Good news thread..

[bamber]

My Mam (85) was vaxed on Saturday

All Good, She still needs to distance and be super careful until April. She gets that.

Bamber X

[bamber]

On 1/22/2021 at 7:18 PM, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

Hello bamber,

How sad that that bloke 'Jeff Grosso' has died, and so relatively young.

I think that you already know that I don't actually 'do' music that much, so don't always listen to your music suggestions on here - as is the case with everybody else who posts things to listen to / watch. It's just what it is. That said, I am, at this grand old age, becoming more succeptible to listening to new and varied types of music. There's hope for me yet!

Anyway, I mention the above because I did watch that skateboarding thing (the 50th) from yer man. It was good to watch and reminded me of a few things from my days 'on board'. I was surprised that there was no mention of Tony Alva, as he was the man in my day. Possibly didn't want to contribute because he's gone up his own arse or 'they' didn't like him - no knowledge.

And yes, yes you are right - what they can do nowadays would knock spots off what I could do. I still recall vividly the moment that I dropped into that first bowl though. I'm there right now. The trepidation. The unknown. And then the success. If you could bottle that you'd be bigger than Coca Cola and Pepsi combined. 🙂

Yog, my friend, you will be delighted to hear that Grosso did indeed cover the whole Alva thing, definitively.

This came out after he passed I believe.

We were all, all our generation, whether we knew it or not, we were all influenced by Alva. He just looked the best.

 

Edited January 29, 2021 by bamber

[bamber]

When I was 14, My best mate at the time, Alan Murphy (now a cop), moved to Carshalton. So, for three summers in a row, I spent my summer in Carshalton, which meant we basically had free reign over the Skateparks of 70s London. Guildford, Brentford, Romford, and most of all The Mad Dog Bowl in the Old Kent Road.

Like a dream now. So long ago.

I was at the Mad Dog Bowl the day Alva came.

http://londonskatedominates.blogspot.com/p/skateparks-rip.html

Edited January 29, 2021 by bamber

[guypjfreak]

On 28/01/2021 at 8:35 AM, Bryanrebe said:

Just booked a weekend away with three of my good girlfriends to a one day festival. I'm so looking forward to sitting in the sun, listening to some chill tunes, and drinking wine. There's also a bunch of art installations so I'm hoping I'll get a mini Glastonbury experience.

 

Really hope it goes ahead.. Over there they say lockdown shut borders no one minds over here people.... Some people..... Shout nooooo keep em open money,, business,, holidays etc so we're still in the shit.. You go for it girl fair play 

[Charm]

6 hours ago, bamber said:

My Mam (85) was vaxed on Saturday

All Good, She still needs to distance and be super careful until April. She gets that.

Bamber X

Fantastic news B, really happy for you and your family.  
Charm x

[Quark]

Dad's got his booked for Monday, just waiting for mum now 🙂

Still waiting on vaccine steward requests in my neck of the woods, so I've pulled my finger out on something I meant to do all last year and got my first shift helping with food prep for a local homeless charity soup kitchen on Sunday.

Running out of upvotes but great news @Charm & @bamber, so good to hear that more people are getting those first jabs.

Edited January 29, 2021 by Quark

[Charm]

3 minutes ago, Quark said:

Dad's got his booked for Monday, just waiting for mum now 🙂

Still waiting on vaccine steward requests in my neck of the woods, so I've pulled my finger out on something I meant to do all last year and got my first shift helping with food prep for a local homeless charity soup kitchen on Sunday.

Running out of upvotes but great news @Charm & @bamber, so good to hear that more people are getting those first jabs.

Thanks Q, happy for you and yours too, hope your Mum gets hers soon. 
Charm x

[Wellyboot]

6 minutes ago, Quark said:

Dad's got his booked for Monday, just waiting for mum now 🙂

Still waiting on vaccine steward requests in my neck of the woods, so I've pulled my finger out on something I meant to do all last year and got my first shift helping with food prep for a local homeless charity soup kitchen on Sunday.

Running out of upvotes but great news @Charm & @bamber, so good to hear that more people are getting those first jabs.

You're such a nice person, thats a really, really lovely thing to do! Do let us know how it goes after Sunday please! 

