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Having enjoyed all of the blogs on here over the past few years, I guess it"s time to start one of my own.
I "ve had some time to reflect this week on poker and life in general, as I"ve been laid up in, and now out of, hospital after having an arthroscopy done to my left knee. Not quite as bad as it sounds, mildly inconvenient should cover it really, but my consultant did suggest that a loss of bulk might be in order to assist in the re-habilitation going forward.
Then I looked at my schedule over the next few months.
21-23rd September Ger"s summer fest
4th -7th October Invasion Yarm
13th-15th October APAT Glasgow
8th- 13th November A poker trip to the Algarve
30th Nov - 2nd Dec APAT Stoke
hmmm..., coulda timed this better I guess, still onwards and upwards. M&S fuller longer meals and fruit and veg to the fore, head down and don"t feed the winger!!!!
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hope the knee is OK pretty soon. Looking very much forward to this going forward.
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Good luck with this mate. Do I sense a weekly update post coming on (reference Jaxie)?
You mention the fruit and veg - great start.... but sadly, the Guinness has to go :)
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Good luck with this mate. Do I sense a weekly update post coming on (reference Jaxie)?
You mention the fruit and veg - great start.... but sadly, the Guinness has to go :)
Sadly you are correct. Will have the odd weekend "off" here and there, but have a bike on order to help things along a bit. Fingers crossed ;)
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Good luck with this Curly - should be a good read - and good luck with shedding a few pounds.
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It"s not too difficult once you get past the first couple of weeks. :) You"ll do great once you put yer mind to it!
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Thanks for the encouragement. I watched very carefully, how you two controlled your willpower in Nottingham, and will take your lead hereafter!!!!
Must practice my not being able to get out of a taxi routine though ;D ;D xxxx
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Should be good please keep updated even if not regular, always nice to know what people are doing :D
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Yup, looking forward to this one. I need to update mine more as well. That"s tomorrow sorted then!
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Just had a note from eBay congratulating me on winning the bike!!!!!
It does appear though, on second viewing, to have a very small saddle :o
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Thanks for the encouragement. I watched very carefully, how you two controlled your willpower in Nottingham, and will take your lead hereafter!!!!
Must practice my not being able to get out of a taxi routine though ;D ;D xxxx
Falling asleep in drinking establishments does not count ;D ;D ;D
Looking forward to reading more of this blog, and gl gl gl with the bike with the small saddle fruit and veg routine xx
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Up early this morning, well 8.30 is early for me, as am having car serviced. Knee is throbbing a bit and a bit of standing around didn"t really help, but all done for £125 so all good.
The sun is out and we have T20 cricket, F1 qualifying and a bit of footie on so not too bad. BBQ will prolly get an airing this evening.
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Look forward to this Curly.
ps early morning throbbing.. common problem fella x
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Thanks for the encouragement. I watched very carefully, how you two controlled your willpower in Nottingham, and will take your lead hereafter!!!!
Must practice my not being able to get out of a taxi routine though ;D ;D xxxx
Just :D :D :D and FFS don"t fall asleep in any pub toilets!!!
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Just watching the Olympic parade through London and have this overwhelming feeling of pride for all of the athletes and the country as a whole. By God we are good at doing these things.
I assume that Yarm will look a little simliar when the APAT contingent arrive in a few weeks time ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Just watching the Olympic parade through London and have this overwhelming feeling of pride for all of the athletes and the country as a whole. By God we are good at doing these things.
I assume that Yarm will look a little simliar when the APAT contingent arrive in a few weeks time ;D ;D ;D ;D
I would have thought so. God only knows what it will look like after though.
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Just watching the Olympic parade through London and have this overwhelming feeling of pride for all of the athletes and the country as a whole. By God we are good at doing these things.
I assume that Yarm will look a little simliar when the APAT contingent arrive in a few weeks time ;D ;D ;D ;D
I would have thought so. God only knows what it will look like after though.
I believe I have already covered that,
(http://www.war44.com/misc/images/1/liberated_St_Mere_Eglise.jpg)
The clean-up of Yarm after the visit from the APAT contingent was looking like it could take some time.
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One word comes to mind.
Chernobyl.
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So a week on from the knee op, and the bandages are off to reveal a couple of steri-strips and see-through plasters which are nothing like as impressive/dramatic, so might have to put the bandages back on before wifey gets home! ;)
Went to G Luton last night and played good, but ran out of puff just before the bubble to finish 12/60 (8 got paid) :( Surprisingly my 8h 8s no match for Ad Ah meh!
Spoke to my cousin who lives in Heswall (about 10 miles from Chez Ger) and she has kindly offered to put Susiepea and I up for a couple of nights next weekend, so that"s that sorted. A 20 minute cab ride each way should surffice.
Pleased to see that KP has been left out of the England squad to tour India in 6 weeks time. He is a great player no doubt, but he is an even bigger twat and it will hopefully give a young english guy the opportunity to progress as well.
The BBC is also airing a programme on Radio 5live tonight @ 19.30 in which players who have come into contact with Pietersen give their views. Jason Gallian, ex England, Lancashire and Captain of Nottighamshire CCC when KP was playing there, is a personal friend of mine (we are both god father to a very close friends daughter) and I have a sneaking suspicion that his account tonight might not be the exact one he mentioned to me a few years back. It was along the lines of, "we have 2 teams here, Nottinghamshire and Pietersenshire". Ever the diplomat our Jace. :o
Good day to you all :-*
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Spoke to my cousin who lives in Heswall (about 10 miles from Chez Ger) and she has kindly offered to put Susiepea and I up for a couple of nights next weekend, so that"s that sorted. A 20 minute cab ride each way should surffice.
Yeah, and the rest! Looking at about 30 mins dependent on Motorway traffic and 15 miles each way.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9oae5ClxaQ
I"m just guessing, but I bet he can play Wonderwall as well ::) ::)
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Hope the knee mends well.. You could all ways use one of those wheelchair thingy ma jigs I hear they make life a little easier if your a bit dodgy on the old pegs! Good luck with the diet aswell, but don"t over do it.. Curliittle doesn"t have the same appeal as Curlarge ;D
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Hope the knee mends well.. You could all ways use one of those wheelchair thingy ma jigs I hear they make life a little easier if your a bit dodgy on the old pegs! Good luck with the diet aswell, but don"t over do it.. Curliittle doesn"t have the same appeal as Curlarge ;D
;D ;D ;D ;D
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Watched the oddest and disturbing documentary film on Netflix last night called "Bridge".
Basically someone has set a number of cameras up around the Golden Gate Bridge with the express aim of capturing people committing suicide off of it :o :o
You see about half a dozen people do it and then they interview freinds and family to try and understand why they did it.
Couldn"t make up my mind if it was sick or sad while I was watching it, but in the cold light of day I"ve come down on the side of sick. I can"t quite believe the censors let this through. Shivers ftw :-\ :-\
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Up at the crack of Pebble Mill once again courtesy of later night pokerings and Netflix (Jennifer Anniston is sooooo hot).
Prolly gonna go up to Genting Luton tonight as they have Day 1a of a 25k stack, 2 day event for £135 on tonight. Haven"t been there before, infact I didn"t even know it was there until this week, but reports are favourable.
Spoke to the gardener yesterday and he was discussing "putting the garden to bed for winter". It only just got up FFS, but it"s looking better than it was last year.
Looking at a car, getting a haircut and popping into a fab indian deli (or are they Mumbai"s now!!!) in Southall to pick up tomorrow night"s chow, tomorrow morning. The smell in this place is unbelievable and they do the best veggie curry and tandoori fish to take away imaginable :P :P :P :P :P :P and healthy too :P :P
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As mentioned yesterday, I went to Genting Luton last night for the deepstack tourney day 1a. 25k chips and 40 min clock attracted around 45 runners some of which took advantage of the 1 re-entry allowed to provide 58 entries.
In the first 3 levels I only played about 5 hands in total, winning them all. Most notable was the following.
There are 4 limpers @ 100/200 so I limp as well with Jc Qc and it gets back to the BB who open shoves his final 1600. He"d tried to bully a couple of times and come second best on both occasions previously, hence his small holding. UTG calls, as does 1 other so I call for value and so does the guy behind me, so we are 5 way.
The flop comes 6c 2d 7c. UTG checks, and Edna ( a Luton regular and ex Late Night Poker Veteran) bets 6k into a pot of about 7k. Hmmmmmm. Well I decide that as I have called the shove for value, this is about as good a flop as I could hope for, so I call. Worryingly the guy behind me also calls and it gets back to UTG who folds.
The turn brings 8c and Edna insta shoves all in, her remaining 22k. Well I feel I have to call, which I do, but I am a little wary of a bigger flush. The guy behind me now tanks, but eventually folds showing 6h 7s and we flip them over. Edna shows 8s 8d for top set and says I hope you don" have a flush, but I show her the bad news and the river bring no help for her. The shover had nothing, so I pick up a very nice 57k pot and am chip leader.
I get moved for the next 5 levels to a very friendly table and managed to get a couple of good hands against a Chinese guy where my better Ace out kicks him twice for a gain overall of about 25k and at the end of level 8 I have 87k.
Now I get moved to a very agro table of decent stacks and things get quiet tricky. I bide my time once again and look for spots which are very thin on the ground. The chip leader here has 200k and is a bit pissed and subsequently is chucking them around "chief scout stylee". The main hand was as follows.
I limp UTG for 1600 with Kc 10c. There is a raise to 4200 and he gets 2 callers, so, again I call for value. Pot about 20k already. Flop comes Kd Kh 7c. I check, as I had done many times before, allowing the agro merchants to do the betting for me. Surprisingly everyone checks. Turn is 4s. Again I check my set and so does everyone else. WTF is going on here. The river is 7s. I bet 4800 and the guy to my left calls. It folds to the semi drunk guy who raises to 11k. I have a think and re-pop it to 26k. The caller folds and the drunk guy pays me off showing 7h for a worse full house. Pot was about 80k and at the end of the night I am upto 127,800.
The blinds when we come back on Sunday will be 1k/2k/200.
