Colin Payne

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..............Suzi Perry! [ 23. February 2004, 09:18 PM: Message edited by: Colin Payne ]

It's the one Heather McCartney left behind!!

In Wimbledon in the 80's an XR4i used to have the plate A690RGO but cleverly spaced becomes A 69 OR GO

Good thought Spasor, but whilst he is in the nick showing the disc his car will be in the police carpark with NO tax disc displayed. If that isn't red rag to a bull I don't know what is!!

Try http://www.digita.com/taxcentral/home/empl...tor/default.asp If you put in your tax code it will tell you your take home. May help you a bit.

Ah the Boy'o............memories of my first reel and my first fish. A tiny roach from Battersea Park. Strangely enough I picked up a couple of Intrepids from a boot sale last year and got a Boyo thrown in. 7 quid for the 3! I think I was done!

It's the new form of STOL(Short Take Off and Landing) plane for London city airport. Have a Ruby Murry the night before, stick yer ass out the window on landing and bingo.........AIR BRAKES!

OI! [ 25. January 2004, 12:56 PM: Message edited by: Colin Payne ]

Petersfield Angling is gone I'm afraid. Replaced by a healthcare centre!

Just to get back at those people who don't know what "soccer" is...........................WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? But seriously, in the 80's Channel 4 in the UK featured a hell of a lot of American Football and I became a closet Redskins fan. These were the days of Joe Theisman(skins QB) and Mike Didka(coach of the Bears I think but correct me if I'm wrong) I was staying in a YMCA at the time(no jokes PERLEAZE!) and we regularly had Sunday night beer(sneaked in), burger and hotdog nights! Great fun! 3 hours to play 60 minutes. We were well p***ed at the end of it. Col

Thanks DG, I'll have a look this week and let you know. Col

Nice one DG, whats the story with Heath Pond as regards day ticket etc? Also is it only a carp water? I don't mind sitting behind my buzzers but I'll likely travel light i.e. one rod and reel, a seat and a bag!

I would laugh all the way the Stamford Bridge if they make his ban longer!

What is it about anglers when they get a cracking fish and have their photo taken they look as miserable as hell! There's a guy called Ted something or other who regularly gets in the weekly rags with another stonking carp and seems to be trying to do a Phil Mitchell all the time...a real look of attitude! I'm not just picking on this chap, there are loads of them. For gods sake guys, lighten up, this is one of the greatest moments in your fishing life immortalised in photo for ever........just a little smile!

In my job as a coach driver I end up in Petersfield about once a week with 7-8 hours to spare. I park in the town centre car park (coach bay) so is there somewhere within say 10-15 minutes walk I can fish. Alternatively I can drive out of town a bit but needless to say parking a 39 foot long coach could be a bit of a problem! Any ideas? Colin

Also on LBC radio in London Zyg stated that the phone belonged to his WIFE which was only used to contact some people on the way to the airport and then put away. This phone is hardly used and he stated that the usual bill was only 15 quid..ish! He then said they only discovered that the phone was missing when they needed to contact someone on the way from the airport. Personally if I was going on holiday, I'd bury my phone somewhere so nobody could contact me and guess this is what they did except for some lowlife digging it out and nicking it. Why the guy should critisized for this I don't know and to be honest nobody knows his personal finances so it's a bit unfair to comment on them! IMHO of course!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/3379981.stm Zyg Gregorek runs Anglers Paradise in Halwill Junction,Devon. http://www.angling-holidays-uk.co.uk/

Ahh but chaps, you've got the wrong end of the stick.......I said what you've DRIVEN not seen! Although some of the strange cars seen are still interesting so maybe a mixture of the two is appropiate!

What the strangest/most unusual car you've driven? For me it has to be the sports Reliant Robin of the last century.......the Bond Bug!! http://www.bondbug.com/gallery/pic.asp?iCat=14&iPic=25 By the way thats not me in the pic....I'd never fit nowadays and needed a crow bar to get in and out in 1982 when I drove one!

Man1 "My new girlfriend lives near Heathrow" Man2 "Feltham?" Man1 "Nah......but she said she would let me this weekend!!"

And what about your dog?His best friend is suddenly gone. That'll be cats in my case!! ....and no they don't cause the asthma!! [ 25. November 2003, 07:13 PM: Message edited by: Colin Payne ]

