Would have to be going to a monastery in Thailand where they had these chilled out tigers that you could just sit and stroke like pussycats. Wonderful day. This is the other half harassing one of them
Hope to hell it hasn't happened yet, as i haven't done remotely anything worth shouting about or being particularly proud of, other than being happy in marriage.
[cite]Posted By: Mortimerician[/cite]Would have to be going to a monastery in Thailand where they had these chilled out tigers that you could just sit and stroke like pussycats. Wonderful day. This is the other half harassing one of them
Definitely the birth of my daughter for me. The most amazing thing that will never be topped.
Hopefully, in three weeks time, I'll be able to say I've ran a half-marathon which will be an amazing achievement considering I was struggling to run anything over a mile in January.
Until 4 months ago, I would have said my wedding day too. It was such a great day and I dont think I've ever smiled so much in my life.
More recently, discovering my wife was guilty of adultery was quite important... (sorry AFKA, havent seen you to tell you yet!)
[cite]Posted By: Mortimerician[/cite]Would have to be going to a monastery in Thailand where they had these chilled out tigers that you could just sit and stroke like pussycats. Wonderful day. This is the other half harassing one of them
Your wife looks like shes really enjoying that chew bone Morts!!
[cite]Posted By: JohnBoyUK[/cite]
More recently, discovering my wife was guilty of adultery was quite important... (sorry AFKA, havent seen you to tell you yet!)
That alters the mood! Feel for you, one of my best mate's is going through it at the moment as well
1) Marrying wife (like TCE, I'd be nothing without her) 2) Packing in job and travelling. Never forget the feeling of freedom as we landed at Bangkok. No job to worry about, just a rough idea of where we were going.
1st child is due in November and will probably go straight to number 1!
Birth of my daughter. Running the London Marathon and finishing it in 3 hours 30 mins. Solo parachute jump. Getting my masters degree from the Open University.
Many things, travelled, worked at different jobs/sectors which has challenged and developed me professionally ( sorry boring Accountant!).
But most importantly the chain of events that has led me to be writing this on Charlton Life. a) Going on a Solo's Holiday in Northern Cyprus after amicable divorce b) Passing on my details to the company when i got back so that i could make contact with someone (sorry HarryA, could not resist - see you when i get home!) c) Spending 18 months, travelling back and forwards and speaking on the phone to my lovely boyfriend d) moving from Scotland to London to be with him e) Seeing him for the first time on our wedding day ( misting up here!!) - 5 years ago f) Going Camping in Switzerland g)Getting our cats
[cite]Posted By: AFKABartram[/cite]Hope to hell it hasn't happened yet, as i haven't done remotely anything worth shouting about or being particularly proud of, other than being happy in marriage.
Complete non / under achiever me.
I think you should be pretty proud of the Charlton Life Charity Footie Day, I would have been if it had been me.
As for me, nothing. I class myself as an under achiever too. I'm convinced I could have achieved much more but lack drive and real motivation. Lack of kids has something to do with that I feel as with kids you are always striving so as to make there lives better than yours, to give them greater opportunities than you had. Those with kids should never underestimate how truely lucky they are.
It has made a big difference to the lives of many charlton fans and given Mrs G something else to moan at me about! Why are you always on Charlton life blah, blah, blah!
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Hope to hell it hasn't happened yet, as i haven't done remotely anything worth shouting about or being particularly proud of, other than being happy in marriage.
Complete non / under achiever me.
Mr Bartram, I think Demelza House will be well chuffed if you keep under achieving. :-)
there is also another 'best thing i ever did'. Once there was this right plank who used to work with us, right flash harry type, but really was a total bellend, thought he was the absolute don, well one day he had waltzed in work in tracksuit and squash bag (he was on overtime on my shift so wasnt even a shift member) and had the bag over his shoulder with his hand under it, anyway you shoulda seen him, thought he was the daddy saying awight to everyone the way he did, anyway i sneaked up on him (unbeknown to him but totally beknown to the whole of my shift of around 30 blokes) , and pulled his trackies down round his ankles, pants an all!! The melt didn't know what to do, cover himself up, pull them back up, hit me, chase me, tell 30 other people to feck off all told one of the funniest moments of my print career, and there have been some crackers. Making 30 people utterly crease themselves for about half hour was one thing that i can truely say was the second best thing i ever done! (after knocking up the mrs of course!
Being a dad. Not so much the birth but laying on the sofa with him sleeping on my chest when he was a few weeks old. Bliss. Plus all the other father/son things down the years but him just being a decent young man.
Going back into education and getting a post grad qualification having never done a degree
Being a published writer. Would loved to have been Tony Parsons but even if never that good did get some articles published and (some) paid for.