Got home feeling that the old Curlarge was coming back and I played about as well as I have done for a while and really enjoyed it in a pretty tough field, so fingers crossed.
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Watched the oddest and disturbing documentary film on Netflix last night called "Bridge".
Basically someone has set a number of cameras up around the Golden Gate Bridge with the express aim of capturing people committing suicide off of it :o :o
You see about half a dozen people do it and then they interview freinds and family to try and understand why they did it.
Couldn"t make up my mind if it was sick or sad while I was watching it, but in the cold light of day I"ve come down on the side of sick. I can"t quite believe the censors let this through. Shivers ftw :-\ :-\
On the same subject of Netflix go to search and type in Bais Moi watched this movie after a friend told me about it being a twist on Thelma and Loiuse lol.. I can"t believe how censors passed this either!??
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Will be back to Genting Luton later this afternoon for the final day of the September £125 deepstack. Blinds will be 1k/2k/200 and we have 33 returning with an average stack around 70k. I have 127k. Should be fun.
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Watched the oddest and disturbing documentary film on Netflix last night called "Bridge".
Basically someone has set a number of cameras up around the Golden Gate Bridge with the express aim of capturing people committing suicide off of it :o :o
You see about half a dozen people do it and then they interview freinds and family to try and understand why they did it.
Couldn"t make up my mind if it was sick or sad while I was watching it, but in the cold light of day I"ve come down on the side of sick. I can"t quite believe the censors let this through. Shivers ftw :-\ :-\
On the same subject of Netflix go to search and type in Bais Moi watched this movie after a friend told me about it being a twist on Thelma and Loiuse lol.. I can"t believe how censors passed this either!??
I don"t like "odd" films/documentaries but I"ll have a quick peek and see :o
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS-0RQUIoz4[/youtube]
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I was just reading Phil TC"s excellent blog and his account of his first APAT event and I thought I"d share mine as well.
I frequent the G Casino in Luton, as most of you know, on average once a week, and on 18th November 2009 I signed up for the £50 NLHE game on the Wednesday.
There was an abnomally large field that night (around 80 runners) and I can remember thinking that quite a few of them weren"t speaking English. Now this is not an uncommon occurence at Luton, as we do attract our fair share of Latvian car washers and Polish handymen, which along with a number of locals who struggle with the Queens version of the language, make for an eclectic mix at the best of times. ;)
One guy in particular had me wondering where I had seen him before (it turned out to be Bruno Rilho from Portugal) as he looked familiar for some reason. Long story short, I busted about 2 tables out, as usual, but upon exiting I asked Niall the card room manager, he has the best name ever for a cardroom manager (anagram of All In), if he knew why there wer so many players there that night.
He informed me that over the next 2 days, there was a tournament called the APAT European Team Championships and this would be followed by a 2 day individual tourney to find the APAT European Amateur Champion. These guys had mostly arrived earlier that day and we going to represent their country and then themselves at the weekend.
As I had never heard of APAT, I looked it up on "Tinternet when I got home and saw some pictures of the various participents in the Team event. I noticed that Portugal had entered a team, and the penny dropped.
Their captain, the aforementioned Snr. Rilho, had played in a tournament in Vilamoura a few weeks earlier in October that I had also played in. In fact as fate would have it, we sat next to each other for most of day 1, which was pretty amazing, as the seat assignments were determined by each player picking a table and seat position from an enormous chimea/urn looking thingy at the entrance to the card room. What were the chances? I had folded top pair, top kicker twice, to the same guy, who showed a set both times, and Bruno had said "nice lay down" on both occasions, hence me remembering him.
Anyways, I managed to get a seat in the ECOAP 2009, through the seat exchange and turned up at Luton on the Saturday for my first "big" tourney. As I walk into the main casino area I see the Portuguese team standing near the bar, so I go over and say hello. Bruno recognised my and we chatted about the Vilamoura event and the team event before moving over to the card room for the ME.
Up until this point I had been playing in a local pub league, along with Susie P, Omar Khan, Gary Allen, Frank Moszkal and Rex Mault to name but a few (now) APATers from the Elite Amateur Poker League, where we played 2 games a night with 3000 chips and a 7/8 minute clock.
Therefore the APAT structure seemed like an eternity com[pared to this super turbo format, but amazingly, and despite sitting next to a certain "slightly" squiffy "Delboy" for about 7 hours (he was on my right fortunately), I managed to make day 2, knocking Bruno out along the way (it still annoys him today ;D).
I remember getting home around 3am absolutely buzzing with excitment and found it hard to get to sleep, but managed to get a few zeds in before heading back round the M25 and up the M1 for day 2.
Again long story short, I make my first (and as it turns out, my ONLY) final table, where I am joined by, John Murray, Alan (cant remember his surname), Stu Ward (the eventual winner), Delboy, Stu Fordham, Matt McInnley and Silke from the German team, plus one other guy who I don"t know in seat 9.
https://picasaweb.google.com/www.apat.com/APATEuropeanAmateurChampionshipDay2#5407013570568334386
I actually finished 9th, when I shoved my short stack "all in" with 5d 5s on the button, after 3 players had limped, but Stu Fordham called, having limped with Jc Jh. Game over.
I was thrilled to have got this far and my affair with APAT started then and there. I am the only player to have played every live event since Dublin 2010, and I see no reason not to continue this further. The players (yes you lot) make these events and I look forward to every one wherever there are held.
Long may this continue. ;D ;D
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I am the only player to have played every live event since Dublin 2010
Pah! A feeble claim!
I think (I"m old and the memory fades) I"ve only missed a handful* of UK APATs since its inception and overall less than 10.
I"m hardcore, I am. There are definitely probably better attendance records than mine...but I"ll lay claim to being the top 10!
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I have not been on as many apat weekends/events as quite a few of the guys, but I can honestly say .....................
I don"t remember much of what goes on!
Alcohol steadies the nerves :D
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Can I lay claim to be the only apater to travel half the world for an APAT tourny only to miss it ???
Beats my previous record of being late for every tourny (barring one) ... having no concept f time really is a pisser sometimes :-\
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Can I lay claim to be the only apater to travel half the world for an APAT tourny only to miss it ???
Beats my previous record of being late for every tourny (barring one) ... having no concept f time really is a pisser sometimes :-\
The record is yours chikka and unlikely to be beaten unless we go to Australia...........now there"s an idea ::) ::)
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I am the only player to have played every live event since Dublin 2010
Pah! A feeble claim! Maybe
I think (I"m old yes and the memory fades prolly) I"ve only missed a handful* of UK APATs since its inception and overall less than 10. But have you been to every live event since Dublin 2010????
I"m hardcore, I am. There are definitely probably better attendance records than mine...but I"ll lay claim to being the top 10! what the whole top 10 :D :D
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Well today dawns with the exciting prospect of a trip to Gerland which for those that don"t know is "up Norf" somewhere.
The delights of The Aquarium await tonight (loins are girded) in the company of Ger x 2, Carl, Paulie, Susie P, Mr. & Mrs. Sharples (still hurts to write that ;)) and a few of the locals who are venturing to the Algarve with us in 6 weeks time.
But first an unexpected trip to the dentist. I ****ing hate the dentists. :o
I had a terrible experience as a kid an have been petrified ever since. Hopefully things will go well, but I have my doubts.
See you all over the weekend at some point. Travel safe.
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I am the only player to have played every live event since Dublin 2010
Pah! A feeble claim! Maybe
I think (I"m old yes and the memory fades prolly) I"ve only missed a handful* of UK APATs since its inception and overall less than 10. But have you been to every live event since Dublin 2010????
I"m hardcore, I am. There are definitely probably better attendance records than mine...but I"ll lay claim to being the top 10! what the whole top 10 :D :D
get a room lads...
Speaking of which, where are you staying this weekend?
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Well today dawns with the exciting prospect of a trip to Gerland which for those that don"t know is "up Norf" somewhere.
The delights of The Aquarium await tonight (loins are girded) in the company of Ger x 2, Carl, Paulie, Susie P, Mr. & Mrs. Sharples (still hurts to write that ;)) and a few of the locals who are venturing to the Algarve with us in 6 weeks time.
But first an unexpected trip to the dentist. I ****ing hate the dentists. :o
I had a terrible experience as a kid an have been petrified ever since. Hopefully things will go well, but I have my doubts.
See you all over the weekend at some point. Travel safe.
And stu and Phil x
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Well today dawns with the exciting prospect of a trip to Gerland which for those that don"t know is "up Norf" somewhere.
The delights of The Aquarium await tonight (loins are girded) in the company of Ger x 2, Carl, Paulie, Susie P, Mr. & Mrs. Sharples (still hurts to write that ;)) and a few of the locals who are venturing to the Algarve with us in 6 weeks time.
But first an unexpected trip to the dentist. I ****ing hate the dentists. :o
I had a terrible experience as a kid an have been petrified ever since. Hopefully things will go well, but I have my doubts.
See you all over the weekend at some point. Travel safe.
Well there are more APATers at the Aquarium tonight than were in Cork in 2011. I can report that reputation is not unfounded. The end.
And stu and Phil x
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Well here we are, Invasion Yarm week!
It starts for me with a not too pleasant trip to the dentist for the first of 2 extractions (next one is next Monday afternoon). Todays one is lower left and next weeks is lower right (teeth obv. ;)). The advances in dentistry meant that absolutley no pain was experienced, which was a huge relief, although I have to report that it is smarting at the moment, but I was told to expect it for 48 hours or so. I guess a significant amount of alcolhol towards the end of the week will numb this pain and also help in numbing the other side for Mondays assault.
In other news, Europe"s Ryder Cup team provide an unbelievable feat of escapologly to win said trophy for the 5th time in the last 6 meetings. I have to say I will never grow tired of yanks with faces like a smacked arse in the sporting arena ;D
Yarm awaits, I hope to be in a fit state to report on the festivities, although don"t hold your breath.
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Apols for not blogging over the past week or so. Yarm was a really good time, too much beer, rubbish darts, more beer, a very good win at pool over the lovely Lucy.