Sorry to resurrect this thread but let me tell you where my life has been this past month. The problems have not been as bad as some but in my life very disturbing. I do get asthma but only have to use a couple of inhalers to control it and not very often. Last month we went to see a band, got very hot and sweaty and then waited outside in the cold to see the band. As a result 2 days later I was in hospital with a chest infection. Being unable to breath at 4am and getting carted of by ambulance aint fun. So they pack me off home with advice and more inhalers which after week of feeling better I forget to take. Weekend before last a similar story, band, hot, cold, sweaty and by tuesday my missis is dragging me off to A and E. So I end up in a chest ward. The next day she visits and is also ill. Thursday AM the nurse says she is in with suspected pneumonia. Now she ends up on the same ward. Most of the people in here are dying, not straight away but very slowly and mainly of smoking related illnesses. Now I've only smoked a little just a bit of weed for a few months but apart from that I cannot stand the taste or smell. My missis probably does 20-30 a day so if we are at home it gets pretty unpleasant. After my 1st episode in hospital she said she wouldn't smoke in the house again. Once the weather got colder that soon changed. There were 5 others in my ward, 2 were on permanent oxygen. 2 had other non smoking problems and the other(a self confessed heavy smoker) a punctured lung. The 2 other smokers had oxygen rigged around their house permanently. If you see the advert on the telly with the woman on oxygen that's their situation.....for GOOD...for EVER until they die! And its going to get worse. Now ok if you think to yourself I'll just carry on and if it gets me so what! Fine, you die a long slow painful death. But all the while you do your family are living this long slow painful death with you! This may all sound a bit dramatic but whilst there 2 people died, one on Lisas ward and another elsewhere. Maybe not from smoking but its a bit sobering when I hear the nurse calling for family and a chaplain on the phone. So people do yourselves a favour, if your smoking and/or unfit if nothing think about those you leave behind. It's not just your life, it's also about the lives of your nearest and dearest. To think other wise is just ultimately selfish! We're both home now(yesterday), Lisa is still rough but hasn't smoked for a few days. I'm a lot better and hope to go back to work next week. I'm sorry to go on but this week has been one of those weeks. Rant Over!! Colin

Hey Leon, I totally agree. It was just that they seemed to have a total lack of compassion, and the main one in question just happened to drive a nice car. So with all the thoughts of what had happened to us we seemed to pick on this fact as a point against him. The main thing is though that I was not quibbling about the prices, they were mentioned only to illustrate the story. It was just at that for the sort of money they earn you would have thought the people there would have little bit of common sense. This was a senior vet in the practice and it seemed he was only concerned with collecting the cash, hence our remarks on his car. As to the cost of the cremation Chris, it was £110 with £15 for the casket. I think its time to move to the frozen north!!!

OK, so over 2 weeks ago we lost the little boy and we've only just got his ashes back. The vet said it would take about a week and that we could sort the bill out then. A week later we get a bill in the post...hmm nice and sensitive! So on the Saturday having got the bill on Wednesday we go to the vets to see if he's back. They say no and that they wouldn't contact us until he was as it wouldn't very nice for us. So why did you send us a bill?..we say! Especially as we were told we could pay later, oh they say the computer automatically prints them out! Yeah and I guess it also puts it in a envelope and walks down the postbox and posts it! So needless to say we were not too happy. They also said that it takes up to 2 weeks for ashes to come back. So off we go and exactly 2 weeks later what do we get.....another bloody bill in the post. At this point we feel like going down there and torching the place. So on the Thursday( day after getting 2nd bill...15 days after being told we would get him back in a week) I phone up to find out what is going on. I'm told that he was back the day before and that a message was left on my missis phone. She's been home ill with the phone charger at work so phone was dead(home phone cut off) so I asked why didn't they phone the second number(my moby) on file to which they replied, oh we didn't think to! So Thursday my missis is still too upset to go get his ashes so we go on Friday after I get back from work. Now it's the middle of the month and guess what, we are skint. We've still got 288 quid to pay and only have 170. In the past they have been happy to take part payment and a post dated cheque so we thought this would be okay especially as they had upset us so much. So we go to reception and ask for his ashes and the first thing said is "that will be 288 pounds please" Well lets get straight to the point, eh! We explain our situation and the fact that we are getting him over a week later that we were told and she goes out the back to talk to one of the vets. She come back and says can we pay 188 and leave 100 to pay. i explain that there is exactly 172 in the bank which is why we said 170 in the first place and that we didn't come here to barter for his ashes. So she goes out again and this is acceptable. We then wait for another 15 mins for this vet(a senior one apparently) to sign the form. His remains come back in an urn in a plastic bag. Not a problem except that it has been scrunched up and there is a really nice card from the pet cemetary mashed up in there! We get back to the car, absolutely gutted. Lisa is all for going back and punching this so called "senior vet" out! And when we see him get into a brand new BMW X5 we realise what it's all about! To be honest the treatment given to Widget when he was alive seemed to be very good. Bearing in mind most CRF cats (chronic renal failure) don't last longer than 6-12 months from diagnosis the 2 years we had were exceptional. But to be sent bills when we had arranged payment, to wait so long and then to have to barter for his remains were in truth very insulting and upsetting to say the least. The vets in question are called Pet Doctors who seem to be sprouting up all over the south and south east, taking over vetinary surgeons all over. Woking has 2 branches and the branch we went to was taken over about 18 months ago. Now I'm not inferring that this how they normally deal with bereaved owners or in fact if any of the other branches are like this but I'd be interested to know if anyone else has had dealings with them. I'm sorry this post is so long but having slept on it I felt I had to vent a bit. At the end of the day nothing can bring him back and getting angry at the vets can do nothing, but I felt as this is the first time I've dealt with the death of a pet this way(ashes, etc) it went very badly indeed! Colin

A pic of the little boy!