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Recommendations Old Codger 11.34 Grogeen Lodge 12.18 Kilara Harry 12.47 Lacken Style 1.33 1pt Yankee
Just bring back the Whitsun Treat.'For me, and every crusty old codger like me, Spring Bank was Whit Monday'
At 76, the old codger is still being forced to work down the film slave mine.
Often, it just opens the door to that old codger Tesprit d'escalier', who comes chuntering in my ear about how writing this, that or t'other would be a huge improvement.
What frustrates this old codger even more is that the most affluent members of our society, 21 to 24-year-olds, often get concessions when we do not.
Remember Me BBC1, 9pm Dodgy old codger Tom has vanished and Hannah (terrific newcomer Jodie Comer) needs to find him and get some questions answered before somebody else dies a watery death.
As for Mohammad Al Fayed, stating that any Fulham fans who object to his particular Thriller can "go to hell" which he then names as Chelsea, that could easily get the old codger certified.
But as he and his two pals discover, the old codger isn't the real danger.
Trouble is, her local health authority in Kent says she'll have to wait 18 months for one, the implication being that it's not worth spending cash on an old codger like her who will be dead soon.
Francis Barber was wonderfully acidic as the ruthless, ridiculous, fading actress Arcadina, while Ian McKellan was equally scene-stealing as lovable old codger Sorin.
On the NHS, he cites long waiting times a thing of the past, but I'm sure the old codger is confused with the Ely bus timetables.
Some would say that Gwyneth has long been an accident waiting to happen, but her latest near miss this week proves a bit too close for comfort - especially for the old codger that she nearly ploughs into.As the Stacey saga unravels and her phantom pregnancy becomes common knowledge.
We understand that in June this year you offered to lay pounds 1,500-pounds 500 to "some old codger in the Racing Post" - aka Howard Wright, a trustee of the NRC - about Royal Ascot taking place at Ascot in 2006.
"By the time I'm his age I'm more likely to be running my own sweet store." Good of him to have a few kind words for the poor old codger.
I drink at the pub in question and sincerely hope that he and his "old codgers" disassociate themselves from me (almost an old codger).