Am now in Glasgow for the APAT Scottish comp, but busted early last night and beer took over. Was up at the crack of 1.30 and indulged in the all you can eat Chinese buffet for £7.45 which didn"t touch the sides ;D
Now gonna try the 6pm tourney here for a giggle.
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I was due to go to Wembley this afternoon to watch the Patriots take on the Rams courtousy of JP (tyvm) but I"ve had to crab out thanks to a literal "pain in the arse".
Now, I know what your thinking, dirty minds you lot have.
I"ve been bothered over the past few days by what seems to be a touch of sciatica, which is no fun, and it"s flared up this morning. Hot and cold compresses FTW for a few days sadly, still could be worse I guess. Hope the boys have a good day.
Also have to finalise the teams for the APAT Home Internationals at Stoke in 5 weeks time. JP and The Chief Scout are the other 2 England captains and we face a number of tough decisions before announcing the teams on Tuesday.
Should be interesting.
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Well here we are safely back from another overseas jaunt that was "A poker trip to the Algarve".
It was a totally uneventful weekend and nothing happened at all ;)
OK, well not quite nothing. Top 12 highlights (in no particular order) were:-
1. Seeing 15 or so APATers sitting out in the sun on Thursday afternoon on the marina, enjoying a beer and each others company.
2. O"Shea"s Irish bar, in particular Doreen and Fiona :-* :-*
3. BJB
4. A certain "gentlemans" club :o :o
5. Dinner with Sue and Holdy at the beach.
6. Seeing all the APATers at the tables in the casino
7. Falling down the steps in our villa :"( :"(
8. Hearing Ger laugh for what seemed like 4 days :D :D
9. Watching The Chief Scout drink for what was 5 days ???
10. Doreen :-* :-* (did I mention her?)
11. Seeing AJD at a bar TWICE :o :o :o :o :o
12. Hearing the numerous tales of daring do, over the whole 5 days...........PRICELESS
It was an Epic trip, but then I think we all knew it prolly would be. Thanks for all of the kind comments, it was a pleasure.
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Something has been bugging me for some time, and now is the time to say what it is.
Over the past year or so we have been subjected to a constant stream of ****e in the press regarding "alleged" racist comments made by sportsmen, predominantly footballers, but there have been other instances in other sports as well. This is, and always will be, totally unacceptable, in any walk of life.
The press have stirred things up to a frenzy at times which is a joke in itself and in more than a few cases, will no doubt have fuelled the fire within the public domain.
The thing that really gets my goat though, are these new groups that have sprung up. The latest of which is "The Black Lawyers Society".
If you object so strongly about being called "black", why the hell do you feel the need to you put "Black" in the title of your organisation?
You don"t see "The White Law Society" or "The White Institute of Directors" or "The White Royal College of Surgeons".
If you want "us" (non-black people) to fully support your cause then stop underling everything with the very word you object to.
Rant probably not over.
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Managed to take down the PLO leg of the APAT Bunch of Fives last night, trampling on a few toes on the way (AJD will already be typing as he reads this ;D) so that was fun. Getting beaten up on Stars most of the time in $8r PLO but did manage 7th twice for about £150 each time.
Really looking forward to Captaining England A in the APAT Home International Championships in Stoke in 11 days time, should be fun and it will be great to meet up with the best people in the world, outside my family obv., once again. :-* :-*
Fandango has promised a few surprises for Stoke, so looking forward to seeing what that will bring :o :o
p.s. Actually managed to beats Rob Swindells at Song Pop National Anthems :D
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My toes were well & truly trampled. :"(
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Has it been 3 weeks since my last post, blimey!
Well I thoroughly enjoyed Captaining England A in the Home Internationals in Stoke at the end of November, but sadly things conspired against the team in a few sopts and we finished 5th, so didn"t get a shot at the medals which was a shame for all concerned. Carl obviously was incenced at this and took it out on everyone in the ME and did his 2nd win of the season. WOW just WOW :o
Still troubled by my shoulder which I injured when I feel over in Portugal and it seems as though I may have partially dislocated it. This can take up to 16 weeks to heal, magic :"( :"( :"(
Off to G Luton tomorrow for day 1A of the Xmas Cracker £100 tourney which should be fun.
Ger and Paulie are off the Vegas in 10 days or so and I wish them a great trip.
If I don"t post on here beforehand, I wish everyone a very Merry Chrimbo and a wonderful 2013. :-* :-*
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Went to G Luton last night for day 1a of the Xmas Cracker, which is £100 + £10, 25k deepstack, with 40 min clock and a long structure.
Got off to a steady start but then lost a 12k pot when Jd Js got beaten by a rivered straight. Got back to around the 25k starting stack and then the table broke and got moved to table 1, where there were a couple of big stacks.
Mangaged to win a few pots here and there and then this hand came along.
I am BB with a stack of about 60k and have Kc Kd. Blinds are 200/400/50 and UTG opens for 1050. We get a caller and then the SB raises to 8k. I am a little wary of the flat from the short stack (22kish) and also the SB raise as I know she is a good player. I decide to min raise to 16k, just in case she has aces. I not worried about the shortstack as it"s not much more to call him anyway.
UTG folds and then the limper shoves for another 20k or so. The SB calls his bet, so I assume that if she has aces she shoves here to isolate. So I shove, leaving her 52k to call. She has a mahoosive dwell up and after abuot 5 mins she calls and shows Qd Qc. The shortstack shows Ad A s.
Flop comes Ac Jh 6d turn 2s river 7d. So the short stack triples up to 75k, and I win the side pot of 104k. ;D
She knows the shorty had aces and hoped I didn"t have Kings, ooooops.
The this hand comes along about 10 mins later blinds are still 200/400/50
In mid position, I have Kh Qh.
We have 2 limpers and I come along obv., as does the guy to my left. It gets folded to the BB who raises to 1500. The 2 limpers call as do I and so does the guy to my left.
Flop comes Ks Kd 4d.
BB bets 4200. Both limpers fold, I call and so does the guy on my left. Turn 9d. BB goes a bit squiffy, smiles a bit, grimaces a bit and says he is confused. He bet 3k. REALLY!!!!
I am pretty sure he has the flush, but for 3k I call and so does the guy on my left.
River Qc. Yahtzee!!!!
BB bets 9k leaving 26k behind, desperate hoping one of us will raise. I pretend to be confused, and I grimace and scratch my head. I say I am confused so I min raise trying to induce him to shove. The guy to my left folds on the BB duly obliges, I call and annouce Nutz!. He looks stunned as he assumes I have the flush.
He shows 9h 9s for and Full house of 9"s over Kings.
I have never seen a guy with a look of "Jeez, I really screwed that one up" on his faces, quite so clearly. oooops :o
That pot of 55k has me upto 150k+ and I end the day with 144k. Blinds on Sunday will be 1k/2k/200 s I have some wriggle room. What could possible go wrong!!!!!!!!!
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G Luton day 2 of Xmas cracker. Started day with 144k chips and at first break am up to 200k. Average is about 85k. Blinds are now 1500/3000/300.
Break at end level 14. Have 135,000 chips. 2 hands of note. Have Kd Kc in sb. Short stack shoves from mid position, folds to me and I shove as BB only has 30k behind.
Shover shows Qh Jc. Flop 4h Js 10h. Turn Jh river 3s, down to 170k.
Then call a raise from BB with Ah 8h. Flop comes Jh Js Qh .
I check, he bets 11k, I call. Turn A s.
I bet 22k he calls. River Kd.
I check. He bets 16k. I call but don"t like it and he shows 10c 10d for a rivered straight....FFS.
39 left with 22 getting paid and now have av. Stack.
Get moved to table 1 with 140k into seat 3.
Blinds are now 4000/8000/1k. We have 3 guys with 350k+ on here. 32 left, 22 paid.
Basically get nothing to play for about 45 mins. Then get 7h 7s utg, but BB, in seat 2, has already stated he is all in for another 20k, so I pass as have the 3 big stacks immediately to my left. Seat 10 shoves his 120k with A s 7c. Seat 1 passes and seat 2 is all in with Ad 8d, both miss and seat 2 doubles up.
It goes around a few times with seat 10 shoving all in 3 times. We all know he"s at it, but no-one seems keen to defend.
I get Ac Kc in the BB. It fold to seat 8 who limps in, seat 9 folds and seat 10 shoves again for 140k.
Seat 2 shoves his remaining 65k, and I shove my remaining 120k (blinds are about to go 5k/10k/1k.
It folds to seat 8 who has a monster dwell up, but then folds showing Jc Jh.
Seat 10 says you must be in front and shows Ah Js. Seat 2 has Qs Qh.
So I am flipping with seat 10, for a 275k pot (av 130k), who has 1 out or runner, runner, runner for a straight.
Flop comes Qc 7d 3h, turn Ad, river Jd.
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Wow, what an interesting blog thread. ;)
(Appeared on my unread posts, don"t know how, but it did)
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Wow, what an interesting blog thread. ;)
(Appeared on my unread posts, don"t know how, but it did)
Odd
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Let"s do a test.
If you have read this blog today, please post.
(This could obviously be quite embarassing if no one replies Rich ;) )
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Let"s do a test.
If you have read this blog today, please post.
(This could obviously be quite embarassing if no one replies Rich ;) )
I have a few times to see if logging out and then in again makes any difference, but no.
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I have today, Cos I could ;D
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Read x
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post
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Read.
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Well, that"s me convinced. Nothing wrong with the forum software ::)
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Didn"t update for me either?!
Only kidding.
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Did I miss something?
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Did I miss something?
Rich doesn"t feel loved enough ::)
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Did I miss something?
more than likely, where to begin?
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Did I miss something?
more than likely, where to begin?
oi >:(
oi??
i was trying to wind Dawn up, keep yer Neb out :p
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So the day dawn"s and I am on a sponsored diet :-X
Day 1 in the grumpy curly house has so far gone without a hitch, with fresh veg, fruit and other alien food stuffs replacing the festive offerings and then the leftovers that have been consumed with avengence over the past fortnight 30 years or so.