Starting up (with others), running and chairing Bromley Addicks for 14 years. Really enjoyed it, meet loads of great people and given others lots of pleasure.
Maybe in a few years I will say being a director of CAFC but too close to it now.
Danny, take off that modest hat. £35k and a lot of great memories for others. What are you talking about.
Had two lovely kids and met jan after not a great marriage. Oh and scored the only goal in the Essex intermediate cup final. Against a team that should have killed us
Apart from the obvious, kids and marriage - Being a councillor at Thamesmead Moorings Ward for the Valley Party!
This one might be sad to some people (including my brother MCS). My late sister Jane and I took a couple of friends to America and we done a bit of a tour through California and Nevada. Whilst in Nevada we saw that sister sledge, evelin champagne king, edwin starr and the tramps were sharing a gig together in a hotel function room and decided to buy tickets. Well, during the sister sledge songs, we were all singing along and they thought it would be fun to get a couple of people from the small crowd to sing with them. Low and behold me and jane were called up and we sung 'thinking of you' with the sledge sisters as our backing singers! Bizzare and nice, but true. (Cheeserolls, ask your brother Kev?).
Too early to tell if it's the greatest but i'm just back from Zambia doing a few concerts to raise money for Zambian orphanages- and on more than one occasion- reduced to tears by the kids in the orphanages who came to our concerts.
Absolutely mind blowing to meet kids younger than your own, who in most cases had lost both parents (often seperately, and to HIV), then having been deserted by there extended family and been forced to live on the streets before being "lucky" enough to get a place in an orphanage coming up to hug you for doing a concert for them-
would say getting married - was a great day, and the monsoon like conditions including the thunderclaps during the service made the day that much more special.
the birth of my kids.
seeing some stuff I have written performed on stage, and then hearing people laugh, and knowing that it was my writing that caused it.
seeing some stuff I have written performed on stage, and then hearing people laugh, and knowing that it was my writing that caused it.
Tells us more
I do a bit of writing in my spare time and a few years ago was involved with a comedy group that but on short sitcoms (10mins or so) at a venue in the west-end. I had a bit of success with one of them (think fawlty towers set in a garden centre) and ended up with a full 30minute episode being showcased at the soho theatre. Anyone who has seen 'sean of the dead' will have seen the guy who played the main character in my sitcom. In that he played a zombie that got pinned to a tree with a swingball set.
For me, easy marrying my wife who could never really understand just how much she means to me.
For others. Keeping 3 english herberts alive by feeding them once a week for 3 months while they were banged up in a Thai prison. Its rice which walks round your plate and tape water if u aint got anyone on the outside.
General. Geting a hand written letter from Celine Dion saying i played a huge part in helping get her second album launched ! Was a live launch from London to canada and Paris-- her techi`s f**ked up big time i sorted it out. Was when you had to book time slots with sat link ups. also a huge regret as i passed the letter to the Comanies publicity dept they used it and i never got it back.
Playing softball with Meatloaf (well with a ball).
Geting the Fa to pay for mine and my mates hotel bills in Norway " maggie thatcher, winston churchill etc etc we have given your boys a hell of a beating" game.
Over achieving in my career after leaving school with just a couple of O levels to my name Moving overseas on my own, at an age when I thought I'd left it too late My blog gives me great satisfaction. Jumping out of a plane - so unlike me Finding the love of my life and realizing what happiness really is Creating a son, who is the most level headed and funniest 8 year old I have ever met, this despite my ex and I trying our best to fuck it up. Bug my Dad for 2 years to take me to a football game
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Complete non / under achiever me.
Now I am jealous!
Hopefully, in three weeks time, I'll be able to say I've ran a half-marathon which will be an amazing achievement considering I was struggling to run anything over a mile in January.
Until 4 months ago, I would have said my wedding day too. It was such a great day and I dont think I've ever smiled so much in my life.
More recently, discovering my wife was guilty of adultery was quite important... (sorry AFKA, havent seen you to tell you yet!)
Your wife looks like shes really enjoying that chew bone Morts!!
That alters the mood! Feel for you, one of my best mate's is going through it at the moment as well
2) Packing in job and travelling. Never forget the feeling of freedom as we landed at Bangkok. No job to worry about, just a rough idea of where we were going.
1st child is due in November and will probably go straight to number 1!
Running the London Marathon and finishing it in 3 hours 30 mins.
Solo parachute jump.
Getting my masters degree from the Open University.
Getting married in 2 weeks on Saturday.
