Steve Davis said

[cyberheater]

if we're gonna lay it on the steps of steptoe then

So well written. I remember watching this episode.

[j6uk]

So well written. I remember watching this episode.

me too. wow how things have changed

[cyberheater]

me too. wow how things have changed

LOL. Yes. When I was a young kid there really were rag and bone men using carts and horses. Ha ha.

[j6uk]

LOL. Yes. When I was a young kid there really were rag and bone men using carts and horses. Ha ha.

yeah i had one round the other day. they call them gypsys now

[itsnoteasy]

yeah i had one round the other day. they call them gypsys now

Aye but they go in your shed and take what they want, I think that's slightly different.

[j6uk]

Aye but they go in your shed and take what they want, I think that's slightly different.

they new what i had in the shed better than i did.. but they only want metal these days

[vmax4steve]

LOL. Yes. When I was a young kid there really were rag and bone men using carts and horses. Ha ha.

When I was a kid the milkman used a horse and cart. Everyone had nice roses in their gardens

[j6uk]

When I was a kid the milkman used a horse and cart. Everyone had nice roses in their gardens

please! i'll give you all my dads money, if you could just take me back!

[itsnoteasy]

Me too, simpler times, better times.

[vmax4steve]

please! i'll give you all my dads money, if you could just take me back!

Apart from no horsesh1t in the town centre and the number of cars parked outside the houses it's much the same here in north devon. No mass multiculturalism here as yet. The eastern europeans have arrived but as they're nearly all christian catholics there's no clash of theology just the usual gripes of them taking the local jobs. But then they used to say that about cockney's and geordies when I was a lad.

Times and technology changes but people remain the same.

[itsnoteasy]

I can remember my grandad out in the street with his big shovel getting the horse ****e for the garden lol, there were hardly any cars in those days, black and white TVs if you were lucky, and party phone lines, does anyone remember these, where you shared a line with next door, so you couldn't use it if they were on, but you could hear them if you picked up your receiver.

[j6uk]

Apart from no horsesh1t in the town centre and the number of cars parked outside the houses it's much the same here in north devon. No mass multiculturalism here as yet. The eastern europeans have arrived but as they're nearly all christian catholics there's no clash of theology just the usual gripes of them taking the local jobs. But then they used to say that about cockney's and geordies when I was a lad.

Times and technology changes but people remain the same.

sounds great, i'll take horse poo all day long.. my world on the other hand has changed beyond recognition as you can imagine. everyones gone

[vmax4steve]

I can remember my grandad out in the street with his big shovel getting the horse ****e for the garden lol, there were hardly any cars in those days, black and white TVs if you were lucky, and party phone lines, does anyone remember these, where you shared a line with next door, so you couldn't use it if they were on, but you could hear them if you picked up your receiver.

Didn't have a tv, a car or a phone when I was a kid. There were about three families with cars in my street and one bloke had a black and gold Norton Commando, hence my love of motorbikes.
My gran's paper boy was none other than David Vine, she always used to tell us that when he came on the telly. Watched the '66 world cup final on my gran's blue and white telly, that's right, blue and white it was so old and only had something like a fourteen inch screen. Still Geoff Hurst got a hat trick and we were top of the world and no one had to cheat to do it.

Maybe a russian linesman had a grudge against the nazis, who knows.

[itsnoteasy]

The man two doors down from us used to go and race in the TT, he had Ducatti 900 (sorry don't know the exact model) it had a polished metal tank and I still dream about it now and again lol, Brian was the mans name, can't remember his last name but it was that bike that made me fall in love with motorbikes, and when I got my Suzuki X1 ,little restricted 50cc job, he unrestricted it for me so I got a massive 45 mph out of it.

[Princepugh]

Bike racing is still awesome though and for now we’ve still got the TT and Classic TT. Went to see what was the Manx TT back in 2000 and could not believe how committed those guys were on the old classic racing bikes with super skinny tyres!

Back to the thread, I read through this earlier today and decided to put some of the ‘eye’ advice to practice in the snooker hall this evening. To my delight I actually managed to hit some reasonably consistent form and pull of some very pleasing pots, even making myself happy with some narrow misses to boot. I’ve been practising this on our 5 foot table too and it feels like a step change.

So whilst I can appreciate the head banging wall frustration of having to repeat the mantra you can certainly take some solace from helping a novice like me and my 10 year old son steadily improve and enjoy the game.

Hope you can find a way to keep contributing – perhaps some sticky threads?

All the best, PP.