I just mentioned to my wife that we might make another trip back to England next year if the Boro are promoted this year.
Her response, " Well I hope we go to some different places if they do "
What are you on about woman ?
" Need I remind you how many times we've been to Bolton, Blackburn...
You missed my response to your suggestion on another thread so I will give a quick rundown and an update on the subject.
I tried really hard to sell the Boro to my wife, I told her that my club seem to be really interested in signing loans, freebies ,long term projects
and unwanted and overage...
For me bedtime is about fifteen hours away and hopefully I will have come down by then.
But, I doubt it.
I can only imagine that winning the lotto could make me feel as excited as I am right now.
But, I doubt that too.
Two years ago, here on the Gold Coast Qld, two motor bike police officers were on a meal break having a coffee and a donut when they noticed a car driving
at high speed. they got up and got on their bikes and gave chase.
The eighteen year old driver then mounted the median strip and crossed over...
You know Steve, had a genie appeared before me and my dad in the mid eighties and he told us that he could gift us the man to not only
save our club, but that me and my dad would be walking down Wembley way together amongst a sea of red and white and that we would
win a major trophy and have a...
So happy that football is back, the crowds are back, that I'm absolutely thrilled to once again be able to say
" Typical Boro "
Feels great, my fifty years of being up at midnight on a Saturday night here in Oz are back too and loving it. (y)
Watched a smiling Boris and Scott Morrison on the ABC news last night celebrating these new deals.
Several minutes later a minister of the same government was informing us all here in Oz about how " On Top " of the situation
on Global Warming we were and our new plans and targets.
I felt...
I know some will say that this is a football forum etc but my dad was Boro barmy and one of the contributing factors of him returning to England
whilst my mam, sister and I remained. I've also been giving him a lot of thought recently as in the past month it has been the anniversary of his birth...
Seems to be the case here in good old, sunny, laid back Queensland.
This evening I called the police to tell them that I had witnessed a drone flying from window to window at the family orientated Marriott hotel and that it had
done the same at my apartment block and that when I went to swat it...
I was " Green " really Green, and am , expecting a few " Green but not that Green " responses. Rightly so.
The Aussies had a "field day " with me. This fresh of the boat, white as a ghost, Boro accented fifteen year old "pommie basta*d, was a dream come true for them.
I found a job as a...
I'm sure we've all got a few and just as sure that we would all get a good laugh if we were to reveal some of them.
Mine are a bit crude but that goes with the territory when you have been "caught with your pants down", for me, literally.
I went along to the doctors with my wife when she first...
A work of fiction but inspired by recorded events.
A story of a brilliant young English boy William Dawes who was introduced to the Naval Academy in Portsmouth at the age of eight.
By the time he was on board the Sirius as part of the first fleet to New South Wales in 1788 he was a master of...
It makes no difference to me whether you're royalty, a socialite or at the bottom of the social ladder.
In the twenty first century, nobody should be posed the question of what a babies skin colour will be.
Many countries that make up our " Commonwealth " have had a foreign flag raised on...
Just woke to hear that there has been three large earthquakes in NZ with a tsunami warning.
Hope that our resident Boro fans down there are all well and unharmed as well as everybody else.
Will be feeling the same sense of sadness witnessing the horror and tragedy which is blighting our beloved England and countrymen.
As if Covid and it's gut churning impact on peoples lives and the division and uncertainty that Brexit besets the nation, it now has another
kick in the guts to...
So many world wide stories to be told. Surely a film makers dream.?
This year will most certainly go down in history books and will be talked about for centuries to come.
Will they be making movies about it in the far off future like we do with other distant civilisations or historical events...
What better time than now to relive some of our better times and memories of our beloved Boro and how we fell in love with them.?
Recently, I posted on our other Forum some of mine and had some lovely heartfelt responses which had brought back memories for some
and tears for others.
Erimus 74...