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M8ed

Quintessentially English, I live in a coastal hamlet on England's southern shoreline near Plymouth from where the Pilgrim Fathers set out to discover the New World. Rich green pastures roll down to the Sea from my home and that is my front-yard I split my time between here and the Bahamas. It is often (and almost always for me) the simpler pleasures that bring excitement into life - and doing just about anything at all in the right company. These simple joys are what effortlessly create fond memories and laughter out of nothing in particular and they are what rock my world. Enjoyment and, more particularly it's enrichment, is inextricably linked to sharing. Chess is just one of those simple pleasures and I love the game and most everything it has brought me. I play free of style and without the patience for long-winded deliberation, which, for me, although it can prove disadvantageous, spoils enjoyment of the game by making it a chore.

We play the game with the bravery of being out of range. ~ Roger Waters Cool


    • Fakes & Cheats

      Never seen a circus with sooooo many clowns. . .  it wasn't this way 6 years back when I joined * ~ m8ed    | Read More

      • m8ed
      • | Apr 17, 2013
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      • | 2 comments
    • Tax and Economics!

         Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to £100...If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this. . .The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.The fifth would... | Read More

      • m8ed
      • | Apr 4, 2013
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    • Reward if Found

      Wife’s Gone Missing!   The computer swallowed my wife, Yes honestly it's true! She pressed 'control' and 'enter' and disappeared from view; It devoured her completely; the thought just makes me squirm, She must have got a virus, or been e... | Read More

      • m8ed
      • | Mar 28, 2013
      • | 99 views
      • | 6 comments
    • Les Misérables

          Les Misérables is a must-see experience that tells the story of Jean Valjean, a long-term prisoner released on parole, a poor unfortunate girl/woman called Fantine and her daughter Cosette, and those around them as their lives progress.  ... | Read More

      • m8ed
      • | Mar 3, 2013
      • | 91 views
      • | 7 comments
    • Friends

         Two couples were playing cards. Jeff accidentally dropped some cards on the floor. When he bent down under the table to pick them up, he noticed that Dave's wife, Sandy, was not wearing any underwear! Shocked by this, Jeff hit his head on the... | Read More

      • m8ed
      • | Dec 29, 2012
      • | 82 views
      • | 2 comments
    • For 2013, For Auld Lang Syne, & Waterloo Bridge

      As 2012 draws to a close. . . and as 2013 draws near ~ to ring out the old and bring in the new. . .    Happy New Year!   Wishing you all a very happy and prosperous 2013   ~ m8ed    *  It’s World War II and Colonel Roy Cr... | Read More

      • m8ed
      • | Dec 27, 2012
      • | 139 views
      • | 4 comments
    • TheScarySnowman

      The scary snowman. . . this is just too funny not to share    ~  m8ed | Read More

      • m8ed
      • | Dec 23, 2012
      • | 44 views
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    • Kiss the rain, , ,

      Kiss the rain! ~ m8ed ~ | Read More

      • m8ed
      • | Dec 19, 2012
      • | 111 views
      • | 7 comments
    • Adele...James Bond...Skyfall

        * With 50 years since James Bond came to the BIG screen. . . today, Global James Bond Day, seems to be a wholly appropriate day to quash all the rumours as to who would be delivering the theme track for the new 50th anniversary film Skyfal... | Read More

      • m8ed
      • | Oct 5, 2012
      • | 159 views
      • | 0 comments
    • Annual Nymphomaniac Convention 2012

         A man boarded an aircraft at London's Heathrow Airport for New York, and taking his seat as he settled in, he noticed a very beautiful woman boarding the plane. He realized she was heading straight toward his seat and bingo - she took the sea... | Read More

      • m8ed
      • | Jul 5, 2012
      • | 283 views
      • | 11 comments