A place to have a chat.

Her reaction when you didn't buy her a better car on her 19th? 😆

We blokes do make a rod for our own backs. I made the mistake of buying mine Chanel No5 on our first Valentines. A custom she's never let me stop. 

Don't ever say that to a HD rider - they will beat you to a pulp! 

Brilliant - will be fantastic if he ever gets time to do it!  

Just putting it out there, for once and probably one time only the mighty Bantams finally won a game today, albeit on a sandpit pitch. Now up to the dizzy heights of 14 th in the 4 th division - Wiooppeee!. Can it possibly get any better than this?

Hi Adrian, 

I’m chuffed to bits that you’ve read my bio and even more so if you have found it helpful. I hadn’t realised that I’d written so much, I reckon you deserve a medal for reading it all 😬.

I was up late last night, overdoing it on the Hopp and vine 🍺🍷. We ended up watching an old Al Murray ‘Pub Landlord’ show. We found it so funny. So good to have a really really good laugh.

Yes, I’m due to put another update on. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks mostly taking stock of where I’m at. I guess most of us will probably spend a lot of time doing that. Mind you my conclusions are really that I increasingly feel like a really old git creaking at the seams, and still have the same symptoms I started off with and more.

It’s a glorious day here today ☀️ I hope it is where you are too and that you are making the most of it.

cheers

Spongebob

It's lovely when you can impress a lady with something much bigger than she's used to. 😁

Me and mine are both 'second time arounders'. We've been together 27 years. 

Jackson, I'll match your The girl upstairs, with my romantic The woman and the burning flotilla. (Sounds like a story about a lady an STD 😁)

Very early in our relationship, she invited me over to her place, for a romantic evening. She'd done a bubble bath with loads of scented tea lights perched around the edge of the bath. After a having a luxurious soak for a few minutes, I decided that a 'standing up cuddle' was in order.

As I stood up, I slipped on a bar of soap and lost balance. I instinctively grabbed out for the shower curtain, which pulled down the rail. I fell head first out of the bath colliding with the wall mounted bathroom cabinet. I ended up, wrapped in the curtain, face down on the bathroom floor, with the shower curtain rail nestled along the crack of my *rse. 

I looked at her. The tsunami I'd caused had washed most of the candles into the bath. They were floating around her like an armada on fire.

At least she was giggling and I did manage to make good the damage I'd caused.

I was and still am the Frank Spencer of the Kama Sutra. 😁

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My story to marriage is not quite so exciting. Me and the future missus were both well into our 30s, both left high up on the shelf having both been around the block several times over. 👵👴
Of course back in those days there was no handy online love matching instead it was a case of getting well blotto’d and then trying our luck down town at the night clubs.
In retrospect, I had absolutely no chance of finding a ‘match’ in a nightclub, where the girls were all ‘glammed’ up looking for their ideal debonair millionaire. How many of these beauties would be interested in a scruffy looking drunken bloke who likes footy, mountain biking, hiking and boozing?

Anyway, and so it came to pass that me and the missus met in a nightclub (we should call it the ‘Last Chance Saloon’), each of us both having made last minute decisions to go out and persuaded to do so by our respective mates, she was pi$$ed looking for a millionaire and I was similarly pi$$ed hoping for anything 😬.

I used to think that a good way to impress a girl was to whizz her around the Yorkshire Dales and amazingly this time it worked.
Then, not long after we eloped and got married on the Isle of Skye with my dog Oscar acting as best man (it was a November, all the shops were shut and we had trouble finding a ring).

I sent postcards to family, friends and work to let them know. My mum still not properly forgiven me.
And then we went on to have two kids in our40s! And we’re still together and very much still enjoy the odd glass or two.

cheers 🍷🍷

Ah, so this is where the insomniacs hang out!

Hello mate,

Sorry to see that you're struggling.

Usually, I rarely sleep well, and I'm awake in the early hours. However, last night was the best night's kip I've had for months.

For the past 4 months, we've sadly slept in separate rooms, it's the only way we can try to get a decent nights kip. I hardly slept a wink the night before. We looked after the grandkids all day yesterday, it was great to be with them but was very tiring. We went to bed just after 11pm. I woke at 7 am, I couldn't believe it. I even went back to sleep for another couple of hours. I didn't get up until 9:30. I feel like a new bloke today. A lack of sleep is crippling, it's why they use sleep deprivation to torture people.

As you know, I had surgery, so apart from a couple of months on Bilcal, I've not  experienced the awful side effects of HT that youre having to deal with. I just managed to avoid HT injections, when they decided that I was fit for the op.

