Posted on September 8th, 2011 by Brian
Earlier this week I got back from our annual French golf tour. We played four courses in the Caen area: Golf de Omaha Beach Le Mer Golf de Omaha Beach Le Manoir Golf de Cabourg Le Home Golf de Caen Le Vallone Rating them, in order of personal preference: Golf de Omaha Beach Le Manoir [...]
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Filed under: Golf, Hobbies, Isle of Wight, Mates, Seasonal
Posted on April 13th, 2011 by Brian
I have just been told that one of my schoolmates, Roger Hurd, suffered a heart attack and sadly died last Saturday. Although I haven’t seen him for some 35 or so years (probably more) Roger has always been a “mate” not least because I shared the second row with him for 5 years and we [...]
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Filed under: Mates, School
Posted on February 9th, 2011 by Brian
Saw a fox running across the road the other night and it reminded me of a conversation with my Swindon neighbour Dave (both perfectly sober btw). The gist was that we should start a company called Fox in a Box which would advertise their humane fox catching service. It went something like this; flood an [...]
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Filed under: Funny, Home, Isle of Wight, Mates, Scams
Posted on February 4th, 2011 by Brian
Garan called me yesterday and asked what I was doing on Friday evening and Saturday morning. Not much, I replied, a game of golf on Saturday but otherwise free if you are coming to the Island. No, came the reply, I thought you might be interested in a ticket to Wales v England! Who wouldn’t [...]
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Filed under: Mates, Rugby