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  1. This topic was covered some time back. Two months ago.

    http://forums.ledzeppelin.com/index.php?/topic/2189-rolling-stones-thread/?p=721484

    Mick Jagger to be great-grandfather

    British musician Mick Jagger is about to become a great-grandfather at age 70.

    By Page Six Team

    New York Post

    November 25, 2013 | 12:07am

    Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger is set to become a great-grandfather early next year.

    His daughter Jade told the Sunday Times that her 21-year-old daughter, Assisi, is expecting. Jade tells the newspaper she does not expect her famous father to slow down now that he’s set to become a great-grandfather.

    Mick is working on a biopic of James Brown, and the Rolling Stones plan to tour Australia next year.

    Assisi meanwhile told Hello! magazine that Mick was pleased when she told him the news.

    She explained, “He said, ‘Well done.’” She mused, “I imagine it’s nice to be a great-granddad, although I’m not sure he likes the idea of getting old, or being called one. I call him Mick — I wouldn’t start calling him grandpa.”

    http://pagesix.com/2013/11/25/mick-jagger-to-be-great-grandfather/?_ga=1.187573482.396833442.1385364277

  2. I am finally back up and running with my own pc after struggling with my wifes lappy for the past 2 weeks or so, particularly the keyboard which is a total nightmare, many apologies to anyone who read any of my posts with their terrible typing, my own pc won't make any more sense of what i have to say but at least it should now be easier to read lol.

    A Major Major problem.

  3. Woke up and stumbled into the kitchen for my wake-up fix, and slipped on my ass in a huge pool of cold water. A flood. Seems some idiot had left the tap running slightly all night, and the plug hole was blocked by food debris, rice mainly, so it overflowed (the overflow hole was also blocked by food debris - looks like pak choi leaves). Nearly the whole floor was covered in water, and all the pots & pans in the cupboard under the sink are full of water too.

    This has happened before, and it wasn't my fault that time either. But again, it will be my duty to clear it all up.

    A Major Major disaster.

  4. Yesterday's xmas party meal was very nice. Beef bourguignon with dauphinois potatoes. Sadly a total lack of veg, I don't understand why (all the options were served with no discernible veg content, unless you count onions and sprinklings of fresh herbs). But although I didn't say so, it wasn't as impressive as my version. My main quibbles were the tiny pea-sized shallots, if that's what they were, but mainly the fact that the mushrooms & onions didn't taste like they had been pre-fried in brandy & butter before insertion into the pot. Unforgivable.

    The starter was a tapas-like affair, featuring salami & prosciutto salad, chorizo, meatballs in a nice sauce and, top of the bill, Dutch 'croquetta', which were similar to normal croquette potatoes, but had chopped chicken, cheese and very sloppy mash inside. Simply divine!

    It needed some Bouillon?

  5. I got a lousy gift in last night's Secret Santa.

    I don't know how other people usually play this, but this was the 'evil' version where you can steal other people's gifts if you prefer them, although the gift can be re-stolen from you, and the second stealer gets to keep it. The first thing I unwrapped was kind of a breakfast box, with shortbread, 2 pots of jam, 2 types of tea and a tartan mug. Now I could have lived without the tartan for reasons which should be obvious, but on the whole the package appealed to me, so when it was soon stolen I was mortified, especially as there was nothing out already that was worth stealing (one gift was a boxed toilet roll, with an accompanying scatalogical booklet called '50 Shades Of Brown', lol). So the replacement gift I unwrapped turned out to be a Giant Beer Glass, capable of holding 2.5 pints. Whooppee, I don't drink beer.

    I will probably give it to the wife to use as a vase, although I very rarely buy her flowers, and maybe it can double up as an impossible-to-overfill bed-side piss-pot, for those cold winter nights when you just can't face the icy walk to the bathroom. But it is top-heavy, so it could easily be toppled. I could also use it in the summer for Pimms, but not if I've been pissing in it all winter lulz.

    Oh the gift I provided was a 35cl bottle of Jagermeister, which was the 1st gift to be successfully re-stolen. By a chick. I had wanted to get a small bottle of mezcal con gusano but they didn't have any.

    A Major Major disappointment

  6. Thank you for your kind words, David. The lack of similar responses proves my point, I think.

    Well at least my wife was relieved. After she had finished laughing about my Secret Santa gift, I told her about the episode and she looked very shocked and then started crying. At first I thought she too was disappointed I hadn't been splatted, but then she hugged me really tight and said 'please be careful, Old Shep. You are everything to me'. She has never said this before, or anything even vaguely resembling it. I was quite touched.

    You needed a Tripmender

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