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I played golf early this morning. Well, early for me. I went out at 7.30 and played 9 holes. It was great and I think that I'll do this regularly and go even earlier. It's nice being first on to the greens and seeing the track that the ball makes.

This is real. I took the pic on my cellphone this morning after my putt.

I revisited the scene of the crime accident where two years ago I fell down to the creek and buggered my knee. The cellphone camera doesn't quite capture the steepness.

It was a good work-out and I'm glad that I ditched the gym and rejoined the golf club.

When I got home I went for a swim. The water was like a mill pond and I practised my free-style stroke and stayed in much longer than usual.


How's your day shaping up?

NEW POSTS COMING SOON

IT'S ALL GO UP HERE

*AN UPDATE*

New posts from your favourite Curmudgeons coming soon.

In the meantime I'll tell you about my day so far.
It's a beautiful day here despite the weather warnings of rain and wind which haven't come so far.
I recently rejoined the golf club so took off to play this morning to test out my knee. It all went well and I played some great golf which was good since I hadn't played for over a year.

It was hot though so I'll go first thing in the morning or in the late afternoon in future.

I'm going to take a load of garden rubbish to the tip this afternoon and then go for a swim.

How's your day shaping up?

BUSY AND EXCITING TIMES

The Old Girl is away this week, this weekend and next week so I'll have time to write some posts as both THE CURMUDGEON AND THE BLUE MAN. THE WINE GUY is long overdue for a post or two as are these worthy contributors:

THE CULTURED CURMUDGEON
THE CURMUDGEON EXPRESS
THE CURMUDGEON'S AGONY AUNT
THE DARKER CURMUDGEON
THE FOOD CURMUDGEON
THE MUNDANE CURMUDGEON
THE MUSIC CURMUDGEON
THE PHILOSOPHICAL CURMUDGEON
THE POLEMICAL CURMUDGEON
THE RELIGIOUS CURMUDGEON
THE TWITTER CURMUDGEON
THECURMUDGEONLY INVENTOR

and

ZWEITE GEIGE

Lynn was supposed to be at a two day seminar starting today in Wellington. I drove her to Whangarei airport at 6AM today to fly to Auckland. She got away OK but the Auckland to Wellington flight was cancelled. She's hoping to get to Wellington tomorrow for the second day of the seminar.

Anyway, I'm up here on my own for a couple of weeks (her cousins drove off to Napier this morning) so might as well get the old blogging going.*

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I had root canal work done on a tooth today - actually two teeth as the infection was beneath both. I have to go back in a week for continuation of the procedure. $250 today and a lot more next week I guess. The quote for the job last week was $1100! The Air New Zealand alert I received today said I could fly return to Europe for that. My jaw is still numb from the anaesthetic and I suspect that when that wears off it's going to hurt like hell as the dentist drilled right down below the teeth with a variety of instruments including, I swear, a jackhammer.

If I take a painkiller later, on top of the excellent chardonnay I'm drinking (Church Road Grand Reserve 2016) then I'll go a bit do-lally  - which fortunately won't affect the quality of the blog posts and may well improve them.

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I see that Robert came back, reincarnated as THE WHORE OF BABYLON:

...... which, quite frankly sounds a lot more interesting than his previous manifestations so things might be looking up as Richard said as a schoolboy under the stairs at his primary school in Wellington in the 1960s.

Richard however immediately decided to pick a fight with the whore so we'll just have to see how long this one lasts.

*STAY ALERT AND WATCH OUT FOR THE POSTS*

* It's a saying that we use in the blogging community - "get the old blogging going" means update the blogs and stuff.

BLOWING IN THE WIND

Well, it's not really the answer even if Nobel prizewinner Bob thinks so.

Richard (of RBB) has been having an on-going problem of rubbish (not the content of his blog but that's another matter). No, he has careless and inconsiderate neighbours who can't be arsed to do things properly. See: HERE

These people are like the ones who take garden waste to the tip on trailers that don't have covers. Like the ones who eat cooked chicken drumsticks in supermarkets and leave the bones and scraps on shelves before going to the checkouts. Like the ones who don't pick up their dog shit when walking their filthy animals. Like the ones who immediately stand up at concerts obscuring the view of the seated people behind them. Like the ones who straddle two carparks in shopping centres. Like the ones who use the disabled carparks 'because they are only going to be a minute". Like the ones who carry their soft-drinks, beers, takeaways into scenic spots and leave the used rubbish behind. Like ....... but don't get me started.