Alcohol too has gone by the weighside (did you see what i did there?) and also been replaced by some funny clear liquid called water!!!
Let"s hope that a slightly slimmer curlarge and some much needed funds for MD are on the horizon.
I have to say that my motivation has been Carl all through the run up to this, "cos if he can put a constantly cheery face on what must been an incredibily frustrating, tiring and difficult set of circumstances that he finds himself in, then I can sure as hell put a little less chow in my mouth.
Fingers crossed and thanks for the support, it means alot.
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So the day dawn"s and I am on a sponsored diet :-X
Day 1 in the grumpy curly house has so far gone without a hitch, with fresh veg, fruit and other alien food stuffs replacing the festive offerings and then the leftovers that have been consumed with avengence over the past fortnight 30 years or so.
Alcohol too has gone by the weighside (did you see what i did there?) and also been replaced by some funny clear liquid called water!!!
Let"s hope that a slightly slimmer curlarge and some much needed funds for MD are on the horizon.
I have to say that my motivation has been Carl all through the run up to this, "cos if he can put a constantly cheery face on what must been an incredibily frustrating, tiring and difficult set of circumstances that he finds himself in, then I can sure as hell put a little less chow in my mouth.
Fingers crossed and thanks for the support, it means alot.
All the best with this Rich
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No contest you are ornery enough to breeze this.
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Good luck Curly - get in the zone - get obsessed!
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Good luck Curly - get in the zone - get obsessed!
>:( >:( >:( >:(
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best of luck mate
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Best of luck with this Rich !
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Many thanks guys....
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I have to say that my motivation has been Carl all through the run up to this, "cos if he can put a constantly cheery face on what must been an incredibily frustrating, tiring and difficult set of circumstances that he finds himself in, then I can sure as hell put a little less chow in my mouth.
This.
I quit smoking almost 3 years ago.
Someone very close to me is a recovering alcoholic and hasn"t had a drink for many many years. In those early days when I was tempted to crack I would think, well if that person can go with out a drink for the rest of their life...
I should try to "ply the same logic to my own diet!
Good Luck
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I have to say that my motivation has been Carl all through the run up to this, "cos if he can put a constantly cheery face on what must been an incredibily frustrating, tiring and difficult set of circumstances that he finds himself in, then I can sure as hell put a little less chow in my mouth.
Thanks Rich, you are completely correct in your assumption!! It is indeed " tiring and difficult " having to gaze up at my two Gold APAT winners medals each day sigh!!
The constant cheery face is obviously down to reading my own most excellent Face Book jokes daily ;D
But seriously I wish you all the very best in your quest, it won"t be easy there will be tough days ahead but I"m sure you will surpass your goal.
Many thanks for including Muscular Dystrophy as your charity, it is indeed a horrid disease. I consider myself fortunate that I indeed managed to live a fairly "normal" childhood and my strain of MD is far less progressive as say Duchenne, the worst case of MD that there is, which only affects males, with all these kind donations and charitable work that is carried out, the research for a cure is coming on leaps and bounds in the last decade.
The future is looking good, and with kind selfless acts and continued support from generous people like yourself and all the other fellow APAT patrons I"m sure a cure is just around the corner.
Many thanks again,,I will purchase you a glass of the finest mineral water available at Luton.. And upon you reaching and indeed surpassing your weight loss perhaps next season say the worlds.. take you out and treat you to the BIGGEST NASTIEST KEBAB money can buy xx
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I have to say that my motivation has been Carl all through the run up to this, "cos if he can put a constantly cheery face on what must been an incredibily frustrating, tiring and difficult set of circumstances that he finds himself in, then I can sure as hell put a little less chow in my mouth.
Thanks Rich, you are completely correct in your assumption!! It is indeed " tiring and difficult " having to gaze up at my two Gold APAT winners medals each day sigh!!
The constant cheery face is obviously down to reading my own most excellent Face Book jokes daily ;DBut seriously I wish you all the very best in your quest, it won"t be easy there will be tough days ahead but I"m sure you will surpass your goal.
Many thanks for including Muscular Dystrophy as your charity, it is indeed a horrid disease. I consider myself fortunate that I indeed managed to live a fairly "normal" childhood and my strain of MD is far less progressive as say Duchenne, the worst case of MD that there is, which only affects males, with all these kind donations and charitable work that is carried out, the research for a cure is coming on leaps and bounds in the last decade.
The future is looking good, and with kind selfless acts and continued support from generous people like yourself and all the other fellow APAT patrons I"m sure a cure is just around the corner.
Many thanks again,,I will purchase you a glass of the finest mineral water available at Luton.. And upon you reaching and indeed surpassing your weight loss perhaps next season say the worlds.. take you out and treat you to the BIGGEST NASTIEST KEBAB money can buy xx
REALLY!!!!!!
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I have to say that my motivation has been Carl all through the run up to this, "cos if he can put a constantly cheery face on what must been an incredibily frustrating, tiring and difficult set of circumstances that he finds himself in, then I can sure as hell put a little less chow in my mouth.
Thanks Rich, you are completely correct in your assumption!! It is indeed " tiring and difficult " having to gaze up at my two Gold APAT winners medals each day sigh!!
The constant cheery face is obviously down to reading my own most excellent Face Book jokes daily ;DBut seriously I wish you all the very best in your quest, it won"t be easy there will be tough days ahead but I"m sure you will surpass your goal.
Many thanks for including Muscular Dystrophy as your charity, it is indeed a horrid disease. I consider myself fortunate that I indeed managed to live a fairly "normal" childhood and my strain of MD is far less progressive as say Duchenne, the worst case of MD that there is, which only affects males, with all these kind donations and charitable work that is carried out, the research for a cure is coming on leaps and bounds in the last decade.
The future is looking good, and with kind selfless acts and continued support from generous people like yourself and all the other fellow APAT patrons I"m sure a cure is just around the corner.
Many thanks again,,I will purchase you a glass of the finest mineral water available at Luton.. And upon you reaching and indeed surpassing your weight loss perhaps next season say the worlds.. take you out and treat you to the BIGGEST NASTIEST KEBAB money can buy xx
REALLY!!!!!!
I"m in!
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So it"s true there really are two 7 o"clocks in a day. Who knew!!!!
Damn diet now has me waking early and actually wanting to eat healthily, which is of course great.
Body is not used to cooking though...meh, however really enjoyed cooking my scrambled eggs on toast and a cuppa :P,
hmmmm, feel a memo to self coming on.
Trouble is, it"s not 8 o"clock yet and I already have 2 games going. Ho humm : ;D ;D
p.s. wonderful news about Phil TC getting engaged. Really looking forward to meeting the lucky lady soooooooooooooooooon...... :-* :-*
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p.s. wonderful news about Phil TC getting engaged. Really looking forward to meeting the lucky lady soooooooooooooooooon...... :-* :-*
If he has any sense he might delay that as long as possible.. :o
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Well today is the first weigh-in at weight watchers and I hope to have done well.
The first week is a bit of a double-edged sword to be honest, in that you come down from stuffing yourself, particularly over Xmas, to eating a lot less than you did before, whilst at the same time not eating as much as you actually allowed on any of the past 7 days. Odd really. Still fingers crossed for later.
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Good luck!!! Hope you lose lbs and not ££"s!
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Good luck!!! Hope you lose lbs and not ££"s!
;D
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Well back from the first weigh in with good news. Week 1 saw a healthy loss of 10 Lbs ;D
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Well done Curly, amazing tekkers!
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Well back from the first weigh in with good news. Week 1 saw a healthy loss of 10 Lbs ;D
wow!! top work mate well done :D
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Well back from the first weigh in with good news. Week 1 saw a healthy loss of 10 Lbs ;D
Wow!! That"s crazy good! Massive congrats!! :)
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Thanks guys. Head down, don"t feed the winger!!!
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Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ;D Nice work Rich, keep it going mate
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You"re going great!!! :) Keep up the good work and you can join us for the run in May.
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Well back from the first weigh in with good news. Week 1 saw a healthy loss of 10 Lbs ;D
Amazing Rich keep up the great work!!..
Curskinny FTW!!!
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Thanks u 2 xx
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Well back from the first weigh in with good news. Week 1 saw a healthy loss of 10 Lbs ;D
Wow! Well done mate!!
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Awesome start Rich ! Keep up the good work
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Well done that man! Keep it up xx
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Awesome work. At that rate it won"t be long before you disappear!
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I see how you lost it ;D
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Well done big man
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ty all. Too kind. :-* :-*
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Well done Rich ! Will we recognise you at Luton ?
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Well back from the first weigh in with good news. Week 1 saw a healthy loss of 10 Lbs ;D
Wow, awesome! Well done you! :)
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The week 2 weigh in was last night and as expected a little normality was resumed from the 10lbs loss of week 1.
3 more pounds were lost this week so thats 13 in 2 weeks, pretty much on target.
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2 or 3 pounds per week is perfick. Keep up the good work Curly.
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2 or 3 pounds per week is perfick. Keep up the good work Curly.
ty sir :-*
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Keep up the good work matey.. Still a large Kebab with your name on it when you crush your target!!
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That"s just shy of 1 stone in 2 weeks. Pretty bloody amazing really! Keep it up!! :)
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The week 2 weigh in was last night and as expected a little normality was resumed from the 10lbs loss of week 1.
3 more pounds were lost this week so thats 13 in 2 weeks, pretty much on target.
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WOW .... gogogogogogogo Rich!!!! Incredible effort! Well done x
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Very well done Sir. Every little helps ;)
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ty my lovlies :-* :-*
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It been a funny day.
Firstly I had to go and have an MRI on my shoulder today (Portugal injury still not cleared up) and I couldn"t fit in the scanner !!!!! ;D ;D
Mainly because it makes you lie at an angle and have the bad shoulder in a sort of brace which then elevates the other shoulder upwards and makes you lie in an impossibly uncomfortable position, which I just couldn"t hold for 20 mins with my head on the roof of it ::)
So they had to re-book me for an open scanner (3 sides open) next Monday in Hendon, lovely.
