I've not been able to shake a melancholy wistfulness since you posted that.
Following as it did 'soap bar chat' I'm really misty-eyed today.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:06, 3 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

One of our hangout used to be the Boating Lake next to the Uni.
Highfields....we certainly put the High into highfields
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:07, Reply)

Winchester Cathedral Grounds, the Water Meadows, St Catherine's Hill....
So many beautiful outdoor spots around my old town. No wonder we couldn't have cared less about a lack of 'facilities for young people'. As long as somsone could get served booze and you had a quarter, all was well, guaranteed.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:11, Reply)

This is excatly what my mrs did when she was younger
Those Peter Symmonds lot were a right bunch of "caners"
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:13, Reply)

I wonder where they bought their dope......

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:17, Reply)

that would be genuinely quite amusing

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:18, Reply)

It cost us about £30-40 for a Quart
and nobody was bothered whilst you were smoking it
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:14, Reply)

£25 for, cos I had connects yo

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:25, Reply)

Hippies sold it for Karma
yardies sold it for profit :(
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:55, Reply)

Down by the river in Baginton, the War Memorial Park, the old cathedral ruins...
Enough nice places to get stoned and not be aware of the concrete and car parks, etc.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:24, Reply)

Simpler times, Montmorency.
But were we really happier?
Well yes, yes we were, but...
Actually I'm not sure there is a 'but'
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:08, Reply)

As the afternoon shadows lengthened, out popped the acid and a long night of hilarity would follow.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:09, Reply)

Oh fuck....I'm getting old
I'M GETTING OLD MONTY! HOW DO I STOP IT?
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:14, Reply)

I blame the children
a friend of mine compared two pictures of me the other day pre and post mini ape, less than 2 years difference. Apparently I have aged hugely : (
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:16, Reply)

looking at my friends with kids versus those who don't, i totally agree
some look ten years older. i think it's lack of sleep?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:17, Reply)

prolly
luckily men age better than women eh?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:18, Reply)

not mentally
nothing more pathetic than a middle-aged man trying to prove he's still got it
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:19, Reply)

terrible battered bullying yere

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:20, Reply)

you know what i mean
hair dye, sports cars with a beer gut busting over the seatbelt, drooling over his daughter's teenage mates...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:28, Reply)

Dr Christian off of the Embarrassing Bodies programme was born on the exact same day as me
And that makes me do a :(
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:23, Reply)

are you similarly built?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:24, Reply)

Christ no

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:25, Reply)

He's much better built.
If you know what I mean. The big fat mess.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Fri 31 May 2013, 10:27, Reply)

I'm just as god made me, Windy

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:29, Reply)

I think he used up all the left overs.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Fri 31 May 2013, 10:30, Reply)

I don't have space here to create a big enough :(

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:36, Reply)

built homosexual
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 31 May 2013, 11:29, Reply)

i was at a charity do recently where he was the guest speaker
i'd never heard of him. he's rather camp.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:28, Reply)

plus, hair transplants, the fucking queer

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:30, Reply)

orly?

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:31, Reply)

RLY

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:43, Reply)

tenner says the answer is
DYAAKY
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:16, Reply)

1. place index fingers in ears
2. strike up a single note song with the lyrics 'la la la la la'
3. carry on youthful behaviour as before
4. lose home
5. die
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:19, Reply)

Ok, I'm on the right track

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:25, Reply)

we used to chill under a weeping willow in university parks, the branches came to the ground hiding you from the dreaded parks police*


*who i'm pretty sure don't exist
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:10, Reply)

Which Uni?

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:11, Reply)

Oxturd

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:12, Reply)

drugs are bad, mmmm-kay?

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:15, Reply)

this is incorrect
did you never partake at all? Being a not shot city lawyer you must have been on the coke at some point
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:16, Reply)

yeah
i'm going to admit to anything of the sort on here...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:20, Reply)

this is good enough

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:23, Reply)

if you'd ever bothered to come and meet me, you'd know

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:27, Reply)

I fucking love drugs.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:21, Reply)

drugs being penetrated anally by the questing wet nose and sharp scrabbling claws of a hamster seeking desperately to escape into the light
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:27, Reply)

no, drugs

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:29, Reply)

I haven't had drugs since the 90's
Apart from one joint on a Stag Do in Amsterdam in 2006
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:19, Reply)

I had a spliff recently; first time in nearly 10 years.
It will not be another 10 years until I have one again.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:23, Reply)

ghey

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:23, Reply)

it gives me the fear these days
I only smoke weed to come down off coke and bumbles. It's a real shame, I love a nice weed.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:29, Reply)

You tragic man.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Fri 31 May 2013, 10:31, Reply)

I know.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:34, Reply)

The parks police do exist,
But it's 2 or 3 fat men in a security van. A light jog would get you away Scott free.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Fri 31 May 2013, 10:25, Reply)

i always thought as much, but when a little bit of weed based paranoia kicks in...

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:26, Reply)

That tree us still there I think.
Past the toilets, sort of toward the duck pond?
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Fri 31 May 2013, 10:28, Reply)

I can hardly remember it was when I was 16-19 so upto 15 years ago
it wasn't that far from the cricket pavillion and rainbow bridge
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:31, Reply)

Sounds about right, toilets are on the pavilion, rainbow is just down from the pond.
Imma go carve your name in to the trunk.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Fri 31 May 2013, 10:32, Reply)

cheers mate

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:34, Reply)

Wow, cool
www.amazon.com/movies-tv/dp/B00004Y7ER
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:39, Reply)

If I remember rightly, a dull hippy film with a good concert at the end.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:45, Reply)

*nose/point*
The so-called 'soundtrack' LP is brilliant I reckon. Not in any way a soundtrack mind you.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 31 May 2013, 10:48, Reply)