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Thankfully I didn't inherit very many traits from my mother! I've got my father's brain that's for sure (my old girl was like a fucking plank). And when I saw my cousin Malcolm (who's about 15 years older than me, he hadn't seen me since I was a kid) at an aunt's funeral about 20 years ago, he just kept looking at me in a confused way. I asked him is everything OK.......and he just said....."Apart from your eye colour and your build, you're Tom (my father) in every way. The likeness is incredible". I was quite happy with that!

We're now down to 58 cases (from 280+) in the town! Is Omicron burnt out now?

This was a woman who when my grandmother (her mother) was living with us and she became ill (around the same time my father died in the late 50's), said to a woman who was at the house,......"When you walk past my mother's room just check now and again to see if she's dead yet. Once she is, let me know and I'll phone the undertaker to come and get her". My grandmother died, got carted away, and my old girl never even went to the funeral. And this is her own mother we're talking about here!

Interestingly, the last time I saw them was Summer 2004.....in Bristol. Rode there from Llandod on my black XT600. From what I can remember they were staying somewhere near the centre......there was a roundabout (I think) and a large pavement area in front of their place where I parked the bike

I bet Buck went to Line Dancing classes when he was there!

No guy to give you roses Grace? What's the world coming to? Real men are a dying breed these days!

Atlanta is lost? Does @Buckster know.......cos he was partial to that place in his Redneck phase? What you say @Tym?

It ain't easy that's for sure. But I don't have to look back thinking I should have done this.....or I should have done that. Cos I did everything humanly possible.....and then some. The same applies to the kids from my first marriage that I haven't seen for 18 years.

What Bob said! But it seems quite near to where @Pedro is.....so it could be something worth checking out!

Speaking as someone who had a mother who hated the sight of him from the day he was born......she didn't want children and didn't have a maternal bone in her body....I know where you're coming from. I won't go through the whole saga from 1954 to 1999 but to say things were traumatic were an understatement. Her grandkids didn't want to be with her, and even our dogs wouldn't go anywhere near here. And dogs can always tell. She did everything she could to cause problems for me throughout my life and for some strange reason never wanted to see me happy. Looking back she had serious issues, no friends, and went out of her way to cause as much grief as she could. She got married again in 1982 without telling me as well. However, I felt I had an obligation (to my father who died in 1959 from TB due to the conditions he endured in in POW camps) to do my duty so throughout her life I tried to do my best for her. And I did! She made sure that my father's side of the family ostracised me (because I was her son) and consequently I was left nothing in their wills while my two other cousins were included. Then when she died I was excluded from her will as well......that was her final kick in the teeth for me (and my family) from beyond the grave. But I would do the exact same thing again.....I wouldn't change a thing. Because I know that I did my duty for my father.

Superb Terry.......you're having a break in Tenby?

Bruce had a thing for him!

Like I did with Bruce and Shania Twain's drummer on here! There's always one who walks into it!

Mess?

It has been noticed Tym!

Some of them look like fucking blokes Fred! Wasn't it you many years ago on MB who made the embarrassing gaff of saying he'd fuck a Thai Ladyboy?

He had a great voice.....no idea how he never really made it that big.

Few munters in that lot!

What Tym said! His kind get their straightener in Kansas City....known fact! What you say Little Guy? DA didn't care for Little Guy that much as I recall!

You know the interesting thing here......the members who are second guessing the whole thing are the ones who haven't known me that long compared to the original members here. That lot know me well after all these years, and they don't make the mistake of underestimating me, or thinking that I haven't thought things through. As I've said in the past, I don't really have many skills.....in fact in most capacities I'm fucking useless. But in terms of business management, planning, organising, determination, resilience, and getting shit done (by any means necessary) that's a very different matter. It's a consequence of having to live on my wits (with nobody to bale me out) throughout my entire life. In fact this time 40 years ago I was homeless......look where I am now! So if there's a way this can be done (despite my own country stripping me of my rights) then I'm going to find it.......and exploit it! Tell 'em @Tym

Got a 320km trip coming on Thursday!

Yes I know all that! But this is driven by family reasons! But as I said earlier......we're not going to immediately sell the house, so no bridges are being burned!

Funny thing is that back in 2005 people were saying I wouldn't last long out here! Remember the doubters @Tym? They certainly got that wrong didn't they? And I left Swansea 30 years ago......I wouldn't even go back there in a fucking box!

Thing is......you want to live every day! But when every day is the same, and you just keep reliving the same day over and over again it gets too much. And I think we've reached that point after nearly 17 years here!

Gemma has now sent me best wishes for Valentines Day Tym? Get back on there and sort this shit out FFS!