One particularly rough T.T. crossing to Le Havre, in one of the upper deck cabin berths (C Deck?), Polly comes back from the Bar (3 a.m ish), bouncing between the cabin doors, enters his cabin, grabs the aluminium ladder for the top bunk, leaves and picks up a fire extinguisher and proceeds to bang on cabin doors, shouting " abandon ship, we’re going down, abandon ship!". Needless to say he upset a few people. Drivers and punters in the passages in their boxers and skimpies.
Well well well !!! Does any one know me ■■? Richard Goodchild (Green Canary)!!!
The Volvo was XAA 666V !!! I cant write much, cant speak very good, cant drink alcahol, no cigarretes, no ■■■ etc etc. I have had 2 Strokes but the nurses are very nice and young.
Have fun everyone please let me know if you still know me !!!
Richardg
Hello all
Im sorry about my absence but the last few weeks have been problematic and I havnt had the inspiration to look at your posts.
But after looking this morning I must thank you all for keeping this thread going and Charlie do accept my apolgies for the lack of contact and I will send you a pm later today.
I am very happy to see that at long last we have Mr Goodchild on board and no Rich we dont remember you at all and I personally dont remember standing on a street corner in Trento holding a umbrella with a tedy bear print on it whilst you spent your lira with the owner!!! Also I dont remeber the one eyed blonde in Vignola !
Moving on do you remeber the night after eating in the footballers and having a certain amount of falling down liquid we accessed the A6 and with a certain amount of goading really saw how fast a Volvo89 would go when I got to 78 MPH I chickened out and you went passed like I was stood still I dont beleieve how stupid we could be but oh what a time we all had.
We dont need you to talk and you never were very good looking so having a stoke has probally improved your looks but do tell us more about your life and what has happened to you recently.I think most of us are supporting the NHS at the moment so you wont feel ou of place.Great to have you on board.
Ian
Hello Ian and all ,
Hmmm a one eyed blonde in Vignola, she was a very nice lady lol lol and the lady in Trento couldn’t wait outside when it was raining so she could sit in my truck---------------oh dear and you had to hold the nice umbrella with little bears on lol lol lol, We allso went for a swim in that river on the way to Verona? The water was full of crap lol lol. How is your heart now ■■? that is a bummer being no good. I now dont have alcahol or cigarrets. The Dr I had in Hospital said as I cant speak so good , and my brain is a bit buggered I mmight swear a lot. lol lol lol oh and one dayin the hospital 2 Gestapo men had to come and get me back from the city in Worcester mmmmmm I just had some pyjamas on lol lol. My wife (No 2) thinks I am a very nice bloke. Shame she is a Brummy lol lol
Have fun all & Ian be good.
Richard
Rich, Bojangles, Green Canary what ever you want, welcome to the forum Bud! Plenty of reading and nostalgia on here for you. Sorry to hear you aint too well mate. Dont look back and blame the excesses of the life on the road, just pleased that you are still with us and can read all this.
I remember XAA666V (tractor only) being driven around the Modena one way system the wrong way one night. The nice Polizia pointing out the errors of ones ways to a very inebriated driver and pointing him in the correct direction of the Dogana!
Hmmm. People that looked for a lift…anywhere in a truck, they weren’t fussy!
Hello Gazzer, Now just leave my Leather Jacket alone,mind you it does smell a bit now lol lol. I agree with you, some of the “Lifts” had bigger things that had to be pulled lol lol.
That is was a bit off fun when your pigtrotter banged into the back of a froggy truck.At least you & Sonia were OK. And towing your truck behind the trailer was good fun especially when the lights were buggered and it was in the night lol. Have fun
Richardg
Hello is this Angie & richard ■■? if it is I havent spoken to you for years, last time when I spoke to you richard was when my advert was in the truck magazinewas going to make some money making parcel depots etc, did makeany money about enough to make the solicotors to be bailed out lol lol lol.
Richardg
Blimey Richard.Good to see that you are still alive and kicking.Asked about you over the years,but nobody seemed to know.Now you rear up with your good looking self When you first went into hospital,did you have an operation to remove that jacket ? It will be worth a fortune on ebay.Hope you continue to improve and we get a lot more postings on here.Still waiting for my PM Ian.Best regards Charlie.
Hi Richard, It is Angela & I, great to hear from you sorry to hear you’ve not been too well,we’ll have to organise an old boys outing to Droitwich to see you,(and the leather jacket)
Ian’s wallet is still the same, as it get’s very little wear still.
Look forward to reading your posts
Kind regards Richard
I must admit I have to agree about the leather Jacket if I remember rightly it was the height of fashion in its time but it must be starting to wane a little now.I suggest we have our own auction I will bid £1 and as I realise that is a large amount of money lets say that the proceeds all go to charity.
I do know of one worthy cause I.H.T. which stands for Ians Heart Travel and allows for elderly gentlemen to go to the South of Spain without having to use any of there own savings.It has helped a great deal in the past so please send your cheques made out to I.H.T.and make a bid to be the proud owner of this very stylish black leatherette jacket which may or may not have been puchased from an airline pilot in Corbeil services and most certainly would have been present at a number of ■■■■■■ moments in many an Italien staion
Ian, Thank you for your kind offer, I have sent you a cheque for £4 to cover the cost of GazIOW,Charlieone,Gerbil s152,and myself to visit Spain with Ian’s Heart Travel,does this include accomodation at yours or gazzer’s ? You have made 4 elderley gentlemen very happy
With reference to Mr.Goodchild’s leather jacket,Angela’s cousin Mario has recently married an ex bonfire lady from the Verona area and she has happy memories of it !! She thinks it came from the Vicenza area and was made from cow skins which fell of a lorry clearing customs there
Regards MaggieD
This is marvelous news indeed, I have always believed that beneath that austere exterior of Ian’s lurks a kind
and generous soul. Thanks must also be given to you Richard for your generosity.
Would it be too much to ask if, on the way down, we could possibly stop at the big layby just south of Saulieu on the N6
for a moments reflection as it holds joyous memories for me involving a certain ’ fille de route’ who went by the name of Valerie and the happy lunchtimes I spent in the queue!!!
GAZ thats not the one with the Citroen Corrugated shed van that was just behind the bushes is it? If so, if she’s still there ask if the IOU was honoured by Mr. S.C.Attercash the last time he was there. The N6 is a bit out of my way when I come back up but Mr. S.C.Attercash has been known to come that way to and from Spain. I dont like being implicated when people dont pay their bills, leaves a bad taste dontcha think?
Gazzer I don’t recall a van, this one always appeared as if by magic through the trees on a moped, however I’m
pretty sure she was often left with a bad taste!!!
Fortunately Gazzer, these were always mid-day adventures in broad daylight. Unlike some rather unfortunate but comical
encounters experienced by many of us in the dark on the Bois de Boulogne!
Now this talk of the moped reminds me of the time she had fallen off it a couple of days earlier and turned up a mass
of scabs from head to foot… It nearly put me off!!!
Gary did she come on her NSU Quickly ? by the way you were only doing Paris groupage then ! I always thought it strange when you told me you had to go to Saulieu to lose your load !
Regards Richard
