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Posted 11 Dec 2024 at 16:45

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I like a bit of sherry at Christmas and its tradition me and missus have a glass while doing the tree.

Hi Phil.

My missus loves decorating the tree and living room, whilst having a sherry. I get all the stuff down from the attic, leave her and a bottle of sherry, in the living room. Shut the door. Return four hours later and Hey presto! the job's sorted.

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Posted 11 Dec 2024 at 16:55

Originally Posted by: Online Community Member

I like a bit of sherry at Christmas and its tradition me and missus have a glass while doing the tree.

Hi Phil.

Thats the way to do it. And I must admit I don’t get a chance to put anything on . It would most definitely be in the wrong place. Before we moved a couple of years ago we had 2 trees every year. One in the lounge and one in the dining room and they both had to have exactly the same decs on …

This year we got a new tree (only one) with led lights already on and it’s so much easier than stringing loads of wire round the tree. It looks better too 👍🎄

Phil

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Posted 11 Dec 2024 at 19:19

Originally Posted by: Online Community Member

I like a bit of sherry at Christmas and its tradition me and missus have a glass while doing the tree.

Hi Phil.

Hey Adrian,

Is your Mrs available next week to put up a couple of trees? We'll get the sherries in 😁

if a job's worth doing well.. get someone who knows what they're doing 😅

P.S. I do like London Pride, Doom Bar & Adnams (etc..) 👍🏻

P.P.S. Japan's on my list too, my sister's been 3 times and speaks a bit, not fluent though.

Cheers,

Kev.

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Posted 16 Dec 2024 at 12:46

Hi Guys. Hope you’re all readied for Christmas?

We’re having a quiet Christmas Eve and Day. Only the MiL here as youngest is at his wife’s family this year. No driving so a few glasses of wine and a Christmas movie is on the cards.

Oldest boy and family arrive Boxing Day from Jersey. We will pick them up at Gatwick - hope the traffic’s ok getting back through the Dartford tunnel.

Family get together on 28th with wife’s brother and partner joining us from oop North.

Have my hospital consultation F2F tomorrow so a little bit nervous. Hopefully they’ll have a plan for the new year and the Radium 223. Have some awkward questions to ask like what’s next after the Radium…? And will I be able to fly during the course of treatment.

Noticing my head hair growing again now albeit very white and also my beard growing quicker. Presume it is a slight testosterone increase as the Degarelix isn’t doing much now. I won’t know as PSA and testosterone not listed on my latest blood test form. I do wonder why they want me to carry on with Hormone treatment when it’s obviously doing bugger all… Oh well they are experts.

So still faffing around doing a bit of DiY. Boxed in small bit of soil pipe yesterday in downstairs cloakroom. Measured tiles for it this morning after my latest Degarelix injection. I’ll get me boy over to cut them with his fancy cutter tool..

So, hope you guys are all keeping well? Apparently lots of bugs around at the moment so keep safe. Had my Covid booster week before last and having the Flu one this week.

Take care buddies,

Phil

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Posted 17 Dec 2024 at 07:23

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Have my hospital consultation F2F tomorrow so a little bit nervous.

I shall be thinking of you, Phil. 🤞

Enjoy your Xmas tipple mate. 👍

And don't forget to tell your guests from up North that you've got an inside loo.😂

I've got a couple of my lads staying with us over Xmas. The other, the most sensible, has gone abroad for a month. 😁

My daughter, who only lives a couple of miles away, has invited us all to hers for Xmas dinner. She's catering for 16! It'll be case of taking our own chairs. 😁

Edited by member 17 Dec 2024 at 08:08 | Reason: Additional text

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Posted 17 Dec 2024 at 08:22

Good luck with your consultation Phil, I'll be thinking of you 👍

Adrian, that sounds like our plans for Christmas. Got my youngest son staying at ours with my grandson, and my old mum if she makes it. My eldest son is doing lunch at his place, about 4 miles away, for the whole family, 13 of us in total. We'll be turning up with the cheeseboard, cake, and a carload of dining chairs!

Going down with man flu the last couple of days, which is bloody typical 😆, but on the plus side, I got my latest PSA result yesterday, and 5 months on from surgery it is <0.02, so undetectable!

The Hart family cancer tally continues to rise unfortunately. To add to me, my mum and my younger brother, my wife's mum has just been diagnosed with breast cancer, which has spread to her lymph nodes, liver, and possibly spine. Incurable, but full prognosis not known until meeting on Friday. I'm not remotely religious, but someone up there is taking the piss!

Despite the early hour, I feel the need for a virtual pint. Anybody up for one?

