Bonce's own personal thread. Volume IX

Norpig wrote:
i can barely whistle in the normal way never mind this!

boltonbonce wrote:
My dad tried to teach me and I nearly swallowed my tongue. He also played The Yellow Rose Of Texas on a paper and comb. It tells you much about my route to adulthood.

Cajunboy wrote:
When do you think you will finally get there?


Never hopefully.

boltonbonce wrote:I've seen this Sluffy, and loved it. Brought so many memories to mind.
I have my parents to thank for many things, not least a sense of humour, and the fact that they made do with very little in the way of material things to ensure my brother and I had it better than they'd had it.
I often feel what we've gained in 'stuff', we've lost in warmth.
I got a text from the living room on Sunday. I was upstairs. Progress?

Sluffy wrote:

Very much the same way I feel too.

My brother and I was brought up in what was in many respects poverty - but I never saw it as such because everyone around us where just the same as we were.

I guess that's why I've never hankered much for material things and if I did I saved up the money first or if I couldn't for whatever reason, had to make do without.

We've certainly lost the warmth and personal touch as, just like you, I get the text messages and mostly written in a code I need to decipher with the social media jargon being as it is!

Just like my parents I give all my love to my child and gave her every opportunity I could - but the world she lives in is different from the world I knew.

No doubt my parents felt similarly with me and my brother but we still needed to meet up and see them from time to time - and they us - but these days that is no longer necessary because you can text and see them on line from your sofa instead.

I too feel something more personal, intimate, bonding is lost somehow, the things that tie us together seem somehow looser and less compelling these days.

It is what it is and I realise I'm the one living in the past but to me society seems to be more impersonal and less friendly and more self entitled.

Or maybe I've simply just turned into a grumpy old man without ever realising it!

Cajunboy wrote:Dutch Decoy has enjoyed a remarkable 2022 and on Friday 12 August, he gained his fifth win of the campaign in a really competitive handicap at Newmarket. Under Olly Stammers, who he has forged an excellent relationship with, Dutch Decoy showed his usual determination to fend off the persistent challenge of the unexposed and improving four-year-old, Bashosh. Congratulations to Dutch Decoy's owners. 

boltonbonce wrote:

boltonbonce wrote:Just saying. 

Ten Bobsworth wrote:
Wasn’t the shirt made that big to get it over Big Sam’s head?