Overheard at the LFGSS golf club bar

I wear pretty much seersucker or linen shirts only these days

Chris Boardman mentioned it’d cost €70k to buy one

vote labour and get a black living next door

the leaflet in question

Probably one of the more accessible means of trying hydrofoiling alongside windsurfing - Americas cup boats

That's full on Wentworth

if you travel a lot, like moi

Anyone bought property in France?

The "post-Brexit" bit you omitted was plenty golf club.

The 32” is the sweet spot size where you can get a suckling pig on

To be fair, that whole part of the thread is quite golf club :)

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But she was very happy to climb on to the tip of my walking pole and pose for pictures

Along time ago I was in the jungles of Sri Lanka at the Kandamala Resort

Kandalama sp.

Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons…

Meat helmet anyone?

" kids at school used to boast of having seen Predator or The Running Man or something on the way to Disneyworld.”

For me that’s golf club childhood trauma, not even one of those little red things on a chain with a pic from Butlins for me let alone a red Viewmaster from Disneyland.
Florida was the humblebrag playground destination of choice way back then.

When I was growing up I don't think I knew anyone who went to America on their hols. We used to go to Galicia for the entirety of August, which I didn't think counted as much of a holiday at the time as we were seeing family, but it was absolutely brilliant.

Anyone going abroad full stop

I only left the country twice before I was 16. One was a school trip to France for 3 days. The second was when I was 5 and my nan paid for us to go to somewhere on the Costa Blanca for a week after our step dad died. We did do quite a few UK holidays, Bognor, Great Yarmouth etc in caravans and went to Butlins once, but a lot of years we didn't have a holiday.

Like the school skiing trip, haha, I never had a hope of going on that. That was for all the posh kids, 'melons' as we called them, who played in the school orchestra. We had a super advanced music course that attracted really great young classical musicians from all over London.

'Melons' was coined in the sweltering summer of '76, a few years before I started at Pimlico Comprehensive. When all the estate kids were knocking back ice poles to keep cool the posh kids, in Kickers, grandad shirts and army surplus jackets, would get sliced melon from the fruit shop on Lupus Street.

A few melons formed the Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra after we all left.

" We used to go to Galicia for the entirety of August"

My first trip abroad was to the lovely Bielefeld in Germany at 13-14ish for an exchange trip, I think I did some canoeing thing in France with school not long after, any family holidays were Wales or West country. Didn't get on a plane until I was in my 20s.

My personal choice is a couple of Bloody Mary's in the airport lounge and then snooze for a few hours on the plane