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Especially in Aberdeen, all those oil workers hanging around waiting to go to sea or go home

Sundayjumper wrote: Tue Mar 09, 2021 10:49 am

Carlos wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 10:41 pm

Foz wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 6:08 pm And today I appear to have bought a 12 bedroom former guest house.

It sounds too big to live in ! What's the plan for that ?

There's a good market for afternoon rates for, errr, "meetings"

Rooms by the hour, we have been joking about that.

Anyone know a line in rubber sheets

ZedLeg wrote: Tue Mar 09, 2021 10:50 am Especially in Aberdeen, all those oil workers hanging around waiting to go to sea or go home

Lots of seamen ?

Rich B wrote: Tue Mar 09, 2021 9:35 am

Foz wrote: Tue Mar 09, 2021 9:30 am

Rich B wrote: Tue Mar 09, 2021 9:28 am Last place looks beautiful, but it only went up £75k in 9 years and looks like it's had a fortune spent on it?!

It did..
That was sold as a result of me and my wife separating, the Aberdeen mkt seriously impacted by the oil downturn, so financially not a success.

well that sucks, hell of a nice looking house though!!

Beautiful. Excellent job!

I bought a new welder just before the first lockdown when it looked like the entire world was about to shut down, but have worked all the way through and not done more than a test weld with it

Then as a reward to myself / midlife crisis 40th birthday present to myself bought the alfasud. Maybe the welder was a subconscious complimentary purchase.

I’m trying to keep off the carbs to lose weight.

Also me:


First impressions are very positive.

These came at the weekend. Noise has been made

That reminds me, I bought a bass guitar during lockdown. A strange purchase as I've never picked up any type of musical instrument before but I'm making steady if slow progress.

If you've not already found it, I highly recommend https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/

I have a few guitars inc a Bass, although I don't pick that up much.

This is my favourite of all my guitars. An Ibanez electro-acoustic. Although I rarely plug it in.

Today's lockdown purchase. A bin store. Man, I'm getting old. And it's more of a disguise than a store anyway.

I bought a replacement head for my Dyson vacuum today

Rock and fucking roll!!!

tim wrote: Tue Mar 09, 2021 10:39 pm If you've not already found it, I highly recommend https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/

Cheers, I'll take a look. I got a free subscription with the bass to Fender Play which is OK, although I have nothing to compare it to.

My bass has been in the loft a few years now. Sold my Hartke combo last year

Today's purchase - some Evohome gear. Woop

Used to play bass in a band in my late teens / early twenties.
Nearly got signed but didn’t.
Band fell apart.
Had to sell Ibanez SG bass and big Peavey amp when sprogs came along. Skint.
Lost most of my ability.
Youngest miklet now plays both bass and guitar. He is way better on bass than I ever was. The wee shite.

I bought some Vimto cordial, all for myself.

Shit just got real.

KiwiDave wrote: Wed Mar 10, 2021 9:11 pm Shit just got real.

Living the dream.

mik wrote: Wed Mar 10, 2021 8:48 am Used to play bass in a band in my late teens / early twenties.
Nearly got signed but didn’t.
Band fell apart.
Had to sell Ibanez SG bass and big Peavey amp when sprogs came along. Skint.
Lost most of my ability.
Youngest miklet now plays both bass and guitar. He is way better on bass than I ever was. The wee shite.

I used to play guitar in a few local bands in my early 20's and was decent. Narrowly missed out on a pro gig. Marriage, kids and life in general got in the way and I haven't played live in almost 30 years and very rarely play at all. Picking up my guitar now is an exercise in frustration as I lack the muscle memory, and general ability I once had. In my head I'm still decent. In actuality, I'm just a bit shit now.

Losers, I played the Trombone and eventually play in a county Jazz Band. A few really fun times like a Superman mega mix with a Tuba player at Peterborough Cathedarel.

Pah, guitar players never get the bitches.

Dave!

^^ why does this not surprise me AT ALL!