Then off to fat fighters for the week 3 weigh in and I lost another 3 pounds so that"s 16Lbs in total and still on target.
Luton this weekend and the good news is that a large Vodka Redbull (sugarfree obv.) is only 4 points and I get 68 a day....wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii hic.....
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Luton this weekend and the good news is that a large Vodka Redbull (sugarfree obv.) is only 4 points and I get 68 a day....wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii hic.....
points or drinks?!?!?
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Luton this weekend and the good news is that a large Vodka Redbull (sugarfree obv.) is only 4 points and I get 68 a day....wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii hic.....
points or drinks?!?!?
Points to start out, but as I haven"t had a drink for 3 weeks, anything could happen :P :P
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It been a funny day.
Firstly I had to go and have an MRI on my shoulder today (Portugal injury still not cleared up) and I couldn"t fit in the scanner !!!!! ;D ;D
Mainly because it makes you lie at an angle and have the bad shoulder in a sort of brace which then elevates the other shoulder upwards and makes you lie in an impossibly uncomfortable position, which I just couldn"t hold for 20 mins with my head on the roof of it ::)
So they had to re-book me for an open scanner (3 sides open) next Monday in Hendon, lovely.
Then off to fat fighters for the week 3 weigh in and I lost another 3 pounds so that"s 16Lbs in total and still on target.
Luton this weekend and the good news is that a large Vodka Redbull (sugarfree obv.) is only 4 points and I get 68 a day....wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii hic.....
Having had a few MRI scans myself I did laugh at the thought of you not fitting in Rich :) .Well done on the 16lbs, don"t go into reverse this weekend!
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It been a funny day.
Firstly I had to go and have an MRI on my shoulder today (Portugal injury still not cleared up) and I couldn"t fit in the scanner !!!!! ;D ;D
Mainly because it makes you lie at an angle and have the bad shoulder in a sort of brace which then elevates the other shoulder upwards and makes you lie in an impossibly uncomfortable position, which I just couldn"t hold for 20 mins with my head on the roof of it ::)
So they had to re-book me for an open scanner (3 sides open) next Monday in Hendon, lovely.
Then off to fat fighters for the week 3 weigh in and I lost another 3 pounds so that"s 16Lbs in total and still on target.
Luton this weekend and the good news is that a large Vodka Redbull (sugarfree obv.) is only 4 points and I get 68 a day....wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii hic.....
Having had a few MRI scans myself I did laugh at the thought of you not fitting in Rich :) .Well done on the 16lbs, don"t go into reverse this weekend!
thanks m8 ::)
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Nice work matey.. 1 stone down well on target!!
Keep up the good work, see you in a couple of days :D
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An MRI without the enclosure?! Run good much?! Hope the results are good and well done on the latest weight loss. xx
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Fat fighters week 4 weigh-in tonight and another 5lbs lost, so that 21lbs in 4 weeks. :o
Whilst I know it"s not the done thing to have a giggle at the expense of fellow weight-watchers, I have to admit to having done so tonight.
After weighing-in. we have to sit down and wait for the leaders motivational talk to begin. Normally I sit at the back on the right to keep out of the firing line when she starts asking questions, but tonight a new girl had taken that spot, no doubt for exactly the same reason, so I had to sit next to another chubby chap, who took the opportunity to start chatting. It went like this.
Him:- "Hello, how did you get on?"
Me :- "Hello, not bad thanks, another 5lbs"
Him:- "Well done, how much in total?"
Me:- "21lbs in 4 weeks"
Him:- "wow very well done"
Me:- Thanks, and how much did you lose this week?"
Him:- Nothing this week, but nothing gained, so not too bad"
Me:- "We started at the same time didn"t we?"
Him:- "No, I started before you"
Me:- "How much have you lost in total?"
Him:- "13lbs"
Me:- "Well done that"s not too bad, when did you start?"
Him :- "Last April" :o :o :o :o
So that"s 13lbs in just under 10 months. GGWP. So at £4.95 per week that"s about £200 or thereabouts.
What is the point?
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Fat fighters week 4 weigh-in tonight and another 5lbs lost, so that 21lbs in 4 weeks. :o
Good Skills!!
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Fat fighters week 4 weigh-in tonight and another 5lbs lost, so that 21lbs in 4 weeks. :o
Good Skills!!
ty sir
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That"s great stuff Richard, keep it going sir !
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That"s great stuff Richard, keep it going sir !
ty
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Awesome stuff Rich, keep it going mate 8)
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Awesome stuff Rich, keep it going mate 8)
ty sir
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Excellent progress!!
Looking good sir.. Emma said don"t waste away as you will not be as "cuddle friendly" ;D
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Well done Curly.. keep going mate
Emma said don"t waste away as you will not be as "cuddle friendly" ;D
+1 to that x
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Well done Curly.. keep going mate
Emma said don"t waste away as you will not be as "cuddle friendly" ;D
+1 to that x
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21 lbs in 4 weeks!! wow great job Rich, and keep it up!!
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good stuff mate keep it up.
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Thanks guys
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Cracking going Rich, keep it up!
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It"s great to see how well you"re doing with this Rich, much better than my "not drinking during January" went ;)
Keep it up !
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Thanks guys
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I didn"t recognise you on the live feed! :)
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I didn"t recognise you on the live feed! :)
That was John Murray ;)
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Just back from week 5"s weigh-in at Fat Fighters and have got the hump.
Turns out that the scales I used at last weeks meeting weren"t calibrated correctly as, like me, a number of other fat fighters have put on weight this week, despite sticking to the plan.
It said I had lost 5lbs last week which I thought was a bit excessive, and in fact we, as a group of fat fighters, had lost in excess of 100lbs in total that week.
This week about half of the group have put on weight, of between 1-3lbs so the above conclusion was reached for the sanity of all concerned.
Therefore last weeks loss should have been 2lbs giving a total of 18lbs with another 2lbs off this week, so that"s 20 in total.
Still pi55ed off thou. >:(
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Its still a top effort mate, just keepm it up, this is where it really starts to get difficult if i remember correctly.
You are still doing well, keepup the hard work and it WILL pay off in the end.
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These little set backs are annoying especially when it"s someone else"s fault... your still well on target mate :)
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Well today is my son Will"s 21st. Jeez where did that time go. :o :o :o
I remember the day he was born pretty clearly considering the excitement, particularly the fish n" chips out of newspaper I had for lunch (none of that today obv.) and Debbie"s waters breaking all over my new trainers later that afternoon ::) ::)
He arrived at 19.28 (just in time for Eastenders) after 19 1/2 hours in labour and has been a fantastic son (most of the time) all things considered.
So I got up early to wish him Happy Birthday and to go to fat fighters this morning rather than this evening, as we are have a bit of a do tonight, and another 3 lbs has disappeared somewhere, so that"s 23 lbs in total, and still on course for DTD.
I"m very pleased to see the continued support for the Bakers Dozen league and hope that we can donate an additional £400 or so to Muscular Dystrophy at it"s conclusion in 6 weeks time.
Oh yes, and I"m winning, is that bad?????? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Had to go and see the consultant about the scan on my left shoulder yesterday and the news is pretty grim.
Basically I have torn the tendon known as the rotator cuff off of the top of my shoulder. It"s a little like when someone snaps their achilles tendon. It is now flapping around inside the shoulder joint.
The op is a very complicated one involving micro surgery to try and re-attach the tendon by way of grafting pins into the shoulder bone as an anchor and then trying to attached the tendon to them, but success is by no means a certainty. If he can"t do that, he will have to shave the top of the shoulder bone to allow more space for the shoulder joint to move in it"s now lesser supported way.
The post op re- hab is a nightmare.
First 6 weeks in a sling. No driving, no lifting, no showers :o in fact no lateral movement at all.
Second 6 weeks in a sling. No driving, no lifting, but some very minimal lateral movement can be attempted.
Weeks 13 to 24. some light physio, some driving, no lifting, but showering should be OK. (phew or should it be poo :D)
Weeks 24- 44 light exercise building up to restore the muscle strength.
So basically 10 months should see it repaired...................POSSIBLY!!!!!!!!!
He said if you had to choose an op to have which didn"t involve a vital organ, this would pretty much be the last one you should choose. Lucky me.
He"s given me March 1st as a date but I can"t do DTD in that state, so it looks likely to be April 14th.
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Happy belated Birthday Curly Jr.!!!
Well done on all the weight loss. You"re flying it! :)
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Had to go and see the consultant about the scan on my left shoulder yesterday and the news is pretty grim.
Basically I have torn the tendon known as the rotator cuff off of the top of my shoulder. It"s a little like when someone snaps their achilles tendon. It is now flapping around inside the shoulder joint.
The op is a very complicated one involving micro surgery to try and re-attach the tendon by way of grafting pins into the shoulder bone as an anchor and then trying to attached the tendon to them, but success is by no means a certainty. If he can"t do that, he will have to shave the top of the shoulder bone to allow more space for the shoulder joint to move in it"s now lesser supported way.
The post op re- hab is a nightmare.
First 6 weeks in a sling. No driving, no lifting, no showers :o in fact no lateral movement at all.
Second 6 weeks in a sling. No driving, no lifting, but some very minimal lateral movement can be attempted.
Weeks 13 to 24. some light physio, some driving, no lifting, but showering should be OK. (phew or should it be poo :D)
Weeks 24- 44 light exercise building up to restore the muscle strength.
So basically 10 months should see it repaired...................POSSIBLY!!!!!!!!!
He said if you had to choose an op to have which didn"t involve a vital organ, this would pretty much be the last one you should choose. Lucky me.
He"s given me March 1st as a date but I can"t do DTD in that state, so it looks likely to be April 14th.
Ouch, doesn"t sound a lot of fun Rich, chin up!
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Had to go and see the consultant about the scan on my left shoulder yesterday and the news is pretty grim.
Basically I have torn the tendon known as the rotator cuff off of the top of my shoulder. It"s a little like when someone snaps their achilles tendon. It is now flapping around inside the shoulder joint.
