"Permission to leave Sir"

Good to have you back Hilly. We need you.

silvertoe wrote:

Blunt Instrument wrote:

That's a relief Hilly, was starting to think it seemed a long time for your laptop issues to get sorted. But of course this bloody virus has slowed up a lot of things.  

That's very true, i have waited three months since referal to have two kidney stones removed....bloody painful too!

Ouch.

thanks chaps

Blunt Instrument wrote:

That's a relief Hilly, was starting to think it seemed a long time for your laptop issues to get sorted. But of course this bloody virus has slowed up a lot of things.  

My guy works from home, family and does a bunch of stuff for companies so he was swamped but even he said he got too swamped, apologised for not giving it back two weeks ago. My touchpad was fucked.

Still, I'm here in time for a new Bond film...




...postponement.

I need a time machine back to 1969 please.

I'm back to check in on how all of you hooligans are doing. :)

Nice to see you back. Hope you've been well. Muddling by this end.

Welcome back!

Long time no see, welcome back!

Cheer-o!

Hope your stay wasn't too brief, Salome. Good to see you all the same.

Good to see you swinging by Fields, even if it was for less than happier reasons.

Thanks Hilly. I never intended to be away for so long. Life and all the rest of it.

Permission to leave? How about permission to post more?

It's a shame, as much as I love Bond, I really have fallen off the wagon in the last decade in posting - only popping in occasionally. As much as I love the books and films, I've kind of drifted away from posting. I sure do miss being more involved in great discussions in the films and books that changed my life.  It's almost been 20 years now (yikes!) since I started posting on the old MI6! Going to give it a shot to try and get on here more to post!

P.S.: SPECTRE is the worst Bond film of all time. :)

Always good to see you Moore, and indeed to see you post, er, more :)

It happens, real life as it were gets in the way of things, time passes before you realise. Law, twenty years since old MI6? I think I started spring 2007, so...well, fourteen years is bad enough.

As for Spectre, well, yes.

Moore wrote:

Permission to leave? How about permission to post more?

It's a shame, as much as I love Bond, I really have fallen off the wagon in the last decade in posting - only popping in occasionally. As much as I love the books and films, I've kind of drifted away from posting. I sure do miss being more involved in great discussions in the films and books that changed my life.  It's almost been 20 years now (yikes!) since I started posting on the old MI6! Going to give it a shot to try and get on here more to post!

P.S.: SPECTRE is the worst Bond film of all time. :)

Good to have you back on a more permanent basis, Moore. I've always enjoyed your output and a man who recognises the travesty that SP is can't be all bad (though I'd say CR06 is just a touch worse).

Can't remember if I posted it here or in a message to Hilly on Facebook, but BAB has been around for 11 years (10 since KTBEU went up in smoke). I started posting on KTBEU back in 2007, with the anniversaries of YOLT, TSWLM, TLD and TND being 40, 30, 20 and 10 respectively. What a time. I still hadn't seen CR06 at that point, so I was a little less jaded.

I'm vermooshing until late Monday, beachcombing. Ordinarily I keep scthum but as I'm apparently an admin, I'll let you chaps know so that if you have any problems etc just PM and I'll try to see it ASAP.

See you on the flip, Hilly.

Thanks, I've bounced off the flip and returned.

Good to see this place still standing. Anyone for Pimm's?

Certainly the weather for it, currently. Chin-chin!

Welcome back Hilly. I'll get the glasses.

Thanks chaps. As Alexander Armstrong used to say, it's a quarter to Pimms o'clock.

Read at the weekend whilst on that break, that Pimms' sales are dipping because of Aldi's version is doing better. That's fighting talk in my book.

Aldi are a supermarket chain that have yet to open in NI, so here at least Pimm's sales should be solid (that said, we DO have Lidl and I dunno if they produce their own version).

I think Aldi have also won awards for their whisky.

I wonder if Aldi's award-winning whiskey is in Oz...

If it is I might forgive it

Popping over to Scotland (Dundee, to be precise) from tomorrow until Friday for this year's holiday. Am glad for my tendency to 'citybreak' within the UK/ROI ... the Covid rules 'n' regulations around international travel look deeply off-putting.

what 'sad little clique' are you referring to and why do I never get invited to these things?