The rubbish that litters Richard's streets is, every week, blowing in the wind because the ignorant scrotes don't make sure to put the lighter material at the bottom of the bin and don't secure the bins properly against wind. It's windy in Wellington and Hutt Valley. Duh!

I think that in addition to being stupid and lazy some of his neighbours might get a kick out of seeing the caring old stupid guy running around and picking up their rubbish from the footpath, gutters, trees and unusual places.

Personally I think he should go on the offensive against them.

REVIEW TIME

THE BLUE MAN is new to our blogging community and has made quite an impact already with acknowledgements from Robert of ROBERT'S ROSARY and Richard of RICHARD'S BASS BAG.*
RICHARD'S BASS BAG  has already listed THE BLUE MAN on its links list which editor Richard seems to think is a big deal.

A couple of weeks ago I wrote that THE BLUE MAN would be on a trial to see if he merits being associated with THE CURMUDGEONS INC.ⓒ . I'm happy to announce that he is on our links list and is easily available for readers to access.

I've invited THE BLUE MAN in for a chat.

THE CURMUDGEON: Welcome Blue Man. Pleased you could make it. Can I get you a wine?

THE BLUE MAN: Yes please TC. A chardonnay if you have one .... er ..... do you have one in a labelled bottle?

THE CURMUDGEON: Of course. We here at THE CURMUDGEONS INC.ⓒ and THE WINE GUY(s) only drink wine from bottles with labels on them. We do like to set certain standards you know not like .... well, not like others.

THE BLUE MAN: Ha ha, I know what you mean. Hey! This is good. Hawkes Bay? Barrel fermented and barrel aged. 2016 - a good vintage. Nice.

THE CURMUDGEON: I'm pleased to see that you like your wine Blue. I'll tell THE WINE GUY.

THE BLUE MAN: Yes, I do like wine. Mike tried to poison me with some Chinese wine once - interestingly it was in a blue bottle but it didn't put me off drinking wine in general.

THE CURMUDGEON: "In general"? Ah me! Better give me the khakis if you're driving Blue, hah ha.

THE BLUE MAN: Ha ha TC. I heard that you're good at the puns. Now what did you want to talk about?

THE CURMUDGEON: OK Blue. You know that I said that we'd have a kind of trial or apprenticeship before any discussion about becoming a member of .....

THE BLUE MAN: I'll interrupt you there TC .... look, I've thought about it but I've decided that I want to stay independent. I ....

THE CURMUDGEON: Great! I mean that's good .... yes, we came to the same conclusion. I was a bit worried at telling you but it seems that we're on the same wavelength. By the way I added you the THE CURMUDGEON's links list.

THE BLUE MAN: Thanks TC, that'll be useful.

THE CURMUDGEON: Oh, Richard said that he added you on to RICHARD's BASS BAG links list too.

THE BLUE MAN: Ha ha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

THE CURMUDGEON: Ha ha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah yes, that's a good one alright. Robert might add you on ...... oo ee I can't ....... can't hahahahahahahahahahha

THE BLUE MAN: Ha ha, yes, we'll see. It's good to have temporary back-up.

THE CURMUDGEON: Well Robert's good at getting people's backs up ha ha ha (etc)

THE BLUE MAN: I'm going to like it here.

THE CURMUDGEON: Just watch out though. Robert tends to go off topic a lot.

THE BLUE MAN: OK, point taken. Anymore of that delicious wine?

* Hey, I know they're not Noem Chomsky or Sam Harris but we'll take what's on offer.

PRODUCING ORFFSPRING

Robert (of Robert of the Rosary) mentioned several times in his previous posts, that are now sadly deleted, that sex outside the sacred sacrament* of marriage is a sin **. I think, by the snippy way that he and the rest of his bunch refer to this, that 'sin' is a bad thing and that, ergo,  sex outside of marriage is a bad thing.
Furthermore, according to Catholics, sex is only to be undertaken for the purposes of procreation.

