Danskcolin: Friday November 21st 2025 Do YOU always respect the boundaries of others, especially if you live with them?"

Yes, Friends, how important it is to respect the boundaries of others, especially if you live with them!

But it's also permissible, these days, to "nibble away" at those boundaries, especially if they're not looking, or otherwise engaged! That's what my medium-to-long-suffering wife Lois and I say, anyway - we're constantly "nibbling away" at each other's boundaries, but we have been married for 53 years, so fair enough.

"You're only old once!" is what we say!

my medium-to-long-suffering wife Lois and me - a recent picture

Have you seen this morning's local Onion News for East Hampshire, however? Arguably, area man Andrew Baker hasn't been so punctilious!!!!

Naughty Andrew !!!!!

But the image of Andrew grabbing a couple of bites of his roommate's left-over chicken pad thai brings a wicked smirk to the "chops" of Lois and me this morning, here in our new home in leafy Liphook, Hampshire. And it's all because we're going to be celebrating today with a lunch at the Sabai Thai restaurant just over the county line in Haslemere, Surrey, before spending another self-indulgent afternoon in bed.

Well, why not! It's not every day that you sell your house, and I'm talking about our former home in Malvern, Worcestershire where Yours Truly and Mrs Yours Truly, as I like to call her (!), used to live till January this year. We left the house vacant and unsold when we moved to Liphook, but contracts were finally exchanged yesterday with a nice young couple called Sophie and George, and the deal was completed today, which is nice!

(left, centre) our old house in Malvern, which has lain empty and unsold - until today,

and (right) our current home in Liphook, where we moved in January

So, as of today, we're the proud non-owners of that Malvern House, and we can stop paying council tax there, and we can stop insuring that house and all the kitchen and other equipment etc: the central heating boiler, the cooker, the hob, the cooker hood, the electric shower etc, you name it!!!

What a crazy world we live in !!!!!!

Yes, today's a day to celebrate, no question!!!! So bring on the veggie spring rolls and the Thai chicken stir-fries, not to mention the bottles of Thai-ger beer - geddit haha!!!

flashback to lunchtime today: our celebratory meal at the Sabai Thai Restaurant

just over the county line in Haslemere, Surrey

Woohoo!!! Yes, at last we're no longer multiple-home-owners, which is a relief, to put it mildly!

And talking things over at the restaurant, we calculate that our Malvern House is the fourth house that Lois and I have sold, in our long lives. We've been home-owners since 1974, would you believe, when we bought our first one, for about £8000 (!), a little Victorian terraced house in Cheltenham, with just a small concrete yard and a little flower bed at the back.

And back in 1974, as home-owners for the first time in our lives, we calculated we could now try for a baby, and why not? You're only young once!!!!!

flashback to our snowy backyard in early 1975, and Lois's "bump"

is just beginning to show - our first child, Alison, was born in August

flashback to the long hot summer of 1976: (left) our first child, Alison, at the wheel of

our old Morris Minor, parked in front of our little terraced house in Cheltenham, and

(right) little Alison on her first ever seaside holiday, to Minehead, Somerset

Happy days!!!!

It seems like only yesterday, but "Time flies", doesn't it.

And this month Lois and I, who are now both 79 would you believe (!), got some alarming news from the US, from Steve, our American brother-in-law, on exactly how much more life we can expect - something they must obviously be monitoring over there (!).

Yikes!!! Well, Lois is okay for a bit longer, obviously, but I myself am clearly living on borrowed time (!).

We've already "had a good innings", as people say, using the cricket phrase, and there's an amusing story Lois reads out to me in bed this afternoon. It's taken from her last week's copy of "The Week" magazine, which gives a digest of the big news stories from the UK and abroad.

It's all about popular author Jilly Cooper, writer of steamy stories about country folk. Sadly, Jilly died last month, but at the grand old age of 88, so she also "had a good innings", which is nice to know.

What a crazy world we live in !!!!! [You've done that one once already - just saying! - Ed]

21:00 We go to bed on this week's edition of the comedy news quiz "Have I Got News For You", chaired this week by Sports Journalist Gabby Logan, with regular team-captains Paul Merton and Ian Hislop.

Gaby assures us that, following the Panorama scandal, all footage of Donald Trump in the show has been edited fairly, and she gives us this week's excerpts.

And tonight we see Donald confirming on tape that he apparently loves watching Have I Got News For You.

And in the clip we see, the applause for Donald's frank admission of his love for the programme just keeps on coming, as he travels the world, repeating his frank confession. I guess all that must be genuine?