@redcarred I still feel about 25 years old in my head! It’s only when I get out of bed that things tell me otherwise!
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It takes me all night to do what I used to do all night, or at least I think so.........I can't always remember what it was that I used to do, but it usually comes back to me later on 🙂
The thing that gets me Len is all those folk passing on who are are younger than I am! Makes you look over your shoulder a bit and be a bit more careful !
I didn’t think I’d ever say it but I love Warnock !
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it sounds strange but i know exactly what you mean. I can't recall someone making me feel so positive for quite a while.
I got up early to check out on how the US election was going and when my son got up at 6am to get ready for school he asked me if Trump has won - continuing to look at the laptop I just replied "Still counting the votes" - To which my son exclaimed: "Daddy, why do you have to count votes for the election?"
OK, if I'd been thinking clearly, I should have strung him along for the next three days and claimed that it's my job because I was born on the fourth of July. I could have gained some valuable peace and quiet as I pretended to be busy counting votes. Every time he interrupted and demanded attention I could have said "Look, you've made lose count again so I'll have to start from the beginning again - one, two, three..."
Then again if he thought that I had ended up giving Trump another four years it might have been a heavy burden to carry - worse still if there was mayhem on the American streets because the count hadn't been been completed I may have traumatised him for life for thinking he'd made me lose count 🙂
I guess there would have been some spare bricks from that wall with Mexico, right?
I wrote earlier in the month how I was becoming forgetful about recent events and also was even forgetting how to spell some of the simplest words yet had put it down to lockdown hopefully but not dementia. I remember though acting in a small revue in the 50s entitled ‘Now let’s all be good Elizabethens’ partly satirical celebrating the coronation of Queen Elizabeth. In one sketch 1 played a naughty schoolboy called Wendover in a geography lesson who always had a smart answer for questions posed by the teacher. It was based on the radio show ‘Whacko’ starring Jimmy Edwards. One question was ‘Where is Felixstowe?’ Up went my hand and I replied ‘On the end of Felix’s foot’ to laughter from my classmates and a caning from the teacher with the words ‘Bend over, Wendover’. Another question was that ‘Although Constantinople was a very long word, can anybody spell it?’ and undeterred from the first caning I again put up my hand and responded ‘It’ and another caning. It was all corny at the time, but got me thinking later that I had never heard of dyslexia at the time, never mind knowing how to spell it. So actually being fairly good at spelling in my youth I wondered if one can become dyslexic later in life.
All this leads me in a roundabout way to somebody on the Cas Tigers forum website stating that Castleford’s form with 20 players suffering from coronavirus had ‘desermayterd’ their season. Of course I knew that he had spelled the word ‘decimated’ incorrectly, but wished that I had been asked to spell it in that revue 67 years ago. It left me laughing so much that even Wikipedia couldn’t make sense of it. Nevertheless I think it would be a good addition to the English language and I now like forward to Norwich being ‘desermayterd’ by Boro on Saturday.
All charities long ago jumped on the bandwagon of 'being a business'. Which means hiring staff who really believe that they are Young tycoons (or old, but very expensive, managers). The young ones are full of ideas above their station, which inevitably crash and burn, by which time they have moved on to a grown up job. One example. Nice small town, branch of the Red Cross manned by the worthy matrons of said town. Housed in large house donated by well to do citizen of same. Sudden decent of business types, decided that it was silly to own a building, sold it and rented part of it from new owner. Decided that it was cost efficient to service wheelchairs in a town on the Scottish borders. Yep, that was not a typo, you can guess where this is going, said town has lost it's Red Cross unit and it's 'donated' headquarters are now part of some one's property investement portfolio.
It might be controversial but I struggle to get annoyed by the salaries of Charity CEOs. I do get annoyed by people promoted above their ability but see no reason why an able person who brings additional income or a better way of distributing the charity funds, should be paid less than his/her equivalent in a non-charitable organisation.
Getting the best person who provides value for money seems to me to make sense.
