What Have You Being Doing With Your Non-triumph Today?

Preferably simultaniously!

 

Shì de, wǒ xiǎng yào nàgè

I only know pinyin

 

I almost married a Dutch girl. She didn’t know that at the time.

Was visiting some University friends in their North London slum house. I was savouring a coffee in the Kitchen when the most beautiful and intelligent woman I have ever met walked into the kitchen. We chatted excitedly about this and that for an hour or three. We lost track of time a bit…

I think she was seriously well connected in Amsterdam.

For some unfathomable reason I got up and drove home and stupidly didn’t ask for her number/details.

To this day I can’t remember her name or why the hell I was (and still am) a total Twat.

 

"nà ge" I'm afraid..

 

We've all done that, mate...

 

Yeah right.

As Morrissey once sung (if that is the right description for his awful vocals) “ Heaven knows I’m miserable now”.

Hey, I have an idea!!!

The Netherlands is a really small place right? Surely if you ask around you might find a random (slightly wrinkly) woman that was in London in early 1990’s who is keen to meet up with old ‘chance’ acquaintances.

 

Errr... we're 17 plus million at present, and even if I were to confine my investigations to Amsterdam, that'd still be 600.000 plus people - admittely not too many attractive wrinklies amongst them but still... if you could be slightly more specific I'd be glad to be of help though...

 

And to back up Cyborgs statements about the British ability to speak Dutch, I’ve been going there to the Dutch TT for 30 odd years and all I can manage is “guten morgen”, “Dank u vel” , “Tot ziens.” Also within my repertoire Ive got to know what “slagroom“ means and it’s not what many may think…

 

Well, that's what Americans do! And add one more to that list--repeat multiple times.

 

Do you know my mate Eric...? Big lad, blonde hair... he lives in Amsterdam

 

True dat! That's EXACTLY what our twit of a VP, Kamala Harris, just did in France! She spoke to the French press, in English, doing her imitation of a Frenchman speaking English with a French accent!

 

I love my '06 Ford Explorer. It's like me. It's big, it's old, it has a lotta miles on it, but everything works and it still looks good!

I've owned it for several years now, but I have always been bugged by the alloy wheels. They are dented to shit! I don't know what the previous owner was driving over, or if they just couldn't judge how close they were to the curb, but there were bungs all over all four wheels. I try to keep it looking decent. It's not so shabby that I'm ashamed to have my friends see me in it, but it's not so nice that I'm afraid to drive through the woods to get to a fishing hole. Anyhow, I've been haunting Craigslist (it's become my newest addiction) and found a set of beautiful take-offs from an '08 Explorer. $150 for the set of four!!! Bought them and had them mounted and balanced today. Happy now.

 

Oh, yeah!! Could you check on someone for me too? He too was big and had blond hair. He worked for some Dutch flower bulb company here and hung out at the watering hole I used to frequent (too frequently). His name was Kurt. If you see him tell him I have the wooden shoes he left the bar owner as a parting gift when he went home to Holland. The bar owner died, the bar was sold, but I have the shoes.

 

Christ that was PATHETIC. Just when you thought she couldn't get any more reprehensible. And we're not even a f**kin' year into this absolute shitshow.

The "Hillary Clinton of Color."

 

Out today for my first fish for months, after being in lockdown, fantastic weather and conditions extra pix for @Sandi T

 

Nice one @Dartplayer

 

Gorgeous! Looks like a fantastic day on the water for you, @Dartplayer. Not so much for those two fish in the photos, though. It must have been a joy to be out again after lockdown which is quite evident in your smile. What kind of fish are those, BTW? I haven't been diving in so long that my "fish ID" skills are lacking.

 

I think that last one is a red Gurnard?
Edit, I caught one once and it grunts like a pig!

 

Snapper – Pagrus auratus – New Zealand’s most popular fish is the only Sea Bream found in NZ.
Red Gurnard – Chelidonichthys kumu - popular white meat with rainbow butterfly wings skirts across the bottom feeding.
Pretty hard not to be happy with oily seas, overcast skies (so not too burning hot) and constant catch. We caught our snapper quota (10 per person) in less than 2 hours and most were large specimens.
Before my current bike, fishing had been my assistant mental health. Happy to divide my therapy between the two now