The middle aged thread

Moan moan moan...HTFU guys, I saw Jimi Hendrix play guitar behind his back and he wasn't even top of the bill! It's all good!

Thread winner.

Mwah!

NME RIP
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/mar/07/nme-ceases-print-edition-weekly-music-magazine

Magazines have had their day, let it go.

NME still exists online, embrace the new digital age.

HHGttG refresh.
Just bumped into my 40 year younger self, who away from home for first term of University was astonished to find the original coming out of BBCR4.

In the early eighties I knew a chap who was a big fan of Hitchhiker's Guide. I can't remember his real name anymore but he was always known as "Slunty" or his full name of "Sluntycuntthrust".

If he was one of your former colleagues, I bet that went down well in Court.

I expect you probably know that Hotblack Desiato are estate agents in Camden, Islington & Highbury ... Douglas Adams' inspiration for the name in Hitchhiker's. He used to drive past the Camden one apparently, and the name always made him chuckle, so he asked them if he could use their name in the book ... the rest is history!

I didn't know that but then I was never as big a fan as Slunty was. However I was a fan of The Meaning of Liff which is on my bedside cabinet, even now, for some light reading.

The Meaning of Liff

In the mid-80's as a callow salesman, there was one client with a female buyer named 'Ms. Stebbing'.

My stebbing days are over. I always have a jacket.

we had lunch with the man that organises the allotments that back onto our back yard yesterday. our name's been bumped up the 5 year waiting list.

It's bank holiday Monday. I went to a garden centre, went home, had a nap and then dug out a new flower bed, with commensurate lawn edging.

Slippers now, methinks.

I went to Kew gardens in the rain.

I used to go regularly to the Gardens. Old before my time

Currently in front of log fire with slippers on.

You lived over the road. You treated like a private park.

It was my front garden!

Who can remember when admission was 2p?

Hang on...was it an expensive lunch or did you talk about crop rotation, plants that put nitrogen in the soil and planting carrots / onions together? ;)

well i didn't pay a penny as it was at our neighbour's house. that said, Mrs Hell stumped up for a Gail's (west dulwich) pre-made puddin' cake we drove to the store in a land rover to buy.

i have it on good authority the previous resident of said allotment recently passed on RIP.

pretty sure i'm winning this thread.

He tells everyone that.

THAT'S WHAT I SAID!

fucker better not stiff us. we know where he lives.

hang on... where is the previous allotmenterizer buried?

we're fucked aren't we?

Any allotment got a new 6ft+ raised bed?

Or a really robust looking woodchipper?