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If we were all the same it would be a bloody boring world... :D

When I retire I'm going to be a gardening, Victor(ia) Meldrew. 8)
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Dear Chantal, i don't think you will have to wait that long. :shock: :wink:

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Absolutely there are bigger and nobler things to worry about in this country, but that is exactly why it serves as a national focus a few times a decade, even those who pay no attention to it the rest of the time! If you have no interest in football, it is futile for someone passsionate about it to try and explain its attraction. Someone who is raised in a football loving family, laughs inwardly when people ask 'who do you choose to support, 'coz you support your team- you don't choose, and thats it for life, through thick and more usually thin. The national team is different of course, and do we live in such PC times we are now afraid to show our counrty support?? No say I! I do not possess little St Georges flags on my car, but my kids would like me to, I just refuse to give in to the commercial exploitations of these all too brief flutters of national pride before we fizzle out in the knock out stages...... As I type, previously normal rational people are honking at each other's cars that display flags! Rant over, I shall now go out in the garden before returning to paint my kids faces white and red!!
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Gosh Deb P, i could imagine you taking a church sermon a hundred years ago, i bet you would really have let the congregation have an earful. :wink:

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OH, are you suggesting I'm close to retirement or a cantakerous old sod already? :lol: :lol: :lol:
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i think chantal he's saying it takes one to know one :lol:
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deb p i'm scared of you :P
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It was so peaceful up at the allotment today.
Only punctuated by one lot of groans/cheers and then a group of happy little boys re-enacting the match.

Mother-in-law had a group of oiks nearby who thought possession of a Tesco soccer rattle made use of same compulsory from kick-off until someone lost their rag at about 9pm and pointed out that he would like to be able to hear his TV. God help her if England do well. :roll:
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I'm not scary really!!!!
It's my ambition to be an eccentric when I retire...I'm just practicing...... :wink:
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Deb P, suppose eccentric is another word for village charater, now thats not a bad thing. :wink:

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Hi Deb P

I also aim to be eccentric. The Cat Lady down the road and then i'll be able to scare little children :twisted:

I find you can get away with a lot more if people think you're "different"

Has anyone else found this?
Lots of love

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