But most importantly the chain of events that has led me to be writing this on Charlton Life.
a) Going on a Solo's Holiday in Northern Cyprus after amicable divorce
b) Passing on my details to the company when i got back so that i could make contact with someone (sorry HarryA, could not resist - see you when i get home!)
c) Spending 18 months, travelling back and forwards and speaking on the phone to my lovely boyfriend
d) moving from Scotland to London to be with him
e) Seeing him for the first time on our wedding day ( misting up here!!) - 5 years ago
f) Going Camping in Switzerland
g)Getting our cats
Altogether now - aaaaahh!!
I think you should be pretty proud of the Charlton Life Charity Footie Day, I would have been if it had been me.
As for me, nothing. I class myself as an under achiever too. I'm convinced I could have achieved much more but lack drive and real motivation. Lack of kids has something to do with that I feel as with kids you are always striving so as to make there lives better than yours, to give them greater opportunities than you had. Those with kids should never underestimate how truely lucky they are.
It has made a big difference to the lives of many charlton fans and given Mrs G something else to moan at me about! Why are you always on Charlton life blah, blah, blah!
As for you Large aren't you King of Valley Gold?
Hope to hell it hasn't happened yet, as i haven't done remotely anything worth shouting about or being particularly proud of, other than being happy in marriage.
Complete non / under achiever me.
Mr Bartram, I think Demelza House will be well chuffed if you keep under achieving. :-)
Going back into education and getting a post grad qualification having never done a degree
Being a published writer. Would loved to have been Tony Parsons but even if never that good did get some articles published and (some) paid for.
Starting up (with others), running and chairing Bromley Addicks for 14 years. Really enjoyed it, meet loads of great people and given others lots of pleasure.
Maybe in a few years I will say being a director of CAFC but too close to it now.
Danny, take off that modest hat. £35k and a lot of great memories for others. What are you talking about.
This one might be sad to some people (including my brother MCS). My late sister Jane and I took a couple of friends to America and we done a bit of a tour through California and Nevada. Whilst in Nevada we saw that sister sledge, evelin champagne king, edwin starr and the tramps were sharing a gig together in a hotel function room and decided to buy tickets. Well, during the sister sledge songs, we were all singing along and they thought it would be fun to get a couple of people from the small crowd to sing with them. Low and behold me and jane were called up and we sung 'thinking of you' with the sledge sisters as our backing singers! Bizzare and nice, but true. (Cheeserolls, ask your brother Kev?).
Absolutely mind blowing to meet kids younger than your own, who in most cases had lost both parents (often seperately, and to HIV), then having been deserted by there extended family and been forced to live on the streets before being "lucky" enough to get a place in an orphanage coming up to hug you for doing a concert for them-
talk about getting more out than you put in!
the birth of my kids.
seeing some stuff I have written performed on stage, and then hearing people laugh, and knowing that it was my writing that caused it.
Tells us more
she's magnificent
I do a bit of writing in my spare time and a few years ago was involved with a comedy group that but on short sitcoms (10mins or so) at a venue in the west-end. I had a bit of success with one of them (think fawlty towers set in a garden centre) and ended up with a full 30minute episode being showcased at the soho theatre. Anyone who has seen 'sean of the dead' will have seen the guy who played the main character in my sitcom. In that he played a zombie that got pinned to a tree with a swingball set.
For others. Keeping 3 english herberts alive by feeding them once a week for 3 months while they were banged up in a Thai prison. Its rice which walks round your plate and tape water if u aint got anyone on the outside.
General. Geting a hand written letter from Celine Dion saying i played a huge part in helping get her second album launched ! Was a live launch from London to canada and Paris-- her techi`s f**ked up big time i sorted it out. Was when you had to book time slots with sat link ups. also a huge regret as i passed the letter to the Comanies publicity dept they used it and i never got it back.
Playing softball with Meatloaf (well with a ball).
Geting the Fa to pay for mine and my mates hotel bills in Norway " maggie thatcher, winston churchill etc etc we have given your boys a hell of a beating" game.
GERMANY 1 ENGLAND 5 MUNICH 2001...........WHAT A WEEKEND!!!
DA9 what do you think?
Superb mate, apart from your snoring and ink man farting
Maryonplatz..................We creamed it................LOL!
Over achieving in my career after leaving school with just a couple of O levels to my name
Moving overseas on my own, at an age when I thought I'd left it too late
My blog gives me great satisfaction.
Jumping out of a plane - so unlike me
Finding the love of my life and realizing what happiness really is
Creating a son, who is the most level headed and funniest 8 year old I have ever met, this despite my ex and I trying our best to fuck it up.
Bug my Dad for 2 years to take me to a football game