XMAS MESSAGE
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XMAS MESSAGE
MERRY XMAS!
It's that time of year again! Thank you to all my readers for putting up with my ramblings during 2015. I can't please everyone all the time but from the feedback I get both at home and when walking round the town, a few of you enjoy your weekly read of Stanley's View. It's not easy writing a column every week but it all becomes worth while when someone stops me in Town Square and starts a conversation based on my Friday piece. I can't tell you what a warm feeling that gives me. So, a very happy Christmas and a good New Year to everyone who reads this. Don't eat too much but enjoy the family. Christmas isn't simply a marketing opportunity, it's much more important than that, it's the time when we give special attention to family and friends and my only observation is that we should try to keep up that level of attention all year. I have one more piece of advice, presents go down better when they are unexpected. Not a bad ploy to surprise people occasionally, they never forget it!
Looking back over the year I shall try to forget the bad bits, I can bend your ear about those in 2016! Better to concentrate on what went well. I think you will all have noticed the successes the Community Team have achieved, who would have thought that little old Barlick would do so well in the local Bloom awards and win the national Best Main Street competition! So much volunteer activity went into this and I am so pleased they got recognition and awards. Saying well-deserved seems so inadequate, collectively they produced minor miracles.
Another thing that cheers me up is the frequent erection of a marquee on Town Square. When you see that you know that yet another event is about to happen, anything from Barlick Beach to a celebration of our heritage. Pause and give a thought to the fact that behind all these is a lot of hard work by dedicated volunteers. I feel so lucky to live in such a vibrant, active town. My only question now is, what are you going to do for an encore?
On St Valentine’s Day I reach a personal milestone, I get to be eighty years old. I've had a hard and sometimes dangerous life, I've lost track of the number of broken bones from my skull down to the little bones in my feet and if anyone had forecast that I'd get this far and see my daughters preparing for retirement I'd have told them to dream on! It just goes to show that we know nothing of the future, all we can do is do our best, look after ourselves and our kids and take what is given to us. I'm still making engines in the shed and I shall do my best to keep you entertained once a week for as long as I am spared! Onwards and upwards into 2016!
One man and his shed!
It's that time of year again! Thank you to all my readers for putting up with my ramblings during 2015. I can't please everyone all the time but from the feedback I get both at home and when walking round the town, a few of you enjoy your weekly read of Stanley's View. It's not easy writing a column every week but it all becomes worth while when someone stops me in Town Square and starts a conversation based on my Friday piece. I can't tell you what a warm feeling that gives me. So, a very happy Christmas and a good New Year to everyone who reads this. Don't eat too much but enjoy the family. Christmas isn't simply a marketing opportunity, it's much more important than that, it's the time when we give special attention to family and friends and my only observation is that we should try to keep up that level of attention all year. I have one more piece of advice, presents go down better when they are unexpected. Not a bad ploy to surprise people occasionally, they never forget it!
Looking back over the year I shall try to forget the bad bits, I can bend your ear about those in 2016! Better to concentrate on what went well. I think you will all have noticed the successes the Community Team have achieved, who would have thought that little old Barlick would do so well in the local Bloom awards and win the national Best Main Street competition! So much volunteer activity went into this and I am so pleased they got recognition and awards. Saying well-deserved seems so inadequate, collectively they produced minor miracles.
Another thing that cheers me up is the frequent erection of a marquee on Town Square. When you see that you know that yet another event is about to happen, anything from Barlick Beach to a celebration of our heritage. Pause and give a thought to the fact that behind all these is a lot of hard work by dedicated volunteers. I feel so lucky to live in such a vibrant, active town. My only question now is, what are you going to do for an encore?
On St Valentine’s Day I reach a personal milestone, I get to be eighty years old. I've had a hard and sometimes dangerous life, I've lost track of the number of broken bones from my skull down to the little bones in my feet and if anyone had forecast that I'd get this far and see my daughters preparing for retirement I'd have told them to dream on! It just goes to show that we know nothing of the future, all we can do is do our best, look after ourselves and our kids and take what is given to us. I'm still making engines in the shed and I shall do my best to keep you entertained once a week for as long as I am spared! Onwards and upwards into 2016!
One man and his shed!
Stanley Challenger Graham
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Stanley's View
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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Onwards and upwards Stanley, great post and picture.
Thankyou for yet another great year on OG.
Thankyou for yet another great year on OG.
I know I'm in my own little world, but it's OK... they know me here.
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Thank you Cathy for being there, taking notice and commenting.... It makes it all worth while.
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Stanley's View
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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Merry Christmas Comrade. Nice picture. Nolic
"I'm a self made man who worships his creator."
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Keep up the flow Stanley, we need you, and thanks for all the pleasure you give! We're glad to see you are well braced for 2016.
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Thanks to you all, nice warm feeling..... Nice one Tiz! Just for interest, the pic was done by super-snapper Kev.
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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Thanks Stanley.
Turned out that our unintended encore for 2015 was the Boxing Day miracle of saving Ghyll Meadows from flooding; a massive, successful, community effort. (It could so easily have been otherwise!)
Turned out that our unintended encore for 2015 was the Boxing Day miracle of saving Ghyll Meadows from flooding; a massive, successful, community effort. (It could so easily have been otherwise!)
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My general disposition is one of a pain in the a..e and humbug. The one thing I really enjoy is reading OG. and everybody's comments. So thank you everybody. My wish for the new year is for more people to join in.
PS. Wendy has left me with one foot in the air. Who won the Scrabble?
PS. Wendy has left me with one foot in the air. Who won the Scrabble?
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There's an aura of smug emanating from up the hill.....
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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Bumped and image restored. I am still baffled by the fact I have survived another six years... There is a providence that looks after drunken men and idiots....
Stanley Challenger Graham
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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Have I missed something....is it Christmas?? I had a good night's sleep but didn't think it was that good.
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Merry Christmas, Stanley! (Let's humour him! )
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Leave him alone. He's just had a birthday and is on a roll. Lets hope he stops at the pinups in the mystery object.
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That's nice. . . your wish didn't come true though. I've been counting over the last week or so - and there are about ten regular (daily) posters, and three or so occasional posters. I of course, resolve not to post again every few days, and do something more useful, but the feeling usually quickly wears off.
The site is well run and unique - so let's not analyse it all too closely? If it ain't broke. . . .
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Ego Lego
Preferred pronouns - Thou, Thee, Thy, Thine
My non-working days are Monday - Sunday
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Quite David.... As for the Xmas article, I am editing them and restoring the images in the order they appear in Stanley's View'. Amazing how pertinent they still are!
As for the numbers of posters, feel the quality not the width.....
As for the numbers of posters, feel the quality not the width.....
Stanley Challenger Graham
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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It came round for bumping yet again!
Stanley Challenger Graham
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scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!