And there was severn

[Erichalfbee]

I don't know day five and I'm knackered.

YOU’RE knackered?

 

[pargyle]

/////he also jokingly told a TV journalist who interviewed him that he also utilised two bricks sometimes 'doesn't it hurt?' he was asked 'Only if you get your thumbs between the bricks' was his reply.

Boom boom .... the oldest ones are the best ones !

 

[mbc]

Many congratulations bud

 

[CLB]

Congrats to you and your family CGF. I’m with Dani. One was as much as I could handle, so I take my hat off to anyone who goes for more.

 

[Martimart]

Congratulation, I can’t think of anything better than a big family and a house full of kids, I started late so stick at 2, but 7 sounds perfect.

 

[Amari]

Congratulation, I can’t think of anything better than a big family and a house full of kids, I started late so stick at 2, but 7 sounds perfect.

Spare a thought for the planet. Each and every one of us has a carbon footprint.......

 

[Martimart]

Spare a thought for the planet. Each and every one of us has a carbon footprint.......

Very true, probably worth thinking about the planet when buying a Poly hive that will be in landfill for the next 300 years than when having a bit of leg over for conceiving a child.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

worth thinking about the planet when buying a Poly hive that will be in landfill for the next 300 years

why will it go into landfill? it will last as long as a wooden hive, probably longer.
But at least with plenty of children, if things get a bit tight you can sell one off for medical research.

 

[pargyle]

why will it go into landfill? it will last as long as a wooden hive, probably longer.
But at least with plenty of children, if things get a bit tight you can sell one off for medical research.

Or harness them to a dog cart and save the fuel carting your honey to market !

WC Fields loved children:

https://www.azquotes.com/author/4795-W_C_Fields/tag/children

 

[Amari]

Very true, probably worth thinking about the planet when buying a Poly hive that will be in landfill for the next 300 years than when having a bit of leg over for conceiving a child.

Housing shortage, NHS waiting lists, care of the elderly (most children will become elderly in due course)...........?

 

[pargyle]

Housing shortage, NHS waiting lists, care of the elderly (most children will become elderly in due course)...........?

Ahhh ... but CGF will have an ongoing stream of personal carers when he gets old ....and just think -if they all go to have 7 children and their offspring continue the trait ... by 2400 half the UK population willl be related to CGF !

 

[Curly green finger's]

Ahhh ... but CGF will have an ongoing stream of personal carers when he gets old ....and just think -if they all go to have 7 children and their offspring continue the trait ... by 2400 half the UK population willl be related to CGF !

I wonder.. Hmm.. Will my distant relatives have green finger's that's all I care about.

 

[Amari]

Ahhh ... but CGF will have an ongoing stream of personal carers when he gets old ....and just think -if they all go to have 7 children and their offspring continue the trait ... by 2400 half the UK population willl be related to CGF !

.......rather like some Welsh families.......(see post 9 above.............

.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Well here are ten little toes.

 

[Amari]

I'm grateful for small mercies = having escaped nocturnal squawking of infants 50 years ago.........

 

[Curly green finger's]

I'm grateful for small mercies = having escaped nocturnal squawking of infants 50 years ago.........

You missed out . I'm well court up on beaky blinders know.

 

[Amari]

You missed out . I'm well court up on beaky blinders know.

The advantage of being a grandfather is that when the infant smells I can hand it back……

 

[Curly green finger's]

The advantage of being a grandfather is that when the infant smells I can hand it back……

They don't smell... Maybe a little of buttery popcorn.

 

[Firefly]

But how many were going to St Ives?