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    I'm getting old.

    On Saturday morning Bean and I were mucking about on the bed and part of the game involves him diving on me.

    I was laid across the foot of the bed (a Superking Divan) and he took a dive at me which resulted in him actually diving over me. I grabbed him to stop him falling head first off the end of the bed, and the momentum took us both over the edge.

    Now, it's only about 2ft high (maybe a touch more), and I managed to get myself under him and landed on my left side, shoulder/arm first. Him then landing on me.

    I grazed my elbow and bruised my shoulder.

    I landed on carpet for crying out loud.

    I remember jumping the full length of mum & dads stairs, performing dives in the garden (on grass) and generally larking about without so much as a graze. I never visited hospital for broken bones or open wounds.

    Granted, there was 17st of me landing on my arm, but it was only from 2ft high!

    He ran off and climbed back on the bed, and asked to do it again. I was less keen.

    LadyWayne provided her usual level of sympathy and after asking what the bang was (she was downstairs), started chuckling when I showed her my arm.

    What worries me, is that Bean is likely to get more boisterous/adventurous/fearless as he gets older and I won't be able to play along.

    Anyone know if there's a body double agency for dads?
    A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

    BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012

    Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.


    What would Vedder do?

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    Wayne I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the fact is the older you get the less you bounce.

    Colin
    Potty by name Potty by nature.

    By appointment of VeggieChicken Member of the Nutters club.


    We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to public office.

    Aesop 620BC-560BC

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Potstubsdustbins View Post
      Wayne I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the fact is the older you get the less you bounce.

      Colin
      .....unless you're a ladieeeee
      "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

      Location....Normandy France

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      • #4
        Perhaps I could interest you in this...



        It may provide some cushioning :P
        Garden Chris

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        • #5
          Wussy Wayne Afraid you'll have to get used to it and put up with the bruises!
          Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Florence Fennel View Post
            Wussy Wayne Afraid you'll have to get used to it and put up with the bruises!
            Iturts!....
            A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

            BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012

            Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.


            What would Vedder do?

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            • #7
              get used to it luv....it can only go downhill [but then I am having a particularly grumpy day today....]

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              • #8
                Time to start worrying is when you come in from work and fall asleep on the chair!
                My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by HeyWayne View Post
                  Iturts!....
                  Get over yourself you big girl!

                  Admittedly I had to stop play fighting with my lads when they were about 13. At that point they could pick me up and stuff! But there were 2 of 'em and I am half your size. You are good for a few rounds yet lovey
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                  • #10
                    I remember telling Himself not to be so rough with our boys, but I needn't have bothered, as they got older they inflicted more damage on him, to the point where I told them to stop roughing up their dad!
                    Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by FionaH View Post
                      Get over yourself you big girl!

                      Admittedly I had to stop play fighting with my lads when they were about 13. At that point they could pick me up and stuff! But there were 2 of 'em and I am half your size. You are good for a few rounds yet lovey
                      Same here Fi. The eldest is 6' 5" and it used to scare me stiff when he put me over his shoulder. I've told him I'm too old for those antics now!
                      Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Florence Fennel View Post
                        Same here Fi. The eldest is 6' 5" and it used to scare me stiff when he put me over his shoulder. I've told him I'm too old for those antics now!
                        Yup. Same here.

                        Be warned Wayne - stop putting fertiliser in Bean's wellies RIGHT NOW! They grow like triffids... and you'll shrink
                        The problem with rounded personalities is they don't tesselate.

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                        • #13
                          You could always provide him with a brother to take the onus away from you for a bit Wayne? Or a sister to keep him in line.
                          Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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                          • #14
                            I well remember when our son was 15, one night outside the inlaws we were all returning from a party.

                            The laddo scoops up SWMBO puts her over his shoulder and strides off saying rather loudly "Mother what I have told you about vodka"

                            She didn't know whether to laugh or cry or berate him, everyone else just curled up laughing.

                            Colin
                            Potty by name Potty by nature.

                            By appointment of VeggieChicken Member of the Nutters club.


                            We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to public office.

                            Aesop 620BC-560BC

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Snadger View Post
                              Time to start worrying is when you come in from work and fall asleep on the chair!
                              Oh dear, you mean thats not normal????????
                              "... discipline is what the world needs today and etiquette, you know. For one of the noblest things a man can do is to do the best he can, yeah ..."

                              Prince Far I (1944-1983)

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