THE CONCRETE ROUNDABOUT (TCR)

It is tempting. I think the weather has helped. A friend of mine did it about a month ago. He's only 58. Worked for the same company all of his life. Since he was 16. Went in one day and decided that he'd just had enough, and quit. He's actually gone to Egypt to teach kitesurfing of all things. The Current Mrs Gers went to see his wife last weekend, and she was saying that he's loving life obviously. My only thought where he's concerned is that he quite literally stopped working and went to an Egyptian resort just as summer is starting. He must feel like he's on holiday at the moment. Wonder how he'll feel waking up in Northampton on a cold Wednesday morning in January.

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For those that like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like.

Good stuff. If you're only going for a day trip to Alderney, then the Campania would be my pick for lunch.

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"While I'm worth, the room on this earth..."

Or ANY morning really. It has gone downhill rather dramatically from when I used to go there back in the 80s/90s. I was getting a coach to Birmingham airport a year or so ago and it stopped in the town centre at the pick up point. Driver opens door- immediate strong smell of grass and goes round to help load on bags. I go back to my book, then there is a lot of shouting and banging with the driver shouting 'don't do that on my f- coach' at someone who was p*ssing on one of the back wheels. Large crowd of what my dear old grandma would have called 'nerwelldoers' standing around very sloshed.

One of the junior ramones works there and tells me 'it is not a nice place'.

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Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment

Woked in Kettering from 2008 to 2010 and lived half of the in Northampton

Based on that experience if you are saying it has gone downhill then that is quite frankly frightening

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*thumbs up emoji*

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I don't need your ill-informed, half-baked, idiotic opinions. I have plenty of those myself.

You don't live in Shithampton. Stop prevaricating. Retire.

Life is precious (as you know, I've found that out all too seriously). Fuck heat pumps. Spend the rest of your time on the planet being the new Tony Wilson.

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I don't need your ill-informed, half-baked, idiotic opinions. I have plenty of those myself.

Just as an aside. Not something that made me smile so much as shake my head in wonder.

I went into the Doc Martens shop yesterday. For a pair of their shoes, just the bog standard 3 eye shoe, they were asking no less than £190. I have a pair that I've had for ages, which I don't wear very often these days. Mine were made in Northampton. These days they're made in China. To be honest, I'm not paying £190 for a pair of Docs'. These used to be a symbol of the working class. Everyone used to have a pair when I was young. Almost two hundred quid for a pair of Docs!

Guess I must be getting old right enough. I went into a Budgens recently on the way home as I fancied a can of Coke. A single can of Coke is now £1.65. Which obviously I didn't buy.

Perhaps it's time to retire, as I'm sounding like a right old Mail reading bastard here.

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For those that like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like.

Didn't have any work booked in today, so i buggered off to the Oval for Surrey v Warwickshire. No excuse not to when the weather is this good.

Got a bit frazzled in the sunshine when I fell asleep, but being able to walk on the outfield barefoot in the lunch break made it all worthwhile.

Best £20 I've spent for a long time.

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"While I'm worth, the room on this earth..."

Spent a full day in the garden, planting up my pots, hanging baskets and planters. Beautiful.

Off tonight to Stony for a meal and a few beers. What's not to like?

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I don't need your ill-informed, half-baked, idiotic opinions. I have plenty of those myself.

You went in the wrong shop...plenty of cheaper ones here from £40 ISH

https://www.schuh.co.uk/brands/dr-marte ... ge=3&va=1&

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