Although I'm not on HT, I have a heart issue that seems to effect me in similar ways to HT. I had a heart attack, only 2 months after my prostate op. I was beginning to think I was that unlucky that if Kim Bassinger had have had triplets, I be the one who was bottle fed. They ended up drilling out and stenting one of the main arteries but it looks like they'll have to do the same with another. Like you, I feel knackered and very old. It's so irritating. Until I was 50 years old, I was running 5 miles everyday and doing 500 press ups in 5x100 sets a day. I was as fit as a butchers dog. Now I struggle to walk 200 yards to the Co-op. Getting old is crap and I understand how depressing it can be when your get up and go has got up and gone. The thing I miss most, is kicking a football about with my grandson. Now when we go to the park I have to take one of his mates to act as a sub.

 Even after a year after my prostatectomy, I get good and bad days. Life has certainly become a bl**dy roller coaster.

On a lighter note, I love your idea of what song reflects your mood. Today, luckily, mine would be Happy by Pharrell Williams, but tomorrow it'll probably be So Sad the Song by Gladys Knight.

Best of luck pal. I hope you feel brighter and fitter soon.

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So pleased to have met Phil and his wife.  It was nice chatting and passing time. Would have chatted longer but our bags were off the plane before us.

Thanks for the tips about Jersey Phil, we did some Castle-ing and the war tunnels today. 

Walked our feet off, and about to share a massive bath with the Mrs. It's our anniversary tomorrow so we'll be back out enjoying more Jersey tomorrow 👍🏻

Cheers, 

Kev.

Thanks Adrian, or shall I call you Frank?

Jersey is very nice, I would certainly recommend visiting if you haven't already. 

Seems that curtain pole was a bit too close for comfort, you would have been famous in A&E 🤣

Cheers, 

Kev

Edited by member 08 Apr 2024 at 08:09  | Reason: Added note

Phil and Kev should be back from Jersey?

But are conspicuous by their absence?

Perhaps they've got hangovers from hell? 🤔

Perhaps they did had a run in with Bergerac? 🤔

Hi Kev,

I love spring aswell. My clematis is full of buds. The allium are starting to grow and my Acer is coming into leaf. The lawn is still saturated. I can't ever remember the ground being so wet. The fish in the pond are already mating and I've got a robin and black bird nesting in the garden. We've got lots of blue tits in the garden but despite having umpteen boxes, none have ever nested.

The only benefit of the cancer,  is I have a pee jug to.use at night if needed, which I'm emptying in my composts bins. It seems to be working a treat.

I'm glad you had a fab time but it's always nice to be back home isn't it.

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Hey up chaps, SpongeBob here in France no less, on a belated road trip with the missus ( belated due to the PCa causing us to cancel our family hol last year). Just had a pleasant meal at a Restaurant Chinoise in Troyes - fabulous here, c’est la vie, certainement 😬😬🇫🇷

In the spirit of grand national weekend, I thought I’d start a sweepstake on my next PSA level. May last year saw a level of 5.9. December was 6.8, and March was 7.9

So that’s a rise of roughly 0.13/month between the first two, and 0.36/month between the next two. I reckon if the growth rate follows the same pattern, I’m going to get 11. 

Any takers? No betting required, but we may as well have some fun with this bloody thing 😬

Hope we all have a good weekend and a winner if we bet. 
Ian.

Hi mate

I haven’t got a bet on yet. Might try tomorrow morning before I start my weekend chores!

Next test on 17th June. Consultant said she thoroughly expects another rise. After three on the bounce I’m also pretty resigned to it. If so, she wants to re-stage me with a view to starting treatment. I’ve decided I’m going to ask for this anyway to be honest whatever the result is. She openly admitted to me last week that the  original G7 score could be right. If so, with 11 cores, bilateral disease etc, then it needs to be dealt with apparently. Once she told me that two separate pathologists scored me a G7 independently, the odds on my AS gamble shifted in my mind. So one way or another it’s treatment time later this year. I just hope that there hasn’t been much change and that RARP is still on the table. So to speak.

Have a great weekend mate.

Ian.

My bets:

£2.50 EW on Chemical Energy @ 50/1

£5 win on Corach Rambler @ 8/1

£2 win on Galia Des Liteaux @ 28/1

My wife's

£2 EW Foxy Jack's @ 40/1

£2 EW Mahler Mission @ 14/1

I am bitterly disappointed that she didn't think of me and back Mr Incredible! 😁

I bet they all fall at the first fence.

I'm using Paddy Power bookies as he sponsored PCUK for a million quid early this year. Good lad, Paddy.

Talking of PCUK. Did anyone notice that Lord Sugar's new advisor Tim Campbell, was wearing one of our ties in the latest episode?

https://twitter.com/ProstateUK/status/1778709710943789398

Well done Tim! 👍

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What next Spongebob? Pie 'n Mash in Paris?

What a great road trip though, it's good to see that you're cracking on with it 👍🏻

Cheers, 

Kev.