The op is a very complicated one involving micro surgery to try and re-attach the tendon by way of grafting pins into the shoulder bone as an anchor and then trying to attached the tendon to them, but success is by no means a certainty. If he can"t do that, he will have to shave the top of the shoulder bone to allow more space for the shoulder joint to move in it"s now lesser supported way.
The post op re- hab is a nightmare.
First 6 weeks in a sling. No driving, no lifting, no showers :o in fact no lateral movement at all.
Second 6 weeks in a sling. No driving, no lifting, but some very minimal lateral movement can be attempted.
Weeks 13 to 24. some light physio, some driving, no lifting, but showering should be OK. (phew or should it be poo :D)
Weeks 24- 44 light exercise building up to restore the muscle strength.
So basically 10 months should see it repaired...................POSSIBLY!!!!!!!!!
He said if you had to choose an op to have which didn"t involve a vital organ, this would pretty much be the last one you should choose. Lucky me.
He"s given me March 1st as a date but I can"t do DTD in that state, so it looks likely to be April 14th.
Ouch, doesn"t sound a lot of fun Rich, chin up!
Which one ;)
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Damn shame about the shoulder >:(
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Back from Fat Fighters week 7 weigh-in, and another 3 lbs lost, so that"s 26 in total, and still on target with 5 weeks to go before DTD and 10 lbs needed to avoid the forfeit. ;D
Along with his royal moustachiness (Ger, 7th to 15th), have booked Vegas in November from 7th to 23rd, so that will be nice.
Have decided (I think) to have the shoulder op after DTD on April 14th, so it should be well on the mend come Vegas time.
Gonna be sh1te through the summer, but Ashes cricket after a tour by New Zealand, should soften the blow a bit.
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Well done Rich, could you post a photograph of yourself so that i can recognise you when i get to DTD please. ;D ;D
Sorry about the shoulder, i suggest to use it for glass lifting before the said op.
C U there :)
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Well done Rich, could you post a photograph of yourself so that i can recognise you when i get to DTD please. ;D ;D
Sorry about the shoulder, i suggest to use it for glass lifting before the said op.
C U there :)
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That"s the plan mate, and it"ll be good to see you again :-*
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Just back from Fat Fighters week 8 and another 3 lbs gone so that"s 29 in total ;D
#whosthatthinchapoverthere :D
p.s. no-one has even noticed a change yet
#prollyshouldadonethisabouttenyearsago ;)
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Well done Curly, keep it up.
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Fantastic Curly!
To put it into perspective.. 29lbs? you"ve basically lost one of these so far..
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Great effort fella keep it up x
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Fantastic Curly!
To put it into perspective.. 29lbs? you"ve basically lost one of these so far..
(http://www.freewebs.com/kingfisherlakes/07-08%20Gallery/will%20westwick%2028lb-TheBigC.jpg)
Great effort fella keep it up x
ooooh I could eat that now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks guys :-* :-*
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Does this mean he"s no longer a fish?
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Does this mean he"s no longer a fish?
Errrrrrrrrr :-X :-X :-X
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Really great job Rich. Congrats so far.
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Really great job Rich. Congrats so far.
Thanks
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Really great job Rich. Congrats so far.
Thanks
Pah...lightweight!
Oh...wait! ;D
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Well I have been a bit slack in posting recently, no particular reason, I just forgot. ;)
So today sees Invasion Yarm the sequel, and I"m not going, as I fear the previous 12 weeks of dieting would almost certainly be undone in 3 days, were I to partake of the festivities. I trust all of the attackers and defenders will enjoy their weekend and more importantly arrive home unscathed (a long shot I know, but heho).
The diet has continued and we are at defcon 34 (lbs) now, with 2 pounds required from the final week. I am 2 notches further away from the end of my belts now, than I was at Christmas, and a few shirts are getting an airing that had once been consigned to the annuls of history.
I"m looking forward to seeing everyone at DTD next week and if some run good came with me then that would be nice.
Travel safe comrades.
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Wow, WTG Rich....awesome loss! :)
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Wow, WTG Rich....awesome loss! :)
+1 ........smell that Kebab yet!
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Come on mate keep it going, it"s the final week and then you can sink your battleshipful of Guiness, shame we will not be weighed at APAT.
You have done great to lose that much mate and I bet it"s not been an easy journey!!
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Thanks all, the support has been great, both here and online :-*
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Well tonight is the final leg of "The Baker"s Dozen" league which has been a great success, even if I say so myself. ;)
I think at least 7 players can still win a seat, so it should be a great finale.
In addition, I tipped the scales this morning at defcon 35.5lbs so I have 1/2 lb to shed before Wednesday which I am pretty sure I can do. Bring on the Guinness!!!!!
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Last night saw the finale of the Bakers Dozen League, and what a great game it was.
Pedro secured his No.1 ranking and a WCOAP Passport too boot and yours truly and Helen sneaked into 2nd and 3rd places for a WCOAP ME seat each, with Ian coming 4th for around 90 euro. MD will benefit from just over 400 euro, which is fantastic.
Everyone enjoyed the format and I hope to do something similar soooooooooooooon. ;D
In other news, the scales duly obliged this morning and I have lost the 36lbs that I set out to do back at the beginning of January.
Thanks to all for the support, both here and online, see you all at DTD.
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Fantastic Mr C. You"ve done amazing both with the league and the weight loss. Proud of you fella. Guiness by the bucket load this weekend x
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Brilliant result Rich :)
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Thanks guys, It"s Guinness O"clock all weekend long that"s for sure ;D
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Congratulation Rich knew you could do it.. Enjoy that pint of Guiness sir then another then another ;D
Well deserved!!!
See you soon :-*
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Thanks guys, It"s Guinness O"clock all weekend long that"s for sure ;D
You deserve better than that Rich, stick a port in it ;)
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Well had a great time at DTD with the best people in the world. Had my socks cuddled off by the Buxom Cockney Wench, as well as Lucy, Jojo, Shazza, Phil, Debjani and Sooooz, which was most agreeable.
Playing wise it was ****e, so we"ll move on.
I had the privilege of being asked to chair the APAT Awards nominations committee for season 6, (thanks to those who assisted on the committee) and was then asked to MC the ceremony on Saturday evening, which was great fun, particularly as some many closest friends were the winners this time round. I have to say that "getting" Paulie was a great thrill, as he had absolutely no idea about his Hall of Fame induction. ;D
As promised it was Guinness o"clock for most of the weekend, except they ran out on Sunday, so I switched to Bulmers.
Couple that with an unusually healthy liking for the DTD Club Sandwich and it came as no surprise that the scales showed a +ev of 6 on Tuesday morning, but I think I deserved it after 3 months.
Anyway, back on it now, but the shoulder op looms large, and is now on April 19th. Head down feed the winger.
This prolly means I"ll miss most of season 7, as the recovery time is 6 months plus, but hopefully if things go well I might make the odd appearance.
I"m hoping to run another league running from the end of April until the ECOAP (presumably at the end of August), so around 14 weeks, with the possibility of some other games as well as NLHE to juice things up a little.
Thanks to all of those that tooks part in the Bakers Dozen, it was great fun, and to all of you that made my WCOAP so enjoyable. Luv ya all :-* :-* :-*
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Well this morning arose in a bit of a haze for me as the anesthetic was still doin" it"s stuff after last nights op.
Went to see a new consultant on Tuesday, for a second opinion, who suggested that the full op might be a bit of a waste of time and an awful lot of agro and inconvenience to boot, as around 30% re-occur within 2 years. He suggested that I have the "bone trimer" instead to try an reduce the discomfort, news which I was glad to hear tbh.
Anyway long story and all that, this is what he did yesterday, along with removing some arthritic shoulder bone that he found as well.
When I came round, I had a fair amount of pain in the shoulder which was not planned for as I had had a "block" injection prior to the op. which was supposed to mask the pain post op. So I ended up being dosed up with morphine which sent me a bit (more) do-lally for the next few hours.
Was awake most of the night watching re-runs of the 2008 WSOP ME and after breakfast the "physio-fuhrer" put me through a bit of organised torture to try and loosen things up a bit. GG WP shoulder.
Got discharged around 10.30 and slumped into a comfy chair for some zeds when I got home.
The major benefit is that I don"t need the sling now, can drive/shower/move about fairly freely although sleeping in bed might be a challenge tonight, we"ll see.
Lots of self-physio (no not that!!) to come to hopefully get things back to near normal over the next month of so.
This means that I will prolly be able to go the most APAT events including Wembley gig in S7.
memo to self :- try and score at least 1 point this season. :o
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Good news, you"ll be fighting fit in no time ;D
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YAY!!! Glad it wasn"t as bad as you"d expected. Speedy recovery :D
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Glad to hear the post op recovery isn"t going to be as draining now.
With regards to the sleeping .... have you thught about getting one of those big bean bags and sor of sleep in a curved sitting up position on the bed? When I had my pelvis probs all those years ago and couldn"t move, sleeping was horrible ... so got one of those bean bags and had it in the corner of the bed (you need something by the side of the bed too to keep the bean bag in position ... I had my wardrobe put there) ... and voila I was able to sleep really well after that.
Now ... this self physio you talk of :P
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Thats great news Mr C :) Roll on S7 and beers at Wembley :) x
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Run good much ?
Great news Mr Baker, we"ll see you at Wembley then.
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Yhanks for the kind words guys, and thanks for the bean bag idea mich :-*. We do have one and I"ll deffo give it a try. Might help with the self-physio as well ;D :o
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Glad to hear all has gone well Rich, positive that the recovery is less complicated and that you"ll be able to do things reasonably normally.
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Can you still give hugs?!
Glad it all went well for you :D
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Pleased to hear it all went well Rich. See you at Wembley.
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Can you still give hugs?!
Glad it all went well for you :D
xxx
This is the only important question and we need an answer soon please. Not a Des soon, but a now soon!
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Can you still give hugs?!
Glad it all went well for you :D
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This is the only important question and we need an answer soon please. Not a Des soon, but a now soon!