[Quark]

4 minutes ago, Wellyboot said:

You're such a nice person, thats a really, really lovely thing to do! Do let us know how it goes after Sunday please! 

Ha, don't be fooled!  I'm honest enough with myself to know that doing stuff like this gives me a little boost for myself as well so it's not like I'm getting nothing from it if that makes sense? But been meaning to do something for ages. Don't know why but of all the issues around, homelessness is just the one that hits me hardest.

The challenge for me is going to be making this a regular thing and not just a one off!

[John the Moth]

1 minute ago, Quark said:

Ha, don't be fooled!  I'm honest enough with myself to know that doing stuff like this gives me a little boost for myself as well so it's not like I'm getting nothing from it if that makes sense? But been meaning to do something for ages. Don't know why but of all the issues around, homelessness is just the one that hits me hardest.

The challenge for me is going to be making this a regular thing and not just a one off!

Good on ya my ferengi

Don’t worry about getting a little personal gratification from helping others, some schools of thought hold that true altruism is impossible anyway.

Just helping is a highly commendable and worthwhile act!

And  now by praising you I haven’t undone your good work now have I?

Keep leading by example 😊

 

 

[Quark]

4 minutes ago, John the Moth said:

Don’t worry about getting a little personal gratification from helping others, some schools of thought hold that true altruism is impossible anyway.

Ha, definitely!  I've had many conversations with my brother over the differences between selfish as a bad thing (benefiting yourself at the expense of others) and a good thing (benefiting yourself at either zero cost or to the benefit of others).

It's good to be honest with yourself about these things 🙂

[Quark]

This made me smile a LOT.

One for any Skinny Lister fans out there, smack in that sweet venn diagram spot of sea shanties and meteorology 

 

 

[Ayrshire Chris]

30 minutes ago, Quark said:

This made me smile a LOT.

One for any Skinny Lister fans out there, smack in that sweet venn diagram spot of sea shanties and meteorology 

 

 

Brilliant.  Spookily I was out a few hours ago and playing Skinny Lister. Good tunes to walk briskly to!  Just can’t wait to see them back in a crowded Avalon. 

[deebeedoobee]

5 hours ago, Quark said:

Dad's got his booked for Monday, just waiting for mum now 🙂

Still waiting on vaccine steward requests in my neck of the woods, so I've pulled my finger out on something I meant to do all last year and got my first shift helping with food prep for a local homeless charity soup kitchen on Sunday.

Running out of upvotes but great news @Charm & @bamber, so good to hear that more people are getting those first jabs.

Just in case it is useful - my 87 yr old mum got her jab date. She asked her friend ( who is a few years younger than her) if she could drive her to the centre. Her friend rang their doctors surgery to firstly ask if this was allowable, and secondly if she could have her jab at the same time to make things easier for them both. The docs arranged for them both to have the vaccine not only on the same day but also at exactly the same time. Maybe something your mum could do?

[Quark]

17 minutes ago, deebeedoobee said:

Just in case it is useful - my 87 yr old mum got her jab date. She asked her friend ( who is a few years younger than her) if she could drive her to the centre. Her friend rang their doctors surgery to firstly ask if this was allowable, and secondly if she could have her jab at the same time to make things easier for them both. The docs arranged for them both to have the vaccine not only on the same day but also at exactly the same time. Maybe something your mum could do?

Thanks Dee, I'll let them know but I suspect that they won't go for it. She's only 68 so a bit down the pecking order, and knowing her there's absolutely no way she'll put herself forward for that kind of thing to jump the queue. Just not in her nature at all, very British about queuing!  They've already said they're happy to just wait for it to come as they're pretty well set up at home.

Has your mum had her now I take it?

[Chapple12345]

My Grandad and Nan are getting their jabs next week 🙂 Gradad as he has a plethora of underlying conditions and my Nan as his primary carer, to say I'm relieved is an understatement 

[oneeye]

2 minutes ago, Chapple12345 said:

My Grandad and Nan are getting their jabs next week 🙂 Gradad as he has a plethora of underlying conditions and my Nan as his primary carer, to say I'm relieved is an understatement 

Good news indeed, and I do like the word plethora; magic 😎

[Quark]

Had to take one of the cats to the vet today, he lost a load of weight coming into christmas and hasn't put it back on, so took him in to get checked.

