• Hippo
    Hippo reacted to Stone56's post in the thread I would just like to say with Like Like.
    I remember it very well had a big job on with lots of scaffolding at 6 in the morning I was surfing on scaffold boards trying to secure them and prevent them moving to the adjacent county lucky I'm still with you 😠
    May 12, 2025
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    I don't condone violence, but I would have wacked him with it and told the plod he was trying to gain unlawful entry 😠
    May 12, 2025
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    Hippo reacted to Stanleysteamer's post in the thread I would just like to say with Like Like.
    I read up on the drill firefighters have to go through when acetylene bottles are involved in a fire some time ago, what a flipping palaver!
    May 12, 2025
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    You didn't need to :p
    May 12, 2025
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    Each time I rang my ex to see if she was OK. She was. (No, I won't say it) 🤣 🤣 🤣
    May 12, 2025
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    Reminds me of the time I was working in the County Hall in London - building the London Aquarium. My site office was at ground level overlooking the Thames, and Big Ben was my site clock! One day I heard a loud bang and saw an object with a...
    May 12, 2025
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    Amazingly I was again in France when the big fire at BDH in Poole went up. W was working there at the time, as was another of our friends. Barrels of chemicals shooting into the air like mortars shells. Mad! I didn't know her at the time as...
    May 12, 2025
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    I had another unpleasant experience in a hurricane a few years ago, at a club bike trackway at Anglesey Circuit. Got parked up next to the big marquee (for the band beer n bash at the end of the weekend) but got moved away for some reason I can't...
    May 12, 2025
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    I seem to remember I was in France on a 6th form exchange. In Cherbourg. Slates were falling off houses all around, as they were 5 storeys high it was really dangerous and we had to walk in the road. All the traffic lights were out so the Frogs...
    May 12, 2025
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    Old pics are great to look through, not the same now with memory sticks ect.
    May 12, 2025
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    Jeezo, that was ages ago. I was still wiv my ex!. The devastation in the New Forest was something else, but weirdly quite localized.
    May 12, 2025
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    I'll have a look for them this week, could be a long job - many old skool albums to be looked into.
    May 12, 2025
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    Now you do know you need to get the pics out. :p
    May 12, 2025
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    Hippo reacted to Wimblowdriver's post in the thread I would just like to say with Sad Sad.
    I remember "The Hurricane", was living in Kent at the time it happened. My house was in a valley area, I had slept through he hurricane and knew nothing about it until I set off for work as usual the next morning. Copper stopped me at the bottom...
    May 12, 2025
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    Todays happenings......... Pulled out the hose for the pressure washer as I was going to pressure wash the replacement g/box & paint it before fitting it. I then heard a rumble of a landrover coming up the street yup my mate with his off...
    May 12, 2025
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    Hippo reacted to Turktowner's post in the thread I would just like to say with Like Like.
    Innerestin week incoming. Two blokes down an lots to get on with. Fink the sulky Slovak is gunna get his palm read ferrim 🤘
    May 12, 2025
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    No. But each of me pots has haddabout 1/3 ov a mug ov rain over night. BBC wevva ses more coming this afternoon.
    May 12, 2025
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    Are you the new Michael Fish.
    May 12, 2025
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    @DanClarke You were already inside stick range, shoulda stuck the waster on the nose and stuff the consequences, peeps are takin the p.
    May 12, 2025
  • Hippo
    Hippo reacted to kevstar's post in the thread I would just like to say with Like Like.
    Drove the the van through the shop lobbed the coo in the back of the van, blew up the shop & lit a cigar on the way to the A82 🤣 🤣 No holes were harmed in the making of this.
    May 12, 2025
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    Hippo reacted to Def90man's post in the thread I would just like to say with Like Like.
    Don’t think Hannibal ever got half a cow and a sore hole at the same time
    May 12, 2025
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    🤣🤣🤣 I love it when a plan comes together.
    May 12, 2025
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    Just started raining. :)
    May 12, 2025
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    https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hyghrhcgxx
    May 11, 2025
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    https://www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/portugal-warns-against-illegal-device/
    May 11, 2025
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    Hippo reacted to DanClarke's post in the thread I would just like to say with Like Like.
    We have a PALS at this hospital. I will be contacting them tomorrow.
    May 11, 2025
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    Hippo reacted to Stanleysteamer's post in the thread I would just like to say with Like Like.
    Surely this is beginning to become grounds for complaint. Have you contacted the PALS at the hospital, or at the trust if it run by one? That is what we had to do.
    May 11, 2025
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    This is exactly what I did, all the POP settings etc matched one of the two basic set ups that should work. It didn't so it said one of the things I could do was configure it manually, which again I did, that is when it just went into a loop...
    May 11, 2025
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    Hippo replied to the thread I would just like to say.
    Watching the rain radar app fing. Rain drifting up burrits going to miss edgar. Suns got lesser and the wind is blowing as if there's a storm coming.
    May 11, 2025
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    Hippo reacted to DanClarke's post in the thread I would just like to say with Sad Sad.
    Just got back from seeing the MIL in the hosp. Still not been done!! Totally befuddled, asked if her son had visited her (answer.... NO!). Leg still stinks of rot. I hope they do it tomorrow. Asked plaintively "Can I come home with you?". Very...
    May 11, 2025
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