so Kyrgios is straight into Sunday's final. Should be fun. Hopefully Cam can meet him there.

Bloody hell, crazy scenes in Japan. Was never a fan of Shinzo Abe’s politics but truly shocking for someone to just rock up and shoot him.

@RogerRoger Your welcome, The good news is we have a house. Still need to get the missives done but exciting times ahead. Already planning out my office/library room. You'll have plenty of time to beat me to the punch if that's the case, moving house hopefully by the end of the summer but we told the seller not to rush as we are flexible renting a flat.

@RogerRoger Cheers, it's not too far from where we currently are so fingers crossed. It will be nice to finally have my books proudly on display, rather than crammed into a corner hiding behind one another.

Got a bottle of Lindisfarne Mead as a gift. Potent stuff but pretty tasty. Just tastes a bit like a dessert wine, with a beery honey aftertaste. Highly recommend.

@Kidfried Welcome back! Not the best first post back to have to make though.. Hopefully it’s not too bad!

A colleague of mine had to go to hospital after a pancake related injury after grabbing the hot frying pan but wrapping her index finger around the metal part of the handle.

I am forever burning myself on the roof of the over when trying to reach in rather than just pulling the tray out.

@Kidfried Great to see you back!! On the other hand hope the burn is not too bad. Lost count of the number of times I've been burned whilst cooking 🤦‍♂️

@velio84 My penalty acquiring skills are unsurpassed - I think I was averaging 5ppm (penalties per minute) last night which I believe is a new world record!

@Kidfried Oh hey, welcome back kiddo, great to have you back!

@Kidfried Welcome back! Hope your hand’s ok though, hands are pretty important little flesh blobs.

Just came back from my first music festival in 3 years. How do legs work?

@Voltan Must have been an interesting festival to forget how legs work?

@render It’s more about the fact that they don’t seem to work how they used to (after getting more mileage in the 4 days than in the past month)

@ThereThere The Dead Daisies and Judas Priest, probably. Both fronted by 70 y.o. singers. Rob Halford is actually in better shape than he was 10 years ago, excellent show.

@Voltan Pretty cool that Judas Priest were there. I honestly don’t doubt that they’re still going strong, I’ve heard great things about them live.

@ThereThere The Dead Daisies are kind of a supergroup, currently fronted by Glenn Hughes (of Deep Purple fame, among others) - their 2021 album "Holy Ground" is very good.

Nothing worse than getting woken up by bloody flutes and drums. It’s too warm to shut the windows as well so I just had to put up with it. God the couple of years’ worth of reprieve thanks to Covid was worth it. At least the ones on my street haven’t kitted out their house in union jacks.

@nessisonett At least some of them seem to be mixing it up a bit..

@Kidfried I was still feeling it in my legs last night but I'm mostly fine today
A little sunburnt maybe (and there wasn't even much sun) but it was all worth it

I'm a very tall person pushing 40 so back problems and a bad knee or 2 kinda come with the territory - I'm actually doing rather well all things considered

@ThereThere Just your totally normal celebration of a 400 year old massacre and wider ethnic cleansing!

@Thrillho Got to be one of the most bizarre things I’ve seen in a while. Just… why?