Good news is that all his physical checks and blood tests came back fine so there's nothing nasty underlying that the vet can see.

This makes me very happy, idiot boy that he is. He's one of the few people that laughs at my shit jokes.

 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

17 hours ago, bamber said:

Yog, my friend, you will be delighted to hear that Grosso did indeed cover the whole Alva thing, definitively.

This came out after he passed I believe.

We were all, all our generation, whether we knew it or not, we were all influenced by Alva. He just looked the best.

 

Nice one bamber. I thought it odd that Tony Alva hadn't got a mention. 

As an aside, I had a hunch that Grosso might have died prematurely because of certain indulgences. Seems I was right;

Former professional skateboarder Jeff Grosso’s death in March was caused by “acute polydrug intoxication” from the combined effects of fentanyl and phenobarbital, according to an autopsy report by the Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Department.

I got into the finals of a local sports paper's skateboard competition. I didn't win my age category in the final, but did win a new helmet, elbow and knee pads for getting to the final.

Then, not soon after, I was with my cousin (who's dad owned a timber merchants) delivering timber to a factory unit in Solihull and as we were unloading, my cousin noticed that in one area they had a big crate of yellow skateboard wheels. He was at it like a shot and put 4 of them into his shirt. I was far too much of a good Roman Catholic lad (ie. fool) to nick anything. Wow, but did I regret not nicking 4 of those wheels myself. They gave a far smoother ride than anything else we'd encountered up to then.

Oh, I've just recalled - I think that we eventually all ended up with G & S deck's (Gordon & Smith, if I remember rightly).

 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

16 hours ago, bamber said:

When I was 14, My best mate at the time, Alan Murphy (now a cop), moved to Carshalton. So, for three summers in a row, I spent my summer in Carshalton, which meant we basically had free reign over the Skateparks of 70s London. Guildford, Brentford, Romford, and most of all The Mad Dog Bowl in the Old Kent Road.

Like a dream now. So long ago.

I was at the Mad Dog Bowl the day Alva came.

http://londonskatedominates.blogspot.com/p/skateparks-rip.html

We used to get the train from Birmingham to Wolverhampton regularly to go to the Arrow indoor skateboard park. I recall 4 of us dropping into a bowl at the same time, but dropping in at staged intervals. The plan was to keep the 'harmony' of speed between us all, so that there wouldn't be an accident. However, one lad (who wasn't wearing a helmet) 'lost it' and his board flew up the edge of the bowl as he crashed at the bottom. The rest of us managed to stop ourselves without hurting him at the bottom of the bowl, but then had to watch (ala slow motion type thing) as his board reached the top of the bowl, lost it's momentum, and then came thundering down the bowl and straight into his head. Blood everywhere. We didn't know the lad - who was taken off to hospital by ambulance. However, we did stay outside at the time that he was due to be picked up by his grandad on his moped! Anyway, we told his grandad what had happened, he thanked us for hanging around to tell him, and then tootled off to the hospital on his moped.

[Bryanrebe]

12 hours ago, guypjfreak said:

Really hope it goes ahead.. Over there they say lockdown shut borders no one minds over here people.... Some people..... Shout nooooo keep em open money,, business,, holidays etc so we're still in the shit.. You go for it girl fair play 

Yup, we're a team of five million that are happy with domestic travel for the foreseeable future. Domestic travel is better than no travel at all!

[deebeedoobee]

5 hours ago, Quark said:

Thanks Dee, I'll let them know but I suspect that they won't go for it. She's only 68 so a bit down the pecking order, and knowing her there's absolutely no way she'll put herself forward for that kind of thing to jump the queue. Just not in her nature at all, very British about queuing!  They've already said they're happy to just wait for it to come as they're pretty well set up at home.

Has your mum had her now I take it?

Yep. She had it on Wednesday and has had no side effects. Next date is 12weeks time. My mum was more worried about her friend's unreliable driving than the jab. 

[guypjfreak]

1 hour ago, deebeedoobee said:

Yep. She had it on Wednesday and has had no side effects. Next date is 12weeks time. My mum was more worried about her friend's unreliable driving than the jab. 

Great news that Dee... And a new vaccine today.. The uk are doing well.. Love to you both old sons in pilton xx

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

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[Yoghurt on a Stick]

This is going to hurt!