AlanHo Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 I seee from the Forum opening page that no members are celebrating their birthday today.May I wish them all a happy birthday - even though they are not celebrating it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christmascracker Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 Hmmm :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadyassa Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 I seee from the Forum opening page that no members are celebrating their birthday today.May I wish them all a happy birthday - even though they are not celebrating it.I know, you just wanna get in the party spirit :cheers2: :cheers2: :group: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artist Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 NO free drinks around here! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 * scuzzman taps the kegThere are now! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 I seee from the Forum opening page that no members are celebrating their birthday today.It's been that sort of day. This afternoon at just after 3.30, when I was least expecting it, no one knock at the front door. It's at times like this that one is grateful for open plan wristwatches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artist Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 I seee from the Forum opening page that no members are celebrating their birthday today.It's been that sort of day. This afternoon at just after 3.30, when I was least expecting it, no one knock at the front door. It's at times like this that one is grateful for open plan wristwatches.I should keep off that juice if I were you! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted July 29, 2005 Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 I'm saying nowt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted July 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 catgate - I too am having problems.About 5 years ago I gave up smoking, having smoked 40 per day for many years. Since then I have been a compulsive non-smoker which I am trying to give up for health reasons.Starting smoking is not as easy as people might think – you first have to reduce the number of cigarettes you don’t smoke each day by an amount equivalent to the number of cigarettes you are currently not smoking – and in my case I was not smoking at least 40 per day.I initially tried to stop suddenly by cutting out not smoking completely – but my addiction to not smoking was too strong and it gave me major ‘drawal symptoms. I therefore tried to reduce the number of cigarettes I didn’t smoke gradually, by cutting up a few each day. This worked for a while and I managed to reduce the number of cigarettes I didn’t smoke to approximately 10 per day. One unfortunate side affect was that I lost weight and felt much more energetic due to reduced appetite.However, social pressures took their toll and I found myself not smoking at least 40 per day again which enabled me to get back to my former plump and unfit state. As an habitual non smoker it really is embarrassing to sit in the smoking section of a restaurant and have complaints from adjacent tables about you not smoking. Not only that, I really miss not being able to non smoke after a nice meal with my coffee and brandy. My breath has developed a strong lack of odour and the absence of nicotine stains on my fingers has definitely got worse.I have tried hypnosis and acupuncture to reduce my non smoking without much success. I have also tried not wearing a nicotine patch and not chewing nicotine gum, which have proved to be equally ineffective. I am currently avoiding not smoking the occasional cigar and pipe to see whether this will help.Hence my advice to all smokers is not to give it up in the first place – if you do - you could have serious difficulties in starting again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted July 29, 2005 Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 This reminds me of an incident involving one of the biggest names in Yorkshire cricket, Montmarency Nathanial Spiffington-Squithersby.Spiff.-Squith., as he was affectionately called by all the locals, lived in a grand house in its own grounds at Roundhay in Leeds. A little farther down the lane, lived a man who had a house, not in its own grounds, but in the grounds of the house a hundred yards up the road . He always wanted one outside its own grounds but not in someone elses grounds. So he built a house for another person in his grounds. The person he built it for was Albert Gribble, another famous son of the county. It was he who, much before the need was recognised, as it is today, invented a combined organic weedkiller and insecticide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted July 29, 2005 Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 It was he who, much before the need was recognised, as it is today, invented a combined organic weedkiller and insecticide.We use it regularly, it's much better than Jeys Fluid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sapins Posted July 29, 2005 Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 As I'm not celebrating my birthday today you may all not wish me a Happy Birthday.I'm working on the theory that if something doesn't make sense people will think me extra intelligent! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted July 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 I'm working on the theory that if something doesn't make sense people will think me extra intelligent!it has worked beyond your wildest expectations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davew27 Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 i had a birthday 2 weeks ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artist Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 i had a birthday 2 weeks agoDid we miss you? Ah well, Happy un-birthday then! :flowers: :cheers2: :group: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadyassa Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 i had a birthday 2 weeks agoSorry i missed it but a belated :birthday: :cheers2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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