:-* :-*
I can report that the shoulder, and the rest of my ample figure, is available for hugging with immediate effect ;D
Please feel free to take full advantage of this situation :-* :-*
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Great news Rich :)
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Glad to hear all has gone well Curly xxx
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Glad to hear all has gone well Curly xxx
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Can you still give hugs?!
Glad it all went well for you :D
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This is the only important question and we need an answer soon please. Not a Des soon, but a now soon!
:-* :-*
I can report that the shoulder, and the rest of my ample figure, is available for hugging with immediate effect ;D
Please feel free to take full advantage of this situation :-* :-*
Phew, panic over! ;)
Glad all went well, take it easy and get fit for Wembley! xx
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Echo all that"s been said mate.. Great news!! xx
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Wow, just realised it"s been six weeks since my last post here ???
Well what"s happened since then, then.
Shoulder is getting better day by day and I saw the consultant 10 days ago who seems to be happier with it than I am, but hey ho. Will start a physio program next Friday so hopefully things will improve still further.
Have continued my 3 year "run bad" streak, which is really great, (NOT) with another suck-out at The Genting Luton Deepstack event in May, when I call a 32BB shove of 157k, following my 2.4bb raise to 12k, (I have 130k) from the lunatic on my left.
This is the 3rd time he has done this, in the first 40 minutes of day 2, and I have 10c 10d, and I just know he"s weak. He visibly hates my call and tables Ah 9s.(WTF!!!)
The flop comes A s 4c 7d, turn Ac, river 9d for the boat on the river :"(
I leave in a foul mood once again and hope that my fortune will change when Wembley arrives in a couple of weeks time.
And so the ISPT arrives last weekend and with the APAT Masters.
A small group of intrepid Apaters met up at The Ethorpe Hotel in Gerrards Cross on the Friday night for a few liveners, and enjoyed these in our usual quiet manner. Glenn, Delboy, Joe, Susiepea, Phil Hertel and myself were quite restrained really and when Saturday dawned, we were all raring to go.
A mini-bus had been arranged and all were collected, along with Gareth from Cardiff, and off we went.
The excitement was clear for all to see as we walked up Wembley Way and into the stadium.
After a bit of faffing about we were in and walked out into sunshine and a view that most will remember for a very long time. What a magnificent job DTD had done, along with the sponsors and contractors, in creating a poker theatre that most can only dream of. It was superb.
The Apat event was to be held in the Cryuff "Pod" (all named after famous players) at 1.30pm and as the clock ticked down we made our way onto the pitch and over to the tables.
Sadly there were a few no-shows , but excitement remained high, fuelled by glimpses of Sam Trickett, DevilFish, Marcel Luske, Liz Lui et al who were playing in the ISPT Main Event just yards away.
Things started steadily and I chipped up to 20k after about 3 levels.
We were then joined by an Italian guy on my immediate right, who shoved all in on his first hand showing Jd 6s after everyone had folded. The, until then, fairly friendly atmosphere, chilled noticeably over the next hour.
Our continental cousin seemed intent on upsetting the apple-cart at every opportunity, and with the blinds at 300/600 just flatted my raise from the cut-off, of 1250. I holding Ad Ks.
The flop comes A s 8h 5c. I c-bet, after his check, to 2800 expecting to take it down there and then, but he calls.
The turn brings Ah and he checks again.
I think I must be good and bet 5600 and again he calls.
The river is 5h and he insta shoves his remaining 25k, which I snap with a full house. He tosses his cards in the air and says "good call" and walks off :o :o :o :o :o
I didn"t actually see his cards land on the table but Pete Wigglesworth said he had 7s 4s for a busted gut shot straight.
I am up to 38k. :o :o :o :o :o
All I could say was, "WTF did he think I had?"
Our table breaks soon after and I get moved to a table where I don"t know anyone. Things here are very different.
A couple of 50k plus stacks are trying to out-testosterone each other and spots are hard to come by.
Around level 10, I have 25k left with blinds at 400/800/100, I find Ac Kh on the button. UTG has min raised to 1600 and utg + 1 has 3 bet to 3900. Then utg + 2 4 bet shoves all in for his remaining 8.7k. It folds to me. I need to decide if I can make the raises fold with a shove or not, but as they had both been fairly busy, I decided I probably could. Even if they didn"t I wasn"t in that badder shape.
utg + 1 insta folds, but utg + 2 ( a really nice guy from Belgium is not so ready to throw in the towel) tanks for ages, but eventually folds showing Ad Qs (fold quicker jerk, I think to myself).
The short-stack looks un happy and shows Ah 10s, so I am in great shape.
Flop comes 7c 5s 2h turn Js river 10h. FFFFFFFFFFSSSSSSSSSS >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
back down to 12k.
As we get deep into the final level of the day, Kevin O"Hanlon is now on my right and he has opened to 4k. Once again I have Ac Kd and I shove my remaining 9k over the line. Phil Hertel insta calls me and it folds back to Kevin who also folds.
Phil shows Ah Qc which I am pleased about but very surprised by given the time of day and the call being 40% of his stack.
The flop obv. comes Q high and I get no help. ONE DAY, ONE DAY :"( :"( :"(
I am very happy with my play and could have done little more, but it still hurts yet again.
Still Leigh and Matt ore going very well in the ISPT and Glenn, Phil TC and Susiepea are back for day 2 so the team is doing OK after all.
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bloody hell rich, that was a sobering read. You seem to be getting money good in most spots here. To be fair, live volume is so low that a 3 year "run bad" streak is pretty normal.
My only advice is to embrace it and keep enjoying the game.
As for the Masters hand, the call off with AQ is pretty standard. You should be stacking off with a small range there and it seems Phil was too short to be passing that spot up.
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Hmmmmm.......I find myself in an unusual place this morning.
For years now I have (tongue in cheekily) berated the Scots for their preseeved lack of sporting prowess in the major arenas of the world.
Well yesterday I found myself quite emotional at Mr. Murray"s superb triumph at Wimbledon.
Now I"m not quite sure why I got that way, as I absolutely hate tennis, but I deduce that it is the British Bulldog spirit that I hold so dear, particularly in sporting circles.
Then I got to thinking of how strong it must be for me, yes me, to cheer on a Scotsman!!!!!!
I then started to recall if this had happened before, and to my horror (tongue still firmly in cheek) I found that it had.
I recalled staying up most of the night earlier this year to watch said Mr. Murray win the US Open for the first time. I remember cheering, shouting and jumping up and down at Sir Chris Hoy"s heroics at last summers Olympics. I also recalled screaming with joy when Monty beat Scott Hoch on the 18th green at Valderrama in 1997 to win the Ryder Cup for Europe.
I even watched Rhona what"s her name, shoving stones along and icy bowling alley at the winter Olympics a few years back.
So, and this is for ONE DAY ONLY, stand proud Scotland, at last I am prepared to salute you. (Just for today mind).
Lets hope they don"t start playing football north of the border.
Normal service will be resumed tomorrow on the eve of the greatest sporting event in the world, The Ashes. ( and there won"t be a Scotsman in sight). Feeling better already :))))))))
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Well what a marvellous month we have just had.
The weather was magic for the most part and England have just retained the ashes at a canter after just 3 tests. Had great day at Lords with Don Logan (logie66), Omar Khan (munty x) and Frank Moszkal (tvp99) watching the boys pants the convicts into submission to go 2-0 up, marv. Really cant think of a better way to spend a day, watching England trounce the Aussies with 2 of your mates!!!! ;D ;D
And then it was onto Cardeefffff for PhilTC"s stag do/APAT Welsh open.
It started in a strange way. As we approached the bridge there was a sign saying cars £6.20. Fair enough I thought. So I got the £3.80 out of my pocket to give the lady change of a tenner, and then, to my horror, she said I had to pay her, when all the time I"d assumed that they were paying me!!!! ;)
Poker wise I ran like a dog all weekend, the end.
Drank like a fish, had a hangover, and that was just Friday!!!
rinse repeat for Saturday. Slept like a baby.
Was a great weekend with the best people in the world, I love you all.
Only Goliath, DTD, Dublin, Las Vegas and Prague to get through. Oh dear! ;D ;D ;D
p.s. Glasgow will be the first live APAT event I have missed in 4 years (I think thats about 25 in total) :( :o
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You don"t blog enough ;)
Had you been drinking on Friday night, or did you mean everything you said ?
Sue looked quite disinterested, so I wasn"t sure if she was being polite at your ramblings ;D
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You don"t blog enough ;)
Had you been drinking on Friday night, or did you mean everything you said ?
Sue looked quite disinterested, so I wasn"t sure if she was being polite at your ramblings ;D
What did I say? ::)
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Made day 2 of Genting Luton"s £90 + £10 Summer Deepstack last night with 102,700. Av. is 85k so have 51 bigs when we go back on Sunday at 1k/2k/200. What could possible go wrong :o
The November Vegas trip is building up a fine head of steam with 22 runners and riders now confirmed. This pretty much guarantees a few horror stories for those left back in blighty to enjoy at our expense. ;D
Phil TC has just one more week of freedom before he ties the knot with Lily (or Lilly, obv hedging bets here) and I know we all wish them the most happiness on they special day and future lives together. She has bagged herself on fine bloke there, although she does appear to be a little tall. ;) ;)
Holdyfoldy has made me laugh more than once this week with tales of plumbers grease and men arriving at 7am for a wash and tumble. Where would we be without her. :-* :-*
Also good to see that Archie and Fib are keeping Laxie on her toes (no mean feat I hear you cry :o) with tales of daring do around Jaxie Towers.
Have a good weekend peeps xx
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Made day 2 of Genting Luton"s £90 + £10 Summer Deepstack last night with 102,700. Av. is 85k so have 51 bigs when we go back on Sunday at 1k/2k/200. What could possible go wrong :o
The November Vegas trip is building up a fine head of steam with 22 runners and riders now confirmed. This pretty much guarantees a few horror stories for those left back in blighty to enjoy at our expense. ;D
Phil TC has just one more week of freedom before he ties the knot with Lily (or Lilly, obv hedging bets here) and I know we all wish them the most happiness on they special day and future lives together. She has bagged herself on fine bloke there, although she does appear to be a little tall. ;) ;)
Holdyfoldy has made me laugh more than once this week with tales of plumbers grease and men arriving at 7am for a wash and tumble. Where would we be without her. :-* :-*
Also good to see that Archie and Fib are keeping Laxie on her toes (no mean feat I hear you cry :o) with tales of daring do around Jaxie Towers.
