Overheard at the LFGSS golf club bar

Surely you recognise Robin Page? Barton’s most famous son and general all round bit of a tit.

Ha. No, I didn't.

CSB: I bought a CD player off his son.

When we left Barton the house still had a tennis court in the garden

Brazen wasn't it.

Well yes, that was part of the reason I posted it in this thread.

(We did this a while ago in a separate thread. We went to the same secondary school but me a few years ahead of you..)

Did we? Sawston? Shit. Sorry. I genuinely worry about my memory sometimes. I can name everyone on my fifth year school photo but struggle with anything between 2005 and yesterday morning.

Wait - was it that rad Modern house by Kings Grove?

Ah, no, I was at Comberton. But we did talk about it elsewhere: https://www.lfgss.com/comments/13196833/

Wait - was it that rad Modern house by Kings Grove?

Nope. It was on Comberton Road near the end of the village. I think I was 2 or 3 when I left.

So we did. 6 years ago. How the world has changed. You ghosted me when I asked whether you knew the Winton-Smith boys from Haslingfield tho…

I grew up in Stapleford, now nearly back home in Trumpington.

Winton-Smith boys

Ah, sorry, name doesn't ring a bell.

now nearly back home in Trumpington

I worked in the Green Man in Trumpington for many years (90-97). Also some happy memories of playing for Trumpington Tornadoes U12/U13 football in the late 80s.

The Green Man is still going strong. My niece and nephew work there in the holidays. My sister-in-law made those tall ice creams there in the mid-90s, you probably crossed over.

Trumpington Tornadoes disappeared, I think after Mr (Dudley?) Haylock died and there wasn’t anyone to take over.

Actually. Was it Neville Haylock?

My brother just gave me a le creuset teapot he got from oxfam. Thanks to whichever one of you made the donation.

Is it red? We bought one from TK Maxx but it poured terribly so we cruelly donated it to charity. Apologies in advance if you burn your groin.

cruelly donated it to charity

My nearest Oxfam, which is in Herne Hill, styles itself as being in Dulwich Village. Its pricing is ridiculous.

I am pretty sure that a (red?) Le Creuset teapot in there would be ticketed at above retail price.

(I've helpfully italicised any snippets of this post that you may want to consider quoting below.)

who knows why this posted weird

Is it one of those 'Fashion' ones? I'm all for it, the clothes - from enforced browsing- look barely used in the equivalent in Barnes. Better they make the money than the 'vintage' shops.

(similar prepared quotations).

Trufax, and more power to then for having a business model that maximises charitable monies.

Not sure why you have included a link to a roadsafe thread?

Probably copy-paste error. It's the link that was in my post about 8 posts up from here.

It’s comforting to imagine our teapot is on a continual purchase-disappoint-donate cycle , doing good for all our local charidees.
Until it inevitably gets dropped in lap burning tragedy and ends up as hardcore in the base of a glass sided garden office.

My nearest Oxfam, which is in... Dulwich Village

I used to think that charity shops in posh areas were likely to have nicer stock, but apparently the big chains like Cancer Research and Oxfam truck it around the country to even things up.

Interestingly most of the big names ones are loss making and mainly have the presence for marketing purposes. A la Ben & Jerry's Leicester Sq store.

This is like reading an entry in the Viz Profanisaurus. I feel like I'm missing some euphemisms in the italics!

That's quite surprising to me. All the staff are volunteers and they don't pay rates, right? So cost base of rent / utilities / insurance must be pretty low.

Me either. Edited