I was reminded of his ravings wittering pronouncements when viewing a Harry Enfield clip on YouTube this evening:

THE CONJUGAL RIGHTS GUIDE

* One of the many weird inventions of the Catholic Church


** A very weird creation of Christians that the Catholic Church has taken over

WATCHING .... AND WAITING

THE MOODY BLUES

I just bought an ARLO Ultra 4K HDR Wifi Security System - 2 Camera Pack on-line from Noel Leeming in their Black Friday Sale deal.
I researched on-line checking prices and this is 2 to 3 hundred dollars off the 'normal' price so that's OK. I also checked reviews and this unit gets some very good ones both here and overseas so I'm happy.

It doesn't automatically mean that I'll be able to install the sucker though as I am a bit of a luddite (sorry The Curmudgeonly Luddite - I should have let you post this). I couldn't get the Chromecast I bought a couple of months ago to work and always have trouble setting up new TVs and video machines. I changed some things around in the lounge today, moving the TV to in front of the fireplace as we won't use that until next winter. The Chromecast was still plugged into the back of the TV so I disconnected it and put it back into the original packaging for storage.

Storage of such items goes like this:

Put item in its packaging ↴
Put package in the cupboard in the study↴
Leave for at least 18 months.↴
After a couple of years move package from the study to the shed.↴
After a few more years move package from the shed to join other unused items under the house.↴
After another couple of years the package and other items are taken to the rubbish dump.

I'm running out of time for this procedure so I should shorten things and give it away or dump it now.

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I bought the security cameras because next year I'll be spending some time in Wellington if all goes well with The Old Girl's work plans and want a bit of extra surveillance around the house. Neighbour Rod will be keeping an eye on the house but it doesn't hurt to have that bit extra.

TUESDAY*

I've been active today with tennis at 8.30 until 11.30 and the gym for an hour.
I was buggered afterwards as it's so hot up here.

I filled the trailer (again) with garden waste after a late afternoon stint yesterday but couldn't be bothered taking it away for dumping today. Maybe tomorrow.

The Old Girl is up here this week. She was called for jury duty but not selected yesterday which is just as well given that it was to be a three week trial. She's heading back to Auckland on Thursday. I'm going down on Saturday as we're going to see Deacon Blue with her cousins on Saturday night.

I don't know a lot about them except that Billy Connolly and Jerry Rafferty rate them and Ian Rankin mentioned them in one of his 'Rebus' novels. I listened to some of their music on YouTube today and they remind me of Texas and some of their music has obvious influences from Van Morrison so it should be OK.











* No Blue Man in sight today.

A NEW BLOGGER - THE BLUE MAN.

THE BLUE MAN

Now I don't want to sound desperate but this blogging community has got a bit thin on the ground recently so welcome to THE BLUE MAN and I hope that he sticks around.
We don't know what sort of blog he's going to run yet but, by way of introduction here's a run-down (apt words indeed) of who's who in the community.

There's THE CURMUDGEON obviously which is the linchpin holding things together. I have some other blogs that are spin-offs and use these depending on my mood or the theme of the post I'm writing. These are NOT alter-egos nor do they demonstrate any clinical forms of madness. They are merely different 'shades' of which the differentiation is helpful to the reader.

Another contributor is RICHARD'S BASS BAG. This used to operate a 'hub' that connected all of the blogs in the community but, as I said, these have largely disappeared and the usefulness of this 'hub' is in question. RICHARD'S BASS BAG  also has spin-off blogs but these are dodgy and are definitely alter-egos. They have been strangely (or normally) quiet of recent but Richard has just reactivated some of them as a result of some gentle chiding from me. Beware of these.

A third blogger is the one we refer to as the Catholic guy although 'Boomerang' would be more appropriate since he continually deletes his blog and then republishes it. He often changes the name of it but the content is relentlessly Catholic and Christian bullshit. Watch out! This blog currently goes under the name ROBERT OF THE ROSARY.


I hope that you like our little blogging community and will stick around. Feel free to browse through previous posts from the blogs. Mine go back over 10 years and cover interesting aspects of recent history. Richard completely scrapped his blog a couple of years ago and lost about 10 years of interesting history. The poor old guy did this again more recently and lost another year or so of more recent posts. I remember my grandmother doing this when she went a bit doolally with age - she threw away family history and photographs. It's what very old people do. Don't be afraid.

Robert as I said frequently 'refreshes' his blog. Nothing to see there!