Have a good weekend peeps xx
Lilly :) and thanks mate love you.. but you know that x GL tomorrow fella.. hope you wont be wanting to use that website we talked about afterwards ;) xx
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Much luck tomorrow Curly! While you"re enjoying day 2 of a poker tourney, I"ll mostly be keeping a close eye on our shoes. :-*
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Legends ya both xxxxx
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Good luck tomorrow Rich
I feel a Curly bink is on the way
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Good luck tomorrow Rich
I feel a Curly bink is on the way
ty sir
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You don"t need so much good luck and just no bad luck
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Lady Godiva loves ya muchly back :-*
Tomorrow is yours! TID
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Lady Godiva loves ya muchly back :-*
Tomorrow is yours! TID
ty ma"am :-*
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Good Luck Rich! :-*
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Good Luck Rich! :-*
Cheers mate
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You are due a decent score. Good luck, mate!
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You are due a decent score. Good luck, mate!
you are not wrong sir and tyvm
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You are due a decent score. Good luck, mate!
you are not wrong sir and tyvm
GET IT DONE SIR!
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been on Rich"s FB and he is 4 handed with 1K and a GPS seat locked up
Top predicting from me again!!!
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Just home from Genting Luton"s Summer Deepstack. Tourney was £90 + £10 plus £10 per person towards a GPS seat with 3 guaranteed. (it ended up with 4 seats being up for grabs. 25k starting stack on a 40 min clock.
Played really well on day 1a on Friday to finish in 7th place on 102,700, which when they added the day 1b runners in, meant we had 47 runners today and I was in 12th overall.
I"ve cut and pasted my fb posts here as I cant remember much tbh. ::)
143,900 at first break. Av.131k. 32 left 17 paid.
126,600 at break at end level 14. Av 181k 24 left 17 paid. Blinds now 2500/5000/500
Bubble burst quiet quickly and I still have 125k.
Players drop really quickly and we are down to 13 and I still have 130k.
OMG FT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am super short stack with 108k. Av 540k loblol.
Blinds 5000/10000/1000
ONETIMEEeEeEeEeEeEe
OMG again
Guy with 575k calls an all in river bet from the big stack and was wrong. LADDER!!!!!! 8 left £540 gteed
Then get KK and big stack shoves my 30k raise with 77 which I call and I double up. Blinds still 5000/10000/1000.
Next hand I get AA in BB. There"s an early raise to 20k and a 4 bet to 45k. I make it 103k to go and the raiser folds. The other guy calls the 103k. Flop comes 26Q and I shove my remaining 122k and he calls showing 99, lol up to 456k
Next break have 639k which is av. 7 left £680 locked. There are 4 added value GPS worth £440 each as well. Blinds now 8000/16000/1000
997k wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ;D ;D
4 left £1250 plus GPS seat locked up 1,027,000 chips which is average. Blinds 12000/24000/3000
Went down to 350k then had QQ hold up when BB called my shove with 77. Agreed a 4 way chop. The 2 bigger stacks took £2600 and me and the other guy took £2220 plus we all have the GPS seat as well. ?#?at****inglast?
I feel that I played really well again, as I feel I have done in previous events of this type, but this time I had a load of crap hands which were just insta folds or hands that didn"t get beaten when the chips went in. I had the best hand every time I was all in.
It has been a while coming that"s for sure and by good does it feel good.
Thanks to all those on the fb rail, love you all xxxxxx
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GPS - Southend or Stoke?
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Many congratulations Rich, nice to see one of the good guys do so well ;)
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GPS - Southend or Stoke?
Yep, will poss. Play Southend on Thursday.
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Many congratulations Rich, nice to see one of the good guys do so well ;)
Thanks Ian, see you at DTD
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Superb effort Rich.
Thoroughly deserved.
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very well played Rich definately been overdue a result for a while
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Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! Fantastic Curly well chuffed for you mate well overdue x
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Very nice Sir...WP.
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FISH!!
Wiiiii well done mate.. Hope we both make it through are retrospective days and make day2 then 3 :)
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ty kind sirs
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So it"s the last day of freedom for our good friend Phil TC ;D
Father, Husband, Grandfather and all round good egg, all rolled into one good-looking package. What a lucky girl Lilly is and what lucky people we are to have a friend like him.
Looking forward to seeing Jaxie, JP, Stu and Matty, Holdy and Luthee and whomever else is attending that I don"t know about as well, and I"m sure we"ll send them off in some style ::) ::)
Travel safe people.
Laters :-*
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I fear there will be little stylish about it by the time we get back to hotels :/
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I fear there will be little stylish about it by the time we get back to hotels :/
Hard to look stylish with your trolleys round your ankles.
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We need to get a couple of group photos EARLY on...when we"re all looking almost respectable.
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We need to get a couple of group photos EARLY on...when we"re all looking almost respectable.
About 5.50pm then ;D
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I want my photo taking at 3.30pm cos it ain"t getting any better!
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what lucky people we are to have a friend like him.
You don"t meet many people in life as lovely as Phil.
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what lucky people we are to have a friend like him.
You don"t meet many people in life as lovely as Phil.
I"ll second Third Fourth Fifth and so on and so on on that Quote ;D
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what lucky people we are to have a friend like him.
You don"t meet many people in life as lovely as Phil.
Amen
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Well I cant quite believe it"s been nearly 3 years since I posted on here last, time flies etc.....
Today marks my return to Fat Fighters which I shall attend in Dunstable near the Genting Casino where I play most Wednesdays in the DC comp., so that"s a decent fit I thought.
So whats new.
Well i am back living with my parents temporarily following my separation from the soon to be ex-wife, and the sale of our house, but the kids are doing just fine which is the most important thing. These things are always a bit Lionel I guess, but we have managed to keep the disruption to a minimum which is good.
Having just returned from Las Vegas where i had an enjoyable but incredibly frustrating trip, (do not play any Seniors events if you value your sanity) the need to shed a few pounds before the next sortie in November with a bigger crowd seemed paramount.
So 16 weeks of pangs and cold sweats beckon, with the hope that the Premium Economy seat on BA 275 on November 5th, will thank me.
Most of you know that young Quasar (Debbie Kimm) and I are "going steady" (how good does she run I hear you cry :o) and we are going to extend the trip in November to do a tour of California and Nevada, taking in LA, Monterrey, San Francisco, Lake Tahoe and Death Valley, so hopefully we"ll have lots of nice piccies to bore you all with soon after. ::)
Suffice to say, one of us is very "Soytid" about the trip ;D
I"ll update the weight loss as and when and anything else that springs to mind.
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Great to have you back blogging Richard and best of luck with the weight loss. It"s sooooo hard, but Nov is a great target.
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Great to have you back blogging Richard and best of luck with the weight loss. It"s sooooo hard, but Nov is a great target.
Thanks Des
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The very best of luck for everything to you mate
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The very easy of luck for everything to you mate
Thanks Tom
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So I weighed in with the (not so, as it turns out) fat girls last night, and my conclusion was correct, that I do indeed need to lose weight :o
The girl who leads the sessions is very nice and helpful, although I"m not sure I"ll be making any of the WW fairy cakes they were all sampling when I arrived.
On a brighter note, a pint of lager is only 5 points and I get 64 point per day, plus weekly extras, so it is still possible to get wazzed if I don"t eat anything. It"s called the "Ger Plan" coincidentally, happy days ;D
Looking forward to seeing everyone this weekend at Luton, lets hope I run a little better than in Vegas.
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Well I am 4 weeks into Fat Fighters now and 18 pounds have disappeared somehow, which is up with expectations. The intention is to lose it gradually without starving myself.
The plans for the November trip are almost complete which should be epic and Cardiff beckons, which should be a good weekend as well.
Not much else to report, although another new (to me) car will be collected from sunny Rochdale next week which should be fun.
Laters peeps
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Well sadly (yet again) the weight loss stalled a month or so back. Not all the mass has returned fortunately, but with 3 weeks in Nevada and California (blatant brag) coming up, there is every chance it might.
I can report that I am very organised and prepared, however the same cannot be said for young Quasar.
If you can imagine the most excited person that you have ever met and then multiply that by a thousand, that"s about were we are at the moment and there are still 17 days to go.
WE (royal obv.) have 3 new cases which appear to be about 30% of what is actually required (sigh). In addition, we have a travel kettle, another larger kettle, which is to be decorated this weekend, (whoopi-do) to leave at Tea Kettle Junction in Death Valley, tea, coffee, coffeemate which we dont even like :o), sweetners, knives, forks, spoons, and a host of other items that I dare not ask what they are for. All I know is, my back will be bearing the brunt of the weight of these items. Good luck me!!!!!
Vegas in November is a fine place to be with temperatures in the mid 70"s and bar bills to match. Some of the best people I know will also be in attendance, which is a fine thing indeed. I look forward to sharing an ale with you all.
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So November is almost upon us and those god-forsaken Christmas decorations will be surrounding us before an eye-lid can be batted, for sure.
But before that, a 3 week trip to Las Vegas with the Degens, which as always will be epic.
Young Quasar and I are departing Vegas on Sunday November 13th to embark on a 10 day "wode-twip", taking in the delights of LA, the Pacific Coast Highway No.1, including, Cayucos, Big Sur and the Monterrey peninsula, San Francisco, Lake Tahoe, Reno and Death Valley. Then 3 days RnR back at The Aria in LV to chill out.
3 things are certain.
1. It will be Epic
2. It will be expensive
3. It will be memorable.
1 and 3 are a given, and for everything else...............
Happy Halloween people.
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The thought of 3 weeks away in Vegas seems like heaven. I"m very very jealous Rich. Look forward to following the high jinks online.