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  1. Deafening Silence

    Deafening Silence Well-Known Member

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    Yesterday on Facebook I received a message request from someone whose name I did not recognise.
    I asked who they were and they promptly changed their name to that of an ex-colleague.

    Here is the ongoing saga…
     
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    I’ve had loads of friends requests lately from folk I’ve never heard off, I just delete.
     
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    I am now messaging the other profile…
     
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    I am actually a winner! With a different name than is on my profile!
     

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    Same thing happening to me.
     
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    It's funny how good fortune sometimes smiles on you
     
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    I am the luckiest man!
     

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    Wenlock Terrace, eh? That took me back - that used to be where my GP's surgery was when I lived round the corner on Alma Terrace, 35 years ago.
     
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    I lived there as a student 20 years ago.
     
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    Student days for me too, and briefly afterwards. Good times. Mainly spent in the Welly.
     
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    Only went in a few times. Used to walk a bit further up to town to the Edinburgh Arms for the pool table and spent a fair amount of time in the Waggon and Horses on Hull Road/Laurence Street.

    Other than than that spent all my time in the Golden Fleece cos my mate worked there.
     
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    I liked the Welly because it was dirt cheap and about 20 yards from my student house but I wouldn't choose it today (I suppose it chose me, really). I moved on to The Brown Cow for a bit, which was a Timmy Taylor's pub at the time, and played for their pool team, but latterly it was always The Golden Ball. From 1994 to 2004 I had a house on Howard Street, just before you get to the Lighthorseman (aka the Shitehorseman), but Alma Terrace was the first place I lived outside of Home or University accommodation and I have very fond memories of it.
     
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    I still play the odd gig in the Golden Ball. It’s a fantastic pub.
     
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