Take care lads.

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Posted 17 Dec 2024 at 08:43

Good luck Phil, we've got our fingers crossed for you 🤞🏻

We're having a quiet Christmas, just us and the youngest so no real cooking headaches on the day, we had our get together last week.

We flew back last night and Luton Airport has its decorations up with a tree outside the entrance, very festive! We enjoyed a long weekend of 23° weather listening to Christmas songs on the radio, a bit surreal. I've added Christmas day on a sunny beach to my list now! Maybe next year.

I'm up for a virtual pint, I'll have a Doom Bar, great news on your PSA result Ian, but sorry to hear about your mother in law, awful news especially at this time of year.

Cheers all.

Kev.

Edited by member 17 Dec 2024 at 08:49 | Reason: Typo

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Posted 17 Dec 2024 at 08:58

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I got my latest PSA result yesterday, and 5 months on from surgery it is <0.02, so undetectable!

What a fantastic early Xmas present, Ian. I'm really pleased for you mate!👍

But I'm sorry to hear about your mother-in-law. 😕

If we're all having an early drink. I'll have a Guinness on me cornflakes.

It reminds of when breakfast outings used to be all the rage. A full English and a few pints, all before 10am. The daft things we did when we were young. 🙂

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Posted 17 Dec 2024 at 09:55

And don't forget to tell your guests from up North that you've got an inside loo.😂

We had an outside loo when I was 5 or 6 . Absolutely freezing cold and dark. It wasn’t even directly out the back door. They were old farm cottage’s.

I’ll add to the congrats for your PSA Ian but so sorry to hear about your MiL. That is tough…

Looking forward to Christmas and I’m just gonna try and relax and not think about things too deeply…

Hoping matter todays F2F I can possibly have a chat with some travel insurance companies as I’m getting withdrawal symptoms 🤣.

Cheers

Guys,

User

Posted 18 Dec 2024 at 08:28

Ey up lads!

I've just realised that "Crap! Not as erect!" Is an anagram of prostate cancer.

Little things please little minds.😁

User

Posted 19 Dec 2024 at 07:54

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Ey up lads!

I've just realised that "Crap! Not as erect!" Is an anagram of prostate cancer.

Little things please little minds.😁

You should get that printed on a T-shirt 😅

Anyway, I just popped in for a virtual breakfast pint and reported a couple of spammers on our chat 🤷🏻‍♂️

Cheers.

User

Posted 19 Dec 2024 at 10:25

Hi Kev.

Yeah, those spammers really jar me off!

One tried to infiltrate Phil's thread yesterday. 😡

To mess about on a site dedicated to cancer suffers is despicable. They should be caught and made to have a DRE from a doctor with hands like shovels. That'd teach 'em. 😁

I was thinking of beating the gaming spammers at their own game, and starting a thread on apt anagrams of prostate terminology. It might be a bit of a giggle for those who enjoy word games.

Other apt anagrams of 'prostate cancer' include 'Procreates not' and sadly 'Reaper contacts'

I had a real life breakfast outing yesterday morning. A full English and a pint of Batemans XXX in a Spoons in Grimsby. You can't get much rougher than that, but it was surprisingly good. 😁

Edited by member 19 Dec 2024 at 11:38 | Reason: Altered text.

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Posted 21 Dec 2024 at 08:46

What a start to the Xmas run up!

Yesterday afternoon I went to the Club for a pre Xmas drink. It turned into quite an heavy session. With a belly full of beer, I got on the 6pm train. I got distracted and missed my stop. I had to get off at the next stop which is the very isolated Thorton Abbey.

So there I was, in the middle of nowhere, just me and an 11th Century Augustinian monastery.

It was cold, wet and windy and my phone was almost running on empty. I tried to ring the missus but couldn't seem to get a signal.

So I started the 3 mile hike back home along the unlit country road. As I dodged oncoming vehicles, I wish I'd not worn black jeans and a three quarter length black jacket.Progress was painfully slow, especially as I had to hide in the hedge every 20 yards for a pee.

About an hour later, I was still about half a mile from our village turn off, when my phone gave a feeble ring. It was the wife wondering where the hell I was.

She came and rescued me.

There have been many reported sighting of a ghostly monk in the vicinity of the abbey. I wonder if all the motorists who passed me, thought I was him. It would explain why the miserable gits didn't stop to offer me a lift. 🤔

At least it's the winter solstice today. I think I get a bit of SAD and can now look forward to the days gradually getting longer again. 🙂

Edited by member 21 Dec 2024 at 09:34 | Reason: Typo

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