The totally off-topic thread

[GarrettM]

Definitely keeping the soft toys etc for when we have kids. Also have a dolls house etc made by my step grandfather that I would never throw out. I'd always planned to move out and leave it all behind but mum moved out first

As I was clearing out the house and garage following dad's demise, I found my childhood Cookie Monster doll hanging from a hook on dad's tool wall in the garage.
He was showing the ravages of age. Badly faded. Fur mostly gone. A missing eye. And just general disrepair. I thought about it, but decided it was time to let him go.

My earliest memory of that doll was when we moved house in Bunbury. it was 1982/3. I can't remember.
I was about three, and dad and I walked from one house to the other (it wasn't that far) late in the afternoon.
I was wearing my pyjamas, and carried Cookie in one hand, while holding dad's hand with the other.

The two of us slept on the floor in the new place (for the life of me I couldn't say with this happened) and the next day we moved in properly.

A strange memory to keep.

 

[Pushka]

My 31 and 27 year old took the bears we gave them for sleeping. My mum tossed out my Barbie doll that was in the year of release and worth a motza now.

 

[Flashback]

I may or may not have brought my childhood Humphrey B bear over to London with me during one of my visits back home ..

 

[Pushka]

I may or may not have brought my childhood Humphrey B bear over to London with me during one of my visits back home ..

My 27 year old was in a Humphrey Bear video filmed for Christmas at his kindy. We have the video but I suspect he's hidden it somewhere. Must go for a rummage.

See what you've done here TomKat? Got us all reminiscing.

 

[blackcat20]

I may or may not have brought my childhood Humphrey B bear over to London with me during one of my visits back home ..

Would you believe I found my Humphrey yesterday! Showed it to TV and he had no clue who it was :shock:
He's still in pretty good condition, just his nose needs to be stitched back into place.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Would you believe I found my Humphrey yesterday! Showed it to TV and he had no clue who it was :shock:
He's still in pretty good condition, just his nose needs to be stitched back into place.

You clocked Tommy cause he didn't know some dumb bear? Good grief!

 

[Pushka]

Would you believe I found my Humphrey yesterday! Showed it to TV and he had no clue who it was :shock:
He's still in pretty good condition, just his nose needs to be stitched back into place.

Clearly not a dinki di there.

 

[blackcat20]

You clocked Tommy cause he didn't know some dumb bear? Good grief!

Oh dear...I did mean the bear!

 

[TomVexille]

You clocked Tommy cause he didn't know some dumb bear? Good grief!

I walked into a door. I swear.

 

[love_the_life]

I walked into a door. I swear.

That's your story and you're sticking to it?

 

[GarrettM]

We went to the two Scorchers cricket games on Saturday and it was very, very hot at the WACA. Most of Sunday was a write off but some Veuve was a big help together with lots of water in reviving. I did make progress on the book Planet Jackson and I did book the SIL and niece on a long weekend for Australia Day in Melbourne. That got me wondering why the Velocity site for redemptions is so clunky. I wouldn't attempt a booking on my iPad like I do with Qantas.The girls wanted the red eye so I put them in a sleeper suite on an A330 with Virgin seeing Qantas had dust on that date and time.

A book with a lot of villains and few heroes I am sure. Wasn't there a thread in these parts for "Books I am reading?" Be interesting to see what genres and titles people prefer.

Right now I am going through a biography of sorts about the men behind Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler, and Screw. Good read. And no photos!

 

[jukebox333]

So.... are any AFF'ers off to see Bruce Springsteen in the coming weeks?

Or, more pertinently for here, is anyone doing shows in more than one city?

(for those not in the know, there's some serious fans attending all 14 AUS/NZ shows between next weekend and late Feb. - it's a thing... like the Grateful Dead, and Bob Dylan's Never Ending tour...)

 

[drron]

I walked into a door. I swear.

I've heard that excuse before.
Redfern 1971 and I was the overnight ED doctor.
An indigenous man with his nose squashed all over his face is brought in by a police sergeant.
Me."Billy what happened to your nose?"
Police sergeant."Tell the doctor how it happened billy."
Billy after some hesitation."I walked into the cell door Doc."

 

[Flying mermaid]

My mother sent me the cards and telegrams she received when I was born (telegrams were big then) as well as a number of my 'special things' like the gold bangle I had in hospital when 16months old (heart disease). It was cut off my wrist when I was about 9 years old.

I have folders for my kids - just simple 3 ring binders - probably up to 6 per kid now. All sorts of things went in them - baby cards, the little card that was on their crib in the hospital, their baby books from clinic visits where they were weighed, then first drawings and swimming certificates, even some school assignments (generally primary school, not high school!), reports, school photos, ribbons, newspaper cuttings etc etc. don't add much these days, but every now and then I add something! KIds aren't much interested in them now, but I think when (if) they have their own kids, it will be fun for them to go through them with them. It is useful - had a Facebook message from Dr FM saying she needed her APLS certificate from 2013 (google it - I had to!) - took exactly 3 minutes for me to find it.

 

[anat0l]

That's your story and you're sticking to it?

You mean the nose is still stuck to the door?

 

[straitman]

Good luck with that ! I have that New Year Resolution EVERY year ...... it usually lasts a week

So you throw out one box per year?

 

[straitman]

We are off to New Zillund shortly so we have been taking language lessons.
These might also be useful for those going to the Christchurch dinner.

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

So you throw out one box per year?

Actually I did better than that in 2016, the grandkids were coming to stay and the third bedroom ( which had become a repository for "I'll throw it in there and I will deal with it later" ) was needed. About 15 boxes went to Smith Family/Vinneys/Lifeline. I felt so virtuous

 

[Milboo]

Pretty accurate language list!!

Speaking of NZ and parents holding boxes of stuff...

My parents have several packing boxes of my stuff from when I moved out of home and went to Uni just over 20 years ago! It's my reports, yearbooks, childhood stuff and to be honest, I'm really not sure what else

They moved them from the last home I lived in to their new one, then to the island they lived and recently back to the house on the mainland.

My father has made mutterings...

 

[Milboo]

I am used to working in "hot desk" and "clean desk policy" workplaces. I don't mind it so much, and it definitely helps you not to build up clutter.

We don't have one but I understand why they exist. I worked for a large professional firm and there was something like 30% of the workforce not there on any given day due to being on client sites, working at home, working part time etc - which equated to a lot of people and a lot of rent being paid on space not being used!

Vast majority of the time you'd think my desk belonged to someone on leave - no paper at all on it and everything in its place. If it is organised and uncluttered then I feel in control of my work (same applies to my inbox).

By by comparison I have colleagues whose desks look like the paper fairy vomited on them! One barely has space to work and has random stuff all over it. Another had lots of paper but theirs is precisely organised in those piles. Both desks do my head in and I avoid going near them!