hiya,
There would be the problem the people in the adjoining semi are all electric, i’d have to drown myself in the bath but with a surname like mine i can maybe breath underwater anyway, Chris can you spare a bob for the meter.
thanks harry long retired
hiya,
That was quick Chris, old Norm’s already posted ten bob, when you’re having problems you sharp find out who your friends are, just a minute there’s a note something about make sure i put it in the meter and not toward a drop of Bells, bloody hell i could hardly drink myself to death now.
thanks harry long retired.
hiya,
Please can somebody refresh my memory as to the dates of the BRS show at The Lincoln Farm i know it’s July, did make a note of it but have mislaid it and does anybody know of any B&Bs in the area don’t suppose i’ll be able to phone the cafe and book a bed like i’ve done many times in years gone by and have’nt got the strengh to lift the bed onto my boots to make sure i still have them in the morning.
thanks harry long retired.
Lads please forgive me for the last day, I have had a shock, last Jan13th I went out to a furniture shop, and to keep my wife from moaning for a few days, I got a new top of the range setee & arm chair in leather also a new table & six leather chairs, it was 3 and half K, but haggled to 2and half, put deposit of 1K. I ask you lads we only hads the other ones 28 years, but you know women they have to spend for the sake of it. It came today, had to have the centre panel of double glazing out, to get the old suite out and the new one in, I felt a little giddy after paying the rest so I fell asleep on it, and woke up and came on here. Just had a thought, will she think a old sod like me, will not go with her new suite? it is true no fool like a old fool, but may be she will leave me to my own pleasures for a while. 
hiya,
Norm should have put your foot down and told her that the cruise is more important than bloody furniture remind her that there’s nowt wrong with orange boxes and tea chests, be a man Norm get her told, show her who’s boss, i promise i’ll visit you in hospital.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry I don’t like hospital food, besides that she is in a good mood,hope it last for a long while, had a bonus today, gave money to my daughter, while she was trying to get rid of her husband about two years ago, she has bought him out, remorgaged got her final from the court, so she is a free woman, and she gave me the money back 
, I was not exspecting that, so the money I paid out for my wife has come back. So the bible is correct, you give with one hand and rewards come to you in the other hand, even if it was still my own money. 
hiya,
Sorry Bumper missed your post back there, no mate never worked at Rothmans i assume that you mean for the BRS as a shunter, delivered loads of stalk in there i loaded out from Glasgow and spent quite a bit of time in Darlington depot.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Sorry Bumper missed your post back there, no mate never worked at Rothmans i assume that you mean for the BRS as a shunter, delivered loads of stalk in there i loaded out from Glasgow and spent quite a bit of time in Darlington depot.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry,Rothmans had a warehouse on Hellaby Industrial Estate next to Junction 1 on the M18,did you ever go in there?
hiya,
Chris that was a redistribution depot for Rothmans ready to smoke ■■■■, i never carried them only the hard work part of the job bales of raw tobacco, the Darlington depot lads did the end product something to do with the insurance and security i should imagine the ■■■■ was very high risk the same as whiskey, i believe they had to be in contact with someone all the time they was travelling loaded, i preferred the steel job a couple of chains and a flysheet and away.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Chris that was a redistribution depot for Rothmans ready to smoke ■■■■, i never carried them only the hard work part of the job bales of raw tobacco, the Darlington depot lads did the end product something to do with the insurance and security i should imagine the ■■■■ was very high risk the same as whiskey, i believe they had to be in contact with someone all the time they was travelling loaded, i preferred the steel job a couple of chains and a flysheet and away.
thanks harry long retired.
Aye,security was tight Harry,all the vehicles had big numbers on the tops of the cabs and the trailers and they were all in plain livery as far as I remember.
hiya,
Spot on there Chris, when i was connected with the tobacco into Rothmans i was a smoker you could get the odd ■■■ to smoke while in there but nowt to bring outside the lads would give you one to smoke “now” i used to finish up with a boilersuit pocket full of large dog ends which would keep me going for the remainder of the shift.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry,
Where’s Norm tonight,have you sent him on a night trunk. 
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Norman on trunk, you’re having a laugh, he can’t even find his way to the bottom of his garden to check if the “lighthouse” has a light on top.
thanks harry long retired.
Has he got a torch Harry,the old lad could get lost,the clocks haven’t gone forward yet. 
Cheers Dave.
Watch it you retrobate, I have got eyes and ears keeping a check on you, anymore and I will set my wife from Connamara on to you, they are wild from that area. 
The wilder the better Norm,nothing worse than a boring woman.
Cheers Dave.
Norman Ingram:
Watch it you retrobate, I have got eyes and ears keeping a check on you, anymore and I will set my wife from Connamara on to you, they are wild from that area.
Norman as John Wayne in the film “The Quiet Man” with Maureen O’Hara - filmed in Connemara I think
Yep Chris mostly at the villiage called Cong, my mother-in-law lived a few miles from there at Ballinrobe, that place still has tourists from all over the world, specially from USA, travel from there west for 35 miles to Leanne and the film " The Field" Richard Harris, Tom Berenger, Brenda Fricker, John Hurst, and a few of my friends the Joyce family and a load of that villiagers were in it. I met all of them when we went over in 1989 to bury my mother -in-law, you could not get a bed for love or money in that place. Another film was made at Roundstone, with Paul Newman, James Mason. I know Ireland like the back of my hand, and the films that was made there, nearly every time I was over there, they was making a film, some never made it to the cinema’s.
Back to BRS
Anybody fancy taking one of these to the middle east
I did once, took one from Trafford Park to Huddersfield AND back again 
Ray
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Back to BRS
Anybody fancy taking one of these to the middle east
I did once, took one from Trafford Park to Huddersfield AND back againRay
Must have been the punishment motor Ray.Did you flash yer passport at the Lancs/Yorks border - it would have been the A62 over the top when that thing was registered in 1965.