Very few charities benefit from a bolt on 'Management', paid, of course. Then comes the old old song of, ' it is most important that people of their standing in the community should be compensated as they deserve'. Yeess! But this compensation is coming from charitable donations, so it's starting to look like a lose lose situation already. Then comes the car, yes, that's right! Something about, oh, I don't know, perhaps 40 grand? And daily expenses, and no check on activities. Oh! And lest we forget, the personal assistant, nothing shoddy, Oxbridge grad. Female Young and Good looking, aren't they all? Wouldn't want to let the side down when soliciting (unfortunate word) on the Ski slopes at Gastahd.
@plato I’ve got to say you’ve lost me a bit there. What I’m advocating is a qualified, experienced professional who can move a charity forward and increase donations and the effective distribution of the services which the charity provides, rather than well meaning amateurs who work for a lower salary but achieve so much less.
I don’t think your description quite fits what I’m suggesting. If their package includes a car, so what? I really didn’t like the suggestion about a female assistant which seemed completely unnecessary.
You forgot the blue and white stripey shirt with white collar cuffs and of course Gin and tonics at the golf club every afternoon.
@martin - you are a Boro supporter when all is said and done - where's your shoulder chip and sense of injustice....!
Lol. I like to think I’m better balanced these days, with a chip on both shoulders. 😉
Another famous England player Ray Clemence has just died at a relative young age of 72. I remember being shocked at the time 15 years ago when he was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer and thinking how young he was and felt so sorry for him at the time. But at the time I never imagined someone could live for 15 years with such a disease. Now I’m much more well-informed having survived 11 years this month after the same diagnosis. In fact I wrote my own eulogy about 3 years ago perceiving that nobody who knows me will be alive to tell the world of my eccentric but wonderful life. And at 82 now who will be available to read it if I don’t survive this coronavirus pandemic, but if the norm is 15 years I might see Boro in the Premier League again yet.
Nontheless my thoughts and condolences go to the family of Ray Clemence, a fine goalkeeper and respected person to all those who knew him. Death where is thy sting, where is thy victory? May Ray rest in peace.
Perhaps you have not noticed but all, yes, all, the truly gigantic charities are routinely headed by someone who is a truly big shot at a loose end, a typical one is Oxfam, Headquarters? A beautiful country Manor house in it's own grounds in the home counties. Problems? start counting, I think involved in all the latest shocking allegations doing the rounds. A nasty habit of flying into the latest disaster situation in a government plane, giving a lot of interviews on many national TV channels. Then arriving with ten lorry loads of Army blankets courtesy of HMG. It is not unique.
@plato I can be incredibly cynical but you’ve beaten me this time. I haven’t worked for a Charity but know a number of people who do and have a bit of knowledge of a local Hospice.
They have to operate as businesses to survive and the CEO of the Hospice is worth whatever he’s being paid for the work he’s done and the service improvements he’s implemented. I’m not suggesting that all Charity CEOs are perfect nor that all CEOs in other businesses are worth their salaries. I just don’t like the broad brush stroke criticisms you’re making.
My post was nothing to do with such things as a Hospice, they are simply charitable and much needed refuges for those in dire need, see Teesside Hospice, and there are more. These are the ones I concentrate my giving on, having a saintly chap who clocks up the hours in my town, I make a point to never walk past him. But several of the giants have had their collars felt by the fuzz in recent years, and the crimes were not trivial.
Wasn’t quite sure where to post this, but to see two of the main proponents of our wilfully obtuse media hoisted on their own petards had me chuckling today.
My Christmas has come early.....
I’m all for Kevin Sinfield being awarded a knighthood in the New Years Honours List for his 7 marathon runs for his friend Rob Burrow and Motor Neurone Disease, but shouldn’t Jeff Stelling also have received one for his charity walks for Prostate Cancer as did Ian Botham for his walks for children’s charities?
@ken I don’t think the fact that Jeff Stelling didn’t get one should stop one being awarded to Sir Kev. My best friend and business partner died of MND so I’ve seen first hand the awfulness of this disease. I’d like to see KS and RB being give a joint Sports Personality of the Year award.
Maybe Jeff could have a seat in the Lords next to Ian Botham.
@grovehillwallah No laughing matter though is it? It’s made doubly worse by KB making up excuses as well. I think she and her Tier breaking colleagues should have resigned immediately. As for Rita Ora...